God at work in You..Oh, really?

God, work? Does God work? Hmm..., you better be kidding.

Actually, no, I am not, quite the contrary! I am very serious. God is at work and at work in you! Not the typical 9-5 job though, it is something infinitely glorious, wonderful, magnificent, it is just simply beyond description.

Listen beloved, Our God neither sleeps nor slumbers, He is the Alfa & the Omega, the beginning and the end, from everlasting to everlasting; He is God.
The unchanging changer, the life giver, the one who rules and reigns in the affairs of men, so gracious, so merciful, so compassionate, flawless, incorruptible, dwells in eternity.
He is sovereign, the righteous judge, the I AM that I AM.
The most Loving Father.
The Almighty God, the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, working in and through you? This is wonderful, really is!

And yes! God is at work in you.
Can you fathom it? Can you dare to believe it? can you walk in that reality? Well, the choice is yours.

I say the choice is yours because, you indeed have that choice. You are so powerful that you can stop God working in you if you choose to, through unbelief.

So, what makes you so sure of what you are talking about Sterling, you may ask.

Well, first of all, I am not just sure, I am fully persuaded of these truths and that is because God's word says so. As a matter of fact, the way God works in your life is through His word. He is one with His word, they are inseparable.

The word of God has inherent power and ability to accomplish anything. However, in your life, it is only able to accomplish anything to the extent that you believe it for yourself or your situation. The question then is not what the word can do but how much you believe. "What so ever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive it and ye shall have it" Mark 11:24

Now, the work of God can be encapsulated in one word - LOVE. That is who God is and that is the modus operandi of His word. He is Love.

The effulgence of this LOVE is manifested in various forms: in His mercy, in His grace, in His compassion, in His chastisement, to mention but a few.

The real deal here is that, God Loves man so much that He desires that none should perish but that all should repent and be reconciled back to Him.

He Loved the world so much that He sent his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life! David one time marvelled at God and said; 'what is man that you(God) are so mindful of him!'

Do you know that God is so mindful of you?

If truth be told,...

Sometimes, we forget that God is so mindful of us and consequently we make His word of none effect in our lives because of unbelief.

I don't know about you, but sometimes I tend take matters to my own hands more like trying to help God, until I am reminded by His word, that God does not need my help. He only wants me to believe, trust and obey.

So, I have to always remember how weak I am and ask the Lord to save me from conceit and self-sufficiency for I am the branch and Jesus is the Vine and without Him, I can absolutely do nothing. This ought to be a daily endeavour

The sad reality of many of us, believers, is that, we shortchange ourselves because of lack of knowledge of the awesomeness of our God & His word.

God is calling us to a place of remembrance. Lets be reminded of what we have in Christ, the glorious inheritance we have received by virtue of being born again, let's be reminded of the everlasting LOVE of our heavenly Father, for He has declared that 'nothing shall be able to separate us from His love, absolutely nothing.

He Loves you with an everlasting love, He desires that you "may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and the length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God" Ephesians 3:18-19

Be reminded that your God is good and His mercy endureth forever and that His grace is sufficient for you. Nothing that you are going through right now, should overwhelm you.

If you have the word of God in your mouth and Faith in your heart, you will prevail and come come back with a testimony. God's word is true, it faileth not, just believe, trust and obey. Will you? I think you should.

Your God is more than able.

The entrance of God's word gives light and understanding to the simple and His word is life to them that find it and health to their flesh. "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart" Hebrews 4:12

If you can see the word of God, and can hear the word of God and can understand the word of God, it will be at work in you and it will make you what it talks about. The glory of the word of God is that, it grows mightily and prevails.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Let's therefore,...

Continuously study the word of God and learn it, keep declaring it in faith, grow in it, keep it close to your heart. remember God has chosen you as a place of abode for His office, will you allow Him?

If so, well, get the word on the inside of you, saturate yourself with the word, soak it, drink it, ruminate it, do whatever you do but get the word into your spirit! Don't relent, don't give up, glory & power are in the word.

Just as you feed your natural body with daily food, feed your spirit with the word of God for your recreated human spirit is born of the incorruptible seed of the word of God and can only find nourishment in the word of God. Period.

Embrace the ministry of prayer and continuously minister to the Lord. Pray in the word, pray the word. "...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" James 5:16. "By Him let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name" Hebrews 13:15

My dear,..

Let's be wise, don't be lacking in forethought and common sense. Choose to do the right thing; Feed your spirit! Your spirit is who you really are, don't be a spiritual delinquent.

May the Lord help you to be faithful and firm as a rock in your path of duty in being all that you can be in Christ. Be fruitful, multiply and win souls to the kingdom.

Never allow yourself to be discouraged in your work. Resolutely resist all temptation to evil and fit yourself to your utmost to be useful in the kingdom of heaven and to your fellow men.

I like the way Charles Stanley always concludes his teachings, he says: "Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him" (i.e, the consequences of your obedience). Oh, how true.

Till next time, I leave you with this blessing from the pen of Apostle Paul: "And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among them which are sanctified" Acts 20:32

Grace & Blessings to you. I say no more.

Peace & Love

Libs.

Think on these things!

Thoughts.
They are amazing seeds, mighty giants, they can make you or break you. They are so powerful so much so that you are today what what your thinking has been and you will be tomorrow what your thinking currently is: "As a man thinketh, so is he"

Thinking is one of those things that we have no option as humans but to indulge in. And it really doesn't matter whether you like to think or not, you will find yourself thinking, one way or the other. The only choice you have is; what you will think about. You have the power to choose your thoughts!

Question then is, what will you be thinking about or rather, what will you choose to think about?

Your thoughts are very powerful and I think we have established that already. What I believe is really critical, is to be deliberate and purposeful about the content of our thoughts, because, truth be told, you will eventually reflect them. It's that simple.

So,

We shouldn't go about being careless with our thoughts, because ultimately, thoughts being seeds that they are, will eventually grow & manifest themselves and before long you have to 'match up to the music' of your careless thoughts, and sometimes the music might not be very pleasant.

Though our God is so loving, he will not interfere with your thoughts. It is part of the great expanse of your free will He gave to you and guess what, He chooses to honour your thoughts regardless of what they are.
So, really God has given us the power to chart the cause of our lives. Our success or failure is ultimately our own making and the person at the center of everything that happens to and for you is YOU! God provides the guidance, you make the decisions.

This is all too easy to say, but acting it out is where the challenge really lies.
Most of the things we hear on a day to day basis aren't really any new things. Not at all. Its all old stuff and proven things of which those who ACTED them out secured for themselves their desired dreams and ambitions.

The thing is,

Powerful thoughts will compel you to ACT, that is the truth of the matter.

If you lack the initiative to act, then the best place to check is your thoughts.
Is your thinking in line with what you desire according to the will of God?
Remember, it all starts with your thoughts. I am sure that is not news to you.

I said earlier on that our Loving Heavenly Father will always guide us but will leave the option to choose the course of action, to us.

Evidently, with regard to this subject of thinking , God, through Apostle Paul gave us this guidance:

"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8

Pause a little, Mm, waw! This is beautiful! This is a very generous and fertile ground to plant your thoughts - seeds!

Can we then honestly say we lack anything? Nay, that would be a big lie. But then our experiences of life tell us otherwise, right? Yes.

Why is it so then?

Simple, we take ourselves too seriously so much so that when things don't add up in our lives, (which, often times is inevitable) we start thinking and imagining the worst which eventually leads to the worst happening. It is not rocket science.

And here also is yet another great truth, a better one;

You can change anything at the point of thought.
Just remember to keep that in mind at all times.

What shall we say then?

Let's be kind to ourselves and follow what was revealed through Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:8. There is no harm in doing it.
After all, you only live here on earth once, and it is just right that you make the most of it. Change your thinking and change your life. 'Be transformed by the renewing of your mind' - Isn't that what the scriptures tell us? Yes of course.
And that in turn should help you do the will of our Father - Win Souls to the Kingdom.

Yet personally,

I know it is not that easy (I do fall short of my best intentions sometimes), however, I try to keep at it by God's grace & mercy, and therein I find myself always strengthened and encouraged in Christ. So, I encourage you to take advantage of God's grace & mercy as well, and keep at it. The results will be worth it.
'For it is not of him that runneth or willeth, but of God who gives grace & mercy'

Thanks for reading.

