EVERYDAYJESUS is in you!

March 3, 2017March 1, 2017Leave a comment

IT’S IN YOU

About Sometime last year, after I had learned that it is ignorance and injustice to describe love as a feeling, I started to pray for the grace to love!

Now, I had read the love chapter i.e. the first epistle written to the Corinthians chapter 13 and I saw that the terms of love as stated in that chapter placed an exerting demand on the tendons and muscles of the natural man and he is grossly incapable of executing love’s contract…discipline and training notwithstanding.

Sadly, it seemed as though my prayers were hijacked by the ‘prince of Nsukka’ as I continued to exhibit gestures that mocked love and of course, selfishness laced most of my actions. I really wanted to love selflessly but the more I tried, the more my natural tendons snapped. In fact, it seemed more natural to behave in ways that contradicted everything stated in 1 Corinthians 13.

These were way before I got a better understanding of the love God has for me.

Part of my hindrances to effectively engaging in the love walk was ignorance of the depth of Love God has for me. I worked so hard to deserve God’s love and it took everything from me so I hadn’t any charity to give to people around.

So you know, anyone who has not caught a glimpse of God’s love cannot effectively walk the love walk. It is strange to the natural man. His substrate doesn’t have an active site for the love enzyme and so binding is impossible.

My love walk got better after I got the revelation of God’s love and it is easier to give love when you are loved and without conditions too!

I found out also that I was praying for what I am and what I have already…such stupidity. One day, the Holy Spirit engaged me in a nature awareness conversation and it went thus:

Holyspirit: Elo Bae, do you know you are a child of God and you have his nature in you?

Me: yes I do (I didn’t waste time to answer; I’m a son of God forever durrrrrh!)

Holyspirit: Do you know that God is Love?

Me: of course I do, 1 john 4:8 says that.

Holyspirit: God lives in you, yeah?

Me: Sure, he dwells in my spirit and I am sealed with Him forever.

Holyspirit: By these deductions, do you know that you have the nature of love and love dwells in your spirit and you are sealed with love forever?

Me: Phew! That there, is something!

The ability to love is inherent in me and I am woven with it. It’s my nature. I have the grace to love…all I need do is to give myself into that grace.

Wondering why as a son of God, you are having a hard time loving? A few factors might be responsible. It might be Ignorance of God’s love. In my case, I was ignorant of the magnitude of the love of God; I hadn’t let myself receive it so I practically had nothing to give.

Then again, it might be a case of not beholding…Take a look at 2 Corinthians 3:18

¹⁸And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit. (Amplified bible). One of the principles of the New Testament is that as we behold, we become. Now like earlier said you have the nature of Love already so you don’t get more of it…Love is a person and he lives inside us and is us. As we behold the word of God, we get more understanding of who we are and our minds are constantly transformed into his very own image. The problem is not with our spirit, it is already perfect. The thing is; our mind need to be aligned with the realities of who we are and what we have so we can effectively walk the love walk.

Lastly, it might be sheer disobedience. The grace to love abounds, some of us just do not give into it by disobedience.

As the Peak Milk commercial would say at the end of their advert; IT’S IN YOU! LOVE LIVES IN YOU FOREVER! Quit praying for the grace to love…give yourself to it.

“… That He would grant you, according to the riches of His gory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God…”- Ephesians 3: 16-19(KJV).

By His Ruth; February, 2017

EVERYDAYJESUS and my favorite word!

March 2, 2017March 1, 2017Leave a comment

I love a lot of things with my whole being. In fact, I sometimes think I love them more than Christ! I know you would be birling on the sea of doubt of the authenticity of my ‘born-againness’ right now, of course I couldn’t care less as long as am saying the truth which is the only tool for my ‘emancipation’ from all ‘bondage’!

So, here’s my lead-in:

I am the body with the effulgent guy with the sobriquet, ‘Symolean Mikado Goodest’. Although I am an abecedarian at locutions, some fellas still aver that I am ‘megaloquent’, ‘logophile’, polymath and of course a huge Philomath and would run miles and miles away from my knitting crafts with the claim that I am enigmatic.

Okay, enough of all this stupid rambling. I love words! I love knowledge! I can go any length to increase the number of lexicons in my active vocabulary same goes for what I know. I wouldn’t mind jeopardizing a thing just to learn anything that catches my fancy because knowledge makes me feel like the small rudder the mighty ship just can’t do without. Words make me feel like the Mikado of the whole wide world. They make me feel so powerful and invincible! Knowledge gets me so intoxicated and most times, they make me think that I could see into other realms. They make me feel so complete that nothing else would matter to me the way they do.

