I am the beloved of the Lord

Jesus loves me this I know. For the bible tells me so. That's part of a Christian song. I will sing this song to me son regularly. There is another part of the song that says Jesus is strong.

For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to die for the world that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. The moment a sinner accepts Jesus Christ as His savior and Lord, that sinner is transformed from a state of sin to a state of right standing with God. He/she is made the righteousness of God in Christ. All his/her sins are forgiven forever!

God cannot punish a Christian for his/her sins for the punishment has been vetted on Jesus Christ and it will be an injustice for God to punish Christians for their sins. That is not to say Christians should live a lifestyle of sin. How shall it be where Christians are dead to sin and alive to righteousness! How can it be where Christians see the grace and loveliness of Lord Jesus Christ. When we fall in love with Christ Jesus, we shall fall out of love with sin. For sin shall not have dominion over us for we are not under law but under grace!

It is fine to know that Christians are saved from eternal damnation. More importantly, be conscious that we are the beloved of the Lord. Beloved means to be deeply loved, very close to the heart, according to one dictionary. That means we are deeply loved by Father God and we are very closed to His heart. For as Christ is, so are we in this world. The heart of Father God is full of Jesus and we are in Him. So we are His darlings. He only has good thoughts toward us.

As the beloved of the Lord, we get to enjoy whatever Jesus is! Jesus is full of love. We can to enjoy His love and because He first loves us, we can love one and another. Out of the abundance of grace we can extend favor to another. Jesus is wisdom personified. We have the mind of Christ and His wisdom shall manifest greatly in our lives. Jesus is full of shalom life! This shalom life flows mightily in our lives. Jesus is shalom. The bible says Jesus has bequeathed His shalom to us. We have the peace which surpasses all understandings of the world.

As the beloved of the Lord, we are joint heir with Christ! Whatever He has, we have. Behold the Lord Christ Jesus and see our lives been transformed by Lord Christ Jesus. We see Jesus in the word. We see His loveliness and abundance of grace through His word. We are been transformed effortlessly by beholding Jesus.

All our needs are supplied. There shall be no lack in our lives for Christ has given His life, His very person for our every need. There IS fresh manna for today. Take no thought for tomorrow. Live today.There is sufficient grace for today. Be constantly mindful of the truth we are the beloveds of the Lord. Hallelujah!

Why Worry?

The bible says which of you by worrying can increase your stature.

Why do we worry then? We worry because we don't believe God is able to
provide for all our needs. We worry because we don't think God is that good
to us. We worry because of the cares of the world.

The devil will always try to distract us from the love of God and His
written word. He will always try to deceive us into believing we have to
get our act together inorder to be right with God. He will gum us to death,
if we allow him to.

The work at the cross some two thousand years ago is completely complete!
There is nothing we do now to be righteous. For it had been accomplished by
Jesus at the cross. Our "role" is to believe God will always see us through
in our times of need. He may seem to be late but God is always on time. His
timing is always perfect.

The bible says to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and
all these things that the gentiles seek He will add to us. What's seeking
the kingdom of God then? It is to be peaceful and joyous in the Holy
Spirit. It is knowing that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

When we are restful in the Holy Spirit, no evil formed shall come near us
nor any plague come near our dwellings. Knowing that we are right with God
through Jesus' finished work bring joy to body, soul and Spirit.

When we know that we know that God will always take care of us regardless
of our actions, we don't have to worry! We can cast all our cares upon
Jesus and lay our burden at His feet for He cares and His yoke is easy and
His burden is light.

When we are faced with a BIG challenge in our lives, knowing that God will
take care of the challenge will give us shalom. Why worry when we can
instead cast every care upon God? Believe by faith. With patience and
preserverance, things will always turn out for our good in His perfect
timing. Hallelujah!

Bask In His Love

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.

Why is that when the Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want? The reason: the
Lord loves me. He doesn't just loves but so loves me that He wants to
provide for everything that I want or need with more than enough. He wants
to make sure all things will turn out for my good. He just wants me to
receive all that He is in my life.

