If you cannot just be a Friend to him or her without being in a relationship
You cannot successfully be in that relationship with him or her, when it becomes unfriendly
And trust me
Times will come when it would
.The Christ a poet Team
Author: ucTRUTH
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FAITH; why yours did not work
Have you ever had faith for something and it did not work? Have you ever sincerely asked God for something and it just did not happen? Have you set your heart on a promise you held on to for a long time and used up your faith bank but in the end it seems as if God has failed you? In fact looking at your heart from here I can tell that the only reason why you have not resolved to say that God is unfaithful is because of your fear in His ability to strike you.
Well that is exactly what this teaching is for; let us take a short prayer; Father we ask that at the end of this teaching, we will know exactly why our faiths have failed us at some point, help us in Jesus name, Amen.
Let me start like this; people had often said that they had faith and it did not work but I want to say that faith always works. The bible said ‘let God be true and let every man be a liar’ so forgive me if I have chosen to believe the words from God instead of yours. Plus I know that when He said we could move mountains with a mustard seed faith, He totally meant it.
So before we continue our journey to knowing why our assumed faith did not work, let us pause a little to check what faith is, because most people who have claimed to have had a failed experience with faith simply have never had faith in the first place.
Haven said that, here is the definition; now FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED for, the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN.
If we can spend some time to re-read that definition, you will realize just how weird it truly is.
Let me leave the EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN for now, because our human knowledge has always taught us that all substantial EVIDENCE has to be tangible, well you can’t touch it if you can’t SEE it, but faith actually says otherwise. Let us go on.
One reason faith does not work is because we have not HOPED, and then some of us will just stop at hoping. That is it, you cannot get it to happen if you do not hope and patiently wait for it. Remember Abraham? Who had hope against hope, I mean hope literally stopped hoping but Abraham hoped on, He believed that He who has promised was also able to fulfill it. Now some of us will just hope or believe for something, but just believing will not get it done it is just a first step. See BELIEVING IS IN THE FUTURE, it is anticipation, FAITH IS IN THE PRESENT. It is like believing I will give you some money, it can come or not but you do not have the money when you believed, you have it when I pay up but faith is God saying He will give you some money, now you have it and then He will surely deliver. ‘ONE REASON WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE FAITH IN MAN’.
Another reason why that faith did not work is because you are not asking right, which means you are not exactly having faith. The bible says that ‘faith comes by hearing, and HEARING the word of God. You cannot be faith-full if you lack knowledge on what you are having faith on. For example, you need to have an unwavering knowledge that Christ died for your sicknesses before you can ask sickness out of your system. The sickness will not respond to the thing you heard in church, in fact; if what the pastor said is all you know about sickness then you will doubt yourself along the line, unless you have allowed the word to sink and you have opened the bible to confirm it beyond doubts in your heart. Let me put it like this, if faith was a machine, the word of God is the grease that keeps it running, so you see? You cannot just stop reading the word or make it seasonal because we do have situations calling us to have faith daily.
Which brings me to the person of Jesus, HE is the word and if that belief is outside of Him, be sure it is not faith.
I will also like to add something here, keeping to the words we say to others will increase your ability to trust in others. If you do not always take your words serious, you will always find it hard to take someone by their words, even God.
The next reason why faith seemed not to work is that faith goes with prayer. I will be very brief here, some people will have so much faith in God, believe with their whole heart, even fast and never come to make a request in the name of Jesus and then I am left to wonder.
Now the last but certainly not least, in fact I will consider it the most important is that you do not love.
Yes I said it, LOVE.
Not the love your friends and kill your enemies love, but the love your enemies kind of love. If we can truly have this God kind of love, most of the things we want to have faith for will just fall in place. Some people seek healing and get prayed for, hands have been laid, they have spent sleepless nights in the word, but their eyes have been closed to just forgiving that fellow who has deeply hurt them.
Read Galatians 5:6 and in 1John 3:14, the word said that Love is an assurance that we have crossed from death to life. Not tongues, not working of miracles, not great faith, but the simple act of true love. I read through Corinthians one time, and I had to stop and wonder when I was told that there is FAITH, HOPE and LOVE but then the greatest is LOVE. You see? Great faith will not only come by great prayer, or greater believing it will work through the golden rule of LOVE.
