Just As You Are

by Nkop Mmekeme & Araromi Afeh

"Come now, let us argue this out," says the Lord. "No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can remove it. I can make you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you are stained as red as crimson, I can make you as white as wool."  (Isaiah.1:18)

Think about this: the prodigal son returns home from a long stray, the father hugs and welcomes his son into his bosom irrespective of the fact that this son has squandered his resources, He welcomes this son as though there has been no record of wrong against him. The harsh demands for the claim to an inheritance forgotten, the image of the set jaw and face set taunt as a result of a decision: 'I have got to stand up to my dad if i have to get my claims.' is banished from the father's memories; replaced by the worrying of 'what may have become of my son', and the longing of 'only if i can just see him one more time.' If only i can hold him one more time, i will tell him he is forgiven and there is nothing to worry about. I will kiss him and assure him with an embrace that home is right here, that there is no need to stay away. If he refuses to believe and consent, I would gently and persistently entreat of him that my intentions are pure and genuine. And if he agrees i will throw a party to tell everyone that my dead son is alive again.

This is exactly how God waits for us to come into His arms each time we find ourselves outside His placement. We are most often haunted by the guilt of our past and this leaves doubt in our hearts as to our stand with God, and the devil capitalizes on this to further widen the apparent divide between us and God. Most times even when we have been forgiven, we do not forgive ourselves; as such we struggle with a feeling of unworthiness and the end product is that we drown ourselves again in the same sin for which we have been forgiven. The worst kind of pity is self-pity. Would you stop pitying yourself for a moment and listen to what God has said? Why do you dare to call unclean that which God has cleansed?

Today, if this is your experience, God is extending a helping hand to you, asking for a dialogue of reconciliation. He wants you to come to terms with the fact that He had paid the price for that sin you committed and He is waiting for you with open arms to return to His bosom. Heb.4:16 says, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." Stand up from the mire of your self-pity. Get washed by the pure water of God's word. and accept the righteousness of Christ Jesus. Irrespective of how deep you think you are swimming in the ocean of sin, He is waiting to say, "welcome home." Jesus is making a direct appeal to you today, saying He had to suffer all sorts of things here on earth, not for Himself but for you, for the sake of the love he has for you.

God knows that you cannot help yourself by yourself. "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly... But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" Rom.5:6, 8. All you need do is to let go of that sin that has plagued you all the while and run straight into his arms, where God is ready to heal and cleanse you out rightly and restore all that you have lost. He says, "Even if all your friends and loved ones have written you off and abandoned you, I still love and care so much about you. Come right now; come into my arms, just as you are.

  

Prayer: Dear Lord, I acknowledge you paid the price for my sins, and I pledge my allegiance once more to you who alone is able to preserve my soul and keep me from falling. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Further study: Luke15:11-32, Psalm 51.

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A Broken Spirit

By Nkop Mmekeme Asuquo

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."  Psalm 51:17 (KJV)

Chemists have been able to prove that the smaller the surface area of a solute particle, the faster the rate of reaction; and the larger the surface area, the slower the rate of reaction. Likewise, God responds faster to a heart that is broken before him in fear and reverence.

This entails becoming nothing before God by surrendering your totality to him, and until you become nothing before God, you are useless to him. Having a broken spirit before God simply means laying down every pride, throne, crown and all we possess, and reverencing God above all else in our lives.

He is not interested in how much sacrifice we can make for him in form of our gifts; be it money, time, strength and so on. All he requires from us when we come before him is the sacrifice of a broken spirit, through which he can bring to pass his perfect plans for creating us. The fulfillment of God’s creation plan is only possible in an atmosphere of brokenness. God is only concerned with the condition of your heart and not with your facial expression or physical gesticulations. The more broken a person is before God, the more attracted he is and the easier he penetrates to work out his good pleasure in such a vessel.

God chooses to show forth his glory in the most unexpected of situations; when the situation defies human solutions, and this is only wrought through vessels that are slain in the place of brokenness. We have seen vessels such as Moses, demonstrated in the crossing of the Red Sea; Esther, demonstrated in a personality transformation from an orphan to a queen which led to the eventual vindication of the Jews; and so many more examples as recorded in the bible and as we see in many of our patriarchs of faith today.

Today ,there is a clarion call to all Christians to return to the place of brokenness, that God may be able to wrought through us, great and mighty things all to his own good pleasure, and to the end that he may bring us into the place of glory where he had prepared for us (the church) before time.

Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to always remain in the place of brokenness, that your purposes for my life may continually be fulfilled, in Jesus name. Amen.

For Further study: Psalm 34:18, Esther 4:1-17

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• Expect the Best
• Stay Lighted
• Corrupt Gospel
• Welcome to the World of Boundless Possibilities

Expect The Best

By Araromi Afeh Asenah

One of the most powerful laws in this world, a law recognised alike by psychology and religion, namely: if a man changes his mental habits unto belief instead of unbelief, if that man learns to expect, not to doubt; then in doing so, he brings everything into the realm of possibility.

A famous psychologist, William James, once said: "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking IS THE ONE THING that insures the successful outcome of your venture" (emphasis mine). To learn to believe is of primary importance. It is the basic factor of succeeding in any undertaking. Simply believe the magic of believing then will you discover that if you expect the worst you will get the worst and if you expect the best you will get the best.

According to Norman Vincent Pearle, the great American motivational writer, speaker, and clergyman; positive results do not yield themselves to the person who refuses to give himself to the desired results. A major key to success in this life, at attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your job or any project in which you are engaged.

In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got. Give every bit of yourself. Hold nothing back for life cannot deny itself to the person who gives life his all. But most people, unfortunately, do not do this. In fact, why few people do- and this is a tragic cause of failure, or if not failure, then it- is the reason we only half attain.

For the next fourteen days, why not determine to train your mind to believe, align yourself to think positively; and along with that, do try to live right. Start each day with a plan of things to do, commit them to God and trust Him to see you through. Your faith should be accomplished with works. Do not just sit down. Go out and work on your plans albeit believing you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you, and that the footsteps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. Whenever doubt challenges you, whenever unbelief places the ball in your court; all you have to do is to confess these portions of scripture aloud till it overwhelms your consciousness.

Nobody would convince you with arguments that this principle works; for you would see remarkable changes in your life. Do not forget to check the archives of this blog for other life-changing articles. I love you. Jesus loves you much more. Expect the best always!

Stay Lighted

by Nkop Mmekeme

It is practically impossible for light to come on, except there is a source of ignition. The light source and the substrate upon which it acts exist as different entities, until they are bought together in some form. Except an electric bulb is excited with electricity, it doesn't glow.

We all existed at one point in our lives as dark entities until God showed us mercy by sending his son (1.Peter.2:9) to rescue us from darkness into light. God's desire is that we become carriers of light. He is the light and we are the substrates upon which the light is ignited; as our key scripture highlights, His intention is that He may be able to affect the world which has become dark and perverse. This He will perform through His ignition in our spirits. God's heartbeat is that we may be able to fulfill His divine mandate, which is reconciling the world to Himself.

He personally cannot do this, that is why He has given us His mandate in our various spheres of life (2.Corinthians.5:17-19). He does not expect us to be slack concerning this task of reconciling the world. He expects the world to be attracted to His light in us and eventually come to Him (Matthew.5:13-18).

Wherever we go, we must live in the consciousness that we are lighted to light the world and expell darkness, bringing men into the knowledge of God. It is our duty to keep a constant connection to our source of lighting which is the only way to remain lighted. Just like a disconnected electric bulb ceases to glow, so does a disconnected Christian cease to lighted. It were better not be a Christian, than to be a disconnected Christian. Get connected! Get lighted! And fulfill God's divine mandate by letting God light your candle(your spirit) on daily basis, with His word in the place of devotion to Him. This will guide you on how to live your life to fulfill God's eternal purpose.

