Health & Prosperity

3 John 1:2 - "Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.."

Prosperity with health is a great gain. God delights in our well and never wants us to be sick our suffer any lack in out lives. Yes, He sometimes allows them to bring correction or to take us to a new level of faith and blessing and in all these He wants us to know that He is the source of all provision - Our Mighty Provider and Our Might Healer.

We face challenges when we move our focus from the Creator to His created things. So How does God prosper His people? The answer is God “blesses you materially as your soul prospers on His Word. God’s plan is for us to grow financially as we grow spiritually.” The reason: God “knows it is dangerous to put great wealth into the hands of someone who is too spiritually immature to handle it.”

God’s Word is full of promises and principles concerning our physical health. That’s why, if we want to be healthy every day of our lives, we cannot be ignorant of the Word and all that it has to say—nor disobedient to it. David asks the question in Psalm 34:12—“What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?” The answer he gives is in verses 11, 13-14: “Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.... Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”

Let's make every effort to grow spiritually so that we prosper in every area of our life.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

My Rock And My Fortress

Psalms 18:2-"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."

The Lord is my rock - The idea in this expression, is that we owe our safety entirely to God. He had been unto us as a rock, a tower, a buckler, etc. The word "rock" here has reference to the fact that in times of danger a lofty rock would be sought as a place of safety, or that men would fly to it to escape from their enemies. Such rocks become places of refuge in times of danger; and protection is often found there when it could not be found in the plains below.

He has been to us as a fortress. The word fortress means a place of defense, a place so strengthened that an enemy could not approach it, or where one would be safe. Such fortresses were often constructed on the rocks or on hills, where those who fled there would be doubly safe.

And my deliverer - Delivering or rescuing us from my enemies. My God in whom we have found all that is implied in the idea of "God" - a Protector, Helper, Friend, Father, Saviour. The notion or idea of a "God" is different from all other ideas, and David had found, as the Christian now does, all that is implied in that idea, in Yahweh, the living God.

And the horn of my salvation - The "horn" is to animals the means of their defense. Their strength lies in the horn. Hence, we owe our protection and defense in danger.

Let's take refuge in God who is our strength, our protector, our defender and our rock and our fortress.

Have A Blessed Day!

God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

I'm Forgiven

Jeremiah 31:34 - "And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord, ’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

There's an old saying: "To err is human, to forgive divine." That's true. We all sin and we all need to be forgiven, and the Bible says, "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" - Romans 5:8.

He loves us so much that he sacrificed his life to forgive us for our sins, even those that we repeat again and again. And we may think that it's so easy to take advantage of God's love. In Romans, Paul confronts such thinking: "Should we sin because we are not ruled by law but by God's grace? Not at all! Don't you know that when you give yourselves to obey someone you become that person's slave? You can be slaves of sin. Then you will die. Or you can be slaves who obey God. Then you will live a godly life" - Romans 6:15-16.

The choices that we make in our lives determines the continuity of blessings of God over our lives. And even after knowing our behaviour is wrong and continually opting for wrong over right is choosing to turn our back on God. And that's a dangerous place to remain in. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth" - Romans 1:18 and "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." - Hebrews 10:31

Let's remember that we are alive and forgiven by the grace of God and the finished work of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on the cross.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

Irrevocable

Romans 11:29 - "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."

God never changes his mind when he gives gifts or calls someone and they are under full warranty – never canceled, never rescinded.

We can run from our calling or abuse our gifts. We can make stupid choices that limit our effectiveness. We can be distracted by the world or rejected by the church, deceived by the devil or pursued by trivia. But our dead ends or detours haven’t changed our gifts and calling. Our gifts and calling are first and foremost means to be with Jesus. They are gateways to spiritual intimacy first – then avenues of spiritual power.

Nobody deserves or earns grace gifts – and that’s what all gifts and callings are. They are tangible expressions of the goodness and unmerited favor of God. We don’t interview for gifts or calling. We receive them when we believe the gospel and receive Christ as our Lord.

Every believer has to find out what their gift is and the only one who knows where we will best be used is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. If we never spend time praying and seeking God about our place in the body of Christ, we are robbing ourself as well as the kingdom God of a great blessing.

"Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers." - 1 Timothy 4:14

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

A Pure Heart

Jeremiah 24:7 - "I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart."

God has given us a good heart and its our responsibility to keep it pure and undefiled. 

So, how does our heart get undefiled? 
The answer is in (Mathew 15:18-20) - "But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

We are what we we think and say we are! "A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of." - (Mathew 6:45)

In the Jesus's "parable of the sower," those with a good "heart" were like seed planted in good soil:"But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." (Luke 8:15)

Paul expounded on the virtues of a "pure heart" that has been purged of carnal behavior:"If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." (2 Timothy 2:21-22)

Let's strive towards living a righteous life, keeping our hearts pure from all the filthiness in this world. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." - (Mathew 5:8)

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

Steadfast Love

Lamentations 3:22-23 - "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

The reason we were created is to love and serve Him. So our mere existence is because of His great love. There's one thing we can count on: the steadfast love of the Lord. Just as certain as the sun will rise in the morning, we can trust and know that his strong love and tender mercies will greet us anew each day.

The beauty of this concept is that He loves us just as we are and we cannot ignore this truth in our lives - He loves us just the way we are, no matter if we have gone astray and wandered away from His love and got into a shell thinking that the multitude of our sins can overshadow His love, then we are certainly wrong because His loves covers all our sins as He has already paid the price with His very life on the cross.

He is always there ready with His outstretched arms to receive (accept, embrace) us.

Let's give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His love endures forever.

Have a Blessed Day!

God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

The Good Shepherd

John 10:11 - "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

Why would such a great God die for worthless sinners like us? Why would he do that? Is it because we are good? I don’t think so. We cannot find any other reason than love, his genuine love and compassion for us. And Jesus died for us in order to pay off the debt for all our sins. Jesus didn’t accidently die, like many great people. The hands of men crucified him, and yet it wasn’t because he was too weak to resist against those who crucified him that died. Jesus intended to die for our sins. He died in order to pay off the debt of all our sins, so that we might be forgiven, healed and restored to have eternal life. Although we know our parents and many loved us, they couldn’t die for our sins. But Jesus is the good shepherd because he laid down his life for us.

How wonderful it is to know that we are fully known by God who also laid down his life for us. He didn’t die helplessly. He didn’t remain dead. He rose again from the dead and gave us eternal life. And now he is living within those who believe in him. Sometimes, we feel that we are walking through the valley of the shadow of death all by ourselves. No one seems to understands. But we should never let worry take control over us because we are not alone. Our good shepherd is always on our side. He deeply cares for each of us.

So as you fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you: Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly. And do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock. Then when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that never fades away - (1 Peter 5:1-4)

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

Divine Guidance

Psalms 73:24 - "You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory."

He is our divine guide and has placed various signposts in our lives which should enable us to walk in His way and reach every goal that we have set in our lives. He loves us therefore He is ever ready to guide us, counsel (advice) us and show us the things that we ought to do. - "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you." - Psalms 32:8 

Where do we go for counsel/guidance? Do we go with the knowledge of this world or may be take counsel from the experienced/intellect? We serve an Omniscient God, who know us before we were even formed in our mother's womb - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." - Jeremiah 1:5.  Only a creator has the full knowledge of his created things and the God who has formed us and breathed life into us knows everything about us - past, present and future, He knows us more than we know about ourselves, He knows the paths that we'll take in future, the mistakes we will make and yet He loves us!

Let's ask the Holy Spirit to intervene into our lives, for He is our mighty Counsellor, Comforter and Helper who will guide us to the truth and enable us to live our lives powerfully in this world, fulfilling our plans and dreams thereby bringing glory to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

Peace of God

Isaiah 26:12 - "LORD, you will grant us peace; all we have accomplished is really from you."

We are what we are today not because of our efforts but because of His love, grace and tender mercies upon our lives. It is God who has enabled us to achieve everything in our lives. So our mind is never at war because God has released His peace upon us.

