The Two Fold Piece Part 2 ;Don't Deny Yourself The Gift Of Jesus!!!!

This is a continuation of the first part Judge Not That You Might Not Be Judged so please watch the video and  read  the previous post first before you go through this second part.

Please ,don't let anyone restrict you from that which Jesus did on the cross for you .Jesus stopped for Zacchaeus a man whom the entire society knew as a man that cheated people.Jesus was open to women who the society had rejected.He sat down with a prostitute and had a conversation with her.Even, a woman that was caught in adultery,

John 8: 1-11 A Woman Caught In Adultery!!!!!

3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act ofadultery. They put her in front of the crow4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” 6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. 9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 

10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you?”11 “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said,“Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

  Jesus came for you and me and for everyone who would just receive him.He came for the whole world.He illustrates his love such that he would leave 99 sheep for one. You are as important to Jesus as the most holiest person you could think of.He came for the world.The book of John 2:17 puts it this way " For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved"You do not have to measure up to receive his love.Frankly there is nothing we could ever do that merits what was done on the cross. It does not matter your background, how far you have strayed or how lost you feel.Jesus the great healer will heal the brokenhearted,the abused,the lost, the hopeless, it doesn't matter.Jesus the chief physician will fix you, not any man or pastor but Jesus himself.He may work through a pastor or a man, but it is him that ultimately does the saving.Please don't let anyone hold you back.He came for the sick.Those who need help.

Mark2:13-17 Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners 

13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.

15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”.

He came for the sick.He alone understands best what you have  gone through or what you are going through.If you haven't received him into your life,or you were in the fold and you strayed a little.Please do not let anyone hold you back.He says 'WHOEVER' calls upon the name of the lord will be saved. It does not matter who you are are.where you have been, what you did a few minutes before you read this .If you call upon the name of the lord, he is willing and able to save and keep you.Please pray this prayer with me.

Prayer

Jesus today I thank you for your love for me, I thank you father that you love in spite of my wrongs and my shortcomings .I thank you that you haven't given up on me and you never do.Father today I ask that in your mercy,you forgive me my sins you wash me white as snow and you receive me into your loving arms.Lord I thank you for I am forgiven ,Today I receive your unfailing love and I thank you because I am a new creature and old things are washed away.I have a new identity and its in you Christ Jesus.

If you have received Jesus.Don't stop at the entrance .Enter in!! Please go to a church where the word of God is preached and your spirit is fed .Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Even as we exercise to keep our body fit, we need to spiritually exercise.We need to feed ourselves with his word so that we might know him and be able to  "put on the shield of the faith that we might withstand the fiery darts of the enemy .It is important that we do know him,grow deeper in the knowledge of his love for us and it is this love that compels us to want to do things that please him and honour him.He says if you seek him with your whole heart you will find him.We therefore need to "seek"  in order to find him.To seek is to make an attempt to find something.Therefore don't stop at the entrance ,enter in.

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The Two Fold Piece Part 1; WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE????

I was in tears after this .A couple of scriptures just flooded my mind.Judge not that you might not be judged. You should remove the Log in your own eye before you remove the speck in other people's eyes.This inspired the Judge not that you might not be judged topic.I'm really sorry and I sincerely apologise to everyone who had ever felt neglected by the church or by me,or felt looked down upon.You truly don't know how much help you can be to someone or how much harm you can cause just by acting more sanctimonious to the next person.

There are two segments to this write up First one  is "Who are We to Judge",This Is for People who are already believers and the second part "Don't Deny Yourself The Gift Of Jesus Christ" is for people who are trying to find their way home.The Second part is on the next post however please watch the video and read this post as well before proceeding to the next post.

Who Are We To Judge !!!!!

Jesus has called us to show his love to people .We should never ever forget that we were saved by grace and we continue to live by that grace.Who are we to judge others or look down on others because of the wrong they have done or they do.When Jesus forgives us ,loves us and died for the redemption of OUR sin.

