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GOMER

  MEANING :  Completion STORY IN BRIEF: Gomer - wife of The Prophet, Hosea, mocked at her husband's tenderness while allowing other men to seduce her upon squandering her husband's gifts. Earlier, The Lord instructed Prophet Hosea to marry a whore from an adulterous nation, so he did. And the names of their three children, meaning: "God scatters" , "Not loved"  and "Not my people", pronounced the severity of the Prophet's seperation from his wife. Hosea is now heart-broken. The Lord does not only see the fulfilment of God's Word in His life; God teaches him lessons from Israel's unfaithfulness through her wife's misdeeds. Finally, God asks Him to still love his wife just as He, God, still loves Israel inspite of their stubbornness. When the Prophet did, his wife returned and their love life was restored. FURTHER READINGS: Hosea 1-3
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

  "...that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we have gazed upon, and our hands have handled,..." John 1:1 If you consider your circle now, you will conclude that friends with whom you have similar personality outnumber those with deferring personality. You should also notice that, often times, you suddenly meet with or receive calls from, those you strongly  think of and long to see. These are manifestations of the Law of Attraction ! " The heart is DEEP beyond all things... " Jeremiah 17:9 Brenton Septuagint Translation. And Psalm 42:7 says DEEP calleth unto DEEP. Equating the two scriptures will help us deduce that, HEART calls unto HEART.  SOUL calls unto SOUL. That is the Spirit of the law - Like attracts LIKE ! Our opening verse starts with HEARING or SEEING and ends with HANDLING. Until a man hears or sees, he cannot handle. Yet, what we finally touch is always LIKE what we already hear and see according to the Law of Attra...
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THE GREATEST WEAPON !

  “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds…. “ 2 Corinthians 10:4 KJV As christians, we are not improverished of ammunitions with which to withstand the enemy and his wiles. Yet these weapons are variably effective. There is, therefore, the need to look into the nature of each of them and reasonably determine the most productive. According to Paul, in the preceding scripture, our arms are not physical; prayer, praise/worship, faith, obedience and Light, are all rather abstract though results-yielding. Now, which of these does satan fear most? Let us find out from the following paragraphs. Prayer is a good arm. It transforms both on the inside and on the outside of us. But if prayer is a request, then satan can pray too; he got far into God’s presence, requesting of His permission to try Job. He demanded of The Lord to sift Peter like wheat. Thus, prayer is not satan’s most-feared ! Afterall, he too can pray to God. D...
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NAAMAN'S LIFE STORY !

MEANING OF NAME  :  Sweetness  or pleasantness. HIS REGRET      : He  could not live all the years of his life as his name suggests; he was struck with leprosy. HIS JOY         : He  had a good wife and a good maid both of whom played large enough role in his healing.   STORY IN BRIEF : NAAMAN, a Syrian captain of Ben-hadad's  army, was a son of Caleb - a friend of Joshua. The valiant man was living joyously till he became a leper. Fortunately, NAAMAN had a good wife who also often expressed her displeasure about his sickly state. This would always attract their servant - an Israelite, into singing the praises of Elisha to them. Now, the couple were not only enthused by the songs of praise their maid sang; they also believed in the Prophet, Elisha, upon hearing of the miracles he had been performing as recounted by their maid servant. So NAAMAN rose to meet with Elisha in Samaria. Elisha would instruct him to was...
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SPIRITUAL DISTANCE



 “… They honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me.” Isaiah 29:13

Why would a miniser’s relation be downtrodden while this same minister ably delivers others outside his family? Why would a virtual participant be positively touched while those in his physical presence are left unimpacted? Could it be that one’s faith is stronger than the other’s? If ” YES “, how possible is it that those that are rather physically far from God’s servant can have stronger faith than those present in his immediate circle?

Beloved, the simple reason for all these oddies lies in ” SPIRITUAL DISTANCE “. Whereas PHYSICAL DISTANCE has to do with the space between physical bodies, SPIRITUAL DISTANCE refers to the distance between Spirits. The two do not yield same profit(s). One that is physically close but Spiritually far accesses only physical benefits from the other; the person that is spiritually close, whether physically present or not, stakeholds all things from his or her partner.

Now, to be spiritually close to another means to have an opened, loving and believing heart towards that person. Regardless of our physical closeness, we cannot impact one another when we’re Spiritually apart. This is why The Lord Jesus could not do MIRACLES in his own home. And when your worship comes from a heart that is far from Him, your physical presence notwithstanding, The Lord may not accept it (see opening scripture).

Remember how Essau and Jacob would antagonise each other, even while in their mother's womb? They were physically together but their Spirits (hearts) were far from each other’s. Yet John, the baptist, though physically separate from Baby Jesus, would leap in his Elizabeth’s womb, wishing to join The Lord in Mary’s womb on hearing of Him ! These two were Spiritually close to each other, although physically far or seperated. So you see, SPIRITUAL DISTANCE does not always correlate with PHYSICAL DISTANCE !

There were many surrounding The Lord yet only the woman with the issue of blood could pull such a virtue from His Spirit; while others were just physically present with Jesus, this woman, with an opened, trusting and believing heart, joined her Spirit to that of The Lord, so she received. She was physically and Spiritually close to The Lord! ( Luke 8:43-48 ).

Hannah always prayed about her childlessness but until she finally opened her heart and desirously poured out her Spirit unto God, she did not receive; her deep called unto the deep of God ! Her physical closeness never yielded her expectations, but Spiritual closeness did ! ( 1 Samuel 1: 9-28 & Psalm 42:7 ).

The founder and President of SLN once made a remarkable discovery explaining that Jesus might delay in visiting the dying Lazarus because the latter was spiritually far from Him, the Lord, even though they were physically close – the Spirit of a living Lazarus would oppose the ministrations of the Lord so it was better The Lord went after his friend died ! Would any of us like to tread that course? Certainly, No !

Indeed, we can be physically close to God’s servants, but let us rather know them after the Spirit – not after the flesh.( 2 Corinthians 5:16 ). Even, James suggests that we draw near God, but he expects that we do so through the Spirit because God is a Spirit too – James 4:8.That way, we would constantly benefit from the spiritual !

Beloved, it’s time we maximised our benefits from our walk with God and His servants. This, we can achieve by opening up the channel of our Spirit , even our hearts. Glory to God !

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