FORGIVE EVERYONE

*Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.* Luke 23:34

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?  How can you withhold your forgiveness from yourself? If God says, “I forgive you,” then the only appropriate response is to say, “God, thank You. I don’t deserve it, but I accept it.  And to express my gratitude, I, in turn, forgive that person who has sinned against me.”

We forgive others, not because they deserve it, but because Jesus deserves it. The only reason we have to forgive is that He commands us to, and our obedience gives us opportunity to say to Him, “Thank You for forgiving me. I love You.”

 *Our forgiveness of others then becomes an act of worship that we would not enter into except for Who Jesus is and for the overwhelming debt of love we owe Jesus*

As you celebrate and remember the liberation Jesus brought to us by going to the cross, we have no moral right to hold up any grudge against anyone during and after this season.

Forgive your brother, as your Master has forgiven you ( Matthew 18:32-35)

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I come before you in the name of Jesus and i ask for grace to sincerely forgive all those who have hurt me in the past and even today. Please deliver me from hatred and bitterness and create in me a clean and loving heart in Jesus' name........ Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS WANTS YOU TO FORGIVE OTHERS OF THEIR DEBTS TO YOU

JESUS PAID IT ALL

 *You have cast all my sins behind Your back.*
Isaiah 38:17

We shall never understand the extent of God’s love in Christ at the Cross until we understand that we shall never have to stand before the judgment of God for our sins.

All our sins, without exception were placed on Jesus Christ, and He took the judgment we deserve. He finished the work of redemption.

Billy Graham once told of an incidence that happened while crossing the North Atlantic in a ship he said "I looked out my porthole when I got up in the morning and saw one of the blackest clouds I had ever seen. I was certain that we were in for a terrible storm. I ordered my breakfast sent to my room and spoke to the steward about the storm." the steward replied “Oh, we’ve already come through that storm. It’s behind us.”

 *If we are believers in Jesus Christ* , we have already come through the storm of judgment.  It happened at the Cross. Don’t be bound by your guilt or your fears any more, *but realize that sin’s penalty has already been paid by Christ completely and fully.*

PRAYER: Almighty Father, i thank you for your son Jesus Christ whose sacrifice on the cross has relieved me of the punishment i deserve. Thank you Jesus.
Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS ENDURED THE PAIN FOR YOUR SAKE.

TOP PRIORITY

 *He is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God.* Romans 16:25-26

The first priority of the Church is relating to Christ Himself. Beware of human plans, trending ideas and personal agendas. That’s not God’s agenda for the Church. Paul says in Romans 16:25, ‘ *Now to him who is able to establish you …’*

We don’t do the establishing, Christ does. As a result, the first priority of the Church is to know Christ, to bring people into an experiential knowledge of Him, to encourage people to relate directly to Him, so that He establishes us with roots in Himself, and fruit that express His presence and activity in us.

As a preacher, if you are not leading people to greater dependence on Christ, you are merely giving them a ‘to-do’ list to take home with them, or a bit of psychological advice that they can apply and make work themselves. And to that extent we have ceased to be functioning as a church and have become a ‘self-help’ club, although we do it ‘in the name of Jesus.’ At best, Christ may be the patron of our Christianity, but He is not its life and the content of its Gospel.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to keep Christ central as the head of your church and as the life of my very own life.... Amen🙏🏼

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DEPEND TOTALLY ON JESUS CHRIST.

THE SAMARITANS

 *The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?”(For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)* John 4:9

The woman at the well was surprised that Jesus, a Jew, talked to her, a Samaritan. Her surprise stemmed from the fact that the Samaritans had been continually rejected by the Jews for so many years before Christ’s birth. He didn’t see her as a ‘Samaritan,’ but as a woman thirsting for a satisfaction she had searched for but not found.

Jesus offered her living water for which she would never thirst again. She took it and her life was so transformed that ‘many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony’ (John 4:39).

What is the definitive identity of people we meet? Is it their racial background? Their religious affiliation? Their past life? Or are they people with a deep thirst for God that may have expressed itself in many foolish ways in the past, leaving them more thirsty than ever?

Jesus knew a secret about this woman that you and I know about everyone we meet. He knew she was thirsty for a drink for which she would never thirst again. So He offered it to her and today He offers it to us.

 *See people as Jesus would see them and never deny them the living water.*

PRAYER: My Heavenly Father, I thank you for the gift of Jesus. I pray that your Spirit will help me to continuously fellowship with your son Jesus....Amen

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JESUS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR YOU

EVIDENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

 *Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.*
Ephesians 5:18

Living daily in the fullness of the Spirit takes place on the same basis on which we received Him into our lives. Confessing our sin, acknowledging our need and placing continuing trust in Christ. It’s a day-by-day relationship of dependence and obedience.

In every reference to the filling of the Spirit in the Book of Acts and the epistles, it is interesting that something happens to the mouth. For example, on the day of Pentecost, ‘All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them’ (Acts 2:4).

Paul writes, ‘Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit’ (Ephesians 5:18). He then immediately says, ‘Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord’ (Ephesians 5:19).

Look up every reference to being full of the Spirit and you will discover something happens to the mouth. The best indication of what is going on in our hearts is what comes out of our mouths.

The gentleness, holiness and truthfulness of the Spirit will find expression in the gentleness, holiness and truthfulness of our speech. It’s the surest evidence
The fullness of the Holy Spirit will
change your speech.

What does your speech say about what is going on in your heart?

PRAYER: Almighty Father, please enable me to manifest the presence of the Holy Spirit in me in all that I do. In Jesus mighty name... Amen🙏🏼

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WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO FOR GOD'S KINGDOM

PAIN CAN LEAD TO PURPOSE.

* But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive*. Genesis 50:20

Joseph suffered from the hands of his own brothers . *He was sold, buried, lied against and imprisoned*. All these suffering was for a purpose.

Suffering is part of Christianity.
The moment you decide to follow Christ, there are two things you can't avoid. Suffering and Grace.
The enemy throw things at you to make you loose faith.

The devil tempted Job to the extent of taking the lives of his children. But remember there is no temptation that is taken you but such as is  common to man. There is a ministry in every suffering.

I have come to a realization in life that every great person has a story. God allowed it for a purpose.
*I have seen a great woman of God who ate from the dustbin but today she is feeding many people*.
I have seen a young man who lost the mother who provided for him and his siblings but now he is inspiring and teaching and raising young leaders.
I heard of a woman of God who was diagnosed of terminal cancer but now praying for people with chronic diseases and miracles are happening.
*There is a purpose in your pain*.

Your pain often reveals God's purpose for you.
*God never wastes hurt*. If you have gone through a hurt, God wants you to help other people going through the same.

Beloved I don't know what sort of pain you are going through. I will urge you to hold onto your faith. Dont give up on yourself.
*Jesus suffered so we might be free*

*THERE IS A PURPOSE IN YOUR PAIN*.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to stay strong in every challenging situation.
Help me to find the purpose in my pain.

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JESUS IS WITH YOU IN THE BOAT

EXPECT PERSECUTION

 *Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.* 2 Timothy 3:12

A story is told of the British preacher John Wesley, who was riding along on his horse when he realized that several days had gone by, and he hadn’t suffered any persecution. For three days, not a brick or an egg had been thrown in his direction, which apparently was a common practice when Wesley would get up to preach. So he got off his horse and cried out, “Could it be that I have sinned, and I am backslidden?” Then he got down on his knees and asked God to show him if there was anything wrong in his life spiritually.

All the time he was praying, a man was watching and listening to all of this. He thought, “That preacher is crazy. I will teach him a lesson.” He picked up a brick and threw it at John Wesley, just missing his head but when Wesley saw the brick, he jumped up and said joyfully, “Thank God, everything is okay! I still have His presence.”