But sometimes, these words I manipulate in different manners to get varying effects on my spheres turn to a cup of poison that I drink without knowing. They remove the prop with which they suspend me on the ‘most-high-state’ and my sacral vertebrae suffers the pain.

For your information, the word I was talking about is literally word, the tool of communication that unlocks the mysteries of our heart.

Nevertheless, Jesus has become to me every day, the WORD, and for all time! He is everything said and unsaid! He is the Wisdom of God, He is the spoken Word that could the big bang, in case you are a big fan of the theory! He is the Knowledge that both quenches my spirits curiosity, yet He still knows how to make me want some more!

He is Jesus!

By Simeon, Chidi; February, 2017

EVERYDAYJESUS loves to father me!

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017Leave a comment

I AM A SON OF GOD!

My head swelled with a humbling pride at the realization that I am a son of God…forever. I always sail to cloud 9 each time I ponder on this reality. Oh! How the natural man will have a hard time understanding this, he may even think of me as pitifully ambitious but my bible tells me that it has always been God’s plans according to Ephesians 1:5 to adopt me into his beautiful family through what Christ did on the cross and this, this is not to fulfill any obligation, he didn’t owe me any…He just loved to father me…and it brings him pleasure when I acknowledge him as my father!

I am a son of God forever! Please save the correction Love, there is no gender differentiation. It is just an enviable position I occupy. Thank Jesus it has nothing to do with gender as it would have come with gender attached roles and limitations; like the girls will do the easier tasks such as speak in tongues, interpret, discern and show love while the boys will perform the herculean task such as casting out devils, exercising the mountain moving faith, raise the dead and so on. Thank God there are no two categories, I am a Son!

Oh how ignorant I have been of this reality! Without clear understanding I have religiously and shrilly answered ‘yeeeessssss’ to the chant: “sons and daughters of the living God!” Thank God I understand better now and it gets clearer every day.

1 John 3:1-2 states that we are sons of God as a result of the manner of Love God has bestowed upon us. It is a love indecipherable that made him choose of all things to father us.

God is our Father! He is my father! I can’t keep shut! Glory!

I can associate with the fact that most people derive some sort of recognition by saying who their father is, right? So don’t be surprised when next time we meet and I say “Good morning Love, God is my father!” It works right when you keep affirming this to yourself as often as possible. It will go right into the strong holds of your mind and pull down all of them inferiority laced thoughts that battles to exalt itself above the knowledge of the Father in your mind. The realization of this truth will save you the stress of many psychological quick fixes that are just so short-lived!

…trusting for more revelations.

By His Ruth, February, 2017.

EVERYDAYJESUS’ ‘Reminisce, 02,017 ! II

February 28, 2017February 27, 2017Leave a comment

EverydayJesus saves the day because, we know that while we are Clark Kent every time, we are might still be Karl El, every other time, no fussing!

EverydayJesus hangs out with the Father, because that is just how the mirror principle works!

EverydayJesus speaks a language, because we are not the X-men kinda mutants, hope you get it!

EverydayJesus ‘Rests’ because that is how we use to do it!

EverydayJesus makes men free, because we know that ADAM MAN (anagram for A MAD MAN) needs total overhauling, if you get my drift. I mean, my cooking pot’s always cleaner when I wash it inside-out!

EverydayJesus has you all figured out; translation whenever you feel a little like a wreck, He is your ‘go-to-guy’ for anything, and He’s got that neon ‘ASK ME’ sign you’ve been looking out for, okay? Thanks!

Oh yeah, I’ve been loading you some good stuffs, all of them cherries, right?

Here’s what I want you to do:

Read any of your Favorite everydayJesus February pieces again, and make me a cherry as well! You might want to use our comment box as your kitchen! LOL.

By Favouromeje, 2017

EVERYDAYJESUS’ ‘Reminisce, 02,’017!

February 27, 2017Leave a comment

It is day 27, and it is February too!

So I thought to myself, ‘February’s been awesome, and I think Jesus awed some, every day of it’.

Then, I picked up my journal, I started taking stock, down memory lane, for I can beat my chest that I have beautiful memories to reminisce. It has always been Jesus every day, and that’s why we must keep this pen, bleeding everything Jesus, everyday!

So, we shall be placing a cherry to our ice cream sundae, reminisce is the word, and I bet it’s juicy!

I’d be picking my favorite EVERYDAYJESUS’ pieces, and in at most two sentences, I’d turn it into a juicy red cherry for you to enjoy, and I’d sit back and I’d watch you give us your own cherry!

Remember, Reminisce is the word, and cherry is the idea! Translation, I’d summarize a piece, and my summary has to be as juicy as a cherry, okay? Neat!

