STAYING STEADFAST IN THE LORD!!

“I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken away. Praise the name of the Lord!” Job 1:21 (NLT)

A lot of us if not all can find it easy to praise God when things are going well in our lives, when all that we desire to have is in our midst we call God by many different names. When our health, success, finance, family affairs, etc. are in good terms we find it easy to call God faithful.

But can a lot of us be able to stay steadfast in the Lord when things are not that on our side and say, like Job whom even all that he had was stripped off him and he was left naked and in poor health but still could in the midst of all this affliction call God faithful?

I doubt many turn to acknowledge God in the midst of their season of prosperity as long as the season does not change God is still God in their life, but as soon as things start to go downhill priorities changes.

It doesn’t have to  be like that we need to know to praise God even if there is no food on the table, even when our health are not at their best He must still remain Jehovah El-shaddai in our live. There is a difference between praise and worship and before you can praise God you must come to worship Him first.

Praise is saying “Thank you God  that I have bread on the table for me to eat today!”, Praise is saying “Thank you God that my health is intact!”, Praise is saying “Thank you Lord that there  is peace and harmony in my family!” Praise is saying “Thank you God that all is well in my life!”

But true worship which is very hard for many of us to partake in is saying “Thank you God for this day even if I do not have any bread on the table!” True Worship is saying “Thank you God for today even if I am sick at body and my health is not intact!” True Worship is saying “I thank you God even if things are in a season of lack in my life for I know my season of abundance will come at your own time and not mine!”

Today if you believe in the Word of God and in His promise that “He will never leave you nor forsake you” you need to start showing it by praising Him even if your days seem dark.

In true fact they are no dark you just going through a season of Sabbath, which means is a season of rest which God just want you for Himself away from the busy toils of the world.

 This season that seem like a season of lack of worldly things is a season in which you must be heaping in abundances those of the spiritual for it is when we are separated from the worldly reaches that we can heap the Heavenly things!

 Today thank God for what He has given you a precious day to joy in His presence in as you begin to do that you season of abundance will be knocking in the door as a sign of God’s reward for your faithfulness!

Stay steadfast in the Lord Today keep the faith and never allow it to be shaken by circumstance for God is better than our problems more than we can begin to imagine!

FINE NEW CLOTHES!!!

“’Take off his filthy clothes.’  And turning to Jeshua He said ‘See I have taken away your sins and now I am giving you these fine new clothes.” Zechariah 3:4

What the Lord has done for us by sacrificing His only begotten son on the cross is reason enough that we should not let the thoughts of our past keep us from enjoying today!

 It has cost God a lot to earn for us freedom and He want us to be thankful and live life as He intend for us to live it live without guilt of the past for God has already forgiven that.

Yes what we used to be or maybe still struggling with has left a lot to be desired in our hearts.

The maybe a hole of guilt in our hearts which is still showing and it can only be filled by only two thing, believing and accepting that God has cleansed us clean and forgiven us of our sins.

When Jesus Christ shouted “it is finished” on the cross He realized His Holy Spirit of righteousness to fill the empty places in our hearts that sin had put in there.

We were dirty and filthy in our transgressions but not anymore for the Holy Spirit of God has “taken off those filthy clothes” and “clothed us with new clean and spotless clothes of righteousness.

We ought to stop walking like wounded horses, for the Lord has healed all that was broken within us! And He did not heal us so we can still live a life of guilt He healed us so we can be free so that His Holy name call be glorified in the joy that He has given us.

God has not given up on us that why He gave Jesus Christ to the world to show that He still has a plan for us.

 Jesus Christ said “No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.” Matthew 5:15-16.

We should concentrate less on how our past used to look like and concentrate more on seeing to it that our good deeds of righteousness “shines out for all to see, so that everyone will praise our heavenly Father”

JUDGE NOT...

“Do not Judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others.” Matthew 7:1 (NLT)

Brothers and sisters who told us please that we can judge others, that we can look at a person from the outside and decide who they are and what they going to be in life or what they are destined to? Who said we could look at people from the outside and decide whether they should be in our church or not?

I was shocked today when I heard that there are other Christian who goes around judging people and telling them they are destined to go to hell. I mean who are we to judge whether a person is worthy of God’s Kingdom or not, for the most part we know that all of us are not worthy but it is only by grace that we are even saved today.

Jesus tells us that we should “judge not and we wouldn’t be judged” and that “the same amount of judgment we held against someone we are going to be judged to that measure”.

Yes getting born again offered us authority over many things in life, but judging others or ourselves for that matter was and still is not one of them.

When Jesus sent the disciples into the cities of Israel to spread the good news He gave them authority over a lot of things but not authority to judge anyone.

 Jesus said to them “Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!” Matthew 10:8

Never did He say go and judge the people and call those you think of as worthy. He sent the disciple to people with a need, people with a problem.

Before we can judge a person according to what they do let us all keep in mind that “all people have a problem, but they themselves are not the problem” cast out the problem to come out of the person not the person out of God’s family!

Jesus said go “heal the sick”, when we judge others, how then can we heal their sickness while our comment are the ones bringing sickness and guilt upon people’s lives?

Jesus said go “raise the dead”, when we judge people how I we going to raise them from death while we are the one speaking words of death upon them?

Jesus also said go “cast out demons” if we judge people and call them demons how are we going to cast out the demons in them?

Jesus said “Whatever you do to My people you do to Me” so when we curse God’s people whom were created in His image by saying they are going to Hell or are destined to Hell, we are in turn cursing the Lord.

Have you been misjudged and rejected don’t worry for Jesus said “Anyone who receives you, receives Me [Jesus]” Matthew 10:40 (NLT). Which then means anyone who rejects you rejects our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us judge not and concentrate only on doing what we have been given authority of and we shall be rewarded by our Father in Heaven according to our faithfulness to what He commanded we should do! “Do to others whatever you would like them do to you” [Matthew 7:12]

PRAYER…

O God please help us by the power of your Holy Spirit to not be fooled by the false judgment of ourselves that we go around casting judgment upon you children whom you created in your very image. Amen