SERVING HIM< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Luke 10:38-42

ÒBut Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ÒLord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.Ó (Luke 10:40) Martha was busy serving the Lord, yet she was worried and troubled. She wanted to find out from Jesus why that was allowed and how Jesus could ignore the fact that she was doing the entire running around in preparing for Jesus. Martha was actually the one that invited Jesus into her house and now she was feeling burdened of being alone in serving the Lord. MarthaÕs concern can be identified as an attempt to do it all, as a result she was missing all that was being fed at the feet of the Lord. In your serving the Lord are you being fed at His feet? There are so many kinds of servers in the business of the Lord, but they are not being served by the word of God. Many servers have taken serving personally by positioning themselves in the center of attention and it turned out to be an invitation of distraction for them. It is a suggestion that, no server should take severing before the Lord personal but it is always good to personalize Christ in our service. Serving the Lord when the Lord is in the house is not self-determination or a self-calling. Many serve where they were not called to serve, many also serve at the area of convenience not commitment. Many servers are missing it when distraction by way of attention sneaks into how service is being delivered. However, when a server knows his or her role of service that server will still be at the feet of the Lord regardless of his or her serving role. In your service are you tuned unto the Lord or it is a distraction? Serving before the Lord is a great blessing, and it does not take away, but it adds blessing unto the server. Serving is not the actual problem as noted in the case of Martha, but serving with much distraction is the problem. When seeking attention is eliminated serving with lots of distractions will cease and all good that flows from the Lord will not be missed. MarthaÕs problem was that, she was distracted with much serving not with the serving. Jesus responded to MarthaÕs questioning, ÒAnd Jesus answered and said to her, ÒMartha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.Ó(Luke 41-42) Are you worried or troubled in your service? To be worried and troubled is an indication of missing the good part that is needed. Allow your service to Him with intention for His attention not to the worldÕs attention for your distraction.

DEADLY BITE< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:1-21

A deadly bite can be devastating and fatal indeed and in truth. A deadly bite is a sin, generated and it has its entire root from sin and sinning to the name of God. Today you want to look up to God for His goodness and mercy in every area that a deadly bite has taken place in your marriage, and finances, in your health, and the life of the children that God has placed in your care. A deadly bite is the result of sin and sinning against God. The children of Israel in one of their consistent rebellious act of complaining in getting everything they needed, they positioned themselves for a deadly bite. In the case of their deadly bite, it was complaining against the quality of bread provided for them by the Almighty God. Numbers 21:5, ÒAnd the people spoke against God and against Moses: ÒWhy have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.Ó They have complained for lack of water and bread a number of times, but this time around they were complaining against the quality of the provision of food by calling GodÕs provision worthless. Indeed a worthless complaint will bring forth a death that is not worth it. This type of complaining provoked the hand of God, ÒSo the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.Ó (Numbers 21:6) Do you complain in any way before God? It is a deadly way of approaching God for needs do not take to the way of complaints directly or indirectly. The way out of a deadly bite was faith-based prescription. The children of Israel cried out for deliverance, ÒThen the LORD said to Moses, ÒMake a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.Ó (Numbers 21:8) The healing and deliverance from a deadly bite requires looking up at the hanged up serpent on the pole. Just as there was a provision for healing in looking up to the pole of the bronze serpent, so we have been provided healing and deliverance by looking up at the cross. John 3:14, ÒAnd as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.Ó He was lifted up for our healing and deliverance only if we would look up at Him. There is no foolishness in looking up, but foolishness is achieved by taking a stand of not obeying the command of proven evidences in the infallible proofs of the name of Jesus. Remember you cannot be foolish to GodÕs command, ÒBecause the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.Ó (1 Corinthians 1:25) You must believe and look up to Jesus.

DEVICES OF TERMINATION< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Numbers 20:1-13

