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Way To Seek Him

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Luke 13:22-35

 

ÒAnd He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 Then one said to Him, ÒLord, are there few who are saved?Ó And He said to them, 24 ÒStrive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you will seek to enter and will not be able.ÓÓ (Luke 13:22-24) As Jesus was going back and forth while on the face of earth in the person of man preaching the gospel, so He has positioned so many that are going back and forth preaching the gospel and introducing the Kingdom of God today. As He was questioned about who is saved and who is not saved, so the same question persists today about who is saved. When Jesus was asked about who is saved, He emphasized that the way of salvation is a narrow way and not the wide and popular way. Also in His response, He emphasized that it is an issue of striving to gain entrance but not of parading or by another means. Jesus also pointed out clearly that many will seek to enter and will not able to. Are you seeking Him through the narrow way or the broad way? The narrow way is the unpopular way while the broad way is the popular way that carries the majority number of people. Seeking Him is not only when going to church is visible and crowded. Seeking Him is not only when we are doing what pleases us or whatever is convenient to do in His commandment. Seeking God is not convenience, but rather a commitment; a covenant. Seeking God is not in following crowds to places of worship no is seeking God  only in answering or claiming to be a Christian. How are you seeking Him? If you have been receiving and believing the word of His commandment then you will behave the word. Behaving His word is living the word of God. Determination will fail but the grace of God is the only way to seeking Him indeed and truth. It is not possible to claim seeking God when your ways are not His ways and when all that surrounds you are of the wicked world. Many are claiming to be seeking Him at the time of doing one or another of His commandment instead of His entire commandment. God cannot be deceived nether can any man hide from His presence. The Bible makes it clear the time of seeking and finding Him, ÒSeek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.Ó (Isaiah 55:6-7) Seeing God and finding God are not of the wicked or broad way, but it is of those whose ways are in the light of His word. God will guide and direct if you will desire to walk in the way of seeking Him indeed and in truth. 

Celebration

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CELEBRATIONDaniel 3

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When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, the three friends of Daniel in captivity at Babylon, refused to worship a gold image, the three friends of Daniel were sentenced into a burning furnace by the command of Nebuchadnezzar. It was not just a burning furnace, but a fiery one that was unusually hot and its flame killed those men who took them up to the fire. The three friends were also bounded when they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. Have you been in a familiar or similar situation where the law of the land or the command of the government has kept you bounded in any form of a fiery furnace? It has become aggravating, disturbing, and stressing, and it is causing displacement in every function able area of your life. You have been relegated, aggravated and provokingly stagnated where you had the ability for motioning. Does any of the above describe your situation like that of the three friends of Daniel? DanielÕs friends were in much deeper situation, but in that deep, God showed up on their behalf. The three friends of Daniel fell in the fire yet they were up and not consumed by the fire. Interestingly, God did not bring them out of the burning fiery furnace, but He kept their company against any form of destruction or pain. With GodÕs presence the burning furnace became a miracle ground when King Nebuchadnezzar declared, ÒLook!Ó he answered, ÒI see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.Ó (Daniel 3:25) The enemy meant it for evil, but their faith prevailed when the presence of God joined them. The King was not the only witness of God parading His visiting power concerning His children in the midst of a burning (trouble) fire. There were witness from every level of the government, ÒÉthe satraps, administrators, governors, and the kingÕs counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.Ó (Daniel 3:27) They all saw the power of God in parade and, ÒNebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, ÒBlessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the kingÕs word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!Ó (Daniel 3:28) The kind of testimony that answered for DanielÕs three friends will answer for you in the New Year, new month, and new week. And you will celebrate in the New Year. As the New Year goes on, the presence of God will make you to thrive in the face of every kind of challenge that persists or comes in your way in Jesus name. Celebration shall be your portion in the New Year in Jesus name.  

January 2008 Isuue

Monthly Newsletter

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He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. (Psalm 107:20)

 

The will of God is for us to live, and He does have a guideline on how to live. His guideline is not by force but by choice. God is not an authoritarian nor a dictator but a creator. He is a creator whose word is perfect. He is the Commanding commander, Healing healer, Unchanging changer. God is referred to and He has demonstrated many times that He is a longsuffering God, and that testifies that the Almighty Creator is neither an authoritarian nor a dictator because no dictator can be identified as longsuffering. The Bible declares in John 3:16, ÒFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.Ó God is concerned for us having life, but if you cannot concur with His concern you have condemned yourself unto losing life. God wants us to live as the year, month, week, and days rolls on. He wants us to have life and to have it more abundantly. Jesus clearly mentioned it when He declared to us, ÒÉI have come that they many have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.Ó (John 10:10) Are you living in such a way to have the life that He has come to give? It matters that we live according to the will of the Lord of Host, the Ancient of days, the only God that inhabits eternity. To live according to His will is to fear Him, and fearing God is living by His will and by living the will of God, there will be grace to have life.