The devil will oppose us outwardly and try to stop us through persecution. But there is another way he will attack, and it is not very noticeable. He will whisper in our ear, “You are so powerful. You’re a man or woman of God. You are not supposed to be just a servant in the church. You are a great preacher. When you speak, your words resonate. You are so wonderful. You are so great.”

The devil knows that pride goes before a fall and that more people probably have been brought down by pride than by any other sin. He knows all about pride because it’s the very thing that brought him down as well.

The Bible tells us, “Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” Are you living a godly life? Then get ready, because persecution will come your way as a follower of Jesus Christ.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, i humbly ask that your Spirit will uphold me in time of trials and persecution. In Jesus mighty name.... Amen.

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GOD IS WATCHING OVER YOU

IT'S NOTHING, JUST LIVE IT TO GOD.

 *And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.* Matthew 6:12

We hear of feuds among Christian families that are never resolved simply because the parties involved are unwilling to forgive each other. Growing up, my mother taught me forgiveness with just one sentence *"it's nothing, just live it to God"*  It is doesn't matter how angry you are because somebody wronged or hurt you, she will tell you *"if you say you are a true Christian, then live it to your God"*

This really helped me to maintain relationship with people who became of good help to me in the future.

The unfortunate issue is that our society today doesn’t value forgiveness. In fact, forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness, not strength. Our culture esteems vengeance and payback. We believe in the old adage *“Don’t get mad, get even.”* but i ask myself, what if God decides to get even with us the moment we hurt him.

But in what we know as The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).

The word debt in this verse could be better translated “sins.” In other words, forgive us our sins or our trespasses or our shortcomings or our resentments or the wrong we have done or what we owe to Him.

Contrary to what we may think, we don’t go through a day without sinning. Even if we might not break a commandment of God, we certainly fall short of a standard of God. We have sinful thoughts and attitudes. We commit sins of omission, failing to do good when we could have done it. The Bible says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8).

We need to ask God every day to forgive us for our sins. And as we receive that forgiveness, we should also extend it to others. *According to Jesus, our generous and constant forgiveness of others should be the natural result of our understanding of the forgiveness God has extended to us.*

Simply put, forgiven people ought to be forgiving people. If we have been forgiven, then we must forgive others(Fathers, Mothers, sons, daughters, families, friends, colleagues etc)

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please forgive me of all my sins even as i forgive all those who have sin against me in one way or the other. In Jesus might name i have prayed....Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS HAS FORGIVEN YOU OF ALL YOUR SINS.

BELIEVE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

*Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book* Revelation 22:7


*Two fishes were swimming when they saw a piece of meat dangling before them*.🐬🦈

The younger fish darted toward it with an open mouth. The older fish cried out, “Stop"! ✋
"You can’t see it, but there is a hook inside that meat. It is connected by an invisible line to a pole outside the water. There is a man holding the pole"

"THE *TRUTH* is, if you eat the meat, the hook will catch in your jaw and the man will pull you out of the water. He will cut you open with a knife, roast you on a fire and eat you. Then he will throw your remains to his cat.”

The young fish stopped. The two swam away. But when the young fish was alone, he thought to himself,
“Let me investigate the *truth* myself how accurate these lousy claims are"

He went back to the meat, swam around it, above and below it. He swam as far as he could in widening circles around the meat.

After a long search, he said to himself, “I’ve looked far and wide, and *I haven’t found any sign of a man, a pole, a knife, a fire or a cat.* In fact, I’ve found nothing outside this water we live in" I have come to realise my *truth*

"These must just be stories made up to limit our freedoms"

He went back to the meat and ate it.

The hook caught in his jaw, he felt himself being yanked out of the water.
For sure *He saw a pole, a man and a knife, and a little further, he saw the man's cat sleeping in a shade,* but at that point his knowledge of *the TRUTH* was useless.

*MORAL OF THE STORY*

*It is exactly the story of the Great Gospel and Mysteries of the Bible.*
Some of them are  beyond our comprehension.
We now don't see Satan, Angels, Jesus or His judgement seat, no, we don't see the eternal fire of hell at all, but of course we will realize all along that it was *THE TRUTH* vs our truth, and that will be only when death eventually strikes. But Alas! *Too late forever*

May God let us heed to the *TRUTH* while it is useful to us. Amen. JESUS said, *"I AM the way, the TRUTH and the life* Nobody goes to the Father without me.

OUR DEVOTION HAS TAKEN A DIFFERENT TURN TODAY.

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AWARE OF TWO VOICES

 *Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.* Romans 8:1

The devil is called, ‘the accuser of our brothers and sisters’(Revelation 12:10). First he tempts us, luring us on, making sin attractive and desirable, undermining its consequences and leading us to fail. But once we do, he turns on us and jumps on our back with accusation, ‘You dirty sinner! You failure! You hypocrite!’ And he heaps condemnation on us. And it’s easy to believe because it is true; we have failed, we are sinners.

However, God also speaks to us about our sin, but His voice is very different. *God convicts. The devil condemns.* There’s a huge difference between the two. Condemnation is like a wet blanket that sits on us so we feel unable to move from under it. It paralyses us.

When God convicts, He not only makes us aware of our sin, but He shows us the way out. He takes us to the cross of Christ. Satan’s condemnation is designed to humiliate and destroy us. God’s conviction is designed to liberate us.

To be in Christ is to be in a place of complete security. Cleansed by Him, accepted in Him, we are now in a place of liberty and freedom.

 _*Do not let the devil rob you of that freedom* ._

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I thank You for the cross of Christ, through which I find complete acceptance by the Father, and am never again condemned in Jesus mighty name ..... Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS GAVE UP HIS LIFE FOR YOU.

POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

 *They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.* ACTS 2:46-47

Three thousand were converted to Christ after Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost in Acts, Chapter 2. Within a few days 5,000 people had turned their lives to Christ. Explosive growth was taking place in the city that seven weeks earlier had crucified Christ. Those early disciples had available to them something completely new. Until Pentecost they had been followers of Christ, but now they were indwelt by the actual life of Christ, by the gift of His Holy Spirit to them.

His presence transformed them spiritually. They spoke with new courage. It transformed them socially. They were ‘enjoying the favor of all the people.

It transformed them fruitfully, and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 2:47). The impact of the Holy Spirit on the disciples led directly to the impact of the disciples on their community. There came opposition of course but rather than being indicative of things going wrong, that was evidence of their positive impact on the community.

 _*The outflow of our lives to the benefit of others gives evidence of the inflow of the Spirit*_ .

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please I want to live in the fullness of Your presence in my life, not only so that I am enriched but so that I become a means of enrichment to others.

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SUPPORT THE GOSPEL

*Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment*.
John12:3

If you really want to change the life of the poor, its not the food you give the poor but its sending the gospel and supporting the gospel that goes to the poor. This is the reason, United Nations with all their intellectual know how, skills and capabilities are unable to solve the problem of poverty .

There is poverty in every rich country. Christ said the poor you shall always have with you. The only thing that transforms people from being poor is the gospel. The only thing that can take someone from the back to the front is the gospel. Have you asked yourself why the scripture says he has anointed you to preach to the poor. Jesus is prosperity. The blessings of God maketh rich.

Do you believe it? Please ask yourself now, where would you have been without JESUS. Support the gospel. The best way to give to the poor is to support the gospel because the only thing that brings permanent transformation is the *GOSPEL*.

The woman with the Alabaster box gave very costly. David said I will not give anything that is not costly to my God. The woman gave a very expensive oil in her day. Mary broke this perfume and aroma filled the whole atmosphere.

Give something towards the gospel. I was just meditating on the scripture and I just realised Mary never thought twice before giving her all to Jesus.(breaking her jar of oil).

