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08/09/2024

Just as “pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall” The proud are brought low, but God exalts the humble.

We admit to ourselves and to Him that the sting of self-pity we feel is pride demanding to defend itself. Rather than give in to it, we instead choose to embrace the opportunity to learn humility.

Our sinful natures do not want to be humbled. We tend to protect our pride as though it were our best friend, but pride gets in the way of our relationships.

Humility can be defined as the absence of pride, just as darkness is the absence of light. We cannot become more humble by focusing on humility, as it becomes a source of pride when we believe we have achieved it.

As we learn to be more humble, we discover that the place of the humble is a place of beauty. If we voluntarily humble ourselves by avoiding the limelight and serving others, God will exalt us in His time. Amen❤❤❤

18/08/2024

25/04/2024

Jesus Himself encouraged, “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened”.

Many godly men in the Bible expressed doubts to God about their ability to serve Him. Moses implored, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of egypt?. Gideon, Elijah and Jeremiah were all fraught with uncertainty about their place in God’s plan. Abraham doubted God’s promises. Joshua questioned God’s actions. Even the Lord’s disciples voiced their reservations.

Although God does not always answer our questions the way we want or expect, we can conclude from these passages that God welcomes any sincere question from an earnest heart. Insincere questions, or questions from a hypocritical heart, are a different matter. The Pharisees and Jewish leaders often presented their questions to trick or trap Jesus, but He refused to answer them.

Unbelief is a failure to trust the Lord and a sign of rebellion and disobedience against God. After King Saul disobeyed God, his questions went unanswered.

God knows our hearts and whether we genuinely desire Him to enlighten us. Amen 🙏🙏🙏

21/04/2024

1 Thessalonians 4:11

New International Version

"And to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,"

Taking care of our own responsibilities can further earning the respect of those observing. Wanted us to be a good testimony.
Minding our own business and working with our hands, would provide for our selves and not be indebted to or reliant on someone else to do that work for us.
By putting this exhortation in the context of being more loving, the scripture is helping us understand that our taking care of our own responsibility is an expression of love toward others because we are not putting the burden for our welfare on somebody else.

Finally, the believers could have a strengthened hope by understanding what God was planning to do, and that would help them prioritize and use their time and resources wisely. The same thing is true for us today. By having a mature faith, love, and hope, we can make wise decisions and take care of what God has given us to take care of—we can mind our own business, focusing on what He has given us to do, and not be knocked off balance even when times are difficult.❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

08/04/2024

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9

When we ask why God tests us or allows us to be tested, we are admitting that testing does indeed come from Him. When God tests His children, He does a valuable thing.
David sought God’s testing, asking Him to examine his heart and mind and see that they were true to Him. When Abram was tested by God in the matter of sacrificing Isaac, Abram obeyed and showed to all the world that he is the father of faith.

When God tests His children, His purpose is to prove that our faith is real. Not that God needs to prove it to Himself since He knows all things, but He is proving to us that our faith is real, that we are truly His children, and that no trial will overcome our faith.

When we experience the storms of life, we should be like the tree that digs its roots ever more deeply for a greater grip in the earth. We must “dig our roots” more deeply into God’s Word and cling to His promises so we can weather whatever storms come against us.

Most comforting of all, we know that God will never allow us to be tested beyond what we are able to handle by His power. His grace is sufficient for us, and His power is made perfect in our weakness.❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

25/02/2024

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24/12/2023

Photo of the day - The first king size bed.

“And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.” (Luke 2:7)

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07/11/2023

Gazan civilians were seen waving white flags as they passed through an IDF humanitarian corridor set up on Tuesday morning, in footage shared by COGAT. More details: http://bit.ly/3u4iVkX

15/06/2023

Though we cannot possibly comprehend this idea of eternity or the timelessness of God, we in our finite minds try to confine an infinite God to our time schedule. Those who foolishly demand that God operate according to their time frame ignore the fact that He is the “High and Lofty One . . . who lives forever”

Again, because of our finite minds, we can only grasp the concept of God’s timeless existence in part. And in so doing, we describe Him as a God without a beginning or end, eternal, infinite, everlasting, He always was and always will be.

And this brings us to the meaning of the word eternity. Eternity is a term used to express the concept of something that has no end and/or no beginning. God has no beginning or end, but He cannot be wholly defined by eternity, especially as a measure of time. Eternity is one of God’s attributes, but, having created time, He is greater than time and exists outside of it.

God is timeless rather than being eternally in time or being beyond time. Time was simply created by God as a limited part of His creation for accommodating the workings of His purpose in His disposable universe.

Upon the completion of His creation activity, including the creation of time. Indeed, God is spirit in the realm of timelessness, rather than flesh in the sphere of time.

As believers, we have a deep sense of comfort knowing that God, though timeless and eternal, is in time with us right now; He is not unreachably transcendent, but right here in this moment with us. And because He’s in this moment, He can respond to our needs and prayers. Amen🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

14/06/2023

The "Messiah"

04/05/2023

"The day you were born is the day G-D decided the world could not exist without you"

15/04/2023

“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependence, dependence upon God.”

06/04/2023

The crowd cried out, “Crucify him!”.

It is well that Pilate was confused by the crowd’s reaction, for barely a week earlier the people of Jerusalem had welcomed Jesus into the city with the waving of palm branches and shouts of “Hosanna!”

At the beginning of the week, there was a crowd in Jerusalem celebrating Jesus as the Messiah; by Friday, there was a crowd crying, “Crucify Him!”
The striking change of the city’s heart naturally causes some perplexity. Not everyone at the Triumphal Entry was celebrating the Lord. Most of the city was puzzled: “When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, ‘Who is this?’” , and the Jewish leaders were indignant.

Some of the same crowd who shouted, “Hosanna!” may also have been part of the crowd shouting “Crucify Him!” but we can’t be sure.
In the end, it wasn’t the crowd’s cries of “Crucify Him!” that put Jesus on the cross. Our sin did that. Throughout the ages God wove His plan to send a Savior, and that plan culminated in the person of Jesus Christ: God’s own Son who could take upon Himself the punishment for sin.

The shedding of Jesus’ blood fulfilled God’s promise to mankind to provide a Savior and sealed the New Covenant. Jesus would then defeat the power of death and the grave by rising again three days later and ascending to His Father’s right hand in heaven. AMEN🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

16/10/2022

World Peace is a beautiful ideal, but one that will be realized only when Jesus returns. Until that time, peace throughout the world will never occur. Jesus said that until the day of His coming, there will be “wars and rumors of wars” and that “nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

There has never been a time in the history of the world that somewhere, someone wasn’t fighting with someone else. Whether it was a world war involving dozens of nations or a local skirmish involving tribes or clans, men have always been at war with one another.

As Christians we should promote peace instead of conflict, remembering that by our own actions, complete peace will never be achieved because of the fallen state of man. Our faith remains in God and Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.

Until He comes to renew the world and bring true peace, world peace will remain little more than a dream. Our most important task is to convince others of their need for the Savior, who is the only One who can bring about peace between individuals and God. This, then, is the way we promote world peace—by bringing to the world the message of peace with God: be reconciled to God through Christ! 🙏🙏🙏🕊🏳

05/10/2022