Smiling But Deceitful

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, surely the LORD'S anointed is before him. But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart. (1 Samuel 16:6-7)

Here is a clear message that one of the most deceitful things is appearance, a man may be full of disease, poverty & lack, hatred and wickedness; and yet behaves as if all is well. There has never been any art to decipher the contents of a man’s heart; it only takes God who knows everything to expose the wickedness in the hearts of men. But a man’s intentions can be deciphered through his actions and speech. Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin & Benito Mussolini were all good guys and meant well for their people, but with time-the heart revealed its true intent. Believe it or not, all that glitters is neither gold nor silver. Here is a perfect biblical description of the heart of man:

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

Oftentimes have we been told that we can get along with everyone irrespective of their religious stance, but such a notion has proved abortive with time. A snake remains a snake, no matter how good-looking and adorable it may appear to the eyes. Pets can easily assimilate and integrate into their various adopted environments, but for a brainwashed and radicalized extremist to assimilated and integrate into a western society takes the supernatural:

Can the Ethiopian change the color of his skin? or a leopard take away his spots? Nor can you who are so used to doing evil now start being good (Jeremiah 13:23, The Living Bible)

In the classification of pets, snakes are considered as one of the most dangerous pets to have around, because in a moment they change from being friendly to that of aggressiveness. What I am trying to bring out is that there is no way, you can get along with a person, whose mental faculty has been programmed and imbibed with centuries of hate and bigotry, no matter how innocent and simple he may appear, in his heart; there lies deceit and evil machinations of all kinds. It is just a question if time and opportunity, time & space, he will surely strike at the targets.

For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war. Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalms 140:2-3)

Take for an example the snake, its wisdom and cunningness is proverbial, in the sense that when a snake enters into a place, it does not at once show its presence, it seeks for a hiding place, positions itself and then strikes the victim with its fangs and injects deadly venom into the body of its victim.

People who live in a snake infested areas do keep the mongoose and cats, because these animals can easily detect snakes and prey on them, some do keep the eagles and other birds of prey as pets in order to combat snakes and other deadly and venomous reptiles that are nuisance to the human habitations. We need to keep our eyes open and alert to know who comes into our countries and their reason for coming; you don’t just welcome people like that, every incoming migrant must be vetted & cross checked for clarity, purpose and security reasons. We are at war with "Radical Ideological Diabolic Mindset Extremism", whether you believe it or not, war and terror has been declared upon you.

Today as we look into the Western Nations, we are witnessing a total eclipse of once the most powerful and promising civilizations by “Radical Extremism Ideology”, whoever that speaks out is labelled a racist and chauvinist, who does not want others to come into their countries and enjoy the free benefits of democracy, but the truth is that those who want to come and live and enjoy the so-called benefits of democracy are nothing but wolves in sheep's clothing and serpents in human form. These people do not have any interest in Western Civilization and education; they have been indoctrinated and poisoned with hate and bigotry through centuries of brainwashing and programming, believing that they will assimilate and integrate into the western cultures and lifestyle society is a sheer dream and wishful thinking.

Take for example France, Belgium, Germany and other European nations who foolishly opened their doors and welcomed these so-called migrants and asylum seekers fleeing war and persecutions are paying the dire price of open borders and reaping the sure fruits of multiculturalism, liberalism, progressivism, socialism, political correctness and collective guilt, thereby causing a great damage to their national security and welfare and committing political suicide with self-inflicted injuries beyond recovery.

How many of these migrants from those "Radical Extremist Ideology nations have been able to integrate and assimilate? We hear of terror attacks, suicide bombings, raping and physical assaults against the indigenes and other related criminal acts being carried out on daily basis. Even though the major government controlled and liberal media try to cover them up, but through the internet and other means of communications, good and dedicated men and women who put their lives on the line of danger through investigative and undercover journalism do bring to light the atrocities committed by these so-called asylum seekers who are fleeing religious persecutions and ethnic cleansing, they are considered by the liberals as victims unforeseen circumstances. The truth is that; these people are not fleeing any religious persecution and ethnic cleansing, they were trained and prepared for invasion and total take over and overthrow of the western democracy, freedom and exercise of the human conscience which has been the restrainer of evil, hate and wickedness. The real ones facing extermination, religious persecutions and ethnic cleansing are being denied asylum, we are seeing how the Yazidis, the Coptic Christians, the Buddhists, the Zoroastrians and other ethnic/religious minorities are being massacred on daily basis for their ethno-religious beliefs, and yet hardly do we hear the government/liberal controlled mass media talk about it, all we hear is how our good "Radical Extremist brothers and sister are suffering and need urgent help, even though it is apparent that majority of them are coming for the sole purpose of hate, crime & terrorist activities and other despicable acts, yet our liberal governments/mass media want us to believe that they are all innocent and fleeing war.

The truth is that, they are not fleeing any war, they were sent to bring down the western civilization and democracy through the acts of terrorism and infiltration. Yes, though they may appear as innocent and harmless, but in reality they are nothing but serpents and scorpions with vicious agenda waiting for the right time to strike their victims & inject the venom. I don’t care who gets offended, but we must expose this masqueraded evil and miscarriage of justice. The free world is under invasion, and there are those who are working and have been working incessantly for its total eclipse into tyranny. If you don’t know, you are monitored and your privacy is gone. Every aspect of your life is under surveillance, that which was once sacred and dear, is no more.

The worst people to be around or govern any country are the liberals, they know the truth but shy away from its responsibilities, and all they care about are their pockets and bellies personal interests, banknotes, business firms, investments and political at the detriment of those who voted them into office. Even if it means destruction to their nations and people, but as far as their interests are not at stake, they are happy with it, that is why they will flood their countries with illegals, give them jobs, free housing, free healthcare, free government funded education and welfare packages at the expense of the taxpayers. Isn't that scary?

Those who know the truth and dare to speak out are immediately silenced and labelled as racists and intolerant, they put in place bizarre and odd policies which do not represent the interest of the people, their security and wellbeing. They appear on the screen and bombard the clueless majority with lies and fibs, and their useful servile idiots swallow every lies without questioning the intent & authenticity of those policies. They would like you to believe that the government is working for you. If they are really working for you as they claim; why the corruption, pollution and societal collapse in every aspect of the government?

Listen up and be wise, no government can give you everything; you have to work to earn it, any government purporting to give you everything is one of tyranny & servitude. The primary work of the government is to provide you with good roads, security, social amenities, standard education, good and fair electricity and protection from internal and external aggressions. But for a government to provide you with all these benefits, you have to work, earn a living and pay taxes. Now if you don’t work, earn a living and pay taxes, how then will the government be able to provide you with all these benefits, where will they get the money to do that for you? In that respect, they will only turn you to their tools and useful servile idiots, they see you as a waste & useless to the society. Do you think they are that stupid? They make those empty promises just to get your attention and votes. Don’t be stupid, is never an insult but a wise and goodly advice.

