Who Can Stand? Nobody Except.....

Scripture:Psalm 15:1-5, Psalm 24:3-4, Psalm 130:3, Romans 10:1-4
  Sin drove Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden (symbolizing God's presence) and they were separated from God. Sin brought guilt and condemnation.
  God is holy and His eyes cannot behold iniquity and so the question is what does it take for human beings to stand before God with a pure conscience?
  Kind David said in Psalm 15
-verse 4;keeps not the company of the wicked
              honors those who fear the Lord
Psalm 24
-verse 4: clean hands;not doing evil
               having a pure heart
If someone fulfills all these are they enough to see God?
There are two types of obedience:
-Obedience to the law and personal works (good works)
-Obedience according to grace and faith through Christ.
Without /Outside Christ there is no good deed or work that will qualify them before God. Our personal (good) works,obedience to the law only becomes acceptable when you receive righteousness and justification by faith in Christ.1 kings 17:1.
  In order to make a difference in the society in which you live,in your generation the question of being able to stand must be addressed. What does it take to be able to stand before God?
Nobody can stand before God except those...
1) who are truly born again,justified by the blood of Jesus Christ.
2)who follow Him consistently after being born again to carry our cross daily and deny self.
3)who through obedience (total) to Jesus through His word and commandments.
4)by knowing and doing only His perfect will.
5)holiness,purity,following after and pursuing after and peace with people and others.
6)by loving our God and neighbor with all our heart.
7)by hating the devil with personal hatred and everything that belongs to the devil.
How can we stand before God?
-Through the Blood of Jesus Christ.
-Through His intercessory ministry.
-Through His mercy.
-Through His everlasting and unchanging and eternal covenant
 of His Son.
-Through faith and grace.
Amen.

Get Delivered,Stay Delivered: Don't give the devil another entrance into your life

Scripture: Matthew 12:44-45, Luke 4:13
   As a born again believer,we get delivered from sins,evil habits, peculiar family/national negative habits or traits,ungodly or unbiblical cultural traditions,generational curses,lifestyles and ways of thinking,a particular sickness/disease, hereditary, occultic practices,idol worshiping,ungodly lifeless religion etc.
   When God delivers us we usually think those things are gone forever but the devil and his messengers are stubborn and will try to return again.
    So what could grant the devil a re-entrance into our lives? Emptiness, because we don't allow the Holy Spirit to fill us with Christ by reading the word,by meditation,by quick obedience and by growing up in faith.
    We must not give a chance to the devil to reenter. All the things we are to lord over,now lord over human beings,they worship the creatures instead of the creator because we have allowed the devil to have a stand in our lives. Ephesians 6 says ''having done all this, stand''.
   We must not sleep i.e not become spiritually tired,no longer watching like the good man slept while the wicked spirit sneaked and sowed tares in the wheat in order words planting false understanding, strife in the congregation of the children of God.
  The devil could use the scripture to instigate us against God but Jesus Christ was able to discern knowing the devil didn't speak by the Holy Spirit who inspired scriptures as he tempted Him.
  How do we stop the devil from having a re-entrance in our lives?
-Once we are/have been delivered,stay with the deliverer and let Him fill you,with His word and fellowship with other spirit led brethren.
-Be sensitive to the leading,instructions and convictions of the Holy Spirit i.e when we do something wrong,we should repent as soon as God convicts us and not harden our hearts.
-Be quick to live the life of obedience because half obedience/ postponed obedience is full disobedience.
-Be active and diligent in all our activities and fruit bearing in our character (love,joy,peace etc) and in winning of souls for Christ. Strive for the spirit of excellency in all our activities.
-Be disciplined,committed and dedicated fanatically to the follower-ship and master-ship of our Lord Jesus Christ. The way we think,talk,live should show we are fanatics of Christ.
-Resist the devil and he will flee away from us through our words,we shouldn't be speaking vulgar words,foolish talks and gistings that are not profitable. Resist the devil through our thoughts,our actions should be motivated by faith,love of God.
-Live the life of faith,total trust and dependence on God.
-Be careful of the type of company,association and relationship as well as links you are involved with.
-Whose advice, counsel and influences do we allow into our lives,this determines whether the devil has access to our lives.
-Ask God Almighty through prayer to use the Blood of Christ through the Holy Spirit to wipe away all the negative thoughts and evil memories from our past.

Mercy Factor

Scripture:Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52
When everything else has failed,cry out for God's mercy and His mercy will work out for you,He will make a way for you. FOR HIS MERCY OVERCOMETH HIS JUDGEMENT.
   Mercy is translated from the Hebrew word ''Kheh-Sed''; meaning kindness,favor,pity,acts of kindness,goodness,love,faithfulness.
  The law according to the judgement says you don't deserve to be blessed because of sin. But the law according to mercy says because of God's kindness,compassion,goodness and favor.(Deuteronomy 4:31, Psalm 103:17, Psalm 108:4, Lamentations 3:22-23),we will blessed.
  From the above scriptures,the two blind men and blind Bartimaeus used the same approach,a right approach and it worked for them. They both first told Jesus to have mercy upon them,why?
Why didn't they plead with Jesus to first heal our eyes or restore their sight? They realized that they needed the mercy of God in order to get what they wanted.
 Jericho- a city destroyed and cursed by Joshua (Joshua 7:26) a land of accursed,helplessness.
This was the land Jesus was coming out from but He is full of life,hope. These blind men were standing on the Highway of hopelessness,this highway can be of a country,different situation.
 Reasons why they first pleaded for mercy:
-Their location:the highway of hopelessness
-Their life:the state of their life,their sins and felt they did not qualify for the blessings of God
-Perhaps the commandment,word of God that they had broken,that is steps or actions they took that were not pleasing to God.
It is through God's mercy we gain access to the throne of God and it is in His presence we get His blessings.
God's mercy will qualify you for what the law disqualifies you for.
Also one factor that gives long life is the mercy of God.(Joel 2:13, Micah 7:18)
By God's mercy we receive forgiveness of sin (Titus 3:5)
-We must cry out to God for mercy
-We must believe God's word of His mercy
-His divine mercy is shown to us (Genesis 18:26)
-In order to get mercy from God we should also exercise mercy to others. Proverbs 3:3, Matthew 5:7.