You can also check out the following past articles:

Corrupt Gospel

Welcome to the World of Boundless Possibilities

Till my next blog, stayed lighted and remain in His presence. God bless you.

Corrupt Gospel

by Nkop Mmekeme

A man's character is a direct reflection of what goes on in his inside. Our behavior at every moment is such that passes a message, ranging from our looks, gestures, actions and reactions. It is pertinent to note that every one of the aforementioned takes its root from the mind, based on the inputs made to it at any moment. The mind unconsciously, and most times without our permission (especially when we don't take note) processes practically anything that comes to it. The result is seen in our behaviour.

As we carry out our daily endeavours, we should be conscious of the message we send to the minds of people, whether it is good or bad. The impact of such messages, is traceable to the influences on our hearts in form of inputs.

Every child of God carries a message and that message is the gospel of Christ. This gospel is beyond the one we preach or profess, it boils down to the character we possess. Our character preaches louder than the words we speak. Apostle Paul in one of his letters describes Christians as LIVING EPISTLES not written on tablets of stones, but on fleshy tablets (human hearts). This goes further to suggest that our lives as Christians should leave a positive impression on the hearts of people around us. Little wonder the Bible goes on to elucidate the fact that "we are the aroma of Christ: to those who are saved we are the smell of sweet perfume and those who are perishing, the sound of judgement."

Let's quickly remind ourselves that Christianity is not just another religion, but a LIFE IN GOD". Our lives is meant to be a sermon. What kind of message do you preach on daily basis is a rhetorical question we should ask ourselves. We have received the mind of Christ as we have come to understand, but the LIFE OF GOD doesn't seen to be absolutely reflected in us, because our gospel has been corrupted. Our environment today is polluted with a lot of negativity, and the influence of these negativity has gone a long way into corrupting our gospel.

Now, I seem to grasp the reason why scriptures say "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump". It is rather unfortunate that a child of God is trying to keep himself holy and at the end of the day, the things he sees on the public TV for examples, sows some form of negative influence on such lives, and in the long run corrupting the gospel we preach by our lifestyles. These influences comes in different very subtitle forms, ranging from music, pornography on the internet, wrong company and a whole lot. The effect is that it corrupts our heart with sinful thoughts and chokes Christ out of our minds, corrupting the eventual output of our hearts in form of our behavior, which must definitely be nothing to write hone about.

When the bible talks about "sleep", it is not physical, it has to do with the mind, it's about loosing consciousness of the influences that make inputs to your thought-life. These influences will either improve your gospel, or corrupt it in the long run. BE CAREFUL, guard your heart with all diligence, that your gospel be NOT CORRUPTED.

Welcome to our World...

Welcome to the World of Boundless Possibilities

Every human created of God has great potentials stored up on their insides. Our coming into the world is not and will never be an accident, even if our parents did not desire our conception at such moments. it is a well established truth that nothing happens without God's approval.

Let us also take cognisance of the fact that you can never be greater or better than you see yourself. We are here to introduce you to a world of BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITIES, where all your dreams can be brought to reality by the power of divinity. This goes further to stress the relevance of subscribing to divinity as the only means of living a SUPER LIFE.

it is true that the Creator has a perfect knowledge of His creatures. The greatest discovery a person can make is SELF-DISCOVERY. Living your dreams begins from self-discovery, and you cannot discover yourself and the boundless possibilities locked up in your inside, without identifying with your Creator. It is a working relationship with divinity that exposes you to your content from creation and the purpose for your creation in order that you may live your dreams.

Exploring these boundless possibilities starts with identifying your source and subscribing to Him for direction in life. Follow us, let's explore these possibilities together; we have the CLUES. All you have to do is visit this blog-site frequently or perhaps, daily for inspiring nuggets. Stay connected and be blessed, GOD loves you and so do we.