Our GOD is greater!

 Dear Christ followers, is it not the amazing thing to be a Child of GOD, co heirs with Jesus Christ, the Son, and having the Holy Spirit living in us?

What could be better?

There is absolutely nothing in Heaven or on earth that is greater than the FATHER CREATOR whom we serve.

There is nothing to overcome that Jesus has not done for us.

All we have to do is to know that if GOD is for us, who can be against us.

So, no matter what trials and tribulations you are facing today, know that you have GOD on your side, no matter what.

This is such a comfort.  

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU that with YOU I am never alone and I can face anything.  I humbly thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  My Lord and my Saviour.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Be humble!

Dear Christ followers, we are not to do anything out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.

Rather, we are to value others above ourselves.

This is quite a difficult thing to practise in this world where people can be so selfish.

What we need to remember is that we need to lean into Jesus.  Jesus knows what we need and Jesus gave us everything we need before we were born.

The whole earth was created in conjunction with the Heavens and this can sustain life.  All of us were created by GOD.  No one is more important to the FATHER than the other. Most of all, all people are loved by our FATHER, so we need to remember this and value each and every person we meet in humility.

We need to rather bow down and worship our FATHER in Heaven for all that we  are, all that HE has given us and all that are able to do.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU know what I need.  FATHER help me to be humble and to value others above myself.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay humbly Jesus Blessed today!

Our salvation draws near!

 Dear Christ followers, our salvation is one day closer than yesterday.  And if we believe what we are seeing worldwide, now is the time to draw very near to Jesus.

Sometimes we are lulled into a false sense of security and if anything has taught us that it is COVID.  One day we were all happily flying about the world and the next the whole world was shut down by one virus.

Are we truly ready to meet our Saviour?

Are we in a right space with our Saviour?

Have we repented and turned away from our sins?

Are we Spirit filled?

Are we in a living relationship with GOD?

Do we know and understand the Will of GOD?

Or are we just jogging along believing that the Rapture may be far off?

We could be gone tomorrow if the answer to the above questions is yes.  If not, it is time to get our lives in order and get right with Jesus.  For the time will come as a thief in the night.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU filled me with YOUR Holy Spirit.  FATHER, today I thank YOU for my Saviour, Jesus Christ.  FATHER if there are any areas in my life that are not in order for me to be saved, please let the Holy Spirit convict me urgently.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously Jesus Blessed today!

Honour one another!

 Dear Christ followers, Paul exhorts us to be devoted to one another in love.  And more than that, to honour one another above ourselves.

We have to remember that our FATHER loves each and every person on earth.  HIS love is unconditional.  HE is Holy and HE wants us to live in harmony with each other on earth.

We can choose to do what our FATHER wants or we can choose to disobey HIM.  HE has given us this free will because of HIS great love for us.

But, when the Holy Spirit takes up residence in our hearts, HE convicts us to love one another.  More than that, HE gives us a heart for our fellow beings on earth.  

When we are intolerant or unkind, the Holy Spirit will convict us to repent and to try to make amends to that person.

We have to look at people differently as Children of GOD and remember that each and every person is loved by GOD and therefore worthy to be loved and honoured by us.

Prayer:   ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for the Holy Spirit that lives in me.  FATHER today give me a heart that loves my fellow person on earth and fill me with the humility to honour them above myself.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously Jesus Blessed today!

Do not be conformed to this world!

 Dearest Christ followers.  Paul urges us here not to be conformed to this world.  This is so important.  This world lures us away from GOD.

When we truly serve GOD, the things of this world should grow strangely dim. The Will of our FATHER, should become more and more clear in our lives.

The Holy Spirit will convict us of the Will of GOD.

We should never just plan and say "today I am going to do this, or tomorrow I am going to do that".  What we need to do is to pray to GOD and ask GOD to show us HIS perfect Will for our lives.  We need to read the Scriptures and search the Scriptures which allows GOD to lead us to where HE wants us to go.

This renews our mind that we may be able to discern the good and acceptable and perfect Will of GOD. 

Once we perfect the art of waiting on the LORD, we make our lives so much more content.  We know that we cannot rush into things.  We have to wait to hear from our FATHER in Heaven.

Prayer: ABBA FATHER, YOU know my heart and the way YOU wish me to go.  FATHER, I humbly pray that YOU guide me through my prayers to YOU and that YOU show me YOUR perfect Will in the Scriptures that I read today.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ today.  Amen.

Stay obediently Jesus Blessed today!

The Lord is my Shepherd!

 What a statement King David makes in this very pertinent Psalm.  The LORD is my Shepherd.  A Shepherd takes care of the sheep.  Jesus described Himself as the Shepherd and used the parable of the lost sheep.

How was King David to know that more than a thousand years before that?

A shepherd knows his sheep, just as Jesus knows us.  The sheep know their shepherd just as we know Jesus.

We do not want when we have Jesus in our lives.  Jesus fills us with His Holy Spirit.  Jesus gives us all His love, unconditionally.  Jesus wants a living, loving relationship with us and more importantly, Jesus gives us hope for a future filled with His presence for eternity.