Peace & Love
Libs

How do you do it?

I am sure when you read the title of this post on the email, you must have wondered, what is this all about? How do I do what?

Well, our lives are full of things to do, we do that, then do this then go back to that, then the other one, and so on and so forth.

We are constantly doing something.

Even when you are sleeping, that is doing something and it is called sleeping.

So, we can't help but always have something to do.

Even doing nothing is doing something, you could just have taken time to be quiet, silent, resting etc, it is all the same doing something.

Here is the point...,

Wouldn't it be nice to know that whatever we do, works in our favour than against us?

Wouldn't it be very uplifting to know that your life can be so fulfilled many times over, knowing that you did the important things first?

I would think so, wouldn't you?

If I may ask, do you make new years resolutions?

For many people setting resolutions is a great way of kick starting their planning for the new year.

For others, new year resolutions don't quite hit the mark and some don't even last into the second week of January.

For many others more rigorous planning and goal setting is called for.

On the other hand, many people get demoralised when year after year they make resolutions that they keep for only a few weeks.

Happens every year.

Now, regardless as to whether you set new year resolutions or not, one way or the other, you have to do something with your life, right? Yes, you have to make the most of it!

To help illustrate this point, I have here a parable called the parable of the professor and the bucket, I read this parable and it so fits in with what I had in mind while pondering on this article.

Here it is:

A philosophy professor and his student stand in a warehouse. A large tin bucket and several boxes are in front of them.

The professor picks up a box that contains large rocks, each one about four inches in diameter, and pours them into the bucket. The stones reach the top of the bucket, and he asks the student if it is full.

"It is," the student replies.

The professor takes another box, this one containing stones about one inch in diameter, and pours them over the rocks in the bucket.

The smaller stones fill in the spaces between the rocks. Again, he asks the student if the bucket is full.

The student looks and says, "It is."

The professor then pours in the contents of a third box, this one containing small pebbles. Again, the student looks in and agrees that the bucket is full.

Finally, the professor pours a box of sand on top of the rocks, stones, and pebbles. And once more, for the fourth time, the student has to acknowledge that the bucket is full.

"The lesson," the professor tells the student, "is to do the most important thing first, and each lesser thing in order of its priority.

In this way, you will be able to fill up your life four times, instead of just once. If you do the unimportant things first, you'll be filling your bucket with sand... and there won't be room for anything else."

This is absolutely wonderful. I call it having your priorities in order and performing them in such a way that, like the philosophy professor said; you fill it up your life more times instead of just once.
Amazing! Isn't it?

With the the year just started, and with lots of hopes and promises a head and things to accomplish this year, the onus is on you to set your priorities right and ensure that come Dec 2010, you will comfortably say; waw, my life is 4,5,6,...10, times fuller than when this year began.

That is your call, your duty and responsibility to make it happen.

Let me ask you this, wouldn't it be wonderful to have an unshakable Rock, a rock of all ages, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation?

Well,..

That Rock is Jesus Christ.

When you build your life and add everything you ever do on this Rock, your life without a shadow of doubt will be as many times full as you want it.

Upon this Rock, the storms and rains of life can not shake anything built on it. A wise man will build his life on this Rock. Are you or will you be that wise man?

Jesus is the same; yesterday, today and forever. There is no uncertainty in Him, no ambiguity, no disappointments, no hung ups, no buts no ifs, just plain goodness.

He is the everlasting prince of Peace, the all surpassing conqueror, the mighty IAM, The Lord of Hosts, the King of kings the Lord of Lords, and still calls you His friend.

I am deeply humbled to have Him as my Lord and my Rock, as this year Kicks off. How about you?

If you are not sure, here is a good place and way to start your year in an excellent fashion; do what Romans 10:9 says. And if you have already done that, continue building and growing in Him, you have a solid foundation already, the future is bright for you.

There you have it. Priorities!
I hope you will fill your life a lot more and a lot better this year. Start it off with Jesus and let every other thing on after that.

God bless you

Peace & Love,
Libs.