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I want to be loved just the way I am

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First of all, understand that people are simply attracted to anyone possessing quality(s) that they find irresistible.

It could be character, beauty, money, or something else they fancy. Nobody gets attracted to anyone when they don’t see anything overwhelming in them.



But, it’s usually amusing when someone says they want to be loved just the way they are. It is an uncanny statement made by those who don’t want to take responsibility and work out their flaws.


It takes responsibility to work on yourself in areas you are lagging. Even if you are good or talented at something, improving yourself is not a bad idea.


For temperamental people, they would need conditioning in their personality because they may be unable to thrive in a relationship.

The reason is that they are excessively irritable and moody. They are extremely emotional when stimulated.


A temperamental man usually gets annoyed over seemingly minor matters. He should rather have to work on this flaw than expect a random lady to love and get committed to him in a relationship.

No lady would want a bulldog as a spouse.


Because eventually, she might just get turned into a punching bag.
For a believer who is temperamental, the assistance of the Holy Spirit can help him to handle his emotions.



Personal development is not solely for men. It is for both genders. Ladies are required to groom themselves into responsibility. Prime themselves mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.


In Africa, women are expected to have competent skills in house management and meal preparation.

Therefore, single ladies in Africa are required to train themselves in these aspects. It is part of their personal development.



However, these skills are not gender-based. They should be something acquired by both men and women.


Ultimately, if any wants to be great in life, he should take responsibility by working on himself. Take an action and strive to be better than yesterday.


Don’t compel people to accept the faulty you when there are no visible efforts you make to get better. People will only chase after an ASSET rather than a LIABILITY.



REMAIN BLESSED.

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What does God say about loving the world?

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From the gospel, Jesus gave insight to the believers about them being in the world but not of the world. The word ‘of’ has to do with identification.


It is apparent that we are in this world but are not being identified with the world. Another tag has been given to us. That is the identification with the kingdom of heaven.


1 Peter 2:9 creates an understanding of how we are no longer under the influence of the kingdom of darkness but have been identified in the kingdom of the dear son of God, Jesus Christ.


But a believer can claim identification as God’s and would still have his attention overly fixed on the things of the world. This can happen when he has not truly developed affection for God and his kingdom.

He ends up placing undue importance on Earthly qualities and possessions.


However, there is no point in setting affections on the world for God has made it known that the love of the Father and the love of the world are highly conflicting.



One can’t say that he has the love of God in him but still allow mundane attachments.




“For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance—none of these things come from the Father but the world. This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.” 1 John 2:15




The aforementioned passage gives us an understanding that obsessively chasing after Earthly possession is vain.


When you are in love with a certain thing, you become obsessed with it. Loving a certain thing opens you to a deeper relationship with it.

It is the love of the father that sets our hearts on the things that matter to him. If a man is in love with the world, he would certainly do everything to satisfy the cravings that the world has infused into him.


Believers must be careful with what they yearn for.


Love is an operating system in the kingdom that opens you to total obedience to God.

Jesus also gave an understanding of a profound truth that if you love him you will surely obey his commandments.


He also preached that one cannot serve two masters, it is either one loves Mammon or God.


It is folly for one to serve God and serve Mammon together. A deliberate choice must be made on whom to serve.

Joshua was intentional when he chose to serve the Lord, with his family. Love consists of your will and choice.



If anyone loves God and his righteousness, he would surely crave for his kingdom and fulfill all that is required.

Likewise, if any is overly desirous of the world, he would surely do profane things to satisfy his passion. Such a person is bound by carnality and is not identified as Christ’s.

Eventually, he becomes a puppet controlled by the devil. Such a person can never be a tool in God’s hand to make His will done.


It is disheartening that the system of the world has become idolized by some believers. They do this by engaging themselves in activities that are identified with the patterns of the world.


They still Iive a double life. It is not normal. What these set of people do is recorded in Titus 1:16 –


“They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for doing anything good.”


But one who understands the value of the kingdom of God would set his affection on it. He is further eligible for good things.



Such a person would enjoy a victorious life over sin, the earth, and its entirety, for he has undividedly channeled his loyalty to God.



God does not want to spit any out for their lukewarmness. He wants all to be saved.

For His word in 2 Timothy 2:3-4 are not sheer;



“This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.”


It pleases God that we show him an unwavering faithfulness.

Faithfulness is not proved when we portray godly qualities today, and intentionally display attitudes that are identified with Satan, the next day.


