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

A few days ago, as I was watching TBN and the preacher was talking about failure and how we as Christians constantly fail and get back up again. He also quoted that ‘Christians will continue to fail until we become just like Christ’. And I thought to myself ‘fail always?’ ‘Ah no oh, I can’t fail because God didn’t promise me that, ‘I will not fail’, ‘I am not going to fail’. I was already beginning to feel very uncomfortable with the sermon, so I didn’t watch it to the end. As   I went about my day that same day I heard God say to me have you forgotten how you fail almost every second of the day? yes you fail in your thoughts and in the meditations of your heart and they are loud before me. It was not the outward failure that the preacher was referring to, it was failure in our hearts, because God does not judge us outwardly but inwardly. I realised suddenly that oh yes! I do fail every day, and if God judges us inwardly and not outwardly like man does Ah! I probably fail e...

Our God is a God of order, he does everything orderly. Its easy to think that as Christians we are walking orderly until God begins to show us ourselves, then we will be amazed at how disorderly our lives have been. Christians are expected to be good Soldiers, stand in battle formation, keep rank and march on to victory, but a Christian will not be able to stand if he cannot keep rank. Keeping rank in the army does not come naturally, a lot of hard work and discipline is required to mold a Soldier that would be able to keep rank in battle. For Christians to keep rank we must not be fainthearted or be of double heart (1 Chronicles 12:33), because it is the Lord who fights our battles and wins the war, but when we fail to keep rank we give the enemy a foothold in our lives. As a church we also give the enemy a foothold because just one man breaking rank and deserting his duty post can be disastrous to the whole operation. When our lives are out of order we break rank and give t...

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 ...