An already won battle

Remember, weather we like it or not, we’re in a battle, a spiritual one, not physical, one of faith.The bible says the devil just wouldn’t  quit, roaming around, looking for whom to devour(1 Peter 5:8). In fact he is your only enemy, no one else. I urge you to “be self-controlled and alert”. However, one thing is certain about this battle, God has done everything necessary for your victory. 

Just love

God is not saying you MUST do anything. Don’t be surprised. Thats why He saved us to freedom the first place (Galatians 5: 13), Thats why He wants us to live life in full (John 10: 10) . So we are not conditioned by MUST’s. He is saying if you love ME (john 14;15), if you love your neighbour as you love yourself (Galatians 5: 14) you would do the right things anyways. So He is only asking that you LOVE. For love is the greatest (1 corinthians 13:13). However, He knows we can’t LOVE on our own, so He provided the Holy Spirit, the enabler, to enable us (1 John 3: 24). So, as long as we believe in Jesus, we are capable of loving, of peace, of joy, of forbearance, of kindness, of goodness, of faithfulness, of gentleness and of self control (Galatians 5: 22-23).

Love, the only law (gal 5:14-23)

Do you know that loving your neighbour as yourself fulfils the entire law in the bible (gal 5;14)? However, we can’t fulfil this law without the Holy Spirit. So we are been urged to keep in step with the Spirit (gal 5; 25). As walking with the Spirit don’t just help us keep the single love law in verse 14 but enables us to do the acts of the sprit listed in 22-23. And finally, walking in the spirit enables us to inherit Gods kingdom 21. How amazing.

Have a wonderful Sunday

A journey of trust

I was reading a blog on Tumblr. The writer wrote and I quote, “when fear gets a hold of my heart, I just know that I’m not trusting Him and I’m allowing myself to forget who He is”.

That’s the problem. We easily forget His mightiness. That He sits on the throne of heaven and as big as the earth is, it’s His foot stool. Isaiah 40:12 said He fits the waters of the earth into his palm. How awesome is that?

This same God that is so awesome is saying today, Trust me. Trust me with your whole heart. Don’t think about it “Lean not on your understand”. You don’t have to understand it, trust me. You don’t have to see it, trust me (Proverbs 3:5).  The odds are against trusting in your feelings anyways. Do you want to trust in your feelings that is so unstable that in one minute, you can feel more than 3 things; sad, happy, in love, heartbroken … or a God that never change ( Malachi 3:6; Revelations 4:8). You decide. You bother too much. It’s not your problem. It’s his. He says cast your burden on me. Don’t get bothered about it. I can imagine God saying “Give it to me for God sake”. It’s not your problem. Its mine, this is one of the reasons I died in the first place.

I know I have mentioned this example before. There has never been a better time to repeat this. Remember when you were little and you are going to cross the road, mom says bring your hand. You don’t ask questions. There is no need to doubt. She would take you to the other side. If she doesn’t  you know she’ll not leave your hand in the middle of the road to save herself. You know she would rather be hit by a car than a car touches you.

God is saying today again. Give me your hand. The same way you gave mom. I’ll guide you through. He is saying I would put myself on the line. I’ll get the car hits. Nothing shall be any means harm you (Luke 10:19). I wouldn’t leave you (Hebrew 13:5) just trust me. I wouldn’t. “The cars are coming too fast Lord”, don’t be anxious (Phil 4:6), don’t be afraid child (Heb 13:6) let’s keep on, I’ll see you through.

 

I know it’ll take some time, and however it is, there is nothing as powerful as a made up mind (Joyce Meyer). So, make up your mind not to quit, until you totally trust him and I can assure you, you wouldn’t regret it a bit. 1 Corinthians 1:8, I’ll keep you firm to the end.

Trust me, trust me, trust me, He is calling 

Trust in The Lord (proverbs 3:5)

Trust in The Lord with all your heart(proverbs 3:5). Sometimes, it feels, and looks unreasonable to do so. I agree. But, look at what the other part of the verse says. Lean not on your understand, on your feelings, on your thoughts, your intelligence. Because His ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts ours (Isaiah 55:9). Do we want to trust in our feelings that is so unstable that in two seconds, we can have serval feelings or a God that never change (Malachi 3:6) ? You decide!
Hold on, hold on, trust God. He certainly knows what He is doing.

Delight in The Lord (Ps 37:4)

He’ll give you the desires of your heart(Psalm 37:4) when, you trust in him and do good(Ps 37:3), when you are relentless in doing good (Galatians 6:9). Also when you take delight in Him (Ps 37:4). Let me talk a bit about delighting in Him. See what Ps 37:23 has to say. God says, He’ll make your steps firm. That is, you’ll not fall. God isn’t saying that you wouldn’t face challenges, No! He is saying as long as you trust, have your foundation in Him, delight in Him, you wouldn’t fall. This reminds me of Peter. He choose to step out from the boat. At a point, he lost faith and started stumbling, started to sink. But, he did not drown. See what happened later, he became Jesus’s most ardent, passionate disciple.
So delight in, trust God, take that step, stumble and He’ll defiantly pick you up. You wouldn’t fall

What the justification by faith gives us Romans 5: 1 - 11

A major part of Romans 2 to 4 discussed our justification via faith and also, obedience and faith as a criteria for righteousness and not our works necessarily. Putting Abraham into perspective. Romans 5 however, highlights that this justification via faith, gives us peace with God, gives us access to his grace and gives us hope to boast in his name.

Have a wonderful day knowing that you have peace, grace and hope via Jesus.

Come! I will do new things

I have come that you may have life and may have it abundantly(John 10:10) . From John 5:40, we have this life by coming to the Father. This coming to the Father also gives us rest(Matthew 11:28). John 6:37 says that He shall by no means cast you out. So come, come, come . Come with your pains, fears and you wouldn’t be the same. He is saying today that you trust Him. That He will do a new thing (Isaiah 43:19).