My Prayer for you

Psalm 20

¹ May the Lord answer you when you are in distress;
    may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
² May he send you help from the sanctuary
    and grant you support from Zion.
³ May he remember all your sacrifices
    and accept your burnt offerings.
⁴ May he give you the desire of your heart
    and make all your plans succeed.
⁵ May we shout for joy over your victory
    and lift up our banners in the name of our God.

May the Lord grant all your requests.

⁶ Now this I know:
    The Lord gives victory to his anointed.
He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary
    with the victorious power of his right hand.
⁷ Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
    but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸ They are brought to their knees and fall,
    but we rise up and stand firm.
⁹ Lord, give victory to the king!
    Answer us when we call!

Love is a seed. (I Corinthians 13:1-13)

Love is a seed. (I Corinthians 13:1-13)

I love you. I love you so much. I love you with all my heart. I love you to bits… How many times have you heard those words? Uncountable times I guess. Are they true? Yes some are genuinely true to a large extent. Between one extreme to the other, there was a time such love did not exist. There was a time it became so intense and hot. Also there might be a time it would fade away. So we have heard someone loves somebody to bits today only to rescind those words and even hate the other intensely like Amnon hated Tamar whom he proclaimed to love earlier.

2Samuel 13:15

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

What happened? Nothing. It is just that love is a seed. It needs to be discovered, planted, cultured and nurtured. Then it will grow up to an acorn tree. Otherwise it could go undiscovered, unused and wasted.

1Samuel 18:1

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

Before David and Jonathan met we did not hear about their love for each other. As soon as David appeared before Jonathan’s father (Saul), the seed of love was sown. They both nurtured and culture it until it blossomed. It became so strong that even in death, David and Jonathan were still one. In other words, the forces of love took over and the effect was compelling.

Songs of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

I Corinthians 13 list some characteristics of love. They include endurance, generosity, faith, trust and ability to grow. We could place our love against this checklist and see if it tallies well. Jesus Christ can help you to activate true love today in your heart if you give him a chance. He would literally pour tons of love seed in your heart to enable you fulfil God’s purpose, that is you destiny. Like Paul said this tiny seed of love is even in your heart now, and it can grow if you agree with your creator.

Romans 5:5

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Any love that is genuine will wait when waiting is necessary. It will endure the test of time.

Love also gives. In fact love that has nothing to give has to be examined critically to be sure it is love.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

True love is disciplined that it would not be jealous, envious, selfish or devilish. True love is others-ward. True love will think of others first. It prefers others to itself. According to the Lord Jesus Christ in John 13. That is love at its best.

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Today someone has to think on sowing the seed of love. Sow the seed of love in someone’s life. Nurture it as well and watch it grow. That is when you are fulfilling the laws of God and of nature. Good enough God’s word has declared in Genesis 8 that seed time and harvest time will never cease. Sowing the seed of love has to be forever. Keep sowing love and you will reap love along the line. God bless you.

Everybody’s language (Psalm 19:1-14)

Everybody’s language (Psalm 19:1-14)

The biblical account of language formation is that before the incident of the tower of Babel, the whole world spoke one language.

Genesis 11:1

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

This should not be difficult to believe because up till now nature still speaks only one language and everybody understands it. Whatever language you speak, don’t you understand when the sun sets and the stars appear in the sky? Do you not guess correctly what if on the other hand it suddenly becomes dark at noon with gentle breeze rocking the trees and the thunder roars from the sky? What language do they speak? How come you understand? Even when the next person is African and you are Irish, both of you know exactly what to do when nature speaks because you perfectly understand.

Psalm 19:2

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

We cannot overemphasis arguments of biblical creation. Look at the order in the universe. Examine the complexity of some of the tiniest parts like the DNA. It wouldn’t look like the result of haphazard collaboration of chance. Does it? No, it is more the handiwork of an intelligent creator.

Psalm 14:1

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalm 19 only declares what everybody takes for granted. The heavens, the sky, the sun, the moon etc., we call them by different names according to our languages but we understand perfectly what they stand for and what they do. We feel their absence and we can tell heir importance.

Genesis 8:22

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

In their universal languages, they point to this intelligent creator - God. Or do you think they speak of chemical reactions? I think they demonstrate intelligence, purpose and order.

Isaiah 45:5

I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? 11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

People can put up arguments, scientists can perform experiments and make observations and arrive at conclusions. The wisest conclusion will identify the finger that wrote the lines and the mind that taught the elements their universal language. The element of the earth speak distinctly about God’s laws, testimony, statute and commandments. If we imbibe his referential fear we avoid his judgement. All these are clearly written upon the universe and the starkest illiterate can read it. Can you understand the language of the universe?

John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

Observe them, believe them, obey them and it shall be well with you. God bless.

The windows of God on earth (2 Kings 7:1-16)

The windows of God on earth (2 Kings 7:1-16)

How does God work out his miracles? How does he accomplish promises and prophesies? Messages of God’s exploits and blessings can only be given ‘as you see it’.

Psalms 118:23

This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

And to be candid, no two God’s miracles are the same. So the perspective today is from God’s providence on the earth.

Haggai 2:7

And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

The passage we read was a continuation of a long history of famine and suffering is Samaria. The city was besieged by their enemies making it difficult to do their normal daily business. Obviously, their reserved provisions at home got finished hence their suffering. When the matter got to the king, his reaction was to avenge his anger on the man of God. At that point, God spoke through his servant that there would be a sudden release of abundance.

2Kings 7:1

Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

By the power of God behind that passage, I decree a sudden release of abundance upon your life in the name of Jesus. It might be helpful to remind you that God owns both the heaven and the earth. He doesn’t need to create something in a hurry in order to fulfil his will. He has everything in abundance, and that on this earth.

Psalm 50:7

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

To the secular mind, this is nonsense. So the high chief confronted the man of God.

But God has his windows on earth already. None of the provisions we receive drop from the sky. They are on earth but heaven decrees the direction they should go.

Proverbs 23:4

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

May heaven direct abundant blessings to you in the name of Jesus. All we are advised to do is to believe God and his prophet and it shall be well in Jesus name.

2Chronicles 20:20

And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

God bless you.