Of God and Mankind

John 16:33 (AMPC)  “I have told you these things, so that in Me (Jesus Christ) you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]”   Dear people of God, I was watching cable television last night and on one news channel I saw a story of protests by people in different countries against their governments. Since the beginning of the year 2019, It has been crisis, crisis everywhere from Albania to Algeria to Bolivia to Catalan to Chile to Egypt to Gaza to Georgia to Hong Kong to Indonesia to Lebanon to Montenegro to Papua (Indonesia) to Venezuela to Bangladesh to Kenya to Nigeria, etc. Majority of these protests are directed against the government of the day whose policies and activities have created a lot of discontent while the one in Ind...

Luke 9:1-2,   6 (AMPC) 1 THEN JESUS called together the Twelve [apostles] and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases,   2 And He sent them out to announce  and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healing.   6  And departing, they went about from village to village, preaching the Gospel and restoring the afflicted to health everywhere.   Dear people of God, in the first part of the post on this topic, we saw how the Lord Jesus Christ commanded Christians to respond with love to the offences their human enemies commit against them.   We saw how praying for your human enemies to die as a Christian is clearly against Christ’s commandments and a sin Christians commit without realizing the gravity of their actions.   We saw that what makes Christians to pray for their human enemies to die is because they are either unaware of their God-given rights IN CHRIST over ALL powers of the enemy OR they are afraid of their hu...

Luke 6:27-29 (NKJV)  “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,  28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.  29 To him who strikes you on the  one  cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold  your  tunic either.   Dear people of God, the Gospel according to Luke chapter 6:20-49 contains some of the most demanding instructions to Christians.   However, as far as God is concerned, He has spoken, His Word is forever settled in heaven and His Word would be used to judge every one including Christians.   For many years, I have often wondered why Christians pray for their human enemies to die even when the Lord Jesus Christ and the entire New Testament messages do not contain a single verse instructing Christians to pray this way.   This practice of praying for the enemies to die is so common place now especially amongst Af...

Luke 5:17 (AMPC) “ One of those days, as He (Jesus) was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting by, who had come from every village  and town of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was [present] with Him to heal  them .”   Dear people of God, one of the days we went on Evangelism to share the Gospel with people in our neighbourhood, I was asked a question on how to differentiate genuine miracles from fake ones.   The answer to that question lies in today’s lead Holy Bible text above.   First, Jesus was teaching the Word of God to the people and second, the power of God was present with Him to heal the people.   This is  the right  step for genuine miracles to take place.   God Almighty and Father of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ wants His Word to first be heard, for people to receive it and believe and then He, God, releases His power to save and heal those who believe.   Let us exami...