It is God and Him alone.



God Bless you!


Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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YIELDING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

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“I can do nothing on my own….”—Jesus Christ said in John 5:30—

An uncrucified flesh is a direct enemy to spirituality. Any activity carried out for God without the sanction of the Holy Spirit is not recognized in heaven.

What makes the difference in a man’s walk with God is man’s sensitivity and submission to the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ knew that heavenly mandates cannot be executed here on earth without first submitting to a higher authority.He had the Holy Spirit but for him to operate at a higher dimension, there had to be a higher measure of the power and presence of the Holy Spirit in his life.

He yielded to the Holy Spirit and was led by Him. He was no longer in charge, the Holy Ghost was (Luke 4:1).

That was why He could do what He did.Before his ascension, Jesus commissioned the Apostles to preach the gospel to the world. He knew they wouldn’t be able to accomplish this mandate with human strength, power, or wisdom. This explains why He asked them to wait until they receive the Holy Spirit (Luke 22:49).

There are different measures one can walk with God and it is dependent on one’s degree of submission to the Holy Spirit. (Ezekiel 37).

The vibrancy and success of the life of a believer are hinged on His fellowship with the Holy Spirit. That is why yielding to the Holy Spirit is an inevitable decision anybody who wishes to maintain his or her relationship with God has to make.

Yielding to the Holy-Spirit means giving up one’s ideas, efforts, struggles, and making oneself liable to Him.It is allowing the Holy-Spirit to mortify the old nature of oneself.Yielding to the Holy-Spirit is giving the Holy-Spirit absolute control.

This has to do with allowing the Holy-Spirit to control one’s decisions relating to one’s relationship, work, career, habits, leisure, sex drive, bodily needs, dressing style, expenditure, education, etc.

Yielding to the Holy Spirit means making ourselves available to Him. It is a spiritual discipline that acknowledges we are not on our own and we cannot do anything spiritually and physically significant without Him.

It entails further the act of:

1. Surrendering our will to Him: This is the willingness to do what God wants rather than what one wants. Yielding to the will of heaven rather than ours.

2. Trusting or depending on Him.

3. Following God as His Spirit leads us bearing in mind that He alone knows what is best.

Across the bible, men moved in different levels of success depending on their level of submission and degree of sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.

Power is received when there is submission. The ability to execute dominion on earth is dependent on our degree of obedience to the Father.

It is this power that brings fellowship with the father, and it is our fellowship with the Holy Spirit that makes Jesus and the Father real to a believer. (John 16:14.)

The Father and the Son are made known to us by the Holy Spirit when we submit to God. (Psalm 14:23)

Submission is what keeps our relationship with God. It is what helps us to host his presence. It also opens one’s eyes to see things from God’s perspectives.

Submissiveness to the Holy Spirit opens door to spiritual gifts. These spiritual gifts are given to strengthen and help the body of believers; Not to show how spiritual we are!

The availability of the Holy Spirit on earth gives every person the potential of having a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is available to all, but His availability does not mean there is automatically a relationship with Him.

In fact, “All believers are baptized with the Holy-Spirit. This does not mean, however, that they are filled or controlled by the spirit.” Says Billy Graham.

There is an outer experience of His presence and His indwelling.The outer experience of His presence is our knowledge of Him. While His indwelling has to do with being filled or controlled by the Spirit of God.

The Holy-Spirit desires to make man his dwelling place. This is not possible until we learn to submit to Him.

The process of yielding to the Holy Spirit [Which is being “Filled” with the Holy Spirit] must be a daily, repeated process. It is not something that should be skipped!

It is not something that one does for a while and stops.It has to be a conscious, intentional, deliberate walk and relationship with the Holy Spirit.

When we got born again, we were renewed and given new spiritual life, but when we deny the filling of the Holy Spirit, we are denying the new life which we have been given!

The hunger, desire, and thirst to have the Holy Spirit as our companion should never be found missing in a believer’s life. This is because He is our ever-present help.

Every time men yield to the Holy Spirit, something from heaven is deposited in their spirit; healing, salvation, deliverance, and prosperity.

With these in mind, endeavor to have a deeper relationship with the Holy Ghost by totally submitting to Him. He alone can direct and guide effectively.

Author: Myrose Saviour Lily

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Hope Against Hope

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Against all odds, when it looked hopeless, Abraham believed the promise and expected God to fulfill it.