Support the gospel so it spreads .

PRAYER: Father I thank you for my life. Please grant me the grace to support the gospel.
Amen.

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THE TEST OF WHAT'S INSIDE

 *The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.*
Deuteronomy 13:3

A famous Christian writer, once said that Christians should be like tea, when they get into hot water all the goodness should come out. For the Israelites in the wilderness, the hot water repeatedly brought out a spirit of grumbling.

During the 40 years in the wilderness, Moses explained to the Israelites that the Lord was testing them to expose what was in their hearts. The tests only exposed the ugliness of their hearts, for they constantly grumbled against Moses, failing to understand their trials had purpose.

When we’re faced with difficulties in life, we can either turn to grumbling or turn to God. *Trials and testing reveal our hearts,* not to embarrass us or humiliate us when we grumble, or to congratulate us when we turn to God, but so that *we learn the truth about ourselves.*

You may be facing a difficulty right now - economically, physically, or emotionally. Are you giving in to the temptation to lash out and grumble, or are you embracing your challenges as a means of trusting God and experiencing Him more fully?

The test of how much we trust God comes when we don’t know what is going on and are walking blindly. Proof that you trust God.

PRAYER: Pray and ask honestly whether you are grumbling in your trials, or trusting God and seek for help in your area of need.

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JESUS WILL NEVER DISAPPOINT YOU.

THE REAL DEAL

 *Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.*
Colossians 3:9-10

Many of us with pets at home will attest to the fact that they misbehave and are normally wild when we first bring them home but we teach them to behave: to go outside when they need to, not to jump on the table or hang around looking for food.

Dogs for example have no moral consciousness; they have merely been housetrained – taught to behave by consequences.

It is possible for us as Christians to also be evangelically housetrained. We are taught how to behave in the right company, and we are meticulously observant, but out of company or around those who are not Christians, we behave very differently.

We are not driven by an inner compulsion and appetite for what is right, but by external motivation. *The real measure of our sanctification is more how we behave when nobody else is watching.*

The Christian life involves being genuine with our temptations, failures and weaknesses, and looking to the Holy Spirit to produce an inward morality which will be expressed in an outward activity. That is not being housetrained, it is being sanctified.

 _*The authentic Christian life is consistent, whether we are being watched or not.*_

Be real before God and you will be real before others.

PRAYER: Almighty Father, I humbly ask that Your Holy Spirit will help me put You first and to please You in every aspect of my life especially when am alone, in Jesus mighty name.. Amen🙏🏼

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YOUR LIFE IS IMPORTANT TO CHRIST.

SEX TALK

 *Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.*
Ephesians 5:3

We live in a sex-saturated world today, but in many ways this isn’t new. The Apostle Paul wrote from a context where sexual immorality had been normalized as fully as in our own day. Paul wrote to the Ephesians knowing Ephesus was a city built on the worship of the goddess Diana, the goddess of fertility.

This cult was riddled with fertility rights disguised as religious duty, involving temple prostitutes and numerous sexual deviations that satisfied the base lusts of people.

There are those that try to persuade us that the sexual ethics of the New Testament are no longer relevant for Christians today. They even say that sexual ethics are unreasonable and unnecessary for we can control reproduction much better than they could in ancient days, and we are to celebrate our sexuality.

Many people in the church today are seriously into pornography and many men when caught lustfully discussing a woman, will say "we are admiring God's creation". _*Oh how they are deceived.*_

There were those in the church in Ephesus deceiving people in this very area, says Paul, who brought themselves under the wrath of God. It is not that God is anti-sex, or does not appreciate physical pleasure. *After all He created it but its fulfillment is found in a right context, apart from which it brings only trouble and pain.* The evidence of that is all around us.

 _*We should all be careful of allowing the culture around us to normalise sin and deceive us about its sting.* _

PRAYER: Lift up any unclean thoughts to God in prayer today. Bring them to the light of Christ and ask for help to overcome them in Jesus name.

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GOD THINKS ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY.

CHASING THE WIND

 *I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.*

Ecclesiastes 1:14

There are three words or phrases that are key to understanding Ecclesiastes. First, Solomon writes that, ‘ *Everything is meaningless* ’ The second phrase is ‘ *under the sun* .’ Here the writer looks at life as only what he can see, touch, feel, smell and hear. The third phrase says that his pursuit of meaning is like ‘ *chasing the wind* .’

Ecclesiastes could have been written today. When people try to make sense of life without God, we can only come to one honest conclusion: ‘ *Everything is meaningless* .’

We are left to create an artificial sense of meaning and purpose as the writer says he did, through wine, work, silver and gold, good food, plenty of sex, only to conclude, ‘I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. ... Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).

It is only at the end of the book he wakes up to the truth: ‘Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: *Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind* ’(Ecclesiastes 12:13.) That alone gives lasting meaning!

 *_The hard truth is that we cannot make sense of life without God._ *

What are you pursuing to find meaning? Is it things of the physical world or the things of God?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to be a Heavenly minded Christian in Jesus mighty name.....Amen.

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BELOVED IN CHRIST, SINCERELY CHASE AFTER GOD.

THE FATHER'S TIME

 *The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.*
1 Thessalonians 5:24

A wise older man told me when I was young that I need three things for life's journey: ‘ *You need patience, and then you need more patience, and then you need still more patience.* 'He was right.

We are always in a hurry. But God works to a different time frame than we do. We are limited by time but God doesn’t wear a watch, carry a calendar or use an iPhone.

When Abraham came to Canaan and God promised him that he would have a son and from that son would come a nation, he was 75 years old and his wife was 65. Finally, it was when Abraham was 100 years of age and Sarah was 90 that she finally gave birth to the son who had been promised, Isaac.

But what about the nation that was part of the promise? Even 85 years after God had promised Abraham a nation would come from his body, all he had was two baby grandchildren born to Isaac
and his wife, Rebekah. But the purposes of God were slowly (very slowly) coming to pass.

Patience isn’t easy. We must trust the divine timing of God. His delays in our eyes are not His denials.

 *God doesn’t keep looking at His watch, but He does everything on schedule.*

Do you trust God’s timing in the areas you are impatient?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to be patient and to trust You all the days of my life especially in the most difficult days of my life. In Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼

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LET'S PREPARE OURSELVES TO MEET JESUS

THE REAL JESUS

 *For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you may well put up with it.*
2 Corinthians 11:4

Paul tells the Christians in Corinth that it is possible to create their own Jesus. There are different versions of Jesus, usually tailored to fit our own particular needs or selfish interests. It wasn’t unique to Corinth.

It is easy to start with a sense of our needs, wants or aspirations, and design a Jesus who meets them. How do we know the real Jesus?
For a start, we don’t have to invent Him, for everything we know about Him in Scripture is sufficient for all we need to know.

He was born, lived, acted and interacted with people, died, was raised and ascended to heaven. *He not only taught the truth, He embodied the truth and is the truth.*

Everything we need to know about God, we see in Jesus. Many people are encouraged to close their eyes and ask Jesus to reveal Himself to them. No, don’t do that. Open your eyes and read the revelation of Christ that He has
given in His Word. As you do so, in a spirit of humility, He will step out of the Bible to become a living companion.

 _*If you’re going to look for Jesus, look for Him where He has revealed Himself....In the Scriptures.*_

Are you getting to know the Christ of the Word?

PRAYER: Beloved in Christ, pray for the revelation of Christ through the Scriptures and for the spiritual interpretation of the Word of God.

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SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST MORE FOR YOURSELF.

