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
Heart Work
‘Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?’ Job 15:14.
Eliphaz challenged Job saying ‘can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?’ Meanwhile Jesus says blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Jesus will not demand what is not possible. Like Eliphaz, the culture is saying can anyone really be pure? There is a lie going around that states that it is only God that knows those that are pure. This lie kind of gives people a reason not to strive for purity but guess what the pure Read the rest of this entry
Pure In Heart
‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.’ Matt.5:8 [NIV].
If there is something that is pervasive in this generation it is that purity is something of the past. People are insisting that this is the twenty first century and that purity is a thing of days past. Guess what, God is the Ancient of Days, He does not grow old, and He remains the same. Times will change, seasons will change, cultures will change but the Word of God will remain the same. Instead of purity to be a thing to be desired, culture is trying to Read the rest of this entry
Acts Of Mercy II
‘And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’ Matt.25:40
It is the hand that gives that receives. It is the person that is merciful that obtains mercy. We are the church, the church doesn’t exist for us, rather, we exist for the world. You need to get it into your psyche that the church doesn’t exist for you but rather you are the church and you exist for the world. So lend yourself to acts of mercy. There is no way you will give towards building churches and reaching people who would never have heard the Read the rest of this entry
Acts Of Mercy I
‘For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home’ Matt.25:35.
Jesus was tempted in every way but without sin. There is no temptation that you are going through right now that Jesus has not experienced in one form or the other. When I read this scripture a long time ago, I said to myself that it is not possible because I did not think Jesus would have experienced what I was experiencing. But the truth is that if the Bible says that Jesus was tempted in every way then He was tempted in everyway. Jesus was 100 percent Read the rest of this entry
Lend Yourself
‘Therefore, it was necessary for him to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then he could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people’ Heb.2:17.
Just like Jesus did with us, God expects us to be merciful and share people’s burdens. Some people’s reaction to other people’s pain is what is the big deal? Listen you do not need to know what it is physically to have nothing for you to be merciful to those who are going through the pain of having nothing. And by God’s grace there is no time in your life that you will experience having nothing. For many of us, all you are required to do in showing mercy is Read the rest of this entry
Mercy vs. Pity
‘Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need’ Prov.21:13.
How do you know if someone is a Christian? It is simple; ask their domestic staff or people that live with them. If the people that you have authority over do not feel mercy flow from you, then there is something wrong with that. You need to change because blessed are the merciful for they will obtain mercy. God wants you to be blessed because you are His child so it is a contradiction if you are not blessed. ‘Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the Read the rest of this entry
