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Love’s purpose


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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ( John 3:16 )

The most recited verse of scripture is probably the one above. We hear it almost everyday, usually in sermons propagating salvation. Sometimes in sermons of giving and making sacrifices. Today we are going to look at the purpose of love through the lens of this scripture. The purpose or reason for a thing decides where that thing goes and how it gets there. There are many suffering relationships, most of which are on the verge of destruction because there was no purpose for initiating them. God is love Himself, He does not just love but is the love itself. We read here that God had a purpose for the expression of his love. His love was aimed at the salvation of all mankind. He directed His love to man with the intention that we will be saved and not perish. For us to have eternal life, God had to give away His son to be offered as a sin offering without blemish. So the love had a purpose, a goal to accomplish, a target to reach. God’s love was not and is not haphazard. Even though Hillsong sang about the “reckless” Love of God, the “recklessness” was aimed at our salvation. Likewise we must learn to have a purpose for the love we share with those we claim to love. God loves us and so He gave; but His giving was to a certain definite end. What is the true motive of your love, is it so that you could drain someone or to take from them? Or is it to give to them?

Prayer_Bead: Gracious Lord, loving Father and King, thank you for your love and your grace. I pray that you will strengthen my love as I hinge it unto a purpose for which you have called me to advance your kingdom.

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Your light has come


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“Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. ( Isaiah 60:1 )

When Adam and Eve sinned, humanity lost the light of life that was domiciled in us. At salvation, we received back that light. But unfortunately there are many of us who, though, have the light still live as if we don’t have it. Such fellows have decided not to arise and shine. The Bible says a lamp is supposed to be upon a lamp stand so that all may see. God asks us, why won’t we let the world see His glory. He has made us vessels of glory just to display it to the world. We must endeavor not to be like Moses who covered his light (God’s glory). We are only carriers of the glory and so in reality a responsibility is laid upon us to be in the right position where we can tilt towards the Holy Spirt to reveal Christ to the world. So instead of sitting in the valley of depressions and bitterness, let us arise unto the mountain of gladness, displaying the honour of He who called us. The coming (entrance) of our lights through salvation comes with the already packaged items of the glory of God. It means that the day we received Christ as Lord, we received the hope of Glory. That is why after accepting Christ, there is no Jew nor Greek, male nor female but we all become one in Him. Arise in prayer and the study of the word and shine for your light has come!

Prayer_Bead: Father of glory, Light of the world, Lord of all spirits, thank you for your glory upon my life. Help me to mirror it to the world.

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The Rescue Tower


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The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. ( Proverbs 18:10 )

The righteous is one who is saved through the finished works of Jesus and has come into the environment of the Godlife where spiritual death is eradicated. As a result, the righteous is now able to relate with the things of God without being held back by the legal setups of Heaven. With all the opportunities that avail themselves to the righteous in Christ, there are certain realities that will not be experienced by the righteous until they come into the name of the Lord. Like a faculty in a university or a higher learning institution that though exists on the campus, a student who does not belong to that faculty will not participate and may not know the things that go on in that faculty, so is the righteous who has not yet come into the strong tower. The amazing thing is that the righteous is not born-again into this tower but has to run into it. This calls for a conscious effort and determination on the part of the believer if that believer will taste and walk in the reality. At the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee bows and tongues confess that He is Lord, of things in heaven and on earth. But the name does not work for everyone even though it carries power because only a few people have truly come into the name of Jesus. The sons of Sceva were one of those who did not come into the name of Jesus (though they were sons of a Jewish chief priest and exorcists) but wanted to participate in its packages as the apostle Paul did, we all know what happened to them as a result of that error (see Acts 19:11-16). Principalities in heaven obey and work with principles. The name works, but for those who are in it. Let us run into the name of Jesus through the sincere dealings of the Holy Spirit with us.

Prayer_Bead: Father in heaven, thank you for the power in the name of Jesus. Usher me into the tower of recognized sons through your dealings. And give voice to your power in my life. In Jesus name.