How then do I receive? I can receive because I'm the righteous of God in
Christ Jesus! I receive by enjoying His love for me. I receive by being
restful in the Holy Spirit. I receive by just basking in His abundance
supplies. For the Lord shall supply all my needs according to the riches
and glory in Christ Jesus.

When God sent His only begotten Son to the cross, He had only one thing in
mind: to reconcile with mankind for He so loved them. The greatest
demonstration of God's love is shown at the cross. Jesus was crucified so
the we can divinely take His position of righteous while He took our state
of sin. Oh, what love is this! That God will send His only begotten Son to
die for sinful men so that through that one complete sacrifice, man will be
made righteous with God when he accepts the gift of salvation.

There is no way man can be made right with God through his sacrifice. Only
Jesus' sacrifice at the cross qualifies us to be righteous! Enjoy Abba
Father's abundance love and blessings in our lives. Hallelujah!

In His Presence

The Lord was with Joseph and Joseph prospered in everything he did.

In the bible, Joseph was sold as a slave to an Egyptian. As a slave, the
Lord prospered everything he did. The presence of the Lord was so evident
in his life that his master entrusted everything under his care including
his wife. The wife tried to seduced Joseph to lie with her but Joseph ran
away from her presence for he knew sleeping with his master's wife was
doing great wickedness to the Lord.

Joseph's master ultimately threw him into the dungeon for his wife had
accused Joseph of trying to take advantage of her in his absence. While in
the dungeon, God prospered all that Joseph had done. Joseph had so much
favour with the keeper of the prison that he was entrusted with the care of
the other prisoners. A few years later, Joseph was promoted to be the
second in command after Pharaoh.

All this while from the time Joseph was sold as a slave to the time he was
in prison, he was conscious of the Lord's presence in his life. He had
faith in God that all things will turn out for his good!

Some Christians may be going through financial lack in their lives. So long
they behold Jesus in their lives, it will be a matter of time before they
are comppletely delivered out of their financial lack! As long as they are
conscious of Jesus' in their lives, heat will not come to them even if they
are in the middle of a storm.

If a Christian is suffering from some form of diseases and will not stop
cultivating the Lord's presence in his/her life, it will be a matter of
time when this Christian will be completely freed from that disease! For as
Christ is, so are we in this world.

There is NO obstacle so big that God doesn't have an answer for. God
already has the providence in place long before we face any lack in our
lives. Be conscious of His presence and all things will work out for our
good. Hallelujah!

God Is Faithful

God is forever faithful. Even when we are faithless, God is still faithful.
He will never leave us nor forsake us. He will make all things turn out for
our good. We just need to put our trust in Him.

There are so many instances in the bible where God's faithfulness is
displayed. In the beginning after Adam had fallen, God promised that the
Seed of Eve will crush the head of the devil. Generations later, Jesus died
on our behalf so that the devil no longer has the power of death. With long
life, He will satisfy us. His word is the truth.

When the earth was filled with genetically engineered giants and half
humans and half monsters, God bought forth the flood to wipe out all the
monsters on earth. Only Noah and his wife and his three sons and his three
daughters were spared because they were then the only pure humans left on
earth. It is the goodness of God to preserve the human race.

God cannot lie. The bible doesn't say God will not lie. It tells us that
God CANNOT lie! He is the God that provides. Jesus is the shepherd that I
shall not lack in any good things. If healing is what a Christian is
looking for, Jesus had already taken the diseases and illnesses on His body
that by His stripe, the Christian is already the healed! We don't have to
sweat and toil for our health for robust health is from the Lord.

If we are looking for financial breakthrough in our lives, God will
breakthrough for us! The word says that our God will meet all our needs
according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. God will not just meet
our needs. He will exceedingly, abundantly supply all our needs and wants
above what we can ask or think of.

In the feeding of five thousand, Jesus turned five loaves of bread and two
small fishes into food for them, with twelve baskets full of food. God is
forever faithful. He will see to our every need. He will not let the
righteous souls to be put to shame. Hallelujah!

Accept The Gift

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Obviously, the greatest miracle of all, salvation is a gift. We can't work out our good work or to fulfill all religious requirement to be right with God. It is a gift. What we can do is to accept the gift. The fulfillment of the law had been accomplished by Jesus at the cross. With the completed work at the cross, an divine exchange had taken place and Christians are made righteous.