The mind and heart of a person undergoes constant and strenuous conflicts with regards to one’s living conditions so that the basic necessities of the life is met which are food, clothing and shelter which are also interrelated. The world drifts our focus from the creator to the created things of God stealing the glory that completely belongs to God and that is what many Christians today are seeking after, the things that can imitate taking the place of His peace and leading them into a life of emptiness, rebellion, strife and dissatisfaction. And Paul says in Philippians 4:6-7 - "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Its time for us to come out of the shell of worldly thinking/desires/understanding & standards and move into the presence of God by setting our heart and mind on the things above so that we receive (walk in ) His peace.

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

The Restorer

Zechariah 9:12 - "Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double."

It is not over until God says it’s over! No matter how dark our life may look, with Christ our future is bright. Our God is a God of restoration! He is a God of new things. A new life, a new beginning, new covenant, new hearts, and new way of doing things. Because he is a God of new things there is always hope and future. There is joy and peace. Listen what the Scripture says, “I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD” Jeremiah 30: 17.

Let's open our heart for God’s healing who is a master craftsman. He specializes in taking what is not and creating what is. He is in the business of restoring hopes, broken dreams, wounded spirits, troubled minds, and hopeless lives.

Does our situation seems hopeless, dim, broken, beyond repair and without luster, only God can restore and make it new. There is nothing beyond his power of restoration. God can restore, and God can forgive, and God can take a broken vessel and remake and refashion all over again. He will give us peace and hope. He will give us meaning to our life. He will satisfy us and make us whole.

Let's allow him to restore us lovingly, and we will never be the same again.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

God of Hope

Jeremiah 17:17 - "Lord, don’t terrorize me! You alone are my hope in the day of disaster."

We need put our hope in God always because only He can rescue us (set us free /save us) from the snares of the enemy.

We need to cast all our burdens unto Him for He cares for us and took all our burden and shame upon the cross to set us free from every form (or kind) of captivity (stronghold). 

We don't have to wait for situations or circumstances to take control over our lives, we just have to bring it (submit it) before God and He will not only handle our situations better but also provide us the strength and wisdom required at that point of time.

"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." - Romans 15:13


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Every Day With Jesus

Unconditional Love

Lamentations 3:22-23 - "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

God loves us with an unconditional love unlike mankind where the love is usually conditional, we offer to help/love only those who love us and are good to us, such love is a selfish love. God wants us to love Him unconditionally because He loves us unconditionally and expects us to imitate Him in all the walks of our lives which means our attitude towards God and others should change and we need to look at (or approach) others with selfless love.

The present condition of the world is in chaos, we see love of money and power dominating and influencing the lives of people. Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 - "But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self- control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power."

Let's ask God to fill us with His love and power so that we can carry the same to the world and make a difference. For His love never ceases and His mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning and great is His faithfulness.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus 

Mighty Warrior

Jeremiah 20:11 - "But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonour will never be forgotten."

We serve a powerful God. A dread warrior, mighty terrible one who created the heaven and the earth, created us and has all the powers to destroy (wipe out) the enemy completely. As we believe (trust & hope) in Him, we do have access to His great and mighty power.

He is our fortress, our mighty shield, our refuge, our stronghold and everything that has comes against us should encounter Him first before reaching us and this means that we are forever safe as long as we are rooted and grounded in Him - "no weapon that is fashioned (formed) against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord." - Isaiah 54:17

He can make impossible things possible for us and He can turn situations/circumstances favourable to us. - "What is impossible with man is possible with God." - Luke 18:27

Let's overcome every thought that holds us captive and move in His mighty love and protection over our lives.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

My Redeemer Lives

Job 19:25 - "I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth."

A great song to start our day - My Redeemer Lives....
Yes, our redeemer is alive and He is ever more powerful to rescue us and watch upon us and indeed bless us everyday.

Are we heavily burdened, barely able to carry on with life? Then its time to bring it on before God - "casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." - 1 Peter 5:7

Let's declare and claim the below words over our lives and expect God to move powerfully and change our lives.

- I know that my Redeemer lives and He lives -

- to save eternally

- to bless me with His love

- to plead for me above

- to feed my hungry soul

- to help in time of need
- to grant me rich supply

- to guide me with His eye
- to comfort me when faint
- to silence all my fears
- to wipe away my tears
- to calm my troubled heart
- to impart all blessings

- to take me with Him for eternity

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

The Lord Saves

Psalms 55:16 - "But I call to God, and the Lord saves me."

