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Open Reward.

Luke 6:4-5(AKJV)

That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which

sees in secret Himself shall REWARD YOU OPENLY.

The Omniscient nature of God is quite a mystery since itreflects the Greatness of His power, which itself is hard

to COMPREHEND. Most of us have probably heard or

been taught that angels report to God the things that

they see happening in the world, and as true as that is,

God doesn't need angels to report for Him to know

because there is really nothing hidden in His sight. The

bible says "NOTHING IN ALL CREATION IS HIDDEN

FROM GOD'S SIGHT. EVERYTHING IS UNCOVERED AND

LAID BARE BEFORE THE EYES of Him to whom we must

give account."(Hebrews 4:13), meaning that there is

really nothing that one can HIDE from God. He searches

the minds and the hearts, He understands the

intentions and the motives and that is how we are

judged before God, by OUR MOTIVES, Paul puts it this

way "He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness

and WILL EXPOSE THE MOTIVES OF THE HEART."(1

Corinthians 4:5).

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In the world you find people who do GOOD for their

society, for their communities however with wrong

MOTIVES, the so-called SECRET AGENDAS and that is

why we who have been saved from the perishing world,

have also been given LOVE by God as Paul says

"...GOD'S LOVE has been poured out into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit"(Romans 5:5). God desires that

our intentions should be sorely based on LOVE for

others, He desires that we are COMPELLED by LOVE

just as much as Jesus was, since He made us to be

conformed to Him (Romans 8:29). The opening

scripture calls God, "the Father which SEES in SECRET",

unlike our natural fathers, God knows the GOOD things

and the BAD things we do without us having to tell Him

about them. That is why it doesn't make sense to boast

before God; why boast to someone who knows exactly

what it is you did and WHY YOU DID IT. The parable

about the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is a very GOOD

example of this, the Pharisee says "God, I thank you

that I am not like other peoplerobbers, evildoers,

adulterersor even like this tax collector. I fast twice aweek and give a tenth of all I get."(Luke 18:11), the

Pharisee thought he was just before God but Jesus says

"I tell you that this man (the tax collector), rather than

the other (the Pharisee), went home JUSTIFIED before

God."(Luke 18:14).

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The point of these things is to understand that whatever

we do for God both openly and in secret, God sees, so

that there really is no need for us to go out announcing

what we have done for God - unless God commands us

to. Whatever GOOD things we do for God out of LOVE

He never forgets, the Hebrew writer writes "for God is

not unjust TO FORGET YOUR WORK AND LABOR OF

LOVE which you have shown toward His

name..."(Hebrews 6:10). Let us look at Jesus, He would

go out healing people and doing all these GOOD DEEDS

but He would often say to those He ministered God's

LOVE to "SEE THAT YOU DON'T TELL ANYONE. But go,

show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses

commanded, as a testimony to them."(Matthew 8:4),

He had some understanding of the ways of HUMILITY. It

appears that it is a spiritual law, that whatever we do

for God in secret He REWARDS us in public, OPENLY, for

everyone to see since Jesus said it. If it is so then why

don't we try and see if it is TRUE, but IT IS TRUE, why?

Let's look at it. Paul says something too powerful to

Timothy, he says "the sins of some are obvious,reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins

of others trail behind them. In the same way, GOOD

DEEDS ARE OBVIOUS, AND EVEN THOSE THAT ARE NOT

OBVIOUS CANNOT REMAIN HIDDEN FOREVER."(1

Timothy 5:24-25) - his telling us that even though GOOD

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DEEDS are obvious, the ones that are not clearly seen in

the eyes of others BEGIN to MANIFEST themselves also

and I believe that happens when God rewards you

PUBLICLY. A man's good deeds cannot remain HIDDEN

forever; Paul says it, because when we move by LOVE,

whether HIDDEN or OBVIOUS God blesses us. The best

character in a person is the one that doesn't require

praise from PEOPLE and doesn't require PEOPLE'S

approval; Solomon says "if anyone LOUDLY blesses

their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as

a CURSE."(Proverbs 27:14). There's a reason Solomon

spoke like that, it is not to say that there is anything

wrong with blessing someone LOUDLY but the

INTENTION of doing it, which is to MAKE SURE that

everyone else hears your blessing; you want to be

approved by men of your blessing. Jesus was right

when He said "How can you believe when you accept

each other's praise and DO NOT LOOK FOR THE PRAISE

THAT COMES FROM THE ONLY GOD?"(John 5:44). How

awesome will that day be when we are praised by the

Highest Himself saying "Well done, good and faithfulservant!"(Matthew 25:23). The good things that we do

in God's name will always show up at some point in our

lives to bless us, to testify for us, whether we still

remember them or not. Let us look at Mordecai for

instance, in one moment of his life he had exposed

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Bigthana and Teresh, two of the kings officers who

guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate

King Xerxes (Esther 6:2) and there came a night for the

king that was different so that he could not even sleep

and the king asked to have the book of the chronicles of

the kings read to him, only to find out about the GOOD

DEEDS of Mordecai. It was SUCH A CONVENIENT time

because it was at that time that Haman conspired to

slaughter the Jews and what ONE MAN did for the King

some time ago, EVEN THOUGH HIDDEN but COULD

NOT BE HIDDEN FOREVER, resulted in the SALVATION

of the Jews, does it not even say "because one person

disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because

ONE other person obeyed God, many will be made

righteous."(Romans 5:19). Here comes the part that's

extraordinary, and then the King says of Mordecai let

the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the kings

most noble princes. Let them robe the man (Mordecai)

the king delights to honor, and LEAD HIM ON THE

HORSE THROUGH THE CITY STREETS, PROCLAIMING

BEFORE HIM, THIS IS WHAT IS DONE FOR THE MANTHE KING DELIGHTS TO HONOR!(Esther 6:9) -

Mordecai was going to be lead PUBLICLY IN THE

STREETS and honored, remember "your Father who

sees in SECRET, will reward you PUBLICLY"(Luke 6:4-5).