With this perfect gift comes health and prosperity. With this perfect gift comes healthy relationship with loved ones. With this perfect gift comes peace of the heart and a sound mind. With this perfect gift comes all things working for good of a Christian.

Accept the perfect gift freely, without any justification on our side. For it is Christ who justifies us to be right with God. It is Christ who sacrificed His body for us to have robust health. It is Christ who was made poor at the cross that we through His poverty might be made rich. It is Christ who was left alone on the cross and proclaimed that His disciple John had His mother as his mother. It is Christ who bequeathed His peace before His crucification for us to have perfect peace of heart. It is Christ who had given us a sound mind for his mind was tortured on our behalf. For His perfect love had casted out all fear in our lives.

Freely received what God had freely given as a gift. Accept the gift freely. Rejoice in the finished work of Jesus Christ at the cross. Hallelujah!

God Is Love

God is love. This is love: for we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

God has so much love for His children that He is ever ready to abundantly
supply all their needs. He has a masterplan for all His children long
before their are aware of it. He has already designed a way of escape for
every trial His children are going through.

The bible tells a story of a prodigal father who was full of love for his
two sons. When the prodigal son came home, the father had so much love for
him that he immediately ran to the son, hugged him, kissed him and restored
the son with the ring, a new robe and a new pair of sandals. The father
didn't even mention the waste the prodigal had incurred but showered his
lavish love on the son.

This story illustrated the love of our havenly Father. He has so much to
give than we can receive. He has so much riches for His children to enjoy.
If only all His children will just reach out and enjoy His love.

In the midst of our trials, be assured that those trials didn't ecaspe His
attentive eyes. Abba Father has already designed a way out for us. Know
that there is no trial so big that His grace cannot reach. Enjoy the
Father's love for us. Flow in the river of love. Hallelujah!

Christ dependency

What will we do when we are in the midst of a perfect storm? How will we response to averse situations or bad reports?

Many a times we look to the natural means to manage the averse situations. We will try our level best to combat the perfect storm. We will rely on our own strength to see us through. So the saying goes, if you don't take care of the issue at hand, no one will. If you are not the one to handle the situation, no one will. Also, if it is to be, it is up to me!

How far away from the truth we can be. We are totally limited in and of ourselves. There is only so much natural resources that we can tap on. There is only so much that we, in the natural, can do. Beyond that, there is absolutely nothing we can do about the bad situations, the dire straits, the bad reports, etc.

If only we will come to this realization as soon as possible. Without Christ, we are nothing. NOTHING!

With Christ, I have everything. The bible says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. We need to just trust Jesus to see us through the shadow of the valley of death. Nothing is impossible to God. Our part is to believe. When we depend on Christ Jesus, we will have good success. We, though already victorious in Christ, will come out victorious in our challenges when we rely on Christ's goodness and mercy to see us through.

In the natural, Lazarus had died for four days. Yet the moment Jesus stepped into the situation, Lazarus was raised from the dead. In the natural, the blind beggar had been blind for thirty eight years. The moment Jesus proclaimed his forgiveness of sin and his wholeness, he immediately was made whole and followed Jesus. In the natural, Joseph and Mary were poor. When Jesus was born, gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh came pouring in.

When we are Christ dependent, Jesus will see to it that we come out of it victorious. Jesus will never let the righteous soul to famish. His grace will not allow us to suffer more than what we are capable of bearing. God is faithful. He is love. We can depend on Him for our every need and want. Just believe and trust His loving kindness.

Abba Father

Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christians have a God whom they can address as Abba Father. This is the right and privilege of all Christians. This is the blood-bought right for Christians to call God Abba Father!

As natural parents, we want to always give the best to our children. With limited resources, we will try to fulfill all the needs of our children. In the event we fall short, we still want the best for our children. The bible says that we as natural parents will not give our children bad things, what more our havenly Father.