These liberals are using the past mistakes of some misguided and mistaken individuals to lay a guilt trip on people who were not their when those atrocities were committed. Yes, we know that atrocities were committed in the past, but those were the days of ignorance, bringing back those memories will only achieve one thing-stagnancy, race bait and total destruction. The generations of today weren’t there when those things took place; trying to bring it into today’s issues will not bring any lasting solution. The deeds were done in ignorance by those of the time, and there are those who vehemently fought against it, hardly do we hear about them, all we hear is; those wicked and heartless imperialists. How long shall we continue on this road of madness and guilt trip? Can't you put the past behind you and move on with life and the time trend?

Now let’s take for example the black slavery; there are those who are still bringing up those issues to date, they ascertain that slavery made the Blackman not to achieve his potentials; but the truth is that, it was the Blackman who foolishly sold his children to the whites, go do some careful research and get the truth for yourself, come-on dude; get yourself armed and filthy with the rightful information to avoid misguidance and delusion, ignorance has a price, and the price for ignorance is destructive. The socialists/communists, were able to enslave their people by preying on their ignorance. I am not defending anybody, but to solve a problem, one must return to its root cause, if not you will be beating about the bush and inflicting unnecessary injuries on yourself. Forgive the past, live the present and forge ahead.

Today we have many African-Americans living off in welfare all in the name of reparations; many are living in the ghettos and swamps, is it also because of slavery? The truth is that their ignorance is being exploited by these liberal criminals to keep them still in modern slavery and servitudes. Instead of making them live off on welfare, why not provide jobs and education for them. The truth is this; those using them make millions off them through their quack, shaky and criminal movements purporting to represent the Blackman’s interest. It is time that the Blackman wakes up and face reality, and stop blaming every dick & Harry for his misfortunes. What was done has been done, the times are a past, modern technology has made it possible that knowledge is no more found in the libraries but at your fingertip. Instead of clinging to crime, prostitution, drug/human trafficking and gangsterism as means of livelihood and survival, why not use your faculty to create your paradise. We read the stories of black men whom out of nothing built financial empires and lifted many out of poverty. Why didn’t they wait for the government to come and give them some welfare packages? They took their destiny into their hands and became masters of it. Stop following these crooked and criminal liberals, who sole goal is to use you to make their bucks by false showmanship.

Don't be deceived by those smiling faces, the heart is more deceitful than anything. Buckle up and fight for your right.

The End-Time Hoax-The Sun Will Rise From The West…….Really?

People are not destroyed for the lack of information, but the destruction comes from the rational laziness to meticulously and judiciously exercise their mental faculties; crosscheck things, compare and contrast, and discovering the truth for themselves. It is good to be armed and filthy with knowledge, to avoid being brainswashed, deluded, manipulated and used for non just cause. 

There is this particular teaching that has been circulating on the net concerning how the world will end, according to some mad and ignorant religious blind guides who are devoid of common knowledge, spiritually empty, deceiving and being deceived. Deluding their followers with lies and myths; claiming inspirations which are nothing but fairy tales, and speaking of things which are unfounded & idiotic.

According to their claims; they said, that when the sun will begin to rise from the west and the earth will start to move backward, with other nonsensical, unscientific unbiblica & empty rhetorical religious balderdash and unintelligible trivial garbage, the believers should buckle up and know that the end and destruction of the world has begun. And some uninformed and ignorant fanatics are seriously circulating the message all over the social media, disturbing the peace and tranquillity of some well-meaning individuals, troubling the minds of people, as if the world is coming to an end today or tomorrow, putting people into confusion and mental distress. Spreading what they neither defend nor affirm.

1. Will The Sun Ever Rise From The West?

Let the word of God and science answer for themselves:

It is true that the bible did not specifically mention the direction from which the sun rises and sets, but the biblical description is so simple that even the most unlearned person, does not need to crack his brain to understand God’s word.

From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised. (Psalms 113:3)

So tell me; where does the sun rise and sets, does not the sun rise from the east and sets in the west? You may ask; why didn’t the bible specify it for clarity? The bible does not need to specify it, because it is a visible and an established fact which is manifest to the human senses. For hundreds of years and generations, when men wake up in the morning, every person sees the sun rises from the east and sets in the west. Therefore expecting the bible to tell you an established fact, is like a healthy and full-fledged adult expecting his mother to feed and bath him. Everybody knows that the sun rises from the east and sets in the west; don’t expect the bible to come telling you about it in order to believe, it is there for you to see and believe. It does not take the supernatural to convince a person that these are the way things have been divinely established. It is a common factor which does not need long scientific explanation.

For from the rising of the sun even to the setting of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, says the LORD of hosts. (Malachi 1:11)

God does not need to tell you from where the sun rises and sets, he has physically established and ordained it to be so, generations come and go; those things remain the way God has ordained them to be, and they cannot for once be altered. What God is saying in the above biblical verse is that, anywhere a person goes, those heavenly ordinances do not change their course, they function according to the divine order. Therefore every other proposition is mere speculation & conjecture.

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. (Psalms 50:1)

The heavenly elements and the way by which they have been ordered to function, will neither change nor alter. As God has ordered them, so they will remain.

Having quoted from the bible, we now turn to science for more information

“The Sun appears to move from east to west. That's because the Earth is spinning towards to the east, so we see the Sun first appear there at the start of the day. The Sun 'rises' in the east and 'sets' in the west.” (BBC-Astronomy and space science)

It is simple and scientifically factual, the sun will always rise from the east and sets in the west as God has ordained it. People should arm themselves with pure and accurate information, to avoid being deluded and brainwashed. We are living in a generation where through technology information is at our fingertip, but many are too lazy to exercise their mental faculty, they prefer posting pictures on social media, listening to secular music, watching movies, texting and whiling away their precious time on nothingness.

“The Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars all rise in the east and set in the west. And that's because Earth spins -- toward the east. ……… Earth rotates or spins toward the east, and that's why the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars all rise in the east and make their way westward across the sky.” (The StarChild)

True science does not contradict the bible, but affirms it. One does not need to crack his brain and read all the books in the world to know this simple fact. It is good for a soul to acquire knowledge through careful investigation; you should not imbibe everything that your religious instructor tells you as the truth, you must do some systematic research on your own and get the truth first-hand. For example, if your cleric tells you to walk barefoot on hot coals by faith and nothing will happen to you, will you foolishly do that, I believe you will rethink about it? But there are people who would go ahead and do it without questioning, because it is a command from the prophet and therefore ought not to be questioned. Listen to me, you are created with faculty and are expected to make use of it. It is not everything you hear that you just should jump into conclusion and get into the bandwagon without questioning what you heard, the apostle Paul tells us to examine all things.

But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB)

A person without knowledge is no good. A person in a hurry makes mistakes. (Proverbs 19:2)

You should not jump into the bandwagon based on empty rhetorical eloquence and smmoth charisnatic oratory. Scepticism is a great gift from God if correctly and wisely used. To be sceptic is not a sin, it is up to a person to verify what is before him, before making any conclusion. Don’t believe a preacher, lecturer, etc. based on their eloquence & charisma; at times they can err and mislead many into error and destruction through unwholesome & erroneous informations. It is good to question some things if in doubt, and if discovered that those things are illogical, unwholesome and erroneous, should be discarded and ultimately avoided. 