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David says "You prepare a table before me, IN THE

PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES."(Psalm 23:5). God isn't

going to prepare a TABLE for us while our enemies are

away on a HOLIDAY, He's not afraid of our enemies.

Remember the bible says "when He had disarmed the

rulers and authorities, HE MADE A PUBLIC DISPLAY OF

THEM, having triumphed over them through

Him"(Colossians 2:15). Let us carry on to do good

without looking for the praise of people, all that

matters is what God says and thinks about us. For we

are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to DO

GOOD WORKS, which God prepared in advance for us

to do(Ephesians 2:10).

God Bless You

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Rejoice in the Spirit.

Luke 10:21(ESV)

In that same hour HE REJOICED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT and

said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

that you have hidden these things from the wise and

understanding and revealed them to little children; yes,

Father, for such was your gracious will.

The first principle in the will of God is for us to REJOICE

ALWAYS. God wants us to always be HAPPY, to always

be filled with JOY and laughter and every kind of

gladness in our lives. We are charged by God, as though

through a commandment to REJOICE ALWAYS, Paul says

REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS. I WILL SAY IT AGAIN:

REJOICE!(Philippians 4:4)It is unctioned; it is charged,

REJOICE ALWAYS IN THE LORD. One man once said 'if

God said something twice that means He wants us to

really get the point', the Spirit of God through Paul says

it two times and its for a reason. However even though

commanded we cannot promise that we will not have

some troubles in the world that will try to steal our JOY

in the Lord, but we can promise that there is a way that

God wants us to remain in gladness even though we

are facing trials of different sorts, even Jesus said "...IN

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THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TRIBULATION; BUT BE OF

GOOD CHEER, I have overcome the world.(John 16:33)

- Glory to Him forever. In the opening scripture we find

a very powerful statement "HE REJOICED IN THE HOLY

SPIRIT", which, if you read from the simple translations

of the bible like the NLT, actually means "JESUS WAS

FILLED WITH THE JOY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT" - which is

something that we will talk about a little bit more in this

post. When a man has the Holy Spirit, the man has the

Presence of God Himself and David says "in your

PRESENCE THERE IS FULLNESS OF JOY..."(Psalm 16:11).

It is that same David who connects the Presence and

the Spirit as though interrelated when he says Do not

cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit

from me. (Psalm 51:11). Since the Holy Spirit stands for

the Presence and in that Presence there is FULLNESS OF

JOY then it means that a man cannot be in or contain

the Presence of God and still find himself in a position of

sadness; if he is aware of that Presence. The Spirit of

God is in us therefore the Presence of God is also in us,

if we carry His Presence in us we also carry theFULLNESS OF JOY within us, no wonder Paul says "but

the fruit of the Spirit is love, JOY, peace..."(Galatians

5:22). Sometimes we feel so sad all the while

POSSESSING the ability to turn that gloom into

HAPPINESS, nonetheless we find ourselves always in

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CHRIST.(Ephesians 5:18-21), its just like that, as easy

as that. If you've ever experienced the FULLNESS OF THE

HOLY SPIRIT, you don't want to be in a different

environment than that, all day every day. Paul gives us

the steps or keys; 1). Speak to yourself in psalms,

hymns and spiritual songs - making MUSIC in your

heart to the Lord, 2). Giving THANKS ALWAYS for

everything to God the Father in the name of Jesus3).

Submitting to one another in the fear of Christ, and

these things brothers and sisters will get us FILLED

WITH THE SPIRIT, and once we are FILLED WITH THE

SPIRIT WE WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FILLED WITH JOY.

There's a deeper experience of JOY in the Holy Spirit,

that this world and its FUN, DRUGS, PARTIES, MOVIESwill never give us, its that JOY that is found in HEAVEN,

it is that JOY that every son and daughter of the

Kingdom of God should experience, Paul says "for the

kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,

but of righteousness, peace and JOY IN THE HOLY

SPIRIT,"(Romans 14:17). Some enter marriages hoping

that in them they will find HAPPINESS, some fill their

hearts with treasures of different sorts, providing

themselves with every form of pleasure in the world but

they still cannot attain to true HAPPINESS. There's a

kind of HAPPINESS that money can't buy and that

HAPPINESS is not found in this world system but it is

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FOUND in the Holy Spirit. It is the will of God for us to

always be in JOY, Paul says "REJOICE ALWAYS, pray

without ceasing, in everything give thanks; FOR THIS IS

THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS FOR YOU."(1

Thessalonians 5:16-18). O my God, how glorious You

are, most Precious Jesus. Sometimes I think about how

David danced WITH ALL HIS MIGHT before the Lord (1

Samuel 6:14), FILLED WITH JOY that could only be

expressed in DANCE, in some moments we just need to

start DANCING before God, FILLED WITH SPIRIT and see

if that doesn't change our current state of mind. David

says of God "you have turned for me MY MOURNING

INTO DANCING ;"( Psalm 30:11) - dancing declares your

situation's turn around by FAITH. It is the word of God

that makes us FREE and freedom leads to happiness.

