I guess today is just one of those days when i just decide that I must give God all the glory and i mean ALL the glory!
Again there's a song we sing in church which i actually a yoruba song but when translated to english goes thus "give God all the glory, tell Him you are grateful everybody give god all the glory tell him you aregrateful"
Yes indeed i dedicate this post to The Amighty God, the Rock on which i stand the Most High God, the lover of my soul, my great and mighty redeemer the only one who made me and called me out of the darkness into his marvelous light.
If not for Jesus where will i be this day and this time.
Romans 9:16 tells me it is not of him who wills nor of him who runs, but of god who shows mercy.
Indeed its good to stop short and take stock of one's life intermittently, especially at times when the enemy tries to tell you lies, to speak negative words to you or bring negative thoughts to one's mind.
I immediately turn this situation around by giving God all th glory because he alone deserves my time, my thoughts my energy, my love and strength. Where will i be without you darling Lord.
This is just to say loud and clear I love you "daddy" and i give you all the honor that is due to you the King of kings for this life of mine.
Glory be to The Lord! Alleluia!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
The joy of the lord is my Strength!
For about a week now at the daily morning prayers we have in our ministry, (GLCM) a divine prescription by God himself, the holy spirit has been leading us to awards our standing in Him despite what we are going through and despite the times that we seem to be in.
i say seem to be in because as children of God we are not operating under the worlds economy and we do know that our father owns everything.
anyway its all been about joy joy joy and o i never realised how quickly it is to lose it when we have it or how so many of us christians lack this joy, even though its a key ingredient of the kingdom.
The bible tells me that joy is a key ingredient in the Kingdom of God. Its a fruit of the spirit, but before i can have joy i must remain in God's presence to have full joy, complete joy. Psalm 16:11.
i also realised that the reason i need so much joy is because the joy of the Lord is my strength.
when i am full of joy, then i am constantly strengthened and able to overcome all the power of the enemy because i will have a connection to the holy spirit, always knowing the mind of the spirit and walking hand in hand with the lord such that when all doesn't seem right, by the holy spirit within me i am strengthened because i know that all is actually well and that my god is in absolute control of everything and is actually able to take very good care of me because with him what men say is impossible is actually possible.
The one whose god is the Rock will never depend on their surroundiongs nor on what they see hear or feel.
rather the overcomer will always be joyful and carry around a cheerful spirit which in turn attracts the holy spirit and gets me victory in the day of battle.
today ask yourself, ami filled with the joy of the lord or with the cares of the world?
i say seem to be in because as children of God we are not operating under the worlds economy and we do know that our father owns everything.
anyway its all been about joy joy joy and o i never realised how quickly it is to lose it when we have it or how so many of us christians lack this joy, even though its a key ingredient of the kingdom.
The bible tells me that joy is a key ingredient in the Kingdom of God. Its a fruit of the spirit, but before i can have joy i must remain in God's presence to have full joy, complete joy. Psalm 16:11.
i also realised that the reason i need so much joy is because the joy of the Lord is my strength.
when i am full of joy, then i am constantly strengthened and able to overcome all the power of the enemy because i will have a connection to the holy spirit, always knowing the mind of the spirit and walking hand in hand with the lord such that when all doesn't seem right, by the holy spirit within me i am strengthened because i know that all is actually well and that my god is in absolute control of everything and is actually able to take very good care of me because with him what men say is impossible is actually possible.
The one whose god is the Rock will never depend on their surroundiongs nor on what they see hear or feel.
rather the overcomer will always be joyful and carry around a cheerful spirit which in turn attracts the holy spirit and gets me victory in the day of battle.
today ask yourself, ami filled with the joy of the lord or with the cares of the world?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
there is a great and effectual door opened unto me!
yes indeed there is a great and effectual door that the lord has opened before me. over the past couple of years i have had the priviledge of hearing these same words repeated to me either as a prophecy or as a song of hope or even read from god's word as it is written in 1 Corinthians 16:9 "for a great and effectual door has been opened before me, and there are many adversaries".