BURIED WITH CHRIST

Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Jesus should never have been buried. Having died as a criminal, His body became the possession of the Roman authority. In Jerusalem, bodies of criminals were thrown into a gorge on the south side of the city wall known as the Valley of Gehenna. In Jesus’ day, the Valley of Gehenna was a garbage dump. The bodies of dead animals and criminals were incinerated with the garbage.

The bodies of the two thieves crucified with Christ would have been disposed of here. But Jesus had a wealthy friend who rescued His body. This was prophesied
years in advance by Isaiah, when he wrote, ‘He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death’(Isaiah 53:9).

Paul states in Romans 6:4, ‘We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death.’ It is important to know we were ‘buried with him,’ because burial is final. We speak of something being ‘dead and buried’ when there is no hope of it coming back. The burial of Christ says that He took my sin to the Cross; He died my death and was buried.

It is over. We must see ourselves united to Christ in His burial. Our sin is dead and buried.

 *_We are not only united to Christ in His death and resurrection, but also in His burial._*


You have accepted that you have died with Christ, but do you know the implications of being buried with Him too?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to understand the implications of being buried with You and to live my life as such in the name of Jesus I pray.....Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS CARES FOR YOU

DON'T GIVE UP

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. John 6:44

God’s work is to draw people to Himself. Jesus says, ‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them’ (John 6:44). We can’t predict how or in what circumstances God may do that, but we know that He will do it. It’s not easy to wait for God’s timing.

Don’t give up my dear. Your very presence is a means by which God may be at work revealing Himself. Jesus said to His disciples, ‘ *You are the light of the world* ’(Matthew 5:14). On another occasion He said, ‘ *I am the light of the world* ’ (John 9:5). His work of reaching others is done through the people in whom He lives.

We shine by virtue of the fact that He is the Light of the world and lives in us. *When He said, ‘I am the light of the world,’ He qualified it by saying, ‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world’* (John 9:5).

Don’t underestimate what God is doing in us and through us. We don’t have to see it and we certainly don’t have to feel that we are shining brightly but if we are connecting with the Source of light in fellowship with God, it will be His business to show Himself to others though us. The alternative is to hide our light under a bowl so that the house will never see the light (Matthew 5:15).

 *_When a person comes into a relationship with God, they bring the presence of God into every situation they participate in._ *

Are you living as a light of the world or are you hiding it under a bowl?

PRAYER: Ask our Father in Heaven to help you shine brighter and to connect you with those in whose heart He is at work.

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BRIGHTEN THE CORNER YOU FIND YOURSELF

YOU NEED A BODY

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:15

‘I am a Christian but I, have difficulty knowing why I need to be in church every week’. This is a the question many young believers often ask.

Part of the answer to the question is that we are not only individuals in a personal relationship with God. We are being built together with other believers as a functioning body, inter dependent on one another and complementing each other.

Many of us put high prizes on our individualism but we were never intended to live and function alone. We were created for relationship. From the very beginning, God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness’ (Genesis 1:26). The ‘our’ is the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Human beings were intended to express relationship as well as being individuals. Hence, ‘it is not good for the man to be alone’ (Genesis 2:18). Everything God had created He had declared ‘good’ until now and one of the things that was ‘good’ was that it is ‘not good’ for man to be alone.

 *Individualism is a weakness, not a strength.* The need for others is essential to our personal well-being. In our Christian life, the Church is essential to our health and well-being. The New Testament vision of the Church includes, ‘ *From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work’* (Ephesians 4:16)

Are you a faithful, active part of the Church, which is the body of Christ on earth? If not, how can you be so?

PRAYER: Almighty God, I humbly ask that you help me to position myself and to function well in the body of Christ...Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS CHRIST IS COMING SOON

ONE THING

One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14

Paul focuses on ‘one thing’ in this passage. He confesses that he hasn’t arrived in the Christian life but he’s narrowed his focus to just one thing, not 25 things he is dabbling with but ‘one thing’ (Philippians 3:13).

What’s that one thing? Paul sets his statement in a context of forgetting what is behind. The past can be a big stumbling block for us. It can act like a ball and chain that holds us back in old ways, old habits, old sins and old assumptions.

It takes deliberate intention to ‘forget what is behind and strain forward to what is ahead’ (Philippians 3:13).
There are two aspects to our goal: *destination and means* . The destination is ‘the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus; that one day, fully restored into His image we will enjoy Him forever (Philippians 3:14). The means is: ‘I want to know Christ. Yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings’ (Philippians 3:10).

To know Christ is to know the power of His resurrection life and to know the power of His resurrection is to be equipped to share His sufferings. It is not an avoidance of suffering that comes with knowing Christ but an equipping to face and live in it.

James speaks of having ‘patience in the face of suffering’ (James 5:10). Is this the one thing you do?

What would it mean for you to narrow your focus to just one thing? Think about it.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask that in the mist of all these adversities help to be focus on You and Your Kingdom....Amen🙏🏼

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SEEK FIRST AND ALWAYS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

MEASURING GROWTH

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18

The measure of our spiritual growth is not that we know more of the Bible this year than last year, or that we are engaging in more Christian service than last year or attending more Christian events.

These may be good, but they are not the measure of spiritual growth. *It is the extent to which the life of Jesus Christ is seen in us* that is the true measure of Christian growth. In practical terms, the way we treat our spouse and children, our friends, our colleagues at work, the way we talk to the neighbours (or more tellingly, the way we talk about
them) is the true measure of our spiritual life.

Paul called this ‘the fruit of the Spirit’ (Galatians 5:22-23) for its origin is in the work of the Spirit within us. It is not instantaneous, but a process of ‘being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory’ (2 Corinthians 3:18). Reaching perfection is a gradual process but one day we will be fully restored into the moral likeness of
God.

The Gospel is about restoring the character of God into human experience.

What fruit of the Spirit are evident in your relationships?

PRAYER: Almighty Father, please help me to reflect the Spirit of Christ in me to the whole world...
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ARE YOUR NEIGHBOURS SEEING THE NATURE OF CHRIST IN YOU?

TRUST GOD TO THE END

Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son. Genesis 22:12

It was after Abraham bound his son Isaac, laid him on the altar, and took the knife to slay him, that God called from heaven and told him not to lay a hand on the boy.

This hadn’t been an easy journey for Abraham, you can be sure of that. After God had promised him a son, it took 25 years for Isaac to arrive. *Abraham in the meantime had wavered and fathered Ishmael by the maid Hagar in an attempt to get the will of God done.*

It was only when exhausted of human resources that Abraham finally learned that *what God says, God will do – in His own
time,* and Isaac was born.

God now tested Abraham and asked him to sacrifice the son he had waited so long for. Abraham, this time, obeyed and trusted God to the extent that if God had to raise him from the dead to fulfill the purpose He had stated for Isaac, then so be it. Abraham was no longer trying to organize things on God’s behalf. He trusted God to the very end.

Is God testing you over a promise He has made to you that your circumstances seem to be in conflict with? Trust Him to the end.

Are you being tempted to take things into your own hands because of God’s seeming inactivity? Please trust Him to the end.

PRAYER: Almighty Father, I humbly ask for grace to trust You all the days of my life. In Jesus' name I have prayed....Amen🙏🏼

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IF THE RAPTURE SHOULD OCCUR TODAY, ARE YOU READY TO MEET JESUS?

THE ROOT CAUSE

You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgement. Matthew 5:21-22

I can imagine the response of the people in the crowd when Jesus said, ‘You have heard that it was said...you shall not murder’(Matthew 5:21).
Many in the crowd probably said, ‘We never murder – we keep the law.’ Then Jesus told them that if they were angry with their brother or sister, even though they would never put a knife in their back, they were already guilty of murder.