EverydayJesus is ‘loving-fierce’, so fiery intense, yet He isn’t ‘Sasha’!

EverydayJesus is proactive, He’s got you all planned out; way better than the ‘hero daddy’ could do!

EverydayJesus is ‘loving-pieces’ and He’s got no ‘pieces’ broken heart to offer; translation, feel free, be happy!

EverydayJesus sees through anything and everything because, we really are not fans of the pirate, ‘hook’; we never toast with the punch, ‘line’, and we have never batted an eyelid for the lady, ‘sinker’!

EverydayJesus is ‘loving-slow’, because we don’t do ‘fast and furious’ all the time; Translation, we are ‘loving-thing’ slow to speak, slow to wrath, and yes, quick to hear!

Here’s what I want you to do:

Read any of your Favorite everydayJesus February pieces again, and make me a cherry as well! You might want to use our comment box as your kitchen! LOL.

By Favouromeje, 2017.

EVERYDAYJESUS’ more than a pearl!

February 26, 2017February 24, 2017Leave a comment

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. –Matthew 13: 44-46 (NIV).

Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. But Martha was distracted by much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. “But one thing is needed and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken from her.” –Luke 10: 38-42(NKJV).

You cannot find a treasure by accident. You just have to be looking for it in order to find it. You just need to either mine or look.

Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus found Him and not only listened to Him but also anointed Him with fragrant oil.

Jesus is my precious pearl, He is my treasure. He is my everything. I found Him when my heart was empty. All that I knew how to do was; sin and cry ‘void’. Mary Magdalene found Him and the richness of His person and broke her alabaster box of fragrant oil. She was just ever following Him, listening to Him and helping Him with her substance. The day that He was crucified she also followed Him and must have been crying ‘my LORD’, when He was crucified and buried she followed to see where they laid Him so that she would attend His body. When He rose she was the first to find out, when she didn’t find Him she cried “where have they kept my LORD?”

I never knew the beauty in Mary and my Jesus’ relationship until my Jesus started one with me. My Jesus has saved me from the power of sin and the devil. I am free to love and live. I am glad that I am alive! He is Mary’s precious one and He is mine too- my only Pearl.

“Ask and it will be given too you; seek, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. –Matthew: 7-8(NKJV).

By favouromeje, 2015

EVERYDAYJESUS’ ‘my Testimony’

February 25, 2017February 24, 2017Leave a comment

It was disheartening to think

Why he would allow us sink

I used to wonder what kind of love this is

A love he professes as his

That he keeps blocking my ears with

I didn’t understand his seeming pretense

I felt he was always ready to sentence

Like a lamb whose will has been taken…or at least I thought I did

That kind of following you don’t understand but you seem to have no choice

“If you miss heaven, you can make hell”, then I would increase my pace

It was a heaven at last for me men!

I would go for revival meetings and come back hot and burning

But just give me a few days and I’m back steps behind where I started

I categorized myself as a struggling Christian whose end of struggles was not in sight

I found myself envying Christian that were doing well in the lord

Those that can put the world on hold and be separate

Those that can blast in tongues for hours at a stretch

Pray at midnight and even more in church

Give all their cash as seed, quote and misquote his deeds

I lost sight of my self

I inferred

This God…isn’t nice at all

He just wants to fiddle with me, roast me in hell and enjoy whatever savor there is

Yea, what would you have me say?

I wasn’t near the kind of perfection he wants

And it was all glaring that I couldn’t ever be

I guess we are familiar with statement that he doesn’t take less than 100 percent

Even 99.99 percent is totally unacceptable

Even if I were to be locked up in a tower without interaction,

Sin will still form my actions

Funny but I did it

I got up one day with a resolve to get this all through

So I said “God please forgive me all my sins, those done knowingly and unknowingly

Consciously and unconsciously…”

(Some of us may be familiar with the rhymes)

…and then, then I prayed to die so I could sneak into heaven but he didn’t take me

Probably he thinks that’s too nice a time

He’s waiting to catch me red handed on some evil and then gladly he will pounce on me

I even remember telling him that I will be glad to be left at the gate

I would be glad to stand at the gate and usher for all eternity

The mansions the bible talked about was too much luxury

My face wore gloom

‘Cause I was headed for doom

Have you ever had the experience of waiting for a punishment?

It’s even more punishment right?

That was how ‘waiting’ for the coming of Christ was

Even as a Christian, Jesus is coming soon was my worst statement ever

I dreaded it with every hair on my body

It reminded me of punishment and not home going

I was haunted so much so that when I hear a big trailer horn blast

I would think the big day has come

It was frustrating guys

My attendance began to drop in church

Yea, what was the need to keep in touch?