it had always seemed to me that this song was just that, a song, until recently my eyes are now opening to see whatpaul meant when he said these same words.
remeber paul said even though there is an open door, ther are also many adversaries.
i keep hearing there is a door but had not the faith nor the fire (spiritual strength by the holy spirit) to walk through thses doors.
yes Our heavenly father at some time or the other or at some point or the other in our lives has opened unto us a door of opportunities and he expects us with faith to step forward and walk through those doors.
we need god in our lives to open up doors like this otherwise we will all remain in one spot, not going forward either in our secular lives or our spiritual lives.
i believe in order to walk through these doors we must first understand that our maker has opened a door for us and as soon as we receive a word or sense in our spirit that the time for change has come and that the door is opened and waiting for us to walk through it, we must give thanks for this opened door, and even do all that you would do were the door to actually be opened before you.
like i said earlier on, i too am yet to walk through this great and effectual door but i believe that as i even write in this blog today that a door even greater than i could ever ask or think or imagine has been opened unto me and that i am walking through that door very very soon and so i seize this opportunity to just say a very very big thank you to the almighty god who did not allow me to miss this opportunity or permit any more reproach in my life (becos of closed doors)but gave me this great opportunity by opening a new door for me, a door of change, promotion, restoration, and victory, that what i had waited for sooo long for took him such a short time to accomplish and what seemed almost impossible and hard to get the lord gave by himself the grace and the strength to get, the lord by his mercy made a way for me by granting me his divine favor and opening a new door for me to walk thru to my next level.
thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord and thank you Holy Spirit.
it had always seemed to me that this song was just that, a song, until recently my eyes are now opening to see whatpaul meant when he said these same words.
remeber paul said even though there is an open door, ther are also many adversaries.
i keep hearing there is a door but had not the faith nor the fire (spiritual strength by the holy spirit) to walk through thses doors.
yes Our heavenly father at some time or the other or at some point or the other in our lives has opened unto us a door of opportunities and he expects us with faith to step forward and walk through those doors.
we need god in our lives to open up doors like this otherwise we will all remain in one spot, not going forward either in our secular lives or our spiritual lives.
i believe in order to walk through these doors we must first understand that our maker has opened a door for us and as soon as we receive a word or sense in our spirit that the time for change has come and that the door is opened and waiting for us to walk through it, we must give thanks for this opened door, and even do all that you would do were the door to actually be opened before you.
like i said earlier on, i too am yet to walk through this great and effectual door but i believe that as i even write in this blog today that a door even greater than i could ever ask or think or imagine has been opened unto me and that i am walking through that door very very soon and so i seize this opportunity to just say a very very big thank you to the almighty god who did not allow me to miss this opportunity or permit any more reproach in my life (becos of closed doors)but gave me this great opportunity by opening a new door for me, a door of change, promotion, restoration, and victory, that what i had waited for sooo long for took him such a short time to accomplish and what seemed almost impossible and hard to get the lord gave by himself the grace and the strength to get, the lord by his mercy made a way for me by granting me his divine favor and opening a new door for me to walk thru to my next level.
thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord and thank you Holy Spirit.
O Lord give me a humble and a contrite heart!
This was my prayer in the early hours of yesterday morning as i pondered on so many things going on in my life.
Yes the times when i have fought God's will for me, the times when i have struggled with instructions, the times when i have gone off on my own to do my own stuff, the times when i felt i was wiser, so much wiser than my maker, the times i have wasted resources e.g. time and energy to ponder on my life and to judge situations that were too high for me, it was at these times that i realise pride dwelt within me and so i have been totally disconnected from my maker and didn't hear a single word of instruction or comfort, my teachers were nowhere to be found.
Isaiah 45:9 says "woe to him who strives with his maker, let the potsherd strive with the potsherd of the earth, shall the clay say to the one who formed it "what are you making" or shall your handiwork say "he has no hands". In other words struggles and trials are what happens to the one who strives with or disagrees with their creator and this happens to have been my plight for so long, always questioning gods ways, thinking i knew better and so grieved with my maker over issues that i should have my peace knowing he was in total control.
