He is Taking us There...!

He is Taking us There...!

As 2015 runs to its end and 2016 starts we need remind ourselves that our God remains the same through the change from season to season.

He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.  He is the Author and the Finisher of our faith. When He lays a foundation you can be sure He will complete it. He is the beginning who has no beginning and the end who has no end. He starts good works in us and He is always faithful to complete it every time. Phil 1:6. He has no abandoned project, He has no incomplete building and when you walk with Him, you don't get to a dead end. When you walk with Him, a highway is always made, mountains are crushed, valleys are filled, crooked ways are made straight, rough roads are made smooth and everlasting doors lift up their heads...

Everlasting doors are those generational limitations that keeps people on same spots as years come and go...but such doors aren't good enough to stop the Alpha and Omega... When He starts a journey with you, arriving at destination is sure...

He took the children of Israel out of Egypt and definitely, in spite of all the challenges, He brought them in to the promised land, not minding the giants, the red sea, the wilderness, the snakes, the bitter water and all...Yes it will always take miracles but that's normal with God... He brought us out not to abandon us on the way but to take us in to the land He promised, the desired haven, the broad and wealthy place. Deuteronomy 6:23.

He had taken us out of the Kingdom of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.. Colossians 1:13

Now, the beginning may be small but the end shall greatly increase. He won't take you to a lesser place as destination, even if you pass through a worse place. He won't deliver from the Power of darkness and take into another bondage. He won't remove the heavy burden to bring in heavier ones. He won't take you from Egypt without removing the reproach of slavery... The path of the just is as a shinning light that shines more and more to the perfect day... God is taking us somewhere...and He'll get us there...

Men may ride over our heads, we may pass through water and fire but He is bringing us into a wealthy place...

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 66
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

What God started in us in 2015, He will bring it to perfection. The things He will be starting with the beginning of 2016 too, He will also complete...

We should make sure we join His train, He will lead us in the path of righteousness into the still waters where He will set a table before us in the presence of our enemies and whenever we stray into the valley of the shadow of death, we should remain connected with Him.. He will deliver...

Commit your way unto the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass...

Committing our ways to Him means turning over the driver's seat and the steering wheel to Him...definitely we'll arrive safely...

Get ready for a glorious 2016...it's going to be a happy new year...

Our Heavenly Citizenship

Our Heavenly Citizenship

It's amazing how we got to the point of being either of Apollo or of Paul in a revival of segregational denominationalism in the body of Christ. While being committed to Christ with a focus derived from a local church is quite needed, that should be pursued with caution so as not to create division in the body. The truth is that many of us are already too deep to even recognize that there is an anomaly in the pursuit of sectional membership in the body of Christ.

The new creation and the process of the new birth that brought about the former were targeted towards creating a new breed of people, a new race different from the races already here.

With sins forgiven, a new heart and a new spirit given, with the laws of God written on the tables of the heart and the Holy Spirit given to indwell this recreated temple, the person becomes different from who he or she used to be and different from whatever race that brought him or her to life.

This is being born again as different from being born of the flesh. He that's born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

This is the promised new covenant for the new Kingdom and a people different from those who have existed before. This is the only way into the new Kingdom where the will of God is done with the power of God.

[My Offline Bible] Galatians 3
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

[My Offline Bible] Colossians 3
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 1
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

[My Offline Bible] Galatians 6
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

This is the protocol of the Kingdom of God. There isn't any segregation based on any earthly difference within the body and the Kingdom of Christ. Christ is not divided. You are my brother and sister, we are members of same church no denomination and no earthly nationality can separate us, we are citizens of God's Kingdom and members of His family!

It is good that our consciousness towards our citizenship of the Kingdom become stronger. It is clear that we sometimes hold our membership to our denominations, our citizenship to our earthly nations and so on more importantly than our citizenship of heaven.

We pay more attention and we show more commitment to these earthly attachments than to our citizenship of heaven. These earthly relationships are more real to many of us, even if they often betray our trust and commitment than the citizenship we have in heaven.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 1
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

We must make the consciousness of our citizenship of God's Kingdom stronger, we must be conscious of our pilgrimage here and it's transient nature. That's the only time we can enjoy the fullness of what the kingdom provides. We have acceptance in the kingdom of God.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 2
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

[My Offline Bible] Philippians 3
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

The New King James Version and other versions rendered the word conversation in verse 20 as citizenship...

