God is our hiding place.

God is our hiding place.  Our refuge and our strength. When you think of a safe place where you can hide comfortably and enjoy God's presence,  his love and peace. You may not be hidden from the wicked eyes of evil but yet you are at peace knowing that no harm shall befall you as long as God himself has you covered, and you are under his watchful eyes and the protection of the blood of Jesus Christ. There is no better place than under the protection of almighty father through his Son Jesus Christ.

Sometimes we seek God for what we can get from him.
We seek his protection when we are in trouble, while remaining stubborn and disobedient,  we treat God like a spare tire which will be used to replace a flat tire. It should not be so.

God almighty deserves more than what we are giving him.  He deserves our undivided attention, our worship and adoration at all times.
Some of us concentrate so much on the evil things the devil is doing and we forget that spending time with God in prayer and worship is what brings us breakthrough from all the attacks of the enemy because God inhabits the praises of his people. (Psalm 22:3).
Seek God today because he is worth it, not just for the blessings but get to know him more.  He loves our companionship and we should cherish his too. Be blessed as you seek God's presence more, his kingdom and his righteousness. Shalom!

knowing and trusting God

I have been reflecting on the faithfulness of God in my life and family over the past years especially in the past year, 2020. When I think of God's goodness, I cannot but praise him.
He is worthy to be praised. Glory to his name.
God has loved us from the beginning and continues to love us. He wants us to know him on a deeper level not by lip service. God wants to have a relationship with us his children. Let us draw closer to him and we will surely experience his loving kindness and we will learn to trust him more.
According to Heb 11:6, we cannot please God without faith.
"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
I am convinced that our lack of faith or little faith stems most of the time from lack of or rather limited knowledge of who God truly is and what he is capable of doing. We can only know God more and understand him better by spending time in his word and be empowered to love him above all and love others.
For instance if two people met for the first time at a meeting or somewhere and chatted for a while and agreed to keep in touch, and exchanged their contact information. All they know about each other was only what they discussed during their conversation. If weeks and months go by and they do not communicate with each other, will that friendship grow? No! After some time of not keeping in touch, they may even forget each other, but if they valued each other they will make efforts to communicate.
This example may not be perfect because in the case of our almighty God, he continues to love, protect and care for us in spite of our lack of communication with him. The relationship is one sided. He is always faithful even when we are unfaithful. However, we must not take him for granted because the time will come for reckoning, we don't want to hear "....depart from me, I know you not..... ". Luke 13:27.

James 4:8 says, "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded".
The more we draw near to God, the more he will draw near to us, his holy word cleanses us, he will reveal himself more to us, we become his confidant. That's how awesome our good God is!

I love Psalm 143:8. "Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee".
We need God's grace to know him, to love him, to hear him and to follow him.
Jesus himself said in John's gospel,
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me". (John 10:27).

We cannot go this journey alone, we need his grace, his leading in our lives. We cannot lead ourselves.
May his ever abundant grace be sufficient for us in Jesus mighty name. Amen! Shalom!

Fresh fire through prayer

Fresh fire through prayer

Trust God with all your heart, acknowledge him in all your ways.

Trust God with all your heart, acknowledge him in all your ways.

Praise God!

It is a beautiful day today. What an awesome God we serve.
Do you know that not everyone who went to bed last night, woke up this morning? Some passed on in their sleep, some were rushed to hospital and they died there, some were shot and killed on their bed? Yes! on their bed, it's happening all around us like wild fire. No where is safe anymore.
We give God all the Praise for the gift of life today. Because we are alive today does not mean we are holier than those who passed on. It is only out of God's love and mercy that we are still here. So give God all the Praise! Alleluia!

Do you know that one day, it will be my turn or your turn to depart this world?
Have you thought about where you are going to spend eternity?
The highest I have heard anyone live in this our present generation is a hundred & twenty (120) years, but eternity is forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and .............................
Where are you going to spend eternity?
In heaven with God the father, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the beautiful Angels and our departed loved ones who made it there? or with the ugly, monstrous, forever doomed, useless satan and his demons?
Choose today whom you will serve and where you are going to spend eternity.
It is a serious matter. Don't ignore it.
Remember, the question you will be asked is not how popular, or how famous or how powerful or how rich you were on earth, or how holy you pretended to be while on earth, not how many times you went to church and clapped your hands and gave tithes and offerings?
All these are good, don't get me wrong. Not even how poor and needy, you were, because some people think because they don't have, it's a license to rob and kill others.
However, the question to answer is
how much did you love? How did you love God and your fellow human beings? Love in all sincerity not by lip service.
Read all about it in the book of Matt 25:31-46.
When Jesus was asked, which is the great commandment in the law? He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart....... You shall love your neighbor as yourself ". Again
Read Matthew 22:36-40.
Please take time and read and may the Holy Spirit grant you understanding as you do.
God bless you in Jesus mighty name. Amen.

