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Shalom
‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God’ Matt.5:9 [NIV]
Jesus is saying you cannot call yourself a child of God and be causing trouble everywhere you go. Jesus is saying you cannot say you are a child of God when consistently the trouble in your family can be traced back to you. You cannot call yourself a child of God when the trouble or gossip in your department constantly originates at your desk. Jesus is saying you cannot call yourself a child of God and be the architect or incubator of pandemonium. It Read the rest of this entry
Settled
‘You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine’ Ps.4:7
‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God’ Matt.5:9 [NIV]. The grace that is able to save you is able to change you. If you are experiencing a grace that is saving you but is not changing you that grace is suspect. Mostly people focus on getting all you can, canning all you get, and siting on the can. For them the person who successfully does that is blessed. But Jesus disputes this because ‘blessed are the poor in spirit for Read the rest of this entry
Prioritize Hunger!
‘Is any one thirsty? Come and drink-even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk-it’s all free!’ Isa.55:1.
Come and drink-even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk-it’s all free! Who is to come? You are! Yet the challenge with a lot of us, the reason why we don’t get this hunger fed and our thirst filled is because we do not understand the priority of hunger. My grand mother would say, ‘if hunger enters a man, nothing else can enter the man’. So hunger must be attended to. Jesus says, ‘seek first the kingdom of God and his Read the rest of this entry
Currency For Satisfaction
‘This is the generation [description] of those who seek Him [who inquire of and from Him and of necessity require Him], who seek Your Face, [O God of] Jacob’ Ps.24:6 [AMP].
The third way we can become hungry and thirsty for God is by fasting. ‘And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened’ Luke 11:9-10. When you stay in the place of seeking God, suddenly you will realize that all that truly Read the rest of this entry
God’s Dealings
‘Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna… He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord’ Deut.8:3.
The second way we get hungry and thirsty for God is through God’s dealings. God deals with us to create a hunger in us for Him and through that hunger we can know Him. ‘He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord’. God sometimes takes us through difficult periods for us to realize our hunger for what He has to say. Yet some of us are not sensitive enough and Read the rest of this entry
Generating Hunger
‘Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ-that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective’ Col.3:2 [MSG]
No matter how long you have been a Christian for, it is important to know how to generate a hunger for God; How to continually stir yourself up in seeking God. The first way is to set your love on Him. Just choose to set your love on Him [Col.3:2]. The Bible says set, as though it is our choice to do that because in truth you long for who you are in love with. Have you noticed? So how do I become thirsty for God? Set your affection on Him. Another way of Read the rest of this entry
Hunger Equals Filling
‘As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Ps.42:1-2 [NIV]
Everyone is longing for something. Some people are just longing to be recognized. But except you enter God’s presence with the longing for God you will not be filled. Perhaps you have entered His presence with the wrong longing but in the process of praise and worship God helps you to substitute that longing with the longing for Him, that is the only time you can be filled. David puts it this way ‘as the deer longs for streams of water, so I Read the rest of this entry
Loose The Cracked Cisterns
‘For my people have done two evil things: they have abandoned me- the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all’ Jer.2:13.
God in the above scripture is referring to His own children, those who He has marked as His; those who He sent His Son to die for and who He has given up nations for. Yet these same people have hurt Him by doing two evil things – left Him, the fountain of living waters. And as if that is not bad enough, they have also created their own source of me time. Some people stand in front of their mirror and worship the idol in the mirror for two to three hours. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against your choice to take care Read the rest of this entry
Center of Gravity
‘And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brother and sisters, you were doing it to me!’ Matt.25:40
Jesus said to the people on the left ‘I was sick you did not visit me, I was hungry you did not feed me… depart from me you that work iniquity’ [read Matt.25:41-46]. In other words, Jesus was saying these people do not do righteousness. ‘Then they will reply, Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you? And he will answer, I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sister, you were refusing to help me’ Read the rest of this entry
Right Standing
‘You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink is the best meal you’ll ever eat’ Matt.5:6 [MSG]
Satisfaction is only promised when we channel this seemingly insatiable desire to righteousness. Jesus says ‘blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness. ‘In fact some people even try to fill the hunger and the thirst in them with reading the Bible but with the wrong motif. Some read twenty chapters of the Bible daily. Should you read the Bible? Yes! Should you read twenty chapters? Yes, but when you are reading the Bible you should be seeking the person Jesus. So when you read the Bible seeking Jesus, you will Read the rest of this entry
