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Life is full of sinful stuff, trials, tribulations and hard things for a normal human being to bear. However, if you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, He will help you bear them and eventually receive you to Himself to spend eternity with Him. There's no greater blessing or opportunity available to mankind than eternity with Jesus! But you have to surrender your life to Him as soon as possible, for you don't know when you will die, or when He shall return to take His followers home, and if either of those two things occur and you haven't accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour, then you're S.O.L, crapaud smoke yuh pipe! So please do the wise things and accept Christ today, Right Now! So that your tomorrow will be assured. Much LOVE!

The two greatest days in man's recent history are the incarnate birth of Christ our Saviour on Christmas day, and His magnificent resurrection from the depths of Hades on the first Easter morn! That means, as believers in Christ, we need to keep those two days holy and meaningful for they signify the beginning and end of God's plan to reconcile us back to Himself, so that we can have eternal life with Him in heaven. In other words, as Jesus said, we need to be born again, this time of water and of God's Spirit, if we expect to enter the pearly gates of heaven and walk down it's amazing streets paved with gold, and sit and talk with the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and our LOVED ones! Much LOVE!

If we are to grow in our faith, it is absolutely necessary for believers to encourage and exhort each other, to help strengthen our faith, especially in these desperate and trying times. And one of the many ways we can do that is through the singing of hymns, psalms and other spiritual songs. It gets our spirits flowing with thoughts and remembrances of our good and mighty God. And this Christmas Eve, as we celebrate Christ's birth, is one of the best times to do that. So please, let's keep raising our voices in spiritual songs as the seasons continues. Much LOVE!

Satan is the ruler of this evil world, and thus encourages evildoing. However, we believers in Christ Jesus are expected to refute Satan's philosophy and resist his advances, while spreading the good news of Christ's gospel so that our world can be turned around. But we can only do that if we sincerely believe the Lord's promises and execute His desires, like being the salt of the earth and the lights of the world. That's the only way we will ever make a substantial difference in this evil world. So what's it be eh? Do we wake up and and get a move on for Christ, or do we continue being afraid, and/or resting on our laurels and allow Satan to completely take over our world? God has given us ALL we need to do our work, the answer is now up to us! Much LOVE!

The Lord made us to have fellowship and communion with Him, and one of the ways in which we communicate with Him is through prayer. Therefore, as true believers, we ought to take it very seriously, because it plays a major part in our lives, both individually and corporately. It's necessary not only to pray for ourselves, our friends and families, but also for our leaders and those in positions of authority, so that they can be divinely guided to do a good job, and thus allow us to live in peace, LOVE and joy with God and man. Failure to do so, will only make our lives more miserable than they already are. Much LOVE!

Friends, if we are to be true believers in and of Christ Jesus, then our behaviour ought to resemble His as much as possible. We can't say that we are Christians and behave like unbelievers, as so many of us do. That's pure hypocrisy, and it's why a lot of people are refusing to accept the faith and are also turning away from it. And why not eh, if our behaviour doesn't align with that of Christ? Furthermore, our hypocritical behaviour won't win us any accolades from Christ, but more likely have us ending up numbered amongst the goats that are headed for everlasting destruction, and not amongst the righteous who are headed for eternal life with Jesus! Please let this be a warning to all of us supposed believers! It's time to improve our Christ-like attitude and behaviour! Much LOVE!

Jesus has promised that He will never leave nor forsake us, and He died on Calvary's cross to prove that He's our Good Shepherd who looks after the sheep. But when times are bad, when we feel lost, depressed or any such negative thing, we must also search for Him and cry out for help. He desires it and expects us to do it. Remember His promise in the Great Invitation...anyone who is tired and weary can come to Him for refreshing, because He is humble and meek and His yoke is light and easily borne. Please, let's make good use of the invitation nuh, as it's for our benefit, not Christ's. Much LOVE!

God made us to have fellowship with Him, and LOVED us so much that after we fell into sinful bondage, He sent His only Son Jesus to die on the cross of Calvary, so that our sins could be forgiven, and we could be welcomed back into His holy presence. How's that for true and unadulterated LOVE eh! Unfortunately though, too many of us don't take God's LOVE as seriously as we ought to and continue to live for the material things and power of this evil world. That's why our lives and Christ's church is in such a sad and ungodly state right now. And unless we get back to God, draw near to Him and truly surrender ourselves in humble submission, we will not enjoy all the good things He has in store for us, both here on earth and in heaven above. That's the long and short of the story! Much LOVE!

Oh friends, the Holy Spirit of God was sent to dwell within us when we became believers in Christ, so why don't we listen to Him when He speaks to us eh? Why do we still insist on following the lies and deceitful utterances of Satan, who only means us harm? Please remember that all the material wealth and power in this world will be of no use to us if at the judgement day we find ourselves mired in the flaming chambers of hell. We certainly don't want to be like the rich man and the beggar Lazarus who traded places after death; the poor beggar going to heaven in Abraham's bosom, and the rich man languishing in hellfire. So please, let's get wise this Christmas Season and promise ourselves to improve our attention and obedience to the Holy Spirit, so that we can become the extraordinary people the Lord made and desires us to be. Much LOVE!

Christ was born for a reason; to be sacrificed on our sinful behalf and offer us an option of salvation from those sins. That was the biggest gift ever given to mankind! Thus, we should acknowledge and celebrate the beginning of that marvellous occasion, as the Son of God was born, became flesh, became a man like us, but sinless in all aspects. Christmas is the time we observe that auspicious occasion, and it ought to be filled with joy and adoration since it heralded the birth of Christ and His church. However, with the rise of commerciality in the celebrations, many of us begin forgetting the real reason for the season, the Birth of Christ. But please let's make sure we don't ever forget it, and keep proclaiming it to all and sundry! Much LOVE!