Inspiring the world
Dreams can come true
Lions can become silent
Mountains can melt
Thunders can become mute
Dreams can come true
The lame can walk
The depressed can experience joy
The impossible can become possible
Scorpions can be trampled upon
Snakes can die by fire
Wolves can be tamed
Life can become joyful once again
Dreams can come true
Only by the power of God
That silences thunders
And melts great mountains
“He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” (Revelation 22:11 NKJV)
And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work (Revelation 22:12 NKJV)
All you weary
And discouraged
Groaning and laboring
In the fields of love
The Lord says
‘Put off the filthy garments
Of weariness and discouragement
Keep on doing good
Because
At the fullness of time
There is a great reward
For the righteous.’
Children of light
Keep marching and never give up
There is great peace
In showing love
It might be painful
It might be hard
Never give up
Because love is the only way
And it is a very narrow
Road
Filled with thorns and thistles
With golden pathways
Stretching up into heaven
May we never give up
And firmly cling to Christ
And His love
Climbing up an annoying hill
On my way
From the grocery store
At plumstead, Greenwich
With heavy loads on both hands
I became angry
Because my husband had lost his job
And the fury rolled in
Bit by bit
Piling up into a heap
On my weary, discouraged mind
My frozen, clammy hands were aching
And I was so tired
And sleepy from exhaustion
A tear slipped down to my yellow scarf
Wrapped around my neck
To protect me from the freezing cold
“Mummy what’s wrong,”
My head swung towards my
Four year old daughter
Lily
“Nothing princess,
Mummy is just tired.”
As I said the word tired
I lost my balance on
The slippery slope
And found myself rolling down the hill
And I heard a piecing cry
“Mummy!”
The heart wrenching cry broke my heart
And it caused me more pain
Than the physical pain
Tearing and searing at me
From various angles
Like a wicked destructive storm
That ravages without mercy
I tried to get up
But I was in pain
As a nurse,
I knew I had injured my ankle
And knee
A while later
As the ambulance drove
Me away
And I watched my princess crying
And sobbing
I realized that
I had been ungrateful
I had so many things to
Be grateful about
But I had ignored them
So many blessings
But I had chosen to be ungrateful
And I counted my loss
And Peter’s loss
My husband Peter is amazing and loving
My job very refreshing
And rewarding
My daughter, a delight
And an Angel
My health was perfect
But I had forgotten
And counted my loss
“Gratitude is a choice Lucy,”
I said to myself
‘Never forget that.”
I was in pain
But somehow
I found the courage
To sing praises to the Lord
And a great peace like never before
Flooded my soul
Even in the midst of trial
And pain.
From my balcony
I watch you
Staring into space
Wasting away your days
Drowning in alcohol
Everyday I see you
Miserable and feeling sorry
For yourself
Why, child of destiny?
Why are you so defeated ?
Stand up golden child
And untie yourself
From the dirty cords
Of self pity
I can see a great destiny
Written by the Almighty
For you
Rise and shine
Reject self pity
And hopelessness
Hopelessness and self pity
Are for the cowardly
And unbelieving
They are not for the children
Of God
The Lord hates cowardice
But rewards the brave
Rise up
To big and difficult tasks
Take the reigns
Of faith and bravery
And claim your destiny
Reject self pity and fear
And keep walking
In the journey of life
Keep on moving
And don’t stop
Because life is a journey
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: (1 Peter 4:10 ESV)
Stewards of grace
Custodians of His light
Ransomed to be
The light of the world
May we never
Disgrace the grace
Of God
Or drive people away from
The light
Because of our actions
May the bride of Christ
Not hurt
Those they should protect
Because of error
God of all grace
Crown us
With the fullness
Of your grace
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. ” (1 Peter 5:5 ESV)
Humility
Our beautiful and handsome clock
Despised by men
But highly loved by God
In humility Jesus won
In humility Moses was victorious
In humility Paul was
In complete submission
Words cannot tell
Enough about the
Benefits of humility
Who can look down
On you precious virtue
O pretty one
Only the sons of darkness
And the unwise
We will embrace
You humility
Fruit of light
And the foundation
Of Obedience
We will cherish you
The way Jesus did
Because God opposes the proud
But gives grace to
The humble
finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:10 NKJV)
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5:17 NKJV)
Knowing God’s will and how to please Him is the ultimate way to live the life in the Spirit. Without knowledge of what pleases God, we will not know how to worship Him. God sent His son to show us the way to His heart.
If we make it our goal to find out what pleases the Lord, we will know Him. Knowing Him will in turn make us do great exploits for Him.
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 “God, 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.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:11 NKJV)
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13 NKJV)
It is important to note that this scripture says, those who ask. It did not say those who wish or desire. Desire is very good and we must start with desire, however we must verbalise our desire by asking. We must formally present our desire to God in prayer.
I indeed baptise you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire. (Matthew 3:11 NKJV)
God wants us to get to that point where we realise that without him we can do nothing. This is the place complete surrender and absolute dependence and reliance on God.
We need the Holy Spirit more than air and oxygen, and that realisation is actually great wisdom. Wisdom however comes from God.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. (James 1:5 NKJV)
God will keep leading us step by step until we get to that place where we treasure Christ’s Spirit like the hidden treasure in the parables of Jesus. When that man stumbled upon the hidden treasure he forsook all else for the sake of hidden treasure.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field (Matthew 13:44 NKJV)
The Holy Spirit is the one who makes the Kingdom of heaven manifest or visible on earth. He makes you experience the tangible presence of God with heavenly visions and dreams.
Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is within us. All we need is to ask God for good things and the greatest good thing is the Holy Spirit and fire.