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Preparing for Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Victory in the Ultimate Days

To experience peace, we must first win all battles. The enemy is always engaging us in battles known and unknown. We need the Holy Spirit to help us fight these wars. To receive divine intelligence, we must position ourselves in God’s presence where we can avail of the high-speed download of information when analyzed provides strategies to defeat the enemy before they even think of striking. Satan is angrier these days and persistently looks for every soul that he can cast into the pit of hell. Hence the urgency to stay ahead of the enemy if we want to enter the kingdom of GOD.

We live in the ultimate days of earth, tumultuous times. It is not a time of peace and safety, but sudden destruction (1Thessalonians 5:3). As God’s people, we must be sober, vigilant (1 Peter 5:8), and walk as wise while remaining girded for war in the heavens because our battles are always spiritual (Ephesians 6:10-18). God promised to fight for us, but we must know when there is a battle and call on Him for help. Today, God’s people must pray 7 times daily and praise equally. Satan has overtaken many of us through laziness, worldliness, idleness, sleep, drunkenness, envy, and greed. Rise God’s people because a storm is coming, a storm that is likened to no other. We must prepare our minds, bodies, and souls to be transformed to God’s kingdom.

There is a work for everyone to do. We must diligently labor to guard our souls and labor for the souls of others. Let us love each other as children of God because, without brotherly love, we will not see the face of God (1 John 4:7-21). Let us cast off the heavyweights of malice, hate, covetousness, strife, self-righteousness, bitterness, unforgiveness, and lawlessness, and cry out to God. He willingly forgives the repentant heart that confesses and turns away from all iniquity (1 John 1:9). Those who profess to love Christ must crucify themselves daily and be willing to bear the cross of Christ as He did for us. Let us start by spending one prayerful hour daily with God just sitting in His presence and allowing Him to lead and direct our days. We will forget ourselves as our hearts become sensitive to God’s voice through reading His word and applying it to our hearts. God gives us wisdom to make excellent decisions in every area of our lives.

God is calling a special group of people; modern-day Enoch, Elijah, Esther, Daniel, and Deborah to stand up for Him. He wants to give us greater power than witnessed on Earth. These days beg it. Jesus said that we would do a greater work than He did (John 14:11-12), and He did everything; raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out demons, get money from a fish’s mouth, turn water into wine, and multiply the food that fed multitudes. The days of amazing, divine impossibilities and amazing are here! Let us tap into the high-voltage powerhouse of God, where our spirits will charge with spiritual explosions in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to finish the work of the Lord in our time!

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A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD & TEACH THEM

Have you listened to your child lately? I would advise you to do so more often because children are smart, authentic, resilient, daring, funny, kind, loving and have the innate ability to spot a fake person. They will go nowhere near them. We all have inner child instincts that warn us when we are in danger. However, we often cannot notice and this results in serious consequences for everyone involved. Do not ignore your children instead, listen to what they have to say because they have valuable insights and perspectives on things that might puzzle you. Sometimes you get a good laugh out of it too. I remember years ago when I was thinking of buying my first car I  discussed it with my cousin on the phone. There was a very popular furniture store that was giving away cars as a promotion. Her son, three years old, said mom tell auntie to go there and they will give her a car. It changed the tone of the conversation because we could not stop laughing.

The power of touch

 Back in the day when Jesus was on earth, everyone wanted to be touched by Him because His touch was magnetic. It unleashed the healing power that flowed through Him, resulting in impactful healings. Mothers brought their children to Him to experience the power of that touch. The disciples shooed them away because they viewed them as nuisances. However, Jesus rebuked them and called the children unto Him and blessed them. I am sure they were happy kids right there after that experience because they sat on the knees of the king of kings and Lord of Lord while experiencing His power flowing through them.