He took God at his word, and as a result he became the father of many nations. God’s declaration over him came to pass: “Your descendants will be so many that they will be impossible to count!”


The story of Abraham is one which is widely read and appraised. His story is one which has been inspiring generations.


Despite its commonness, I feel there has not been a time. In which we needed to revisit his story, as now.
God called Abraham out of his father’s house unto an unknown land. He promised Abraham descendants as numerous as the stars.

Yet, at old age, Abraham hadn’t received the Promised Child.
It looked as if the promise would never be fulfilled. His body’s strength was waning; the womb of his wife was becoming barren, like an Orchard whose flowers has been scorched into thorns by the piercing rays of the sun.

Yet, Abraham waited patiently for the fulfilment of The Promise. At hundred, Abraham was stricken in age. The pleasure of life and the desire of the bed were gone already.

In the midst of all these, The Bible tells us that Abraham never staggered in faith. Even when there was no reason to believe, he kept believing.

Even when he had every reason to quit and say, ‘I give up! I’ll never have a child!’, he chose to keep trusting in the words of an unseen God.

Beloved, the Promise may be delayed, but it will never be denied.

Like Abraham, you might be one who in your formative years in the

Christian experience received great promises from God. But till now, you have not seen the fulfilment. I want you to know that God has not forgotten you!


The economy might be hard. The world might be on Lockdown.

The nation might be in wreck because of weather and biochemical pandemics; but none of these things can stop God from fulfilling that which He has promised you.


“God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill” – Numbers 23:19.


God can never lie means that He can never speak of something He will not do. He will not give you an assurance if He will not fulfill His Promise.


The very Throne of God is founded on His Integrity and Faithfulness!


God does not change His mind, means that NOTHING can make God change His mind on blessing you.


Your mistakes will not make Him change His mind. The pandemic will not make Him change His mind. Your shortcomings will not make Him change His mind on blessing you.


So fret not. Be at peace. Serve the Lord with all fervency, because no matter how long it might take, surely, God’s Promise to you will be fulfilled.






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PATIENCE

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Lots of people desire deep fellowship in their walk with God but only few have the patience needed in building such an fellowship.



Walking with God can be likened to baking a big wedding cake. It consists of steps which require patience.


When you want to bake a cake the first thing you do is to get the ingredients such as flour, eggs, sugar and so on.



Sometimes, the ingredients might not be available in a nearby store, so you have to get it in the market or a shopping mall in town.



Now after going through the stress of getting the ingredients, you don’t just sit there and watch the cake make itself. Instead, you patiently take your time to mix the ingredients together till they become fluffy.


Now mixing is not as easy as it sounds, especially when you are making a giant wedding cake. It requires strength and patience.


After mixing, you put the mixture in a baking pan and then you place it in an oven to bake. This could take minutes or hours depending on hour big the cake is.



Finally, after waiting patiently, your cake is ready but that’s not all.



Remember, you haven’t iced the cake yet and icing is another tasking process which requires perfection and to be perfect, you must be patient.


Baking a perfect cake requires lots of patience; likewise building a strong relationship with God.

The Bible says, “Seek and ye shall find”.


Seek there means patiently searching out and uncovering the things of God.
God doesn’t take short cuts in revealing things to and empowering his people. He honours and walks by processes; processes only a patient man can observe.



Your level of patience in your walk with God is directly proportional to how intimate you get with him.


You can’t expect the same quality of cake from someone who took quality time out to bake and someone who simply baked what he or she could bake.



Likewise, you can’t expect the same quality of the move of God from a man who patiently waits upon the Lord and a man who only has time for God when he or she has nothing to attend to.



There are mysteries in the kingdom. The Bible calls those mysteries “THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD”.


Those mysteries and secrets can only be uncovered by a man who has the patience to seek God’s face no matter how long it takes.


It is just like mining out Gold. You can’t find gold on the surface, you find it buried deep down the surface of the earth.


Many want these secrets but only few are ready to pay the price of patiently waiting on God.


Many want these powers but only few are patient enough to seek them.


You won’t always get revelations from the Bible every time you study but God says “Continue studying for the light is coming”.


We must learn to be patient enough if we really desire intimacy with God.


The question now is “ARE YOU PATIENT ENOUGH? ”



Written by Tolu-Taiwo Victor

Spirituality

The Power of Imagination

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Imaginations are pointers to realities.



Imagination is seeing through the eyes of your mind to produce the reality you want to live in.


