In His Presence..........

A lot of Christians often desire to have spiritual gifts which isn’t bad, God has distributed them to us freely. Paul mentioned them in 1 Corinthians 12: 8-10. The word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues, gifts of helping and gifts of administration. Paul wanted us as Christians to desire the best gift but he knew that having these spiritual gifts wasn’t a sure way to make heaven, please God or even fulfil God’s will and purpose for our lives. There was a more excellent way. 1 Corinthians 13. Love is the more excellent way. Anytime we are doing the work of God without love we are simply wasting our time and just making a lot of noise, so when we preach or pray in tongues, we are just making noise if the underlying foundation is not love. This kind of people are like the people Jesus was referring to in Matthew 7:22 who did many wonders for Jesus...

Philippians 4:6 ‘ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.’ NKJV. I remember reading this verse of scripture earlier this year and it was as if a light bulb lit up in my head. ‘So why have I been anxious all these years?’ I thought 'if my life is in alignment with God’s will and I have thanked God genuinely from my heart and made my request known to him I need to trust that God is in control'. Before then, I had spent time with God and prayed all night about some issues but I was still anxious about some things after all the prayers. Aren’t we all like this? When we have bills to pay and don’t know where the money will come from, when we have unmet targets and the deadline is coming soon, unmet expectations, for women feeling we are not pretty enough or slim enough, for the ...

The oxford dictionary describes servitude as the state of being a slave or being completely subject to someone more powerful. Matthew 20:28 ‘ For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many ." Philippians 2; 6-7 ‘ He existed in the form of God, yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his supreme prize.   Instead he emptied himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant. He became human!’ TPT. Jesus Christ who is God came to serve humanity, he who is God and whom the universe serves came to serve. Psalm 119; 89-91. If God who is King of all kings, the one who controls everything, the one who has a covenant with night and day, and established the laws of heaven and earth, the one who commands the morning, the one who is our Lord and teacher came to serve, then my dear sisters and brothers who are we that we cannot serve? A man that cannot serve God and humanity can never ...

Reading the bible sometimes I often wondered why some people didn’t ask God for forgiveness after God passed a judgement on them, they just accepted it without any attempt to beg or anything. How will you feel if you scolded your child and told him he was grounded and he said very casually ok no problem, will you not feel insulted that the punishment didn’t even make him apologise? Take another instance if you worked in an organisation and the boss queried you and passed judgement on you because of your poor performance and you know that organisation has a very good reputation people hustle to work there, the pay is fantastic and the boss is known to be the most generous boss ever , he has a reputation of being extremely loving, caring, kind , generous ,and good, he likes excellence and hard work and you know you obviously didn’t do a great job, will you get offended with that boss and leave the job instead of humbling yourself and apologise promising such will never happen aga...

Yesterday I asked my children in Sunday school if any of them had treasures and I got a lot of interesting answers such as “my earrings are my treasure”, “my Adidas shoes are my treasure”, “my X box and Nintendo games are my treasure”, “my IPad” etc it was interesting to know that the children considered these items to be their treasures because they placed a very high value on them, and I thought to myself aren’t we just like them as adults we also have many treasures here on earth that we really value so much such as our designer bags and shoes, our exotic cars, our expensive wristwatches, our mansions etc. but   I often wonder, why are we more interested in laying up treasures here on earth than laying up treasures in heaven? Matthew 6:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal...