What You Worship Matters

What You Worship Matters

The elements of your faith life that are of eternal value as you step into heaven, are what you must live for today. Heaven is a place where worship is the focus[1]. Worship expresses humanity’s essential purpose that is why no one can worship on behalf of another. It is an act every person does for him or herself to accomplish something the "worshipped" cannot do for themselves.

If you do not worship God, you will worship something else. This is dangerous because you eventually become more like the object of your worship. That is why who you worship matters. In fact, at the heart of worship knowingly or unknowingly, is the desire to be like your object of worship. Worship is by nature an overriding obsession. What you worship becomes something that dominates your life’s passion and behavior. Often we depend on and hold nothing from what we worship, including our very lives. Even when done privately, it always publicly shows one way or another. If the thing you worship is wise, so are you. If it is powerful, so will you be. If loving so are you. However, if you worship something lacking and insufficient you risk becoming exactly that. If it is dead, you will die with it.

What if you discovered someone to worship who is all knowing, all able, all present, all sufficient, all wise and all just, triple holy and ALL LOVING? The Bible presents such a person. We owe to Him all praise and worship. He deserves it so much that when you deny Him your worship even the stones and nature cry out in your place[2]. Worship in its highest form focuses on God the person not just His gifts. When you adore Him and seek Him for who He is not what He can give you, you begin to worship authentically. True worship has God’s pleasure at the center even if it means laying down your all on the altar. When Abraham was going to sacrifice his only son, he said that he was going to worship[3]. Even more, worship is a form of dying so He can live through you. Worship requires humility. Acknowledging that you cannot live without God and ultimately allowing Him reign over everything that you are.

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[1] Revelation 7:10,11

[2] Luke 19:40

[3] Genesis 22:5; Mathew 22:38

New Solutions

New Solutions

Because our Father is the creator of the universe, we should lead in coming up with innovative solutions to problems humanity faces . To the contrary, many have given credence to the notion that church dishes out opium that inoculates from thinking. When the Bible says be transformed by the renewing of your mind[1] the intention was never to mean by the removal of your mind. As you prayerfully plan for your future allocate time to the generation of ideas. Include in your associates people who stretch your thinking, shake your complacency, and inspire your energy. Expose yourself to something challenging enough to bring out your creative potential.

 Solutions are often resident in the fringes not the main stream, in the exception and not the rule, with the prophetic and not the politically correct, in those different from you, and in the unpopular. Think outside the box by asking questions. Before you can provide the right answers, you must ask the right questions. Questions such as:  What is being ignored? What is not being done? What needs are not being met? What is not being done well? What does God want? What must change? What must continue and why? What new strategies must be introduced?  What would it be like if a change is introduced? What family, church and community do I want? What is standing in the way? How can I make a difference? Do not be found among prophets of doom and merchants of panic. When everyone else is discussing, problems provide solutions[2].

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[1] Romans 8:2
[2] Genesis 26:22

Change with Integrity

Change with Integrity

Change is inevitable, whether you like it or not. It's up to you to drive it  or it will drive you crazy! Not changing with the times will soon render you irrelevant. Change is intricately linked to your dream and how you get there. Consequently, between you and your dream is not only a chronological gap but also a transformation gap. What you experience in this gap, transforms you to fit the dream. Further, the more you learn, the more you change. If you are taking life lessons to heart, there is no way you will not change for the better.

However, one thing to remember: not all change is beneficial. Not all new ideas are good ideas. In the Bible, Abraham  was told by God to go to a place He would show him[1]. This made the leadership of God inseparable to the change in his life- as it does in yours. Before you effect change, identify the things that must remain unchanged. These core values will serve as anchors and campuses for navigating the maze of multiple change possibilities. When choices are complex and the climate foggy, you need the unchanging to turn to. God's timeless values and principles provide this kind of consistency. Just as  water remains water when poured into containers of varied shapes, change should happen without the danger of compromising your identity.

Change for the better always happens when we are obedient to God. Abraham obeyed God therefore his station and mission in life radically changed[2].  If you are hearing from God, something will change. God is a God of constant change and transformation. So don't despise change. In fact, the difference you want to make that has been elusive in the past, can be achieved if you add something new to what you do.

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[1] Genesis 12:1

[2] Genesis 12:1-2

The Tills Have Rung

The Tills Have Rung

The renowned Psalmist declares, ‘forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven[1]’ - nothing is still owing, or remaining. In other words, when God spoke, the tills in heaven rang to signal payment in full. Now receive what He has already spoken of you in His word so it becomes a reality on earth. That is why Jesus said we should pray, ‘thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven[2]’.

You see, Jesus came to grant you title, a right, and permit to all that God has already settled[3]. When buying at a drive through restaurant, your first stop requires you to choose your meal and pay. Here you receive a collection voucher, which you will hand over at the next stop in exchange for your order. In God, you are already at the collection point, freely able to present your voucher of faith in His word. Always remember that faith is your collection voucher for all your needs and benefits. Thankfully, God’s kingdom has no need for currency - only collection vouchers because Christ paid it all. However, you have to present every faith voucher for yourself by obedience and expectation.

Faith is action that translates potential to power, heavenly title to earthly possession, divinely ordinary to humanly extraordinary, spiritually natural to humanly supernatural, furthest to nearest, and hope to reality or experience. It is the coming to pass of God’s promise. To fully enjoy and experience God, we long to go beyond mere words to seeing Him come through in tangible ways. Our part is to daily, meet the condition of presenting collection vouchers. The tills have rung.

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[1] Psalm 119:89

[2] Mathew 6:10

[3] John 1:12

Giants Lived There

Giants Lived There

Obstacles. They stand between you and your dreams like hostile giants that hold everything you want in their hands. Overcoming these giants is the only way to your dream.

Whatever threatens your ability to reach your destiny is a giant that must be defeated. It may take the form of exams you must pass.  The hard work you must do. The difficult circumstances you are in that discourage you. The negative attitudes of people you must work with. The waiting time you must patiently endure. The capital you must raise. Whatever the case, you will have to dispossess some giant.  Fulfilled goals are in places where giants used to live.

In Bible-time, giants would not let the people of God pass through easily . You will also face stiff resistance. The Bible also records an old generation that did not see the promised land because they failed to trust God. However, as a new generation of God's people, you can displace the giants you face by faith, through prayer and appropriate action.

Remember this when you see the achievements of others - they had to contend with similar giants. They conquered even though they are just as human as you are. Look at the achievements you already hold. If you overcame in the past, you can overcome again. Please note, your most threatening obstacles are not external giants but those on the inside. These internal giants often require great perseverance and courage to slay. They come in the form of laziness, fear, doubt and sin - to name a few.

You might be asking... "Why does God not remove giants before I face or even see them?" Well, as proven time and time again, overcoming giants helps you to depend on God and know Him better. He wants to make you a giant killer - an over comer, just as He is . You cannot be one without ever killing some giants.  Victory is more valuable when you have participated in obtaining it.