Right now you could be in a bad space, you could have

lost your job, your scholarship, your loved one, your

house it doesn't matter what it is because we have a

Comforter that comforts us and in His comfort there is a

turning of SORROW to JOY and God says in Jeremiah

"Then shall the virgin REJOICE IN THE DANCE , and theyoung men and the old, together; for I will turn their

MOURNING TO JOY, WILL COMFORT THEM, and make

them rejoice rather than sorrow."(Jeremiah 31:13). Let

us learn to PRAISE God ALWAYS, you might be mute but

the Psalmist says "Praise Him with the timbrel and

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DANCE;..."(Psalm 150:4), if you can't speak it out, you

can dance it out; PRAISING God fills us with JOY by the

hope given by the Spirit of God, as said "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). JOY RESTORES

LOST HOPE, AND VICE VERSA. Learn to shout for JOY,

LAUGH a little, dance a little, sing a little, praise God

more and be FREE IN THE SPIRIT and you'll ALWAYS

FIND HAPPINESS, Solomon says "...the righteous SINGS

AND REJOICES."(Proverbs 29:6) - In Christ there is

always a reason to REJOICE and we NEED TO REJOICE

ALWAYS. Clap your hands to God, shout a little,

sometimes you just need to do that, there's nothing

wrong with that, the Psalmist says "Oh, CLAP YOUR

HANDS, all you peoples! SHOUT to God with the voice

of triumph!"(Psalm 47:1). Oh how much God loves us,

how much He desires that we are happy, if only we

could see the way that He sees, we could move

mountains with LAUGHTER, with JOY and for that

reason we strive on, not losing heart that one day wemay meet Him face to face and bow our heads and

worship Him and thank Him for such JOY, He has in

store for us. There's "a time to weep, and a time to

LAUGH; a time to mourn, and a time to

DANCE"(Ecclesiastes 3:4).

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Let's pray a little, Precious Father, thank you, thank

you once more for JOY unspeakable, inexpressible and

full of GLORY, thank you FOR HOPE which does not

disappoint, which is not LOST, which does not

DISAPPEAR, thank you for LAUGHTER and GLADNESS

and the smiles in our faces, the feeling of "GOOD

CHEER" in our heart, thank you for your love THATNEVER FAILS, that never ENDS, that which remains

forever, thank you a 1000 times for that which you

have done but has not yet manifested, reserved in

heaven for us, thank you for that Precious Space in

Your heart for us, thank you for the Son of your LOVE,

the Author and Finisher of our faith, the GreatShepherd of the sheep and we thank you Father for

Your Holy Spirit, we adore you, we love you and we

magnify you, be forever EXALTED King of kings, in the

name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Amen.

God Bless You.

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Spiritual Alignment

Psalm 85:13(KJV)

Righteousness shall go before Him; AND SHALL SET US in

the way of His steps.

There are things in this world that cannot be explainedby mere philosophy and facts of nature. There are

things of the SPIRITUAL NATURE, even things about us

that are a part of the realm of the spirit - an invisible

dimension of life. Where is one's spirit, one's soul, the

heart, the mind? All these things are REAL & TRUE,

however they cannot be related with on the PHYSICAL

LEVEL. Therefore that means what is true is not true

because it manifests PHYSICALLY but itstrue because

of its STATE OF NATURE. God dwells in realms that are

INVISIBLEto the physical eye, but just because we don't

see Him doesn't mean He doesn't exist. He lives in a

realm of glory, a realm of the spiritual - a realm natural

for Him and other indwells of that realm. Don't you

think that as it is natural for us to see the sun come up

and the sun go down, itsnatural for the angels of God

to behold the things of heaven. Angels have lived in

heaven for almost eternity and they are so used to the

heavenly experience that they CONSIDER it unnatural to

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experience something else. Lets come back to the

topic, Paul says something extraordinary to the Romans

when he says "because the CARNAL MIND is enmity

against God: for it is not subject to the LAW of God,

neither indeed can be."(Romans 8:7), what Paul is

talking about here is more than the law of

commandments, it is the law of the spirit world, a law of

spirituality; the way things work in the God-realm.

These are things that the carnal and natural man cannot

receive and Paul confirms it saying But THE NATURAL

MAN DOES NOT RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF

GOD, FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS TO HIM; nor can he

know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1

Corinthians 2:14). We will talk extensively about that

realm on a later point and without a doubt that realm is

real and in existence. There are things like prayer which

is MORE SPIRITUAL than it is physical, the name of Jesus

- it is spoken in the natural but has a greater impact on

the spiritual. Even so, God wants us to live our lives

from the SPIRITUAL SPHERE towards the PHYSICAL not

from the PHYSICAL SPHERE towards the SPIRITUAL.Paul says "since, then, you have been raised with

Christ, SET YOUR HEARTS ON THINGS ABOVE, WHERE

CHRIST IS, SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, SET

YOUR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE, not on earthly

things."(Colossians 3:1-2) - you cannot SET your heart

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and mind on things that don't exist however they do

and God wants to ALIGN US WITH THOSE THINGS. The

REALITY of the physical is a dream compared to the

REALITY of the spiritual. Solomon says "I have seen

SLAVES ON HORSEBACK, WHILE PRINCES GO ON FOOT

LIKE SLAVES."(Ecclesiastes 10:7) - what Solomon saw

was shocking because by the nature of the order of

things, slaves should be walking on foot and princes

riding on horses but in this extreme case it was the

other way around. Let's say this, SPIRITUALLY

SPEAKING; children of God should be a success because

Christ made us victors however not every child of God

is SUCCESSFUL in fact truth be told most of us are NOT

(well at least PHYSICALLY) while on the other hand

CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD are successful beyond

measure. True ALIGNMENT means having the

SPIRITUAL STATE of our lives DISPLAY ITSELF ON THE

PHYSICAL. What is happening in this present world is

what Solomon saw, PRINCES which are children of God

are walking on foot like slaves, while slaves which are

children of the world, kept in captivity by Satan in thestandard of this world, are riding on horses like princes.