2. When will the world end?

This question has been asked over with time. Many mad and mentally deranged psychopaths have appeared on the stage giving dates and announcing the imminent end of the world, many went and sold their properties and gathered round these madmen waiting for the doomsday to arrive, only to discover that they have been duped. Hungry and quack writers have written extensively on this matter, giving dates and times the end would occur, many in frenzy bought their books and became ardent disciples and harbingers of the coming world destruction. Well the truth is that, nothing happened, those authors made millions through their fabricated tales and became extremely rich. After all who doesn’t want money?

"So stay awake, because you don't know the day or the hour. (Matthew 25:13)

Jesus made it clear that nobody knows the hour; therefore making predictions concerning the time is nothing but another form of religious madness. Only God knows when the time will be, all that is needed of us is to be prepared and ready.

Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come. But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come. (Matthew 24:42-44)

No one knows the time when the end would be, our duty is to keep watch and ready. The only thing made known to us are the symptoms of the time, but that does not mean the end, there are things that must precede the end, but for now, we should go on with our normal daily activities and make meaning out of life instead predicting those things which we don’t know. Yes Jesus will come, God will judge the world for its wickedness, but no man knows the exact time. Hear me out; evil must run its course before the end will come, let this truth sink into your person. It is due to the unbalanced teachings in our local churches nowadays that have confused so many and turned them into apocalyptic fanatics, who will not listen to reason and common sense. As for evil running its course, here is what the bible has to say:

Now in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet Him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly unsettled or alarmed either by a [so-called prophetic revelation of a] spirit or a message or a letter [alleged to be] from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] come. Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first [that is, the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by professed Christians], and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction [the Antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed], who opposes and exalts himself [so proudly and so insolently] above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he [actually enters and] takes his seat in the temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I was telling you these things? And you know what restrains him now [from being revealed]; it is so that he will be revealed at his own [appointed] time. For the mystery of lawlessness [rebellion against divine authority and the coming reign of lawlessness] is already at work; [but it is restrained] only until he who now restrains it is taken out of the way. Then the lawless one [the Antichrist] will be revealed and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of His mouth and bring him to an end by the appearance of His coming. The coming of the [Antichrist, the lawless] one is through the activity of Satan, [attended] with great power [all kinds of counterfeit miracles] and [deceptive] signs and false wonders [all of them lies], and by unlimited seduction to evil and with all the deception of wickedness for those who are perishing, because they did not welcome the love of the truth [of the gospel] so as to be saved [they were spiritually blind, and rejected the truth that would have saved them]. Because of this God will send upon them a misleading influence, [an activity of error and deception] so they will believe the lie, in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe the truth [about their sin, and the need for salvation through Christ], but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Amplified Bible)

I would have taken my time to comment and elaborate each verse, but the version I used has done the work already, the reader will comprehend the message with all clarity and openness of mind. I want you to make a careful observation on verses 3 & 7; the falling away has begun, and the mystery of iniquity is at work; that is why I said that evil must first run its full course before the end would occur. I will not need to tell you everything, with what is going on today, you need not to be told that the end is near, but please don’t go around speculating about it, we don’t when the time will be, our duty is to warn people and persuade them to be ready, but don’t go around like a lunatic giving dates and times, your primary duty is to warn men and keep alert. Let me tell you this truth; there are three major things that are still at work, and each must be accomplished before the end comes.

a. The Holy Spirit, who is restraining the evil one- 2 Thessalonians 2:7

b. The numbering and gathering in of the elect- Revelation 7:2-3, Ezekiel 9:4

c. The full return of the Jewish people into their own land- Ezekiel 39 & 39

Please I want you take number 3 very serious, before all these will take place, all the Jews will have return to Israel (the land which God promised to their ancestors by oath & covenant), due to severe persecutions and anti-Semitism. The reader should know that all these are part of God’s plan for the grand spiritual restoration of the Jewish people and emergence of the Messianic age. If you look all over the world, except in the land of Israel, the antipathy against the Jews is increasing with high velocity; there is no place that is safe for the Jews any longer (except in the land of Israel). You need not to be flabbergasted about that, it is all part of God’s plan for their restoration and redemption. God has not changed mind nor altered his covenant promises which he made to them through their fathers, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, which he confirmed with King David by an oath, and all were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ, whether one believes it or not, the scripture cannot be broken.

Those teaching spiritual Israelism and replacement theology are liars and charlatans. It is not true that the church has replaced Israel and that Christians are now the spiritual Jews. What the bible is saying in essence is that; those who believe in Christ Jesus are beneficiaries of Abraham’s blessings through faith by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and are of the commonwealth of Israel. But to say that the church has replaced Israel and that God has forsaken them (the Jewish people), is a blatant falsehood and should be rejected right away as a fabricated doctrine. A gentile Christian remains a gentile; a Jew remains a Jew-period. Gentile Christians through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah are now ingrafted into the commonwealth of Israel, that is to say; all the promises of blessings that God made to Abraham are now available to him, it did not say that he has replaced Israel.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. “He redeemed us so that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. (Galatians 3:13-14)

All the privileges which the Jews enjoyed in the old dispensation, to which the gentiles were excluded, are now available to gentile Christians through faith.

That God has not rejected the Jews is apparent from the scripture:

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin….. I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. “Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs. For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. (Romans 11:1, 25-27, Berean Study Bible)

God has not forsaken the Jews as some people may claim; they are the epicentre of God’s prophetic timetable, God has not changed his mind nor altered the contract.

Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea’s roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar; the LORD of hosts is His name: “If this fixed order departs from before Me,” says the LORD, “Then the descendants of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” Thus says the LORD, “If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out below, then I will also cast off and abandon all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done,” says the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:35-37)

As far as the sun will give light to the day and the moon to the night, so shall the Jews continue to be a distinct people and nation. Every attempt to assimilate them has proved abortive; every type of forced conversion has been unsuccessful. Therefore as a Christian, you are commanded to respect and pray for them, it is a shame for anyone professing to be a Christian and at the same hate the Jews, such a person is devoid of the knowledge of the true God and has made himself an accursed, for Jesus did not command any of his follower to persecute the Jews or hate them, calling them Jesus killers is a gross miscarriage of justice and fairness.

Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives and your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others]. And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and ^[a]curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves]. (Genesis 12:1-3)

To look with disfavor on the Jews was to invite God’s displeasure; to treat the Jews offensively was to incur His wrath. But to befriend the Jews was to bring down upon one’s head the rewards of a promise that could not be broken. Not on earth which have opened wide her doors to Jewish prople, that did not witness anu nprecedented and historical prosperity, success and security from God himself.

Now, haven known the truth, I believe that next time someone comes to you giving you dates and times concerning the end of the world, you will know what to answer him. Secondly, if one come to you with their anti-Semitic rhetorics, just sideline them with these few words: I am not interested in your madness and falsity.

God bless and shalom.

The World Is Full Of Hypocrisy

The World Is Full Of Hypocrisy

There are people who think or believe that they have friends who will stand up for them even if they are not there, they for their part sacrifice the most best of their time, energy and intellectual strength trying to please their friends in whatever way necessary for their good and upliftment.