We are citizens of heaven, we are the earthly part of the heavenly family of God, members of the family and Kingdom of God and we have responsibilities, we have our rights and our privileges based on how powerful and superior our Kingdom is in taking care of her citizens... I won't trade this with any lesser arrangements except such is actively promoting this... To this end we were given the new birth and the new creation...

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians  3
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

We were not redeemed, recreated or reborn by the Spirit of God to enter into an earthly kingdom or a religious denomination but to enter into the kingdom of God...and to enjoy the Power of God in doing His will and pleasure...

Meditate on these child of God...

Good morning, Happy Sunday! Compliments of the season!

For the Man of God after Today's Service

For the Man of God after Today's Service

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 23
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

[My Offline Bible] Luke 15
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 18
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Church services have ended in most places, pastors, Church leaders and administrators are going through the data collected to rate the services and to plan for the next meetings...

Some don't need any data... They didn't have more that two or three upon all the efforts put in and they are feeling miserable wondering if they were called, wondering if God was in the service at all... Many of these have had to give out the offerings for welfare, and how much is even the offerings? With head bowed like Elijah under the juniper tree some are thinking of quitting, others are psyching themselves in faith, some are wondering if they had not missed their flight of destiny...

Discouragement is rife...in that job and many don't even appreciate it...

But is that discouragement justified?

If Jesus Christ would be comfortably present where two or three are gathered in His name worshipping in truth and in spirit what is it that makes such uncomfortable to us? If He who owns the system would be comfortable with a sinner's repentance why are we who are just helping hands be uncomfortable?

If the angels in heaven are rejoicing over the person who makes a turnaround because of your message today and God Himself is excited about it, why is it that it's you that's feeling bad?

Maybe it is not Him you want to please but the society or yourself...

Maybe you want to have an achievement different from that of Christ...

So long you aren't making those few people twice the children of hell but you are helping their faith in God and inspiring the renewing of their hearts towards life transformation,  God is excited and heaven is rejoicing and God's reward for what you have done is on the way...

Most importantly rejoice that the work you have done hasn't removed or blotted out your name from the book of life...

It is when you gather people and what you do is not helping people towards heaven rather making them twice the children of hell that you really need to worry...if you are rejoicing over that, you need to know also that heaven isn't rejoicing...you need help!

But if you are in obedience and you have gathered your two or three in His name, and not in the name of self aggrandizement and self seeking, know that Christ was there and your prayer is heard...

And WHEN you become hundreds or thousands don't be carried away into making people children of hell...

Keep gathering together in His name, ensuring that you maintain being the temple of Christ and His Spirit, and not a tent of wickedness...and not be carried away by the statistics!

Remain blessed, more strength man of God...

Give your Faith a Stretch: Possibility is Accessible!

Give Your Faith a Stretch: Possibility is Accessible!

Satan will battle you to that point where all natural principles will fail, where the smallest succor is an impossibility and the way out is like walking on water...expecting that you give up and die...

But that's the moment for miracles , the perfect atmosphere for the supernatural, the perfect moment for God to perfect His strength in our weaknesses...at that time something must give in and it won't be God and it shouldn't be you...you are just at the hour of breakthrough...

That's the time when your faith becomes relevant, that's the moment your faith has been waiting for, that's the moment to walk on water, the moment to turn water to wine, the moment to move the mountains, the moment to make the impossible possible, the moment for little to be multiplied to feed many, the moment to roll away the stone and call forth the one already certified dead...

That's not the moment to cow or bow to the antics of Satan, that's rather the time to step out of the boat of unbelief, complacency and fear and step on the waters by the promises and the Power of God's Kingdom and walk in to your victory...

When the natural fails you, when the physical disappoints, when human strength and power come to an end, don't allow the devil to tell you that's all that's there to help...that's the time to call on God by faith and connect with omnipotence to engage the supernatural to deliver the miracle needed in the name of Jesus Christ.

It is possible, what's needed must be provided if not through physical or natural means it will be through spiritual or supernatural means...and God is waiting for you to take the step of faith into the waters and see it part ways for you to move on into the promises of God... God is waiting to hear you speak that command of faith in Christ's authority and see the mountain move, God is waiting for you to declare 'peace, be still' and see the storms calm down... God is waiting for you to stop worrying and stop being anxious but to rest in your faith in Him...knowing full well that whatever you had committed to Him in prayers, He is already on top of it...

