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A Vision of the Lost
Very compelling illustration!
If this doesn’t fire you up, your wood is wet.
William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army, once shared this vision:
I saw a dark and stormy ocean. Over it the black clouds hung heavily; through them every now and then vivid lightening flashed and loud thunder rolled, while the winds moaned, and the waves rose and foamed, towered and broke, only to rise and foam, tower and break again.
In that ocean I thought I saw myriads of poor human beings plunging and floating, shouting and shrieking, cursing and struggling and drowning; and as they cursed and screamed they rose and shrieked again, and then some sank to rise no more.
And I saw out of this dark angry ocean, a mighty rock that rose up with it’s summit towering high above the black clouds that overhung the stormy sea. And all around the base of this…
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Quick Quote
We are examples of God to each other
@danielachikanu
Here is a contrast between the World’s nature and Christ’s nature:
The world works from outside to inside, Christ works from the inside to the outside.
The world takes people out of the slums, Christ takes the slums out of people, and then take themselves out of the slums.
The world mould men by changing their environment, Christ changes men who then change their environment.
The world shapes human behaviour but Christ changes human’s nature.
Think through this…
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The Problem with Thanksgiving Dinners
In America, Thanksgiving Dinner is a big deal in most families, because it is an annual, one time per year kind of thing. It has requirements of tradition that go back to the very early days of Colonial America. For instance, you must have roast turkey somewhere in the room. Everybody knows that when you roast a turkey, you must also have stuffing (or dressing) to go with it, and here is where things get tricky; the kind of stuffing depends quite a bit on where in America you happen to be. Other things are also required, for there must be potato dishes, sweet potato dishes, and thanks to the Campbell’s soup company, we must also have green beans. It sounds crazy when you say it like that, doesn’t it?
Years ago, when my wife and I moved here to the Midwest, I ran into something quite new in my…
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EVILS OF RELIGION.
BORROWED LIFE? by Clarkson Ikwunze
Over time I have often heard folks say to believers:
‘This life you are living is a borrowed life and if you don’t take care of it…’
I understand that this is often said to challenge folks to line up well and take life seriously and then they will say some other times;
‘Your life is like the borrowed axe..’
But recently it dawned on me, we do not have or live a borrowed life, the life we have is a gift given to us by the greatest giver of all times – Christ Jesus
A simple understanding of that will spur us on to living life to its fullest giving pleasure to God.
Last year, I got a pen as a GIFT from a darling friend of mine, the pen came in a pack, with a refill, looking at it I knew it cost a fortune; it was a gift not a borrowed pen.
Because of my revelation of that pen and its cost and who gave it to me, I cherished it, guess what I never used it until early this year, I just kept admiring it and smiling.
The first time that Pen fell to the ground and sustained a little scratch, I felt bad, I quickly rushed for it as though it was an Ipad that fell, picked it and cleaned it like a baby.
That’s a pen!
How much more will we treat the gift of life, if we really come to know its worth and who it was who gave the gift, certainly that would change everything.
Our life is not really a borrowed life, it is a GIFT from the greatest giver of all times.
One time I asked a fellow:
‘Sow this thing into my life’ and she replied; ‘Someone gave it to me as a gift, I cant give it to you, but I can get you another one’ and I smiled.
Haven said that, please, a gift is given to be used and not just to be admired, don’t keep your gift of life in the shelf admiring it and doing nothing with it, use it!
One fellow once came and whispered to my ears:
‘I was so joyed when I saw you using that particular tie I gave you , I was so happy’
Another one said to me:
‘That stuff I gave you, you know I’ve never seen you use it, don’t you like it?’
And I smiled and said:
‘I am sorry I will used it next Sunday and you will see it’
and joy was stirred up in the fellow
God is pleasured when he looks down and sees you using what he gave you, it thrills the fathers heart to see his sons; working with the gift of eternal life.
Don’t Lock it up, Use it
Let men see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven.
Once more its a Gift and not a Borrowed life: we take care of a borrowed item with a sense of fear, saying
‘Hmm let me not spoil somebody’s thing oo’
But when its a gift, we are motivated by love, joy and kindness to Nurture it and use it to the fullness, we just don’t wanna let it go. They remind us of the GIVER and His Love.
What is Borrowed reminds us of the Owner and what he will do to us if we don’t return his stuff in one piece.
God is a Giver not a Lender
What is Borrowed is to be returned, What is a Gift, is given without revocation or repentance (A change of mind)
God Bless You
GRACE
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MY GENERATION by ‘Nathaniel Bassey’
My generation is in a hurry.
We want everything now now now!
We want it to happen fast and right away or we’ll make it happen
We want the glory, without the story.
We want to be stars, without the scars of discipline
We want the prize, without paying the price
We want the limelight without the wilderness experience
We want thrills and frills, with no substance
We want to be eulogized without being circumcised.
We want an anointing, without the consecration.
We are controlled by what we see and feel than the voice of the Spirit and the word
We want hit songs, without the heat of the Holy Spirit’s fire
We want big platforms to perform, without first being transformed
We want huge success without going through the process
We want prosperity, with no posterity
We want to shine without being refined.
I have news for you. In this kingdom, the kingdom of our great God, there is something called the path of life. A way of glory. It’s the journey of dying to self and the flesh. Things don’t just happen.
Every man and woman out there, doing great and genuine works in the kingdom are those in the school of the Spirit. In this school, you wait ! You are tried, tested, empowered and released unto good works.
Is it Jesus? David? Paul? Or who? Jesus spent 30 years preparing for a ministry of 3.5years. In this kingdom, people don’t just emerge. They are first submerged in Christ, where they are transformed.
You want to reflect His glory? You have to behold it first. Come on now!
You don’t just sow a seed into some person and expect to walk in their level of unction.
Well, in the other kingdom, that of this world, you can package it, work it and engineer it, and it would appear to work. But not here.
God has a room. It is a waiting room.
Psalm 105:19
“Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tested him.”
Hebrews 10:36.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise
You want good success? It has to be based on Joshua 1:8 and Psalm 1.
Please send and share with a young person out there. Especially those in a hurry to make it.
We shall be a wise generation.
God bless you all.
Nathaniel Bassey
January 22, 2015
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