We call Him Savior because He saves. He saves our lives and saves us from every wickedness in this world and from every attacks of the enemy. From the very time Jesus was born, He was know as the savior of all mankind, that's His nature (character) and His desire is that none of us should perish.

No matter what situations (or circumstances) we go through, no matter how deep is our pit or how dark our world is, He can still save us. He bore our sins (failures) on the cross and now He is our 'Risen Savior' - Immanuel God who is with us always and who uphold us with His righteous right hand.

And to enjoy His supremacy over our lives we need to call Him (connect with Him), not just when we sail through rough waves but always, at all times. "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall." V.22

Let's make God the primary focus of our lives so that in Him, with Him and through Him we can get on the mountaintop of victory and enjoy our life in Jesus Christ.

Have A Blessed Day!

God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

Godly Peace

Colossians 3:2 - "Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth."

The Christian living is a call towards His peace. And how does His peace come?

God’s peace comes when we set our mind (and heart) on the things above, and not on earthly things.

The mind and heart of a person undergoes constant and strenuous conflicts with regards to one’s living conditions so that the basic necessities of the life is met which are food, clothing and shelter which are also interrelated. The world drifts our focus from the creator to the created things of God stealing the glory that completely belongs to God (Is. 48:11b) and that is what many Christians today are seeking after, the things that can imitate taking the place of His peace and leading them into a life of emptiness, rebellion, strife and dissatisfaction.

How does our mind & heart get dragged to the earthly things?
Paul tells, “that those who live according to the sinful nature have their mind set on what nature desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on the things above (God)” (Rom.8:5).

Our Lord knew about the worldly circumstances that we will be encountering in our lives and that is why He said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you, I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled” (John 14:27).
And Jesus Christ is the Lord of peace and He himself gives us peace in all times and in everyway (2 Thes.3:16). The peace of God transcends all our understanding and guards our heart and mind in Christ Jesus (Phil.4:7).

Let's come out of the shell of worldly thinking/desires/understanding & standards and move into the presence of God by setting our heart and mind on the things above so that we receive (walk in ) His peace. “Let the peace of Christ rule in your heart & mind, since as members of one body you were called to peace and be thankful” (Col.3:15)

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Every Day With Jesus

The Latter Rain

James 5:7 - "Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain."

The phrase 'former rain' is used in the Spring, and the 'latter Rain' denotes the autumn. The early rains prepare the soil for the seed sowing we see the farmers doing each and every year in the early Spring. Then, later in the year we see the latter rains ripen their crop for the coming harvest in the Fall.

We had the former rain during the ministry of Jesus Christ on earth followed by His disciples. And the latter rain is promised during Autumn so as to equip God's obedient children with the necessary skills to proclaim the present truth far and wide so as to assure a mighty harvest for the Lord when He returns seeking His bride.

It's time for us to realise and prepare for the second coming of Lord Jesus Christ, the time is running out and some of us have either got lot of things on their hands and some yet to prepare for the latter rain. Let's ask the Holy Spirit to quicken our hearts (ways) so that we are ready as His bride waiting for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus

Alpha and Omega

Revelation 1:8 - "I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Among the Jewish rabbis, it was common to use the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet to denote the whole of anything, from beginning to end. Jesus as the beginning and end of all things is a reference to no one but the true God. This statement of eternality could apply only to God.

One of the meanings of Jesus being the “Alpha and Omega” is that He was at the beginning of all things and will be at the end. It is like saying, He always existed and will always exist. It was Christ, as second Person of the Trinity, who brought about the creation: “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” - John 1:3 and His Second Coming will be the beginning of the end of creation- 2 Peter 3:10. As God incarnate, He has no beginning, nor will He have any end with respect to time, being from everlasting to everlasting.

We are called to live as warriors and conquerors in this world and let's believe it and walk in His victory as His children - Revelations 21:6-7 - "And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son."

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God Bless

Every Day With Jesus