It's time you got your faith engaged, not walking by sight, not depending on your own strength, not permitting past failures to create a sense of impossibility, not allowing fear to cripple you but being motivated by the word of God and His Spirit unto the fullness of God's plan and purposes for your life...

It is possible! Good morning!

Kingdom Compassion

Kingdom Compassion

While Jesus taught and preached about the kingdom, His actions and attitudes were driven by compassion. Of course, His advent, His life, His ministry, His death, resurrection and ascension were expressions of the Father's love and His too.

[My Offline Bible] John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus Christ changed the game by moving us from loving our neighbors, to loving our enemies but beyond that to loving not as we love ourselves to loving as He has loved us.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 5
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

That's the reason why John the beloved told us by the Holy Spirit that if you don't have love and show it, it is not sure that you are born again...

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 3
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

This is the kingdom life! Where through compassion the strong supports the weak not necessarily indulging them because we still have to tell the truth in love.

In fact, whatever we do outside of love, not motivated by love, not mediated by love is sin...

Ministry must be motivated by love for it to be of Christ. The lifestyle of Christianity isn't about how much we can pray, preach and do miracles.....it is about how much we can show Christ kind of love.

We may have relegated the love lifestyle to the background because it takes from us and makes us look weak and vulnerable. We don't want to look weak, foolish, and we don't want to be taken advantage of...

The flesh doesn't want that... But the recreated spirit that the new birth gives us doesn't achieve self importance and satisfaction by exerting himself or by how high or how much it attained but by how much it can give and release...

This is the precursor of the peace in God's Kingdom, it is the precursor of Kingdom prosperity, it is what makes our spiritual efforts and ministry count... Otherwise whatever we do is a waste...

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

The revival of love is  the revival of true Christianity ...it is in that that we show enough compassion that'll cause the grace and power of God to flow freely to do miracles beyond our wildest imaginations, not for show or superstardom but to meet needs in love and then we would have good enough right to challenge the erring telling the hard truth in love...

It's unfortunate that this kind of love is stood up against even from the pulpits...it's easier to support selfishness, subtle pride, oppression of the weak and so exalting the flesh as each seek his own and not the things that make for the building up of all...this supports our self aggrandizement and establishes the class culture of the world in church... Where we love our own, those who are like us and those who please us...while the others wouldn't even find space in our minds being burdensome... This isn't the spirit of Christ and a waste of Kingdom resources...

We should reassess our belief system and exorcise worldliness and it's covetousness to seek Christ acceptably and so preserve our souls...

When we show love and give to meet someone else's needs...we aren't doing such person a favor, we are only showing forth the real person God had made us...

Good morning!

Don't Choke the Word

Don't Choke the Word

The realization of the fact that the message of Jesus Christ is the proclamation of the Kingdom of God amazes me when I compare that to the main focus of our quests today as followers of Christ.

The quest to eat and drink, the drive for what to wear, ride, where to live, and cares of other things are clearly choking the seedlings of the kingdom in many hearts.

Since these aren't exclusively offered by the kingdom and obviously not the main focal point of the message of the kingdom, keeping them at the top of our life's shopping list has taken a lot off the path of seeking the kingdom of God.

As we head to church this morning we ought to ask ourselves if we are doing all these to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness or we are out to use the system to seek either our own empires or our selfish dreams and desires.

Hear again the parable Jesus shared on the preaching and hearing of the word of the kingdom...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 13
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended

22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

The care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches would never permit a church goer to make profit from hearing the word of the kingdom...no matter the anointing with which the word was preached, the resident focus on the things unbelievers focus on as value will choke the word of the kingdom.

Meanwhile what we should do is simple...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 6
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Don't seek what the world seek, know that the Father has your welfare in mind, seek His kingdom and His righteousness and He'll make sure He adds these things to you...

As we go to church today, let's by faith hand over all anxiety to God, focusing on the kingdom of God and doing the will of the King...

The additions won't fail...and the word of the Kingdom will bring bountiful harvest!

Redefining the Sharing Formula

Redefining the Sharing Formula

Some few days back I wrote on God's Kingdom Finance: Freely Receiving, Freely giving and the reviews have been interesting. To some it sounded as if I was encouraging idleness and dependence. To others it is an unsustainable system, others think it is just not natural.

I believe in work. From the biblical standpoint which I believe as true, work is not a result of the fall of man in the garden but the fall of man dealt a big blow on man's working system and it's outcome. God told Adam what he had caused and its effects on his labor and sustenance. God worked. Six days He worked in creation and had to rest on the seventh. He made man on the sixth because He needed someone to till the ground in order for the seeds created to grow as He water them.