This Havenly Father wants the best for us. He who did not spare His only begotten Son will definitely give the best to His children. He has unlimited resources to fulfill our every need. For the bible says that He will meet all our needs according to the riches and glory in Christ Jesus! When He says every need, He means every need! This is the promise of Daddy God.

If we are dealing with some forms of disease, know that Abba Father had sent Jesus to bear all the diseases and illnesses in His body at the cross. Know that all our sins are forgiven and with this forgiveness of sins, we are made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. We are the healed of the Lord. Believes Abba Father had healed all our diseases and taken away all our pains. Trust in His fatherly love.

Some of us may be facing some forms of financial lack. Believes Abba Father is doing miracles to cancel all our debts! He will turn things around for our good. He will never allow those who put their trust in Him to be put to shame. With a single stroke of His grace, we will be cleared of all our debts and have much more financial resources to spare.

That's our Abba Father. He is a lavish God. He will never fail. He is always on time, though He may seem to be late. Trust in His love for us. Hallelujah!

God wants His children happy

The blessing of the Lord makes one rich and adds no sorrowful toil with it.

God wants His children to be abundantly provided for. He does not want His children to painfully strive for their own providence. For God is The Almighty God. Nothing is impossible with God. It "aches" God's heart to see His children not turning to and trusting Him for supply.

Jesus' "favourite" word for people who are taking so little from Him is "You of little faith". He is always ready to supply all our needs. He is El Shaddai. He has unlimited resources. He who flung the whole universe into place, is more than willing to provide for us than we know. Oh, if only we would understand His darling heart for us.

God wants us to be happy by not worrying about what to eat, what to wear and every other need that we might have but to be aware of our righteousness in Him. Once we have right standing with God, He will be our God. He will provide for our every need!

If His children are suffering from any form of illness, He wants them to know that Jesus had taken away that illness from them for He had borne all illnesses and diseases at the cross. Rest assured that by His stripe, we are the healed of the Lord. His word is the truth. God cannot lie.

As a child of od God, I can rest assured that God is taking of me. He is looking after my every need. Hallelujah.

God is faithful

God is faithful. Even when we are faithless, God is still faithful. He is faithful to His covenant.

Abraham was told by God that he will be father of many. Abraham believed God though he was childless at that time. However, many years after that promise was made, Abraham was still childless. Years later the Lord himself told Abraham that he will have a son by Sarah and Sarah judged God faithful. Then came Isaac.

God sent Moses to deliver His people from the Egyptians. The nine plagues didn't make Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go. But the blood of the sacrificial lamp was able to make Pharaoh let His people go. It wasn't plain sailing though. While trying to get away from the Egyptians, the children of Israel was met with the Red Sea in front of them and the Egyptian army hot on their heels. God is faithful and He caused the Red Sea to part for the children of Israel to cross and later flood the whole Egyptian army.

Because God is faithful and He is love, He sent His only begotten Son to die for the world that through His death, the world will be reconciled back to God. The bible says that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and his household.

God is faithful to see that things out to be good for His children. He will make sure that those who put their trust in Him shall not be put to shame. He will alwyays deliver His saints, for He is a faithful God. Look to Jesus for He is everything that we need. Hallelujah!

God Is Good

God is good, all the time. And all the time, God is good. God is good towards His children and His people.

Why is God good? Because He is God. He is love. He is caring. He is faithful. He is thoughtful. He is gracious. He is compassionate. He is generous. He is kind. He is all that we ever want to be and much more!

For God so loved the world that He sent His only Son to die for the world that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but has shalom life. This is the goodness of God to reconcile the world to Him. For since the fall of Adam, man has sinned against God and condemned to eternal suffering. Man has distanced himself from God.

God wants man to come to Him. He wants to do everything for man. He is Abba Father who sees to our every need. When we are weak, He is our strength. When we are sick, He is our healing. When we are poor, He is our providence. He is always looking out for our interest.

God will always come through in our time of need. He may seem to be late but He is always on time! When the children of Israel were faced with the Red Sea and the Egyptian army behind them, God caused the Red Sea to part for His people to cross safely but to later flood over the Egyptian army. The three friends of Daniel were rescued from the fiery furnace by the fourth Man and their clothes were not burnt.

