Of God and Mankind

A lot of painful things happen to people all over the world every single day. A lot of individuals, families and groups encounter tragedies that can sometimes be mind boggling. If one is a Christian, it could even lead to confusion and loss of one's faith in Christ if not properly managed. The reason is simple: people, especially unbelievers will wonder why a Christian should experience such tragedy if he or she is truly serving God. Have you ever found yourself in such situation where your faith as a Christian was challenged by a personal tragedy or very painful experience? Did it make you feel like abandoning the faith because you felt Jesus or God had abandoned you? Dear friend, today's post is meant to deal with such issues so as to make Christians understand the cost of discipleship. It is my sincere hope that at the end of this post, Christians would learn to look at such issues in their proper perspective and handle them effectively. If I must tell you tod...

The reason I am writing this particular post is about something shocking I heard today - that there are still Christians who are only aware of the message of tithes and offerings and are not aware of the message of repentance and salvation. While correcting the Pharisees in His message, our Lord Jesus said in Matthew 23:23, "How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You give to God a tenth even of the seasoning herbs, such as mint, dill, and cummin, but you neglect to obey the really important teachings of the Law, such as justice and mercy and honesty. This you should practise, without neglecting the others." The Lord was simply telling them to, in addition to the very important teaching on tithes and offerings truly needed to advance the work of the Gospel, to also pay attention to the more important teachings of the Law. Prior to telling His parable of the Lost Sheep (Matthew 18:12-13), our Lord Jesus says in verse 11: ...

Dear friend, has anyone offended you so much that you have determined in your heart never to forgive the person? What is the worst offence that someone has committed against you? Did they: ·         steal your money or property? ·         tell lies against you that landed you or someone else in prison? ·         betray your trust? ·         rape you or a loved one? ·         sexually molest you or a loved one? ·         kill your spouse, sibling, child, relative, neighbour, friend or colleague? ·         bully you or continually molest you with physical and emotional abuse? ·         turn your spouse, sibling, child, relative, neighbour, friend or colleague against you? ·     ...

There is a great need for us to understand the person of God so we know how to relate to  Him in our everyday lives. This post is about God's Holiness. The Lord God is so holy that once a person understands this nature of His, that person  would also understand why God cannot stand sin in any form. The very first pointer to God's holiness is seen when the first man and woman Adam and Eve  disobeyed a simple command God gave to them to eat of every tree in the garden of Eden EXCEPT the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and bad that stood in the middle of the garden. satan came and deceived them to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree and that single act of  disobedience made the glory of God to leave them. Rather than repent and ask God for forgiveness, Adam blamed the woman and the woman blamed the devil. That singular act has been responsible for the evil that entered mankind and continues to this very day. This was not God's plan for mankin...

Dear reader, in the first part of this post, we examined the reason why the name and blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the most potent in heaven, on earth, and the entire universe. If you have not read that post, I urge you sincerely to do so. In that first post, I encouraged readers to plead the blood of Jesus over ANYONE AND ANYTHING - your family members, your work, business, health, education, finances, vehicle, home, friends, relatives, colleagues, acquaintances, clothing, food, etc etc. Plead the blood of Jesus over your soul and body, over everything and anything that concerns you - even over your perceived enemies without hating them as true Christians should behave (Matthew 5:43-48). Call the name of Jesus into your life, into your heart, into your soul, into any project you want to undertake in life, into any circumstance you find yourself. The power in Jesus' name and blood is simply unbelievable. Anyone who knows how to use this simple truth ...

Our Lord Jesus Christ told His Apostles in John 14:12-14, "I am telling you the truth: whoever believes in me will do what I do - yes, he will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son. If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it." In encouraging His disciples to be fervent in prayer without giving up, our Lord Jesus Christ told the parable of the widow and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-5) and He ended up by saying in verses 7-8, And the Lord continued, "Listen to what that corrupt judge said. Now, will God not judge in favour of His own people who cry to Him day and night for help? Will He be slow to help them? I tell you, He will judge in their favour and do it quickly. But will the Son of Man find faith on earth when He comes?" In these two Scripture verses, our Lord Jesus shows us the power in His name as well as the import...