Are You Bored With God?

Can anyone ever fully understand God? I guess the answer will be ‘no’ because if they did, then they would be God. I don’t understand why He would love man so much and then desire that we would also love Him in return. Even the angels were surprised that God would not only make man but esteem him so highly.

Today, I am thinking about the treasure that is hidden in His word and all hidden therein for you and I because of this great love that God has for us. Why would God hide so much in His word? I wonder! But He has and so there is no going round His word if we are going to succeed and truly be great. You can never have enough of His word. Nobody can overdose on it.

The word of God is like a treasure chest with a lot of treasure hidden therein and the most expensive ones are mostly hidden deep down so you have to search deep to get them. The more I study the bible, the more I learn new things about God which give me a better understanding of Him. As you discover new things about Him, you get excited. Sometimes, you feel like jumping for joy. God is indeed exciting. Of course, if you don’t’ discover new things about Him, He becomes boring and one begins to look for excitement in the wrong places when it’s all in the word.

John 1: 14 “So the word became human ad made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory, the glory of the father’s one and only son.”

There is no gift like the word of God. The greatest gift of all times is truly His word – Jesus Christ. The bible tells us that Jesus is the living word of God. He is the word personified; so that in Jesus we have all the treasure we need and will ever need to live as head and not tail. We have all we would ever need to be lenders to nations. We have all we will ever need to be in health, live a righteous life and then make heaven. Truly, through His word God made all things and will ever make anything that has to be made.

John 1: 3 “God created everything through Him, and nothing was created except through Him.”

God’s word is His “jewel of inestimable value.’ It is His pearl that He does not cast before swine so that simple as it is, not everyone is able to access this treasure chest. Even if they read forever, it will just be a book to them; at best, a book that talks about God but the deep things/treasure hidden therein will not be revealed to them. What an awesome privilege we have as children of God to be granted access to this treasure. A privilege not to be taken for granted or ignored. He does get sweeter and sweeter.

Mathew 7: 6 “Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.”

Do you dig in this treasure chest? How often do you dig into it? All you can ever have is dependent on how deep you are able to dig. It is time to go back to studying His word.

Calling ALL Women! It's Time To Pray AGAIN.

Ladies!!! Ladies!!! With each passing day, I am more excited about the fact that I am a woman. It’s the entire thing about being female. I have always appreciated who I am because I appreciate whatever God made and I know He made them good. However, more recently, I have even more excited about being female. I am more certain now than ever before that He deliberately made me female and has a definite purpose for me that only a woman can fulfill.

You may not agree with me on this but I am certain that God made you and me female for a purpose and as soon as you catch on that understanding and then your purpose, you will be proud to be the King’s princess. The princesses are precious. Did you know that fathers more often than not, pamper their daughters a little more and maybe love them a little more too? You and I are His princesses and are very dear to our father.

When you don’t know who you are, you want to be everyone else and end up as nobody. You lose your identity, confidence and self respect; and then other people treat you badly too. You fight for roles that are not yours thereby leaving your own role unoccupied making it available to someone else. Sadly, you can never fit perfectly into another person’s role so you seem to loose on all sides. Woman, God is calling us to be who He made us to be and to take back all that the enemy as stolen from us. He wants us to be vessels of honor meet and ready for the master’s use.

God has always worked with women. In these last days, He is again looking for women that He can work with: women, who are also willing to work with Him hence the Woman Cry Out Prayer Conference holding at the Oakwood Protea Hotel close to GTbank and also near Chevron along the Lekki/Epe Expressway, Lekki on Saturday 22nd October, 2011 from 9am prompt to 2pm.

This is the third Woman Cry Out conference since inception. We have two such meetings every year and this is the last one for this year. From the testimonies we have heard, it is a life changing experience. Women gather in the presence of God and leave very different from the way they came. All women are invited, young and middle aged, old, married and unmarried, working and full time housewives. Wherever you are at, whoever you are, God shall be waiting to meet with you on that day just like He was waiting for the woman at the well of Samaria.

Please come so that together, we may be blessed. We look forward to seeing you.

Do You Want To Go Back To 'Egypt'?

