We can enter the next year filled with new direction and hope. Here are some ways that you can step into all that God has for you. 1. Forgiveness  This is the way to the Lord's heart. This is one of the most incredible gifts that the Lord has given us – the ability to forgive. Before New Year's Eve comes, spend some time in prayer, forgiving the people who have hurt you. Send them a nice message, love on them. God will honor you for that. He knows how hurt you've been and He knows your heart. You will see changes in your life immediately. Forgiveness doesn't mean that people won't reap the consequences of their mistakes, it means that your heart will be free to love again. Luke 6:36-37 ESV Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. 2. See yourself the way God sees you. Ask the Lord in prayer to reveal to you how incredible you are in His...

The Quasi-Christian I'm total believer sound reason and logical deduction in argumentative thinking. For some good period of time I sought the answer to the question, WHY? Why Christianity? Why salvation? Why Jesus Christ? Why the bible? And at times why God? I think Christianity and the bible answered these queries quite well in a large part and whatever grey areas that may remain, I attribute that to my lack of objectivity and not the lack of clarity in the Word of God and teachings of Christ Jesus. My next question whose answer I've sought is HOW? Here lies the most complex part of the journey. This part is ordinarily supposed to be answered by the Christian persona. However, they are of two kinds. The Christian in the Bible in the form of Peter, Paul, John, Cornelius, Timothy and the other apostles and saints. The other is the contemporary Christian. This one is confusing. He has a million lives. He's a Catholic who thinks he's infallible; He is a Lutheran who ...

Another fallacy I find amongst Christians  This, I've been thinking about for quite a long time and as such I went to dig deep into the Bible to try and find out why we, Christian practice it. My conclusion? Churchianity again. The word Mighty or powerful in the context of spirituality are supposed to describe God. It's one of the many traits of God. These two words however, have been regularly and severally misused and misplaced in the manner they are used and on whom they are used. I have watched movies and read articles and documentaries in which certain characters are referred to as Mighty prophets or might men of God and wondered where the idea of men taking the descriptions 5reserved for God came from. Today, most Christians refer to the servants of God as either mighty or powerful without giving those descriptions a second thought – as if it were just normal. As I went through the bible I failed to find a place where a servant of God was referred to as mighty. Fro...

OFFERINGS AND GIVINGS.. Offerings and giving or offertory as they're called in other places, is one of the most controversial subjects in the Christian religion . Agnostics, apostates, apologetics, clergy and the general public (Christian believers) don't seem to agree on how and why it should be done. I don't wish to delve so much into HOW. I want to concentrate my energies on WHY. There's a notion generally held in the contemporary Christian community that offerings are a means of getting God's blessings. Nothing can be further from the truth. Offerings are a requirement of the law of God. Offertory is a sign of obedience to God's law and not a conduit to His blessings. Blessings are a consequence of overall obedience the Law of God.   Offerings are a form  of worship and we don't worship God so that He blesses us; we worship Him because He's God and He has commanded that we do so. The second and third commandments... 2 "I am Yahweh your God, w...

PRAYING THE CORRECT WAY Prayer is basically conversation with God. How then do you do it in a way that pleases Him? Many people, I have come to realise- and regrettably so- pray with the aim of getting themselves in the good books with God so that He can do what they want. How then should we talk with God and share our concerns, fears, and pleas? I don't think it is correct to make demands and, or  glorify oneself before God. It wouldn't feel correct to do that before a friend let alone before God. The Bible teaches a lot about prayer, including Jesus’ words on how to pray (The Lord’s Prayer - Matthew 6:9-13). Jesus shared with his disciples, a parable that speaks directly to my question. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector Luke cp 18, the doctor-cum-disciple writes a story told by Jesus about two men who both prayed to God, and how they were each received by the Father. 9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were ri...