GOD IS FAITHFUL.

 Praise God, I hope you are all kept well in the shadows of His wings? 

God is faithful, even thou we are unfaithful he remains faithful for He can't deny Himself (2 Tim 2.13). He is the same today, tomorrow and forever. (Heb 13.8).

Our father and mother may forsake us but God will hold us close and remain our portion forever (PSA 27.10). David had the confidence to say that He has never seen the lord forsaking His righteous nor seen his children begging for bread. (PSA 37.25), he had the revelation of God's faithfulness. Thou thousand may fall at my side and ten thousand on my right side ill not be harmed (PSA 91.7) I will see the faithfulness of God and his goodness in the land of the living. 

The faithful love of the Lord never ends His mercy never ceases. Great is His faithfulness, his mercies begin afresh each morning (Lam 3.22-23). Jeremiah had the audacity to write such bold verses amid calamity. When God brought punishment over Jerusalem, but even in such moments, Jeremiah knew that God was always faithful and He will do what He promised over Jerusalem.

God passed in front of Moses calling out, "Yahweh the Lord, the God of compassion and mercy, I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness." (EXO 3.6). God spoke about his personality and character when He talked to his children, the Israelites. He points out clearly about Himself and reminded them that He is filled with unfailing love and faithfulness. 

 He is ministering also to us through His Spirit and He is reminding us that he loves us. He is faithful and he hasn't forgotten what He promised to us. The covenant He made through the blood of Jesus. Even in such a time where He seems quiet. He is reminding us that he is faithful.  

Have confidence for your God and Father is faithful.

I'll define endurance as an ability for someone to preserver during a difficult situation without being weary until the victory is achieved.
The dictionary definition is the ability to hold on during an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. Both definitions are correct. Take an example of this: you found out that you are obese your BMI is beyond the normal range, and the doctor instructs you to begin daily exercise and dieting to reduce your weight, so that you may avoid major trouble in future like diabetics and heart problems. You faithfully began the journey. How did it feel at first eating food you didn’t like, jogging and doing tough exercises? It’s tough and hard, but you endured because you knew the outcome will be great.

For me that the definition of endurance. Where you hold on the pain and tough season until the breakthrough has come. We know from the scripture Psalm 30.5 that weeping may last through the night but joy comes with the morning. The breakthrough will eventually come that’s for sure. Therefore, Christians are called to endure in every season of life, no matter how tough things are. Apostle James tells us in verse 2 of the first chapter of his book to count it all joy when we go through hardship, not because it’s a good moment but it has a reward and your faith is made stronger through it. He went on and tell us in verse 3 that when faith is tested endurance has a chance to grow. Our faith is daily tried as believers, but if we endure it grows, we can handle even tough periods that will come in future, like the great persecution.

You may ask how then should we endure? Through faith, joy and patient. Joy is a fruit of the spirit. You can’t fake joy it flows from your heart, its divine and doesn’t depend on the situations around you. Joy is built-in faith when you know who you are and the victory of God you will endure, and hold on during difficult times.

In verse 6 of James 1, the apostle says that when endurance is fully developed you will be perfect and complete needing nothing. Wow, that amazing when you allow you faith to be tested, endurance grows and when it has fully developed you are made perfect and complete.

Lastly, we are encouraged to endure because of what verse 12 says that God blesses those who patiently endure, take note of the word patiently, testing and temptation. Afterwards, they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
Therefore, brethren in the midst of what you are going through as a person, we as a nation and globally, the Lord is asking us to endure and hold on unto our faith. He is for us and never against us, the breakthrough will eventually come. Let your faith be strong in the Lord. He is our source of joy and strength.

Self-righteousness is what blindfold us from seeing the infinite grace of God. We fail to understand all we need is His grace. We are fooled to believe that our relationship with God is dependant on our deeds. We didn't merit His Grace and we can't maintain it in our lives by our deeds. As we first received His Grace through faith so should we live in it daily. Faith is what pleases God. Believe that His Grace works in your life and it will never run dry. The same way you didn't earn it is the same way you can't maintain it apart from Gods goodness and compassion. You can't lose it either as long as you remain in Him through Faith but you can fail to walk in authenticity and full experience of His Grace because we assume, what causes His Grace to operate in our lives is our good deeds.