Jesus,In spite of the fact that his own disciple Peter denied him three times, the people he came to save chose a murderer to be released instead of him , he still died on the cross.He never pushed the prostitute away who had tears in her ears and wiped his feet with her hair,he stopped in the midst of a crowd to pay attention and invite himself to the house of a tax collector(zacchaeus) who at that time was considered to be notorious in that he stole money and cheated people of what was theirs. 

Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
1 He entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich. 3 Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. 4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way. 5 When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 And he hurried and came down and received Him gladly. 7 When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” They were being judgemental.However,because of what Jesus did,
8 Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

In the story of the prostitute the people had reacted the same way by looking down on her and were making side comments that if Jesus knew who she was, he would have not dined with her .Some of us see ourselves on that high table judging others forgetting that we may have gotten to a certain stage but the lives we live no matter how long we have been saved is still dependent on God's grace.Have we so easily forgotten the love that saved us and continues to save us.The love that sees and knows the depth of our hearts and loves us the same.How then should we deprive others of what we freely received. The truth is the bible says pride comes before a fall. We tend to feel too cool and comfortable as 'better christians' that we gradually slip into pride and become judgemental towards others. The bible says after you have done all to stand still stand therefore.

 We have pushed people in one way or the other by the way we treated, spoke, looked and even talked to them. Sometimes even the act of not talking to some people was an act of 'Christian pride' I know how easy it is to slip into this mindset but never ever again.We have been called to be ambassadors of christ,representatives of his Kingdom,his love, his grace and his mercy. John 3:17 He came to seek and to save the lost so that the world through him might be saved, not that they should be condemned.We have to constantly remind ourselves of this and receive the grace to show the love which we have received to others.

We might not know how to but Jesus,although was not of this world was able to influence and impact people lives with his love.The Bible says as he was so are we.If he could do it, it is possible we can too.Please say this prayer of forgiveness and receive fresh grace to show love to others.

Prayer of Forgiveness

Lord I ask for your mercy and Forgiveness .Father I receive fresh grace to show your love and walk in that love towards others.

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Tips To Overcoming Fear!!!!!!!!

Be Conscious of His Presence with you 

He sees you .He is well aware of you and everything going on with you.

'See I have you inscribed in the palms of my hands your walls are continually before me' Isaiah 49:16

The Likelihood for one to feel alone is a reason why fear comes in .It happens when we think its just us in the challenge.This tends to happen a lot when  faced with challenges. Fear of lifts,Fear of Planes, Fear of stepping outside your comfort zone, and so forth.

Jesus says in Matt 28:20 "Lo I am with you always even to the end of this age"

You are not alone God is with you.The God that when he speaks his enemies are broken into pieces. The God that his presence alone with the Israelites caused the seas to part *pause for a minute and picture this*.The elders of the Lord were carrying his Ark which signified his presence at the time, and as they moved towards the sea,the sea stepped back.Now we as Christians don't just have his presence dwelling with us but he dwells in us."Greater is He in you than he that is the world". Frankly,it cannot be over as long as He lives, honours his word more than his name and stands by his word "not one word from His mouth will fall to the ground,but it shall accomplish that which he has sent it to do".We are on the winning team.Jesus has made a public spectacle of Satan and his followers for our sake.We have the victory and that Victory is our Faith.

Dwell in the Land and Feed on his Faithfulness. Ps 37:3

One thing I know that has helped me is remembering all the various things God had done for me,how faithful and consistent he has been. I like to share this story it  might seem like a little testimony,but i do love to share it .There was a time when as a student , I was low on cash and at the time they were also on the home front. .I had even called a close relative for help and I was told that the person would have to borrow.I could have settled that day but I said no to that person. My God is more than sufficient he will supply all my needs .I frankly did not know where the money was going to come from but i said this heartfelt prayer of Faith " You oh Lord who is able to cause Gold come out of the mouth of a fish promised that they who serve you will not lack of bread .Father my trust is in you 'you who promised to supply "All my needs according to your riches in glory". This came from a place of remembrance of the many times that God had shown  up for me regardless of not knowing where it was going to come from.Then I went to church later on that week on a Sunday morning  and a friend gave me about twenty thousand naira. About two days after, as I was unpacking my stuff , another ten thousand naira I had hidden in my closet earlier in the semester and had totally forgotten about fell out.I cried to God with thanks.Sometimes it might not be all that sudden but it does always help to remember the many times and the many ways God made a way for you before and if he could then , he would now because he is the same yesterday today and forever.