Captivity is a terrible thing but what is worse is for someone who has been set free to prefer and long for life in captivity. Captivity is so limiting and puts you under absolute control of the person and/or personality that holds you captive. The best of your days are only to the extent that He allows. It appears that the most grievous impact it makes on the slave is the latent desire to become like the slave master. To live like you saw your master live; as far as you know, it is the best life anyone can ever live.

Ephesians 2: 2-3b – You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil – the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. All of us used to live that way.

It is sad for a person who has been set from a life of sin by reason of the shed blood of Jesus to long for and prefer the life in slavery: to idolize the lifestyle of the slave and exalt it above any other. This is what appears to be happening to the church today. I wonder how God feels when people who have been believers for ages and served Him faithfully suddenly begin to look back at their lives before they came to Christ and begin to love and admire it and to talk about it in a way that leaves you wondering if they want to return to it. My question is this – if it was so good in captivity, why did you come to Christ who never compels anyone to come to Him.

Ephesians 2: 13 – “Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.”

This is the story of the Israelites as they journeyed into the Promised Land. They kept longing for all they had in Egypt. Every time they hit a difficulty, they didn’t desire a change in the circumstance, they just longed for what they had in Egypt until they “longed” enough for God to get totally dissatisfied with them. Clearly, they wanted liberty but they thought it would leave them in their comfort zone which was Egypt. What they knew about life and liberty was the life that their masters lived but God was calling them to a life higher than what they had and they were too short sighted to see.

Ephesians 4: 18 – 19a “Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against Him. They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure”

Remember Lot’s wife who became a pillar of salt for looking back to Sodom and Gomorrah. Let us face it; life there had become terrible for them in Sodom and they wanted to be set free. The culture they longed for was not that of Sodom so why did she look back? Did the life of sin appeal to her? Was she short-sighted and refusing to look beyond what she knows to what God was about to open up in front to her? Was she blinded?

These are the questions we need to ask ourselves today? If your life in the world was wonderful, why then did you get born again? You can’t have the best of both worlds but the world that is before you, the one that God presents is a great one so why don’t you stop looking back and longing for the life your masters lived? You can’t live that life in Christ. You can’t import that culture into this new life in Christ.

Who or What Is Dictating Your Life?

 

Life just throws several issues at you and I. I tell you, if you do not know who you are and don’t know where you are going, you will get tossed about and end up nowhere and as nobody. Of course, you could make a lot of money but what is all that if it is money just for money sake? What sense would it make to live life without God-inspired dreams or with largely unfulfilled dreams yet with a lot of money? Of a truth life is deeper than all that and we must not wait till it is too late to find out. Unlike the prodigal son, we shall not wait till we have made a mess of everything, to ‘come to ourselves.’

I am even more certain now, though the bible already says so, that the devil is in control in the world but when we commit to the good shepherd, the devil loses control over matters concerning our lives or is unable to successfully influence our lives consistently so that He is ultimately, unable to determine the course of our lives. If you allow life itself tell you who you are or determine how you end up or what you end up as, it is the devil making the decisions for you. He controls the world and throws anything at people but if you know what your life is about, then you can throw it back at him and refuse to tolerate or accept what was never meant to be a part of your life. As believers, we must refuse to allow him determine the course of our lives.

The sad thing now is that it is clear that a number of us Christians think that having a lot of money is the height of success. There is no doubt that money is good and I will not pretend like it is isn’t; but one thing is certain, it is not the determinant of how successful a man is. It is something that successful people enjoy, because God delights in prospering His people, but it is not what makes them successful. 

Jeremiah 9: 23 – 24 “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone; that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailingly love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things.”

There is a door through which man must enter in life that leads to good pasture. That door is Jesus. In Him, there is liberty to move about and there is good pasture available for our enjoyment. The pasture is very suitable food for us and also provides great comfort for rest; you can hide in it, and even lie down beside still waters. For everyone that enters in through Him, He has a predestined end and a good one at that. When we come through the door we must then learn to bring the reality of this pasture into our physical lives so that we are not tossed about by life. 

John 10: 9b “Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and find good pastures.”

If we must fulfill our purpose in life, then we must make the effort to understand the purpose of God for allowing us come to earth and then saving our souls too. You can’t come so far and then end up as instruments in the hands of the devil. You can’t afford to end up like Judas. By the time, he ‘came to himself,’ it was too late. Could it be that he allowed life determine what he became so that when the devil found him an assignment, all he saw was the money?