Knowing what Jesus did for you on the cross is the start of experiencing the power of God's Grace in your life. Don't concede the enemy to rob your freedom and joy, by tricking you in self-righteousness. Rest in the arms of your Father, let Him enfold you and feel the intense love of God. Allow Him to deal with the undealt sin and weaknesses. He knows of those deep failures that you have, you will never overcome them if you don't rest in His grace daily for eternal freedom.

My confession 21st Dec 2019

My confession 21st Dec 2019 Eugene

 It has been four months down the line for my 2nd year as an apprentice in ministry with iServe Africa and all I can say is that the gospel of Christ is the Key thing, nothing else matters. My heart has not been inclined to the gospel or being exposed to the gospel as such a time as this, all I can sing about is the gospel of Christ, nothing more.

Being at GracePoint church it has been one of the blessings where you hear the gospel of Christ, a place where Christ is exalted more than "the man of god", where we are all sinners and Christ is the savior of us all. One thing I can say or rather the common phrase that we can find here is look to Jesus, come to Christ, behold the lamb of God .All these have been exposing my ignorance and my stubbornness in working with my strength to achieve righteousness that has been imputed to me by Christ. Trying every moment to please me to do this and that in order that I can measure my right standing with. These have yielded to nothing, only vanity of vanities, which has brought about disappointment, lack of joy and doubt that I may not have faith enough, this has cause me to be hard on myself, viewing myself as a failure when I could not achieve that mark.  

Hearing of what Christ has done for me was relieving me from the burden of works to achieve righteousness. Friends it is a joy to know that most of the things written in scriptures are not prescriptive, but rather descriptive of how fallen we are and how we can never succeed in this journey of faith by applying them to our lives directly. Every day it is a journey that I am laying down the baggage I have been carrying either for years or even adopted as I was going on with my Christian walk.

This journey does not take a day or two, but rather takes time being exposed to ‘the bitter truth’ which first seems to be a bitter tablet to swallow, but then with time you start to see the truth as it is and you are able to praise God in heaven. There is nothing l can hold fast on now like knowing that the Bible is about God and His people, Christ being the main figure that we have been given to look at so that we can be saved. The whole canon of scripture points to nothing else but to Christ who is our only savior, as one author of the old writers that is Charles Spergon, says that all roads leads to London so all books in scripture lead to one man, Christ our savior.

Nothing has become real like the fallen state of man, how sinful we are from birth, how we cannot save ourselves from this position of sin and how dark is the darkness that lies deep in our hearts. Though this is the biggest problem I have encountered, I have also encountered a great deliverance that has dealt with that problem that I can see the light. This makes the words of the hymn ‘At the Cross’ to be so real especially the line that says “At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away” this is the truth that shines brightly than the darkness that I was in, that rugged cross that brought my deliverance is the only true things that can hold me, when Jesus was hanged on that cross then my darkness was paid for, my guilt was washed away, all my sins washed away, then joy filled my heart.

I knew of these things, but not in this depth as I can express them today, not with this seriousness that I can say them today, not with this conviction as I have in my heart today. As I can’t say that I have come to that point of saying that now I know this theology very well though I can say that I know enough to hold me even in the day of calamity, as Christ will hold me fast in him than the way I can hold him.

This doesn’t mean I don’t have bad days or days that I don’t have questions to ask when hard things happen. Some days I find myself give in to discouragement, I experience loss which hurts badly though one thing is intact, my faith in Him and even more how He holds me in Him in this moment. I am still young and experience all the things that normal people experience, hardships in our nation, I feel it and it hurts badly, the pain of being misused at times, being jealous and even doing the wrong things a lot of times, I hurt people badly sometime, as I am trying to emulate my Savior.

All these things even give me more reason to look unto Him, go to Him so that He can embrace me and be able to make me whole again, that He can teach how to be a better follower of His, sometimes I even can’t get it the first time or the second but eventually, I will be able to get it as I look unto Him. Though this is not how I want to live, hurting others and mostly my savior, I choose to work hard with the strength He has given through His Spirit in me that I may be better and do the best until I am with Him when He calls me home or when He comes in His 2nd coming.

PRAYER

Lord, help us; help us that we may be those who look up to you in all seasons. Help us that we may strive to live holy lives here in a fallen and broken world which tempts us to prostitute ourselves to it away from you. In ourselves, we are weak beings, not able to resist anything but we pray that you may strengthen our inner man daily with your Spirit that we may be able to fight this battle until the day of the Lord.

Help me that these truths I am learning may remain deep in me at all times, that I may live maximizing all opportunities you have given me so that I may worship you alone. Help your church to remain true to your word, teach Christ alone, for your glory alone, help all the believers to live with these truths in our lives and also reach out to others in every opportunity we have. Amen.

2 Corinthians 13:14 is a common verse among the believers. It's commonly recited as a benediction verse after Christians fellowships or gathering.
Paul prayed this prayer to the Corinthians church, that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit may be with them all.
 It's one of the verses in the bible that the Trinity is mention in one verse; The Father, The Son Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit.
As believers we believe in the Trinity, the God-head. Jesus is God, The Holy Spirit is God as God the Father is, equal in Power and Holiness.
God desire us to know how He manifest Himself to us in different ways.

THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

God manifested His Grace through Jesus our Lord. I understand the Grace of God not only as the unmerited favor, but also as the power of God that gives us strength to live a righteous and a holy life before God. God reconciled us to Himself through Jesus for we were lost in our sinful nature, enemies of God and alienated from His presence. We had nothing pleasing in us all we knew was sin and evil. There was no place for us in the kingdom of God for we deserved judgement and death. Jesus took the form of a man though He was God, the fullness of God dwelt in Him richness. He was made sin for us and bore our punishment. The wrath of God was satisfied in Him. Therefore, we are now justified through Faith in Jesus. We are the legitimate sons of God, holy and righteous before Him.
The Grace of God, Jesus, gives us strength to live a life worthy of Him. Everyday we need His Grace for Sin clings so closely to us and the enemy seeks to devour us with his deceptions. It's evident that we are living in times which are evil, where sin is coated and its hard to distinguish between good and evil. Persecution against the church is unbearable. All we need is the Grace of God, we need Jesus every moment. Titus 2:11-12 for the Grace of God (Jesus) that brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us to denying and say no to ungodliness and worldly lust. Paul understood that we can't live without the grace of God  that why he made that prayer to the church, the body of Christ.
  
THE LOVE OF GOD THE FATHER.

We are all products of God's love. God the Father he not only have love but He is love itself. He express Himself as love to us. His commands, judgement, punishment, holiness, anger, kindness, mercy, faithfulness and all the attributes of God the Father are manifestations of His love. God dwells in the realm of Love.
God giving out His son as a sacrifice for sinful people was a great demonstration of love. I don't have a baby, but i can't imagine giving out my baby to die for people who even don't love me back. Its may sound okay because we are humans and He is God, but it takes faith and love as Abraham to give out your child. It wasn't an easy thing for God either, but He did it because He loved us, love compelled Him. He loved us even when we were lost in sin. The Father loves everyone sinners or righteous, but He hate sin. We saw it in the life of Jesus, being the image of the invisible God, He loved sinners and all who were neglected.
 There is nothing satisfies than to know that the God of the universe loves you as a person, He is mindful of you. There is freedom in knowing that God loves you. The love of God gives you assurance even in the days of calamity, trouble, distress, discouragement, lack or even the times you fall into sin. He still loves you, His love never fade.
Let it sink into your conscious that He loves you and nothing can separate you from His love.

AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 

Communion means the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feeling, especially on a mental or spiritual level. Intimacy with God begins when we understand the place and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The Holy Spirit bring the presence of God in us. He is the manifest presence of God. we can't worship God effectively without the Holy Spirit. We commune and fellowship with the God-head through the Holy Spirit. God purchased back our communion with Him through Jesus. He longed for us to commune with Him in a deep way as Adam and Eve did and even as the second Adam, Jesus did. It was through the Holy Spirit that this was possible, even Jesus couldn't commune with the Father without the Holy Spirit.
For us to grow in our relationship with God we need the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

Am certain that this was more than a prayer for Paul to the church, but a way of life that we should emulate as believers, being conscious of the Trinity and growing in the knowledge of the Godhead. Even as we make this prayer in our gathering let us understand the depth of it, and pray from our hearts and practice it.

PRAYER
2 Corinthian 13.14 may the grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with me now. Amen.

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 Happy new year 2020, friends. I bless God for you all. It's another opportunity to learn more about fundamental things in our christian walk.

We live in such a generation where the voice of God has been neglected. We want to know what our parents, friends and our spiritual authority have to say, but we don't seek to know the voice of God over our lives or current situations.
We doubt His word, we assume His voice, we fail to understand that He is God and not a man Numbers 23.19
I desire in my heart that the church will honor the voice of God when He speaks.

HOW TO KNOW HIS VOICE.
God in all His supremacy desire us to know what He is saying every moment, because He always speaks. In the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, He used to speak to them in the cool of the day Genesis 3.8. They knew His Voice and His steps. They dwell in the very presence of God. When they sinned, God began the plan of redemption. Through Christ He gave us the new nature that we may dwell again in His presence, where He speaks and our new nature are able to hear Him clearly.

The Holy Spirit in us bear witness that we are the sons of God, and we cry Abba Father Romans 8.15
We allow the Voice of God to be clear when we embrace the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives as believers. Jesus said that the Helper will come and teach us all things John 14.26. How can He teach us if we don't learn to hear from Him? It's so practical, the way you pay attention to listen to your friend while speaking, so do we need to pay attention to hear from Him. We should get rid of all the distractions for He speaks to our hearts through the Holy spirit in us.

Faith is so important when it comes to hearing god, believe that He speaks because He said so.

• When we draw before Him in prayers,we believe that whatever we ask when we pray it''s ours. Having faith is what pleases GOD Hebrews 11.6. Sometimes God speaks in simplicity, but we doubt  Him because we always think He speaks complicated things,which we can't fathom. Learning the simplicity of the kingdom of God is one way of learning to hear God.

God has exalt His Word above His name Psalms 138.2. one way of discerning His Voice is by knowing His Word. He doesn't contradict  Himself. His Word is the final standard. Jesus said so clearly that everything will pass away Mark 11.24, but His word will stand forever. Everything He said must come to pass. Therefore, knowing the Word of God is knowing His voice. It's time we dig our roots deeper into the Word of God. Colosians 1.23 that we may hold unto the conviction of what we were taught, the Good news, holding unto our faith.

Working in the medical field, science has found solution for many things. We seek to know what the medical doctor are saying, we believe and hope in their words. We hold unto our traditions and culture because we fear to be cursed. We fail to understand that God has redeemed us from the curse of the law. He want us to hold unto His Words alone.

YES! You can hear His voice. Seek Him and He will be found. Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you. Be found on your knees, in the Presence of God. Prayers is one of the channel and privileges you get to hear the voice of God.

God is not limited on how He speaks. Am not ignorant of the different ways God speaks to us; dreams, visions, through people and situations.
but in any way in which HE chooses to speaks know that discernment and wisdom are important, so that we may know what we are supposed to do.


PRACTICAL
Be in a quiet environment and choose the best position you are comfortable with. Personally i like laying prostrate. Be still, don't allow your mind to wonder around. you can put a soft music on the background. Think about the goodness of God and allow him to speak. listen so keenly in your spirit there His voice is. You spirit will bear witness when He speaks to your heart. Make sure you write down what You have heard Him saying.

Dear friends, God what us to learn how to hear His voice. Hear Him for yourself, hold unto the Words and live in line with them. A lot will begin to happend in your life as you purpose obey His leading.

Thank you all, may God bless you.