Month: March 2024

Rush hour

Those who are deliberate and intentional about spending time in God’s presence always get the best of Him. God is never in a hurry to speak or do anything. Time is in His hands, and He can stop it if He needs to. Time bends to His will, effortlessly. When He beckons, the world halts to listen.

Every other thing can wait when God wants your attention including the deals and favours you are running after. So, learn to be patient in God’s presence. It is patience that unlocks the deepest layers of fellowship and communion. It’s embracing the serene pace of His presence that unlocks the supernatural and the extraordinary.

Haste may be required for His errands, but patience is key for fellowship and communion with God. You can’t hurry God and He has no dealings with people who are in a hurry. His rhythm doesn’t sync with haste. To truly dance in harmony with His plans, one must learn the grace of waiting. For He reserves His finest revelations for those who linger, those who are willing to embrace the unhurried pace of fellowship with God.

Isaiah 49:23 …they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.

No Escape

In Acts 1:6-8, the disciples asked Jesus about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel. They were interested in the timing of restoration of the theocratic government of Israel and freedom from the Roman empire. Jesus took the opportunity to redirect their focus on what was most important – living empowered lives on earth. Rather than looking to the sky waiting for an opportunity of escape, He wanted them to busy themselves with being His witnesses. They were to occupy till He comes.

Dear friend, Jesus is not coming to rescue the church from a dire situation. He is not coming for a desperate set of followers. He is not coming for a church that is at the brink of destruction or extermination. He is coming for a victorious church, with multiple crowns.

When He prayed for the disciples, He prayed for their preservation in the world. He did not pray for an escape door out of the world for the disciples. In the midst of the corruption and decay in the world, maybe the easier thing to do would be for God to take us out of the world but He says, hey, I ain’t taking you out. I will keep you through. He says, I will be with you through the fire and through the flood. The perfection of the church and the Christian is through the flood and through the fire, through trials. The church proves itself by what it overcomes (Acts 14:21-22). The only way I can prove my car is good for off road trips is to get on the dirt tracks, mountainous roads, slippery roads.

The church demonstrates its power by its victories on this side of eternity. We earn our crowns by our victories. That’s why we can say we have overcome by the blood of the lamb and the words of our testimony.

Stay strong dear soldier of Christ.

God bless you.

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Labels & tags

Have you ever picked up an item in a store only to discover at the cash desk that the price on the tag was wrong? You would probably get an apology for that from the store. Maybe they would say, they were in the middle of a price update or something like that.  This has happened to me a couple of times. Once, I thought I was getting a bargain, and even picked up an additional item only to be jolted back to reality at the cash desk. Wrong labels and price tags can mislead us. We could undervalue or overvalue an item by the label it carries.

Do you feel you have a wrong label or price tag on your forehead? Do you feel you are being wrongly judged or stereotyped. Maybe you are just coming out of a toxic relationship…You walk into an event, and you get the stares. You imagine them thinking about you as the recently divorced man or lady. You can literally feel the thoughts in the minds of people hitting your body like tiny darts. Maybe you’ve been trying for a baby for a while, and you are now carrying a label that is not yours. Perhaps, despite your sincere efforts, you keep failing at the tasks you are given. Or perchance, you don’t just measure up to standards set by certain people around you and you now have a label.

You wish you could remove impressions from people’s minds, but you simply cannot. Always remember friend, that the most important impression is the one your Father has about you. He says, He has loved you with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3). In other words, He would always feel and think the same way about you, no matter what is going on. You are accepted in the Beloved – this has no conditions (Eph. 1.6)!

Dear friend, I want you to be convinced and convicted of this love of God. It is real and genuine. It never fails. Your road to healing and recovery begins with a revelation and conviction of this truth – that you are accepted in the Beloved and loved unconditionally by Him. And speaking about labels, your new label says, ‘Loved by my Father’!

He asked me to tell you this!