If I Still Pleased Men

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ (Galatians 1:10 NKJV)

What a wonder it is

To rise above

The approval of men

To rest in

And to desire

The approval of God

The true mark of deadness

To the flesh

Is when we

Stop being men pleasers

And become God pleasers

Those who strive to please men

Are not pleasing God

They are pleasing themselves

And their ego

With the comfort

And satisfaction

That comes from the

Admiration and approval of men

We must search within us

To constantly evaluate

Whom we are pleading

Men or God

May we reject the pleasures

And ways of the world

In order to rest

In the arms

Of God’s love

Amen

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Fully Pleasing To Him

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being

fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. (Colossians 1:9 – 1:10 NKJV)

We live to know Him

And please Him.

This is why we

Were created

Boundless joy

Is the promise

That will be experienced

By those

Who strive to please

Him in at all times

Circumstances and events

Must never be the

Obstacle that will

Prevent us from

Pleasing Him

Completely

May God fill us

With grace

To know Him

And please Him fully

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Our Greatest Quest

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; (Ephesians 4:13 NKJV)

When we truly

Know the son of God

His Word

And His ways

And walk in them

We can grow into Him

And be like him

In character and works

The fullness of Christ

Is our inheritance

Knowing Him

Is to live in Him

Walk in Him

Breathe in Him

Move in Him

Knowing Him must always

Translate into Christlike

Character, not just words.

Knowing Him means

Pleasing Him always

Our greatest quest

Should be

To know Him in word and deeds

 

 

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Great Man Of War

Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15 NKJV)

He fought
He won
He made a mockery
Of death and the grave
The mighty One
Is a warrior
A great man of war
He fights evil
He defeats evil
He loves righteousness
Thank you Jesus
For you alone defeated death
And set us free

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The Golden Rule

Love does no harm to a neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilment of the law (Romans 13:10 NKJV)

Love is so precious, yet so rare. Because of our fallen nature, selfishness reigns. A lot of people who profess love do it with lip service. The word of God has not sunk deep enough into the heart in order to constantly bear the fruit of love.

Love is so indispensable and we cannot thrive as human beings if we do not love one another. Any harm we do to another human being is done directly against God – the creator.

Whatever we do to the least of our fellow human is done to God. Any good we do to another person is a personal love offered to God himself.

And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ (Matthew 25:40 NKJV)

And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. (Luke 6:31 NKJV)

Jesus said we should to others what we want them to do to us. We must never cause another human pain or harm in any form. It might seam like a joke but remember that God said that calling a fellow human a fool can lead to hell fire.

You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder,a] and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgement.’ 22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a causeb] shall be in danger of the judgement. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire. (Matthew 5, 21-22)

 

All we owe to one another is love and the only thing we owe to God is love which translates into love of neighbour and pure worship of God.

Pure worship means following the pattern of worship prescribed in the New Testament. The whole counsel of the word of God must be accepted and practised.

In our worship of God we must keep away from any form of worship that Jesus and Paul did not practice.

False worship is worship of demons and underneath the innocence of external objects like holy water, holy oil, alters, mantles and miracle handkerchief lies shedding of innocent blood which is the foundation that has given demonic power to those objects. God does not live in temples made by human hands.

For as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:

TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24 â€œGod, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. (Acts 17, 23 – 25)

God does not live in a bottle of oil – oil is simply a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Oil can never be holy, holiness is an attribute of God and belongs to God alone not man made materials.

If we claim to love our neighbour and engage in false worship, we deceive ourselves. If you have doubts, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the foundation of those practices and you will be shocked.

No matter how much good you do if you are in a religion or church that worships idols, you are guilty of blood. The blood shedding involved in idol worship is greater than all the good you think you have done combined seven fold.

John the apostle of love spoke at length about love in first John and at the end he advised us to keep away from idols. Idol is the opposite of love because they get their power from human blood.

They are powerless and are nothing without human blood, that is why Paul said that an idol stands for something that does not exist. Worship of idol is worship and love of witchcraft and human blood – it is terrible and highly destructive in an invincible manner.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. (1 John 5:21 NKJV)

We must never harm our neighbors by our actions and idol worship.

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Deeper

 

 

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Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen (Revelation 1:7 NKJV)

This is a deeper level of Christs indwelling presence. It is an experiential knowledge of Christ when His glory fills the temple.

Our hearts are the temples of the Holy Spirit and God wants to
fill the temple with his glory or manifest presence.

It is only desire, holiness and worship that will accomplish this. The Lord is calling us deeper.

He wants us to spend time waiting upon Him and seeking His face. His greatest desire is intimacy with Him. He wants us to experience Him and taste Him. His Love and mercy is what he wants to feed us with.

This will in turn produce all the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord is calling us deeper into Himself and His life giving presence.

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I Roam The Streets

I Roam the streets

Begging for food

I am lowly

And despised

But I was not always like this

I mingled with the wrong crowd

Who introduced me to poison

To cope with life

And the drugs took over

I am ravaged

I am helpless

I am sick

Please do not despise me

I need help

When you see me

Or another me


Help me

Or say a silent prayer

For me

Or another me

But please don’t despise me

Because I already

Hate what I have become

 

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Revelation of The Bridegroom 


We have known Jesus as our father, brother, saviour, friend, healer and counsellor but not as a bridegroom. We need to know Him as the bridegroom so that we can delight and rejoice in Him. When the Holy Spirit comes upon us and we become one in union with Him then we know Him as the bridegroom.

This kind of knowledge is an experiential knowledge like when a wife knows her husband and experiences intimacy with him.


When we know Jesus as our bridegroom, we taste Him, touch Him and He touches us. We become very intimate with him and we will love him so much that we constantly strive to please him in everything.

Pleasing him becomes our joy and happiness and we will no longer struggle to please him. Just as it is natural for a bride to delight in her husband and please him, the experiential brides of Christ will constantly delight in and rejoice in Him. They become enraptured in Him and will do great exploits.

Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits (Daniel 11:32 NKJV)

We need a revelation of Jesus as our bridegroom and that revelation is the sweetest revelation of all because with that revelation comes ability to fulfil our God ordained assignments.

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