  

The Month of May,the Month of Five

Scripture: 1 Kings 6:1
     The month of May in the Hebrew calendar is called ''ZIV'' meaning Blossom.
The month of May is also the fifth month which coincides with the following 5 lettered words:
Jesus
Grace
Power
Mercy
Faith
Arise
Shine
Fruit of the Spirit
These are all suppose to blossom in our lives.
The month of Ziv is a symbol of the 2nd pass-over for those who missed the 1st pass-over.
It is a symbol of a second chance which represents the intercessory ministry of Jesus.
-Our attitude towards God's word must change:
Just change your attitude towards the word of God,the prophetic word of God and the prophet of God. We see this in 2 Chronicles 20:20, Matthew 10:41.
-Believing in God's prophet also causes the manifestation of God's prophetic word.
The month of May,it is the only month of clear weather,clear heaven which means this month you should receive clarity concerning God's perfect plan or will for your life and lifestyle should also become clear,holy and pure.
-It is the month of major harvest of the valley, of fruits of God's glorious name and all the 5 lettered words mentioned above should produce their fruits in our lives.
-It is the month of uncommon divine favor.
Have a fruitful month....

There Is A Way Out

Scripture: Psalm 55:6-8, 15-17;22

There is a solution to every problem on the face of  the earth as King David said in Psalm 37:25
''I have been young and now I'm old;Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.
King David composed Psalm 55 in his distress and sadness as a result of the treachery of his son, Absalom. Whatever the situation you might be in:
-Try to believe and have faith in the Lord the more.
-Try and trust God's word that He has spoken concerning your circumstance little more.
-Encourage yourself in the Lord,in Spirit and Soul
-Pray and Pray little more.
-Cast those cares,burdens on Jesus for He cares for you.
-Love your enemies but pray against the evil spirit that is working through them (spirits of wickedness, witchcraft).
Absalom's personality isn't the focus here but the representation of the spirit that worked through him
7 points that the spirit of Absalom represents:
This spirit can manifest itself through anyone or anybody that allows themselves to be used by it..
-spirit of love of and for power/power drunk
-spirit that wants to take you away from the places God has planted you in.
-spirit that wants to take away from you your God given right.
-spirit that wants to limit,disgrace,you openly, because it has access to your life (dishonor,relegate you)
-spirit that wants to kill you and make you die an untimely death
-spirit that wants you to loose your reward that Heaven has for me.
-spirit that makes your life to be bitter,unpleasant and not allow you to have joy.
Psalm 27:12-13.
5 Ministries and ministerial's killers are:
-Pride
-Love of power
-Love of money
-Fear of people
-Immorality
Ministers must be aware.
Don't give up,don't give in.God is not done with you yet..

Christ The Anointed One has Also Anointed Me

Scripture: Isaiah 61:1-3, Acts 4:27

What is Anointing?
Anointing is translated from the Greek word (Chrio):meaning through the contact to smear to rub with oil, to consecrate to an office for a spiritual,divine purpose. Psalm 104:4.
The purpose of the anointing is to do good. Isaiah 42:1, John 1:32
God's Spirit translates to God's presence which translates to Anointing which translates to Anointing to heal.
It is also translated from the Hebrew word (Mashach): meaning to rub with oil,to anoint by implication,to consecrate, to smear.
It is the sanctification of people or things for divine service.
Once the tabernacle was erected it and everything in it was anointed. The most common usage of this verb is the divine installation of the 3 offices mentioned below:
-Kings
-Priests
-Prophets
Jesus is our Chief High Priest,the King of kings and our prophet. A prophet is God's mouthpiece,the interpreter of God's mind and intentions. God's power/presence upon available vessel to carry out God's divine purpose here on earth,its the divine ability to destroy yokes and lifts burdens,
Isaiah 10:27.
Anointing is God in action.

Can There Be A Greater Price/Sacrifice? No,There Can't Be Any Greater Price/Sacrifice

Scripture: Luke 15: 20-24, 32

What is the most expensive item you have ever acquired? Do You know that far above the most priced item of yours,someone paid the most expensive and priceless amount for you to truly live.
 Adam and Eve lost a lot of things due to the sin they committed in the garden to the enemy but the resurrection of Christ brought two things back into our lives.
   Man has refused to surrender to the Lordship of Christ. Its human beings who have given themselves to the devil,wherever we give a chance to the enemy in our lives there will be losses. Unfortunately human beings followed the path of death but thank God that His mercy through the death and resurrection of Christ saved us.
 The prodigal son decided to live by himself and there is danger in self management. When we are under the instruction of the master,our lives are safe,when we follow Him in truth and Spirit,His blessings flow into our lives. But when we rebel against Him,going out of God's word,we experience the opposite.
When we human beings break away from the true living God its like a small river,cut off from the source,life will stop flowing. Religion will not save you,only Jesus will save you. The prodigal son realized that he couldn't go on ahead. When will we realize we cant go on ahead without God? What more can God do for us?
 We ought to rejoice because we were lost but now we are found
                                 because we were dead but now we are alive
This means the resurrection of Christ restored to us all that we have lost to the devil. Halleluyah!!!