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Created after what you see


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See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain ( Exodus 25:40 )

The man of God, Moses had been taken up to the arena of the supernatural, in the mountain of God to see the pattern of things (the tabernacle) that should be reproduced on earth. The Lord’s prayer captures a very important line, “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. God desires that the earth will be colonized by heaven so that earth will look like heaven in its culture, language and appearance. As a result, God seeks to institute the government structure of heaven on earth. So that earth will look exactly like heaven. It would not have been necessary for God to take Moses up into mount Sinai if what God wanted to see replicated on earth was not so important. God did not only tell Moses but showed him what He expected. In the beginning of our journey with God, He does the same thing to us. He shows us the pattern He desires to model us after, which is Christ. So that when Nathaniel came into the faith, the first thing that God did was to show him Jesus (John 1:46-49), the standard and pattern to which he will be made. If by any means along the way we lose sight of the pattern, God will reveal Him again to us, but we would have to ascend the mountain of God. And particularly in this times when the world desires to blindfold us from seeing and looking unto Jesus as the author and Finisher, we need to consistently visit the mountain of God in prayer and the study of His word.

Prayer_Bead: Mountain mover, life changer, thank you for the pattern you have shown me in you, as Christ Jesus. Reconstruct me according to your own pattern in every area of life and godliness.

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Christ, the standard


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When they kept on questioning him, he (Jesus) straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ( John 8:7 )

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees had brought in a woman allegedly caught in adultery. Instead of carrying out the sentence because they “knew” the verdict—what the law said concerning the matter—they brought the matter to the custodian of the law and the law Himself, Jesus. They had premeditated the outcome of Jesus’ verdict, so they carried stones with them to the courtroom that early morning. They knew the law that said “Do not…” but they had no encounter with the one that says “Do—love” until the first light of that fateful day. The stage was set, the audience were looking on, the accused would not mutter a word. The Jury (teachers of the law and the Pharisees) questioned and badgered the Judge persistently to drain the verdict out of Him. At last, he stops the permutations His finger had been drafting in the sand. Now the verdict is ready to be read and it goes thus…”Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone…” In that articulate statement, the Jury saw themselves in a mirror that compared them to the standard, Christ. And in that moment, they saw who they really were in the face of the standard. They saw how very similar they looked like the adulterous woman but far in resemblance from the standard, Christ Jesus. Beloved, we look unto one man, the man Christ Jesus for our formation and conformation. Every other standard of measurement is false. Let love lead.

Prayer_Bead: Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for Your word of life. Thank you for showing me the standard and as I behold you, I am changed into Your image from glory to glory.

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Wait patiently for Isaac

So she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. ( Genesis 16:2 )

God had promised Abraham that he will have a child, who will be his own flesh and blood. Though one would argue that this statement made to Abram (Abraham) was open and almost “vague” as the woman who would bear that child wasn’t mentioned, we will be silenced by the fact that God who put Abram and Sarai together knew that was the only wife he had and so it was Sarai who was captured in the plan of God to have a son with Abraham. And if God could promise Abraham, who had gone past the child bearing age that he would bear a child, then God could quicken the womb of Sarai too. And so now, in the light of this background understanding, we would agree that Sarai didn’t wait long enough for the promise, Isaac before she decided to help her situation. Sarai quickly, thinking God kept her from having children decided to improvise to help the promise of God. But we know what, nothing can help the revealed word of God except God himself. So that in an attempt to help that word, Sarai almost broke her home. If we don’t wait patiently for the word that had gone out of God’s mouth, we may wake up only to realize that we have destroyed the original plan of God by having a support plan. Beloved, instead of helping God, let us allow His word, time enough to come to fruition and then we would see and experience true success and peace. Wait for Isaac—the prophesy you received will be fulfilled—rather than graft in Ishmael.

Prayer_Bead: All Luminous Most High, the God whose words will not return void unless there was a performance of those things He had spoken, guard my heart in waiting patiently and faithfully for your promises fulfilled.

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Shipwrecked faith


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Holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. ( 1Timothy 1:19 )

Faith is the bedrock of our relationship with God in Christ Jesus. Without which it is impossible to please God (see Hebrews 11:6). But in the ocean of life, our human nature and frailties will need an anchor to attach the ship of our faith to. The apostle Paul teaches that there’s no better anchor than a good conscience. The thing about conscience is that all humans have it; regardless of race or gender, faith or tribe, we all have a conscience. But conscience alone is not enough. What will stand the storms and test of life’s ocean is a good conscience. That not withstanding, a good conscience is not automatic. A conscience becomes good only after it has fraternized with the word of God by the Spirit of regeneration. Without a good conscience our faith, though faith, will suffer shipwreck when the tides become strong and deadly. A good conscience has a voice foreign to the status quo and the current trends of the world. It’s voice is synchronous with the word of God and what the Spirit of God will permit. But the scary thing is that, a good conscience can be rejected just as the Spirit of God can be resisted (rejected). A good conscience can be resisted and rejected through the hardening of hearts and ceasing to hear the good word of God consistently. May we not be counted among them that reject a good conscience and whose faith is heading for an irretrievable loss.