Amos 3:3 says "can two walk together lest they be agreed?"
but as an overcomer i now see that its impossible to walk with my creator when i am not in agreement with his plans for me or the wys he has set to accomplish those plans
Psalm 51:17 says that "the sacrifices of god are a broken spirit, a humble and a contrite heart heart you will not despise"
thank god for today by his grace i have come to that place of absolute and total surrender, that place where i know without any reasonable doubt that my god is in absolute and total control of every single event in my life that looks like its out of control and about to collapse, yet it is in fact at this time if i trust in my god that he proves himself by showing up and giving me direction and divine instruction as to what to do and what to pray.
The lord actually leads the humble in the way they should go. As i grow daily in him i ask him constantly to help me to be humble and contrite in my heart for so shall i fulfill my days.
Yes the times when i have fought God's will for me, the times when i have struggled with instructions, the times when i have gone off on my own to do my own stuff, the times when i felt i was wiser, so much wiser than my maker, the times i have wasted resources e.g. time and energy to ponder on my life and to judge situations that were too high for me, it was at these times that i realise pride dwelt within me and so i have been totally disconnected from my maker and didn't hear a single word of instruction or comfort, my teachers were nowhere to be found.
Isaiah 45:9 says "woe to him who strives with his maker, let the potsherd strive with the potsherd of the earth, shall the clay say to the one who formed it "what are you making" or shall your handiwork say "he has no hands". In other words struggles and trials are what happens to the one who strives with or disagrees with their creator and this happens to have been my plight for so long, always questioning gods ways, thinking i knew better and so grieved with my maker over issues that i should have my peace knowing he was in total control.
Amos 3:3 says "can two walk together lest they be agreed?"
but as an overcomer i now see that its impossible to walk with my creator when i am not in agreement with his plans for me or the wys he has set to accomplish those plans
Psalm 51:17 says that "the sacrifices of god are a broken spirit, a humble and a contrite heart heart you will not despise"
thank god for today by his grace i have come to that place of absolute and total surrender, that place where i know without any reasonable doubt that my god is in absolute and total control of every single event in my life that looks like its out of control and about to collapse, yet it is in fact at this time if i trust in my god that he proves himself by showing up and giving me direction and divine instruction as to what to do and what to pray.
The lord actually leads the humble in the way they should go. As i grow daily in him i ask him constantly to help me to be humble and contrite in my heart for so shall i fulfill my days.
Bless the Lord O my soul!
Overcomers must always have a heart of gratitude and a spirit of praise at all times. Like i wrote in my last post I have come to realise that thanksgiving plays a very important role in the life of an overcomer. Psalm 92:2 says " it is good to give thanks to the Lord and to praise our God most high, to tell about love in the morning and his faithfulness at night" and Psalm 92:4 says also that "the lord has made me glad through His work and i will triumph in the works of his hands" Praise the Lord!
God has been so faithful to me, His banner over me has just been love, love, love and I am so grateful.
another song we usually sing thats coming to my spirit even as i type is " O Lord I am very very grateful, for all you have done for me, O Lord I am very very grateful, and i say, thank you Jesus".
Since i made up my mind to do a total turnaround (from constantly murmuring, complaining, finding one fault or the other with myself, never being hopeful, confessing negative which brings lots of fear and doubt), to be a true child of the most high God whom He has already redeemed from the grave and all these negative things i wrote above, my life has never been the same.
things have started moving for me in the right direction, i really can feel the light of gods countenance shining upon me.
My attitude towards God has changed, no longer am i ungrateful but thankful for His nature (mercy and love) especially, as well as His blessings, I have indeed seen God reveal himself in my life as that loving, caring and good god that He is.
Apparently my thanks started to provoke God to do me more good than even i could ever imagine.
remember He has always been good to me but i failed to see his goodness when i thought he wasn't doing what i wanted him to do. But actually He is always good to us all and when we thank him continually we move him to do even more.