There were many stories of salvation in the bible. But the most touching story of salvation will be the one that happen to us. Trust God to deliver us, for He is good. Hallelujah!

God counts the number of hair on your head II

I was changing the diaper for my little son, Johanan. As I was wiping his buttock, he continued to pass motion right into my hand. Even though my hand was dirty, I didn't have any sense of anger towards him as he is my precious son. I continued to wipe his buttock clean and put some baby powder on him and he was restful after that.

Even with my human love for my son, I didn't bother to count the number of hair on his head. Mind you, he has a full set of hair on his head. His hair is longer than his daddy's. :-) Yet the bible says God counts the number of hair on our heads. That is the level of attention He will pay to. He will make sure every details in our lives are well taken of! Hallelujah!

This is the love of Abba Daddy. He knows our every need long before we have need of. He is always working behind the scene to make sure that our every need is met. For He is Almighty God. He unending love towards His children is unfathomable. He even sacrificed His only begotten Son to die for us some two thousand years ago to divinely exchange His position beside Abba Father for our position of sin.

He always has our interest at heart. If only we would to trust Him completely and rely on His perfect love completely as well. He will never put those who trust in Him to shame. He will not allow the righteous to famish. He will provide for all our needs according to the riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Trust in His perfect love. He will attend to every minute need that we have. Hallelujah!

God's best!

God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son. The Son is the most precious Person in God's eyes. His name is Jesus.

God knew that Jesus would die for the sins of all the people in the world, past, present and future. At the cross, all punishment had been borne by Jesus. He had finished the work for the world to be reconciled with God. For those who had accepted this redemption gift, they are called Christians. Christ died for sinners. He didn't die for people who are perfect in their conduct or for people who are morally upright, though these qualities are important.

Yet while we were sinners, Christ died for us. He took our place of sinfulness to give us the throne of righteousness. Christians are righteous because of the finished work at the cross. A divine exchange had taken place. God had given His best to the world and the world through this perfect gift has been reconciled with God.

Since God had given His best to the world, what more will He not, with Jesus, give to His sons and daughters! We just have to believe God is good and have a good opinion of God.

God will always want to come into our situations and turn them for our favour. His timing is always the best. There are times when He seems to be late in helping us but God is never late. If a child of God is dealing with dreaded disease, be assured that He is doing mightily behind the scene to turn thing around for that child. If a child of God is facing a financial crunch, be restful for God is working to turn the financial situation around for the good of the child. Just rest in His love for us. God is always on time. He will always give the best to His children. Hallelujah!

Jesus the perfect gift

Christians are people who were sinners who accepted the gift of salvation. They had welcomed Jesus into their lives. They had received the perfect gift.

Since it is a gift, it is up to an individual to decide to accept or reject. Once a person had accepted the gift, it is up to the person to maximise his or her gift. It is up to the person to enjoy the gift. What is this gift? Or more specifically, Who is this gift? The Gift is Jesus! For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Now that we know the Gift is Jesus, it is up to us to further know Jesus and enjoy His love for us. The bible says that greater is He who is in me than he who is of the world. Don't we want to know Jesus more? For to know Jesus is to love Jesus. To love Jesus is to enjoy Jesus. To enjoy Jesus is to receive all that Jesus had given. That's why we want to see more of Jesus in the bible.

We can only receive what God had freely given. We can't work or earn God's gift, for it is a Gift. We can only enjoy this Gift more and more. We can only enjoy His love for us more and more each day.

The moment we are enjoying Jesus in our lives, all dark forces that were against us had to flee. We will be seeing miracles manifesting in our lives. For those who are sick, they shall be made whole completely. For those who are poor, they shall be poor no more. They shall be prosperous in the area of finance. For those who are dejected, they can hope against all hope for their miracles to manifest!

Jesus, the perfect Gift, had perfectly completed a complete work at the cross. Our role as Christians is to enjoy the finished work. Receive our blessings for they had been poured forth into our lives by Jesus. Hallelujah!

The Christmas Story

When God created man, He had wanted man to reign on earth. When God created man, He had wanted man to rule over all His creations. When God created man, He had wanted man to enjoy all that God had created. When God created man, God had wanted to fellowship with man and wanted man to live forever!