Jesus asks Peter "what do you think, Simon? from

whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes--

from their own children or from others?" and Peter

replied "from others, then Jesus said to him,

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"THEREFORE THE SONS ARE FREE."(Matthew 17:25-26)

- from what Jesus was saying we can learn a lot about

the order of spiritual things and not until we are

ALIGNED to God's WORD spiritually can we come to full

access of what God has for us - while we are still princes

walking on foot like slaves then we haven't come to

FULL SPIRITUAL ALIGNMENT with the kingdom of

Heaven. One of the reasons that Jesus died on the cross

was so that we can be aligned with God by His

righteousness, the bible says we "all have sinned and

fell short of the glory of God..."(Romans 3:23) and the

falling of that glory was the breaking of that alignment

with God, but "by the GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" from

Christ we were brought back into alignment with God.

The opening scripture actually implies that the

RIGHTEOUSNESS that will go before God, WILL SET US

or ALIGN US in the way of His STEPS; His STEPS are HIS

WAYS which Hosea speaks of to be as "prepared as the

morning"(Hosea 6:3) and there is nothing more

wonderful than to be ALIGNED with God's steps. When

a man has been ALIGNED with God's steps for him, itbecomes easier for him to discover what God has called

him for and have that thing MANIFEST in the PHYSICAL,

look at Paul for instance, on his way to Damascus, the

Lord appears to him and converses with him and as he

was astonished at the occurrence his question was

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Lord, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?(Acts 9:6) -

what an amazing question from Paul and these are the

kind of questions that align us with God spiritually,

when we surrender our wills, and LET HIS WILL BE

DONE.

It is really sad to think of how much God thinks about us

and here we are living lives that are totally different

from God's perspective of ourselves. To align one's selfspiritually is nothing more than to align one's self with

the word of God, to see ourselves the way God sees us

and to walk in the ways of God and with that revelation

of who we are. David says in Psalm "who, then, are

those who fear the LORD? HE WILL INSTRUCT THEM IN

THE WAYS THEY SHOULD CHOOSE."(Psalm 25:12) -imagine being instructed by God in decision making,

Isaiah puts it this way "whether you turn to the right or

to the left, YOUR EARS WILL HEAR A VOICE BEHIND

YOU, saying, "THIS IS THE WAY; WALK IN IT."(Isaiah

30:21) - meaning God Himself will point out the way for

you; I don't mean to discourage anyone, but if you've

been hearing God in your heart or on your mind or

spirit, you are not having the same experience because

He said "your EARS" will hear a voice that means there

is something DEEPER for us. When you receive this

guidance, your choices will be ALIGNED and

SYNCHRONIZED with the will of God for you, GLORY TO

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GOD. Today take a moment to align yourself with God

spiritually, as Paul did, ask God what it is He wants you

to do and believe me if you asked in FAITH God will let

you know.

God Bless You.

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Man, the Head of The Wife.

1 Corinthians 11:3(NIV)

But I want you to realize that the head of every man is

Christ, AND THE HEAD OF THE WOMAN IS MAN, and the

head of Christ is God.

Maybe what we need to point out first is the fact that

every person or specifically gender is equal in the sight

of God. Paul says "there is neither Jew nor Gentile,

neither slave nor free, NOR IS THERE MALE AND

FEMALE, FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE in Christ Jesus."

(Galatians 3:28) - We are too focused on the CLASS and

HIERARCHY of things rather than focusing on their

nature. Many of us still battle with the mystery of

godliness, trying to found out whos greater between

the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, rather than

LOOKING AT THE NATURE OF THEIR EXISTENCE. Even

so, many of us still battle with what the opening

scripture says, because we are more concerned about

whos the HEAD and why is it that the person has that

particular focus. First things first, God created first the

MAN, and there is a reason behind that. Paul says "For

Adam was formed FIRST, then Eve."(1 Timothy 2:13).

Additionally, right before that verse he says to Timothy

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(in the verse right before it) And I do not permit A

WOMAN TO TEACH OR TO HAVE AUTHORITY OVER A

MAN, but to be in silence. (1 Timothy 2:12) - meaning

that according to the spiritual principles the one that is

CREATED first should be the one that holds highest

authority and should be the HEAD. It is just that simple.

This is seen in Christ who is called "the firstborn over all

creation."(Colossians 1:15), and because He is the

firstborn, He is also the HEAD of the church -

nonetheless we will not touch much on that subject

here. The opening scripture positions the man to be the

HEAD, but we need to also realize that Christ is the

HEAD of the man and also God is the HEAD of Christ.

