#ComeBeSatisfied!

Every human being is born with a heart defect which has but one remedy. We are all born with a dead spiritual heart unable to respond to God and know Him. This reality has a devastating consequence. We cannot know true satisfaction or genuine fulfillment until our spirit-self is made alive in God through our embrace of his only begotten Son by grace through faith.
But our innate arrogance and ignorance lead us to seek for our own remedy to the inner emptiness we cannot shake off of our lives.
So we invent all kinds of ways to create for ourselves a sens of selfworth, achievement, happiness, entertainment, etc... with the promise of finding inner peace and lasting satisfaction. But we constantly fall short!
At the close of a life without Christ, only one word towers over all our accomplishments "Vanity!"
To avoid this to be your case, listen to the appeal of Isaiah this morning. It is a free invite  to your freedom and guaranteed fulfillment. Come drink from the well that never runs dry, come eat to your heart satisfaction. Come and be made alive in Christ so that your works may preceed you into eternity. Your toil and struggle will not Go in vain.
It is time to come home!
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#SanctityofHumanlife!

Selah! Herein lies the source or origin of the sanctity and essential worth of the human life in all its forms. From conception to the grave, the whole of live is sacred because God's finger is all over it.

We live in days where the above conviction is challenged and questioned in many ways. But scripture stands written and it cannot be broken. God is the source and the author of the human life and God always creates with Purpose and Elegance (Imago Dei - Genesis1: 26, Job 32:8, John 4: 24, 2 Corinthians 3: 17, James 4: 5).

So it doesn't really matter in what package you have showed up out of your mother's womb. From the minute there was a heartbeat with your name on it, God was at work in you. Jeremiah goes further to say that before we even took expression in our mother's wombs, we were in the mind of God (Jeremiah 1: 5).

So say it loud: I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. 

That's right! Don't let the lies of Satan which has filled the earth affected the truth God says about you. Yes, the world will hang your worth on your race, your nationality, your ethnicity, your education, your industry, your bank account, your possession, your circle of influence, etc... I think you get my point! NONE of that determines your worth. You are Holy Ground because your DNA says "Human" and that is the work of God. 

Praise His name!

#EternalThings!

The human spirit never dies. But our present actions or entire life experience on earth is a determining factor for the quality of life we will awaken to after our spirit is separated from our body (physical death).
One of the ways to guarantee that we awaken to a pleasant experience after death will be to be aware that we (the soul/spirit) live forever. This awareness coupled with the understanding that our actions determine our eternal destination will lead us to a unique way of living as expressed in today's scripture.
Pain, suffering, lack, persecution are all trivialized in favor of the weight of glory awaiting those who will endure and overcome the flesh and its weaknesses, the world and its sinful appeals and satan with his temptations.
God's glory in the face of Christ remains our ultimate pursuit; not comfort or fame, or any other worldly pursuit.
Today's appeal to you is simply that you will live as if eternity matters. Selah!
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#ReturntoGod!

That's right! Our Loving precious God and Father is a merciful and gracious God. Don't let your past or your present keep you from coming home. No one is beyond redemption!!!
Remember the prodigal son? Luke 15: 11-32.
So call on the Lord whole he may be found. Now is the acceptable time. If you are reading these words while finding yourself far from God, know that this is not by chance... God is directly appealing to you to return home.
If you don't know where to start then reach to someone who can lead you through the steps.
In a nutshell, bend your knees and call on God in Jesus name from your heart.
Be blessed!
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#Peacemakers!

We live in days and times where peace is often imposed by force. The UN frequently talks about peace keeping forces deployed across the globe. But this morning text has nothing to do with such understand of peace. 
Before conflict and war is manifested outwardly in an argument with a co-worker or a spouse, or in an ethnic conflit, or again in an all out war between nations; we must understand that unresolved tensions and conflicts reside in the heart of all unregenerated men and women. Fallen humanity is at war with Self because sin has alienated us from our Maker and Hevenly Father. This situation has robbed us of our inner peace which can only be restored through our embrace of the Prince of Peace. 
PEACEMAKERS therefore are the believers who introduce unbelievers to the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 52:7) resulting in the restoration of their inner peace. 
May you this day choose to be a peacemaker for there is great reward attached to it. 
Know the Lord!
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#Peacemakers!

We live in days and times where peace is often imposed by force. The UN frequently talks about peace keeping forces deployed across the globe. But this morning text has nothing to do with such understand of peace.
Before conflict and war is manifested outwardly in an argument with a co-worker or a spouse, or in an ethnic conflit, or again in an all out war between nations; we must understand that unresolved tensions and conflicts reside in the heart of all unregenerated men and women. Fallen humanity is at war with Self because sin has alienated us from our Maker and Hevenly Father. This situation has robbed us of our inner peace which can only be restored through our embrace of the Prince of Peace.
PEACEMAKERS therefore are the believers who introduce unbelievers to the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 52:7) resulting in the restoration of their inner peace.
May you this day choose to be a peacemaker for there is great reward attached to it.
Know the Lord!
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#ThePeaceofGod!

As Paul concludes his letter to the Philippians in the 4th Chapter, he gives them a few final recommendations. In verse 6, leading  up to today's verse, Paul encourages us to be anxious for nothing but rather to make our request known (to God is implied here) by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving.
When coupled with verse 7, verse 6 literally stands as a prerequisite for verse 7 which is today's verse.
Clearly the word is: Reject anxiety and Pray in order to experience the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. In this way your heart and mind will not be troubled.
Now it may be true that there are some real life situations which may cause us to worry and rightly so. But scripture is advising us that  worrying doesn't change a thing on any given situation. All it does is to impact negatively our hearts and mind.
So instead of worrying or being anxious in 2021, rather choose to always pray first to acquire peace, then work at solving the problems you can solve and for those you can't - look to God and trust that he has your best interest in minds.
Shalom!
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#WiseUp!

Wisdom is generally regarded as applied knowledge & good judgment. But this definition immediately implies a standard or a measuring unit for both knowledge and judgment.
Today's scripture taken from James is encouraging the reader who acknowledges deficiency in wisdom to ask God for it and he will be exhausted. But it is still James who tells us of two kind of wisdom in Chapter 3:13 - 18. Wisdom from above, coming from God and wisdom from below. This distinction is essential to note to answer the question on the standard presented above.
The wisdom God will grant whosoever will ask is the wisdom from above. Because God cannot identify with the wisdom from below. Proverb 9: 10 tell us that the prerequisite to obtaining the wisdom from above is the fear of the Lord.
So here you have it! You want to Wise Up in 2021? Fear (revere and worship) God and where you still are confused about certain things, ask Jehovah for light and you will be enlightened.
Selah!
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LoveOneAnother!

love, agape love, unconditional, deliberate & pursuing type of love (embrace & acceptance of the other, while actively seeking their greatest good according to God's will for them) is the trademark of Jesus Christ.

To be a disciple means to model after or better to be a devoted student of a person with the intention to become exactly like them. A disciple is an imitator of the master or teacher.

So because love as defined above is the trademark of Jesus Christ. If we are his disciples we must walk in love too.

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LoveOneAnother!

love, agape love, unconditional, deliberate & pursuing type of love (embrace & acceptance of the other, while actively seeking their greatest good according to God's will for them) is the trademark of Jesus Christ.
To be a disciple means to model after or better to be a devoted student of a person with the intention to become exactly like them. A disciple is an imitator of the master or teacher.
So because love as defined above is the trademark of Jesus Christ. If we are his disciples we must walk in love too.
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