Unfortunately, man believed in the satan's lie and forfeited the glory of God. With that one act, man had given up what was rightfully his. Man was cut of from God for there was sin in man.

God knew man would succumb to satan's lie and He had a masterplan to redeem all of mankind. God proclaimed that there will come a Seed of Eve that will crush the head of satan and restore man to the place as if he had not fallen.

Since then, satan was afraid of this Seed that will crush his head and destroy him completely. He was not aware of who the true Seed will be. As a result, he caused the elder son of Adam to kill the younger son of Adam for he thought that the younger of Adam was the Seed. He continued his plan of destruction to mankind especially to women for it will be a Seed of Eve that will crush him completely. He mastered the plan to completely corrupt mankind by sending fallen angels to cohabit with women and to produce giants so that the Seed will also be corrupted, i.e. the Seed's blood was to be tainted with sin.

God already knew the devil's plan and to preserve mankind, He caused the flood to come over all the earth and preserve the lives of Noah and his wife and his three sons and his three daughter-in-laws for they were the only ones that were fully human. When the flood had completely subsided, God proclaimed that He will never flood the earth again.

The devil heard the proclamation and continued his plan of corrupting mankind. He continued his plan of destruction for he knew not who the Seed was.

Then one day, God proclaimed that Abraham's Seed will destroy satan. As a result of that, satan tried to get other men to sleep with Sarah. However, satan's plan was once again destroyed by God for God foreknew all satan's plans and God is always ahead of the devil. God raised a group of people to destroy all the that the devil had created and this group of people was later known as Israelis.

However, the Israelis didn't and couldn't completely destroy all that the devil had created. Finally come the time for the Seed to be born.

More than two thousand years ago, a baby boy was born from a virgin Mary. He was born to die for all mankind for He is the kinsmen Redeemer. On that night, Jesus was born, the Saviour of the world. He was born to redeem mankind from all his sins. He was born to completely destroy all that the devil had created, pain, diseases, sorrows, and death. That day that Jesus was born is now known as Christmas day.

Jesus had done it all

What exactly did Jesus do when He was crucified at the cross?

Because of our sins, Jesus had willingly taken our place at the cross to take all of God's punishment. He had taken all God's wrath at the cross on our behalf. He had divinely exchanged His position of righteousness for our position of sin. He had qualified us to be seated at the right hand of God. He had given us the victory ground.

Jesus had borne our mental suffering at the garden of Gethsemane. He sweat blood so that we will have His peace of mind. So that we will have clarity of thought. So that we shall not be stressed for He had borne the stress of the mind on our behalf. When the crown of thorns was pressed unto His head, Jesus had redeemed us from painful thought.

Jesus was striped 39 times on our behalf. At the cross, He was burnt by God's wrath. And He was pierced on His side. All these were done so that we can be the healed of the Lord. All these were done so that no weapon formed against us shall prosper. All these were done so that we can have robust health.

At the cross, Jesus was devoided of all material possession. Even His robe of righteousness was gambled at the foot of the cross. By His grace, though He was rich yet He was made poor at the cross so that we through His poverty shall be made rich. So that we can enjoy all material blessings. So that we lack nothing in our life time.

His precious blood was shed to establish a new covenant: a covenant where God is our God and our lawless and sinful deeds He shall remember no more. With this new covenant, we are drafted into the Kingdom of God. We are sons and daughters of the most high God. We can have every blessing that God had bestowed upon us. We shall be blessed, favoured and loved by Abba Father.

Jesus had redeemed us from the curse of the law by hanging on calvary tree. He had taken away all curses that we rightfully deserved. We are no longer under the curse and therefore we can be free. We can enjoy all the blessings that God has for us. We can live lives victoriously for what Jesus had accomplished. We can reign in life because of Jesus' finished work at the cross. Hallelujah!

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.

Jesus is the all providing Shepherd. He had already provisioned all things that we need in our lives. At the cross, He had borne all our sins so that we can be made righteous before God. He was striped, pierced, and burnt on our behalf so that we can have robust health. At the cross, He was stripped of all material possessions so that we are made rich in all things.

