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Help from above

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When you hear someone had a misfortune or fell into one type of error, what do you feel for that person? Do you just waive it aside, or say that is good, I warned him or gloat? If you didn't feel this or near it or just feeling of unconcerned has been your reaction, you need to change your mind or repent from such today. It is generally said that if you do not take care, what befell someone in front will befall you, and you do not want that. THEME:  HELP FROM ABOVE Memorise: My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. – Psalm 121:2 Bible Reading: Psalm 121:1-8 (KJV) 1 (A Song of degrees.) I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not...

Power of Love, Forgiveness & Unity

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A man married a beautiful girl. He loved her very much. One day she developed a skin disease. Slowly she started to lose her beauty. It so happened that one day her husband left for a tour. While returning he met with an accident and lost his eyesight. However their married life continued as usual. But as days passed she lost her beauty gradually. Blind husband did not know this and there was not any difference in their married life. He continued to love her and she also loved him very much. One day she died. Her death brought him great sorrow. He finished all her last rites and wanted to leave that town. A man from behind called and said, now how will you be able to walk all alone? All these days your wife used to help you. He replied, I am not blind. I was acting, because if she knew l could see her ugliness it would have pained her more than her disease. So I pretended to be blind. She was a very good wife. I only wanted to keep her happy. MORAL :- *Some times it is go...

Power in the Blood

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The blood still speaks - ask Cain in Genesis 4:10. The blood cannot be silenced. There is nothing that cannot be cleaned by the blood of Jesus. The blood still cries or for mercy, reception, forgiveness, etc.   I was dead but now is alive for evermore - Rev 1:18. The blood brought your problems to nut  (nothing). The blood has cancelled your sin, your deficiency . Let the blood speaks for your mercy. Let the blood vindicate you. The blood has cancelled all negativity in you.   The enemies tremble before the blood - Rev 12:11 Plead the blood over all your concern, strongholds, bondages, etc. Make the Jesus the Lord of your life today. Ask God to come into your life today and cleanse you with the blood. Ask God to turn you around now for Him in Jesus name.

God Never Stopped Loving You

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How have you been living? Do you hate how you are living? Are you satisfied or happy or you are really not fulfilled with the way your life seems to be heading? Are you successful in your career or business but knows or feels that there is a void somewhere? A man once lamented on his sick bed of his loneliness because of the way he had lived his life and thought he was beyond redemption. How wrong he was? I also knew of a lady that was hiding alcoholic wine in her bag just to enjoy the best of both world. How wrong she was, yet... The Lord said in Isaiah 66:2B - "“The people I value are not proud. They are sorry for the wrong things they have done. They have great respect for what I say." That is, irrespective of our past or present actions or inactions, of our sin or mistakes, of our history, the Lord has never once stopped loving us. Never once. It is the lack of following three things that has prevented us from taking corrective actions: Pride - This exist in nu...

God - The Consuming Fire

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God called Nadab and Abihu, Aaron's sons - Exo 24:1 - " Now He said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu...", but in Lev 10:1-2 - "Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD ", God killed them for offering strange and abominable fire before the LORD (Num 3:4). As priest or servant of the Lord, Num 3:3-4 we are to be above aboard. Because God has used us for a miracle or because of past achievements, we should never be so familiar or too familiar to take Him or His instructions for granted. Taking His instructions or His ordinance with levity or for granted is akin to offering strange fire before God, which is tantamount to offending or grieving the Holy Spirit. Jesus said sin against the Holy Spirit will not b...

Loved and Saved by Grace - 1

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A guy once told me, sir, you don't know what I have done in the past, how I have failed my family and God many times over. Well, there is one thing that the Lord knows before you. I can safely guess that you're not as old as 2,000 years. And if that is so, the Lord already provided for your forgiveness as it is stated in Romans 5:8 that while you were yet lost, while you were yet a sinner, Jesus died for you, for me, for every living human, born and yet unborn. His love knows no bound. It is also written that He knew us all while we were yet in our mother's womb and He ordained us for Himself. Brother and sister, the Lord already, through His love, made a way of escape for us all from destruction and from bondage to sin, sickness, failure, through His love, mercy and grace (Roman 11:30). Listen to the wordings of Martha Borg of Family Worship Center here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRr74tld64g&index=32&list=PLALfb_EygrTCRc6Qb_erR2jGBz8xIRUDK ...

Is Your Past Holding You Down?

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I was at a relative's event some years back and witnessed the preparation of a barbecue meat from slaughtering. It certainly took a couple of hours. How long do you think it will take Abraham and Sarah to prepare the animal for their guest that suddenly came to them (Gen 18:1-8)? This visit was sudden to them. They were not prepared for the visit at all. So, they had to prepare a calf and cakes for the visitors. This preparation certainly took at least an hour of running here and there leaving the visitors alone. Abraham was probably dropping in on the visitors intermittently to assure them of his coming with the meal soon. The Lord waited for this long very patiently and when the meal was served, ate then blessed Abraham and Sarah. How long do you think you have been unprepared for God's calling on you? How long do think you've been away from God? How long do you think you've stayed away and making God angry at you and most likely will not forgive you?...

I was too good to know I was not good

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I was a well brought kid. Never smoked, never drank, never had a girlfriend, never outspoken, never disobedient, never unruly, studious, etc. If I continue, you will think this is certainly untrue.  In fact, there are people better than me, yet, this is very true. On the other side of the coin, there are those that are exactly the opposite of what I just painted above in every way. Drugs, sexual adventurism, in and out of jail severally, alcoholism, disobedient etc. I was so good and even so humble and righteous that I never looked down on those that have missed the way.  Above all, I knew certainly, that I was going to heaven. One day, while at work, a girl asked, are you sure you're going to heaven? Of course I said yes.  However, I started asking myself if I was sure or not. Through out my life and until then, I was just too good to know I wasn't good at all. That, it is not at all your goodness or the extent of your goodness. Neither is it your badness o...

Love That Overcomes All

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Love that Overcomes In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. (NIVUK) True love is not sentimental, trying to generate and preserve as many good feelings as possible. The love of God is practical and always achieves His objectives perfectly (the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is the best example of that): and our love for God is marked by obedience to His commands. God's instructions are not too heavy for us, but they will demand that we rearrange our priorities and re-order our desires. It is God's intention that we should overcome the world, including the spiritual influences which are positively anti-Christ. The method is not through threats or force, but by receiving love from God and loving Him in return wit...

God, Our Father of Mercy

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God, Our Father of Mercy The Lord God created man with full power as a god with all its inherent attributes. This power and ability is what gave man the supremacy over all creatures and the earth (Gen 1:28). As part of this power is man's ability to give names to everything on the earth (Gen 2:19b-20). This power is still very much ours till date and that is why we give names to our children, animals - including newly discovered species, articles, etc. This is the God-like ability we have as humans. However, with authority comes responsibilities. It is man's responsibility to account for all our actions and even the actions of those under our authority - in law it is called vicarious liability. If it's written in Rom 6:16 - " Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? " Even though God is our God and Master, He, for the love a fath...