Brethren concluded and judged me

And I didn’t bloody care what they say about me

Now, here is the good news

While all this was happening

God was beside me devising

Now, not devising a way to save me…he already did that

But devising a way for me to see it and know how much he loves me

My eyes had been blinded by the devil

He made me see God as evil

While he is the hidden enemy that has been defeated by God for me

Think about it, did God need to defeat the devil to prove that he is supreme?

He is God all by himself and the devil is eternally under his shelf

He just defeated him in my place

So that I could enjoy my space

The truth is

God in his holiness and greatness could not be associated with iniquity

He cannot relax his laws because they are based upon his nature

But because he loves me,

He set a motion a beautiful plan to salvage our relationship when it denatured

I even found out that if everyone in the world was righteous and I be the only sinner

He would still die for me

Remember,

Amidst the casting crowns of the 24 elders

The singing and bowing down of the angels in their orders

He excuses himself from them every evening

To have fellowship with man

And please keep in mind that he didn’t need us for a living

He just made us to express a love that is constant with no changing

Even when man fell short of his standards by disobeying

He didn’t give up he had a plan in his sovereignty

He didn’t have to lower his standards…he has integrity

But consistent with his laws, Jesus had to die to bear the brunt for all that will believe

And he did it once and for all

I just have to believe and rest in this finished work and become one with him

God is helplessly in love with me-I discovered

And even my inconsistencies doesn’t change any of it

I have been brought into this place of highest privilege

My veil of ignorance has been removed by this knowledge

Now I have come to see God as a loving father

A father whose heart beats for me

Whose love I shall never fully comprehend in my little mind

My life just started

It started when I saw his love

From now onwards I look forward to becoming all that God wants me to be

I have learnt to see myself the way he sees me

And really how does he see me?

Blameless, guiltless, lovable, adorable, humorous, beautiful, perfect and even more

No guilt in life…I have been liberated

No fear in death… it has been defeated

I promise to keep sharing

More experiences of his love as I open my heart to receive them

And I pray that you experience more of this love for yourselves.

I am HIS RUTH.

By Ruth Ogbuabor

EVERYDAYJESUS’ Rest! (an Update)

February 24, 2017February 23, 2017Leave a comment

In John 3:5, Jesus answered, “ I tell you the truth, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit .( Please note that any time and every time the word SPIRIT begins with a capital letter then the Bible is simply talking of the Holy Spirit. On the other hand, if you see SPIRIT begin with a small letter, then what is been referred to is the human spirit or any other spirit. Different translators of the English Bible use capital letters to distinguish things pertaining to God- like ‘Word’ of God begins with a block letter while ‘word’ of man small letter).

Also in Hebrew 4: 9, the writer of the book wrote by the inspiration of the Spirit thus:

There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his work, just as God did from His. Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience (please read that book for yourself, I mean you have it don’t you?!)

Could God’s rest be His Kingdom or is His rest contained in His Kingdom?

Mutant Matthew wrote the exact Words of Jesus in his book: “but seek ye first The Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you. Matthew 6: 33. By ‘these things’ he was talking about the usual things that bother humans and other living things. And please what is even this whole righteousness thing ‘God’s righteousness’ all about? Do I have to continue trying my best so that God would approve of me? Let us take a peek into the Bible.

Romans 3: 10 “ There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God… so this means that my best or my righteousness isn’t good enough, in fact ‘some’ Scripture calls it ‘filthy rag’. Now from verse 21, “but now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believed. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus”

Also in Romans 5: 17: For if, by the trespass of the one man(Adam), death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the obedience of the one man(Jesus, second Adam) the many will be made righteous.

In mathematical terms, let us do some simple substitutions:

If The Kingdom of God =/ ≡ God’s rest/ Rest of God,

And

If Grace = God’s gift of righteousness

→ Matthew 6: 33 =

But seek ye first the rest of God and accept His Grace and all these things will be given to you

Also =

“But the first thing you should do is to enter God’s rest and accept His grace which is simply by believing, then all those things that bothers an average human being would just come as a mere consequence”.

It is established that we enter God’s Kingdom or Rest by faith.

NB: the symbol ‘=’ means ‘equal to’, /, means ‘or’, ≡ means ‘equivalent to’, and → means ‘this implies that’.

Finally, Jesus called out in Matthew 11: 28 (MSG):

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me- watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythm of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill- fitting on you. Keep Company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly”.

Jesus promises a life free from the works and struggles of life and religion. However, the only work required from God is in John 6: 29:

Jesus answered “the work of God is this, to believe in the one He has sent” (NIV)

What an easy yoke, GLORY!

By Favouromeje, 2015