Psalm 50:23 says "whoever offers thanks glorifies me, and to him who orders his conversation aright, i will show the salvation of god."
this is so true and i glorify the name of the lord for all he has done and for his patience with me and his mercy and faithfulness towards me.
God has been so faithful to me, His banner over me has just been love, love, love and I am so grateful.
another song we usually sing thats coming to my spirit even as i type is " O Lord I am very very grateful, for all you have done for me, O Lord I am very very grateful, and i say, thank you Jesus".
Since i made up my mind to do a total turnaround (from constantly murmuring, complaining, finding one fault or the other with myself, never being hopeful, confessing negative which brings lots of fear and doubt), to be a true child of the most high God whom He has already redeemed from the grave and all these negative things i wrote above, my life has never been the same.
things have started moving for me in the right direction, i really can feel the light of gods countenance shining upon me.
My attitude towards God has changed, no longer am i ungrateful but thankful for His nature (mercy and love) especially, as well as His blessings, I have indeed seen God reveal himself in my life as that loving, caring and good god that He is.
Apparently my thanks started to provoke God to do me more good than even i could ever imagine.
remember He has always been good to me but i failed to see his goodness when i thought he wasn't doing what i wanted him to do. But actually He is always good to us all and when we thank him continually we move him to do even more.
Psalm 50:23 says "whoever offers thanks glorifies me, and to him who orders his conversation aright, i will show the salvation of god."
this is so true and i glorify the name of the lord for all he has done and for his patience with me and his mercy and faithfulness towards me.
All I have to say is thank you lord!
Indeed all I have to say is thank you Lord!
After my last entry a few days ago so much has happened in my life that makes me want to shout a very loud alleluia and roll a million times on the floor of my bedroom, (if i had more space) and say a very big thank you to my redeemer, my saviour, my help in time of trouble, my friend, my master, the lover of my soul, my everything and i mean practically everything.
as i write today i remember a song we love to sing at my fellowship that goes "i cannot do without you O Lord". its just the same phrase repeated throughout the song and indeed the Lord is soo good and worthy of all my praise this morning.
Its taken me soo long to understand the power of thanksgiving because for soo long I had thanked the lord only for the things He does, so off course when nothing is happening and it looks like he's just folding his hands in my life and watching, I didn't have an attitude of gratitude and so naturally I didn't say thank you.
But today, when I look at the way He has been with me in the last few days and the secrets He uncovered in my life about the wicked plan of the enemy which He dissapointed as he promised to do in Job 5:12, I realise that indeed God is faithful and kind and loving to me, His mercy in spite of all I have been to him, unfaithful, sometimes with a bad attitude, unloving, impatient, misjudging things becos I lacked understanding, and inspite of all of this He responded with so much love, mercy and faithfulness that I am really humnbled today and repent with all my heart and all i have to say is thank you Lord.
After my last entry a few days ago so much has happened in my life that makes me want to shout a very loud alleluia and roll a million times on the floor of my bedroom, (if i had more space) and say a very big thank you to my redeemer, my saviour, my help in time of trouble, my friend, my master, the lover of my soul, my everything and i mean practically everything.
as i write today i remember a song we love to sing at my fellowship that goes "i cannot do without you O Lord". its just the same phrase repeated throughout the song and indeed the Lord is soo good and worthy of all my praise this morning.
Its taken me soo long to understand the power of thanksgiving because for soo long I had thanked the lord only for the things He does, so off course when nothing is happening and it looks like he's just folding his hands in my life and watching, I didn't have an attitude of gratitude and so naturally I didn't say thank you.
But today, when I look at the way He has been with me in the last few days and the secrets He uncovered in my life about the wicked plan of the enemy which He dissapointed as he promised to do in Job 5:12, I realise that indeed God is faithful and kind and loving to me, His mercy in spite of all I have been to him, unfaithful, sometimes with a bad attitude, unloving, impatient, misjudging things becos I lacked understanding, and inspite of all of this He responded with so much love, mercy and faithfulness that I am really humnbled today and repent with all my heart and all i have to say is thank you Lord.
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