These beautiful people with beautiful hearts always deny themselves of some pleasure and relaxation to see to it that their friends are satisfied  and the needs of the time met, in fact they are always sacrificing, trying to please their so called friends, they are at times called “Misters Good Doers”, in time of need and hardship they are sought after, their services are highly needed, but when that puzzle is solved and the tempest abated, they are soon forgotten, they are treated as fools and mentally retarded, they are criticized and gossiped, evil spoken of by those whom they call friends, in their time of needs no one of those their friends will prove supporting, they are abandoned and ridiculed, it is for these people that this piece of advice is penned down.

1. Your Needs Should Be Met First

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds. (Proverbs 27:23)

There is no greater advice than what you have just read, I have heard people say, think much of others and less of yourself, they are right, but I want you to take a look at them, see if there is anyone of them that are poor, they speak from the abundance of their riches, they give because they have, they do not give from what they did not have, Bill Gates gives because he has, many of the world donors give from the abundance of their wealth, a one legged man needs support, he cannot carry a man whose two feet have been amputated, he needs another foot to be able to do so, you should in no way sacrifice your time and strength for others while you have problems facing you, get your needs and problems solved before thinking of helping others, you should not please a friend and then displease yourself when you know that you have problems and needs facing you, don’t do the good that will cost you tomorrow, accept this advice of mine and be happy at the end.

For riches are not forever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? (Proverbs 27:24)

Be careful how you spend for friends even if they meant a lot to you, be careful how you help others, you may at the end be disappointed, man is known for always been ungrateful, don’t be fast in lending help to people whom you know that they will not return it with appreciativeness, many people have regretted while they helped friends, there some people to day, who are in various prison houses all over the world, not because they committed some evils but because they were trying to help a friend out of his quandary, look carefully into a matter before saying yes I will, bear in mind that nothing lasts forever, you have a limited time and vigour, one day your strength will fail you, hardship and trials will come, what you saved up for yourself today will hold you up in those time of evil, friends can disappoint and have proved so with time, it is your yesterday’s preparation will prove worthwhile in the coming days of evil, I will point out more of it later in this article.

When grass is cut short, the tender growth appears, and vegetables are gathered on the hills. (Proverbs 27:25)

In farming, there is what is known as weeding, it is the removal of unwanted plants from an area of ground or the plants cultivated in it, the truth of the matter is that a time comes in the life of a man that he should make a thorough reshuffle and crosschecking of his life, and begins to pick out those friends who do not contribute anything good in or to his life, during farming seasons, farmers take the care and pain to look after their farms and what they have planted in them, immediately they notice a strange grass growing among the plants, they do not waste time in removing it, why, because if allowed, it will destroy the crops and render that farmer’s labour futile. So also, a man should always look out for those friends who are there as parasites and immediately disassociate himself from their company, it is better to stand alone and face the future than to have millions of friends who are deserters and untrustworthy in the time of adversity, because such friends make professions of friendship; but all is hollow and deceitful, and can never be depended upon.

 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. (Proverbs 27:27)

Taking care of yourself in the first place guarantees your safety, if you think that your sacrificial whatever will earn you help in the time of need, you are a joker and kidder, the bottom-line is; take care of your resources and your resources will take care of you, it is always a proven fact. Listen dear friend and reader, I am not saying you should be stingy and heartless, that will prove ungodly and inhumane, what I am saying is that, do what you can and leave the rest to God, do not go beyond your ability, you cannot change the world, but you can effect a change, stand first before thinking of standing others, get the help first before helping others, crossover first before crossing someone over, get a home first before taking in a homeless man, have some food in the reserve before giving it out to others, have some money in the safe before spending on others, yes there are situations that may demand our most needed attention, but that is not always the case, please I want you to hear this piece of advice from one of the greatest and wisest men that ever walked on the face of this our planet earth:

Consider what God has done! Who can straighten what God has bent? When times are good, be happy. But when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one time as well as the other so that mortals cannot predict their future. I have seen it all in my pointless life: Righteous people die in spite of being righteous. Wicked people go on living in spite of being wicked. Don't be too virtuous, and don't be too wise. Why make yourself miserable? Don't be too wicked, and don't be a fool. Why should you die before your time is up? It's good to hold on to the one and not let go of the other, because the one who fears God will be able to avoid both extremes. Wisdom will help a wise person more than ten rulers can help a city. (Ecclesiastes 7:13-19, Copyright © 1995 by GOD'S WORD to the Nations Bible Society. All rights reserved.)

I have read stories of people who attempted to effect a world change, some of them died miserable, some ended up in debt, others were changed by the world, take for example that Italian girl that dressed like a newly married maiden, she went out from Italy touring the world, hoping to bring the needed peace, only to be raped and brutally murdered at Turkey, there are things we cannot change, we do not need to do good to be good, we do good when the need arises.

2.  Avoid The Extreme

We all want to help, but we should help when necessary, and help should be done out of love and conviction, and not out of compulsion and constraint, let’s take for example, you have one dollar in your pocket and it is for a transport fare that will take you 15 miles, now if someone asks you to give it to him, would you do that? Some people out of pity would do so, the truth is one can do so if he sees that the situation demands such, it is such type of giving or help that God honours, we are not expected to give our last, we are commanded to give our best, and it should be done out of love. Now some people will say what of the widow of Zarephath, didn’t she give out her only remaining food to the prophet Elijah, yes, she did but let’s take a careful look at what happened and why it was done, and for what purpose:

And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of bread in your hand. And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it to me, and afterwards make for you and for your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not be used up, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal was not used up, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Elijah. (1 Kings 17:8-16)

I underlined those sentences in order to point out something, first Elijah went under God’s command; arise go to Zarephath, I have commanded (prepared) a widow to sustain you, it was God who commanded Elijah, it was the same God who prepared the heart of that woman, everything was working under divine providence, the woman gave to the prophet out of love and conviction, Elijah never coerced her into doing what she did, she simply obeyed the voice of God through the prophet when he said; For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not be used up, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth, when things are done in love and conviction, the result is always immense, the woman hesitated at first, she started her reason, but because God was involved in the whole affair, an excellent result ensued. Some quack and money hungry preachers have used this particular chapter and verse of the bible to dupe thousands of their life savings, promising them gold and diamonds in return, such people have waited for eternity and no gold or diamond is forthcoming, from such (preachers) desist. When God speaks, he accomplishes, but when men speak purporting that God sent them, the result is always negative and fruitlessness, one million lies cannot make up a truth, no matter who smooths them.

