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A test is described in the oxford dictionary as an examination of someone's knowledge or ability, consisting of questions for them to answer or activities for them to perform. For those who studied medicine, they sit for a medical school test.  It is difficult to find carpenters, plumbers, architects or fashion designers sitting for the medical school test. If they attempt to sit for it, they will fail woefully, so the medical test is mainly for those who studied health and medicine and not for everyone, and this is in preparation to either become doctors, nurses or a practitioner in the medical field. This is similar to God’s heart test, not everyone on earth goes through God’s heart test, if we don’t know God and don’t have a relationship with him we will typically fail his heart test, so if perhaps you are going through God’s heart test count yourself blessed because God has a plan for you. God is really interested in taking you to a higher level than you have ever imagined...

These past few weeks, we have all been forced to stay indoors because of the COVID 19 pandemic. The lock down in some countries and the slow down of the global economy has taken its toll on various sectors like the petroleum sector, tourism and hospitality sector, the health sector, etc and these are economic impacts that produce a recession. Almost everything has either been postponed or cancelled, flights, tournaments, weddings, funerals, everything.  It only tells me one thing ‘ many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that will prevail’ Pro. 19:21. Since it is God’s purpose that will prevail is it not wise to seek the God whose purpose will always prevail before we make plans?, or if we make plans shouldn’t we ask the God whose purpose always prevails if the plan is okay with him? What are we seeking first in our lives? What do we do first thing when we wake up in the morning? Do we seek social media first? Do we seek our children first? Do...

Yet for a little while you made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honour . Heb 2:7 NLT. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” Interlude Psalm 39:5NLT. O LORD, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them? For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow . Psalm 144:3-4 NLT Man is nothing but a breath. A breath sometimes takes less than a second, but a hundred years to God is only a little while compared to eternity. Our entire lifetime is just a little while to God. Because Jesus Christ died on the cross, because he overcame death and sin we now have authority over all things, and when it says all things it means there is nothing left out. The Glory we see here on earth for a little while is nothing compared to the Glory and honor waiting for us in eternity. We hav...

Psalm 123 ‘ Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2  Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the  Lord  our God, until that he have mercy upon us. If our eyes wait upon the Lord our God then we are settled because he dwells on high, in the heavens, far above all principalities and powers. God knows everything that is going on because everything is beneath him so don’t worry about anything God is in absolute control. As I thought about this verse of scripture ‘Just as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden looks unto the hand of her mistress so our eyes wait on the Lord’, I could only Imagine if God was like us ‘THE BOSS’.   I began to ask myself questions like what annoys me most about my domestic staff at home and what do I like about them just to have an idea of how God fee...

The oxford dictionary describes gossip as a casual or unconstrained conversation or report about other people typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true. Backbiting is described as a malicious talk about someone who is not present, and Slander is the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation. I am sure many of us in time past or presently have been involved in one way or the other in gossip, backbiting or slander, they all point to the same thing which is talking about others in a negative way behind their backs, which most times is not confirmed as true. I am guilty of this sin, writing about it doesn’t mean I am innocent, but I know God hates it and he is dealing with me in this aspect, so I’m learning but not there yet. What does the bible say about gossip? Here are some verses in the bible about gossip, back biting and slander James 3; 5-6 ‘And so the tongue is a small part of the body yet it carries great p...

Have you ever been at the beach, scribbled something on the sand and then the waves from the sea comes ashore, wipes off completely what had been written and there is no sign of it at all? This is exactly what happens when our sins have been washed away in the blood of Jesus. There is no trace, no memory, it is completely washed away by the precious blood of Jesus. There is so much power in the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus washes away our sins and makes us clean, as white as snow. There is no remembrance of past sins when our sins have been washed by the blood of Jesus. The blood sets us free from the curse, which is caused by sin, so that we might receive the blessings of Abraham. It doesn’t matter how bad the sin is there is hope because God loves us so much and his mercies are new every morning. God is always willing to forgive us “Come now, let us reason together says the Lord though your sins are like scarlet they shall be as white as snow, though they are like...

Have you ever been punk’d? if you were born after 2007, you probably don’t have a clue what I am referring to. Punk’d was one reality show I loved to watch. It was an American reality program that first aired in 2003, created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, with Kutcher serving as producer and host of the program. Ashton Kutcher would play pranks on celebrities and when they have been fooled, believing the lie and already going with the flow. He will tell whoever “You have been punk’d”! Being punk’d referred to being the victim of such a prank. Now, imagine hearing those words from the Devil. I sincerely don’t wish this for anyone, not even my worst enemy (if there is such a person). But the sad truth is that this reality has played out in a lot of peoples after life. They died and Satan welcomed them laughing and mocking them saying “so you really believed all that lie!? Fool!”. The devil is a liar, and very deceptive. John 8; 44 ‘He was a killer from the very start....