Now the man receives INSTRUCTIONS from Christ and

gives them down to the woman, according to the

HIERARCHY. Paul also speaks in this way "women

should remain silent in the churches...if they want to

inquire about something, THEY SHOULD ASK THEIR

OWN HUSBANDS AT HOME" (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) -

meaning that women receive their INSTRUCTIONS from

MEN, by the Lord Jesus. Now these instructions havenothing to do with the womans personal relationship

with the Lord but rather the family business the

instructions pertain. God is by no means discrediting

women but He understands how the marriage life

works, since He is the one who established it. Let us

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remember that Adam was the first to receive an

instruction; God saying "You are free to eat from any

tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat

from it you will certainly die."(Genesis 2:16-17) and

since God had never spoken to Eve of that

INSTRUCTION, Adam was the one who was supposed to

tell his WIFE, Eve. If God allowed it to be so in the

beginning He allows it to be so EVEN NOW. The head of

the household has a very big responsibility from God,

to the point that the HEAD of the family is almost

accountable for the WHOLE FAMILY. Paul says anyone

who does not provide for their relatives, and especially

for their own household, HAS DENIED THE FAITH AND

IS WORSE THAN AN UNBELIEVER.(1 Timothy 5:8). God

respects this principle of the man being the head of the

wife and the house so much to the point that He says in

the Law, "Every VOW and every binding oath to

humble herself (WIFE), HER HUSBAND MAY CONFIRM

IT OR HER HUSBAND MAY ANNUL IT."(Numbers 30:13)

- The word HUMBLE in the text actually means to FAST,so the husband has power to confirm or NULLIFY (cancel

out, invalidate) the oath that the wife makes. God

respects the principle of marriage to the maximum yet

we take it lightly. For a woman to be submissive to her

husband shows that she understands the spiritual things

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of God, she understands that the HUSBAND receives

instructions from Christ on how to make his marriage

work. Christ is the husband or the groom of the church

and we are His BRIDE. Because He is the groom He is by

default the HEAD of the church, Paul joins the two this

way "For the HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE AS

CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, his body, of

which He is the Savior."(Ephesians 5:23) and also "He is

the head of the body, the church ;..."( Colossians 1:18).

Looking at woman of old like Sarah who were so

submissive to their husbands that they even called them

lord, showing the reverence that a woman had for her

husband, understanding that he is the head. For a

woman to be submissive to her OWN HUSBAND is

fitting to God, Paul says "WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES

TO YOUR HUSBANDS, AS IS FITTING IN THE

LORD."(Colossians 3:18). I urge every woman, especially

those in Christ to understand this spiritual principle,

SUBMISSION to your husband will be the best thing you

do in the eyes of God, Peter says such woman have "the

unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is ofgreat worth in God's sight."(1 Peter 3:4).

God Bless You.

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Missing the Calling.

1 Samuel 15:28(NIV)

Samuel said to him, "The LORD HAS TORN THE

KINGDOM OF ISRAEL FROM YOU TODAY AND HAS

GIVEN IT TO ONE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS--to one better

than you.

In this whole world, we are all called by God to do

something for His kingdom whether we know it or not.

God has pre-appointed our dwelling places and our

times for that REASON. We are given assignments and

missions differing according to God's will and they all

have to do with bringing more souls to Christ and

growing the church of God. We are all a part of God's

MASTER PLAN, part of His eternal purpose and God has

set DESTINY to be the primary function of our lives. Paul

says "For those God FOREKNEW HE ALSO

PREDESTINED..."(Romans 8:29); we are all a part of

GOD'S PREDESTINATION. Ultimately we are all CALLED

for a reason and that is to serve God's purpose in

whatever generation God has set us in and even Peter

says " when David HAD SERVED GOD'S PURPOSE IN HIS

OWN GENERATION, he fell asleep..."(Acts 13:36). David

was aware of DESTINY and that's why he says of God

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"You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life

was recorded in Your book. EVERY MOMENT WAS LAID

OUT BEFORE A SINGLE DAY HAD PASSED."(Psalm

139:16) - POWERFUL, and it's not just David, it's ALL OF

US. It's as if every SINGLE day and every MOMENT of

our lives has BEEN planned before we were EVER

BORN, recorded in the books of glory. Whatever God

wrote in the book of your life will never change because

it is PERFECT, it is the way God wants it to be and God

made NO MISTAKE in what He put down there about

you, for "God is not human, that he should lie, not a

human being, THAT HE SHOULD CHANGE HIS

MIND..."(Numbers 23:19). This thing of one choosing

their own destiny is a lie from hell; God set each and

every one of our lives PERFECTLY according to His will,

and Paul says He "works all things according to the

counsel of his will."(Ephesians 1:11). Also what God has

called us for can never change or be destroyed because

even Paul says "FOR GOD'S GIFTS AND HIS CALL CAN

NEVER BE WITHDRAWN."(Romans 11:29). Furthermore,

as God did with King Hezekiah in adding more years tohis life (2 Kings 20), He can do with us. Nonetheless the

bible has taught us from certain individuals that it is

possible for a man to MISS that which God called them

to do, to fall from their calling. For instance, let us look

at Judas Iscariot, a man chosen by Jesus to be among

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the apostles, the famous 12; who after a long walk with

the Lord is entered by Satan to conceive a plan to betray

the Lord Jesus into the hands of evil men according to

the scriptures. This man is a man the bible foretold of,

THE BETRAYER, whom David says of "even my close

friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread,

has turned against me."(Psalm 41:9). The question that

one might have is 'was Judas destined to BETRAY

JESUS?', and why? But the Holy Spirit speaks wisdom

through Paul when he says "Shall what is formed say to

the one who formed it, 'WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LIKE

THIS?'"(Romans 9:20). Nevertheless other wisdom

comes from the Holy Spirit when Paul says "But in a

great house there are not only vessels of gold and of

silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to

HONOR, AND SOME TO DISHONOR. THOSE WHO

CLEANSE THEMSELVES FROM THE LATTER WILL BE

INSTRUMENTS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES, MADE HOLY,

USEFUL TO THE MASTER AND PREPARED TO DO ANY

GOOD WORK."(2 Timothy 2:20-21), therefore if a man is

CLEANSED he becomes a VESSEL of HONOR, USEFUL TOTHE MASTER AND PREPARED TO DO ANY GOOD WORK

Nevertheless, Judas was definitely a VESSEL OF

DESTRUCION. However Judas was not cleansed because

even Jesus says "Those who have had a bath need only

to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you

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are clean, THOUGH NOT EVERY ONE OF YOU."(John

13:18) and the bible lets us know that He was talking

about His betrayer. Anyway when the disciples pray for

a new member of the group of apostles (since Judas had

died), they make a powerful prayer to God about Judas'

replacement between the two men Joseph and

Matthias whom they had chosen, they pray (reading

from the New King James Version) "You, O Lord, who

know the hearts of all, show which of these two You

have chosen to take part in THIS MINISTRY AND

APOSTLESHIP FROM WHICH JUDAS BY

TRANSGRESSION FELL, that he might go to his own

place."(Acts 1:24-25). They said JUDAS FELL FROM THE

MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES BY TRANSGRESSION. Judas

was chosen that we know for sure, he was CALLED to be

an apostle because Jesus chose him but he fell. The only

thing I believe can cause a person to miss their calling is

SIN. There are so many kinds of sins in the world and all

of them seem to have that EFFECT. Sin is the one thing

that makes a person ineffective in the things of God .

Saul the king is also a man who missed what Godwanted to achieve through him because of

DISOBEDIENCE, and Samuel says "For REBELLION is as

the SIN of witchcraft,..."(1 Samuel 15:23) but more

painfully when he says "The LORD HAS TORN THE

KINGDOM OF ISRAEL FROM YOU TODAY AND HAS

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GIVEN IT TO ONE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS--to one better

than you."(1 Samuel 15:28). Imagine such a fall; from

being king to being nothing even though he was called

of God. Jesus was right when He said "for many are

CALLED, but few are CHOSEN."(Matthew 22:14). We are

admonished and urged by Paul to live a life WORTHY

OF THE CALLING WE HAVE RECEIVED.(Ephesians 4:1).

When I think of Moses, a man so humbled (Numbers

12:3), how he MISSED the opportunity to see the

Promise Land because he didn't BELIEVE God and

HALLOW Him before the people, after he was told to

SPEAK to the rock before their (children of Israel) eyes,

and it will yield its water.(Numbers 20:8) but Moses

stroke the rock twice with his rod and God says

"Because you did not BELIEVE Me, to HALLOW Me in

the eyes of the children of Israel, THEREFORE YOU

SHALL NOT BRING THIS ASSEMBLY INTO THE LAND

WHICH I HAVE GIVEN THEM."(Numbers 20:12).

Sometimes I wonder if Moses was also included in those

written about in the bible when it says "...they were not

able to enter, because of their UNBELIEF."(Hebrews3:19). Another man, Reuben, Jacob's first son who

defiled his father's concubine the bible says of him "he

was indeed the firstborn, BUT BECAUSE HE DEFILED HIS

FATHERS BED, HIS BIRTHRIGHT WAS GIVEN TO THE

SONS OF JOSEPH."(1 Chronicles 5:1). There are so many

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to speak about, all of them called of God, in this manner

and in that and it appears that their downfall was

because of SIN of some sort. There is a disqualification

from the things of God, even disqualification from

Christ Himself, A HUGE FALL FROM GRACE because of

stubbornness with regards to REPENTANCE. We are all

CALLED and loved by God and His heart yearns for us,

that's why Jude urges us to "REMAIN IN GOD'S

LOVE..."(Jude 1:21). We have to make sure by all means

that we are not disqualified from grace, because there is

a DISQUALIFICATION, Paul says "examine yourselves as

to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you

not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?

unless indeed you are DISQUALIFIED."(2 Corinthians

13:5).

God Bless You.

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The Spiritual Mirror.

James 1:24-25(NIV)

Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it

says IS LIKE SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AT HIS FACE IN A

MIRROR, AND, AFTER LOOKING AT HIMSELF, goes away

and immediately forgets what he looks like.

The scripture in James is one of the most powerful

scriptures in the bible, because it captures more than

just a mere definition of disobedience but it also brings

a revelation of what the word of God is to us. These

last couple of days, a brother and I have been sharing

on the idea of Gods goodness and what God thinks

about mankind, the precious words of David when He

says WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF

HIM? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

(Psalm 8:4). Nonetheless, Paul says "now I commit you

to God and TO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, which can

build you up and give you an inheritance among all

those who are sanctified."(Acts 20:32) - it is that word

that has the ability to build us up and most importantly

assures for us an inheritance in the heavens among all

those who are sanctified by Christ. The word of God is

far beyond what we can ever comprehend, it is far

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beyond any intelligence or wisdom or insight this world

can offer since "There is no wisdom nor understanding

nor counsel against the LORD."(Proverbs 21:30).

However, James seems to bring something more on the

table. He seems to give us an idea that the WORD is our

personal MIRROR and something we REFLECT upon; a

place of introspection where we look upon ourselves

FACE TO FACE. Solomon says "AS A FACE IS REFLECTED

IN WATER, so the heart reflects the real

person."(Proverbs 27:19); that is clear water can act as a

good mirror because it reflects whatever glances upon

it, so does the WORD of God. However the WORD

seems to be a mirror that God made for us, a SPIRITUAL

MIRROR that does not consider only the outward

appearance but REFLECTSwhat God thinks about usA

SPIRITUAL PESPECTIVE. One thing we cannot deny is

that most of us need a natural mirror to look at

ourselves on before we go out. We can take showers

and baths and be clean but we still need a MIRROR to

make sure that we look presentable to the outside

world. Paul says to Timothy concerning the WORD, "allScripture is God-breathed and is useful for TEACHING,

