TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

TILL THE DEATH OF OUR BODY WE NEED GOD

THE LOVE OF GOD
The Love of God is more than we can ever think of or imagine, no one can show us more love than God does, He has promised that he will never cease in his effort to love us "I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" {Jer.32:40}. Just think about your present environment
Is your Mum there?
Is your Dad there?
Is your relations there?
Are your friends/colleagues/enemies there?
Which of them protects your footstep from hitting a stone?
which of them produces the oxygen that you breath-in?
which of them pumps your heart and blood within your body system?
which of them protects you while you slumber?

God loves all his creatures including you and me
His Mercy is always available and will sustain us
His Grace readily present as a shoulder to rely on that never disappoints and will see us through moments of trials, tribulations, pains, hurts of life.
Our human frailty and limitations which are always active till death humbles us to desire God's touch and conscious awareness every second of our lives till death therefore we need God till death.

JUST A THOUGHT

PRAYER:

Lord God, strength of those who hope in you,

Support us in our prayer:

Because we are weak and can do nothing without you,

Give us always the help of your grace

So that, in fulfilling your commandments,

We may please you in all we desire and do.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen- so be it.

Which Mary did today’s Gospel [Lk.7:36-50] talk about?

“Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill” {Jn.11:1-2}

Praise the Lord from the Heavens

We are in the world yet we are expected to praise the Lord from the heavens hence Heaven is not a place but the state of a soul at any given time since a soul is heavenly entity created by God whose throne is in heaven. We are expected to connect to the heavenly court every second consciously or unconsciously lest we will be deceived by the visuals of the world that we see (‘and we do this so that we may not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs’ 2 Cor.2:11) rather we should do everything possible to connect with the heavenly realm while still living in this corrupt world and return to our Home; Heaven {“but our citizenship is in heaven and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” Phil.3:20}

THE AUTHORS COMMITMENT TO TRUTH:

(Truth, honesty and transparency)

“behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shall make me know wisdom” {Ps.51:6}

Look not on his countenance nor on the height of his stature: because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart” (1 Sam.16:7)

Lord, I must be true, honest and transparent just as you are Lord enable the following must’s of my life to take immediate effect

1.      I must have no secrets.

2.      I must have no secret reserves

3.      I must not think any thought that I would not want exposed to the whole world

4.      I must not write any word that I would want to hide from anymore

5.      I must have no secret ambitions

6.      I must not have any relationship that I am not prepared for all to know about it

7.      I must not go to any place where I will not want any single person to that I went there

8.      I must not let anyone think that he is to me what I do not hold him in my heart to be

9.      I must not give a part of the reason for something and leave the other part out and thereby let people read into it what is not true

10.  I must not say anything in any way that it makes a greater impact than it ought

11.  I must not say that I have done something which I only intend to do

12.  I must not give the impression that something which is purely imaginary is real

13.  I must let people know that illustrations are not reality

14.  I must not give the impression that I love someone or something that I do not love

15.  I must not give the impression that I have been delivered from something with which I am still battling

16.  I must not hide the fact that I love someone or something that I truly love

17.  I must not expose my strong points

18.  I must not hide my weaknesses

19.  I must not confess a sin to God of which I have not repented and taken radical decision to be separated from

20.  I must not ask God to deliver me from a sin or relationship from which I do not want to be delivered

21.  I must not tell God that I love something that I do not love

22.  I must not tell God that I hate something that I do not actually hate

23.  I must not do before people what I will not do in their absence

24.  I must not do anything I am not convinced of just to please anyone

25.  I must not give the impression that I agree with something that I do not agree with in my heart

26.  I must not repeat a story that was told me since I am not sure that I will remember every bit of it and since I may tell it in a way that creates an impression that is different from that which was created by the one who first told me the story

27.  I must not make any promise that I have not settled in my heart that I will keep

28.  I must not exaggerate the faults or failures of anyone regardless of who he is and what he has done

29.  I must not talk about people who are present since I am not sure that I will always say things are indeed they are

30.  I must not exaggerate someone’s worth regardless of what the person means to me

31.  I must not under-evaluate someone’s worth regardless of what the person means to me.

32.  I must keep my promises regardless of how it hurts me to keep them.

33.  I must never seek a reason that is acceptable to me or to those around me to justify any situation. I must speak out without fearing what it will cost me.

34.  If something is true and I am asked to speak about it or if I face a situation in which I ought to speak, I must speak out without fearing what it will cost me.

35.  In any situation I must all the truth I know regardless of what it will cost me

36.  I must not pretend that I don’t know something that I know

37.  I must not pretend that I know something that I do not know

38.  I must not pretend that I have not heard what I have heard

39.  I must not pretend that I am sleeping when I am awake

40.  I must not claim that I am not sleeping when I am

41.  I must not utter any word that I am not prepared to give account of at the judgment seat of Christ

THE WORD OF GOD

WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THE WORD?

Eli responded thus to the message of God for his family through Samuel "...it is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him" (1Sam. 3:18)
The Result was this '...Israel was defeated and they fled, everyone to his home. There was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. the ark of God was captured and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas died... Eli fell over backwards from his seat by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died...now the daughter-in-law the wife of Phinehas was pregnant about to give birth. When she heard the news that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth; for her labour pains overwhelmed her. As she was about to die...she named the child Ichabod, meaning, the glory has departed from Israel' (1 Sam. 4:10-11, 18,19,21)

King Hezekiah a noble man who kept all the commandments of God as was given by Moses {2Kgs.18:6-7} fell ill and received a message from God through Isaiah (2 Kgs.20:1-8, Isaiah 38:1-8) he took it but did not accept it rather he turned his face to the wall then placed his youthful exuberance for righteousness before God and God changed his plan for his life by healing him and adding fifteen {15} more years to his life.

Delay to change your ways ("but by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed" Rom.2:5) and embrace righteousness in all its ramification can be very disastrous {"...a man who turns back from righteousness to sin the Lord will prepare him for the sword" Sirach 26:28}

Ignorance of the Word of God and the purpose why God created you on earth is not an excuse ("but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more" Jer.31:33-34)

You have been baptised and anointed with the oil of Chrism hence you have no excuse rather should strive to give up all those dirty passions we harbour and nurture with cheap phrases like "the body is weak" forgetting that the Spirit is willing besides the body has nothing to offer if the spirit of man is not willing to accept such {'the Spirit gives life to the body since the body has nothing to offer on its own, the words I speak to you are Spirit and they are life' Jn.6:63}

God is waiting for you ("listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you and you with me! Rev.3:20)

Do not keep him waiting too long for you might regret it eternally {'...and be sure your sin will find you out' Numb.32:23}
The mistakes of many people {boys/girls/men/women} in the past are hunting them now and will continue because no one will wipe out your past but those who repent truly will always see there past as a stepping stone to higher ground ["for Godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret but worldly grief produces death" 2 Cor.7:10]

Are you ready to discipline yourself now and have a blissful future as well as be sure of eternal life if death comes the next second since no one knows the hour, place or circumstance that would surround our death (Mtt.24:42)?
Are you still contented with doing whatever your impulse tells you yet not ready to face its reality and pain when other people attend to you and your relations with the same attitude?

THE CHOICE IS YOURS AND MINE TO MAKE!!!