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GOOD DOES NOT EQUAL GODLY.
Too often these days, people are getting comfortable with good in the place of godly. Take the marriage institution for example, many believers are marrying outside of the faith and hiding under the fact that “he’s a good man” or “she’s a good woman”. “He gives to the needy and is very principled”, “although she…
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MAKE YOURSELF AVAILABLE!
“Then He said to His disciples, ‘the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few’” Matthew 9:37. As a believer, you are called to a life of stewardship but how available are you for God’s use? With the rising, overly common passion to make more money, ride expensive cars and build huge houses especially at…
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GET SERIOUS: HAVING AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
Seyi and Bola have been “together” for a while now. They claim to be in love with each other. Once in a while they go on dates and sometimes, they talk for long hours over the phone. One day, Bola’s friend came to visit her and asked “has he asked you to be his girlfriend…
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GET SERIOUS!
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Matthew 15:8 The bible verse above describes perfectly, what unseriousness with God is. As a wake-up call to the body of Christ; the church and believers all around the world, I think its high time this message is passed across. If…
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THE HOLY SPIRIT II
“The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.” Billy Graham. As mentioned in the previous post, the Holy Spirit is part of the triune Godhead and He happens to be the acting force of God. That is, He is the channel through…
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STAYING POSITIVE.
What does Christianity have to do with staying positive, you may ask. But there is lot that staying positive helps you achieve as a Christian. In fact, they are somewhat interrelated. With the degree of evil and depressing things happening all around the world today, the only One that could keep us looking up and…
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KINDNESS.
Galatians 5:22 informs us that one of the Fruit of the Spirit is kindness. These days, it seems like there is this need to be “savage” that most people have forgotten the necessity of kindness. Do not feel so pressed to be savage that you forget to extend the kindness God has graciously shown you,…
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MAINTAINING PURITY.
“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8. If there is anything God glorifies, it is purity. Little wonder why the Messiah came through the Virgin Mary…she had a level of purity that God could work with. Even as humans, we tend to incline more, towards people with pure hearts.…
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OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away, behold all things have become new. That is what the bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17. The moment you accepted Jesus as your saviour, you became a new creature. That is, you became born again into the family of Christ.…
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DEALING WITH OUR WEAKNESSES.
In this post, I would like to use King Saul as a case study. Saul was envious and disobedient. He failed to put his trust in God and he let his weaknesses get to him. Many of us could have been living a better life but for the weaknesses that hold us in the bondage…
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JOY.
When talking about joy, it is important to mention that it is different from happiness. A person could be happy but lack joy. Why? Because joy is not an emotion, it is not a short-lived feeling as happiness is. For instance, if a person is depressed, he lacks joy but getting that job he had…
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SELF-CONTROL.
Lack of self-control leads to multiple sins and is a major cause of many sins. The person who lost that job after misspeaking did not lose it because his or her “village people” were behind it. The person lost it because she/he lacked self-control. It’s easy to dictate to someone and ensure they do that…
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IMPATIENCE.
If there is one thing that has been a major constitutor to the nuisance going on in the world, it is impatience. Two drivers are arguing on the road because one of the two has bashed the other’s car. He was in a bid to overtake the next person and then ran into problems. Youngsters…
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ANGER.
It is not a sin to get angry. Jesus Himself, got upset in Matthew 21:12-13 when He saw the people buying and selling in the temple and extorting money from each other. His anger was permissible as it was because of the disrespect the people had towards God. However, in all of this, He managed the anger…
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PRIDE.
“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit, before a fall” Proverbs 16:18. The end result of pride more often than not, is destruction. Why? Because it’s wired to work that way. A proud person is provocative to fellow humans and rejected by God. As I have said, one too many times, God would never…
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