REBUKING, CORRECTING AND TRAINING in

righteousness, SO THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE

COMPLETE, thoroughly equipped for every good

action." (2 Timothy 3:16-17) and when we receive Jesus

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we wash our sins in His blood - that's the shower or

bath. However we need the WORD as the MIRROR

afterwards to BE COMPLETE, to make sure that we are

presentable before God, Paul says the word IS USEFUL

FOR TEACHING, REBUKING, CORRECTING AND

TRAINING, and we need ALL these things to become

mature in the things of God. David talks about the

commandments of God saying MOREOVER BY THEM IS

THY SERVANT WARNED: and in keeping of them there

is great reward. (Psalm 19:11). When Jesus is fasting

forty days and forty nights in the wilderness, he is

afterwards tempted by the devil and the devil says

something to Jesus and adds a quote from the book of

Psalm (Psalm 91:11), he says "If you are the Son of God,

throw yourself down from here, for it is written, He

will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,

and On their hands they will bear you up, lest you

strike your foot against a stone.(Luke 4:9-11). When

Satan quotes the scripture, its as if that very scripture

was written for Jesus, it REFLECTED what God thinks

about Jesus and Satan knew it; Satan made it lookPERSONAL and applied it to Jesus - yet without

revelation.

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These days Satan steals the word of God from Gods

children and thats why their lives are filled with so

much doubt and uncertainty, because THEY DONT

UNDERSTAND THE WORD. The word of God it is

supposed to be personal and it is supposed to be

applicable to every individual born of God on earth BY

REVELATION and the word of God speaks to every

Christian directly. I look at Paul for instance and it

appears to me that Paul began to discover the extent of

his calling through the WORD of God even though Jesus

had appeared to him a few times to let him know yet to

the Romans he says "and thus I make it my ambition to

preach the gospel, NOT WHERE CHRIST HAS ALREADY

BEEN NAMED, lest I build on someone else's

foundation, but as it is written, THOSE WHO HAVE

NEVER BEEN TOLD OF HIM WILL SEE, AND THOSE WHO

HAVE NEVER HEARD WILL UNDERSTAND.(Romans

15:20-21) - Paul had an understanding that the scripture

he quoted (which is in Isaiah 52:15), spoke directly to

him, he received direction and REVELATION about his

calling from the Scriptures and I believe to some extentthe rest of the apostles. In one of our coming posts we

will talk about the PURPOSE OF GODand we will discuss

how God has put in His word a way for all of us to

discover some portion of our callings.

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The Holy Spirit spoke something powerful through Paul

to the Romans and I thank God that we have an

opportunity to know the things that the God was

declaring to these chosen people that Paul delivered the

message to. Paul says "for those God FOREKNEW HE

ALSO PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE

OF HIS SON, that He might be the firstborn among

many brothers and sisters."(Romans 8:29); now the

word "conformed" means to correspond in form or

character; to be similar which means that God

PREDESTINED US TO BE SIMILAR TO JESUS, HIS SON

and God looks at us that very way, like Jesus. When we

are looking at the SPIRITUAL MIRRORwe are looking at

Jesus as though we are seeing an image of ourselves;

we are seeing Christ in ourselves AND Him REFLECTING

from us- Oh blessed is His name, for He also says "But

we all, with unveiled faces, BEHOLDING AS IN A

MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE BEING

TRANSFORMED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY

TO GLORY, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."(2

Corinthians 3:17). The Spirit is telling us that as we lookinto the MIRROR, we are seeing the GLORY OF THE

LORD, that is Jesus Himself because He is called "the

BRIGHTNESS OF GOD'S GLORY"(Hebrews 1:3). However

if I'm looking in a MIRROR am I not supposed to see a

REFLECTION of myself? Yet the Spirit carries on and says

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"WE ARE BEING TRANSFORMED into that same IMAGE

(the image reflected), from GLORY to GLORY". That

same Jesus Christ is the WORD OF GOD (Revelation

19:13) and that image in the MIRROR and even the

MIRRORitself that we look at is the WORD OF GODand

we are being TRANSFORMEDto be what the WORD OF

GODis. It is the word of God that will bring us into FULL

STATURE; it is the word that has power to build us up. I

believe the people who have seen their SPIRITUAL

SELVES or THEIR GLORIFIED SELVESthrough visions and

dreams of the Spirit have had that experience by

REVELATION and John also says "what we will be has

not yet been made known. But we know that when

Christ appears, we shall be like him."(1 John 3:2).

However in the word of God, the Holy Spirit has given us

GLIMPSESof ourselves, because the WORDserves as a

SPIRITUAL MIRROR, Paul says this "For NOW WE SEE IN

A MIRROR, DIMLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE. Now I

know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am

known."(1 Corinthians 13:12). In the scripture he is

talking about the WORD and the image the WORD ofGodis providing for us; a kind of DIM experience when

compared to the one we will have at the APPEARING of

Jesus, yet still FACE TO FACE - as we look into the

MIRROR. Nonetheless he says but then I shall know

just as I also am known.speaking the same thing John

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spoke of about saying what we shall be like. We need

the MIRROR of the WORD, not just to look at ourselves

on but also to CHECK ourselves, Paul said to Timothy

the Scriptures are good for CORRECTION and

TRAINING, and as we mentioned before, we all need

that.

God Bless You.

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Being Humble.

James 4:6-7(NIV)

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

God opposes the proud but SHOWS FAVOR TO THE

HUMBLE. SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEN, TO GOD. Resist

the devil, and he will flee from you.

