RAISING DISCIPLES FOR WORLD OUTREACH

 KEY TO DIVINE FULFILMENT IT IS THESE WHO HAVE NOT DEFILED THEMSELVES WITH WOMEN, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb, - Revelation 14:4. Today, there are varied susceptible sins that trapped men. Sin accounted for man's fall and inability to grow in the grace of God.  However, in recent time, great men of avouched glory. rising stars, men with great goal and exceptional visions has been buried in the lap of women.  Sex has become so cheap that money is not a necessary factor to contract it.  The doors of immorality has been widely opened to us as LEADERS and rising stars. Indecent dressings ladies flocking around. The pitiable ladies who needed to be counseled. A married woman facing brutal domestic abuse. An helpless lady who needed academic support, etc. The doors to contract this disease is unimaginably widely opened.  Seriously, I conjecture that an...

 *Judas Test*  _"If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God" (Ps. 55:12-14)._ Betrayal is one of the most difficult tests that we will ever face because it involves being wounded by someone we trust. It's hard not to become bitter when a friend or family member wounds us. It takes a lot of Christ-like grace to forgive a traitor. You have probably faced the Judas Test yourself. Every day you and I work in a marketplace that is rife with betrayal, deception, duplicity, and treachery. Perhaps you have been betrayed by your boss or a coworker. Or perhaps somebody betrayed a confidence or stabbed you in the back. It may have even been someone you've gone to church with or prayed with - someone you trusted as a brother in Christ. The Judas kiss sting...

 A SCARY GLORY Also before the throne there was something that looked like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In front of the throne and on each side of it there were four living beings. They had eyes all over them, in front and in back. [7] The first living being was like a lion. The second was like a bull. The third had a face like a man. The fourth was like a flying eagle. [8] Each of these four living beings had six wings. They were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day and night they never stopped saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God All-Powerful. He always was, he is, and he is coming." [9] These living beings were giving glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, the one who lives forever and ever... Revelation 4:6-9 Imagine the description of these living beings:  1. look like lion 2. look like a bull 3. a face like a man (an exception to the other three) 4. look like a flying eagle More so, they all 1. Has six wings each 2. were co...

 LIVING WITHOUT STRESS They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.  We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 1 John 4:5-6 Recently, I was discussing with my wife on various Christian principles against the deviations to those principles that we are witnessing in the church today. We cited a church or two whose congregations haven't surge in the past 10 years or more of their establishment. Of course, these are the finest Christian congregations around with sound biblical principles. But they aren't growing in population. What is/was their sin(s) or errors? It is simply that they are adhering strictly to the Biblical principles. For instance, in those congregations, there is no seasonal adult or children harvest where thousands of money are raised and syphoned from people's purse in the name of greater blessings...

  In the matter of clothing and jewelry, there are guidelines that apply to all believers, men as well as women. A first principle is expense. How much do we spend on clothes? Is it all necessary? Could the money be spent in better ways? First Timothy 2:9 forbids expensive clothes: “not with … costly clothing.” It is not a matter of whether or not we can afford them. It is sin for a Christian to spend money on expensive clothes, because God’s word forbids it. Compassion forbids it too. The desperate plight of our neighbors in other lands, their enormous spiritual and physical needs, point up the callousness of spending money unnecessarily on clothing. This applies not only to the quality of the clothes we buy but to the quantity as well. The closets of some Christians look like branch clothing stores. Often as they travel on vacation, a rod stretched over the back seat of the car holds an array of dresses, shirts, and suits that rivals the samples of a traveling clothing salesman. ...

 YOUR APPOINTED TIME IS NOW And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: AND THE POWER OF THE LORD WAS PRESENT TO HEAL THEM. Luke 5:17 "Who touched me?" Jesus asked. Everyone denied it, and Peter said, "Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you." But Jesus said, "Someone deliberately touched me, FOR I FELT HEALING POWER GO OUT FROM ME." Luke 8:45-46. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. FOR AN ANGEL OF THE LORD WENT DOWN AT CERTAIN SEASON INTO THE POOL, AND TROUBLED THE WATER: WHOSOEVER THEN FIRST AFTER THE TROUBLING OF THE WATER STEPPED IN WAS MADE WHOLE OF WHATSOEVER DISEASE HE HAD. John 5:2-4 The three pas...

 MEET ME IN GALILEE... AN INDISPENSABLE ENCOUNTER TO SUSTAIN THE RESURRECTED LIFE. Jesus's resurrection from death has become an undisputable divine truth in human history. An attempt to stand antithetical is just a stubborn decision and fruitless efforts. More so, every believers in Christ must experience this form of resurrection from the dead work. Indeed, we must passed from death to life (John 5.24) Meanwhile, when Jesus rose from the dead, he instructed His disciples to meet Him at Galilee.  There wouldn't have been any need for other meeting after resurrection if such were not of utmost importance to us and our continuity in the race of life.  Matthew 28:16-20 KJV Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND EARTH. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them...

  WHEN YOU BREAK YOUR VISION Meanwhile, Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon, a man who had previously had leprosy. While he was eating, a woman came in with a beautiful alabaster jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume over his head. Some of those at the table were indignant. “Why waste such expensive perfume?” they asked. “It could have been sold for a year’s wages and the money given to the poor!” So they scolded her harshly.  Mark 14:3‭-‬5. The woman here took what was precious unto her and what was sufficient to pay a year's wages, broke and pour it on Jesus's head. It was so expensive that most of those around took offense in such audacious act. Presumably, each of them kept hidden what was precious to them somewhere.  Don't forget, it was this indignation that led Judas Iscariot (one of Jesus's disciples) to aligned with the religious leaders to betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.   Do you...

 EVEN SO... THEY WOULD NOT TAKE WARNING.  Do as they ask, but solemnly warn them about the way a king will reign over them." So Samuel passed on the LORD's warning to the people who were asking him for a king.  This is how a king will reign over you," Samuel said. "The king will draft your sons and assign them to his chariots and his charioteers, making them run before his chariots.  Some will be generals and captains in his army, some will be forced to plow in his fields and harvest his crops, and some will make his weapons and chariot equipment.  The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.  He will take away the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his own officials.  He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it among his officers and attendants.  He will take your male and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle and...

 MUST I GO AN EMPTY-HANDED?  Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors  until THE TIME APPOINTED OF THE FATHER. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:  But when THE FULNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. Galatians 4:1-4 Everything in life has their time and season of fruitfulness. Things are fundamentally makes beautiful in their own time. Once the appointed season and time of certain things expire, it starts experiencing decay and wastage. A pregnant woman expects her delivery on or few days before the ninth month. Any single day(s) after this appointed time is characterised by worrying, anxiety and fears.  We sometimes missed our  appointed time and season, opportunity and greatness in life because we couldn't recognise our appointed time of visitation (Luke...