 When your heart convinces you to do something, don’t hesitate in doing it, that is quite different, what I am saying in essence is, avoid giving help that will cause you distress in time to come, such help does not produce any fruitful result, at times they gender strife, hatred, bitterness and all the human vices coupled together. Some people in the course of them wanting to better humanity have made miserable and irreparable mistakes. You are not born to better humanity, you are born to make a difference and leave behind you an impressing undying legacy, you are born to touch one life at a time when the opportunity strikes, those whom opportunity brings on your way, bless them, do what you can to put a smile on their faces, by so doing you are accomplishing the irrefutable law of love, you are making your world (not the world) a better place, you are helping lives move forward. You are not here to gain man’s approval and applause, doing so will send you to your untimely grave, man in his fallen nature is insatiable, you cannot please everyone, but you can touch many lives if you follow the simple rules and regulations of rendering services when needed. Don’t overburden yourself to win people’s approval and applause, those who want you to go the extra mile cannot even escort you with a foot, they would like you to carry all the burdens and are not ready to help you lift them with a finger, for such friends “… bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.” (Matthew 23:4)

3.  Preparing While There’s Still Opportunity

Now as I said earlier, I will tell you what to do when the opportunity calls, what I am about to tell you may in one way or the other annoy you, but you should evaluate everything I have said, to see if I am lying. Let’s say you have some thousands or hundreds of dollars in your bank account, instead of using them on charity (though it is a good and noble thing to reach out to humanity), can’t you invest them into something that will be yielding you some money in return, I mean something that will be bringing you some returns, now if you want to do charity then that would be okay, why would you build houses for others, while you do not have a roof to lay your head, while would you buy cars to give out to others while you are trekking on foot, friend, are you stupid or what, are you trying to gain approval and applause from men, or are you here to do the right thing? Someone may say what of Tabitha in the book of Acts 9:36-41, yes, Tabitha was a giver but she was not giving to be praised and applauded, she was acting out of love for God and towards man, there was this divine conviction deep within her innermost heart, Tabitha was not poor, she had before she gave, the bible said she made coats and garments, she did almsgiving and was full of good deeds, everything she does flowed from a virtuous heart, she loved what she was doing, some went out wanting to be acclaimed people of the year, they wanted people to know them, appear on the covers of the magazines with laudable commendations from people all over the globe, have interviews and awards with smiling faces, but in the long run they failed utterly and retire with heartrending regrets. Before you do something, be convinced about it, do not seek for recognition, make sure it is done out of love and conviction, and not because to be seen, commended and praised. Now someone may say; didn’t the apostle Paul say we should do good to all men? That is quoting the bible out of context, let’s read it in viewpoint, “Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant. If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life. So let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest. So then, as often as we have the chance, we should do good to everyone, and especially to those who belong to our family in the faith” (Galatians 6:7-10). There is a great difference between sowing to the flesh and sowing to the Spirit, the latter is done out of love and the former out of pride and conceit.

4.  Stop Doing Good And Start Doing The Right Thing

What do you mean? Yes, you heard me right, STOP DOING GOOD and begin doing the right thing. In every field of intellectualism, we should know and understand where words are derived from and what they meant in the first place, the word good is derived from two Greek words meaning two different things altogether, the word is ἀγαθός (pronounced agathos), it simply means good(s), benefit(s) good things, etc., the second is καλός (pronounced kalos), it is of uncertain affinity, meaning good, excellent in its nature and characteristics, and therefore well adapted to its ends, genuine, approved, praiseworthy, noble, beautiful by reason of purity of heart and life, and hence creditable, morally good, noble, honourable, conferring honour, affecting the mind agreeably, comforting and confirming. Could you see that there is a great difference between the former and the latter? Whenever a person does the right thing, there is this feeling of joy, contentment and inner peace and settlement, now I am going to scripturally certify what I am saying, this is Jesus Himself speaking and I am happy it is from the mouth of the Saviour, now hear what He said on this subject; “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you” (Matthew 7:6). Does that make sense to you; are you beginning to see why you should do the right thing at the right time to the right people who have real needs and not to those who have unending wants? There is a great difference between needs and wants; the former has to do with life’s necessity, while the latter has to do with one’s sensual desires.

Let’s take example, you have a friend who has lost his job, he has children who go to school, he has a family to take care of, yes helping such a friend out of his predicament is a noble thing and something praiseworthy, giving to the destitute, helping the elderly, the sick, the physically challenged, fighting against human trafficking and rescuing their victims, providing homes for the homeless, reorienting drug addicts, helping those who are lost regain a new look, feeding the hungry, putting our money where they are needed is what should occupy our minds. Why should you lavish money on friends buying them cigarettes and boozes, taking them to party and other amusement joints, only to be mocked in the day of adversity, yes you are doing it to be called, my-o-my, my pally, good guy, etc. The truth is none of them will be there for you when trouble strikes; some will even mock and call you foolish-witty (i.e. Wise in folly and foolish in wisdom). Why would you spend your energy trying to please everyone, don’t you have better things to do with your resources? Beware of dogs and swine, look for those of whom your labour would be appreciated, don’t waste your time trying to please ingrates and wretches. Do that which is right and leave the rest to God, don’t weary yourself and be wasted at the end.

• In Conclusion

The world is full of hypocrisy, you have your life before you, don’t waste it on frivolities rather use it to mark a difference, you may not have all the money in the world, but with the little you have, you can effect a change when you sow into the lives of those who are in need of it. Do the right thing and reap the enduring reward. Look out for opportunities to do good to the right people when they strike. “He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward” (Proverbs 19:17). Give to those who cannot repay you back, and you will be blessed. “Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just” (Luc 14:12-14).

Jesus is not telling us not to invite relatives or rich friends when we are doing any festivity, what Jesus is simply is that, do things in the spirit of love to those whom you will not expect anything in return, don’t do things to be accepted, do it and forget you have done something, someday somewhere, the reward will be made manifest. Don’t be discouraged at what I have said, they are for your good, disassociate yourself from friends who cannot contribute anything positive in your life, don’t form the habit of spending on friends, instead you can visit the orphanage homes, the leprous colonies, the blind people’s homes, psychiatric centres, disabled people’s sanatoriums, centres where mentally and physically challenged children are kept, look for such places and invest your money, you will never regret that you did.

Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your lap. For with the same measure that you use it shall be measured to you again. (Luc 6:38)

“Christian charity will make no difficulty in giving that which eternal truth promises to restore. Let us give, neither out of mere human generosity, nor out of vanity, nor from interest, but for the sake of God, if we would have him place it to account. There is no such thing as true unmixed generosity but in God only; because there is none but him who receives no advantage from his gifts, and because he engages himself to pay these debts of his creatures with an excessive interest. So great is the goodness of God, that, when he might have absolutely commanded us to give to our neighbour, he vouchsafes to invite us to this duty by the prospect of a reward, and to impute that to us as a desert which he has a right to exact of us by the title of his sovereignty over our persons and estates.” Men live in such a state of social union as renders mutual help necessary; and, as self-interest, pride, and other corrupt passions mingle themselves ordinarily in their commerce, they cannot fail of offending one another. Adam Clarke

Every good deed done out of godliness and sincerity has an eternal reward, they are not forgotten, they are recorded, kept against the day of evil. “Scatter your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon the earth.” (Ecclesiastes 11:1-2)

Never cease giving while thou seest a person in distress, and hast wherewithal to relieve him. Such may be the change of times, that thou mayest yet stand in need of similar help thyself. Do as thou wouldst be done by. Adam Clarke

Yes We Can (But In Reality We cannot)

Yes We Can (But In Reality We cannot)

When Barack Hussein Obama started his campaign of becoming American president, there was one slogan that he used to sway and to convince the people, “Yes We Can”.
Those phrases quickly caught up like a never ending burning fire in the minds of the people.
Any where you go, you can see people saying the same thing, “Yes We Can”, but after his election as the president of the USA, to the total surprise and amazement of the people, it was quickly discovered that those words were nothing but mere empty political human jargon.

