The Love you deserve

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10 NIV

When grace abounds, growth is imminent. Love is a language misunderstood by many for frailty but love is true domination. Love is the spine of every creation and community today. But what’s so mysterious about love that many people can’t understand it?

In the beginning, the earth was covered in darkness and God the origin of light spoke light into existence for he loved the cosmos so much. In his pursuit to reflect his light on the earth, he formulated his replica or own image to mirror his light and glory on earth. Adam by mandate had one duty, that is to man the Garden of Eden. Hence his love for the Garden of Eden would be demonstrated in the degree to which he would go to conduct his duties.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NIV

Elohim loved and vowed to be the God of Israel, we witness him in the Bible forgiving Israelites even though they worshipped their creation( idols) because love meant a commitment to God. Love is a commitment. Israel as a nation has been regarded as a prostitute on multiple occasions in the Bible but God in his mercy would forgive them whenever they realised their mistakes.

Love goes beyond calling upon mistakes, it confines weaknesses and vows to see expansion and harmony in the future. Daniel loved God to the point of being cast in a lion’s den without any fear of death. Love gives boldness. Our love for God opens our eyes to a new world of possibilities.

The love of your country forces you to defend the country’s territory. Your love for God ensures that you don’t live a sinful life. Let this love for God teach you wisdom. The love of your family ensures that you do everything in your power to nurture your family.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4‭-‬13 NIV

With love, we are bound to face challenges and betrayals but the Bible instructs us to love anyways. Your love for humanity guarantees that you live a life of righteousness. There is too much self-hatred in the world it’s relatively easy for mankind to inflict pain on their fellow brothers.

The main purpose of love is growth and security for both the recipient and the giver. Love is not manipulation. True love covers nakedness and a bond is created which in turn formulates an identity. It is this true love which is the foundation of marriage. From this interpretation, it becomes difficult to even consider divorce after marriage since our heavenly Father plays the role of a husband to the church today. If only our heavenly Father could abandon us in our weakness I am sure most of us wouldn’t be even associated with Christ at all.

In our weakness He is our strength, in our sicknesses, he is our healing. In our brokenness, he is our pillar of strength. Amid confusion and desperation, he is the Way, Truth and Life. Are you ready to show this kind of love to the world? Being a Christian is simply put reflecting Jesus Christ to the whole world. Jesus Christ interceded for the same people who had just crucified him on the cross, he pleaded to the I AM THAT I AM to forgive his murderers for they had committed such a gruesome act in ignorance.

True love implies being patient with the weaker vessels. Love doesn’t bully the weak into conformance instead it encourages the weak with dignity till they see their full potential. In the New Testament, we see a new covenant being made now we were justified by faith, and our sins atoned on the cross long before we had sinned. Our sins and failures were exonerated a long time ago on the cross hence any influence or decree made against us because of sins lost their leverage on Golgotha. From then we could declare that no Weapon formed against us would prosper with much assurance, for we understood that the enemy was using our weaknesses and sins to condemn us.

True love can never condemn, for how could we believe in a type of love that brings condemnation when Jesus Christ has demonstrated to us the special love that tidies up the unworthy and gives them access to dine with the Master on his table? Yes, Jesus Christ is sitting at the right hand of the Father as our advocate, reminding God of the new covenant with his blood on the Cross. Whenever the enemy would try to condemn us Jesus Christ would point to the cross, and remind the devil that the power of condemnation is finished.

God is love and today He is inviting you to dine with Him, as His special children. God loves us, our husband loves to provide for his wife. We have no reason to panic at all because we are in safe hands. Let's take time to thank God for his love. 

Walking by Faith.

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” 2Co 5:7 NKJV

 

Jesus said: “I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this…world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world” (John 16:33 MSG).

Life keeps handing us situations that test our faith. How do you know how much weight a bridge can handle? By testing it. Faith in action is moving towards a certain goal when all you see is persecution around you.

Daniel’s success made him a target. Your success can make you prey to scorn and jealousy. The reason you might be having countless enemies is that you have specialities your coequals don’t have. You possess the power within you, it is this power that your enemies are afraid of.

Knowing he prayed regularly to God, his adversaries had persuaded King Darius that all prayers were to be directed to him. Yet Daniel kept praying each day—in front of an open window, no less. When the king heard about it, he threw Daniel into a lion’s den. But God turned the tables. The next morning Daniel came out, his enemies went in, and the king announced, “Daniel’s God…is the living God” (Da 6:26 MSG).