What we see and hear influences our imagination. Your subconscious mind is responsible for your imagination. It is what is stored in your subconscious mind that will be determine the quality of your foresight.


The bible admonishes us to guard our hearts because therein are the issues of existence. The mind is full of imaginations. One must choose what type of imagination one wants to conceive in your mind.


Until the spirit broods on the imagination which has been conceived in your mind, such imagination will never come to reality.


God imagined what He wanted to create on the Earth. It was conceived in His mind, then the Spirit brooded on His imagination and when He spoke, what He imagined became reality.


This is a season in which different imaginations, especially negative ones, are taking hold of people’s minds.


If your imagination is not conformed to the Knowledge of Christ, it is meant to be cast down. Our imaginations should be inspired by The Holy Spirit. Your Imagination is a reflection of who you really are.



Every great invention and fascinating innovation, was first conceived in The Imagination.


ENHANCING YOUR IMAGINATION


Meditate on God’s Word

In order to enhance your imagination, align your thinking with The Word of God.

The Word of God gives you so much imagination when you begin to think about them. His Word enriches our mind and expands our creativity.

Meditating on God’s Word creates vivid images of the operation of the supernatural, in the mind. When The Holy Spirit broods upon these images and one executes them, supernatural results are produced.

Insights From The Holy Spirit


Genesis 13:14-15: “After Lot was gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction. For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity forever.”


When God promised Abram that Abram’s blessings would be as far as he could see, God was not referring to physical sight. God was connoting the use of the imagination to visualize the extent of greatness that Abraham desires.


Having a limited imagination of greatness is like going to fetch water from an ocean with a tea cup.


Our small imaginations water down what God wants us to deliver through us. They can make God’s promises to us look too difficult to be accomplished.


Expand the extent of your Imagination. If God is calling you to the helps ministry imagine yourself feeding the whole of Africa. Do limit what God can do with your tea-cup imagination, widen your imagination today.


Develop The God-Mind

The kind of mind you have is very important in having an enhanced and workable imagination.

Develop the God kind of Mind. God gave you a mind, so you could think like Him, and operate in a capacity that can only be likened to His.


Adam’s mind was so enhanced that he could name the thousands of creatures that were assigned to his rulership.


Until you develop the God Kind of Mind, you will never be able to imagine what is in God’s heart.


Prayer and Imaginations

We cast down negative imaginations through our prayers. Prayer and godly imaginations must to hand-in-hand.


If you are praying for healing, picture your healing in your mind even as you pray for it. Do not pray for healing and imagine sickness.


If you are praying for wealth, picture it in your mind while you pray. Do not pray for wealth and imagine poverty.


Our forefathers in the kingdom, after imagining, would go to the place of Prayer pray with those Images they received. This created convictions in them that eventually birthed realities.


Enhance your Imagination today!


God bless you!



Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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How Authentic is THE BIBLE?

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Beyond religious beliefs is the Bible authentic?



Beyond being a Christian by birth or whatever means, Is the Bible true?


Why should we believe that the Bible is true?



I am a Christian. I was brought up to believe that the Bible was the word of God.


In early life, I accepted it as such upon the authority of my parents, and never gave the question any serious thought. But later in life, I found myself face to face with the question, “Why do you believe the Bible is the word of God?”


This was a crossroad to me.



All I knew was that it is the word of God. But the How and why, I knew not!


I became curious and answers-conscious to the quiddity of the Bible.


This curiosity led me to pray fervently for an experiential knowledge of God.



It is in knowing God experientially that one can get to know the authenticity of things pertaining to Him.


Through many mediums; experience, theory, observation and by revelation, I arrived at some proofs that the Bible is the word of God.


These include {but not limited to};


1. The Holy Bible is God’s Revelation to man and not a mere Human imagination.


2. There is absolute accuracy and inviolability of the Old Testament which is in union with the new Testament.


3. By the unfailing manifestations of what are written there. Examples include the transforming power of the word, the working of miracles, the fellowship with the Holy-Ghost, etc.


4. On the ground of the testimony of Jesus Christ.


5. On the ground of its fulfilled, definite, explicit, and verbal prophecies before and after the Messiah, which was written hundred of years ago.


Invariably, man could not have foreseen these improbable events lay hundreds of years ahead, but God could, and it is God who spoke via these men.



6. On the ground of the unity of the books in the Book despite the disparities of men who wrote it. In all this wonderful conglomeration, we find an absolute unity of thoughts.