The truth of the whole matter is that in reality there is nothing we as human can do without God’s divine help, all our efforts without him are stupid, nonsense and nonsensical idiocy.
There is no way a people can achieve greater things without the unending support, we human are so limited that we daily need the help of God of, anyone saying that we can, is just like a fool who said he could swim the ocean, one of the greatest problems facing our society is man’s aspiration for self independency and reliance, and this defiance has cost us a lot.
There is no way one could be successful in life without the internal backing of Jehovah.
It is a thing of uselessness to attempt greater things while putting God aside; it would be a futile and fruitless effort trying to climb to the greater heights of life without putting God first.
There is only one source of help, and that is God, as the scripture puts it:

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:1-2)

Yes our help and succour comes from God, it is a big lie to say that we can, "we can’t", because with our human resources and whatever they entail, we are nothing but worm and miserable, we can only go forward when God is in total control, our life, the fullness of our life depends on our total and willing submissive obedience to God, apart from this, we are headed to total failure, those who in the past attempted to change the world while ignoring God paid a painful price and ended up leaving behind them a bitter and horrifying history, serving as an example of man’s idiotic and stupid attempt trying to change what God has in his eternal purpose putting place, just as the wisest man (Solomon) said in his predications:

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14)

All the days are not equal in references and events, there are sweet days, there are also days of bitter experiences, God has made them like that, to the end that we human should find nothing after him, it is not in our duty to change them, our duty is to submit to the will of God and allow him to run our individual life for us, failure to do this will result in conflict.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us (Psalm 123:1-2).

A master has authority over his servants, so also does God has authority over us, a servant looks unto the hands of his master, so are we to God, as a master provides for his servants, so God provides for them that trust in him, a servant has no say of his own, he does daily depend on his master for his provisions, so also in like manner should every sensible human being daily and totally depend on God, everything we own and would have all come from God.

Without the help of the LORD it is useless to build a home or to guard a city. It is useless to get up early and stay up late in order to earn a living. God takes care of his own, even while they sleep, Psalm 127:1-2 (Contemporary English Version)

Who said we can? It is a lie from the pits of hell to turn man away from keeping focus on God; it is nothing but the Devil’s way of contradicting God before man (Genesis 3:1-3).

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jeremiah 2:13).

Well the truth is clear; our refusal to recognize God and make him the priority of everything we do and own has resulted in miserable and degrading failures in all our human endeavours.
One need ought not to be told that the major problems the nations of the world is facing today is as a result of their total refusal to make God the priority in their national and sociopolitical
and economic affairs, especially in the areas of decision making and moral obligations.

Uprightness and right standing with God (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) elevate a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people, Proverbs 14:34 (Amplified Bible)

There is no ending to the truth of God’s inspirational word, sin brings disaster and catastrophe to any nation and people whose ways are in defiance to God’s governing moral and righteous authority and principles, we are daily seeing the consequences of such defiance, we saw it in the destruction of the twin tower, the untold sufferings, poverty, diseases, sickness, ethnic cleansing, tribal and national wars, rebellion, hunger, prostitution of all kinds perverse and epidemic in Africa and other parts of the world, who have refused to make God a priority.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God (Psalm 9:17).

Well those who think that they can do without God are big time jokers, from past to the present there is no nation on earth that ever put aside in the national affairs that ended well.
But unfortunately, man is too lazy to learn and correct his mistakes, we are seeing history repeating itself over and over again, we can see the hand writing on the wall, but we fail to take heed and repent of our disobedience to God, we should expect nothing but the worst.

So are the ways of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless shall perish, Job 8:13 (Amplified Bible).

History is full of remarkable lessons, we read in historical records how nations, kingdoms, empires great and mighty men fail, because of godlessness, when any nation reaches her zenith of evil, her fall becomes imminent and disastrous, such nations should serve as an example to people of this generation, look the Roman empire, one of the most powerful empires that ever existed on the surface of the earth, but when Rome reached the zenith of her evil, she crumbled and failed and disappeared into the thin air, evil never succeeds.

People without God can produce nothing. Fire will destroy the tents of those who take money to do evil, Job 15:34 (New Century Version).

Well said, people without God will produce nothing but disaster, we saw it in the lives of people like Adolph Hitler of Germany, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini of Italy, Francisco Franco Bahamonde of Spain, and Joseph Stalin of Russia, the list can go on, but these should serve as an example of what godless people can produce, their legacy is nothing but horror.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought (Job 8:22).

How did these dictators and self proclaimed reformist ended? Their end was a gory one, in fact they stand as a warning to others saying, please don’t go that way, wickedness has never triumphed, and evil always destroys itself, the truth is that we cannot, anyone saying to you, “Yes We Can”, is just deceiving you, believe that you cannot and help will come from God to you.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock (Psalms 27:4).

Only in God is safety found in the time of trouble, there is a sure refuge in him, those who trust him are never disappointed and put to shame, they triumph in every situation, and they are radiant in afflictions and victorious in the midst of adversities, (Romans 8:37).
We are not confident in ourselves because we do not have confidence in the arms of the flesh, which are incapable in saving those who trust in them in days of trouble and evil, that was why David said:

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies (Psalms 60:11).

One more final word:

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me .I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing (John 15:4-5).

In conclusion, apart from God, we are nothing, so stop believing the lies of, “Yes We Can” jargon from the pit of hell.

God bless you real good.

Evangelist Ilona Henry Afamefuna

Overcoming Your Fears Through God's Promises

If there is anything else that has plagued the world, it is the fear factor, many people are afraid of one thing or the other, it is impossible to to come across people without seeing uncertainty in their faces, especially when such people are going through difficult situations in their daily lives.

Fear has become one of the world's phenomenal problems that humanity is facing nowadays.

Men, women, children, high functionalities in the society are daily been plagued with fear.

With the world heading towards financial and economical chaos, the hearts of men are easily gripped and overtaken by fear and restlessness, we can daily read in the news how even world experts on some key and important fields are been allayed with fears over the crumbling financial and economical state of things, great men of intellectual and financial statuesque are totally powerless and without solution to the upheavals that are confronting and plaguing humanity, we are bombarded with news of catastrophic and disastrous events that are difficult to explain by human expertise, world religious bodies are speechless and dumbfounded.

Well, to the ordinary man it is a mystery, to the believers in Christ Jesus who are spiritually matured and equipped for every good work, it is nothing but the accomplishment of God's divine prophetic purpose over humanity, therefore that which makes men to fear, only makes God's people to rejoice and triumph in victory, knowing fully well that in everything, God works for the good of them that love and trust in him, it is of no surprise to God's people, we have been warned and equipped before hand (Romans 8:28-39), things that separate people from their beloved ones and things, only unite and bring us much closer to God, we the people of God are a people of faith, we live by biblical standards and are always guarded and preserved by his precious promise, because all of God's promises in Christ Jesus are indisputably yes and amen, been confirmed and sealed by the Holy Spirit of God to the surest end ( 2 Corinthians 1:19-22).

