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Acts13:17-19, Rom.6:1-2

When was the last time that you have genuinely and sincerely acknowledge God for being consistent with your inconsistency of serving and walking in His word? Despite your inconsistency, God continues to be consistent. If you will take a moment ask for forgiveness; thank Him for His patient and consistency in listening and forgiving all your shortcomings and wicked ways of living. It is time to smell the coffee and wake up. Ask God for intervention in every area of your life that does not glorify His name. God will not over look sin and the word also confirms in Rm.6:1, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Does this connect with you? Take the word of God very serious because He will bring it, to perform it. Acts13:18 ÒNow for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways  in the wildernessÓ God put up with them in the wilderness and they could not maintain to attain; they came down to their grave and did not see the promise land of God for their life. By His faithfulness, He has been putting up with manÕs inconsistency except that man has constantly failed to maintain what He has been giving man in order for man to attain His salvation. It is absolutely left to you. The ball is in your court and the choice is for youÉeternal life or eternal damnation.

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Exo.15:22-27, Is.55:11,

When God gave His promise by His word, He meant it the way He said it. He said 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 (Is.55:11). The word of promises that we have received from God are assured ones. The word that is leading cannot fail if you have made a choice to follow the word of God. Are you following the word concerning every situation in your life? At times when all seems to be down, the word will lift you up. However, you can not afford to stop in hearing the word of God. When you care to listen and hear, it becomes understanding; it will see you through the rough times. The same word He gave to the children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel in their journey to the promise land. At a time of thirst, they busted into complaint and could not drink the water of Marah. If they had remembered the promise in the word, it could have been a different approach in asking. The next stop from their ground of complaint was Elim. Ex.15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters. You are almost at your ground of promise; hold onto the word of God. He will bring it to pass. He is a faithful father that cares for His children.

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Gen.39:1-23, Jer.12:1-4

Jeremiah had complaint before God concerning the wicked. He wondered why the wicked prosper. He also wondered why they are happy with their treacherous life style. Jer.12:2 while he was still talking to God, he said ÒYou have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind. In his conversation, he clearly identified that the wicked are the ones that have the word of God in their mouth but the word is far from their mind. Are you a master in quoting the pages of the scripture without actually demonstrating the word in your life styles? This is a very common demonstration in the church today. There are so many that constantly quote the word of God but the word is not their coat (garment) because the word is far from their mind. These are the wicked ones that Jeremiah was referring to. This also points out the reason why Joseph used the word wicked when was confronted by the wife of Potiphar. In Gen.39:9 Joseph said ÒHow can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?Ó Joseph was a man that knows the word of God and he was also mindful of the word not just mouthful as it is for so many believers that quotes word on an empty ground. It is an act of wickedness to know the word and not to take it to the mind. To take the word to the mind is to do the word. Memorization is not meditation.

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Malachi 3:16-18

A born again believer is what you have constantly and consistently claimed to be at work, school, and home and in all of your ways. How often have you engaged in gossiping Christ with the ones that have been crossing your ways? For a change, gossip Christ and let a book of remembrance be opened on your behalf. Mal.3:16 says Òthen those who fear the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who meditate on His name. At anytime there is a gathering in His name, it is an automatic invitation for the presence of the omnipotent; omnipresent God. He will listen, He will hear, and a book of remembrance will be open on your behalf. It is a demonstration of the fact that you fear Him; it is also accounted for you as a meditation. Can you see the more reason why your gossiping should be changed and focused on what will add blessings onto you? Encourage yourself in the word of God. The word of God is alive and truth. Allow a book of remembrance to be opened on your behalf. When God remembers you, you will never be reduced in every area of goodness and mercy of the almighty God of truth and blessings.

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Gen.35:1-15

Then God said to Jacob, ÒArise, go up to < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.Ó Bethel means a place of worship. When God calls you to rise and go to a place of worship is because he wants to deliver you from all that is chasing you. You have remained long enough under consistent chasing, fear, harassment, disturbances that were caused by virtue of ignorance or disobedience. It is time to move with your household to Bethel for dwelling. The way to Bethel demands that you Òput away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments (Gen.35:2). Foreign gods are idols (not necessarily an image but could be thoughts or desires that are not of God); Purify yourselves (clean yourselves by asking God to wash you from head to toe; inside to outside) change of garments (put on robe of righteousness). When you meet all of these requests, all that has been pursuing you will be quenched. Jacob and his household did exactly in that journey. Gen.35:5 and they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not purse the sons of Jacob. Will you rise? Ask God for a divine intervention for you to rise; act in obedience knocking off all that needs to be knocked off. Have a safe journey.