GO GET YOUR PULPIT! (Its already tuesday!)

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As I write this, I have a conviction I am speaking not just to you but to the gift that’s lying within you crying out for expression.
I was just sitting out on the balcony strumming my guitar while enjoying some leisure thinking when a thought breezed through my mind…

“The creatures earnestly wait for the manifestation of the sons of God”

For a long while in my life I thought I got the whole point in this scripture but as I sang on, this same words came to mean even more as this scripture opened up right before me just like an onion bulb (testimony to the endless nature of God’s word).

Now, needless to say, many Christians would agree with me that we all were created for a purpose and underlying this purpose is the one great commission:
This is universally and unquestionably true but in our pursuit to fulfill this God given assignment, most people have innocently or in most cases religiously thwarted the purpose of God for their lives leading to frustration, dissatisfaction, struggling and in some cases, total relapse into old and sinful habit or even collapse of faith all of which are not what God promises in His word!

“…For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

Nonetheless, the major cause of this issue is usually written off to discovery of purpose which is in most cases correct but in more complicated cases where purpose is known and frustration alongside its vices still occur, a underlying problem of location. Put in simple words, not every Christian is called to be a Pastor (by this I mean a minister of the word, heading a church) but permit to insist that every Christian has a pulpit. In other words not every Christian can affect their world or carry out the great commission from a church stage but every Christian should definitely and most certainly preach the message of Christ.

This should sound absurd or outlandish to a few but on a lighter note, just what if it were so and somehow a whole country came to the knowledge of Christ, accepted Him and surrendered to His love with a burning zeal to achieve the great commission?
I’m all too sure the economic meltdown in that country would hit a record breaking all time low. This would evidently be because everybody was out building some church maybe in another country and it ain’t gonna be pretty.*just saying*

In contemporary times, a normal church setting would have the chairs for the congregation to sit, the instruments and then the stage where the pulpit may or may not stand. It is from this point of leadership and authority that anointing and control should flow to the church. It is also from this point that the minister (in word,song or otherwise) ministers from. I can hence conclude; The pulpit is to the minister as the throne is to the king. Having made this clear I’d like to restate my bordering claim

Not every Christian is called to be a pastor but all Christians have a pulpit

This understanding I got does not counter the truth of the great commission but it points out a fundamental problem in the Christian community. (let me explain!)
Yes we may have discovered our talents and yes we know we are to use them to glorify God’s name and preach the gospel and transform our world but all too quickly we run to Church and start working earnestly assuming it most definitely is our place of assignment.
This is not a bad decision but in too many cases it is not the right decision so listen up believers!

I love your zeal for the Lord’s work and I just want to let you know that at the point you met Christ, a process began in you, more like a fire from your insides and that fire has a hilltop where it should burn and light the world even brighter. For a fact, That fire in you has a pulpit.

So you have a pulpit, a place of assignment! The instructions in the great commission are quite the same for every born again Christian but the location does differ.
Your location is your hilltop, it is where you shine the brightest and it is where you’ll get the greatest satisfaction, your hilltop is your pulpit. Please note that when I say location I am not just referring to a geographical location but your pulpit can be anywhere, anything or even any means from which you operate your natural gifting for maximum impact and God’s glory. So your pulpit might just be a pen and some sheets or a perfectly tuned 6-stringed instrument. Your pulpit may be a science laboratory, the backsides of a camera, the congress hall of politics or even a sports field. Your pulpit could also be your amazing vocals or a simple paintbrush, a palette of colors and a canvas: the complete trio. Your pulpit could be anywhere and it could be in a church.

No more stereotypes Christians

It is very important to find your calling yet it is as well necessary to find the place of your manifestation (your pulpit) cos you know what?
The creatures-the pens, the microphones, the landscapes, the clay, the musical instruments, the chemical elements, the computer programmes, the economy, the earth- are waiting for your manifestation.

Shalom!

CRITIQUE OF PURE NONSENSE

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You’re a brilliant mind who can’t get himself around to taking the idea of the Divine

It’s beautiful clothes, adorable baby faces, stunning landscapes, memorable experiences

But not a father in heaven, or anywhere around

That somehow, is uncomfortable dictatorship

The problem must be in the understanding of the heavenly

Of directing courses, of masterminding, and of a feeling heart

Of justice, of reasonableness, of care for the simple things and of the grieving

But He’s not just the sledgehammer-bearing fierceness you spit upon

Except in final impenitence, where you’ve given Him no chance to love you in life

The world collapsing upon heads is a matter for able human hands to wrestle with

He, the Lord divine, has given us this mandate

Don’t you see the point?

You’re a grand-headed philosopher who loves to know much

Of the nature of everything that was, and is, and will ever be

But you will never think that all that is seen is held up by a great grand unseen

Never consider that all is fixed in place by a force intelligent

If you be truthful, you should confess humbly

That your dispute is not a matter of it being implausible

It is the consequence of it that you see as impermissible

What would become of your freedom, your privileges?

You will be at your armchair’s speculation’s best to pronounce life unordered

Do you imply pointless

Try telling that to the hungry, the grieved, the searching

Why not tell them to give up hope instead?

