Shut up, God! Is the word we say without even realizing that we say it. Shut up, God! Let me have my way. How often have you made a resolution and you find yourself going back on that resolution? At that moment in time, you are saying, shut up, God! I want to have my […]
Shut up, God! — TREMG
How life writes its own story?
My vomit –
The ejected matter of my life,
Is been taken by another man!
How I wonder within me:
Vomit a woman several times,
There is always a man somewhere
Ready to gulp her down his throat!
True to the rumors,
Life grows in her and baby is born.
Yet, her mama died!
Thank God for the baby,
Her life would have been empty.
Several times over,
Have I try to purge her,
But my weakness fails me.
If life have not written its story,
Who would have claimed the baby?
Can the baby be truly mine?
…the baby of my vomit,
A baby after a story has ended.
How I wish not that the time is true.
Hopefully, though …
(15th September 2011)
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The Second Coming of Jesus Christ Life Hack
[The Ten Virgins as Case Study]
Ten virgins were waiting for the bridegroom to come. They were waiting to go with the bridegroom to the wedding banquet. It took a long time for the bridegroom to come. All the virgins fell asleep!
Virgins signify purity, sanctification, holiness and love. The virgins represent the chosen and expectant Christians, who are waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ. They are pure, sanctified, holy and loving.
All the ten virgins had the above qualifications. They all reasonably assumed that with all the qualifications, it would be automatic for them to welcome the bridegroom.
Yet, of the ten virgins, five virgins were wise and five virgins were foolish.
The wise virgins eventually made it with the bridegroom to the wedding banquet. The foolish virgins did not make it. They failed, despite their qualifications.
Lessons from the five wise Virgins:
• They were ready:
They have all the qualifications: Purity, sanctification, holiness and love. They were qualified and ready to welcome the bridegroom. Thus, they were qualification-wise ready.
• They were expectant:
They were waiting anxiously for the bridegroom. They were very sure that the bridegroom would come.
• They were alive Spiritually:
They kept their lamp burning. They kept themselves in the light while they were waiting.
• They prepared themselves for any eventuality while waiting:
They kept extra oil! The extra oil would keep them from burning out. The oil of anointing would sustain their fire of Holy Spirit and therefore keep them in perpetual divine light.
• They were focused on their expectation:
Their expectation was the coming of the bridegroom. They were so wedding-banquet conscious. The bridegroom was the only way through whom they could get there. His coming was life and eternal joy for them.
• They readily prepared to avoid hindrances:
They had seen the end from the beginning. Thus, they considered all the likely hindrances and prepared to avoid them.
• Though they slept, they were alert spiritually:
They could hear the announcement that the bridegroom had come, though they were sleeping. Their bodies were sleeping, but their spirits were alive!
• They planned from the beginning to welcome the bridegroom:
They had studied about waiting and they understood the importance of preparation. They were knowledgeable that fire won’t burn forever. The oil needed to be renewed to keep the fire burning.
Lessons from the five foolish Virgins:
• They were also ready:
They had all it takes to welcome the bridegroom and therefore go with him to the wedding banquet.
• They were careless while waiting:
They did not prepare for eventualities. They were not with extra oil. They take necessary things lightly.
• They were expectant:
They were also sure that the bridegroom would come. They too were expecting him anxiously.
• They were alive spiritually:
They too kept their lamps burning. They were also in the light while they were waiting.
• They eventually slept spiritually:
Though they trimmed their lamps as soon as they woke up, their lamps were already going out! The fire of the Holy Spirit in them was waning and there was no extra oil of anointing to sustain the fire.
• They became distracted by the absence of oil and light:
They needed oil to lit their lamps. They knew that they could not welcome the bridegroom in a state of lamplessness.
• Their focus was changed:
They became shifted from where they were watching and waiting. They went out to look for oil to buy. At that moment, their focus was shifted from the bridegroom to we-must-get-oil-to-buy!
• They put hindrances on their own path:
They also saw the end from the beginning. But they did not prepare for any eventuality. They were very okay with their qualifications.
They were ignorant of hindrances, and they eventually perish in their ignorance.
• They planned to fail from the beginning:
They had no plan. They were careless of their lamps. They were clueless of the importance of preparation.
The Life Hack:
While we are waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ, the Bible tells us to Keep watch, because we do not know the day or the hour.
Thus, while we watch and wait steadfastly in holiness, love, sanctification and purity:
• We should renew our anointing constantly through daily fellowship with God.
• We should sustain the Holy Spirit in us through holy living.
Reference: Matthew 25: 1-13.
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Why do you have to speak in tongues?
• Speaking in tongues is one of the evidence of Holy Spirit baptism. (Acts 2: 1-4)
• It is a sign to the unbelievers. (Acts 2: 8, 1 Corinthians 14: 22)
• It is one of the signs that will accompany those who believe. (Mark 16: 17)
The most important evidence of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the change that occurs in men and women. We all experience a change when we receive Holy Spirit baptism.
• Saul became a new person and began to prophecy. (1 Samuel 10: 6)
• Fearful Peter became bold. He courageously preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. (Acts 2: 14-41)
5 reasons some people are baptized in the Holy Spirit: though they bear fruit of the Holy Spirit, they don’t speak in tongues.
• Some are afraid to receive the Holy Spirit baptism.
• Some don’t even ask for it.
• Some don’t want the stigma that is often attached to people who are known to speak in tongues.
• Some listen to Satan. Satan tells them they’re making up the words that come out of their mouth!
• Some don’t believe in it to receive it.
• Some have been taught that it is not biblical.
Satan has chosen Speaking in tongues of all other gifts to discredit it. And some people seem to get all upset when they see others speaking in tongues.
Act 2:4: Says: “All spoke in tongues. “
It means that God purposely sent the gift and made them available to us because He wants us to have it!
This point out that there must be something very valuable in speaking in tongues.
12 Values of Speaking in Tongues:
• When we speak in tongues, we speak secrets and mysteries unto God. Speaking in tongues is a spiritual language that Satan cannot understand. (1Corinthians 14:2)
• When we pray in tongues, we edify ourselves and build ourselves up spiritually and also build up our faith. (Jude :20, 21)
• When we speak in tongues, we are conscious of the fact that God lives in us. (1 Corinthians 14: 4)
• When we speak in tongues, we are prophesying great things over our own lives. It is a great way to “Call things that be not as if they are.” (Roman 14: 17)
• When we pray in tongues, it is a way to pray accurately when we don’t know how to pray as we ought. (Roman 8: 26,27)
• When we pray in tongues, it enables us to pray much, even when our minds are tired. (1 Thessalonica 5: 17, Ephesians 6: 18)
• Speaking in tongues allows us to pray for things an situations we don’t know about. And people we don’t know about and certainly don’t know how to pray for.
• Speaking in tongues strengthens our relationship with God.
• Speaking in tongues helps us to train our Spirits to hear the voice of God and to operate in the other gifts of the Holy Spirit.
• Speaking in tongues is a spiritual gift to help others and edifies others when translated.
• Speaking in tongues refreshes our Spirits and our minds. And we can receive power from God.
• Speaking in tongues helps God get control of our tongues.
We should encourage people to speak in tongues and not forbid them through our actions and teachings. (1 Corinthians 14: 39)
Holy Spirit gives ability to speak out. (Acts 2: 4)
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