Get Prepared and Follow Christ

Repentance is being delayed by people, for some reasons best known to them. When a preacher is done preaching, lives will be touched while some people give their life to Christ instantly others choose to prepare for it; saying yes I will repent but not now, may be next week, month, or season; After I must have reached that level in life; When I grow old I will follow Christ. Right now let me just do the right thing; which is living their life as they wish. Whatever it is they are just not ready at the moment to follow Christ.

This case of getting prepared to follow God is evidently seen in Elisha. So Elisha went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “ let me kiss my father and mother good-bye”, he said “ then I will come with you”

“Go back” Elisha replied “what have I done to you? So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the ploughing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his attendant (1 Kings 19:21). Also in the time of Jesus, a lot of people came to Jesus to follow Him while some gave reasons  why they will not follow him immediately others without looking  back followed him till the end.

My dear friends make yourself available for God today, believe in him and also believe in him who sent him now for the hour the bible says no one knows only but the father. 

You Need the Holy Spirit

 The importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives cannot be over emphasized because the work of the Holy Spirit is numerous in the life of a believer. When our Lord Jesus Christ was about to leave to his father’s house in heaven, He told the apostles that He will send them an advocate, who will teach them all thing. He specifically ordered them to be in Jerusalem and wait for the gift His father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized, with water but in few days, you will be baptized with Holy Spirit. The apostles never leave the upper room. They kept on waiting for the promised spirit that is to come. Finally, the spirit came and the bible says that “when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit enables them” (Act 2: 1-4)

It’s then the spirit came down and the apostles were all filled with the Holy Spirit, with power that makes ordinary things to become extra-ordinary. From then forth even peter who denied Jesus in the presence of a maid have to be bold and bold enough to speak to the crowd that gathered around the upper room in amazement. Because you know, each one of them heard them speaking in his own language. And signs, wonders and miracles began to follow them from there forth. As Christians you equally need the Holy Spirit to teach you all things and give you the boldness you need to live your life. Without this spirit remember all flesh dies and human is nothing, nothing at all. If you are in need of the Holy Spirit, ask the Lord to send His to you and believe he will do it.  

What Desperation Can Do To You

I have heard statements like desperate men, desperate women, desperate people and all that. In one way or the other I have found people desperate of one thing or the other; it then tells me that this desperate thing is not limited to any age or set of people. Desperation in all perception is not really healthy. It can led to deception as much as dishonesty. The things that makes people desperate varies from property like house, car, or may be money, to things that are more abstract like fame and power. It makes people lose sight of their essence. Things desperation can do are listed below:

Manipulation: Because something is needed badly in some instance to the point of making one put up do or die attitude. The person can start manipulating others to get what he wants.

Deception: deception is mostly exhibited by those that are so desperate of something or the other. And at the same time those that are desperate are easily deceived because they can believe anything. Things that their normal sense can’t accept, you find them accepting such. It’s so terrible, they actually become something else.

Turns One into Fake: Have you ever heard of fake personality or identity. Desperate people change themselves into what the situation demands of them,  to get what they want. Check out such attitude around you.

Dishonesty: dishonest people are mostly desperate people. Telling lies everywhere they go to get what they want. Can bridge any contract to make money and such like.

So today, chose to be yourself, stop been desperate. God knows you need: a house, a wife, a husband, a car, a job, all that need. Believe in God for everything. Never achieve anything great without God. He is your shepherd .  Just hold unto God, He will see you through and provide all your needs according to His riches in glory at the appropriate time. Refuse to die before your breakthrough. So be courageous, live out your life to the fullest.

Try and Make Heaven

Many a times Christians find themselves worried about heaven and whether they are going to make it. It seriously borders one, because life after death is often discussed by many in the quest to know how, when, where is going to be. You see after the death and resurrection of Christ, Christians now believe in resurrection. That after everything here, man will die, face judgment and finally move to where he will spend the eternity: heaven or hell. Heaven is real. The bible says that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He is the only way to heaven. Believing in Christ is the first step to heaven. Jesus also said Himself that; believe in me and believe also in Him that sent me. He that believes in Him who sent me is saved.

But what shall it profit a man to gain the whole earth and loss his soul. His own very soul that never die. There is no story that said that someone dies and was buried with his properties. Even if there is, it will but encourage stealing.  No, it’s just that person alone. In the bible is the story of the rich man who said to himself my soul rejoice, for you have all things unto yourself. The bible said that God called him a foolish man and went ahead to say that today I will take your soul. Being rich or poor on earth is also not a grantee that you will be rich in heaven. It is a different ball game altogether. The parable of Rich man and Lazarus is a good cite. Lazarus who while still on earth was so poor that he can’t afford his daily meals, that he begs for food that falls from the rich man’s table. The rich man living in affluence and wealth. reluctantly refused him food: some will say common food . At the end what happened?  The poor Lazarus made heaven and the rich man was unable to make heaven not because he was rich but because he was unable to use his wealth to do good; to make heaven. So it is expected that you use every gift God have blessed you with to do good. Don’t be stingy to the point of holding back the gift of God; be it wealth or talent; use it for humanity and change your world.

Never allow yourself to be carried away by the fantasies of this present age. Believe that you are a candidate for heaven. Obey the commandments of God. Allow the Holy Spirit to take hold of you and walk with you. Live as if to say that your only audience is heaven. Shalom!   

4 Signs of a Dishonest Person

4 Signs of a Dishonest Person 
Meeting someone who is honest this days seems a little difficult. People are moving on fast lane and most people believe in the school thought that says is I, Me and Myself first - like being self-fish. But in all these, what the world need is people that cares. Yes people that cares about there neighbors and the world we live in. Simplicity is a virtue. But not every one can simply be honest. Here is a list of qualities of a dishonest person:
A. Manipulation: 
When you have this feelings of manipulation then you are being manipulated. Be on the check for it might be true.Who ever that manipulates you is not in any way being honest with you.
B Beggar:
When you are the one giving out all the time, and the other person always begging and doesn't contribute at all: not in money, service or advice. You need to think twice about it. Naturally, we expect because we think that we can get, mostly when people presents themselves to be something. When they continuously fall short of our expectations all the time we begin to ask question about the true identity of that person. I am not saying, that, all our expectation should should be reached, but some should be attended to dears- is very important.
C. The Person is Fake:
There is a lot of things about that person that is fake. He is not his real self. If that person is showing up different personality at
different time, that person might be fake.
D. And lastly that person lacks integrity: truly integrity is no where to be founded in that persons life.