Head vs Heart

Your God-given purpose and your purpose in life may be just taking care of the little gift that God has given you.

Your gift may be your career—using it to bless humanity. Yes, your gift can be your little girl-training her to become the best in life. And your purpose in life can just be being a faithful mechanic—bringing smiles to customers.

Your purpose in life is not far-fetched at all. In fact, it is what really move your heart, not your head.

So, God’s will is what move your heart. This is the divine purpose, your calling, your life, your existence. Find it and you have found yourself and you would have found God too.

However, deep inside, this decision is not easy to arrive at because of daily contentions between good and evil. You can only and always win when you make the right choices and when you align your purpose with God’s purpose. Follow your heart, not your head because your heart is receptive to divinity, but your head is concern with pleasure and vanity.

His Making

Everything we are, the air we breathe, the life we have and being here today, it is God’s making.

But for God’s love and kindness, no one will be alive. No one is good enough to enjoy life, and no one is righteous enough to deserve living.

We all live a filthy life so that we are unworthy without His Son Jesus Christ.
So, through Christ, we have everything we could ever need.
Praise God!

 

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He did His; now your turn

“Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” because a sacrifice has to be offered to receive freedom and salvation.

“Jesus had to sacrifice himself, His place and lofty life to give us life and a new beginning.
He made the ultimate sacrifice to give us the ultimate salvation
So, Jesus gave Himself to give us everything–life, freedom, salvation and eternal life.

Now, it’s your turn to make a decision on what you want to do with your life. I have seen that following God is the most enjoyable freedom I have ever had.

Yes, you are free from everything and yet free to be yourself without constraint. The only constraint in God is to do the right thing every time–that, I think, is not a constraint. So, make the right turn.

Deep inside, the battle goes on

God does not forced His will upon anyone. He allows us to make our choices so that we do not have to blame Him for our mishap. God cannot and will not violate the free-will of man. Ability to make choices and decisions is at man’s disposal.

God often encourage people to do the right thing. It’s hard to know and interpret the exact thought that is in the mind of God. That’s why we need revelation. God reveals His thought to His own people. Revelation usually takes time to come to pass.

Generally, people seek God in times of trouble but you do not have to wait to build a relationship with God. It is wisdom to seek God.

God qualifies people to do His will. God communicated to people with respect to peculiarity of the time and season. So, what was not relevant 2000 years ago will be concealed. The same information will be communicated today because it is relevant with our time. This also applies to culture and values.

…..but deep inside the heart, the battle goes on forever because evil is constantly contesting with good.

For This Cause

You have a sense of fulfilment when you do things you will be forever remembered for.

Light Your World

Great men are remembered for the great things that they did.

Ambition to do good is better than ambition to amass wealth.

Find and do anything (good) you can be remembered for long after you are gone.

Do things that brings smiles to other faces. This is fulfilment; this is life.

You don’t need to affect or touch a lot of people in life. Your immediate people in your environment are your people. They are your ministry. Touch and affect them positively and you are forever blessed for doing what God want you to do in life. And if God gives you grace to reach a large number of people, make good use of it.

Salt and Light–Light Your World

The purpose of a torch is to bring light to the surrounding darkness. The torch does it job by shining brightly.

It is your responsibility to shine your light to your world. Why? Because you are a light. And light shines.

Your daily activities reflect your light or darkness. If you are full of evil deeds, it will reflect and if you are doing good, it will reflect also.

The difference is that people around you can tell whether you are a good person or a bad person.
Shine your light and let it affect people around you. Remember, your light is the “work” that you do on daily basis.

Salt and Light–made for this

When God created Adam and Eve, He specifically instructed them to work and make progress and subdue the land. That means, the whole essence of Man is to affect and impact his environment positively.

You don’t need a big name or a big post to do this. You only need a big heart to do what can affect people around you.

Start from where you are–which could be your corridor and from there you make the world a beautiful place while fulfilling your purpose of creation.
This is what you were made for.

Salt and Light–Introduction

This series is in conjunction with a youth program in ICB RCCG, Brooklyn, New York, titled “made for this–Salt and Light. August 3-5, 2018.

Jesus said. “You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.”

Salt is only useful when it retains it flavor. The moment the salt loses it flavor, it becomes useless.

Your life is still useful as long as you are impacting and contributing to other people’s life and humanity. The moment you are not doing this, you become useless and irrelevant.

So, like the salt, make your life counts while it last. You will only be remembered for what you have done, whether good or bad. So, choose to do good and make other people happy. You can only be truly happy when you bring smiles to other people’s face.

Praying for Grace

We need the Grace of God to live a good life. No one is perfect. We are all fallible. It is God’s precious grace that separate a man from his peers.

Praying for grace is asking God to give us a gift we do not deserve.
It’s like praying for a condemned criminal to be saved.

God is gracious and merciful. He will, out of His mercy, do what we ask for.