See the brighter side they say
Stay positive they’ll always remind
Be good! That’s the urge
Stand for what and who you believe in
That’s good and the great but
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith
That’s the truth and the way
– Bunmi Atteh
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
Days of the law when it was wrong
To do things out of the law
Keep the Sabbath day holy
Not even to give a helping hand
When your neighbour’s falling
Just stand watching and praying
Tie the word up on my head
To show the world how much I’ve read
Read they do, to do they don’t
But not to say I’m doing or I do
That was how it was
When we lived by the law
They called others blind
Just because they have eyes
Even without seeing to have a vision
Veiled faces is all I see running this race
Whereto I’m sure they don’t know
What for than the prize
How much can they give?
Self-righteousness all they got
Who do we want to show?
Christ they say they know
With this kind of life
Impossible!
He hates to see veiled faces
Calling others blind
He hates to see the deaf
Calling others dumb
He alone is the truth
Who knows the way and can show the way
You’ve got to follow His lead
For he is the way and the life.
Today you have a choice. To accept defeat and be sad or to look Life right in the face and say I HAVE JOY.
Many thanks to our friend in Christ, Shannon Childs @ http://www.doodlesinvigorate.wordpress.com
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (Romans 14:17)
Whilst maintaining our University education illustration, we should very much understand the things that will be, as prophesied in the Scripture of truth. Now we all know that celebration is so certain after the graduation, even before being launched into a business world. So also a special celebration awaits us that will be faithful to the end in following Jesus. We are going to have a dinner with the Lord. He Himself will come and take us for a dinner, which is called, THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB, according to the Scriptures. Revelation 19:5-9. Note that this will only be for those that are taken up during the rapture and those that died in Christ before rapture. Luke 12:35-38, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17.
According to the scripture, those that died in Christ are not really dead but are asleep and at the sound of the rapture trump they will arise. To illustrate, they are in a kind of lobby in a heavenly hotel, resting and waiting for the rapture day. (Just as hell is a waiting room/lobby for the lake of fire.Revelation 20:14 says, ‘And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.’)
This means that, it is at the rapture moment we will all be caught up together to meet with the Lord in the clouds and be with Him forever, according to 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. Then the Lord will take us for the said dinner. And while this celebration is on, many that are left behind on earth will be undergoing the great tribulation time. Jesus said in Matthew 24:20-21, “But pray ye that your flight (the rapture moment) be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day (when you are cold spiritually): For then (after the rapture) shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” The truth is, so many will still make it to heaven at last through great tribulation. (Because by the time rapture takes place, many more people will eventually believe in the Holy Bible, and follow it.) But they will not partake of the supper. And also they will have to pay with their own lives, because the grace will not really be there again. Revelation 7:9-14. This shall not be our portion in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Going to heaven should not just be your prayer and earnest desire, but going to heaven with the flight (rapture).
Also just before this test, timed world will be finally over, every knee shall bow to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. This will be after the great tribulation, when the Lord Jesus Christ and all His saints, those with the rapture and those through the great tribulation will come back into the earth and reign over everyone that succumbed to the deception of the devil and rejected Jesus Christ’ testimony. This will be for a period of a thousand years, at the which time the devil will be bound in prison throughout those years. Then these scriptures will be fulfilled, Isaiah 45:22-23, Revelation 2:25-27 and 20:1-6.
And just before the millennia reign commences, the Lamb and His armies on their arrival in the earth will first battle with the beast, the Antichrist, and his armies. This is the battle of Armageddon. The beast shall lose and be thrown into the lake of fire alongside his false prophet, being the first to enter there. His remaining armies shall be slain by the Lamb, because He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Then the procession into the millennia reign comes in. Revelation 16:12-14 & 16, 17:14, 19:11-21.
Note this, the devil’s present most useful tool against us the followers of Jesus Christ is that of distraction, so that we may go off track and eventually miss our flight (rapture). The devil uses all the many activities of this world, including church activities sometimes to steal away the most important thing, which is our “personal” relationship with the Word (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. Luke 21:33-36, 12:35-40. Know this also that once saved is not saved forever; if you do not use your salvation rightly it can be taken away from you. Luke 19:20-26, Matthew 25:24-30, Philippians 2:13.
After the 1000 years of rule are expired, there shall be the final battle. When the devil shall be loosed from the prison, and shall deceive his followers one more time and lastly to come and fight with the Lamb and His armies (Gog and Magog Battle). The devil loses again and finally of course and he is cast into the lake of fire. Following this, all of God’s enemies are sentenced to judgement in the lake of fire. Then will come the end of this test world. All the world will be brought before the judgement throne. And though we will all be judged according to our works in this test world, what will decide if we make it into the better side of the next, untimed world, is if one’s name is found written in the BOOK OF LIFE. It is these ones that will constitute the family of God in the world to come. Revelation 20:7-15, 21:1-7. John 5:28-29
These truths may sound strange, but the Bible provides proofs to their authenticity and anyone can understand them, if we can practice maintaining a quiet spirit in the place of prayer to the One and only true living God, the God of the Bible. Such that God Himself brings us into His presence, where we study, maximizing the use of His words and ultimately just loving God for His Person.
In conclusion,
God created a time-zone world in between eternity, why? To get who will genuinely be of His family members and those who will not be, by reason of their choices, will be condemned into eternal damnation.
Revelations 1:8 perfectly sums this up:
“I am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The Ending, saith the Lord, which is (eternity), and which was (test timed-world), and which is to come (eternity), the Almighty.”
God bless
Adebayo Funmi
08060172855
The most temporary of them all is LIFE
– Blessing John
The top of one level is the least of another
I am a member of a movement called Student Christian Movement. We had our handover weekend from 23rd to 25th of January during which we had one of our most tasking moments during our leadership tenure i.e the now past leaders.
On the fateful Sunday the incumbent leaders which I’m one of is to be dissolved, the President read out his handover report and called every department headed by each person, enlisting their achievements and how impressed he was by their performances but skipped mine mistakenly.
I was bitter at that for reasons I am still trying to understand. Perhaps because I wanted public recognition or because I felt all my unit members would be disappointed or because I felt my presence wasn’t felt or I felt my successor would be feeling she’s taking over an invisible unit. For whatever reason it was, I know I shouldn’t have felt as terrible as I did.
Why?
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:1- 6 that they are not looking for letters of commendation from them or anyone. He goes on to say that what is important is the letter written by God in their lives which can be read by everybody. That is what I should care about: That I imparted on the people I was given to lead not on commendations.
– Nnagbo Chidimma
Christ a poet 