The only clause that Christ put in the Lord’s prayer was ‘forgive us, as we forgive others’, I am sure someone’s mind is already racing, please do forgive that person if you want to have faith.
So if we can pray, read the word and live in Love, we will have all the right compassion to ask on behalf of others and also build a capacity to exercise for ourselves and then we will see all we want done in Christ come to pass. I wondered why Christ always seemed to have everything going for Him and then the sweet Holy Spirit said to me, well He did love the world before He even came to earth.
I hope I was helpful, this message is not for us to give up or feel condemned, let me mention here that I have actually been disappointed in faith, but now I know better and I have seen that the reason those prayers were not answered was never God’s fault. So be encouraged, and let your testimonies come in,
God bless you
ucTRUTH.
LIGHTS
I think you don’t know who you really are
I mean you think you do but really you don’t.
Because you always change to become whatsoever the most charismatic, sweating, heart heaving, tongue speaking; preacher, evangelist, prophets and pastor. reading the bible and interpreting to-satisfy-my-own thoughts teacher says you are.
You know it is almost hilarious yet appalling that we will believe and live by everything everyone else says about us, except God
You will never amount to anything in life, you are a failure, you are ugly, dull like Barbie, self esteem estimated to be at zero, see! your mates dress and talk better, your life is a mess and you seem to be like a plucked leaf, bitter, just waiting to die; i mean you would have committed suicide if you didn’t see it as a straight bus ticket to hell, so now you make it spiritual and pray, Father please let Christ return and take me out of my misery (assassin?) what you don’t know is that Christ already came, died, resurrected and returned just so you can live your life in victory.
I am here to speak life into you and by the end of this spoken words I am certain that those fixed fingers of guilt, the high heels and desolate mountains, mascara, linings and creams of judgement confused for the truth that has been spoken before time will all vanish because despite your seeming rate of present lack, sicknesses, diseases, shortcomings, and all of life’s bruises, truth sent me to tell you that it was finished, and the devil is only making up excuses.
So do not believe any devil that talks down on you, or looks down on you, no matter how they dress, in what form they come, no matter your height, abilities or the scenes that have played in your life till now, dear, I have been there, I was lost, buried deep down like raw materials surrounded by darkness and despair but His pair of hands dug, found and re-fined me, and it was no coincidence or just pity but the Lord of lords got His hands dirty just so He could love me.
Don’t just take my words for it; search the scriptures to see how true this is.
You know Christians who think they are standing, I want you to listen carefully to this, we are procured to be the solution but it seems we have turned into a terminal illness, only constantly pushing up on people with our hasty judgement, no shade of love and now aggressive evangelism has become fulfilling all righteousness; you know “behold I stand at your door and knock” cos I am Jehovah’s witness; not realizing that the thief cometh to steal, kill and destroy was in reference to false prophets, so if you profess Christ and cause these little ones to be offended, you are a wolf in sheep’s clothing for that was what Christ said.
Please let them know how much Love needs them that He came to become part of them and let them understand that He is not waiting to slay them and He will forgive them and He took those thorns, whipped, beaten and broken, signed and sealed it with His blood to conceal them in Him and I am a living proof, moreover if Christ advised us against divorce, then there is a reason He made His bride you.
So sailing for long on the trials and temptations of this world shouldn’t make you want to spend the rest of your life at sea, even when I was the reason for my own destruction, tried to outsmart the greatest creator, fled to Tarshish from His presence; I started drowning, needed glasses cos I couldn’t see clearly, but as I fixed my sight back on Him, He held me up in His arms, made me walk on stormy waters, took me back to His sheep and I sailed in fellowship with the master to dry lands and then i realized my Lord didn’t have to calm the storms, all He had to calm was me.
Jesus took the sins of the whole word on his back and still schooled the devil, and after proving He was the master, He gave him a PHD, you know ‘permanent head damage’ so when this amnesia patient with his temporary memory loss seems to forget that you have been completely delivered it is your duty to call to his remembrance your salvation, the number is JESUS.
Having overcome the waters and now knowing that lucy has lost his mind when he tries to take you back by the port remind him that you are not just visiting and you are a bonafide son of the kingdom, show him your passport, the proof of your marriage certificate that was stamped by the blood of Jesus.
