SHUV.

Returning to our root is the most important journey of life. The place where we carefully look inward daily and receive a permanent change, a change that can only come from the most sincere core of our being. 

We all must seek to know God, the one who makes things work without human consent, without our permission. 

Our Divine Centre the source of all creation whose existence and faithfulness cannot easily be denied. 

The importance of this turning in, far supercedes our knowledge ( gnosis) of right and wrong, good and evil, history and name calling, revelations of men and sojourners of relative truths, For all these things are but factors in our pursuit merely because of the human senses.  What we see, feel, smell, taste or perceive to be ideal. 

But consider a man born deaf, blind and mute with no feeling on his fingertips, a man locked out of this physical world, in it, yet devoid of its infiltration, shall he too not have the privilege of finding His Maker within? Surely God is not unjust, for such a man will find Yahweh without ever having to rely on definitions of society, culture, assertions and self. 

For Adonai is NOT Religion.

The real life is the one within. The one unseen. Where such a man though he be in the world finds he is locked out from it, he will become subject to the real life he sees and in it he would either find Perfect peace, or turmoil and disease. For God is not unjust, HE will never take a man for Himself devoid of Shuv ( A conscious choice. a turn/ answer to the call of His Love).

To dwell on the frailty of this existence, savouring its empty promises and hoping in vain glory is to remain subject to the human senses.  Like the four elements of the earth are strong but without the fifth, their true potential can never be realised, so also the answer to Yahwehs inward call is for one reason alone, a journey to know the fifth. A journey to know Grace. 

Grace to grow, grace to love, grace to continually shun outward circumstances and believe.

To find Him, this pearl of great price is where death ends and life for man begins. But it all starts with a searching soul,

As the deer pants for the water, the soul must lung for Him.

For desire, a burning hunger that cannot be satisfied with anything but Him is the beginning of the journey. 

Never the less, in the physical realm, the soul must constantly set its lungings on the eternal, for only spirit with spirit can meet. 


True desire begets surrender


 No sooner than when the soul hungers and thirsts after righteousness from the very depths within ( Christ the living spring) , he begins to see that there is so much more he can do without. 

There is a powerful pull within, a gnawing for oneness, an intercourse with Divinity Himself. The purest of Depths calling to depth. 

Surrender will beget power. The three fold chord of the Divine that cannot be broken for all eternity. There is power in the alignment of Spirit, Soul and Body. Only He is Spirit. He is the life of man. 

This is the salvation of man. 

Not his ability to enter realms beyond his five senses, but the privilege of recognising true Light. 

From here onward to eternity, omnipotence takes over, causing fruitful multiplication of true Light! 

He shall bring forth sons (epignosis), not only in His Image but after His Likeness. 

And the Truth of His Light will arise and do what Light does best.  Shine!

THE BELIEVER’S AUTHORITY: THE REVIEW

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Book Title : The Believer’s Authority
Book Author: Kenneth E. Hagin
Publisher  Name : Faith Library publications
Year of Publishing: 1986
Number of Pages : 94
Reviewer’s Name : Adaobi Chiemelu

The Believer’s authority is a Hagin book where he goes straight to the point in revealing results from his study on what the average believer has not discovered about his authority over the devil as part of the body of Christ. And like is usual for him, he first exposes us to scriptures that get us keen on learning about the authority that belongs to the believer, which he does not use at all or he does not use expediently.

On seeing the title of the book, one could question the subject, its roots, range and limits. When you open the book, you won’t be disappointed for Hagin dutifully does not just answer these questions, he goes on to expose his source and his experience in the period of his study. As he does so, he reminds us of who we became when we believed in Christ. Our position as opposed to the devil depends on Christ’s position as opposed to the enemy. After we are assured of existing authority that we may not have been wielding judging from our approaches to a lot of turns in our lives, he does not leave us there. He reveals to us using not just scripture, but a vision  he had the way to express our right and the boundaries to it.

Exercising authority could as well be regarded as prayer, the right prayer for any believer. Or better still, it is  done in the place of prayer. It is a right way to pray. The first step to using one’s authority as one granted victory over the devil is having an awareness; this is the truth knowledge that sets us free at the instant our spirits would have absorbed the rhema (word). In eight chapters the subject is investigated, carefully dividing scripture at each step. We would see even with natural examples how valid and even earthly useful our authority as believers is, against popular belief. Many believers are trapped in an awkward position where they spend more time trying to avoid temptation than they do familiarizing themselves with who they have become in Christ. This book has been written to these believers. The interpretation of Greek translations and Hagin’s visions as shared in the book may not go down well with some Christians though, who may look on such hints rather  suspiciously and consider them not to be trusted.

However I struggled between the urge to keep reading and the urge to flip back and re-read. Hagin seemed to plan for this by using repetition so that the reader is still in touch with everything said from the first chapter. The chapters are even sub-divided to make it easier for the reader to mentally group each principle as they apply to each specific sub-topic. Very simply written work in simple language. Being a 70 page book (excluding the preliminary pages), an 8 page notes space left at the back of the book adds a hand book feel to it.

You can easily have this book at a regular price in your nearest bookstore. And mind you, you couldn’t have read this book if you have only read a variant of it from another author. It is Hagin’s live illustrations that make this book yet another exceptional faith book!

quote for the day

Anyting u cant stop urself doing anytime necessary has become a god for you and if your divine relationship wit Christ can be paused anytime u choose to then there’s no God in you.