He created man to continue where He had stopped and I believe He equipped Him with the same tools He had used to create the world.
He made man a spirit being like Himself and covered him with a dusty body. Man was not made a body, but a spirit with a body as covering. He was a living soul in the likeness and the image of God. His spirit was the toolbox carrying the
authority and power to do what God did in continuation and maintenance. He was like that until he fell to the trick of the devil, died spiritually, lost his dominion, became flesh and discovered he was naked.

The consequences are that he would now have to use his body and not his spirit as tool to labor. He would now have to eat from his sweat. He would now labour and toil instead of work with the earth not responding as it should, he would do that in suffering, pain, in sickness and disease until he wears out his body which was not cut out for such labor and eventually dies and returns to the dust from where the body was brought ab initio. Genesis 3.

Isn't that the reason why when people invest in their bodies to work, they have to depend on those who invest in their inner systems, their brains and souls to make anything worthwhile happen? And most times earn less than those with more developed minds than bodies?

Now, we realize that the result of labor of man in accessing world's wealth for sustenance would be based on each man's strength and advantages. The result can't be equal to all. It will be the survival of the fittest. It would not be based on inner character but on outward strengths and advantages. So some would eventually take more than their hundreds of generations would ever need while others would have nothing, probably absolute nothing because they aren't strong enough either mentally or physically to struggle to tap from the resources God put there for everyone legally and illegally. And that's why over 80% of the wealth of the world is in the hands and control of less than 20% of its population who still wants more...

Definitely when God created the world in the beginning it wasn't meant to be so. He put all the wealth in there for all who would eventually come. Everyone has his share but not many can access it when it's already being possessed by a stronger one who now rents it back to him with heavy pay. This is the root of all evil...

When God decided to go for a new Kingdom, He has a plan of redemption to take us back from this satanic system which for now we can't do without being jammed together here, to a new Eden, where His will is done and His structure works. I'm sure we'll still work there but not toil. Our bodies won't be the tool, our spirits will be and authority of our words will reign supreme to create change that brings satisfaction.

Work won't be for sustenance it'll be to create change that'll bring satisfaction. Work won't be to make money and the energy to work won't be physical.

But for now what do we do with the depth of iniquity and inequality that we cannot do without in strength and in different privileges and advantages each of us has.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 8
13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack. This is how the kingdom of God in the now would operate to justify the difference it brings. If we continue in the selfish and the greedy system of world's wealth distribution we can't justify our difference and claims of being submissive to the Lord Jesus.

Money belong to someone between mammon, the spirit and 'Caesar', the man and as they sit on the top of the pyramid they share unequally as everyone works for them in a closed world financial system where the runts must die and the strong is even enslaved to work for them, the 'wise' ones... May God give us understanding!

Work is our commitment to pursuing purpose and positive change from the potentials God has given us towards seeing satisfaction. God worked to create positive change and made sure He didn't stop until He saw what He made as good in satisfaction.

Work isn't making money. Work isn't labor. Many are born into the advantage of so much inherited wealth that makes mockery of working for money again...but such privileged people would still have purposes to pursue in life to find satisfaction and meaning and do the reasons why they were created by God and born into the world. It seems our poverty sends us to the labor market and not our pursuits of purpose.

Purposes and pursuits aren't always financially viable. A freelance teacher in the remote areas of African poor countryside wouldn't make any money in comparison with the smallest insurance salesman in an average US city. But the teacher may be pursuing her life's purpose while her salesman twin sister in the US may not even be pursuing God's purpose for her though she makes so much money.

So barring laziness and lack of discretion we remain at different financial strata by default and until we learn compassion and free giving we can't break out of the labor and burdensome system of sustenance the world operates on.

God doesn't need money, God doesn't need our help for His sustenance, people do. When we show compassion in contrast to what the greedy system of the world demands and give to bring equality to bear we break the system and bring God's Kingdom here on earth, we shine the light of heaven on earth and become salt to this tasteless world's system.

Those who follow Christ should justify their following Him by allowing the love shed abroad in their hearts to manifest in giving freely without feeling cheated or trading by expecting something in return from those they did good to.

They should seek equality and not class or caste system which are alien to God's system, they should learn to be unique in our difference instead of conforming to the system of the world in the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life....

Good morning!