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.

Loose Him And Let Him Go! (Remove The Grave Clothes)

Scripture: John 11:41-44
We read about Lazarus the brother to Mary and Martha who had been dead and buried but Jesus Christ raised him back to life by the power of God. Lazarus had been bounded hand and foot by grave clothes and his face with a napkin and Jesus said after calling him to come forth,to have them ''Loose Lazarus and Let him go''...Halleluyah!
Let us see what these grave clothes represent:
-They represent the past and old things which are dead and obsolute. Genesis 41:14
-They represent death. Ephesians 2;6
-They represent hindrances that will not allow us to enjoy the new freedom and newness of life in Christ. Luke 24:12
Unlike Lazarus,Jesus did not leave the tomb with the grave clothes why? because He knew they wouldn't allow Him to function effectively and will not allow Him to see things the way He should see.
Grave clothes represent everything that is in the old life (old  mentality,culture,lifestyle etc)
  Today God has a new garment for you but if you don't remove the grave clothes you won't get the new garment as written in Isaiah 61:3&10.
These are:
-the garment of Praise
-the garment of Salvation
-the garment of Righteousness
Zechariah 3:3-5.
Step out and Live in the newness of Life in Christ.

The Power Of Liberty and Freedom

Scripture: John 8:30-36
Liberty is translated in Hebrew as ''Rachab'' which means roaming in every direction, broad,wide, large etc.
It also means to be unlimited,unchained,unfettered or not imprisoned.
God gave man all kinds of freedom but when man lost his spiritual liberty, he lost all other types of liberty which include political,financial,social,moral liberty etc.
Man became enslaved to sin,people are seeking after financial,political,social,civil liberty but they place little attention and importance to their spiritual liberty,which is the most important.
In the Garden of Eden,satan fought with Adam and Eve's spiritual liberty and not the other liberties they had and as soon as they lost their spiritual liberty (i.e their personal relationship with God),they lost every other thing.
So what does it mean to lose one's spiritual freedom?
-It is to live contrary to God's plan for your life.
-It is to live in opposite to God's word.
-It is to live without depending on God i.e in one's thinking,living,speaking and simply acting the way you want.
To declare one independent from God's word and become the temple of sin.
Romans 6:6, Proverbs 5;22, Romans 6:16.
The opposite of liberty/freedom is bondage meaning to be limited,to be in chains or in fetters,to be in a situation in which one can not operate outside/above the situation.
In Romans 7:23, Apostle Paul speaks about the natural law that makes us to provoke God, there are certain things that can make us to be limited and hence be in bondage,these are agents of bondage as below:
-satan
-self
-sin
-society
-the world and worldliness
-sickness,infirmity and disease
-finance,morals,social life (culture and traditions) and politics.
The way to be free from all these bondages is to be spiritually free.
Even if there are other freedoms,they will only be temporal as long as there is no spiritual freedom.
George Washington said ''How can one govern a nation without a Bible''?
Can one be freed from all these bondages? Yes because God has processes through which to set a man free from sin and these are:
-through Jesus Christ,our Lord and Saviour (John 8:36, Isaiah 42:7).
-His church,disciples,ministers,servants (Luke 9:1-6; 10:1-17, Mark 16:15-20).
-through the Spirit of the Lord,God.
-through His anointing (Isaiah 61, Luke 4:18),
-through the power of God.
-through His presence.
-through the power of God's word.
-through God's grace,mercy,love and goodness
-through the known truth of God.

Unfaithful and Unprofitable servant

Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30
In the book of Matthew,Jesus told the parable of 3 servants and of them all,the 3rd servant wasn't rewarded because he was unfaithful. The 3rd servant had refused to trade with his talent which his master had given to him.
God has also given each of us talents and gifts according to our talents.
Let us look at what the reasons could be as to why this servant could not produce any fruit or profit with his talent, Matthew 25:22-25 shows this to us:
1) The servant never truly loved his master.
2) He never trusted nor believed in his master (We should trust and obey our master,Jesus Christ).
3) He never honored or respected his master (We should honor our Lord)
4) He had always been a man who always justified his failure i.e he gives excuses without repenting.
5) He had always been greedy and envious of his master's success.
6) As a result of the 5 points above,his heart was guilty and full of fear.
   Our hearts should be filled with love,joy,peace when we obey God but we will have the opposite when we don't obey God.
7) Everyone of us we should be careful to do what He tells us to do. God has given us different talents,we should evangelize,love others,walk in holiness,fear,obedience to the word of God.
We should submit to the Lord,we should be obedient to the Lord Jesus.
This unfaithful servant didn't learn good examples from his master.
 He was a failure,unprofitable and unfruitful.When we don't follow Jesus our master,it will be difficult to be fruitful.
8)The man was indifferent
   -in spirit
   -in service (Matthew 22:5)
  It is very dangerous when people don't take God's call seriously because it makes one's life to be unfruitful and unproductive.
Our lives can only have good meaning when we take God's call seriously and we can then be fruitful and profitable.
This man was unprofitable,he had no good result in his life because of his wrong attitude to his master,
Jesus Christ is our master and He gives us opportunities and privileges,chances to serve Him and make for the expansion of His kingdom on earth. Our hearts should be filled with joy in serving. When we are obedient and we serve Him,follow His invitation,we love Him and are obedient to His word, definitely we will have peace towards Him and we will have no fear or torment.
Let us try to be faithful in small things,don't look down on anything God has given to us,we should take them seriously and work on them.
Why? because the way we treat the little things will determine how farther we will go. Let us do things with enthusiasm,with joy in our hearts.
  God knows your ability and gives to you what you are able to bear,everyone of us must be very very careful with everything that God has placed in our lives.

You Can Begin Again!

Scripture: Genesis 35:1-5
It is never too late to begin again,God is willing and able to pick you up from wherever you are or whatever you are or whoever you are.
Lets look at the place called BETHEL:
-This is the place where Jacob first met with God.
-This is also the same place where Jacob first brought a sacrifice to God.
(Genesis 28:10-22).
-It was where Jacob had an encounter with God and He changed Jacob's name to Israel
-Here also God pronounced blessings as a confirmation of God's promise to him.
Bethel can be compared to our experience when we first gave our lives to Christ but later our love for Christ grew cold. Luke 15;8, Revelation 2:5.
This month of August is the month of A New Beginning,You can start afresh with God.
Jacob had lost his first love and God told him that he could start afresh just like the story of the prodigal son.
Our hearts are no longer passionate,thirsty and hungry for God,we should become radically committed and dedicated to Christ again.
Bethel: the place of re-committment!
             the place of re-dedication!
Oh! I will arise,I will start afresh!