Unforgiveness

Are you struggling with unforgiveness? There is hope and breakthroughs only in Christ Jesus.

It is not easy to forgive especially those close to you. If a total stranger offends you, you may brush it aside but if a close friend or family member offends you, you may want to teach them a lesson by not letting go and it might grow and grow until it becomes a mountain. Learn to let go easily, forgive quickly as soon as an offence occurs.

Unforgiveness is a spirit that stems from the spirit of anger.

If you were not angry, you will let go easily.

The Bible says in Eph 4: 26 "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath."

That means, as a human being the emotion of anger will arise from time to time, but you are not to dwell on the cause of the anger or on the person who offended you, rather you are to forgive immediately.

However, you need God's grace to do this. You can not forgive easily by yourself. Only God almighty gives us the grace to forgive others and even to forgive ourselves.

When you are angry with someone and refuse to forgive them, it hurts you more, because they may not care about your feelings or may have forgotten that they offended you.

Don't carry the baggage of unforgiveness around, it causes more pain, robs you of your joy and peace and releases stress hormones which will result to other illnesses.

It has often been said, "forgive and let a prisoner free, and discover that the prisoner is you".

It is liberating to forgive. Don't be trapped in the net of unforgiveness.

Forgiveness is not an option, it is a command from God.

If you don't forgive, God will not forgive you. Read the verse below.

"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses". Mark 11:25‭-‬26.

This verse is powerful!

If God doesn't forgive you, there is no spending eternity with him.

So we must forgive others sincerely and from the heart, not merely saying it but meaning it from deep within and we need God's grace and mercy to do so.

Eph 4:32 says, "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you".
If God almighty has forgiven us for the sake of his Son Jesus Christ, who are we not to forgive others?

Ask God for the grace and mercy to walk in love and forgiveness. He will answer.

Trust him always. God bless you as you seek him more and obey his word and learn to forgive in Jesus mighty name. Shalom!

God has no abandoned project.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:6 KJV.

God has no abandoned project, the great work that he started in you, he will perfect it to his glory. Trust him.
God is still in the character cleansing, and life transforming business.

Like the great Porter that he is, he melts, moulds, fills and uses his children to bring honor to his holy name. He changes and transforms us to his Divine nature, if we let him.
While he is doing that, he is ironing out all the creases, removing all the pebbles, cutting out the long tail of pride, transforming the heart of stone and instilling humility, obedience, love and peace etc.
All you need do is submit and surrender your life unto him.
When he finishes, you become a master piece, a vessel of gold.
Have you submitted and surrendered yourself to the great Porter to be transformed yet?
Don't linger any longer, no more procrastination, do it today.
God bless you .

How big is your faith?

God loves and cares for all his creatures.
If he cares for the birds of the air and the animals, how much more for his children whom he created in his image and his likeness.
Our problem most of the time is our little faith or our faithlessness, no faith at, unbelief.
My question to you is, how big is your faith?

Read what Jesus himself said in the gospel of Matthew,
"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you".
Matt 17:20 KJV.

Can you imagine, being able to command a mountain to move and it obeys. That is exactly what God has promised us, the power to move mountains, be it mountain of sickness and disease, affliction, mountain of financial responsibilities, mountain of joblessness, mountain of poverty, etc. the list goes on.
Whatever mountain you have today in your life, your family, your ministry exercise your God-given Authority and let your faith come to life in Jesus mighty name.
Remember little David, how he killed Goliath and went on to do great things for God and eventually became a king in Israel.
What about our father Abraham, Daniel, the three Hebrew young men thrown into the burning fiery furnace.
All these people exercised their faith that Almighty God would deliver them and sure enough, God did not disappoint them but showed up in a great and mighty way.

God has not changed, he is the same yesterday, today and forever.
All you need do is call upon him and he will hear and answer and show you great and mighty things that you know not.
Jer 33:3.
Apply your faith today, remember the word of God in Heb 11:6
"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him".
Remain blessed.

PRAYER:
Almighty father, we come before you today in humility and total surrender asking you to increase our faith in you. We apply our grain of mustard seed faith today and command every obstacle, every hindrance, every giant, every mountain in our lives, be moved now straight into the sea, right now in Jesus mighty name. Amen.
Thank you Lord for answering us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen!