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Psalm 145 verses 2 to 4: Every day, I will praise you and I'll praise your name forever and ever, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and His greatness is unsearchable, one generation shall praise your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts.

There are four takeaways I want to unpack from the scriptures quickly and

Daily quality journey eternity. Psalm 145:2-5.

Have a blessed day friends!

Matthew 4.1,2 the Bible says that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil

For 40 days and night, He fasted and became very hungry

It's interesting to me because as I look at this text, I'm reminded that the first temptation was that of bread

I mean, how does bread become the reason for someone to leave and abandon the will of God?

And Satan had been anticipating this moment right from Genesis chapter 3 When he heard God say that the seed of this woman will bruise your head

He was waiting for the moment that seed will show up on the scene And his very first encounter with the seed

Interestingly, the first thing Satan throws out is bread

Bread is not evil, food is for enjoyment

But in a fallen world, we are prone to love things in the wrong way

We are prone to be gripped and ruled by things that are not necessarily sin but can be because of the value that we give them over God

A fallen world comes with faulty priorities

Jesus' first temptation was to eat The very first temptation in Genesis was to eat

Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 49 The Bible says, behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom Pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy

Esau ate his way out of the plan, ate his way out of his blessings

Jesus says in Matthew chapter 6 When you give, when you pray, when you fast

But some people today have somehow made one out of these three the center of their Christianity

So they pray and they do not fast, they give but they do not pray

And Jesus says that, hey, do not make one the center of your Christianity Because all three work out something in you

Satan throws bread first It wasn't a test of bread, it was a test of desire

Satan was simply asking Jesus Do you want the purpose and the will of God more than your body needs bread right now?

Are you desperate for the will of God more than your body right now?

Is desperate for bread, is your passion for God greater than your desire for bread?

This is what I know

God is able to know if the prayer of your mouth is the prayer of your heart

He's able to strip your mountain of words down to the very intent of your heart

Have a blessed friends!

In John chapter 12 the Bible talks about this interesting account of something that happened in scriptures

that 12 days before the Passover celebration began that Jesus arrived in Bethany the home of Lazarus, the man who He had raised from the dead

and the Bible says that a dinner was prepared in Jesus' honor and Martha served and Lazarus was among those who ate with Him

and this is the man who was raised from the dead, by the way and so we see how Lazarus moved from the grave to His table

and that's how God has moved us from the bondage of our sins to the liberty of communion and intimacy with Him

so guess what? you have a seat at His table

salvation guarantees you that - that you have a seat at the table of the Father

and then in verse 3 the Bible says that Mary took 12 ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard and she anointed Jesus' feet with it wiping His feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance

and so we see how Martha served the table but Mary decides I'm gonna pour my worth on Him the very substance, the very treasure that I have committed myself to keeping to putting together

and she pours it all out to the Lord, to her Lord the fragrance of Bethany the fragrance filled the entire house

and this is so interesting because one of the things that God is doing today is that He's bringing people in to Himself

I call them the scented ones - so the people who God would send to represent Him are the scented ones - the ones who the fragrance of His presence rubs off on them and the Bible says that the fragrance filled the house

now this is interesting, but Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray him said that perfume was worth a year's wages it should have been sold and the money given to the poor not that he cared for the poor he was a thief and since he was in charge of the disciple's money he often stole some of it for himself but Jesus replied leave her alone.

The world has an idea of how you should live your life, the world has an idea of how you should do things and this is Jesus' response to the ideas of the world, leave her alone. Leave him alone.

Jesus is saying that what she did is in preparation for my burial, in other words what she did has intentional purpose and it's vital for what I'm about to do

Friends, I believe this with all my heart that the love of the Father is so intense

He loves us for no reason yet we love him for so so many reasons

now it's important to understand that the value of our lives is Christ

He deserves everything that we have, everything that we own

He owns us and He owns everything that we own

and so the price we put on Him must be priceless

the price we put on him must be priceless

and if we are not full of Him, we have nothing to offer to anyone else

and this is what I'll remember about Mary - the woman with the fragrance at Bethany

Have a blessed day friends. God bless you!

There are things in your life trying to tear you apart, piece by piece.

Mark 4, Jesus says to his disciples let us go to the other side and a storm breaks out

professional fishermen were terrified Jesus was asleep and guess what, the devil will make you think sometimes that God is taking a nap on you and theologically you know it's not true but experientially your emotions can kick in to make you believe so against your theology

and these guys are in the will of God - obeying the words of Jesus, in fact traveling with Jesus himself and a storm breaks out

and then they went to Jesus to say, hey don't you care that we perish

Jesus wakes up and the first thing Jesus says to them is, oh ye of little faith

Jesus says, the problem is not the absence of faith, the problem is that your faith is little, little because you have forgotten

what did they forget - He told them let us go over to the other side and when Jesus said that

the implication of that is, they are not just traveling with the boat on water they actually traveling on his word and with Jesus himself

And it's easy for us to say amen to the promises of Jesus

it's easy for us to say amen to the sermon He preached

these guys freaked out when they got into the experience of it

how many times in our lives do we say amen to his words but we freak out when the experience of it comes

people want miracles. They believe God is a miraculous God but they freak out when they get into circumstances that necessitates a miracle

even Peter forgot that at some point in his life, He said to Jesus "at thy word "

Now when God says something, He means it. Even when there are interruptions in the process

most times we expect a smooth sail when God has made a promise to us and God didn't promise us a smooth sail

He promised us an expected end and Jesus says oh ye of little faith because they panicked in their problem

His word is your peace in the puzzle, His word is your peace in the puzzle

when you can't figure it all out God's word is peace in the puzzle

One of the dividends of salvation is that we now have peace with God but God also wants us to have the peace of God

and the peace of God is a product of peace with God

when you're saved you not only get peace with God you also have access to the peace of God

and the peace of God is our peace with God registering in our various footsteps movement and directions in life

so you can take God's recommended posture in every circumstance so that peace with God can be peace of God

Have a blessed day friends!!!

Acts chapter 4 verse 13 and the Bible says that when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men They marveled and they realized that they had been with Jesus

Friends, the world is in dire need of faithful followers of Christ and not heroes of faith

Visible verbal followers of Christ whose primary desire and obsession is to serve the Lord passionately

To express His love in its purest and authentic form and remain the pillar of truth

I mean visible verbal followers because God was on the move and God is on the move and God will always be on the move

And those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move

Anyone who stops and wants to turn a moment into a monument as the disciples of Jesus intended to do at the mount of the transfiguration

Will soon be wondering where God has gone to

Every Christian is called, anointed and sent

And as we walk in this world, we are not to follow our hearts, we are commanded to guard our hearts

Visible verbal followers of Christ because we cannot be silent

Christ charged us to preach the gospel and he speaks daily to the believer who is charged to preach the gospel

So we don't ask what does the Bible says

So we don't ask what the Bible says

We ask what Christ says to us through the Bible and in the Bible

So that we can relate with a person and not the pages of a book

Friends, as we follow, even the spirit of the living Christ begins to produce the character and the competency of Christ in us

The fruit of the spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce as results

No, men produce results but the Holy Spirit produces fruits

So love the Lord, worship the Lord, serve the Lord

Because worship is love on its knees in adoration to God

And service is love on its feet doing the Lord's bidding

Christ rules and Christ reigns in this world

Not by sending in an armored tank but by sending his well-cultured servants

Remember, the world is in dire need of faithful followers of Christ and not heroes of faith

Have a blessed day friends!

Life doesn't always go like you have planned, and in order to have the peace of God that passes all human understanding, you have to give up your right to understand.

The scriptures says that God gives the oil of gladness for mourning, and in the midst of the grief, God gives grace.

Grief incarcerate you, and grace liberates you.

Grief look to the past, grace looks to the future.

What is gone is not compared to what is left.

Your heart is full of grief, His horn is full of oil because there's the oil of gladness for mourning.

Have a blessed day!!!

Jesus, Hearts melt at your nearness.

Eyes drip with water at the sight of you.

At your speaking knees collapse in your embrace.

You are the diadem of God's crown,

the Father's throne, the seat of heaven's rulership.

You are God-fleshed to give light to creation.

For in you, Jesus, heaven's seat, and in your light we see light.

Every part of you speaks directly to our heart.

Your voice is like the gathering of many waters, yet piercing, peaceful, resting, blissful.

You wink and the stars are created in the twinkle of your eye. Every star is defined.

In their majestic rays, they fall short compared to you. You are light, light brighter than light.

You form them, you name them, you hold them. All the beauties of the earth owes their existence to you. All the beauties of heaven are at the mercy of your breath. You are more.

Your eyes sparkle with love, a fire that accepts me. Consuming fire, your embrace is purifying my inward being, and receiving your words is life installed.

You're never tired of seeing me. Neither have you slept nor slumbered, even in my darkest night.

Instead, you've given me sleep so you can awaken me to the sunshine of your face.

You love me like no other. Even love as I have known it can never touch the depths of your affection for me. Your love is everlasting.

There is a fondness in your love, an intimacy so magnetic.

You are beyond the word affection. You give meaning to emotions I can't describe accurately with words.

All the weight of the secret moments with you. That sweet, direct, intimate, loving contact with Jesus Christ that kills competition and comparison and condemnation.

The loving, divine deposit that causes love to develop in you for him and overwhelm you till nothing can keep you from him. Failures and victories, disappointments and favor.

Everything causes you to run to him so you run to him as a way of life.

Jesus, you're steadfast, true and genuine. Never changing, but changing me by the love and the light that you give me.

The magnificent colors in your eyes. You are all the colors of beauty and brilliance.

What can I do to earn your love? What righteousness can I attain to be loved by you? But you have put your love in my heart and the measure is abundantly abundant and I'm clothed in your righteousness.

You set the feast. You chose my outfit. I must not come before you wearing something else but the righteousness you have clothed me with.

In the days when I feel less than a bride, like someone else would do better and be suitable for you, you reassure me that I'm your choice.

You've made room for me in you. Jesus, so I lift up my eyes to you and my eyes find your eyes looking at me, into me. You see what I need before I know how much I need it.

You reveal my need and meet them and give me your joy to seal them. You've offered me your love and in it I've found everything that I've been looking for.

You're the answer to all my life's questions. Every desire, every quest, every adventure. You're the fulfillment of every dream.

Jesus, you are more. You're more than life itself and your life when life is gone. Eternity in time and time in eternity.

The splendor and the majesty of your person cannot be exhausted.

Jesus, you are more. More. You are more. More!