Are You Ready to lose?

I remember some years back I used to tell my mother that I love her so much that I cannot even afford to lose her. I wanted to be the first one to die hoping that she will have another baby girl to replace than for her to leave me with the pain and the grief. I just hated losing her because I had already lost my father.

I was so close to my mother. We had more than a mother daughter relationship. She was my friend. I spoke to her about everything and she did like wise. I still repeat: I did not want to lose her. Its was just too much for me.

But why do we hate losing things? Why do we want to have things forever?

Some of the reasons we have may be because we don't want to be losers. That is more than correct! Nobody wants to be a loser. We cannot lose something we have achieved with sweat and maybe even with tears. Nobody knows how we got where are and have what we have today except us! So, we don't want to just let the wind pass with what is ours by!

I think we should start seeing things the way in a Godly way. God never allows us to lose things just so we can be losers. For us to achieve even greater dreams, we must go through the losing process. He is then paving the way for the bigger dream that we have always had. God is making us ready to please Him with what we have achieved.

How are we going to see the need to glorify God if we never went through loads of trouble? If we were never really put to shame? He is the God of the poor, just for the glory of His name.

In all that we hope to achieve, we must be ready to lose something valuable to us as a sacrifice and with a motive to praise His name at the end. “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him” John 9:3

Stay Blessed!

Different Pacts

deal/dēl/

Noun: An agreement entered into by two or more parties for their mutual benefit, esp. in a business or political context

This is what I found from the dictionary. It explains how a deal differs from a covenant. That means there is no deal if there is no benefit for both parties. It is never a long term commitment. Maybe there isn't even commitment in it.

Who makes deals? People who want to benefit something from someone, thugs, drug dealers, people who are in trouble etc. it is rare to find people who are in a normal state of life. People who do not like drama will not make deals because deals are cold. They are lifeless, hard. They give a sense of the world.

Satan is the king of deals. He makes deals with us just so we can be fooled and give our all to him and get nothing in return. He will never give something that he knows it is more than what you want. Instead he gives you less. He gives you something that looks like what you want to have.

He will fool you until he gets what he has been looking for from the deal you have made with him. There is only one thing that he wants out of a deal- your soul. He can give all that looks like what you wanted but he would have taken all that matters to you by taking your soul.

Lets look at this:

cov·e·nant/ˈkəvənənt/

Verb: Agree, esp. by lease, deed, or other legal contract.

Noun: An agreement.

A covenant is legal. It is by deed and unconditional. When a couple make their marriage vows, they make a long term commitment: till death do us part. It has dignity, it is strong, it is atmospheric. People who are still looking for fun and who are not ready to settle down will not make a covenant. This is God's nature. A covenant made by God to men is never broken, and it will last even beyond death.

When we make a covenant with God, we are being committed to Him and he is not expecting anything from us. Of course, there are people who come to God to make deals with Him. I give you this and You give me that! That is not how He works. He makes covenants because they are for a life time and it is not for Him to gain but for us to gain everything.

In a covenant, promises action even before it is made. Why? Because he has nothing to lose but we have everything to gain But with the devil, he promises action after something has been done for him. Why, also? He has everything to gain and we have everything to lose.

The Enough-Meter

Speedometer is that clock on the dashboard of cars that measures the speed of the vehicle; thermometer is that instrument the doctor uses to measure you temperature; ENOUH-METER is a tool God has put inside you to help you measure your level of anger against a given situation. What is the use of the enough-meter?

Let's look at how a certain man called Phinehas used his. Chapter 25 in the book of Numbers describes how the children of Israel fell into a trap set up by their enemies. God has forbidden mixed marriages between Israelites and other nations. The reason was so they would not be tempted by those people to follow other gods and abandon the Lord.

But Balak, king of Moab, astutely sent the prettiest Moabite women among the men of Israel to seduce them and turn them away from the Lord.

Balak's plan was to get Israel to sin against the Lord, so they would not be able to count on His help when going to war against Moab.

The plan worked. The men of Israel began to indulge in sexual immorality with the Moabite women, who invited them to sacrifice to other gods. So Israel joined in worshipping Baal with the Moabites.

A plague broke out in Israel immediately and people began to die. God called Moses and told him to gather the leaders of Israel and tell them to put to death the men who had done such thing. Moses called an assembly and explained the problem to the leaders. As Moses was still speaking and the leaders of Israel weeping in shame and repentance for their people's evil deed, an Israel brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses.

Phinehas, Aaron's grandson, was also there in the assembly. When he saw this, his enough-meter went to the red and he just burst in anger. He left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. Then he drove the spear into both of them – through the Israelite into the woman's body. And in that moment the plague stopped.

What is needed for that problem that is treatening to put your life at stake, or for your situation to change is just REVOLT. You cannot act if you are not revolted against a situation. You do have the enough-meter but maybe it is stagnant inside you. It is time for you to activated it and make it to help you go head  no with that situation in your life.

If you can continue reading the rest of the chapter, you will understand what God thought of Phenehas' attitude. It is Numbers 25.

Stay Blessed!

 

Follower or Visitor?

I once wrote something on my blog and people really loved it. I got many facebook messages telling me about that article I wrote there and how it helped them. I must say, I was happy when they told me that because I knew that it was God who spoke and now people are being blessed.