Jesus was not changing the law; He was tracing the effect it addresses back to its cause. Behind murder lies anger. He went on to say that behind adultery lies lust. The law can only deal with symptoms, but the work of Jesus Christ was to deal with causes.

It is in the deep recesses of the human heart that the Gospel does its work. It addresses our pride, anger, lust and greed; all of which produce ugly symptoms if not dealt with. Hence Jesus said, ‘I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it’ (Matthew 5:17).

The failure of human history does not demand He change the law and make life easier, but that He goes to the heart and deals with the issues that lie at the cause of our sin – our fallen self.


PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please go into the depths of my heart, expose my sin and cleanse me deeply in Jesus mighty name....Amen🙏🏼

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ARE YOU READY TO MEET JESUS TODAY.

NO COUNTERFEIT LOVE

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:1

Why do you think love is held up as the highest virtue in this passage in 1 Corinthians 13? It’s because *God is love* and the mark of genuine spiritual activity is the measure to which God is expressing Himself in love. 

We can be the recipients of spiritual gifts and exercise them with expertise, but if they are not exercised in love, they are noise without melody, like clanging cymbals or the banging of a gong.

We might be able to mimic spiritual gifts and certainly we can engage in Christian service in our own human energy, but we cannot mimic genuine love. We might put on a show for a while, but ultimately it will fail. Soon our self interest will begin to take over our interest in the wellbeing of others.

It is possible to engage in Christian ministry for self-fulfillment rather than out of love for those we minister to and serve. The truth is, we are fulfilled by serving others, but never when that is the primary object.

Our work is effective and fruitful when expressed out of love for Christ and dependence on Him. It is then that His presence in us 

manifests. *We are not simply to imitate Christ, but to let Christ, whose very nature is love, be Himself in us.* 

We can counterfeit spiritual gifts, but we can never counterfeit love.

Are there actions in your Christian life that are lacking love? Look within yourself and talk to your Heavenly Father.

PRAYER:  Almighty God, I humbly pray for grace to love more.....Amen

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JESUS WANTS YOU TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR.

THE EXCHANGED LIFE

Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
Matthew 16:25

There was no middle ground of discipleship to Jesus. *People could not be half in and half out.* He challenged his disciples: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me' (Mathew 16:24).

This was the very thing the disciples told Jesus not to do. After telling them He would go to Jerusalem and die, Peter said ‘Never Lord…This shall never happen to you’ (Mathew 16:22). But that is exactly what it takes to be a disciple of Jesus, *an obedience right to the end;* including to death if need be.

That is when Jesus gave the challenge: If you want to save your life, go ahead, but you will lose it in the end. If you lose your life, however, you will find it (Matthew 16:25).

One great servant of God wrote these words in his diary: ‘ *He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose* .’

Everything we give to Jesus Christ is only for a short time, but everything He gives us is eternal. That’s why it’s a fool who says, ‘I want to hang on to my own life and do my own thing.’ *As we hand over our life to Jesus Christ, He hands over His life to us* .

It is called ‘ *the exchanged life* .’ What may look like loss in our naivety is really gain.

Are you living the exchanged life? Are your resources found in Christ?

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HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Does God really have the whole world in His hands like we sing in the famous song? Pick up any newspaper on almost any day and you will find stories of terror, deceit, war, injustice and poverty.

What do we do with tragedy in our lives? There are many factors involved in what happens to us every day. Natural factors that are just a part of the physical world are involved in our lives.

The Bible says that the sun rises and sets on the righteous and the unrighteous (Matthew 5:45). There are also spiritual factors
involved in our daily lives, the devil is active in this world too, tempting us like he tempted Jesus in the desert but there are divine factors at work too.

Even in the bad things, God is
active. *Like in the story of Job, or Joseph, or anyone under attack,
though the battle is real, God is working out something good.*

It is not that  *'things work for good’* as some translations have put it, but that *‘in all things God works for good’* (Romans 8:28). It is not the ‘things’ that are good (they may in fact be evil), but in them God works out purposes that are good.
For that, we can trust him.

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GOD IS ALWAYS WATCHING OVER YOU.

FULLNESS OF CHRIST

Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13

Paul mentions the fullness of Christ in this passage from the Book of Ephesians but what does he mean? I suggest that the fullness of Christ, in contrast to the fullness of the Holy Spirit, *refers to seeing the character of Christ in a person.* When we are living in the fullness of Christ we exhibit His love, His kindness, His generosity, and His patience; something of His own character.

What’s more, when we are living in the fullness of Christ, we meet people not with judgment, but with compassion. Jesus knew the woman at the well had been married multiple times  but He
met her with love and understanding of her deep
need that drove her to so many men.

 *She was thirsty and thirsty people will drink dirty water if they do not know where to find the clean, living water, which Jesus offered her.*
When we live in the fullness of Christ, we see the world with compassionate eyes.

In the person of Christ we see God’s moral character.

PRAYER: Everlasting Father, I humbly submit myself to you, please give me the grace to live in the fullness of Christ....Amen

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IRRELEVANT WORSHIP

A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks. John 4:23

There is a marked difference between the Old Testament descriptions of worship and the New Testament descriptions of worship. Old Testament worship required a specific place, a detailed form and prescribed regulations.

God gave Moses instructions for building the tabernacle. Solomon replaced the tabernacle with a permanent temple. *To be acceptable you had to be in the right place, engaging in the right rituals, operated by the right priests, at the right times.*

The New Testament is radically different. With Christ came the New Covenant focusing entirely on internals. *Worship no longer had
to do with special buildings, rituals or priests.*
What was now most important was the heart and life of the worshipper, reconnected to
God through the work of Jesus.

The Samaritans wanted to worship on their mountain, the Jews in Jerusalem. Jesus’ response to the woman of Samaria was that ‘True worshippers will worship the
Father in the Spirit and in truth’ (John 4:23). It’s not about external rituals any more, but a genuine relationship with God that expresses itself in spirit and in truth. Externals are no longer criteria in the New Covenant.

Worship has little to do with
external rituals but everything
to do with internal realities.

What is the focus of your worship – the externals or internals?

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LET YOUR EXTERNALS BE A REFLECTION OF YOUR INTERNAL

DO WHAT YOU WANT

It is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13

A great man once said: ‘ *If you love God, you can do as you please.’* What he meant was that if you love God, what pleases you will be what pleases God.

When we love the things God loves, and hate the things God hates, we can live as we please. The Psalmist wrote, ‘Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart’ (Psalm 37:4), not meaning he will give you anything you desire but that the desires themselves will be God-given desires.

This is a good way to live. God leads us by working in us to will and act in order to fulfill His good purpose, so that He puts His Will into our minds and hearts. I am sometimes asked the question about an issue, ‘Do you think this is God’s Will or mine?’ I sometimes answer, ‘Have you ever considered it might be both? It is your will because it is God’s Will, and He has put this desire into your hearts.’

There are other checks for discerning the Will of God – the Scriptures, our circumstances, wholesome advice from those who know us well – but often His leading us begins with giving us right desires.

What God works out through us,
He first works in us.

How do you think God is molding your mind to His?

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LIVING THE WORD

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3:16

We must live the Christian life by the Word of God. This is a recurring theme in Paul’s two letters to Timothy. Paul is encouraging young Timothy, saying, ‘Timothy, both in the operation of the church you have been sent to Ephesus to lead and in the operation of your own personal life, you must live according to the Word of God.’

This Word is God-breathed, authoritative and life-giving.
But that doesn’t mean it is easy.
In 2 Timothy, Paul talks about the challenges of living according to the Word as being like a soldier (disciplined), an athlete (determined), a farmer (patient), and a workman (conscientious) (see 2 Timothy 2:3,5-6 and 15).