In all sincerity there is not a concept that we as

believers confuse as much as we confuse what BEING

HUMBLED is. There is a behavior that a common

Christian is expected to display outwardly which we

name HUMILITY, which is actually not what HUMILITY

is. The word that describes that behavior is MEEKNESS.

Meekness basically means to be quiet, gentle,

submissive, etc. and there is NOTHINGwrong with that.

However there is a problem with many of us Christians

and that is when we see someone who is not MEEK, we

ultimately conclude that they are not HUMBLE - have

we not heard "do not judge according to OUTWARD

APPEARANCE, but judge according to righteous

judgment."(John 7:24) and also "the LORD does not

look at the things people look at, people look at the

OUTWARD APPEARANCE, but the LORD looks at the

heart."(1 Samuel 16:7). A tree is known by its fruits and

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a truly humble manor woman will bear the fruits of

humility which are accompanied with grace. Moreover,

in order for us to understand what HUMILITY is, we

need to understand what is the opposite of HUMILITY

(which is PRIDE) and also the way GOD DEFINES IT

because at the end of the day its all about what God

says something is. Paul defines our life connection to

God this way "IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE

OUR BEING."(Acts 17:28); therefore anyone whose life

is not connected that way to God is defined as PROUD

and David puts it this way "In his PRIDE the wicked man

does not seek Him (God); in all his THOUGHTS THERE IS

NO ROOM FOR GOD."(Psalm 10:4). A proud man only

thinks about himself and he glorifies himself, he

believes he is all sufficient in himself and he gives no

glory to God; he believes he doesn't owe his existence

to God. However this appears to be a man outside of

God and you would expect such a way of thinking from

an unbeliever - so then how does a believer of God or a

born again person behave PROUDLY? The truth is a

PROUD person in our Christian circle according to ourChristian definition is someone WHO DOESN'T GIVE

GLORY TO GODorEVEN SOMEONE WHOSE BOASTFUL

or THINK THAT THEY CAN DO THINGS ON THEIR OWN

and DOESNT NEED ANYONE FROM THE CHURCH.

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Now what does God define PRIDEto be in the church?

That question can be answered by asking the question,

'what does God define HUMILITY to be in the church?

In our opening scripture James seems to define BEING

HUMBLEas to "SUBMIT TO GOD" and that is what God

defines HUMILITY to be towards Him, nonetheless He

also wants us to have HUMILITYamong ourselves. To be

HUMBLE is to be submissive to the plans of God and tobe SUBMISSIVE AND OBEDIENT to His WORD; for us to

be as children to Him and decrease so that he may

increase in our lives. Even the bible speaks about Jesus

this way "being found in appearance as a man, HE

HUMBLED HIMSELF BY BECOMING OBEDIENT to death-

- even death on a cross!"(Philippians 2:8). His HUMILITYwas expressed in His OBEDIENCE towards God - He

SUBMITTEDHimself to the will of the Father. The bible

says Jesus was "in the form of God, did not consider it

robbery to be equal with God, BUT MADE HIMSELF OF

NO REPUTATION..."(Philippians 2:6-7). We still have so

much to learn about God and so much to understand

and we thank God that every day we grow. It is

essential also that we are humble among each other

and that God delights in greatly. The ONLY way we

could allow HUMILITY to have its place among us, is if

we are SUBMISSIVE to one another. This submission

should not be done through FALSE HUMILITY but

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through the fear of God, as Paul says "SUBMIT TO ONE

ANOTHER OUT OF REVERENCE FOR CHRIST."(Ephesians

5:21). Submission is the best form of HUMILITYsince it

means to reckon yourself under the other person, as

Paul even says "but in HUMILITY COUNT OTHERS MORE

SIGNIFICANT THAN YOURSELVES."(Philippians 2:3). Isn't

it amazing that Jesus said "the GREATEST among you

will be your SERVANT"(Matthew 23:11) and also how

even though He was Lord and King of all, allowed

Himself to be baptized by John when John said "I

should be baptized by You"(Matthew 3:14) but He said

"let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill

all righteousness."(Matthew 3:15) and again how He

washed the feet of the disciples, even though Peter said

"you shall never wash my feet."(John 13:8). Oh how

great is the wisdom of God in that He "put the body

together, giving GREATER HONOR TO THE PARTS THAT

LACKED IT"(1 Corinthians 12:24) and God has made all

of us significant in one way or the other because we are

the members of Christ's body, however He says in

order for us to live in HUMILITY we must think ofothers more significant than ourselves. Humility is one

of the outside expressions of LOVE; a person who is

truly humble brings peace with him. God desires that

we are humble, to Him and to each other, that we live a

life of peace as he says "make EVERY EFFORT to live in

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peace with everyone..."(Hebrews 12:14). We should

always strive towards peace and HUMILITY can be our

first step and remember that "God RESISTS the PROUD,

but GIVES grace to the HUMBLE."(Proverbs 3:34), I love

it in this one "...HUMILITY comes before

HONOR."(Proverbs 15:33). God will always HONOR the

HUMBLEsoul; look at Moses for instance, the bible says

"now Moses was a VERY HUMBLE MAN, more humble

than anyone else on the face of the earth."(Numbers

12:3), and God defended Moses' every cause and

accusation and honored him in everything he did. Let us

ask God to clothe us with HUMILITY by His Spirit. "In the

same way, you who are younger, SUBMIT YOURSELVES

TO YOUR ELDERS. All of you CLOTHE YOURSELVES

WITH HUMILITY TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER, because,

"God RESISTS the PROUD, but GIVES grace to the

HUMBLE (1 Peter 5:5).

God Bless You.