What Manner of Person

Scripture: 2 Peter 3:9-11
The world around us now can be compared to the time of Noah while he built the ark for 120 years as God had instructed him to do and also to Sodom and Gomorrah,in which its inhabitants had attacked Lot and the angels that had visited Lot.
The Bible tells us that Christ is coming but men will say where is the promise of His coming? But these people fail to see that the Bible says that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some count slackness but is long suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance,for Christ's coming will be as a thief in the night.
So as Noah lived in the time in which ungodliness surrounded him as now, what manner of person ought we to be?
1. We must be truly truly born again.
2. Be dedicated and consecrated to Christ (24hrs of 7days of 365days)
3. Be in conscious expectation of Christ's return
4. Invest our life (every aspect our life) into the expansion of God's kingdom here on earth,this includes our time,gifts,talents etc.
5. We should live a radical evangelism life by our lifestyle,preaching.
6. Live a lifestyle of total obedience, of trust and reliance on Him alone.
7. Knowing and doing His perfect will in our pursuits (must be our focus)
8. Live the lifestyle of total faith,prayers and fasting, faith in God,in His word,in His promises,His faithfulness.
9. Live a life of a true worshiper (in truth and spirit): we worship God for who He is and praise Him for what He has done and will do.
10.A lifestyle of purity,holiness,sanctification,fear of God,honoring His word,fruit of the Spirit should be our daily conduct.
 Let us therefore be these manner of person and be rapturable unto Christ in Jesus name.
Have a fruitful week ahead.

For We Knoweth Not

Scripture: Romans 8:26-27,34
The ministry of the Holy Spirit in our prayer life, the major determinant of how strong and solid our prayer life is the Holy Spirit. Prayer is not just spiritual murmurings.
Prayer is a conversation between a father and a child or children, it is an essential part of our relationship with God.
Sometimes we don't know what to pray further about,you feel like there's nothing we can pray about,we feel exhausted.
When we feel dried up, tired,exhausted,just like a baby who feels like saying something,feels like uniting with you but does not know how to express himself. At this moment when we feel dried up and exhausted then the ministry of the Holy Spirit begins.
This is also why our lifestyle is important Romans 8:5-9
This is very important,the ministry of the Holy Spirit is very sensitive to the vessel of God He is working in,our lifestyle should be of Holiness.
The Holy Spirit guides
                          leads and directs us
                          makes intercession for us in our prayer life
                          helps us when we don't know what to pray about
What is intercession?
Talking about a person,place,time on behalf of another person and at the time when we don't know what to pray about the Holy Spirit knows the things of the Spirit, maybe sometimes a particular name of a person,a country flashes into our minds and we don't know what to pray about, we should pray this way:
''God,Holy Spirit take over,do your job, I release myself into your hands and whatsoever you want to do and at this point if you are a believer ,walking in the Spirit,in contact with Him all the time and in all things, these things makes the intercession of the Holy Spirit easier and hence you speak in the language of Heaven, one begins to speak on behalf of that person,place or situations. Acts 4:31.
How can we make the ministry of the Holy Spirit Effective
-Follow Christ diligently
-Learn how to be sensitive to His leadings.
-Follow whatever instructions He gave us in details (sometimes God gives us instructions that may not be logical or seem odd) Acts 16:26,27
   Some of the burdens we are carrying its because we are not allowing the leading of the Holy Spirit, when we ask for the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives we will be free because we know we are not alone, we are bold and confident and have assurance in God.
   Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Daniel were full of God's spirit and were bold. When we are full of the Holy Spirit,we don't feel intimidated. We must be filled with the Holy Spirit and full of the Him.
    One of the reasons God has given us this language of tongues is because its one of the weapons that God uses to make the devil mad because he can not and does not understand this language because it is a mystery. Acts 2:1-2
Speaking in another tongue makes our conversation with God to be deep because only the Holy Spirit understands.
Lets seek to rely and depend totally on the Holy Spirit.

Accept Him Willingly into Your Boat

Scripture: John 6:18-21
We must learn to operate in God's perfect will
Spiritually the wind,air,storms,represents every attack from the devil to stop us from progressing but the good news is that God always comes to our rescue maybe not in our time but in His own time. Hebrews 10:37
-When He came,they could not recognize him because they lacked the discernment of what their lives needed, like us we wait for something but God brings the other.
-They were fearful for the strange things happening to them
-They willingly received him into the boat.
Vs 21,Now this is the most important thing for us to do,let us willingly receive Him into our hearts.

Do Good Good Works

Scripture: John 7:22-23
There are 3 points that we can infer from the words of Jesus from the above passage:
1. Jesus Christ was telling them that He is the Lord of the Sabbath,Sabbath being rest:rest from lifeless labor can only be found in Christ.
2. Jesus Christ was not saying that they should not observe/ practice the laws of Moses.
3. They must eat His broken body i.e believing in the sacrificial work He did on the Calvary.
Doing good is a characteristic of Christ, Acts 10:38. ''Went about doing good''; anointing empowered Jesus to go about doing good.
It is true that we are not saved by good works but by the grace and mercy of God.
Outside Christ every good deed is unacceptable before God. Ephesians 2:10
Good works glorify God, Matthew 5:16
Good works enrich lives 1 Timothy 6:18
Good works furnish a pattern for imitation Titus 2:7,3:1
Provoke others unto good works Hebrews 10:24
It demonstrates the reality of faith i.e good works is an attestation that your faith is a reality
James 2:17-18, 1 Peter 2:12, Titus 1:14-15.