In those pursuits, there is discipline, perseverance and hard work. Timothy was timid, so Paul reminds him, saying he must cast aside his timidity and with the Word of God,  *correct, rebuke and encourage - with great
patience and careful instruction* (2 Timothy 4:2).

Timothy must have been exasperating Paul because he writes some rebuke to Timothy, exhorting him not to slacken, but on the grounds of the authoritative Word of God to ‘Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season’ (2 Timothy 4:2), which is to take
opportunities (‘in season’) and make opportunities (‘out of season’).
How are we doing in these areas?

Is the Word of God your foundation?

As disciples we must live by the Word of God.

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YOU ARE LOVED BY JESUS CHRIST.

TOO ADULT

Whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:4

Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? I think Jesus surprised, if not shocked, His disciples when He answered by calling a little child and telling His disciples that this child was the model of greatness in His Kingdom.

In Jesus’ day children were to be seen and not heard; they were non-entities waiting to become something. There are many aspects to childlikeness. We love their innocence, their sense of wonder, their joy, their quick delight in things, but above all, children are marked by their innocent dependence.

Jesus told His disciples they had to ‘change and become like little children.’ In normal life, there comes a time when we tell children they must change and become like adults and grow up.

In the spiritual life, the reverse is true. *The danger is that we become too adult, too clever, too sufficient in ourselves, and too self-contained.* A return to childlike wonder, love and dependency is essential for spiritual growth. *This is not to be childish, but childlike.*

Jesus told His disciples, ‘Whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven’ (Matthew 18:4). The bar is not going high, it is coming low.

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GOD CARES FOR YOU AS MUCH AS HE CARED FOR JESUS

DESPITE OURSELVES

I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised.... whose weakness was turned to strength. Hebrews 11:32-34

Hebrews Chapter 11 is a catalogue of men and women who lived by faith. We may think of them as the heroes of the faith, but if we are honest, it’s more like a police collection of photography of known suspects. How does our grandfather Samson get a mention? You look almost in vain for his redeemable features. Rahab was a prostitute who lied on behalf of the Israelite spies and yet is commended for her faith.

Faith is a disposition of trust in God that looks to God to work. If I put faith in a chair, I let the chair do something for me. If I put faith in a car, I let the car do something for me. Putting faith in God is passing the responsibility to God and letting Him do something.

When Samson was attacked by a lion, ‘The Spirit of the Lord came
powerfully upon him, so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands’ (Judges 14:6); and ‘the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him’ (14:19), when he attacked the Philistines in Ashkelon. This doesn’t
justify the mess he was making of his personal life, but it does mean that when he cried out to God, God intervened. We don’t have to get ourselves cleaned up to trust God, we come as we are. But as He works in us and through us, His holiness will begin to permeate our lives. *Righteousness is never found in ourselves, it is found in God.*

Are you living the Christian life by works or by His strength?

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THE AWFUL REALITY OF HELL

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28

The idea of hell is abhorrent to us. How can it be otherwise? The primary teaching about hell comes from Jesus Himself. Paul, in his thirteen letters, talks about judgment and spiritual death, but he never uses the word hell.

There is clearly some ambiguity about the nature of hell. On the one hand it is a lake of fire (Revelation 20:14), on the other it is a place of darkness (Matthew 25:30).
Fire and darkness present conflicting images, for fire gives light. It is also described as a place where the ‘worms that eat them do not die’ (Mark 9:48), and yet it is a second death (Revelation 20:14).

‘Not dying’ and ‘death’ are again conflicting images. I suggest the reality is that there are no words, images, or concepts that adequately describe hell. Its essential nature is that it is a *place of separation from God.*

Paul writes, ‘They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord’ (2 Thessalonians 1:9). It is this being ‘ *shut out from the presence of the Lord’ that is the most horrific description of hell.*

We must treat hell with humility. A well-known British preacher by name R.W. Dale once said, the only man he knew who had the right to preach about hell was D.L. Moody because he never spoke of it without tears.
That is the authentic attitude towards hell.

Believe and trust totally in Christ for eternal separation from God will be the most awful consequence of not trusting Christ.

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FINDING PEACE

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6

If someone says to you, ‘Don’t be anxious about anything,’ you might well respond by saying, ‘You live in a different world. I have utility bills to pay and a visit to the doctor coming up'.

Yet this is exactly what Paul wrote to the Philippians.
The key word in this verse is the little word ‘ *but* .’
This word acts as a hinge on which doors swing.

Paul is not just saying, ‘Don’t be anxious about anything,’ he goes on to say, ‘…but in every situation
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God’ (Philippians 4:6).

Get hold of your anxieties and present them to God. We can
pray about things but never give them to God. We worry just as much afterwards as we did before. To do it ‘with thanksgiving’ is an expression of trust and confidence in God, to the extent we thank Him in advance for taking the issue that is the cause of my anxiety.

When we do that, there is the promise, ‘And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 4:7).

It is not a peace that may solve the issue immediately but a peace that guards our hearts and minds.

 *Our peace comes from passing the responsibility to someone bigger – God.*

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I release my anxieties to You. I present them to You today in Jesus mighty name..... Amen🙏🏼

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THE IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE

But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John".
Luke 1:13

When God speaks to us, He rarely talks to us about the things that are humanly possible. Both Mary and Elizabeth faced this very thing when God brought both of them a message through the angel, a message that was totally outside the realm of possibility.

Mary was to have a baby but was a virgin and Elizabeth had the
opposite problem; she was to have a baby but was old.
For Mary having a baby was too soon, for Elizabeth it was too late and both were human impossibilities.

We have a choice to either live in the realm of the natural where everything is reasonable, human and explicable, or to live in the supernatural where we take seriously the Word of God and depend on Him for its fulfillment. If we chose to live only in the realm of the natural, and never allow God to take us into the realm of what only He can do, which is what makes it supernatural – then we’ll never know the joy and excitement that is possible in an adventurous, obedient and trusting Christian life.

We have to fully trust in God, knowing that He that has called us will never disappoint.

Enjoy your life with Jesus Christ.

PRAYER: Eternal King of glory, I thank you for my life and pray that  your Spirit will help me trust you in all my endeavors....In Jesus name.....Amen🙏🏼

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IN CHRIST ALONE

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3

Paul makes a remarkably inclusive statement when he says, ‘We have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.’ There is nothing of spiritual substance left out in that statement.

What’s more, it has been given to us ‘in the heavenly realms.’ Whatever else that means, it has cosmic proportions. In the breadth of space and time, we have every spiritual resource we need in our union with Christ.

Therefore it’s essential that we understand what it means to be in Christ. To be in Christ is to be united to His status before the Father.

Paul goes on to say in the Book of Ephesians that we are ‘chosen in Him’; we are recipients of grace ‘in the One He loves’; we have redemption ‘in Him’; His Will for us is purposed ‘in Christ’; our hope is ‘in Christ’; we were sealed by the Holy Spirit ‘in Him’; and we approach the Father ‘in Him' (Ephesians 1:4-13,3:12). *God has nothing to give us outside of Christ and everything to give us in Christ.*

In a modern motoring metaphor, ‘in Christ’ we have a full tank and
the resources to go the distance. Therefore it follows that *the more we know Him, the more we trust Him and the more we relate everything in our lives to Him, the more satisfied we will be in Him.*

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, thank You for all that You are in me, and what I become in You.... Amen🙏🏼

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INSIDE AND OUT

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9

We are a chosen people and a royal priesthood, set apart to God.
That is a wonderful truth. But we must never let the joy of our intimacy with God exclude us from interaction with the world.
Why are we set aside to God? Peter goes on to say, ‘that you
may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light’ (1 Peter 2:9).

