Testimony Time
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Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Testimony Time
Testimony Time:-Today's story is a replica of God's love being passed from generation to generations; and what every true Christian fail to understand is God can only give up on the value of His secret to those who simply love Him enough. Christianity however offers everyone the opportunity to give God true passion in worship and in obedience. In return, we can expect His love which will be on offer till eternity.
Understandably, life will always bring flashes of the wrongs we have committed whilst in this world. We must be aware that the wisdom of choosing to live rightly with the commandments of God ultimately ushers in the prosperity of God. Don't you forget that this opportunity can only be transferred to those who are enthusiastic enough; in keeping to God demands.
Therefore, "what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it."
"The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer." Deuteronomy 10:12-16
Circumcise the foreskin of our hearts oh God and soften our stony hearts so that we are not stiff-necked any longer. Amen
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Testimony Time
When men desert you under any guise, be rest assured that God will not leave you. If you are truly in Christ, it is not a taboo that friends will disappoint; your genuine calls can be intentionally diverted into voicemail; while your network service provider can create unnecessary problems with your line. In addition, your mobile phone batteries may choose to be flat intermittently. In all these, God's love will ever be constant because He sees and knows everything. The Bible confirms God does not sleep or slumber.-("Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep")-(Psalm 121:4) so; if your life were to be played as music, will your tune appeal to anyone to dance to? Which song are you dancing to? One that pleases the demons or that of the angels? Maybe you don't know: some ways of life pleases the demons instead of the angels.
Therefore, I will encourage you to stop the process of camouflage in your life today: replay it and then see what happens. Does it put you in the right mode of worship with Christ? Job 1:8 says- "Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." Can this assessment be true description of your life story? Stop and ponder for a while if you are still in the race of faith proclaiming to be Christ Ambassador. Don't forget, it is not impractical to see some people in the church but still they can be out of the church. They will bear no link with their positions, costumes, prophesies and other attributes they may be using to cajole unsuspecting culprits.
Today, I encourage you to rise from your slumber and stop being clothed in your former glory. Though you are in the presence of God, you may be overwritten with bondages; the sad thing is if you don't know of this dilemma. If indeed you do know, what have you done about it? Now listen to this-"O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbour nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honours those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest
and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved." Psalm 15
Father; do not allow the affairs of this world to cripple the covenant of peace You have apportioned for us. Amen
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Testimony Time
Now listen to the definition of love: It is when you stop at nothing so you can become someone's everything. Is that the case in the world today? It is so easy to claim we love but events around us has proven there are some unspoken truths about the love we claim to share and it carries the tendency to kill. Truth may be unspoken at any level; does that erode on its potency? No! so children of God, it does not matter how you look at it- truth works and quite often with speed. Let me assure you that oftentimes truth sometimes acts very slowly; however let us remain assured that truth will always work.
So, what truth do you hold that remains unspoken? How many people have you killed because you have refused to say the truth? Have you lied your way into your position? Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:25 lead the admonition to be truthful in spite of all the odds. It says "therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another. However, “today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our generation sees solutions in terms of synthesis and not absolutes. When this happens, truth, as people have always thought of truth, has died.” ~ Francis Schaeffer
~ J. C. Ryle also suggests we should "never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace"
Thomas Aquinas chips in-“As a matter of honour, one man owes it to another to manifest the truth.” ~ and “Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.” (~ Albert Schweitzer) and because “I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.” ~ John Wycliffe
"Therefore look! A messenger is coming over the mountains with good news! He is bringing a message of peace. Celebrate your festivals, O people of Judah, and fulfil all your vows, for your wicked enemies will never invade your land again. They will be completely destroyed!" Amen (Nahum 1:15)
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Testimony Time
Testimony Time:-What gives us strength as Christians to overcome the travails and intricacies of life depend so much on the value of the quality time we spend in the presence of the Lord. Don't forget that the Lord takes into account the experience we share and gain through fellowship if only the purpose is to recruit disciples for His Kingdom in heaven. In that “where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them." (Matthew 18:20)
It should therefore not be strange to anyone that those who maintain this link with God can always find the greatest treasure in His Presence even without actually searching for it.
Isaiah 55:6-7 says "Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon."
The Lords instruction is very poignant to all Christians in Jeremiah 29:13. It says "you will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart." The same promise echoes in Proverbs 8:17: that the "Lord loves those who loves Him; and those who diligently seek Him will find Him."
It goes without saying that if you don't understand the true purpose of your calling; abuse is inevitable! But you are those "who have come out of the great tribulation; washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, “they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence". Revelation 7:14-15
so, where are you with Christ? Thou who sits on the throne of Grace we beseech You to shelter us with Your Presence. Amen
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Testimony Time:-
What sounds so peculiar about the true nature of every day is that they will all run out of fashion. The same day we planned so much about will pass away and soon become our yesterday. Undoubtedly; everyone will come to that bus stop: believe it or not, we will end in the same path as of yesterday. It does not matter what we have on record as success stories and or quite glaringly what we may be considering as underachievement.
Irrespective of this position, the success value of each day goes with the day. Somehow people must work hard to protect such position; but as sure as the sun will sidle away, all positions too will become faint for the moonlight to take over and such will be the case on day of reckoning. Human beings can then begin to enjoy the same quest; either good or bad. And there would be no alternative to improve on what counts as achievement or failures in our spiritual life.
At any rate, let the success stories of our lives be measured against the precepts of God so that whether we live or die we do through Christ account. This is because it "is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."-Ephesians 4:20-24
Empower us Father to be made new in the attitude of our minds; let us be able to put on the new self and create us to be like You in true righteousness and holiness. Amen
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Testimony Time
Most assuredly, if a man does not know where he is from or where he is going and or what he is capable of achieving under the guidance of the Holy Spirit: it is certain that Satan would have upper hand in the way such person leads his/her life. In every situation however, Satan has the power to give perfect answer to everything life has on offer and more to those whose hearts are filled with uncertainty when it comes to issues concerning God.
"Keep this in mind: The Teacher was considered wise, and he taught the people everything he knew. He listened carefully to many proverbs, studying and classifying them. The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true."
The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Ecclesiastes 12:9-12
Therefore, "let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water"- Amen (Hebrews 10:22)
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Thursday, 1 December 2016
Testimony Time Teasers Today
A message worth sharing by Pastor Yinka Oyelusi:
If God was a traffic Police officer: How many times would you have been fined for parking your life wrongly, over loading it with lusts of the flesh or pleasures of the world?, Not carrying the fire extinguisher always (bible)? over speeding (ahead of God's plan) ? driving your body without a license (holy spirit)? not observing traffic lights (commandments)? and forgetting to put on your safety belt (prayer) ?
#think about it......."Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth".John 4:23-24
Jesus Loves Us Anyway!!!
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