THE WILL OF GOD FOR US TO LIVE: Jesus was quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3, in response to Satan during the wilderness temptations, ÒIt is written, ÔMan shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.Ó(Matthew 4:4) For us to live, we are to live by every word, not the word that is most convenient, not only the word that we chose to live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Do you wonder why the word of God is so important? The word of God is the power of God, and that power is enough to navigate us in the journey of life. The power in the word of God is the power that created the world, Jeremiah 51:15, ÒHe has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding.Ó Remember, there was no record of Him using a bulldozer or caterpillar or hiring any contractor in creating the earth as recorded in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.  Why not take the word and embrace it with consistent meditation then wait to see the result? The word that comes out of His mouth is the word we are to use to have life and as Isaiah 55:11 testifies, ÒSo shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.Ó The word of God has to be constantly operated and not just to be interpreted. The word of God is not for decoration but declaration when any situation or confrontation demands.

OPERATING THE WORD: Deuteronomy 30:14, ÒBut the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.Ó All that makes the word to work is by acting on it; the word will do for you exceedingly and abundantly. Are you living the word? Living the word is believing the word and believing the word is behaving the word. Receive the word of God, believe it and behave it, then you are set for exploit because the word of God will be your strength in this world. Moses encourages us through Joshua, ÒThis Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8). The book of the Law, which is the word of God, is the will of God for us to have life. Until we are able to live by every word of God, wickedness continues in its exploits. When the word encountered Simon and his fellow fishermen after toiling all night without a catch, it was the sound of His word that delivered breakthrough unto the failing fishermen. Just a word of His commands sounding in the direction of Simon, ÒÉlaunch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.Ó (Luke 5:4) At the sound of His word, emptiness turned to abundance. Ask for the grace of His word to sound in your direction and the grace to receive and live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. With His word you are bound to have a year, month, week, of celebration.

 

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

He is coming back for the righteous not the good. Accept Him and have life.

 

‘Tunde Soniregun

 

 

Sight For Light

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Mark 8:22-26

 

ÒThen Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ÒI am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.Ó (John 8:12) Indeed and in truth Jesus is the light of the world that no darkness will ever be able to comprehend. Jesus is also identified as the word of God that came to us. John 1:14, ÒAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.Ó A blind man in Bethsaida encountered Jesus, the Light and the Word of God. Jesus came to where the blind man was to be found, but the blind man needed sight to see the Light that came to his presence. The blind man had light, but there was no sight for him to see the light, the Living Word of God. How long have you been carrying the word of God or how long will you carry the word without sight to actually see through the word? In attempt to give the blind man another sight, Jesus took him out of the town away from every kind of distraction, Jesus spit on his eyes yet he could not see. How often have you been out of distraction unto separation and yet nothing happened? The blind man was blindly blinded. How blind you are is what will determine what it takes for you to gain the sight that will enable you to see the light. Jesus spit on the blind man of BethsaidaÕs eye yet there was no clarity of sight. Eyes without clear sight is like half knowledge in the word of God. Half knowledge could be more dangerous than having no knowledge. The blind man of Bethsaida who was supposed to be seeing clearly, but was seeing men walking like trees. Jesus knew that the blind man of Bethsaida needed to see clearly, so He could not release him on his own as a result there was an extension of JesusÕ hand for the blind man of Bethsaida, ÒThen He put His hands on his eyes again and made Him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly.Ó (Mark 8:25)  The blind man of Bethsaida eventually gained the sight that enabled him to see the light.  There should be no pretending of having sight where there is no sight to see the light. Attending to prayer for an extension of GodÕs hand in our life in every area of physical or spiritual blindness is what is best. Jesus moved the blind man of Bethsaida out of town to his healing ground before he could gain sight for light. Ask God to move you to your healing ground of deliverance and gaining sight that can see the light.

It Is Well

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2 Kings 4:8-37

 

A Shunammite woman was barren and her husband was of old age. The woman was in a location and she positioned herself to be a blessing to the Man of God Elisha. When Elisha decided to return to her with favor, Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, suggested that she was barren and her husband was old. Elisha prayed for the woman and she conceived and had a son. The child grew and one day he had a headache while he was with his father and the father sent him to his mother, 2 Kings 4:20, ÒWhen he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.Ó The child died and it was not recorded of the mother crying or groaning, but she decided to seek the source at which God blessed her with the child. The Shunammite woman decided to go and look for Elisha and her husband said, ÒWhy are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.Ó And she said, ÒIt is well.Ó (2 Kings 4:23). Knowing fully well that the child is dead, she did not give a negative response. When she approached Elisha, Elisha sent his servant by saying, ÒPlease run now to meet her, and say to her, ÔIs it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?ÕÓ And she answered, ÒIt is well.Ó(2Kings 4:26) The Shunammite woman repeatedly confessed positive, she had the right word at the rough time; she refused to allow her situation to take over her. Jesus responded to same kind of situation, the same way the Shunammite woman did. JairusÕs daughter was sick to death and Jesus was approached for healing and responded in Luke 8:50, ÒBut when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying, ÒDo not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well.Ó JesusÕ response was a teaching of staying positive when all is down. Jesus then spoke to the child and the child rose from dead just like the Shunammite womanÕs son regained life at the visitation of Elisha. As you go from today, permit no fear but persist on faith, take a stand in the word of God. Speak out as you want it to be not only as the situation presents it self. With the character of Christ in you (if you have it), speak out with boldness knowing that God is your God and your source. Take note, the woman never said it shall be well neither did Jesus say it. What the woman and Jesus said was ÒIt is wellÓ. It is well, is different from it shall be well. Both statements have different meanings. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit (Proverb 18:21). Make your choice, confess positive things, and live by them. It is well in Jesus name.