There is an ‘in and out’ dimension to our relationship with Christ.
 *We come in for worship, out for witness; in to meditate, out to minister; in for fellowship, out for faithfulness.* If we focus only on
coming ‘in,’ we will become stale. If we focus only on going ‘out,’ we will exhaust our resources. We are first in union with Christ, and we are then to witness to the world, but these two aspects belong to one condition.

If we do not go out to declare Him, we will go out to criticize and judge the world. It is sad that is how some people see the Church. It was never how people saw Jesus, who stated, ‘I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world’ (John 12:47),
 *and that is the business we are about.*

We come into our union with Christ, to be equipped to go out into the world.

Do you have prejudices that need to be brought to God?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask for grace to imitate Jesus in respect to His relationship with you and His assignment on earth.....In Jesus' name I pray....Amen

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CV FOR DISCIPLESHIP

One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles.
Luke 6:12-13

Choosing His twelve apostles was a crucial decision Jesus had to make. They were going to be the ones entrusted with the responsibility of taking His Gospel to the world. So, whom does Jesus choose?

We might expect Him to look for
extraordinary people, to find the spiritual supermen of the time. The reality is, He called a group of extremely ordinary people who had no idea or quality of being great, but who, in His years of training them, had to break their self-sufficiency until they lived out of the disposition of *‘not I, but Christ.’*

No wonder Paul wrote to a later generation, ‘ *Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called.* Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world
to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him’ (1Corinthians 1:26-29).

If you fit those categories, you qualify as a disciple of Jesus.

Our qualification for being a disciple of Christ is exchanging our weakness
for His strength.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank You for using me as I am. Your strength in my weakness.

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EVIL FORCES

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 6:12

Demons or evil spirits are mentioned many times in Scripture. They are a part of the invisible world that operates behind the scenes. It’s a world every bit as real as the one we can touch and see. The most likely origin of demons is that they are fallen angels who joined Satan in his rebellion (Revelation 12:7-9). Today they remain active in seeking to destroy everything that is of God in our world.

While God has given Satan and his demons permission to operate in the world (the Book of Job for instance), we must never forget that the devil has been defeated by Christ. God placed Satan under His feet through the victory of the cross. While Satan and his demons continue to battle
and fight, *the future is established and certain the victory is the Lord’s.*

We are to respect the dark side as permitted by God, but we must also recognize we can resist the impact of demonic forces. By putting on the full armour of God we can stand our ground and withstand the devil’s schemes (Ephesians 6:10-11). *The battle is real, but so is the ultimate victory. We fight not to accomplish victory but from a position of victory already won.* That’s why the instruction to the Christian soldier in Ephesians 6 is to ‘stand.’ We stand on victorious ground.

With confidence in Christ, we can
engage in battle and be secure in
our outcome.

What does it mean for you to put on the full armour of God today?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask your Spirit Will help me to put on your full amour beginning from today. In Jesus mighty name....Amen.

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DON'T CLOSE YOUR BIBLE

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. Psalm 119:133

We hear many people say they hear from God and you will assume that they read and meditate on Scripture until you talk to some for them to tell you they listen to God directly.
When you hear this, it's like telling people to close their Bible and listen to God.

Some seem to have the idea that
Scripture is old, predictable and gives second-hand information, but direct communication and guidance from God is exciting, living and fresh.This is extremely dangerous.

God may personally apply His Word to our situations as His still small voice speaks to us through it, but there is nothing more dangerous than closing our Bibles to hear from God.

What we do hear when we close our bibles are our own ideas which we then conveniently attribute to God. To know God and His truth, we need to get our mind and heart into the Scriptures. As we live within the revelation God has given for all people in His Word, He will guide us in the particular detail He may have for us personally.

We should also note that His personal revelation to us will always be consistent with, and in the framework of, His general revelation.

 *Through His Word, God directs
our footsteps.*

What has God been saying to you in His Word?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please speak to me through your word. In Jesus mighty name....Amen

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JUST TRUST

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3

Jesus brings us back to childlikeness. What characterizes a child?
One thing is dependence. The humility of a child is expressed by their awareness of their lack of self-sufficiency. They are completely dependent on someone else.

Young children don’t clothe themselves or put their own food on the table yet they don’t worry. Doubts about these things don’t enter their mind. They just trust.

When we travel with our children, they are never worried about the bus fares, about
where they are going, or when they are
coming home. They just trust their parents. To live a wholesome Christian life, we must become
childlike again.

  *In the Christian life, we mature
by becoming childlike.*

A physical child grows from dependence to independence. *A spiritual child of God must grow from independence to dependence.* It is the reversal of the natural order of things.

Jesus is saying that we must change and it’s not going to be accidental.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me become a child again, dependent on You alone every day.

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SECOND-HAND FAITH

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
Genesis 13:1

The sidebar to the story of Abraham is the story of Lot – Abraham’s nephew, the son of his brother Haran. We know that Haran died young, and perhaps Abraham adopted Lot, it’s hard to know. We do
know that when Abraham left Ur and came to Canaan, he took Lot with him, and when they found themselves in a famine, Lot went
with Abraham to Egypt. *Lot’s guidance came from what God told Abraham*

Lot’s value came from hanging around Abraham. The problem is that Lot did not know God for himself. While Abraham got direction from God, Lot just followed Abraham. While Abraham experienced God directly, *Lot’s relationship was
second-hand.*

His faith was only experienced in the slipstream of
Abraham’s relationship with God.
God calls us primarily to Himself. He may use others to help us get to know Him, but ultimately we must be weaned from them and
have our own relationship with God that is direct and personal. Lot failed to do this. When Lot became separated from Abraham, he had no personal relationship with God himself and inevitably spiraled away and ended up in Sodom, living in sin and despair and Abraham had to come and rescue him from Sodom.

The work of God in other people to help us can
never be a substitute for our own personal walk with God.

Do you have a first-hand or second-hand relationship with God?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to know you personally in Jesus mighty name....Amen.

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DO NOTHING YOURSELF

Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
John 5:19

Jesus, as a human being, professed no ability of His own when He said, ‘The Son can do nothing by himself.’ He also went on to say that He had no agenda of His own, ‘he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does’ (John 5:19).

The only agenda
He had was the agenda His Father prepared for
Him. Right through Jesus’ life this was the constant criteria for everything He did and everything He said. Jesus obeyed the Father and lived in complete dependence on Him.

When Paul says that we are to have the mind of Christ in
Philippians 2:5, he is speaking of this same dependency on God
and obedience to God. It’s not a passive dependency where we
do nothing, but an active obedience that derives from a dynamic sense of dependence upon the living, active life of Christ within us.

After all, he said to his disciples, ‘… apart from me you can do
nothing’ (John 15:5). It is a daily disposition of dependence and
obedience, no matter what.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I depend entirely on You. Have Your way in me.

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GOOD DEBT

Let  no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled  the  law. Romans 13:8

None  of  us  likes  being  in  debt. As  far  as  financial  debts are concerned, the apostle  Paul  admonishes  us  to, ‘let  no  debt  remain  outstanding’ (Romans  13:8).  But  that’s  simply the  lead-in  to  his  real  point  in  the other  half  of  the  verse:  ‘except the  continuing  debt  to  love  one another’  (Romans  13:8).

It’s  like an  eternal loan.  It’s  our  debt to  love. How would it change  us if  we began  to  see  ourselves  as  being  in debt  to  the  world,  to our church members and  to  our neighbours?  Suddenly,  *we  wouldn’t have the luxury of responding ‘tit for tat’ in relationships.* Instead, we would have a debt of love to pay them regardless if we think they  deserve  our  love  or  not.

Love  has  nothing  to  do  with deserving.  That’s  radically  unique  to  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ, our  greatest  obligation  as  a  Church  is  not  to  ourselves  but  to others.  We carry a debt of love to the world.