But one of the greatest and unfortunate things that has ever happened to many Christians today is their inability to believe and trust God, this is a sign of immaturity and unperfected love and Character towards God, anyone who loves God does not live in fear, because fear has to do with torments and torturous imaginations from the Devil, the following verses of the bible will help us:

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

There is nothing encouraging than this, for God's people to know that they are been loved of God and God through his love dwells in them, why then should a Christian flood his heart with fearful thoughts and demonic mindset, if God be for us, who can be against us (Romans 8:31).

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world

We are the replicas of Christ Jesus in this world, those who live and walk in the fullness of God's love are as bold as the lion, they do not have need to fear anything, knowing fully well that God's constant and ever abiding presence is with them (Psalm 46:1-11), why say that we are the replicas of Christ Jesus in this world, because Jesus never lived in fear during his stay here on earth, he lived and walked in love, he demonstrated this in all of his ministerial live.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Perfect love is all that God demands from us, cowards are not welcome God's kingdom, those who fear and live in uncertainty, do demonstrate it by their words and action, real men are not easily shaken, and big boys don't cry.

We love him, because he first loved us (1 John 4:16-19).

God is our first person lover, he never doubted or shrinked back in loving us, even though he knows fully well that we would disappoint him him, yet he iniated the love scenario by sending his only begotten Son into world (John 3:16).

There are two particular verses in the bible that believers should memorise and daily mediate on, these verses of the bible are priceless gem, full of help and edifying in times of severe needs:

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever, Amen (Jude 1:24-25).

God bless you real good and have a nice day.

Evangelist Ilona Henry Afamefuna

Understanding Yahweh As Papa

When we begin to understand that Jehovah God is our Father, we would then begin to understand the full concept of the Christian doctrine, God is our Father not only does the bible said so, but we see the full manifest of God in his Son Christ Jesus, (Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?, John 14:9), there is no other way we can fully comprehend the person of the Father, if we miss the person of Jesus, everything about God was fully manifested in him, in that he demonstrated the Father-Heart-Of -God to us.

When Jesus was here on earth, he demonstrated the love of God to the fullest, there is no way we can approach God, without first understanding his divine Fatherhood, the Fatherhood of God defines our future, in that it is God himself who defines our future, he knows each and everyone of us needs, he designs the road we all must pass to achieve his designs for our lives.

We do often read in the bible that God so much loved this world, that he gave his only begotten son (John 3:16), it takes more than a mere understanding to fully understand what that particular verse of the bible is talking about, God in his infinite love and compassion, gave us his only begotten son, he did this so that we could become sons, that is why the bible said that Jesus came to bring many sons to glory: For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.(Hebrews 2:10), he did this by offering his only life, he confirmed it by shedding his blood, he sealed it with his indisputable resurrection, with this in mind, we can have a full assurance.

How can we frail mortals believe and understand that God is our Papa?

We can believe and understand that by looking towards the cross, if we are able to fully grasp what really took place on the cross, we can easily believe and know that Yahweh is Daddy, a loving Father whose consummating love pierces the darkest of all hearts with a divine touching tender love which goes beyond the wisest of human understanding, making the worst hating sinner, a gentle loving lamb.

Jesus committed no sin, but it was God’s pleasure that he should bore our sins on his body, Jesus being whom he is, gladly accepted it, it was God’s design from origin that Jesus should be our propitiation, if we really believe this, we shouldn’t find it difficult that God is our Daddy in heaven who cares and is concerned about all our every needs, he first loved us before we love him, it was Daddy who initiated the whole love scenario, beginning from Eden immediately after the fall, when he slew a lamb and used the skin to cover the nakedness of our first parents, God was in advance showing how he would lavishly pour out his unimaginable loving saving grace upon falling humanity, it is of this love that has drawn men to the fountain of life-Jesus.

We must understand that our Daddy loves relationship and not religion, the Devil uses religion to demarcate us from the love of Daddy, the greatest tool that the Devil is using to enslave humanity from experiencing Daddy’s love is religion, religion tells you that you are not worthy to be loved of God, and that you are nothing but a miserable slave before God, yes, we all know that we are not worthy of God’s love, and that we are miserable before God, but on the contrary the bible said otherwise, irrespective of our miserable and deplorable state, God still sent his son into the world to die for us, so that through him we could become Daddy’s children, God is interested in each and everyone of us, he loves us as we are, what is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of Adam that you visit him (Psalms 8:4), it should be clear that Daddy loves an cherishes us by making us in his own very image.

It is very sad thing that many Christians still go on with their lives carrying heavy loads of guilt, tormented by the memory of past sins which in reality God has forgiven and forgotten, our Father is not a sadist and an unforgiving tyrant who strikes at anyone who fails his orders, on the contrary he is forgiving, loving, caring and understands our very weaknesses, therefore much grace has been released to us-not to dwell in iniquity, but to live in righteousness in the newness of live in the light of the glory of the Father, for Jesus came to bring many sons unto glory: For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10)

There is a need for that this generation discovers the unselfishness of God, his attributes, his loving and forgiving nature, we often read in the scriptures: If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? (Psalms 130:3)

If Daddy takes all his time to number our sins and put them into record, no flesh would survive, we would all perish in a twinkling of an eye, and we see Sodom & Gomorrah as an example of his divine judgment upon wickedness, how with fire & brimstone he destroyed them, but it was all their fault, because Daddy gave them much time to repent, but they wasted it and made light the longsuffering of the Lord, therefore we must know that though our Father is loving, gentle and forgiving, he will not always tolerate our perfidy if we do not repent.

In conclusion, we must now begin to embrace the loving heart of God; we should see God as a loving and forgiving Father, not as a dictator and a sadist who rejoices at our hurt and suffering.

God wants us to know and understand that he cares for our every need, from the least of them to the greatest, he is ever concerned, Jehovah is not indifferent to our suffering, it is man’s awkward and religious mental retardation that makes him to see God as dictator who does not forgive nor tolerate our weaknesses, if God is like that, what kind of world would we find ourselves? But thank God for whom he is, Jehovah understands us more than we could understand ourselves, he knows all that we are undergoing in life, he is always there as the ever present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1-3), with this in mind, we can rest assured that we are not left alone in this troubled and choked world, full of pains and misery, we’ve been promised victory in advance, that is why we can boldly declare with the Apostle; “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”. (1 John 4:4), if we belong to God, we are victorious in advance, no matter what.

It Is About The Precious Sinless Blood Of Jesus

 

It Is About The Precious Sinless Blood Of Jesus

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While making my research on false teachers and false doctrines, I came across one God-forsaken ministry website, teaching a rather strange & diabolic doctrine called the gospel of the spirit and water, this ministry teaches that it was not the blood of Jesus that saved us, but his baptism, they so much exaggerated & elevated the baptism of Jesus above his dead and shedding of his blood on Calvary’s cross, I will therefore refute these erroneous teaching.

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. (John 6:53)

Here we see Jesus, telling the people that it is through his blood that man would have life.

