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JOANNA

  MEANING OF NAME: The Lord gives graciously. STORY IN BRIEF: A wealthy woman who worked in the courts of Herod Antipas. Her husband, Cuza, was also the estate manager of Herod Antipas. Joanna followed The Lord on missions, supported His Ministry with her gifts, and was privileged to have witnessed the resurrection of Jesus. These happened after The Lord delivered her from demonic obsessions. Obviously, Joanna would have attempted winning Herod Antipas over to Jesus. But her Spirit probably was dared when Herod beheaded John for Herodias and Salomey. SHORT BACKGROUND ON HEALING: Healing, from ancient Bible days, was seen more as spiritual than physical. Egyptian physicians would often drill holes in the heads of patients in order to create an exit for these "ailment-causing spirits". There were medical doctors, yet most patients were rather sent to the priest-physicians. REFERENCE SCRIPTURES: Luke 8:1 – 3; 24:10 (and Matthew 14:1 – 12) Luke 23:7 – 12
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KEEP THE FIRE !

  ” The fire must never go out,…” Leviticus 6:12 God’s kingdom as recorded from Genesis to Revelation, is fire-dominated. Moses, first, encountered Him in a burning bush; Elijah got swallowed up by horse-like chariots; his servant, Elisha, wasn’t left out when he witnessed similar chariots of angels surrounding him later, and the list is endless. So Paul, The Apostle, simply concludes that God ( in whom we live ) is a consuming fire – Hebrews 12:29. The fire of God is that zeal, passion or heated and burning urge contained in our spirits for The Lord. It originates from God, yet He charges us to keep it from going off, as revealed from our theme scripture above. This piece will, therefore, not be complete without unveiling a few ways of sustaining God’s holy fire. THE WORD ” Is not my word like fire…?” Jeremiah 23:29. Then, the Prophet affirms, “… His word is in my heart like fire…” Jeremiah 20:9. So you can imagine what the Word offers our Spirit as we commune with it. They’re woo...
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ESTHER

  NAME MEANING: Ishtar,” - the Babylonian Goddess of Love; Persian - “Star”; Hebrew - “Hadassah,” Means “Myrtle”    CHARACTER:  An orphan in a foreign land, she was willing to conceal her Jewish identity in a bid for a pagan king’s affection.  Esther seemed willing to made moral compromises by sleeping with the king and then taking part in a wedding that would necessarily have required her to pay homage to foreign gods. Even so, she displayed great courage in the midst of a crisis. Prior to risking her life for her people, she humbled herself by fasting and then put her considerable beauty, social grace, and wisdom in the ser vice of God’s plan. STORY IN BRIEF: Vashti - Queen of Persia, disobeyed Xerses' order that she presented herself before the noble festive gathering in Persia. So the King banished her. Now is the time for her replacement. Esther, a Jewish orphan and cousin to Modecai, was part of the King's harem. She successfully won the King's heart and b...
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SHUN DISTRACTIONS !

  “And still the Christians in the churches in Judea didn’t know me personally. All they knew was that people were saying, “The one who used to persecute us is now preaching the very faith he tried to destroy!” And they praised God because of me” (Gal. 1:22-24, NLT). Many people have been held captive by what others think of them. They are afraid to stand for the truth. When people criticize you for one thing or the other, do you forsake your calling? Don’t forget you are not accountable to man but to God. Paul persecuted and killed the Christians in his day. But he became a new person after his encounter with Jesus on the way to Damascus. Some of the people found it difficult to admit that he had changed. And even when he spoke and preached about Christ, some were not convinced. But that did not prevent him from standing for the truth. What are you doing that people are talking so much about, that is making you lose focus? Remember people will always have something to say whether ...
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KEEP YOUR HEART WELL.

 



 

" Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life."
Proverbs  4:23. KJV.

Lot of the things christians are surrounded by today in this world, chiefly the social media, are not helpful. It is the reason why our opening verse suggests that we guard our hearts.

Now, the mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart. And these spoken words go a long way to shape our lives. It's therefore patent that we can only let out good words when we first stock our hearts with positive information and faith-filled words.

The two main gateways to the heart are the eyes and the ears. Now, guarding the heart means preventing negative information from reaching it through these main channels. That means, friends and environments that pose as potential threats to the peace, joy and love in our hearts must be barred.

 Disclosed below are a few ways by which we can keep our hearts as we journey through this world.

1. Mind your Mind:
 
"A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart." Luke 6:45.
The mind has a link with the heart. The two are often used interchangeably in the Bible; they are synonymous. Words produced by our thoughts are stored in the heart. But the mouth serves as an exit to all there is in the heart; This is how connected the three are. Now, the words we repeatedly speak, we also hear ourselves, and they have great impacts on us. So you see, we should not just guard ourselves against the words of others; we must mind our minds. Then, we would not hear ourselves speaking negative words to our own hearing.

2. Be selective with the Media ( TV, radio, and online social platforms ):

" [I am writing about] what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life..." 1 John 1:1
Can you see the LIGHT in this verse? That which the writer heard, saw and looked at, from the beginning, he also finally touched; What he always saw and heard manifested before them in the end !
That is the Law of Attraction. And it states that whatever we give our focus to, including the social media, can be attracted into our lives. They first come to settle in the heart which is the final destination of everything the media also offers, whether they are garbages or goodies. In fact, the media is largely responsible for most immoralities today. Thus, we need to sieve the information we read, see and view, on these social sites so we can let into the the heart only that which pleases God. 

3. Choose your friends; do not let them choose you. 

" Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character." 
1 Corinthians 15:33
The scripture here rightly suggests that we have the right to choose and unchoose our friends. 
Just like the social media, our friends can be influential by their thoughts and information. So we need to make our choices with precision; Friends also have the ability to attract certain things into our lives - Jonathan benefitted from David; Portifar was blessed by Joseph's presence in his house; Naaman profited from his Israel servant.  It is better to keep a few positive or God-fearing associates than have many with deferring beliefs.

A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer  than a brother. -  Proverbs 18:24.

4. Watch and Pray.

"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation..." Matthew 26:41. 
During our tough times we are tempted to give up on God so we may give in to the world. Yet the Bible says, men always ought to pray and not to faint - Luke 18:1.
By our prayers, God re-conditions our Spirits. He ably replaces our old, polluted hearts with new ones. Did He not say it in Ezekiel 36:26? That is not all; God by His own ways, helps us preserve our hearts too. He can dispel the agents of negative information from our hearts and attract unto us only carriers of the positives. Yet all these must be triggered by prayers. 

Beloved, the most reliable way of keeping the heart among all of these is yielding it to The Lord. This is why He says, "My son, give me your heart..." Proverbs 23:26.
Rather than trusting men, God actually wants us to trust Him alone with our hearts. For cursed is anyone who trusts in men.
( Jeremiah 17:5 )

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