Temptation, confrontation, aggravation, and every other agent of distraction will bring forth failure or untimely death. They never cease in every journey especially when the journey is of God. Temptations, confrontation, aggravation, (agents of distraction) only increase when the journey gets closer to the Promised Land or divine destination. The agents of distraction are the weapons of the enemy to terminate you from stepping into your promised land. As much as the work of the agents of distraction increase, God will also continue to give mercy to carry you through. GodÕs mercy will not and does not run out; it is only His creation that often runs out of His mercy. The higher the level of your calling, the greater the level and the intensity of the enemy will be in attempt to stop or deny the manifestation of your calling. Moses was called by God to lead the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. All through his encounter with God, the only thing that was left of him was to touch God in the physical. MosesÕ calling was close to touching God, but yet the enemy made him to exhaust patience. God, however, did not allow the enemy to be exalted over his life when He allowed him to see the land but not to step on the land. From the beginning to the end of his calling, it was an encounter with the enemy using the children of Israel as the instrument of getting to Moses. Rebellious acts were the pattern that was consistently used, but Moses was always on top of it. At the Red Sea, the crying and the fear in the life of the children of Israel was enough a provocation for Moses, but it did not prevail. As they complained and confessed negative against Moses for hunger so they did for water and every other discomfort in their journey. Once they complained against Moses and Aaron, ÒAnd the children of Israel said to them, ÒOh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.Ó (Exodus 16:3) This kind of provocative complaint made Moses get tripped through aggravation when he responded outside of GodÕs direction as a response at the pressure of providing water from the rock. Having flourished in overcoming many confrontations and aggravations, Moses faltered just at one of the last stops before getting into the Promised Land. Moses spoke and struck the rock with rod instead of just speaking as the Lord commanded. You are closer to your miracle than when you first started the journey so be very conscious of your entire steps not to falter. Hope in God and He will not let shame hold on to you.

RETURN< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

Luke 15:11-32

After the complaint that set them back when they were on spying mission to enter the Promised Land, the children of Israel wanted to go and conquer the land at their own peril. Moses pointed out to them the reasons why they should not go, but they refused MosesÕ word. Moses also made known to them in Numbers 14:43, ÒFor the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.Ó They had turned away from God and as a result they no longer had any privilege of walking over their enemy. Despite the warning of Moses not to go forward in possessing the land, they went and they paid the price of going without God in their camp, ÒThen the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.Ó (Numbers 14:45) God was no longer in their camp because they have turned Him off by their consistent complaining. The children of Israel had turned away from God. Unreasonable and unacceptable reasons of fear had caused them to turn from God. Doubt will always build up to fear and fear will lead into complaining while complaint will bring forth rejection. Have you turned away from God in any area of life? It is never too late to return unto Him and He will always receive you back. When Jesus was with the disciples, he spoke many times in parables and His entire saying was to build us up so that we can inherit our portion among the sanctified. In the parable of the lost son, Jesus made us to see that returning is never too late after turning away from God. The lost son left home too early when he was able to get the portion of goods that fell to him. The Bible says he went and joined to a new land. After he had finished the resources that he took with him, he then remembered to go home.  Luke 15:17, ÒAnd when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 – I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 – And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.Ó How long will it take for you to come to yourself and return home just like the prodigal? Father is always waiting for us to return after we might have turned away form Him. God did not reject you, but your action is the one that has rejected you and it has caused you to turn away from God. Just like the prodigal son, do not wait to the point of feeding yourself with the pods that swine eat before you return unto God. Learn from what Jesus is saying in the story of the Prodigal Son. Do not delay, but return unto God and He will return to turn you and turn you on for the glory of God.

WRONG RISING< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Numbers 16

At every wrong assumption or perception there will be the danger of going down wrongly. Wrong assumption can be generated because of jealousy or empty pride. Wrong assumption can also be the result of insecurity or self-centeredness. All the writing was clear on the wall that Moses was not operating on his own power or understanding and that was enough for Korah and his entourage to know not to rise against Moses. ÒNow Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; 2 and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown.Ó (Numbers 16:1-2) It is hard to believe that some could ever thought of rising against Moses; not to talk of some that actually rose against Moses despite all that God did through him. Among those that rose against him were men of renowned not just ordinary people. There were two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation and representatives of congregation mentioned in the uprising against Moses. It was a solid and capable group that rose against him, but the hand of God was solidly behind Moses because he did not call himself; it was God who called him. As a leader that is called of God, are you experiencing any uprising in any area of your calling? If you are called of God, uprising storms will come and if you are yet to see one, it will come sooner or later. Moses did not fall for their rising so you will not fall either in Jesus Name. Numbers 16:3,ÓThey gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, ÒYou take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?Ó The gathering was a very wrong move on the part of Korah and his group of opposition. It was a gathering against the wrong man. Are you in anyway gathering together against any one that is called of God? Ask God to deliver you form every conscious and unconscious gathering against any anointed of God. All those that gathered against Moses were gathering indirectly against the One who called him the leader of His people. This is what happened against Korah and his gang up group, ÒNow it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with all their goods.Ó(Numbers 16:31-32) They were all buried before death and that is why you cannot be a part of any wrong rising.