(Matthew 19:13-14)

Profound Words

This week I had a great disappointment, and I wrestled with God about it because it should not have worked out that way. My frustration mounted as I contemplated the next steps. However, I turned up for my voluntary work at 5:00 a.m. the next day because I wanted to be there for the people who needed me.  The last person I spoke to was very young and deeply troubled. I spent the rest of my shift with him, which was an hour. We spoke, and I encouraged him while pouring empathy, compassion, and love into his wounds. After what seemed like an eternity, he started speaking positively. His first sentence was I am feeling better, you’re the first person who made me feel important. I felt humbled knowing that God used me to save one of his children. We continued talking on a much lighter note with him, even poking fun at me. He had lost his childlikeness and now it was restored.  Towards the end of our talk, we agreed on goals and he thanked me. Then he said these words, “ I know people like us, we help others because we can’t help ourselves. I want you to know that if you need help, it is available”. It choked me up!  This child had received grace because I took the time to care and, in his gratitude, he extended grace to me, too. 

Children Need Love

Children need love, hence their parents should nurture and love them. Many of our children are wandering around lost and hopeless because we are shirking our godly duties. Do not become so caught up in the business of life that you like the disciples view your children as an unwelcome distraction to your life but see them as a beautiful gift from God. Please parent spend time with your children today, talking and listening twice as much to them. Show them empathy, love, and patience. Fill their lives with joy, laughter, hugs and kisses today!

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A JOYFUL HEART LOVES OTHERS

A joyful heart is like medicine. ( Proverbs 17:22)

Our hearts are intricate organs that sit at the center of our chests. They keep us alive daily by pumping blood throughout our bodies as our heart beats. It sends blood, which provides oxygen and nutrients to every part of the body while carrying away unwanted carbon dioxide and waste products. (NHSInform.Scot).

A happy and joyful heart is like medicine. We must agree with the Psalmist David that we are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139.4). We serve a God who took the time to ensure that He gives us everything that we need in our bodies to function and live a healthy life. From our lungs that give us the air we breathe, our digestive organs that provide nourishment from the food we eat and our excretory organs, which play a vital role in removing toxic wastes from our bodies. We would not exist for long without the function of our hearts. Hence, we cannot help but serve God with a heart of gratitude, appreciation, thankfulness, and love. 

We were given this amazing gift of life, therefore; it behoves us to think about what our hearts go through daily to sustain us. To show our appreciation, we should take it easy on our hearts by being kind to others. God gave us hearts to love and cherish each other, not to destroy them with cruel hate, bitterness and unforgiveness. When we are nasty, mean, unforgiving and unkind, we not only hurt other people’s hearts but ours too. Because the heart is the seat of all emotions, unhealthy thoughts place undue stress on our hearts, and they literally become hardened and restrict the flow of blood, which can cause blockages and result in death and disability. 

Let us choose to forgive the way God has forgiven because to those of us who were given more of us, more is expected, especially those of us who are believers. Our lives are unhappy because we do not love the way God asks us to love Him with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves (Luke 10:27). Let your heart be at the center of everything you do. Serve with joy and gladness. This makes our hearts happier, and a happy heart means a longer life. Since you have it in your power to protect your heart, why don’t you adopt a gentler approach when dealing with others? After all, we are one in Christ and there is no segregation, discrimination, or annihilation. He is a God of love, justice, and equity for all His children, which includes you, me, and everyone on this planet.  He created us to be a community to help those who are helpless, poor, needy, anxious, afraid, or lost their way. Let us emulate the love of God in our lives today and let others see your heart in everything you do. 

I challenge you today to give someone a giant hug today. It could be a spouse, friend, family member or just a total stranger. Let your heart touch someone else’s heart today and let them feel that life force of abundant love flowing from your heart to theirs.

As you contemplate your life and God’s plans for you. May you find love, hope and encouragement in the words of this old hymn below, which I believed were spoken directly by God to Horatius Bonar in 1861 as he marvelled and reflected on GOD and the wonder of His love for us.

O love of God, how strong and true!

Eternal, and yet ever new:

Uncomprehended and unbought,

Beyond all knowledge and all thought

O love of God, how deep and great!

Far deeper than man’s deepest hate;

Self-fed, self kindled, like the light,

Changeless, eternal, infinite.

O wide embracing, wondrous love!

We read thee in the sky above,

We read thee in the earth below,

In seas that swell, and streams that flow.

O love of God, how strong and true!

We read thee best in Him who came

To bear for us the cross of shame:

Sent by the Father from on high,

Our life to live, our death to die.

PICTURE OF TRUE LOVE