The bible also says that the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the earth. Jesus knew He was going to be the sacrificial Lamb on the cross, for cursed is anyone who is hanged by a tree. Christ was resurrected on the third day after His crucifixion. Together with Christ, Christians are also resurrected in the spirit. The resurrected life of Christ now dwells in every Christian.

The resurrected life of Christ gives us His shalom peace. It gives us joy in the Holy Spirit. Christian can rejoice for the good that Christ had done. Long before we face a challenge, Jesus had already implemented a way for us to be victorious. He will always make a way of escape in our trials for He had completely completed the work at the cross.

The word of Christ says that He will prepare a table for us in the battle field. During the olden days in the old testament, a blood covenant was cut between two persons. When one is in trouble, the other one will step in to rescue the one in trouble. When Jesus lays a table for a Christian in a battle field, He is telling the enemies to flee as He is the other covenant party in the blood covenant.

Jesus will always lead us to victory. He will never put a Christian, whose trust is in Him, to shame. He will never play a Christian out. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is the all providing Shepherd. In Him, I shall not lack. Hallelujah.

Blessings out of your wrong doings

When we do right, we usually have no issue believing God for blessings. However, we find it hard to believe God for His blessings when we do something wrong. This is not the God of the bible. Abba Father loves us regardless of our actions. Don't get me wrong here that we should just go about doing wrong things and not behaving the way we should. When we believe right, we will live right.

God's love for us is based on Jesus' finished work at the cross. His work is so completely complete that He had taken all the punishments for our sins. He had exchanged His righteous position for our sinful nature. At the cross, all our sins had been forgiven and the bible says that God shall remember our sins no more. This should give us the confidence to go to the throne of grace in time of need. The more of grace we see in Jesus, the more we will not want to sin.

There are many stories in the bible that tells us how God blesses a person even out of his or her wrong doings. For example, Abraham lied about his wife Sarah been his sister twice and yet God blessed Abraham with plenty of sheep and oxen and servants. Sarah commanded Abraham to sleep with her maid Haggai and a son was born. Years later, Isaac was born to Sarah and Abraham. Jacob lied to his father Isaac to obtain the firstborn blessing though he was the second son. God blessed Jacob with all things and even changed his name to Israel. Job was blessed doubled for all the troubles he went through. He was too proud to recognise his own sins in the first.

As beloved of the most high God, we can expect blessings from God out of our troubles even though they were our own doings. If we had lost money because of greed, God can still load us with his financial blessings. If we are suffering from some forms of illness because we had abused our bodies, God can and will heal us completely of that illness. If we had neglected our loved ones while we were young, God wants to mend that relationship.

God is a good God. We don't have to beg him for blessings for He had displayed His love for us at the cross so that we will lack nothing in our lives while on earth. He wants to bless us so much that we can be a blessing every where we go. Trust in His love for us. Believe in Jesus' finished work. Hallelujah.

God's lavish love

God is love. For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, to die for the world at the cross.

God loves us so much that mere words will never be enough to describe this marvelous love. The bible says God is love. He loves us more than we love ourselves. He is more than willing to come into our very dire situation to turn thing around for our good. He will continue to bless us inspite of our behaviour for it is Jesus' obedience that had completely satisfied God. He will bless us even if we were the ones that got ourselves into a pit.

In the story of the prodigal son, the father is constantly waiting for his second son to come home. The moment he saw his second son from afar, he immediately ran toward this son of his and hugged him and kissed him. Before the son can complete his rehearsed speech, the father commanded his servant to bring forth the best robe and put it on this son. He also commanded that a ring be put onto the son's finger and that sandals be put on the son's feets. He also commanded that a fatted calf be killed for the "homecoming" party.

The father didn't reprimand his second son for what he had done but was full of joy now that the son had come home. Our daddy God is also full of joy when a sinner is saved. The bible says that heaven rejoices over one sinner saved. Daddy God is always looking forward to the homecoming of sinners into His kingdom when they accept Jesus as Lord. Never doubt God's love in our lives for He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hallelujah.