Merry Christmas...

Love was given in the person of Jesus Christ. An everlasting gift! A demonstration of God's grace.
Christmas have definitely become very commercialized but so too are the other Christian celebration such as Easter. We need to be focus on the biblical reasons. We needed a saviour and he was sent to us. He probably wasn't born in December, but he was born!
Let's celebrate God's greatest gift. I will definitely be going to church to praise and honour Him like every Sunday and then be a blessing to people. I will have dinner with family as we commemorate His birth. I will also share the holy communion with our congregation as well as with family members.
I pray that you and your family have a blessed Christmas.

Much love in Christ,

James.

Overloaded?

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." 

Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJV)

An airplane can only carry a certain amount of weight. Overloading the plane can cause serious problem and may even result in a disaster. Like a plane, we can only carry a certain amount of weight. The bible tells us to lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily weighed down and hinders us from running and winning the race.

Too many people are overloaded. They are overloaded with worry, fear, anger, offense, unforgiveness, discouragement, strife, bad relationships and past sins. They have too much baggage and that is causing them to be ineffective and they are not able to run and soar in life.

Overloaded people fail. They will fail in marriage, ministry, in their family, career and in whatever dreams they have. It is not God's will for us to fail. He wants us to succeed in every area of life. He has provided within His words the power to see us through every circumstances of life.

Release the load that is holding you back and obstructing and delaying you from your destiny. Let go of the past hurts, disappointments and traumas. Stop blaming others and stop living to the expectation of others. Rather get in line with God's word and repent from any sins and be free from everything that is keeping you bound and run friend run till you soar in life like an eagle over all the storms of life.

Every plane must land for check up before taking off again. Check yourself today. Is their any load that is not worth carrying? Let it go!

Take an inventory of your life. Pray for wisdom to recognize what is causing your loss and take the courage to rectify and write off things that are excess baggage. Move beyond your regrets and mistakes. It's time to fly.

"Pride leads to destruction; humility leads to honor." 

Proverbs 18:12 (CEV).

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time." 

1 Peter 5:6

"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." 

James 4: 10

Power of Love

Love is one thing that can help us survive the storms of life.

Love will sustain us through the most difficult journeys of our life. 

Love is powerful, strong and forces every other power to succumb to its feet. 

 

 

 

1 John 4:8

⁸ "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." (NIV)

 Love is a person – God is love.

The Holy Spirit is really the only true source of Holy love (Romans 5:5)

Love is the badge of true Christianity (1 John 4:19-21).

You and I will be judged by the love expressed toward God…and towards others.

If you do not discern true love around you, you will alienate good people and embrace evil people.

If we fail to grow the love nature of the Holy Spirit, we will become a well of anger, a volcano of poison, and a carrier of spiritual cancer… into our home, our job and our church.

Remember that the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness , temperance :against such there is no law” (Galatians 5:22-23).

In this journey of life, disappointment and injustice may be inevitable and offenses cannot be stopped.

But only one weapon is capable of defusing the deadly poison of Satan…the weapon of love.

You can only conquer through understanding the awesome power of Holy Love.

So choose today to walk in love...forget your past!

(Some points courtesy of M.Murdock - Special thanks to my daughter, Karen Arekion who helped me word this document)

Satan's limitation

⁴⁴ "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44 (NIV)

¹⁴ "And it is no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light." 2 Corinthians 11:14 (AMP)

Satan is the father of lies and the master of disguise.
God Himself has put limitation on Satan.

Satan was originally an angel - an anointed cherub . He is a creature and not a creator. He was Lucifer meaning star of the morning but when iniquity was found in him, he was kicked out of heaven and brought the fall of a third of the angels and he became Satan, the prince of darkness. God created Lucifer as one of the highest angel in God’s angelic kingdom. (Scripture reference: Ezekiel 28:12-19; Isaiah 14:12-14: Luke 10:19: )


The lies that Satan wants you to believe such as is:
He is omnipresent
He is omniscient
He is omnipotent
He is none of the above!


He was a created being and has limitations.
He cannot be present everywhere - Rev. 2: 12-13
7 dwelling places of Satan recorded in the bible:
1. Third heaven - Isa. 14: 12-14
2. Garden of Eden - Gen. 3: 1-6
3. Walking the earth - Job 1:7, 2:2
4. 2nd heaven - Eph. 2 :2
5. Cast to the earth - Rev. 12:9
6. Bottomless pit - Rev. 20:1
7. Lake of fire - Rev. 20:10
Footnote: There are three heavens (2 Cor. 12:1-7 and God dwells in the third heaven)

He is not omniscient - all knowing.
If that was the case then why did he tell Herod where baby Jesus was? (Matt. 2:16)

He is not omnipotent - We have been given power and authority over him (Luke 10: 19)

God created Lucifer with limitations.
One of his duty was to lead choir, praise and worship, in the presence of God.
He was created with tambourines, flute and harps.
However, an orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Lucifer had the string section (harps), he had the percussion (tambourines) and the woodwind (flutes) but he didn't have the brass (trumpets).
(Scripture references: Ezek. 28:13 and Isa. 14:11)

The sound of the trumpet broke the walls of Jericho - Joshua 6:1-7


Its by the sound of the trumpet that the church will be raptured - 1 Cor. 15: 52


You and I as believer need to blow the trumpet of prayer and praise in order to defeat him.

Paul and Silas defeated Python when they begun to praise God and the foundation of the prison was shaken.
Acts 16: 16-34...

"And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house."

to be continued

Praise elevates us into God’s presence and power

Praise and worship is probably one of the most important aspect of the Christian walk. It is through praise and worship that we draw near to God. 

Psalm 100:4 says that we enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise.

Psalms 22 says he that He inhabits the praises of His people. 

In the old testament people worshiped at Jerusalem in the temple. When Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well He told her that the hour had come when all worshipers must worship the Father in spirit and in truth and that the Father even sought such worshipers (John 21-24).  

With this in mind, we would like to invite you and your family to join us as we lift our voices to praise and worship our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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