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to worship the king’s idols. Even when they were warned to bow or burn, they said, “God will… can deliver us…But if not…we will not serve thy gods” (Da 3:17-18). And because they walked by faith, God delivered and promoted them.

Facing Goliath, David refused to wear the king’s armour. He said, “I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them” (1Sa 17:39). So what did he go with? “The name of the Lord” (1Sa 17:45), and the rest is history.

Now, chances are you will never find yourself in lions’ den, a fiery furnace, or facing a giant, although some days it will feel like it.

But when you’re under attack (1) pray and claim God’s power, (2) walk by faith, and (3) go “in the name of the Lord.”

Pray and claim God’s power

Prayer can be only effective if it is pivoted on God’s power. Faith is seeing what God sees and moving in the direction He gives us. It is when you see what God sees that your prayer prompts miracles. The heavens are waiting for those who want to manifest the heavenly realms on earth that’s why the Bible clearly states that we must pray by His will.

Your eyes need to be opened so you can ascertain which powers are at work in any environment you find yourself in. When you can see which powers are at work it becomes relatively effortless to call the heavenly realms to disperse all the devil’s influence in your environment by the power of God.

For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
Matthew 13:12 CSB

Prayer should be coupled with a heart to receive, thus thanking God for the miracles he has done for you and he is about to do. Prayer starts with the understanding God , his capacity and what he is capable of doing. So study the word of God to broaden your knowledge of God. Prayer coupled with a knowledge of God heals .

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:10 CSB

Walk by Faith

Walking by Faith simply put is the confidence to push on amid opposing forces. This is the season to go after those goals you had put aside when you faced difficulties. I am convinced that the same God who worketh miracles for Israelites will see you through.

I pray that your faith will be increased mightily as you disempower every negative belief that used to pull you down.No weapon formed against us can prosper once we embrace the resurrection power of Jesus Christ. We are empowered by a true source of power that is Elohim, our victory is certain. See you on the other side.

Rise above mediocrity

The gift of grace

Freely I received and freely I give you this gift!!We are the enlightened generation for He chose us for this season to be glorified in him. Who thought we would make it this far it’s only by his grace that we recieved such an astonishing gift.

Yeah, this screams for celebration, we were formerly bound in the yokes of a  slave master (lucifer), but are presently free in Christ Jesus. In his quest for mind control, the devil controlled our bodies, so we did things we were ashamed of and said stuff we were not even supposed to say.

The chains of our hostile enemy breathed so heavy on our necks that we sweated day and night for an absolute nonentity. We squandered riches pursuing happiness but were not alleviated. Worldly lusts had incapacitated our minds, in all our quest for identification and fulfilment, all we reaped was emptiness. The further we dug, the more hit dead-ends but Amen we attained independence from the world and its vanities.

Every falsehood we believed was disclosed, and suddenly we did not crave validation from anyone or anything anymore, for in Christ we learnt our true identity. All those things which were snatching our momentum and vigour have been weakened by the power of the Holy Spirit. You have been made anew in the blood of Jesus Christ.

We were once prone to sicknesses but presently we possess the restoring power of Jesus Christ. We are no longer identified with ailment but by the healing power of Jesus Christ. The connection we once reinforced with bad fortune has been annulled.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17‭-‬21 NIV

As we embrace this new identity in Christ dear friend let’s be diligent that we won’t be tricked into following after foreign gods. In Jesus Christ is our victory and core existence.

Be of a cheerful heart for our God takes pleasure in defending his own.

Why lying is bad for your personal growth!

A lying tongue hates its victims, and flattering words cause ruin.
Proverbs 26:28 NLT

Lying is a symbol of hatred, the Bible says in the above scripture. It doesn’t matter the motive behind a lie but it’s not wise to be friends with people who are inclined to this weakness. Lying is a spirit normally used to destroy people.

And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
1 Kings 22:20‭-‬22 KJV

People lie for different reasons, but primarily they lie to cover up for their sins. The Bible encourages confessing your weaknesses, so when you lie you are promoting a deficiency which ultimately gives Satan ammunition to conquer your life. Stimulating a sin results in your death .. Sin nurtured evolves into a habit and it will develop into something big.

Guard your tongue from profanity, and no more lying through your teeth.
Psalms 34:13 MSG

People lie to cover their tracks . These kinds of liars are very dangerous they could be planning to destroy you. If someone is always dodgy with their truth but wants you to disclose yourself to them it’s wise to run from these types of hypocrites. They normally want to give advice on things they don’t even know of . You become a social experiment once you take their advice .