7. On the ground of the immeasurable superiority of the teaching of the Bible to those of any other books.


This can be seen factually in three points:


I. The Bible has in it nothing but the truth, while all other books have truth mixed with errors.


II. The Bible contains all truth. i.e there are no moral or spiritual subjects, which upon deep search, are not found within the Bible.


All other books ever written have their principles gotten from the Bible.


III. The Bible contains more truth than all other books. This is because the Bible is not man’s book, but God’s Book.


8. On the ground of the history of the book. This can be seen in its power to save men, and purify, gladden and beautify their lives, than in all other books put together.



9. No other book has the power to elevate not only individuals, but communities and nations has accepted it.



10. On the ground of its victory and its over the hatred and persecution of men.


11. On the ground of the character of those who accept and those who reject the book.



12. On the ground of the influence of the book.


13. On the ground of the inexhaustible treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God.


14. On the ground of the fact that as we grow in knowledge and Holiness we grow towards the Bible.


15. On the ground of direct testimony of the Holy-Spirit.


Undoubtedly, the Bible is one of God’s gifts to Humanity for transformation of lives, and drawing men closer to God.



The Bible is true.



The Bible is God’s gift to humanity.


The Bible is the way, and its gives life.


If you still doubt the authenticity of the Bible being true and the only way to knowing God, you are only making issues worse for yourself.


The solution is get into the book yourself and study it.


Just surrender your will to the will of God. No matter where it leads you, and you will put yourself in such an attitude towards God that when you read this book, THE BIBLE, you will experience Its powers and wonders.


Stop searching for God through the wrong sources , the Bible is all you needed.


MYROSE SAVIOUR LILY.

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Walking Bibles

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John 6 vs 56:
“He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”


Anytime we hear the phrase “THE WORD OF GOD ”, what our minds travel to instantly is the BIBLE.

Why? Because the Bible is an ancient book in which lies the Word of God. But, the actual Word of God is not the letters.



The actual word of God is JESUS CHRIST THE SON.


As Christians, we must study our Bibles at all times but what about the unbelievers? What would they read?


Many of them do not have access to the Bible and even those who have access to the Bible see the Bible as a big boring book filled with historical events.


The moment they hear the word ”JESUS” or anything that has to do with God, they lose interest immediately.


So what do they study? They study us!

John 6 vs 56 says that Jesus (THE WORD OF GOD) dwells in you In other words, you are a walking Word of God.


We are being read and studied by the unbelievers around us.

There’s a life in The Word which our lives as Christians must manifest. It is the God-kind of life.


Sometimes, a simple good deed could change a notorious sinner into a devout Christian.



The Bible says that we are a city set on a high hill that can never be hidden.


It means no matter how hard you try to hide yourself, you will surely be seen and closely watched by the people around you.


Whatsoever you do will affect the kingdom of God and the lives of those watching you either positively or negatively.



St. Matthew 5:13: “Ye are the salt of the earth”


Salt brings sweetness to food. Our lives must be sweetness to the unbelievers. Our words and actions should make their lives better.


The unbeliever beside you does not care about the church you attend. All he cares about is the kind of life you live.


The unbelievers you have as neighbours do not care about the number of gospel songs you have in your phone. All they see is the Light of God that you release into their own lives.



That unbelieving colleague at your work place cares little about the Bible you carry around, all she wants to see is Christ in you.


You are a walking Bible.
You are a Bible to those around you. You are a carrier of God’s words and the life it brings. So let your light shine bright.


Do not hide your identity in Christ.
Be known for who you truly are; a Christian and a walking Bible.
You are an ambassador to the kingdom of God.


Be careful in all you do, you are being watched.


About The Author Tolu-Taiwo Victor is a young African writer.whose works have been published on several Internet platforms.

Health and Lifestyle

The Power of Confidence

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Confidence is trust in your abilities and skills. It is the quality of having value and esteem in yourself.

Cicero defines it as, ‘that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.’

Confidence is the mind-set of winning before the battle begins. It is the ability to pull energy from what you believe to achieve what is higher than you.

Confidence in the ‘Greek’ is ‘Peitho’ which means to agree or to be assured.

Confidence is the ability to face challenges and situations and use them as opportunities for your lifting.


‘Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.’ Philippians 1:6



God has begun something in you ever since the day you were Born. He is perfecting every step of your destiny.


Confidence is that energy drawn from within that causes you to react differently in situations and brings out your boldness in times of challenges.


