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MOSES

  MEANING OF NAME : Drawn forth or taken out of water. PROFILE OR CHARACTER : historian, orator, leader, statesman, legislator and a patriot. REGRET : Moses could not enter the promised land. JOY : Not only did he successfully bring out the Israelites from Egypt, but he had the privilege to be called, " Friend of God."  STORY IN BRIEF:   MOSES, a son of Jechrobe and Amram, and the last of Aeron and Miriam. Moses was born at the time Pharaoh ordered that all Israelites young males be killed. So her mum had to preserve him till she was ordered to go leave him at the bank of a river. Pharaoh's daughter who later found Moses in a basket on the river, cared for him in their palace through his maturity. God would later call Moses by the burning bush and task him to lead out the Israelites out of Egypt.  Moses did not only achieve that but also successfully brought his followers out through the red sea. Moses was burried by God in Moab, at the summit of Nebo's mountain whe...
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UNDERSTANDING THE WILL OF GOD !

" Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's WILL is." Ephesians 5:17. The WILL of God is basically WHAT God wants us to do or say at a point in time. It is also HOW He likes us to do or say WHAT He wants us to do or say. The WHAT refers to the OPTION He wants us to pick out of the lot; the HOW stands for the WAY or METHOD by which we carry out His recommended OPTION. The Lord Jesus, God's Living WILL , did not say He is The WAY and The TRUTH only. He actually said,  " I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and THE LIFE..." John 14:6. So you see, God's WILL is beyond WHAT and HOW. It includes THE LIFE as well. God's WILL also shows us the lifestyle He wants us to live. And that, definitely must be His Life as lived by The Lord, Jesus , during His earthly Ministry ! Immediately following are explanations on the two classifications of God's WILL - His GENERAL WILL and SPECIFIC WILL: God's GENERAL WILL is God's plan or purpose recorde...
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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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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.

Darkness does not stand Light – God’s Word and Revelations. But the devil so knows the scriptures that he could tempt Jesus with them though he failed. He is so knowledgeable and cunning that he can aptly imitate LIGHT to decieve others into destruction. This is why he is also called, ” angel of light “. ( 2 Corinthians 11:14 )

How about praise and worship? In fact, these are the only arsenal that lift God from His throne. All others only attract His ministering Spirits. Satan and his cohorts were, however, worshippers in the face of God too; they have the flair to praise God, so when The Lord went to cast them out, they would first acknowledge His lordship and bow. Worship and praises can, therefore, not be the greatest weapon.

Faith is deflated into a mere belief when it stands without obedience. Now that makes no difference between us ( Christians ) and the devil because he also believes but trembles – James 2:19. What then is obedience?

Obedience means ” to hearken”, ” hear to do” or “to align with”. Obedience springs forth all other weapons. Obedience does not only prove Faith, as revealed in the previous paragraph; it is also a proof of Love. Now, Of all the aforementioned weapons, obedience is the only one satan lacks. He chose to rebel rather than obey. Obedience is, thus, the greatest weapon !

Brethen, obedience breeds purity, empowers and glorifies. What more can we learn from obedience? We shall find out from the second and final part of this subject. In the meantime, The Spirit says, ” To obey is better than sacrifice !” – 1 Samuel 15:22

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