Yearly Archives: 2013
Cleansing Effect
‘Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies- so the living should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us’ Ecc.7:2-3
God is saying if you have two invitations, one to a funeral and the other to a wedding, then set the invitation to the funeral above that of the wedding. You will be instructed more if you go to the funeral. I struggled with this for a long time as a person because I just don’t like seeing people suffer. It crushes me and I am not able to bear it. Visiting the sick in the hospital is not my ministry but there are some people who are gifted to see people whose legs are suspended and they are fine. I cannot stand it at least for now. I Read the rest of this entry
Do I Qualify?
‘You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you’ Mat.5:4 [MSG]
When Jesus says blessed are those who mourn, He is not referring to professional mourners. Professional mourners are people who are paid to fill an emotional gap at funerals. A crowd gathered outside the house of the little girl who was presumed dead in scripture. And when Jesus came and said that the girl was not dead but asleep, that same crowd of mourners began to laugh at Him. Were they really mourning? And at Jesus’ word they were put out and at His word the girl arose from her sleep. Jesus is not talking Read the rest of this entry
For What You Do
‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted’ Matt.5:4 [NIV].
You are blessed for what you do. The first thing that Jesus did with the beatitudes is to shatter the false understanding that a person can be saved without being changed. So the theory that people propound that once you are saved there is really no fruit that should be expected from you is false. They propose that Jesus paid it all so you can sleep with whoever you want to sleep with, abuse whoever you want to abuse, be as filthy as you like but just plead the blood of Jesus and you would be fine. Jesus debunks that lie Read the rest of this entry
His Word And His Voice
‘How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word’ Ps.119:9.
With God, sitting on the fence translates to being lukewarm. Some of us are unable to commit because we are afraid to make mistakes. Yet your commitment shows God and heaven that you mean business. I could trace the dramatic change in my life and the power of God to milestones in my commitment to purity.
Not Without Commitment
‘I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman’ Job.31:1
Job was so committed to purity that he ‘made a covenant with [his] eyes not to look with lust at a young woman’. Even though Jesus had not physically walked the earth at that time, Job knew that the issue of purity goes beyond actually sleeping with a woman. Job did not need anyone to tell him that just by looking lustfully at a woman he has committed adultery. When you walk with God, you know these things. Pornography is even far off but they did Read the rest of this entry
Deeper In-Love
‘This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!’ 2 Cor.5:17.
If purity does not come by new behavior but by new creation, then it follows that purity does not grow with more new behaviors. How do you grow in purity? It is simple; you grow in purity with more affection for God. So the more the love I have for Christ, the more I lose the taste for sin. So if you are struggling with sin, check your affection for Jesus. The more you fall in love with Jesus the easier it is for you to let go of sin. Check two people who are in love, Read the rest of this entry
Hundred Percent
‘…Day after day and night after night they keep on saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty -the One who always was, who is, and who is still to come’ Rev.4:8.
When God wanted to announce Himself to Moses He said, ‘the Lord, the Lord gracious, compassionate, full of mercy, slow to anger’. This is how God described Himself to Moses. But when the angels look at God in His fullness all they can say is Holy, Holy, Holy. And it is almost as if they do not have any other word in their vocabulary. ‘Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come’. They could have said powerful, or Read the rest of this entry
Eagle-eyed II
‘Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted’ Titus 1:15.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. Yesterday we began to unpack the three-fold meaning of seeing God. The pure in heart will see God in: 1# eternity
#2: See God in communion with God: ‘Who may climb the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy Read the rest of this entry
Eagle-eyed I
‘Try to live in peace with everyone. And try to keep your lives free from sin. Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord’ Heb.12:14[ERV]
‘Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord’ Heb.12:14 [KJV]. What does it really mean to see God? It is three fold – in eternity, in communion with God, and in perspectives.
#1: In eternity: Jesus is saying that it is the pure in heart that will access heaven in eternity. ‘Blessed are those Read the rest of this entry
Raising The Bar
‘God, create a pure heart in me, and make my spirit strong again’ Ps.51:10 [ERV]
God can skip a whole generation and look for you because your heart is right. The greatest prophet in the land made the mistake of judging by the exterior about six times and God kept saying no. The Bible says until they found David everybody was standing and when David came the Holy Ghost said to him that is the man. I am praying in the Name of Jesus that every thing will stand at attention until you show up because your heart will be right Read the rest of this entry