I say that it is not insensitive to provide succor to the sorrowful, the hunting and the haunted

Or to think of what our art, our trade, our investigations and our applications imply

If all finally rounds up to zero

Why create words, when they build up to create an empire of accounts

Expressing longings for eternity too great to suppress

To put down by the desire of fearful humanity

God is true, God is loving, God is worth-giving

God is the reason, our meaning

Life’s definition

That’s all.

SUBTLE

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She began speeding down the road
A million miles per hour
Blindfolded
A smile pasted on her face
Oblivious she was headed in the wrong direction.

Just imagine her short-lived disdain when the obstacle suddenly cut short her fairy tale ride and the last sound she ever heard was her cry…

She had her hands on the controls
Everything seemed right
So she figured,
She could afford to shut her eyes and enjoy the ride.
A ride, everyone had stamped as alright
Besides everybody was doing it now
…so why contrive?
What worked for them should definitely work in my different way for me
So freeway or highway she was definitely bound to end up this way anyway.

You can imagine the way that smile immediately turned upside down

No! literally it turned upside down
Because her head on collision with deception and betrayal
Hurt and disappointment
Crashed into the ill placed curb of destruction
Carefully camouflaged by a black and white track called lust
Which was so strong that she tumbled over and over again
Until she hit the ground hard enough to shake of thoughts of survival
Simply because she refused to read the red tall sign that cautioned quietly; STOP

So there she lay, on a bloodied road named Guilt
Dying a death another already did
Trying to pay for a life already paid for
She was what you may call Lost…

If she however would only open her eyes
Unlike Judas she may not fail so woefully at the sight of a possibility: A NEW LIFE
How she doesn’t have to hang from a rope
Because He already hung from a tree…
Endured a Calvary of sorrows
In exchange for her joy
You see, she will no longer be Lost
…or even worse condemned.
 
Because…
Where the sting of death ended was far from where the mark of Christ started
In fact it was non negotiable!
When Him who is Life held the keys to her eternal hell
He chose to set her free.

She must realize…
That like a corpse laid dead for four days
A word spoken from the very lips of creation was able to re-jerk a pulse so cold and far spent
Regenerate a heart so used and wasted
Turn a pot of clay into a vessel of Gold…        
She must choose to realize
That she has only arrived at the CROSSroads
…where Grace and mercy meet.

But first she must open her eyes…

BIrThDAy beLLs

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Yes i said it,

mankind has a gift and it is this kind man. he is the kind of man you will meet and you are sure not to remain the same. this same one is the kind of one you will meet and have a clear view of what being different *i mean standing out* is, he is really one of a kind.

fulfilled the scriptures for when the bible spoke of having a friend that is closer than a brother, the Holy scriptures kinda referred to this one, seriously! all you see is truth no flatters but if you become bothered be challenged to make impact then maybe as i write about him today, someday, someone else would script yours

i am talking about one of the brightest young brains i have seen alive, he is also a heaven bound candidate, because as orchestral as it gets.. this one can make harmonious sounds with his fingers and vocals stringing bass chords, marking the co-ordinates of heaven; which is the worship of the Father.

and dating back to October 24th, more than ten years ago.. he was born of a woman…. a last born, not in a manger though but another beginning begun.

i am talking about an entrepreneur extraordinaire,.. writer, worshiper, he is tall dark and handsome, he has been a motivation, a source of joy, a brother and a shining light

i am talking about the Chief editor and leader of the Christ a poet team.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GODSWILL(OMEZ)

The Team love u. God bless you.IMG-20141023-WA0006

WWF:Finishing Strong In Thoughtfulness

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Understand this: Your finishing strong in every aspect of life, and ultimately in the heavenly journey, is dependent on how positively thoughtful you are. Some people are only negatively thoughtful.

Generally in life, you can’t rise above your thinking-capacity development.
Proverbs 23:7, 28:19, 4:23, 2:10-17 (emphasis on verses 16&17)

Remember, thorough thinking in line with the Word of God brings you into a deep understanding, and thereby produces you with wisdom to guide you through life’s adventures.
-Even in the academic world, a student that is not deeply thoughtful academically can’t be excellent, nor ultimately finish strong academically.
Read Deuteronomy 32:29 again.

Other things thoughtfulness does:
-It brings one into moderacy and humility.
-It helps one cut off extremes of all kinds. 2 Peter 3:8-14
-It helps one retain God’s fear always. Proverbs 2:16. (The woman being referred to here forgets her covenant -fear- of her God, because she is not thoughtful.)
Joseph was a very thoughtful man, the reason why he was able to escape lying with Portiphar’s wife. Joseph said, ‘… how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Genesis 39:9. That’s a thoughtful fellow indeed!

Brethren, let’s learn to be deeply thoughtful in the Lord. That we may constantly retain God’s fear all the days of our life, both in our hearts and minds, and before our faces, as to make our finishing strong in every aspect of life a reality. The Psalmist says, “Thy word have hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” Psalm 119:11.

And remember, when we walk in sync with the Holy Spirit, He helps us to be thoughtful in line with God’s Word and brings into our remembrance every word we need to help us constantly enjoy the best of God in our heavenly race. John 14:26.
So, basically, to be thoroughly thoughtful we only need to recognize the Person of the Holy Spirit, and keep a deep fellowship with Him always.

Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Grace!
Adebayo Funmi
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