There Is A Better Place

John 14:1-4

‘I’m on my way to Heaven and the journey gets sweeter everyday

Walking with Jesus, Talking with Jesus; all along the way,

My soul gets so happy, I shout and I sing both night and day, 
Yes, I'm on my way to Heaven and the journey gets sweeter every day!" 

Extracted from Walt’s Mill’s hymn ‘Am on my way to Heaven’

Our desire in this life determines the rate at which we run our Christian race. If we so desire to run this race successfully, We must make heaven our sole target. No matter how enjoyable this earth is, this place is not our final resting place. 

In the world today, the devil is using so many things to distract people; many Believers have left what they ought to see and they are now seeing other things. No wonder we have Believers; seriously chasing the mundane the things of this life☹️. 

They have allowed the comfort of their families, Carter’s, beauty consciousness, pursuit of relationships and so on to take away their time and relationship with God. Today’s scripture admonishes us to be ‘alert’ ‘awake’ ‘Heaven-conscious’. Ephesians 6:10-16...🙏

Having at heart that we are not fighting a physical war (🔪💣⚔️🗡), But a spiritual battle and warfare!🙇🏻‍♀️.

The devil’s greatest desire is to remove our focus from Heaven, and crowd one with weights that pulls down the Christian race.

Heaven is our eternal place of rest. It is a better place than the place we may be right now. Where there will be no sorrow, tear, bitterness. ‘What no man has seen before, what has not come into the thoughts of any man before...’That is what/where God has prepared to be the resting and better place of every Christian that fights and uphold till the very end.

Be heaven conscious. Do not live as if you’d never leave this planet Earth, rub your face with ultimate desire to win and earn the crown of glory, reigning with the KING💪

Desire God, Ask for Grace, Pray for the Comforter, Draw closer to God’s Word, Pray, Preach nad give meaning to people’s life.

Heaven is real! Heaven is the better place! Heaven is the best place!

Living As ‘Light’

Ephesians 4:17-32

‘With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. Their minds are full of darkness’s; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him...’

As believers, one of the great tasks you are entitled to.. Is to live as ‘light’ in the world. One of the sweetest task to be performed while we are still alive is to live as ‘light’.

As a believer, you just cannot live; going every way and direction the world goes too. ‘Only dead fish flow with the tide’.

You gotta live as light, to pose a difference between you as a believer and an unbeliever.

...You have met with Christ, show it to the world.☺️🤗. You are in the image of God; reveal that image to people.

Matthew 5:13-16

The world is not free of the darts, cunniness and tactics of the Devil; so you are assigned to live as a shinning light everywhere we find ourselves.

We find excuses to excuse ourselves from this duty; giving a complaint of not having any opportunity or avenue to carry out this task... But No; you have everywhere opportunity you need.

You have got friends,contemporaries, roommates, colleagues.. Youths, teens, young adults.. male and female we have them all around!

You should introduce them to Christ, bring them to the newness of life that can only be found in Christ Jesus.

•SHOW that you are indeed a Christian! Exhibit the live of Christ in your everyday living. Make it know to people; show it; Let people see crystal clear that you are a ‘light’

Showing people the way, and follow through the way also.

‘‘.. Let your light so shine that people will see and glorify your Heavenly Father’’

Discouragement Is Not An Option

1Kings 19:1-5

Discouragement is one of the weapons that enemies employ to fight children of God, and we have to be conscious of this so as to be able to fight it.

Most times when things don’t go the way we expect them, we feel that Man or God has disappointed us and we immediately get discouraged. 

Now, it is worse when we think we have been so committed enough to the services of God as to be qualified enough to experience his mercies, favors and blessings.😒😏

And when such benefits fails to come, we feel so down, and disappointed in God that most times one takes offense against God; forgetting that the same God who has been there all the while.. is still there! (Glory to God🙌)

 This is exactly what happened to Elijah in the passage we read. After a huge success of proving to the people of Israel and the prophets of Baal, and even bringing down the first rain since 3 and half years. He has expected the fear of God to come upon Israel and Jezebel so as to bring them to conversion; Bur instead he received a threatening message from Jezebel that his life will be destroyed. 

Elijah has to flee, his hope, his labor, and struggle appeared to be ending in failure. He was very much discouraged and wished to die, saying that He is not better than his father’s not knowing gay God was still with him.

Discouragement can sometimes lead to depression, BUT

•God is not done with you!

•God is just very near and close to you

•He sees your plight and His ready to help you out

•His hands is not shorten not to save you neither are His ears to heavy to hear you

JUST

•Ask for pardon and forgiveness of your shortcomings and sins

•Ask for His intervention 

•Praise Him in believe that He has perfected you (His work)

•Praise Him, Praise Him, Praise.

God Is Love

I cannot tell how He could love

A child so weak and full of sin

His love must be most wonderful 

If He could die my love to win

It is most wonderful to know 

His love for me so free and sure,

But ‘‘tis more wonderful to see

My love for Him so faint and poor

And yet I want to love Thee, Lord;

Oh, light the flame within my heart, 

And I will love Thee more and more,

Until I see Thee as Thou art

Matthew 27:45-56

 

It’s the day of Love. It is the day of proclamation of God's Love to mankind.

It is the moment to show forth the Love of whom does not condemn, He who over looks flaws and faults and gives All.

This very Love is deep, so widen, high. Even, not even any human can offer this. Love, far beyond ‘good’.. It is pure, extra-sweet and sacrificial!🙌

John 3:16. ‘For God so loved the whole world that He gave His only begotten Son, to ransom for our sins. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 

Jesus cane to the world to pay the debt He did not owe; Love persuades Him to go through hardship. He suffered humiliation, pain, He was crowned with thorns, He was spat upon, flogged, and eventually died; a shameful death. 

Yielding His soul to buy us salvation, and victory. He bought us pardon, grace to live beyond slavery. He took off our wretchedness, difficulty, challenges, hatred, poverty, bitterness.

🙌🙌 

He has given us POWER over powers; AUTHORITY over authorities, He has shamed death and grave for us, He has pulled down darkness and the rulers of evil for us.

While we are yet sinners; He died for us all for His great LOVE.

Even in this present age; His Love still lives amongst us. 

Know The Promises Of God

 Standing, standing, 

standing on the promises of God my Savior;
standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.

II Corinthians 1:12-22

When God makes a promise, He makes sure that He fulfills it. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, the crucial thing is that it shall surely be fulfilled. 

The Bible declares that God mindful of His words and respects such words even above His own name! 

He (God) has established that instead of His word not coming to fulfillment, then let heaven and earth pass away. This is how much value God’s words and promises holds.

God never fails, He never denies to fulfill His words- Seeing in the Bible from Abraham & Sarah; The Israelites (at different reigns from Moses-Joshua-The Prophets & Prophetess- Kings).

In times of pain, delay, sorrow, disappoint, discouragement, neglect, denial; battle, challenges, tribulation- God’s promises never changes!