What It Takes To Please God

Scriptures: Genesis 5:24
How to please God/ They that please God
According to Hebrews 11:5, Enoch is the first example of rapture because he didn't just walk with God but he pleased God. Every aspect of our lives should please God,we should please Him and God will be pleased also with us. Proverbs 16:7.
 It's important to live a life pleasing to God because when our lives are pleasing to God we wont need to be looking for favor,miracle and breakthrough because God knows how to touch the hearts of the enemies and we don't run after our enemies. We are love our enemies and not hate them.
Some examples of people in the Bible who pleased God are :
Noah who lived during an ungodly time but yet lived a righteous life.
Enoch lived for God,walked with God,pleased God and hence he broke the natural transformation of human beings similarly with Prophet Elijah.
According to Matthew 3:17, Heaven identifies that Jesus pleased God. 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Timothy 2:4-7.
Pleasing God manifests in the lives of men.
What are the things/conditions to please God
- You must be born again
-You should walk with God,follow God and begin to like His way and begin to understand His ways.
-You must learn how to know and to do only His perfect will (This is a major characteristic in the lives of those who pleased God,.
- You must be obedient,this is one reason why we receive what we ask from God according to
  1 John 3:22-23
- You must follow the commandment to believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.
-You must have faith i.e live and walk by faith because without faith it is impossible to please God.
-You must love one another, loving each other is a fundamental principle.
-Communicate to one another i.e not doing evil to one another and generously giving.
Our love should be genuinely motivated and not carnally inclined.
The thing we do,do we do them willingly and are they by faith?
-You must trust God.
As children of God,we should check our lives daily and examine if we have all these points in our lives and its not something we do only once and forget we must check everyday and ask our Heavenly Father what do you want to do about this issue today? Yes it is true that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever but God is dynamic and His ways are different, what he asked us to do yesterday in a certain way,He might ask us to do it differently the next time.
What is the lesson that we therefore learn? He doesn't change ever but He uses different approaches and because of this we must seek His face and ask Him always concerning every matter.
Both God and you know the past and the present but only Him knows the very next minute,next hour and ultimately the future.

Dig The Well

Scriptures: Genesis 26: 15-23
The well represents you and me
The water represents the Holy Spirit
The sand represents everything the enemy uses to block the free flow of life in us.
Therefore what does it mean to dig?
      It means all the attempts we make to be available to the free flow of the Holy Spirit,to enhance the free flow of the Holy Spirit,to be broken, sanctified,purified and dedicated to God.
What are the things that are hindering or could hinder the power of the Holy Spirit and free flow of the Holy Spirit?
The greatest enemy to the flow of the Holy Spirit is when the flesh is allowed to have supremacy. Whenever the devil wants to stop the operation of the Holy Spirit in us,on us and through us,he looks for a way to gain access to our flesh. There is a continuous battle between the flesh and the Holy Spirit and this conflict is a serious one as in Romans 8:5-8
Our flesh can be interpreted to be as the sand of the soil as the sand is the source of the human body according to Genesis 2:7.
According to Genesis 26:15-23, Isaac dug the wells again,four times the enemy blocked the wells with sand but upon the 5th time Isaac was able to comfortably able to dig the well and reach flowing water.
This 5th time represents Grace
                                        Mercy
                                        Power.
What does it mean to dig deep?
-It means to crucify our flesh and to be available in the hands of God for the transformation of our human vessel.
-Through prayers,fasting,studying,listening,practicing God's word and allowing God to chastise us,rebuke us and we will be transformed.
Deep fellowship with God will lead us to understand His actions.

The Month Of Life,Time Of Life (September- 9th Month)

Scripture: Psalm 102:13
Welcome to the new month guys,Happy new month! It's September,the 9th month,the month of Time, the Time of Life.
The word September is translated as ''Elul'' in Hebrew,What is the Significance? In this Month,in Israel there is a harvest of cotton after the long wait,it can be compared to giving birth to a child.
For 9 months the baby is conceived in the womb of the mother and at the end of this period,the baby must be birth forth or else the womb that was once conducive becomes dangerous to its life.
Timing,dates,events are very important like the sons of Issachar,men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do. 1 Chronicles 12:32.
 The same visitation that was for Sodom and Gomorrah,a visitation of destruction turned around to be a visitation of construction for Abraham and Sarah. At the appointed time,God visited Abraham and Sarah and fulfilled his promise to them.
Psalm 102:13 says
''Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion:
  for the time to favor her
  yea,the set time,is come''.
This is my Month of birthing forth all that God has planted in me,
 Birthing forth of Life,
 God will arise and have mercy on me,
 for the time to favor me,
 yea,the set time is come.
How about you?
Have a life fulfilling month,God bless you.