Thursday, December 12, 2013

TRUTH STILL TO LIVE BY AND TO PRACTICE IN 2015

LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ZACHARIAS
LUKE 1: 5-25

1.
USE SHAMGAR PRINICPLE TO DEAL WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE AND EVER REFUSE LET THE IMPOSSIBLE INTIMIDATE YOU.

REMEMBER SHAMGAR PRINCIPLE (LAW) - "DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE WHERE YOU ARE." - JUDGES 3:31.

ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND - JER. 32:27 & MAL. 3:6 AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER TO BALANCE MATT. 19:26 WITH LUKE 19:26.


2.
YOUR FAITH DOES NOT MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN - IT IS RATHER YOUR FAITH IN WHAT YOU SPEAK OR SAY THAT CAUSES THE VERY WORD OF GOD TO MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN.

THEREFORE, KEEP SPEAKING WORDS THAT ALIGN WITH HIS WILL - GOD IS PLANNING AND DOING SOMETHING BEYOND YOUR FAITH - JER. 29:11.


3.
GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR FAITH TO MOVE - HE IS ABSOLUTELY AND ALTOGETHER SOVEREIGN. YOU ONLY NEED TO ANCHOR YOUR FAITH IN HIS WORD (BELIEVE HIM AND BELIEVE HIS PROPHET) TO MOVE HIM TO ACTION.

HENCE, EVEN WHEN YOUR FAITH STOPS WORKING, GOD WILL USE THE ELEMENT CALLED 'TIME' AS LONG AS IN FAITH YOU ARE WAITING ON HIM. (HAB. 2:3)


4.
STOP LOOKING BACK AND AROUND. LEARN TO FACE YOUR TOMORROW WITHOUT THE FEARS OF YESTERDAY - MATT. 6: 25-34.


5.
MAN MUST COOPERATE WITH GOD BY OBEYING A DIVINE INSTRUCTION TO RECIEVE A MIRACLE. MAGIC ACTS WITHOUT MAN'S WILL OR COOPERATION BUT NOT MIRACLE.

REMEMBER GOD DID NOT BLESS THE LIKES OF ABRAHAM AND ZACHARIAS VIA THEIR REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS BUT BY HIS RESSURECTION POWER WHEN THEY OBEYED AND PERFORMED THE INSTRUCTION ON FRUITFULNESS GIVEN TO THEM.

6.
NOTHING CAN STOP YOUR MIRACLE WHEN IT IS DUE. DUE MIRACLE IS SO POWERFUL SUCH THAT YOU MUST REAP YOUR HARVEST IN DUE TIME AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE IT.


7.
WHEN ALL APPEAR TO BE TOO LATE - REMEMBER:

A) NEVER FORGET THAT THINGS CAN STILL CHANGE IN A DAY IF YOUR DON'T GIVE UP.

B) YOUR DELAY HAS TO DO WITH DIVINE APPOINTMENT IF YOUR A TRUELY HIS CHILD.

C) YOUR DELAY OFTEN IS THE WAY GOD TAKES CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY.

HENCE, THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR YOU TO BE HEALED, DELIVERED, RECOVERED, GIVEN AN OPEN DOOR, GET A MASSIVE CATCH ON YOUR NET - AS LONG AS YOU SURRENDER IN BY FAITH IN HOPE.

MANDELA LEGACY - A 5 FINGER RULE: OUGHT IT NOT TO BE A TRUE CHRIST-LIKE LEGACY ???

MANDELA LEGACY - A 5 FINGER RULE: OUGHT IT NOT TO BE A TRUE CHRIST-LIKE LEGACY ???

1. If You have never first STRUGGLED with unforgiveness as You encounter Your Offender or the offense, then You can neither truly begin the process of true healing nor true forgiveness.

2. If You never in one moment feel that You have forgiven Your offender and in the next moment or next occasion (when encoun...tering the Offender or Offense) gripped again with the pains of the offense, then the PROCESS for Your healing from that offense has never ever begun.

3. If You cannot REMEMBER all the pain You've gone through while still finding PEACE within Yourself in the ensuing moments, or days, or weeks, or month or even years when You encounter the Offender even if he or she does not upsets You again, You have not truly forgiven the Offender and You are not truly healed of the Offense.

4. If You cannot truly pray for Your Offender or about the offense without bitterness or resentment or the desire for vengeance, then You are still mired in unforgiveness and ungodliness.

5. To truly forgive is to become Christ-like: knowing that the Offender and the Offense have NO POWER over You and that ONLY Your Reaction gives the Offender or Offense POWER over You even the Destructive Power of Unforgiveness and Resentment.

So, until Your conscience is void of offense towards all, the rottenness of bitterness still resides within You. And that, is bound to manifest one way or the other (including as a physical destructive disease or sickness of self or community-society-nation) sooner or later.

In sum, No One has any other option in life but to forgive the Offender and the Offense.

Submitted by: The Ven. Professor M. Josiah-Omeokwe
The Bronx, NY
USA.