Call Unto Me

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Challenges are promotional spiritual exercise, meant to boost our faith in God. At the end of each challenge, lies a mouthwatering next-level breakthrough! 

God did not promise us a challenge-free life,  rather He promised us victory in all our challenges. Every challenge has an expiry date, we only need to remind God (Isaiah 43:26) and this is where prayers come in and what prayers do best. Every challenge has a specific requirement. To know what to do, we need to call unto God.

Jeremiah  33:3 says: "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

From the above scripture, we could clearly see what is required of us to do - to call on God. Those that acknowledge that the presence of God is with them everywhere they go and all the time (Joshua 1:9), are not meant to fear storms but call on Jesus, Luke 8:24. Whom to call in the face of challenges is more important than the challenges themselves. This is where many people miss out. While stuck in dilemma and violent situations of life, do you call on friends, family, the diabolical, or relent on your human abilities? You should call on God!

Psalms 121:1-2 says: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth."

Challenges can force one to look down in shame. When you look down to your challenges and the surrounding consequences you shall see shame. Until you lift up your eyes unto God and focus on Him, sorrows continue. 'Hills' in the above verse represent men in high positions and  authority who are powerful. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man... (Jeremiah 17:5). Look upon the cross at calvary, from where your salvation was bought. 

Hebrews  12:2 says: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Challenges are promotional spiritual exercise, meant to boost our faith in God. At the end of each challenge, lies a mouthwatering next-level breakthrough! This is why we are to call on God for His sufficient grace to persevere till the end. Challenges that come our way are not bigger than us, for greater is He in us than the challenges of our life and he that orchestrated them. Despite their turbulence, with absolute faith in God, they will end with a great calm (2 Thess. 3:16), and will birth awesome testimonies. 

1 Corinthians  10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

God is ever near amidst our toughest challenges. He is faithful to see us through them all, but that is when we trust Him absolutely. Remember, in the wilderness the Israelites were dying from snake bites, but as many as they were that looked unto the raised serpent by Moses, lived those that concentrated on the biting serpent, died. God was teaching them to depend on Him. May God give you understanding and, through the Holy Spirit teach you to trust Him in every situation. 
Jesus is Lord! 

God Will Understand? #Part1

The life of an individual is lent unto him by God. The day it pleases God, He takes it from the bearer. God gave man life with instructions through His word (Bible) on how to use (live) it.

Joshua  1:8 says: "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."

Many people fail to acknowledge this when they go about living the way they wish and never considering how God wants them to live saying: "God will understand".

This might sound controversial, but permit me to tell you that despite God giving us the will to make choices , we don't really have a choice to disobey or refrain from His instructions if we really want to live. We by default, are meant to just obey and obey that we might live and have a good life, even unto eternity.

 Deuteronomy  30:15-20 says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

From the above verses, we clearly can see that in spite of the seemed options, it will be unwise to move away from God for "HE IS THY LIFE AND THE LENGTH OF THY DAYS" verse20. Any wise person will see that there is only one choice for him or her, except someone who wants to be destroyed. In all that we do with the life God has given us, we must give account for all we did with it - good or evil. Jesus is Lord! 

Debt Free

Every believer must understand that as the redeemed of the Lord he or she is debt free: Free from the power of sin, free from the power of death, sickness, poverty, stagnation, condemnation, oppression, harm, molestation, and what have you. Jesus paid it all on the cross of Calvary and declared it as was officially endorsed prior to His death, by saying "IT IS FINISHED". It is indeed finished. This is the finished work of Jesus by which the redeemed are debt-free!

John  8:36 says: "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."

Upon receiving Jesus into one's life, such person is set free. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, John 14:6. Anyone that wants to be free follows Him, The Way. He says "...follow Me and I will make you..." ,Matthew 4:19. If you don't follow Him, The Way, you won't be made free. He is The Truth. It is when you know Him that your freedom from debt is actually established. 

John  8:32 says: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

It is Jesus that makes free. He is the Truth, and the truth makes one free from all debts. Anybody that wants to be free must know Jesus. Again, He is The Life. After one has been liberated from debt and its consequences, for such person to remain debt-free, such must live for God. You must live the life of Christ.  Outside Jesus is death, for He is The Life. Jesus has taken from the world the power to harm the believers. He says "...be of good cheer for I have overcome", John 16:33.

Isaiah  53:5 says: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

He has paid off the debt of sickness and engendered healing upon all that believed in Him. 

2 Corinthians  8:9 says "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."

He has paid off the debt of poverty that the believers might be rich through righteousness. 

Romans  8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

He has paid off the debt of your past immoral life. You're not condemned of the wrongs of your past because you have become His righteousness by redemption. Jesus defeated the principalities and powers and made an open show of them Colossians 2:15. He took the power from death for the believers' sake. He has not appointed us unto death, Psalms 118:18.
Galatians  5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."

Therefore, let's live a holy life and not entangling ourselves once again with our old self that lust for sin. 
Jesus is Lord!