Month: August 2020

[The Glory Unveiled]

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ( Philippians 3:13 )

Most electronic gadgets these days including all smartphones are ran by operating systems that need frequent updating. Compared to phones that need no software updates, smartphones with the need, have higher efficiency and more adaptive to current needs and trends. In the same vein, spiritually we need to update our OS (operating system). In the verse of scripture for our meditation, the apostle Paul impresses that truth in the statement, “forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead”. The truth of God’s word is in layers of revelation and exposure. One man’s level of revelation and exposure is different from another. So that two people will experience the same reality but their interpretations will be different base on their depth of revelation in the word of God. Just as whenever there is a newer version of a software, one needs to update—‘forget’ the former version, we all need to update our spiritual softwares too. We need to have the current revelation of God’s truth at all times. And the agency for the tangibility of this reality in the Believer is the Holy Spirit. He updates us by giving us the current revelation of truth which is always in sync with what God wants to do in the present season. But we have a responsibility to strain for the current “software” of the Spirit. And we strain forward in the secret place, when we have fellowship with the Spirit of truth. Does your revelation of truth need updating?.

Prayer_Bead: Father of all spirits, Lord of all lords, thank you for the constant update of the spirit by your word. Teach me to remain in the secret place until the current revelation is updated into my spirit.

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[The Glory Unveiled]

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ( Galatians 3:28  )

In our world today, almost everything is done on the premise of social stratification. Even T. V commercials are done from this same perspective to reach targeted consumers. We have divided humans and our way of life according to different philosophical ideologies and societal standards. The imaginary margins are drawn to separate one human from the other. But in Genesis 1:27, it was not so. God created mankind (all of humans) in his image and likeness. This means there was no disparity between humans from the beginning. We were (are) all like God. And whatever was in the beginning is the true pattern and the original intention for that thing. In the beginning, God did not put any wall of divide, be it social, political, economic, religious, tribal or racial, between those He created. In the New Testament reality verse of scripture above, the apostle Paul reiterates this truth. We are all one in Christ. The wall of divide that had separated us from God and divided us into factions had been broken when Christ Jesus went to the cross on our behalf. In Christ Jesus we have become one body even as the scripture says that we are the body of Christ—members together of one body (1Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 3:6). Let this be our mindset so that nothing and no one would demean us or break our self esteem.

Prayer_Bead: Loving Father and King, thank you for breaking the wall of divide erected by the law and giving me access into You through Christ. My worth is not in my gender or bank account but in the finished works of Christ.

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[The Glory Unveiled] 

The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. ( Deuteronomy 7:22 ) 

Sometimes what happens in our lives and around us which seem like God does not want us to be happy is actually meant to bring us the ultimate joy. It is like love “undiluted in a translucent bottle”. And as a result of the translucent nature of the covering, it is difficult to interpret the intentions of God accurately sometimes; so that we misinterpret the oracles of God as much as we misinterpret everyday life. After the Israelites had newly come into the land of their inheritance—which was at the time occupied by the other nations—-a vast land, they could not immediately fill it up. So God in His wisdom expressed his love for the people by not driving out all their enemies at once. Wow. God left some of their enemies in place to save the land from being taken over by bush and wild animals. The Israelites were not so many to fill up the land so that wild animals would not multiply and so God would have to use their enemies to drive away wild animals by allowing some of the enemies to lodge temporarily. Sometimes the presence of an “enemy” or an “oppressor” is to work the plans of God for us. So it may be that it is God that is preventing you from eliminating your “foes” at once. God is intentional about everything that concerns us. The seemingly challenging circumstances around us are making way for the expression of a greater weight of God’s glory. Hold on.

Prayer_Bead: Loving Father, thank you for your protection and display of love towards me. Even if I don’t immediately understand it, I know you love me and are committed to it.

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[The Glory Unveiled]

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants. ( Psalms 79:10 )

The people who “claim”, not “believe” that there is no God are quick to ask the question that makes the theme of today’s GNews. These folks, whom the Bible actually addresses, “fools” (Psalms 14:1; 53:1) think that God does not exist because if He did, they should be able to control him. Ultimately, the reason why they wouldn’t accept the existence of God is the fact that this God does not lend Himself to be handled like a guinea pig or a lab rat. By the way, no one can control Him that’s why He is God in the first place. But the point is, God has given humanity too many evidence of His existence, even His silence. The things in the world attest to the fact that there’s got to be a God out there. These created things are the voices of His invisible attributes. In the scripture above, for God to prove Himself, the speaker says God should avenge the outpoured blood of His servants. But then one would ask, is that the only thing and even closest thing that proves the existence or Omnipotence of God? Surely not. Psalms 115:3 says God lives in heaven and He does whatever pleases Him. So God could do whatever He would do when He would and how He would do it. The only reason why God would do what a man asks Him is because of the degree of the relationship that person has with Him. God would listen to Moses on almost every occasion because of this reason; intimate relationship. So God would be proved true and all men lies by women and men who have a working relationship with God. Whenever people ask “where is your God” check your relationship with Him or find out why He is silent.

Prayer_Bead: Father in heaven, Omnipotent God, thank you for silencing the nations and the people. Announce to all hearts in the silence of their souls that you are God.

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The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. (  Genesis 39:2 )

Joseph had come from Canaan, and as the youngest and most loved of his father’s children he probably didn’t know how to do any house chores. In chapter 37, it is recorded that his brothers had gone to the field to tend their father’s sheep but Joseph was home probably enjoying the pampering of his father.  But now in chapter 39, in a foreign land; in a home foreign to him, Joseph prospered at tasks that he had no formal skills in pursuing. How could this be? The scripture above says that he succeeded because the Lord was with him. There is something about the equation where God is the constant; it wouldn’t matter where or what comes against the variable [you]. If God be with any woman or man, who can be against them? God with man is the surest insurance of soul, body and spirit. With the display of this truth as reality in Joseph’s life, we can be assured that having God in our lives is a cinch that whatever we do is going to be successful. If God is with any man or woman, that individual’s life becomes a wonder that cannot be denied. So that even strange men and women and even nations would come to our light or acknowledge it. Joseph lived in his masters house because he was an advantage to the household. Excellence will always make room for us anywhere.

Prayer_Bead: Sculptor of destinies and designer of purposes, give me success in everything I do so that the world may know that you are with me.

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