Preparing for the coming hostilities 2

Preparing for the coming hostilities 2

Last month, I sent a message on the above topic after the Lord had impressed it upon my heart to share the warning.

http://evansademanuel.blogspot.com.ng/2015/09/preparing-for-coming-hostilities.html?m=1

Today it came again. We are closer than we think.

Searching online, I realized that a few write ups are already online to that effect.. My doubt is if we are taking heed.

Today, a brother even sent an online material where a survival kit for the coming hostilities is being sold for almost 40 dollars in case of the apocalypse.

But how has God prepared us? What has He prepared for us to deal with the issue?

Jesus said, in this world you shall have tribulations but be of good cheer I have overcome the world. He said He left His peace with us different from what kind of peace the world gives.

The world has invented all sorts for comfort on the earth and the peace of the world has evolved to depend on all the inventions. If anything happens to that set up the world and its peace comes under threat and this will play out soon.

But whatever happens to world's peace as the new age emerges does nothing to the peace Christ gives. Yes, true Christianity is coming under more and more threats and persecution but our escape isn't in the world's devices but in the peace Christ left for us.

Pressure will be much against Christians around Christian lifestyle,  health care, supplies and provisions of basic needs, security, accommodation, energy and other basic human needs. It'll be difficult to live on what the world provides and still be able to live the life of Christ.

But Christianity has always been supernatural only that as Satan knows that his time is short, he is doing everything possible to take the focus of Christians off the supernatural essence of Christianity.

Churches aren't teaching much of grace provided to live in holiness anymore, a section preaches grace as a dispensation where you can continue living in sin since you're covered by grace. The other section preaches grace as irrelevant to living righteously only by strength. Under the trouble times coming grace will be necessary for holy living, nothing more.

Healing grace will be needed for divine healing as many will be cut off from the health care system the world provides.

The grace for supernatural provisions would also be needed as buying and selling may  become impossible.

Christians would need to employ God for supernatural and angelic security.

And the teachings that would prepare us for the coming hostilities would need to be accessed today.

In them is our peace. The peace Christ left us against the coming tribulations.

You'll say but the tribulation is coming after the rapture? well, I believe same too but look around you and prepare before the falling away catches unawares.

This is our day and we must be acquainted with what makes for our peace...
[My Offline Bible] Luke 19
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

To endure we'll need to know the things we are already equipped with and get ready practicing  before the days come.

Start living by faith and patience in all that Christ had paid for as from today and get prepared for the devil's worst...

Good day!

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From Where is our Hope?

From Where is our Hope?

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 62
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

From  where is our hope? From where is assured expectation? On what can we wait and be sure we'll receive succor and support?

Economies are failing. Cultures are crumbling. Friends and family with the best of intentions disappoints. Those without good intention can only set for others their baits on the traps they prepared. Traders would only promise at a cost, a cost which may be more than you can afford. So from where comes hope?

The righteous expectations can only come from the Lord if it won't be cut off. Only the Lord lives forever to make intercession for us and the hope He doesn't give shouldn't be expected from any man.

When He gives hope, such hopes can be realized even through the most unqualified of men.

When we have God on our side, we need not despair we can hope in Him.

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 42
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Hopelessness is the mother of despair, hope is what gives birth to faith and boldness. The anointing to heal the brokenhearted is one that imparts hope. Hope is a life giver, hopelessness is death.

Depression and suicide are siblings from their mother hopelessness, and the hopelessness of governments to handle people's hopelessness is legalizing assisted suicide. Hopelessness is the trident of hell and the sickle of death. The precursor of every death both physical and spiritual...

Yet the eternally hopeless would fear death still even if such sees a future on earth as impossible due to hopelessness.  The dilemma of the hopeless...

So where does hope come from...?

Hope comes from God through His word.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 15
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

The comfort of scriptures gives hope. When we find it difficult to have comfort and hope in the scriptures through unbelief, the hopelessness that results would be terminal! Such often comes with full force to kill with justifications.

Many in unbelief would want to replace scriptures with all sorts of things. Entertainment, drinks, drugs and so on...the more intellectual would add a philosophical angle to it: motivational materials which may not be based on any authority, at least not based on the authority of the Holy Scriptures.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 31
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

So there's no hope for hope in indulgences that give people temporary comfort based on their forgetfulness of their misery.

Nor in words that only placate without power to back up the promises it carry.

Our only sure hope is in the Word of God. When we encounter scriptures, whatever promises they carry must be used to deal with our despair, turn our hopelessness inside out and find hope and lasting comfort for us and for others who might be in the same situation.

That's one basic thing the scriptures do for us...in this world where hope is hard to find and people find it hard to believe what's even in their own selfies...the scriptures give us a perfect picture of what our future should be if we'll keep walking with God and His Spirit...

Keep your Bible open and feed on its contents in meditation and be comforted through the hope God communicates through it.

Let His Word be your righteous expectation and through faith your expectations shall not be cut off...

Happy New Week of Hope!

It is possible!

Thoughts on Leadership 1

Thoughts on Leadership

You cannot think too deeply about human development before reaching the water table of leadership.

We always think of human development as a personal responsibility and that is true to a large extent but it is also true that development can't be achieved in isolation. Humans were created as social beings. That's why God said it isn't good for man to be alone. Man can't become all he was meant to be all by himself and that is key.

The limitation of social development is in the selfishness of man which localises vision within the limits of personal betterment and achievements.

When you combine that selfishness with the social nature of leadership, what naturally results is the fish eat fish to get bigger syndrome.

The mentality that some are meant to be better than others and some are meant to rule over others have brought development of nations to its knees.

The essence of leadership is to induce and inspire corporate change within a group upon which individuals would be able to achieve personal positive changes.

The mentality of some being designed to be great and others small doesn't help the corporate goal of general development. It entrenches class consciousness and leadership corruption where the leader believes everyone should contribute to his personal aggrandisement and betterment as destined by God.

And such sees nothing wrong in oppression and in people remaining underdeveloped since he erroneously believes they were destined to be so deprived and somewhere within feels he is doing God favor keeping the people perpetually underdeveloped.

We see this in out nation and in our institutions and the thinking must change!

Jesus Christ's leadership ideology is quite different from this and it is the cure to so many national problems of class and group depravity occasioned by poor leadership mentality.

Listen to this...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 20
25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Meaning, leadership is for the benefit of the people and not the other way round.

Leadership shouldn't run on personal vision achievement but on a corporate vision. And the personal vision of leaders should not become the people's corporate vision.

A corporate vision is such that makes the leader a servant who works to create a platform upon which each member of the team can become all that God created him to become and achieve all possibility within his potentials with his personal vision becoming a reality.

Leadership isn't just occupying a position of rulership where everyone is put under and every vision becoming subservient but an empowering system that puts each on the pathway of success.

Leadership is assessed by the rate of personal development of the weakest in the system; it is leadership failure if the poor remains poor or becomes poorer, and the weak remains weak or gets weaker without hope of any kind of change or development while the rich keep getting richer and the ruler keeps ruling and handing over to his lineage...

That's why nations and organizations must invest in leadership research and development because ultimately a people will not be better than the leadership ideology they are led with...

In the body of Christ, like in any other communal system, success isn't success until everyone is successful. If the toe is pained every part of a healthy body must feel it...and the pain no matter how localised would eventually determine the existence of the system...the cancer or any other disease that'll kill doesn't have to spread to every part...only that the healthy part, no matter how large may not be able to handle or overcome the effect of the little part under attack...an attack on any part is an attack on the whole...

Development must be total to be true...and leadership unselfishness is the key...both in church and in society!

May God grant us wisdom!