People lie to cover up for their deficiency. In this era where everyone desires to appear significant on social media, lies are rampant (uncontrolled). Everyone is endeavouring to appear as if they have figured out something in life.. and that’s a root of a stubborn heart. With the stubbornness of the heart, growth is annihilated.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 120:2 KJV

Lying started in the Garden of Eden, the snake lied to Eve. Well, in this case, Lucifer was on an assignment to confuse God’s creation and also to prove beyond doubt to God that mankind could never be loyal. Every liar has a game strategy, mostly it is, to destroy or to be worshipped (envied). The first falsehood destroyed Adam, he got cursed. Eve was destroyed too now she had to give birth the agonizing way. The snake eventually lost its legs, and Lucifer was chased from his place as a worshipper to be a roaming spirit on earth. God disciplines both the liar, and his victim.

The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves.
Proverbs 13:5 NIV

It definitely is our responsibility to discern every word that comes our way. According to the Bible if you take advice from a liar you are a fool and you get punished for it. Liars and their victims both face the same judgement. Seek ye the truth and make Jesus a standard for your life for he is the way, the truth and the Life.

“There’s trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests—look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular.
Luke 6:26 MSG

We are the true reflection of Jesus Christ in the land of the living therefore we live for the truth. Our mission can only be effective when we stick to the truth and don’t show partiality and segregation in our judgement. The truth is our weapon, strength and defence since our faith is based on Jesus Christ. We treat all humans alike for God only sees his creation and not skin pigmentation. The truth is a standard in the whole hemisphere, so once you decide to live with integrity success is imminent.

“And don’t say anything you don’t mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, ‘I’ll pray for you,’ and never doing it, or saying, ‘God be with you,’ and not meaning it. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Just say ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong.
Matthew 5:33‭-‬37 MSG

Our growth is judged by the lives we change. Our growth is evaluated by the rate at which we empty hell and bring people to Christ. Our growth is umpired by how many people are repenting from sin because of our lifestyle. When we start seeking the kingdom of God, everything else we chase after will be added unto us. Seek the truth with all your heart, and the truth will protect you.

The man asked, “What in particular?” Jesus said, “Don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you do yourself.”
Matthew 19:18‭-‬19 MSG

Growth is essential in this day and time when the world is corrupt and the populace is chasing after an illusion of self-glory. Self-glory corrupts the mind and brings with it unnecessary competition to do evil in the pursuit of human validation. We live for God our main agenda is the expansion of the kingdom of God at every cost. We have stiff competition from the devil who is spreading lies to get momentum thus we need to be vigilant in these trying times.

Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.
Psalms 31:18 NLT

Therefore, Lord, we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation,
Psalms 12:7 NLT

God hates liars and we should too. Thus we need to partake in this journey to righteousness by the grace of God. I pray that you will find the mercy of God and repent from sin. We don’t have any relationship with sin since we are married to Jesus Christ.

I pray that you will grow in the wisdom of God. Everyday we witness God’s goodness.I want to thank everyone writing us with their testimonies . Thank you for sharing may God richly bless you in his wisdom and may your finances never run dry.

Please share this small teaching..Be blessed.

Whom you belong matters!

Who you are and to whom you belong affects everything else you do in this  life from your social status , financial status and health status . We can’t choose our parents, skin complexion and places we are born but they are certain decisions we have to make . It is these decisions that really gives us the edge in life or keep us in poverty.

Every day we are faced with a lot of decisions some minor and others big, but in every decision you make always consider the consequence of your actions  (where you are going and what you want to accomplish in life). Every action is assumed from what we truly identify with.

This is no longer a season to sugarcoat the scriptures, we can’t afford to be living on the fence anymore. Once you are born what’s left is to die accordingly meeting the architect of the universe. Is humankind prepared for the day of Judgement??

“There are no unowned men. We are, every one of us, either ranked under the banner of Prince Immanuel, to serve Him and fight His battles, or
else beneath the Black Prince, Satan—enrolled to do evil and to perish in our sins! It is a very proper question, then, to ask of every man and
woman, ‘To whom do you belong?’”

Charles Spurgeon

We are inhabiting an era where multitudes are confused about their identity. Some have preferred to be homosexuals whilst some are very uncertain they don’t even comprehend whether they are male or female anymore. Lucifer is at work he is on a mission to destroy people, funny from our culture mankind identified each other by gender and the devil just had to confuse people on that one as well.

