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Who Is Successful?

We don't mean to do it but we just almost find ourselves doing it and for most of us it sends fear, shame and discouragement into our hearts. We read or hear tell of someone who looks a lot (sometimes, just a little) bigger than we are and we judge them to be successful. We are good people so we like to see others succeed but "why must they succeed more than ourselves?" It's not that we can't rejoice with those who rejoice (not that we even know on a personal level all those successful people) and it's not that we are witches who can't bear to see others succeed. It's just that we are humans and we deserve to succeed - ok, we are aware that the race isn't to the swift or the fight to the strong - but if you had seen how hard we have worked, how right we had lived and how intensely we've prayed, you'll agree with us that "it's really our time to succeed." We made the charts and filled out all those reports. Everything sugges
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Our Holy God Purges; Therefore It Will Come Out in His Fire

In Deuteronomy chapter 4 we find the phrase “ the Lord is a consuming fire .”  In that book the Lord had given His chosen people a law to obey. A law that was to save them, a law to enrich them, a law to make them inGodded, a law to make them the best of what a human can be. He gave them this law for he wanted a called-out people, a people who are counter culture, a people who are holy. After he had given his laws, he added the words “ I am a consuming fire and I am a jealous God therefore I will burn out against you if you do not follow my law .” In previous chapters, the writer gives the believer so much positive motivation to follow and obey Christ; you’ll think he’ll have no nee of negative motivation. Yet he talks of judgement and wrath. Take a look at some of the reasons he gives to help us stay faithful.  Remember that this time we are in the New Testament. The Old Testament was a ‘come and see’ religion. In the Old they had a written law on parchments that when diligently
C. S. Lewis compared humankind to small children living in the slums and making mud castles; and refusing to go to the beach for they couldn't imagine a water body so large and sand so plentiful. He was talking about how man gets satisfied with mediocre and silly things when God has more to offer. He believed that the end of man and all being is the glory of God.                               I too believe so and I'll do my literary mentor proud by comparing the Ghanaian Church to a drowning man who is crying because his new shoes are wet. We have no conception of the task placed on us so we worry about inconsequential and mundane things that we can't take to eternity.                                                                                                                                                          Did you ever go to a funeral? They talk of all the great things the person did and left behind. We leave behind, its our heritage. The only thing we t

SERVING IN HUMILITY

SERVING IN HUMILITY {JOSHUA 3.7-17; 1 THESSALONIANS 2.9-13; MATTHEW 23.1-12}. I will like us to begin our narrative from Matthew 23.1-13. In this text we come across a certain group of people our Lord Jesus Christ warns us against. These are persons called to serve others but because they have the wrong understanding of what service is they demand that the people they are to serve rather serve them. The whole nation order is thrown into disorder for the servants are now being served. To use the language of the Prophets – servants are riding on horses whiles princess walk. Some of us here have been called to serve, some will be called to serve. How true is that statement? I would like to say there is nothing true of that statement for we are all servants called to serve. The truth that can be said is that some of us will serve well, whiles others will fail terribly at our service. Christ tells us not to be that kind of servant who fails. Do not be that man. Do not be th

MONDAY & BEACH

Monday and Beach. What has the monday after Resurrection Sunday got to do with beach? Persons who have no share in the bounty of the Resurrection (but think they have cuz persons who shold know better have told them they have) and people who have been told you dont need to change your life now that you claim to have changed your heart (something prosperity and charismatic pastors love to teach) rush to the sea to do whatever is done at the beach in memory of the Resurrected Christ. I'm not saying Beach (see, i evn made it big B) is bad for Christians (who am I to say that), I am only saying if they were Christians they would be home or somewhere worshipping God for killing and raising His Son for them rather than worshipping half naked bodies and the sand (is that what they really do?) So these two groups (they who dont give a hoot about any Resurrected body and they who think its time to party more than the angels cuz of the Resurrection) flock to the beaches. I have the su

CONVERTING GRACE AND THE SINNER

This is just some random things I read from the Bible and other places in my study on how Grace helps me in the fight against sin. Forgive me for not listing all my sources and also for not arranging my thoughts (when I thought to publish it it was just for the blog randomgleaning.blogspot.com, so understand the randomness of it). Sorry. Titus 2.11 - for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controled, upright and godly. Romans 8.13 - if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body you shall live. The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, aught yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin. The vigor, and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. 1 Corinthians 15.34 - awake to righteousness and sin not. The mortificati

Baptism - One of the 'Visible Words.'

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