 *Love is not an option for us as Christians but an obligation.  We are in debt to love.*

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, Please help me to love others as you have commanded me to do, in Jesus' name.....Amen

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OBJECT OF WORSHIP

Solid Rock Devotional
18th January, 2018

OBJECT OF WORSHIP

Do  not  let  anyone  who delights  in  false  humility  and the  worship  of  angels  disqualify  you.  Such  a  person also  goes  into  great  detail  about  what  they  have seen;  they  are  puffed  up  with  idle  notions  by  their unspiritual  mind. Colossians 2:18

Angels  have  become  popular  in  certain  sections of  our  culture.  We can even find  models  of  angels  for sale in different shops. People  apparently  buy  an  angel  for  their homes,  their  cars,  or  their  bookshelves.

The Bible makes it clear that there is one mediator between God and man and it’s *Christ* Himself. The worship of angels was one of the false doctrines being  taught  in  the  church  at  Colosse.  We  can  be  encouraged,  and even  comforted  that  angels  are  involved  in  life.  *The  name  angel means ‘messenger’,  but  they  are  carriers  of  messages  not  the  origin of  the  message.*

The constant warnings against idolatry in  Scripture, is  the  warning  against  elevating  anything  to  a  place  it  was  never  to be given. One thing we know angels say is this: ‘Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!’ (Revelation 5:11-12).  

 *We are never to worship angels not to talk of human beings. Let’s not elevate them, let’s join them to worship the king of Kings and Lord of Lords.*

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, Please help me keep my focus on You. You are the object of my worship and forever you will remain, in Jesus name.....Amen

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GLORY BOUND

Solid Rock Devotional
17th January, 2018

GLORY BOUND

Praise  be  to  the  God  and  Father  of  our  lord  jesus christ!  In  his  great  mercy  he  has  given  us  new  birth into  a  living  hope  through  the  resurrection  of  jesus christ  from  the  dead. 1 Peter 1:3

The  old  spirituals  that  we  still  sometimes  sing  are mostly  about  the  future,  because  in  those  dark days  of  slavery,  there  wasn’t  a  lot  to  be  glad  about in  the  here  and  now.
Those  songs  brought  joy  into the  hearts  of  ill-treated,  trodden  down  slaves,  being denied  the  dignity  and  freedom  every  human being deserves.  *They  sang  about  ‘crossing  the  Jordan’, about  ‘glory’  and  although  ‘Soon  and  very  soon  we are  going  to  see  the  King’  was  a  later  song* ,  that  was the spirit  of  their  music.

This  is  not  escapism. We  can  sing  about  the  future  because  in  the darkest  times  of  life, one  thing  remains  sure.  *God  raised  Jesus from  the  dead,  and  ‘Because  He  lives,  you  also  will  live (John  14:19).*

We enjoy His resurrected life  today,  indwelling  and  enabling  us to live  well,  but we also have the certain hope of a future resurrection from the dead. This ‘living hope’ overrides the worst nightmares of life  and  gives  to  us  one  of  the  most  important  ingredients  of  life  - hope.

We can say with Paul about the present and the future, ‘ *For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain’ (Philippians 1:21).*
Is  your  Christian  life  about  what  God  does  in  you, or  about  your human efforts?

PRAYER: My Father and my Lord, I thank you for life and the hope you have given me. Am so grateful for the gift of Jesus Christ......Amen

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WATCH YOUR MOUTH

Solid Rock Devotional
16th January, 2018

WATCH YOUR MOUTH

All of them were filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2:4

If you want to know what’s going on in somebody’s heart, just stay around and listen to what comes out of their mouth especially when they are off guard. What happens in the heart will find its way out through the mouth.

In all  Post-Pentecost references to people being filled with the Spirit, something immediately happened to their mouth. On the day of Pentecost they spoke in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. On other occasions they spoke the Word of God boldly, or on one occasion issued a rebuke: ‘Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right!” (Acts 13:9-10).

After Paul tells the Ephesians to ‘be filled with the Spirit’ he immediately says, ‘ *Speak* to one another with psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit,’ (Ephesians 5:18-19).

When the Holy Spirit fills us, there will be something to talk about and something to sing about. Singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs is an expression of the Holy Spirit’s presence in our hearts.

Therefore to not speak good words and to not sing good songs will be to grieve the Holy Spirit, and quench the outworking of His fullness.

Is there evidence of the Spirit in what comes out of  your mouth? Think about this.

PRAYER:  Precious Holy Spirit, I humbly ask that you will be seen in me, my speech and all that I do, In Jesus name....Amen

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CONVICTION OF SIN

Solid Rock Devotional
15th January, 2018

CONVICTION OF SIN

But  very  truly  I  tell  you,  it  is  for  your  good  that  I  am going  away.  unless  I  go  away,  the  advocate  will  not come to you;  but  if  I  go,  I  will  send  him  to  you.  when he  comes,  he  will  prove  the  world  to  be  in  the wrong about  sin  and  righteousness  and  judgment:  about  sin, because  people  do  not  believe  in  me.
John 16: 7-9

The  Bible  tells  us  that  both  the  Holy  Spirit  and  the  devil  talk  to  us about our sins  but their voices are very different.
When God speaks to  us  about  our  sin,  He  convicts.  When  the  devil  speaks  about  our sin,  he condemns. He is called ‘the accuser of our brothers and sisters’ (Revelation  12:10).

The  difference  between  his  voice  and  God’s  is this:  The  devil’s  condemnation  is  like  a  wet  blanket  that  sits  on  us, we can’t move from under it. The devil heaps on us a sense of guilt and condemnation.
The Holy Spirit’s conviction however, makes us aware of our sin but at the same time, an awareness of the way out.

The  Holy Spirit  has  no  interest  in  exposing  our  sin  simply  to condemn us, or humiliate us. The reason the Holy Spirit convicts us  of  our  sin  is  so  that  He  may  remove  it  and  liberate  us.  *With conviction  of  sin  comes  the  awareness  of  the  Cross  of  Christ  by which we may be forgiven, and the resurrection of Christ by which we are equipped to live a new life.*

PRAYER: Precious Holy Spirit, please strongly convict me of any sin that I might desist from them, in Jesus mighty name....Amen

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TOGETHER AS ONE

Solid Rock Devotional
13th January, 2018

TOGETHER AS ONE

‘This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ  Jesus.’  Ephesians 3:6

When God created Adam, He created an individual. When He created Eve,  He created something different. He created community.  With the sin of Adam and Eve, individuals fell and community fell apart. The  fragmentation  of  humanity  comes  to  a  climax  in  only  eight more  chapters  of  Genesis,  at  the  Tower  of  Babel  where  humanity became utterly  fragmented  geographically,  socially,  linguistically  and spiritually.

We know the Gospel reconciles us as individual men and women to  God.  That’s  the  message  of  Romans.  However,  the  Gospel  also restores community. That’s the message of Ephesians. Christ is the answer to fallen individuals,  but  the Church is the answer to fragmented  society.  The  Church  is  a  demonstration  of  a  new unity  of  humankind.  

The Apostle Paul  wrote  of  the  Jew  and  Gentile  divide, ‘For  he  himself  is  our  peace,  who  has  made  the  two  groups  one and  has  destroyed  the  barrier,  the  dividing  wall  of  hostility...  His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus  making  peace,  and  in  one  body  to  reconcile  both  of  them  to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near’ (Eph 2:14-17).

How are you experiencing the unity of His people, purchased  by Christ? *The dream of the world living together as one  is  a God-given dream.*

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask that you continue to help the world to love you and to live in harmony in Jesus name....Amen.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Matthew 10:1-15

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