I know what I am saying now will not exactly make logical sense to the Pharisees and Wise men, but if you can stupidly follow the stars to the manger, you will find that this one is fool proof.
So go out in victory, you were made in His image and when He said you are the lights of the world, He meant for you to go in and love them with the word and then I can promise, the revival we all seek will surface and we all will be overwhelmed by the experience, for even worship songs at TBS will not equal the grace that will be released for you to handle or the glory that will follow when you realize how much was paid for your candles. Do not leave your lamp stand; never go off again, till this world is blown apart for our Husband.
So fellow lights, let’s bring an end to this darkness.
God bless you.
ucTRUTH
one way not to burn calories
a man walked into a cafe and saw a very big but really cute dog squatting near a small boy
being a dog lover, he wanted to touch it and then asked the boy ‘does your dog bite?’ and the small boy answered, ‘no not at all’
the man then reached to touch the dog and immediately, the dog held unto his hand and almost took a whole chunk of it off.
the man was infuriated and asked the boy in anger ‘but you said your dog didn’t bite?’ and the boy replied with a little smile, ‘but sir, that is not my dog’
.Joel Osteen
no one burns any calorie jumping to conclusions. hear the whole story first, and ask the right questions. patience is a virtue. God bless you.
.ucTRUTH
CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE
a young boy who wanted to become the best baseball batsman in the world went into the yard to practice alone one afternoon with a ball and a bat.
on getting there he threw the ball up and tried to bat but he missed it and swung wild.
i have two more chances he reasoned, so he picked the ball again threw it up and swung wild one more time.
at this point he was getting discouraged but he decided to try one more time so he picked up the ball, spoke to it ‘ball, i am gong to hit you this time’ then he threw it up, focused, and took a swing,………
…..well that was the third time, and he missed again.
he smiled, picked up the ball and told himself ‘men! who knows; i might just be the best pitcher in the world’
.Joel Osteen
stay flexible and open to God’s plan. His thoughts are not ours, but He will surely bring it to pass, keep believing today. God bless you.
.ucTRUTH
QUICK QUOTES
that set back is just a set up to get back up
.Joel Osteen
LAUGH IT OFF
A man just got saved and the pastor decided to give him 5mins during the Sunday sermon to share his testimony. on Sunday, the man got up to the pulpit and shared how God has saved him but instead of going down, he requested to do a little palm reading.
the pastor was surprised and felt like the man was out doing himself but then he kept his cool and asked, ‘what kind of palm reading exactly do you want to do’ and the man replied ‘oh it wouldn’t take time i just wanted to read palm23.
.Joel Osteen
he didn’t know any better, God saved him anyways. it is totally free if only you believe and come. God bless you.
.ucTRUTH
SPEAK LIFE TO EVERYTHING AROUND YOU
Little Michael was super excited when he got the news that his mother was going to have a baby girl, he was going to become a big brother.
every chance he gets, he goes to the mothers’ belly and starts to sing
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey”
to the sister. this happened for days, and then months passed till the mother was due, little Michael never stopped singing to his baby sister.
finally the mother was due and his excitement only grew but then something happened, there was complications on the pregnancy and the mother delivered the baby with a sickness. the mother got home and little Michael didn’t see his baby sister.
well the baby was kept in the hospital and only grew worse until one day the hospital called, the baby would most likely not make it through the night. Mikes’ mum figured “this might be my only chance of letting him see his little sister alive” so she secretly took mike into the intensive care unit that was not allowed for children when the head nurse was not looking.
Little Mike entered with excitement but suddenly was taken aback by the number of tubes going in and out of the sister. at that moment, the nurse got in and asked for him to be taken away immediately. He took one last look and then started singing,
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away”
to the nurses’ surprise, the blood pressure started dropping, her heart beat stabilized and of course as you would have guessed, they didn’t let little Michael leave. after been made to sing for a few more times, the pale blue colour of death on the sisters’ face disappeared and she was in a sound sleep.
after a few days the girl was discharged all well.
.Joel Osteen
it might seem insignificant, but the little words we say, the little songs we sing and the little blessings are all that matters. so parents do not curse the children and siblings, friends please speak life. God bless you.
.ucTRUTH