Our confidence must be in God not only in our abilities.


‘Confidence and strength flood the hearts of the lovers of God who live in awe of him, and their devotion provides their children with a place of shelter and security. To worship God in wonder and awe.’ – Proverbs 14:26.



Confidence in God gives us the strength to achieve mighty things in God. It is only those who love God and go through the scriptures that receive confidence.

Gideon was the least in his family and his tribe was the least In Israel. With confidence in God, He liberated his family from oppression and got the Israelites back to the free worship of God.

King David placed his confidence in God. And he won all the battles. Trough his confidence in God, God made him defeat Goliath and he became the greatest king in Israel.
Confidence in God is the cure to depression.
The cause of depression is a lack of faith in God. Lovers of God draw confidence by studying the words of Christ and applying them.

Incorporate yourself with those who believe in you. In every organization, the staff believes in the vision of the leader. Surround yourself with people who believe what you can offer and how valuable you are.

Destiny is not fulfilled in isolation, you need people to help you achieve your goals and targets. The purpose is for people not for you, you need to have people who have confidence in your capability. We draw inspiration from God, we receive motivation from men.

Whoever drags your spirit down is not meant to be your friend. Every David needs a Jonathan. Every Saint needs a fellow believer to uphold his arm in moments of uncertainty.


Build your confidence in God and surround yourself with the people who have confidence in you.


Written by Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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Safe in The Blood

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Exodus 12:13: “The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy [you] when I strike the land of Egypt.” (HCSB)

The story of the Passover is one which no believer is unfamiliar with. Yet, it is a story which only few believers have discovered the great wealth of divine revelation concealed underneath it. This is due to what one would call, ‘over-familiarity’ with the scriptures.

I intend on bringing to our understanding, a knowledge which is needed at this time more than ever.

In the text above, God was about to strike the nation of Israel with a plague. It was going to be a plague that would kill the firstborn of every living creature, man or animal, in Egypt. As providence would have it, the Israelites happened to be living in Egypt as slaves, at that time.

Such a season could be compared to the season we are in presently. The Bible tells us that are the spiritual Israel.

We are God’s people who are presently mixed up with the Pagans and unbelievers. We are people in covenant with God who are living amongst people outside of God’s covenant. Just like the children of Israel centuries ago, we find ourselves in a world full of corruption, oppression and hatred towards Christians.

In the USA, for instance, Joe Kennedy, a former Washington state high school football coach, was fired, for praying in the pitch, before and after every match of his team. This and more instances, show how believers are being oppressed by the evil ones sitting at the helm of world affairs.

God saw the oppression of His people, and He was about to send a plague to strike the land. But God had to distinguish His people in order to shield them from being affected by the plague.

The distinguishing mark was going to be the blood of a young lamb, sprinkled on the door posts of the Israelites. They obeyed, and they never got affected by the plague.

In a season of plague like this, you do not need to kill a lamb and shed its blood on your doorpost like the Israelites did. What they did was only a shadow and figure of what God was going to do in our generation.

The lamb which was slain represents Christ, who is the lamb that was slain for our redemption (1 Peter 1:19-20). His Blood was shed on the cross of cavalry, and till date, the Blood still speaks.

Hebrews 12:24: “And to Jesus, the Mediator (Go-between, Agent) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks [of mercy], a better and nobler and more gracious message than the blood of Abel [which cried out for vengeance].” (AMP)

The Blood of Jesus speaks of mercy, not judgment. Where there is mercy, there is preservation; grace and protection. The Blood of Christ shed for us shields us from every plague and pestilence in the land.

But as a believer, you must apply the Blood to yourself and your household. You must not live in complacency or assumption.

We apply the Blood of Christ in our Household through two ways,

a. Declaring it

b. Teaching it to our household

Firstly, you must declare the Potency of the Blood and its efficacy in your life and family. Say this, ‘I declare that I am covered from this plague by the blood of Jesus through my faith in the finished works of Christ. Therefore, I and my household are safe and protected from this pandemic’. Do not say this alone; lead your family members to confessing it with you daily.

Teaching the importance of the Blood to your household is very important if they are going to benefit from it. When you explain the significance of applying the Blood, their faith is built up to trust in the covering of the Blood of Jesus.

Know that no matter how the condition of this pandemic gets, you will survive it, because you are covered by the blood! You are like the Israelite and your house is like the Goshen city where they dwelt. You are secure in the Blood of Jesus. And so is your family.

Amen.