Prayer_Bead: Author and Finisher of our faith, thank you for the wonderful opportunity of your word. May my faith stand the storms of life as you refine my conscience by your word.

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Why stay here?


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If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.” ( 2 Kings7:4 )

The past is certain, it is the past. Everything that happened had already happened and nothing can change from the past. And for the present, nobody can narrate the events of another person’s present circumstances better than themselves and again everyone knows whether they want to remain in their “today” forever or whether they are discontented. But the future, it is a blank cheque. We can write possibilities on it or impossibilities. We can make what we want the future to look like by making the choices that are consistent with that future. Four lepers (outcasts of their civilization) were faced with a crisis that was common to their nation; famine. There was no food in their home country so they decided to make a move. They became frustrated with the politics of their time that promised much but delivered nothing. And instead of the favorites of the society, the influential people finding a way to fix it, these four lepers decided to take matters into their own hands. They invented an ideological approach that paved way for them to access what God had packaged for the nation. They decided not to stay in their home nation because they knew its fate. And even when they got to the threshold of breakthrough, they still didn’t stay there, they decided to move forward instead. They understood that what lies ahead of them was two possibilities instead of one; the only one they were accustomed to in their home. Beloved, sometimes the solution we seek lies beyond our current location and all we need to do is to move forward in hope.


Prayer Bead: Jehovah Jireh, Omnipotent God, thank you for teaching me to plunge forward in the direction of your provisions for me. Amplify my efforts to the praise of your name.

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Stay in the land of promise


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The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’ —he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there. ( Genesis 24:7 )

The verse of scripture speaks about how Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for his son, Isaac. But we are not exactly going to talk about marriage. Abraham had been in his father’s house almost half his life. And then the word of God came for him to leave his father’s household and his native land—Abraham’s ministry and calling was international. The Lord said He will give him a particular land, later to be called Canaan. The original rendition is translated as “…this land”. God was intentional and very specific about what He was giving Abraham. At the time Abraham had not yet received the land though it was stored for him. Now, Isaac was Abraham’s only son and the “extension” of his life. If Isaac should leave that land to settle in another place as a result of his getting married, it may take a longer time for the realization of that promise. This was why when the servant asked Abraham whether he should take Isaac to the land of his search if the woman refuses to come with him, Abraham said, no (Read all of Genesis 24). Location matters in matters concerning destiny. Isaac was supposed to stay at the place where God was going to give Abraham, no matter what. So that even after Abraham is dead and gone, his descendants could still inherit it; even though we know that his great grandchildren were displaced from the land, the tales of the land being theirs by promise would have outlived them. Whenever God gives us a promise, we need to heavily guard it until it’s fruition.

Prayer_Bead: The Lord, the God of heaven, thank you for the word of promise in Christ Jesus. I align to live out those promises and to bring to bear the full expression of Christ in my generation.

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Draw near!


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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded. ( James 4:8 )

The distance between us and God is proportional to the distance between God and us. This means that God is as close to us as we are to Him. The relationship between God and Moses [we would agree] was different from the one between God and the rest of the people of Israel. But why was that? Was God being partial? No, the apostle Peter says in the Acts of the apostles that there is no partiality with God. The only explanation to why God would be closer to one person more than He would be to another is because the earlier person has decided to be closer to God than the later. Just as in any relationship, our relationship with God requires work; consciously committing to the responsibilities that would make the relationship intimate. God is only obliged to draw near to us when we draw near to Him in desperate and exclusive need of Him. God will not share our hearts with another (between two). So it says to the double minded (anyone concentrating on two things or people) to purify their hearts. Once our hearts are properly aligned, our minds will pick up the effect and depend solely on God. God is not far from us, we are rather far from Him. So let us draw near to God and He will draw near to us!

Prayer_Bead: Gracious Lord, loving Father, thank you for your word. Strengthen me to draw near to you. Pitch my heart in your Holy presence and keep my gaze on you.

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