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may keep all the words of this law.
Deuter­­onomy 29:29 MEV

Decisions are naturally established on potential. The potential is founded in identity and independence that abounds from uniqueness. There is no middle lane, your results reflect your belief systems. Failure or success in any environment is essentially a reflection of the capability you have in that respective area.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
I John 4:4‭-‬6 NKJV

The turmoil comes from the devil, it’s a pity many have plunged into this pit of an identity crisis. We are of God and as his ambassadors, we operate on different principles from worldly ideologies. Whilst public opinion says leave your marriage once you are not happy, we detest divorce because our Father in Heaven hates divorce! Marriage is a reflection of God’s love for us (loving the undeserving for your name’s sake)

Most decisions reflect the words you are giving attention to, whether you are investing time in the wisdom of God or worldly philosophies. Godly wisdom surpasses human intelligence, man fundamentally is concentrating on the now, whilst God works from the end. Faith is working from an invisible end, creating evidence of the unseen and living that reality in the now.

God loves everyone, but he raises some to positions of power whilst some suffer in deprivation and stagnation. One God serving well for those who love him and are following his principles yet not answering back to his enemies. So this statement shows that one can be an enemy of God. It only makes sense to love God with all our hearts and minds.

Israelites were a chosen people, and for God to fulfil his promise to Abraham, the inhabitants of Canaan had to die. The Canaanites worshipped pagan gods or idols so on God’s agenda they were a hindrance to the Kingdom’s expansion. We see Moses instructing Israelites never to mix with them and follow after their gods.

and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire. “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:2‭-‬6 NKJV

There is no room for consenting with the enemy, every altar erected for the pagan gods should be demolished. Everyone in captivity by the enemy should be set free. Hell should be emptied we can’t negotiate biblical principles with the heathens. Poverty should be eradicated in our midst if we are to prosper as a church, thus anything linking us to a dependency mindset on other cultures for ideas and financial accumulation should be stopped.

It’s high time the church as a unit gets involved in changing communities. We are the salt of the earth, the light of Jesus Christ in us can’t be hidden anymore in the name of religion. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not just some religion it is a way of life. The moment you start comparing Christianity to pagan worship you lose yourself.

“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
Deuteronomy 7:9‭-‬11 NKJV

If you love God, you honour his principles. Respecting a kingdom law inevitably licenses you extended life and freedom. Every Kingdom has a constitution hence to govern with dominion and without condemnation, we have to adopt Heavenly kingdom principles. The laws of every institution show the agenda and ambition of that government. The laws God gave to Moses promoted love. Perfect love is the goal of the Bible.

It is of utmost significance to examine your beliefs and patterns with this checklist, only then can we determine the brains behind our lifestyle. Most patterns we embrace are rooted in the convictions of our parents and communities. Thus to break the cycle of common sins and curses we ought to transform our mindset and take on the word of God as a way of life.

Jesus is the Way, the truth and the life thus genuine wisdom can only be found in him. In him is the fullness of being. Perfect love casts away fear, to have perfect love we need Jesus Christ. With that wisdom, it is evident that fear only results from imperfect love. Identifying with Christ is a favourable decision for mankind today.

Fear is a result of imperfect love. Conditional love brings a seed of fear with it. If you don’t act a certain way you lose, that is the love the world offers. Jesus Christ died for us whilst we were sinners, he atoned for our sins whilst we were busy idol worshipping. I did not deserve his mercy but he loved me anywhere.

He was very patient with me when I was actively committing adultery and fornicating. Even in my disobedience, he was patient. He forgave me and gave me a new start as his mouthpiece to the nations. I am indebted to him. His love towards me has moulded me to be who I am today. His grace abounds in my weaknesses and shortfalls

God loves us, and as long as we embrace his love everything else in life becomes relatively easy. It’s effortless to love when we understand the love of God. God’s love brings about humility and patience. To understand forgiveness look no further than the cross. Jesus Christ pardoned our sins, even after we contributed to his crucifixion. We don’t have a reason to hold grudges when we have a role model like Jesus Christ on forgiveness.

I want to encourage you the reader today, to give your life fully to Jesus Christ.In this transaction you will live your life with joy ,peace and harmony in the land of the living.

Please be kind and share this message with your friends and family members. Be a participant evangelist. I love you I feel honoured by your participation.