Today, know that if we have Jesus, we are complete.  We shall not want!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU sent Jesus to die for my sins and to give me hope and a future.  Thank YOU FATHER, that I shall not want with Jesus in my life.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Fix our eyes upon Jesus!

 This world and the things of this world will all fade away.  GOD has promised us a new Heaven and a new earth.

Everything in this world will pass away. 

But Jesus, GOD and the Holy Spirit are eternal.  The Kingdom of GOD is eternal.  Our love in Jesus Christ can be eternal if we choose it.

We have been given free will.  That is because GOD loves us so much that HE does not want us to love HIM because HE made us do it.  HE wants us to love HIM of our own accord and choosing.

Therefore, we have choices to make.  Do we choose to idolise this world and the things of this world? Or do we choose an eternity with our FATHER in Heaven?

The choice is ours.  But one thing is sure.  We can choose Jesus today and live forever with HIM.  Or we can choose the things of this world which will pass away.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I choose Jesus as my LORD and my SAVIOUR.  FATHER fill me anew with YOUR Holy Spirit and give me a heart for YOU FATHER.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously JESUS blessed today!

Jesus calls us!

Jesus calls us to come to HIM when we are weary and burdened.  HE promises us rest.

Dear Christ followers, it is so easy to become soul weary and over burdened by the things of this world.

As Christ followers, we are promised that if we will turn to Jesus, HE will give us rest.

Jesus, before HE returned to Heaven, promised us the Holy Spirit, the Comforter who takes up residence in each one of us.  So all we need to do is to let Jesus know that we need HIM.  We need our rest in HIS loving arms.

And then we need to let go and let HIM do the rest!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU are always in my heart and that YOU know what I need to give my soul rest.  Today, FATHER, I humbly pray that YOU take all my burdens and give me rest.  I pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Made by GOD for GOD

 Dear Christ followers, tonight as we took a walk we saw the blue cranes who reside in our nature reserve.  Their magnificence and perfection is absolutely beyond belief.

But they do not come close to the complexities of the human being.  Just take our brains, our eyes, our nervous system, our DNA.  Nothing in GOD's creation in this world was created that is chaotic or disorderly.  Everything is absolutely perfect.

Through sin, we have caused problems with genetics and genetic modification.  We have polluted our earth and caused multiple problems in our world.

But when GOD created Adam and Eve and all the creation, it was perfect.  GOD looked at it and it was good.

Therefore, when we wonder what our purpose on earth is, we need to go back to the instruction manual, the Bible, the inerrant, infallible Word of GOD.

And here in Ephesians, Paul tell us what we were created for.  We need to walk in the good works that GOD has created for us.

So how do we know what these are?  We wait on the LORD and we pray for HIM to give us these works and when GOD gives them to us, we walk in them.

However, to hear from GOD we need to be in a close, living, loving relationship with HIM.  Therefore we have to be reading the Bible daily, fellowshipping with like minded Christ followers, witnessing to others about the Gospel and most of all praying.  Praying to GOD often about everything.  Then finally we need to be obedient to the Word of GOD.  

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU have given me good works to walk in.  I humbly pray that YOU guide me into these works at THY WILL.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay obediently Jesus Blessed today!

All things are from GOD

 Dear Christ followers.  We need to remember that all things are from GOD.  All things were made through Jesus and all things belong to GOD ultimately.

Therefore in all things, we are to give thanks to GOD and we need to give GOD all the glory.

Often we are self seeking and looking for praise.  There are so many awards made to people today.  Very few people who receive these rewards give thanks and praise to GOD.

As we awake each morning, the breath in our lungs is from GOD.

The sunrise, the day, the rain, the sunshine, the clouds, the heavens all of this is from GOD.  Our salvation is from Jesus.  Our Spirit is the Holy Spirit living in us. 

Truly we are born with nothing.  Truly we shall die with no material possesions except, for a few, the final coffin we will have is the last material possession.

Once we die, we again revert to having nothing of a materialistic manner.

So let us not concentrate our efforts on the things of this world.  Rather let us store up for ourselves our treasures in heaven.

GOD wants us to have a heart for others.  GOD wants us to have a heart for HIM.  GOD wants us to do HIS Will.  And GOD wants us to spend eternity with HIM.

Let us start preparing for that today. We may not have tomorrow.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU that I have YOU.  I thank YOU for all the blessings YOU have showered on me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay gratefully Jesus Blessed today. 

Children of GOD

 Dear Christ followers.  If we have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we are sons and daughters of GOD.

This is such an amazing gift given to each believer in Jesus.

Our GOD is Gracious, Loving, Just, Merciful and Holy.

Empowered now by the Holy Spirit living in us, we need to know that we must make it our mission to spread the Gospel.  But firstly we need a transformation in our lives.

This includes us giving up the things of this world.  Our materialistic desires.  Our covetousness.  Our jealousies.  Our idolatries.  Our bad habits.

It also means that we now take on the responsibilities of studying the Word of GOD.  Going to church regularly.  Fellowshipping with other Christ followers.  All of these are mandatory if we truly want to walk closer to our FATHER in Heaven.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for YOUR enormous Grace and Favour.  I thank YOU for Christ my Lord and Saviour.  FATHER help me to become more and more like Jesus each and every day.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!