Trust God's Promises

You know how someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Donald Trump tells you, you are in the right direction and you totally trust them regardless then how much more the one with an unbeatable track record who created all things including them.David said because I had believed in God therefore I cannot be moved.

You must first understand that you serve a God with an impeccable track record.There is no single person that trusted in him or took a step of Faith with him that was ever put to shame. Rom 10 ;11 " whoever believes on him shall never be put to shame. Surely adversaries will come when you choose to trust and believe God  but he gives us the assurance that ''many are the afflictions of the righteous and the lord delivers them from them all". So even when you choose to venture out into something and the thought of failure comes or you might have had a couple of challenges remember this and also remember that not one jot of his word will fall to the ground.

  Hold Fast to The Profession of Your Faith Heb 10:23

It involves choosing to look to God and to continue to stand on his word even when you have put your trust in him and it has not physically occurred yet because he is God and he is faithful.Therefore in situations when things are not happening as fast as you want it to or it seems like your friends life is taking a whole faster shape than yours,you stand on his word because he is a Faithful God. Your life is in his hands and if you have given him  total control over it,his plans for you are of Good and not of evil to give you a future and a hope.However, sometimes the thought that God does  not love you enough may arise because of  the lack of knowledge that He does love you.The bible  does say we should "hold on to the profession of our faith because he who has promised is faithful" but how do you  hold on when such thoughts come.

Awareness of God’s Love And Filling Ourselves with Faith.

Above everything else ,this is the most powerful tool against fear.I have found that the greatest way to hold on to your faith,to trust God and believe him, comes from an awareness or  knowledge of God's love for us.You know how easy it is for someone that you have a serious relationship with to tell you to jump I'll catch you and you do. Contrast this with a total stranger who says jump I will catch you.You will probably consider all your options first.The reason why you jump in the former is because you are aware of the love the person has for you  and you know the person would try to avoid letting anything bad happen to you. How much more God who sent his only begotten and beloved son to die for us on the cross.Jesus said in John 17:3 'And this is eternal life that they may know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent' . It is so important for us to know God for ourselves because it is through this that we develop faith and become aware of his love for us. God is love, and the more we get to know him through his word, the more we become aware of that love for us and the more we are able to develop trust and faith in his word . I am now well aware of how busy the world could be,seeing that I worked in Lagos for a couple of months and had to drive myself back from the Island to the mainland in traffic jam and then you get home totally tired and the cycle continues.I know some people are busy on weekends too. However, I found that we must do everything we can to make sure we are constantly fed. It is so vital especially if there is a particular matter (health,future, finance) trying to fuel your mind with other thoughts.



   We need God's perspective on the issue and that can only come through filling our mind with his word and letting our minds become renewed that there is literally no room for anything that contradicts God's word.We need to continuously fuel up our engines with faith. We can never be too full.The bible says the devils roams the earth seeking for whom to devour.It also says do not give place to the devil .Therefore,while driving in the car listen to faith messages ,on the train, on the bus,listen to uplifting music,find time to study God's word ,play your audio bible and pay attention while its playing.The more we fill ourselves with The Word, our thought life changes,our response to fear changes and fear has no room in our lives concerning that issue.It is then that  in spite of the things that come our way we can boldly declare like David that even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil because thou art with me. It becomes easier to hold on to our faith because we know whom we believe in.We understand that  we most likely do not measure up to his love but he loves us the same and we can have that confidence that because he loves us ,we have the victory. Jesus won the battle for us ,he is with us and will never leave us nor forsake us, so dare to dream and dare to demand the best from life.We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

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