I then decided to view my blog and see if they have commented. '0 comments'. That's what I found. Why didn't they comment? It was because they did not follow me on my blog but are all the time reading my posts. Amazing! Then I asked why? “ I don't know how”, they said. Unbelievable! I have nothing against those people, really! I actually thank God for making them not to 'know how' because it leads us to today's topic:

We have many people who always claim to know God and as a matter of fact, they even understand well what the pastor was preaching about and the message was delivered to its exact meaning. Wow! They even share it among others and you can bet that they are in spirit. They appear to be good soil that the seed was planted in them and it gave ground to the plant and the plant grew.

Only to find out that they are considered as visitors in God's eyes. They are not followers. They did try to follow Him but it was not easy and they said ' I don't know how'. Who said following Jesus was easy, anyway? It isn't! They found it difficult to give up their old lives and be of God, to say no to their loved ones as they begin to say yes to God's will in their lives.

These people they have been in the church their whole lives believe me... but it is so hard for them to say, “ I will not give up till I get in”. We have to note that God has His own Blog as well where He writes everything for us and about us. This blog is the Book of Life! Even if we see that it is not easy for us to follow God because the circumstances limit us, maybe our level of education, lack of knowledge, or what ever, we must be I CAN driven.

Our strive must not to be visitors but to be followers of Christ in every way and in every hardship!

“The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.” (Revelation 3:5)

God is not looking for your list of excuses but for your drive.

Stay Blessed!

Why Do I Have to Stay Down?

"In five years from now I want to have a car of my dreams, married, living in my own house and at least having one kid. By then I know I will be working and my finances will be stable." One said. "I want to go up there with my life but I don't know how! I don't have condition to make my dreams come true and I don't have anybody to help me go high! I am still working out a plan on what I should do for me to go high." The other said.

This what many of us keep saying but the question behind all of these words is: What are you willing to do for you to go high? Oops! I did not think we like the sound of that!

Wait up, Zacchaeus was on the top pf the tree because he wanted to see Jesus, isn't it? For sure! He was ordered by the Lord Jesus to come down, after he had come down form the tree, The Lord Jesus then blessed him. He did not find what he was looking for while on the tree but when he came down to the ground.

It is the same with our dreams of being there at the top. The hand of God is not on those who make their efforts to go high but it is for those who wants to go down. We have to acknowledge that up there is the hand of the devil and he wants to snatch us brings us down. He is not looking for losers because he has nothing to gain from them. God is looking for those who are down for His name to be praised because He will lift us up.

Let us look to God for our victories and never stay proud because He is a God of the humble.

Stay Blessed!

I Confess, I am Weak

Why do I have to tell someone about my weakness when they don't know about it? Why do I have to humiliate myself in front of everyone while they think that I am all perfect and am a good girl? Sure, I have a bunch of skeleton in my closet and I would die if someone finds out about them because I am not proud pf them. So, why should I blow the trumpet?

There is something that I am doing and I know that is wrong, I don't want to let anyone know about it and I would honestly die if people found out. It makes me unhappy, I want to quit but, who cares because no body knows? Obviously no one! (as if I knew)

This is how I used to be. I had issues but did not want to confess them and I would say that  what's the point for me to confess because no one knows that I am this bad person in the planet? I did not see the point! In the process, that shameful thing I was doing became a habit because it was comfortable and I did not show that I want to get rid of it. The stronger it stuck to me, the angrier and defencive I would be with it. And I tell you, it killed me. Big time!!

As it was comfortable, it started giving me reasons to be well with keeping it. I was falling but I was too proud to admit it ( Oh! My God, I can't believe how foolish I was). There was a voice at the back of my head that was telling me that I was falling but my silence was more dominant over the positive voice. In the sight of people I was that good girl whom everyone wished their daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues and girlfriends were like me. And all that was a lie! It was not me!

I came to realise that I don't have to speak to man (as in flesh) but there is Someone who will never comment back, judge or humiliate me, as those were things I was afraid of, but He will listen to me, comfort me and restore me again. Isn't it awesome? I decided to open my mouth and let Him know my situation. Oh! I cried and I became very ugly. Guess what? He did not say a thing to discourage me but He did the exact three things above. How relieved I was!!!

If you feel that your skeleton is not so pleasing, don't talk to man, he might comment and break you, judge you and destroy you. Go to God as I did, He does not act like man and He does not think like man....He is God.

Do it, you won't be sorry! That's the sweetest relief you can ever find.

Stay Blessed

Ah!!! What a Day!

There are no words to express what a day it was yesterday. As the members were entering the church, you would just, sence the difference of the spirit they embraced. It was so beautiful. They were in spirit and you would detect it from their greetings. There was no chit-chatting like they used to do, they waited for the Holy Spirit to begin His beautiful work in their lives.

Going to the Sunday School; the children were in spirit as if they understood what was the Holy Spirit. Ah!!! What a Day! They were so excited and were all in a very disciplined manner. The aromatic fragrance of the Holy Spirit was so perfect that it filled not only the hall of the church but also the small chambers of the children.

It was so beautiful when the Holy Spirit took over and did His wonderful work. Many were baptised and the church was made into a different church- the church of the Spirit. Many received the confirmation of their baptism and it was the happiest moment of their lives. Tears of joy were falling from the cheeks.

The glory of the Holy Spirit was shinning on each and every one's faces afterwards.

I have got nothing to say further but: "Ah!!! What a Day!"

Stay blessed!