Anyone teaching otherwise is of the devil, had it been not for the shed blood of Jesus, humanity would have been lost without hope, it is the death and the shedding of the blood of Jesus that redeemed man from the wrath of God, how could anyone in his normal mind say that it was not the blood of Jesus that saves us, but rather his baptism, I think such a one needs deliverance, are we despising the riches of God & trampling underfoot the Son of God?

If anyone rejects the reality of the blood of Jesus, such a person has no life as Jesus has said, we have the life of God through the blood of Jesus, it is his blood that cleanses us from all unrighteousness and sets us apart unto God, it is the blood that makes us God’s children.

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)

You see, the whole pages of the New Testament is full of the attestation of the reality of the blood of the Son of God, there is no way we can come nearer to God without the precious sinless blood of Jesus Christ, God looks at us through the blood, to say that the blood is not important is just like saying that Jesus is not the immaculate only begotten Son of God.

The bible made it clear that we were sometimes God’s enemies & very far away from him, but now through the precious sinless blood of Jesus we are not only God’s children but also his friends and joint heirs with Jesus Christ the Son over God’s house.

We through the shed blood of Jesus have become fellow citizens of God’s kingdom.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (Hebrews 10:19)

Praise the LORD, we now have access to God’s throne through the blood of Jesus, there is no where in the scripture was it said that we access to God through Jesus baptism, the gospel and epistle writers point strongly towards the shed blood of Jesus, to come to God, one must be washed by the blood of Jesus, if anyone refuses to receive cleansing through the blood of Jesus, such a one is God’s ardent enemy & the only thing awaiting him is damnation.

Through the blood, we have the boldness to enter into God’s very presence without fear or trembling, if person does not believe in the blood, he has no place in God’s kingdom.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20-21)

We are made perfect through the sanctifying power in the blood of Jesus, God builds us up in holiness & sanctification through the blood of his Son Jesus Christ, it is the blood that empowers us to do the extra-ordinary, without the blood of Jesus we are powerless & most miserable of all men, if we remove the blood of Jesus from our daily lives and prayers we will end up in total defeat & disaster, the Devil would make a glaring mockery & idiots of us, do you think that the Devil is afraid of you, no not at all, what makes him powerless and fearful before God’s children is the covering that the blood gives us, the blood protects us from his fiery darts, the blood protects us from his daring accusations, the blood protects us from his deadly arrows, the blood does everything for us, if we therefore say that it is not about blood, we are altogether most miserable, our life can only be assured & secured in the blood, apart from the precious sinless blood of Jesus Christ, we are defenceless and mortally dead in our trespass & ignorance.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (1 Peter 1:2)

We are or become God’s elect through the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ by the sanctification of the Spirit which leads unto obedience, we who believe should forever be grateful to God, for letting his Son to shed his precious sinless blood for our sake.

Those who are teaching otherwise are of the Devil and it is our duty to keep away from them and alert the unsuspecting about their deadly fallacies which they disseminate everywhere.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

Cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ, and thus made holy and sanctified, we are fitted for the heavenly communion, there is no way a man can come into communionship with God if not cleansed by the blood, the blood of Jesus Christ makes one fit to come in relationship with God the Father, it is an absurd stupidity for a person to approach God without allowing himself to be immersed and cleansed by the blood of the lamb of God (Jesus the Messiah).

We must understand that it is through the blood of Jesus that we have the right standing with God, the blood of Jesus justifies every born again child of God & makes him or her a heavenly candidate, it is therefore scripturally unapostolic to deny that it is the blood that saves.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace (Ephesians 1:7).

God has glorified his grace by giving us redemption by the blood of his Son Jesus Christ, and this redemption consists in forgiving and delivering us from our sins; so then Christ’s blood was the redemption price paid down for our salvation: and this was according to the riches of his grace; as his grace is rich or abundant in benevolence, so it was manifested in beneficence to mankind, in their redemption by the sacrifice of Christ, the measure of redeeming grace being the measure of God’s own eternal goodness, in other words the goodness of God was made manifest through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, this is the highest & greatest privilege of a believer, his sins have been washed away in the ocean of the blood, he now therefore enjoys unprecedented uninterrupted fellowship with God the Father, the Holy Spirit dwells in him, bringing him into state of perfect sonship and relationship, he becomes one with Jesus.

If we take away the blood of Jesus from our basic tenets of faith, Christianity would be the most miserable of all religion, in fact it would be useless for you and me believing in Christ Jesus, it means we have no hope and are big time liars and deceivers, but thank God that Jesus was crucified, shed his blood, died and was raised from the dead by God the Father through the authenticating power of the Holy Spirit, therefore our hope is firm and our foundation is sure, the blood is Christianity’s core doctrine.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:11)

Hallelujah! Our brothers & sisters overcame the dragon (i.e. the devil) by the blood of the Lamb (Jesus), it is for this course that they paid with their blood, had it been it was not about the blood as some claim, they would not have risked their lives to preserve the eternal truth.

How do we Christians of today overcome the dragon, by the blood of Jesus? Yes, not only by the blood, but also by the words of our testimony, which we declare everywhere.

Those who are in Christ Jesus need not to fear the future, knowing fully well that the blood has settled it once and for all, by this, we now stand in the blessed hope of the glory of God.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (Romans 5:1)

Seeing that Jesus has shed his precious sinless blood, we are no more enemies of God but his own very children and joint heirs with his Son Jesus Christ, through the blood we have not only been forgiven, but we have been also justified, we no longer live under the groaning burden of guilt, but with boldness & assurance, we now live in the newness of the heart praising God.

The blood of Jesus is man’s only solution; it is man’s only solution because God in his mercy has provided every necessary provision for man’s reconciliation through the blood of Jesus, if any person be found preaching otherwise, just as the bible declares; let him be accursed.

We are blessed through the sanctifying power of the blood, it is the precious immaculate blood of the Son of God that gave us the full access to the Father, and we can now approach God in full assurance, for whenever we approach God without fear or doubt we show our confidence in the blood, how can a person approach a holy God without the blood of Jesus?

Here is a perfect illustration about the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus:

A woman came to a minister one day carrying a container of wet sand. "Do you see what this is, sir?" she asked. "Yes," was the reply, "it is wet sand." "But do you know what it means?" "I do not know exactly what you mean by it, woman; what is it?" "Well, sir," she said, "that's me; and the multitude of the sins that constantly dirty my heart cannot be numbered." Then she exclaimed, "Oh, wretched creature that I am! How can such a wretch as I ever be saved and keep clean from the influences of the world?" "Where did you get the sand?" asked the minister. "At the beach." "Go back, then, to the beach. Take a spade with you; dig, dig, and raise a great mound; shovel it up as high as you can, then leave it there. Take your stand by the seashore, and watch the effect of the waves upon the heap of the sand." "Sir," she exclaimed, "I see what you mean-the blood, the blood, the blood of Christ, it would wash it all away and would keep washing any new dark stains away."

The blood cleanses us constantly from all impurities and makes us presentable to the Father.

My prayer for anyone reading this article is through it your understanding would be open, that God by his Spirit would grant you revelation knowledge of the impact of the blood of Jesus.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. (Jude 1:24-25)