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We are Saints

 It will indeed be ironic to hear someone call the people who lived in Corinth saints. But guess what, some already did! the apostle Paul. This is a big deal because those who have spent time reading the bible will tell you that they were one of the most problematic churches we have ever seen in scripture. The word saint simply means “one who has been set aside for God”. Sanctified for God or set aside for the purposes of God. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Paul says to us, “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.” Together, these two passages help us understand the biblical meaning of saint. It is someone whom Christ bought with His own blood on the cross and has separated unto Himself to be His own possession. Every new believer has been set apart by God, separated unto God to be transformed into the likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ. In this sense, every believer is a saint — a person separated from his old sinful way of life and set apart by God to increasingly glori...
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Have you found your place?

  Finding your place in the world could be the main purpose of your existence because the one who created you had a reason for making you. The question then becomes, “do you know why you were created?” Sorry to say, the church has made a good number of us forgo our reason for being in this world. Cause we think there are those who are called while others are just the support staff. The thing is even the small things are made for his glory! Meaning that which you do is for his glory and you don’t need to have a title or recognition to fulfill that which he created you to do. I have been looking at some of the prophets in the bible, and it made me realize that we are mostly misunderstood by a good number of people when we choose to follow that which God has called us to be. This is unrealistic in the human eye when you turn down a good job to pursue a feeling of pleasing God.   It gets worse when you meet the scholars who will seek to find a reason behind your choices, but unf...
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Backsliding Does it really happen?

Many of us wish to be devoted Christians and grow in grace, but for some reason, they end up  right back to where they started yet had made strides in becoming more like Christ. We do run well for a season like the Galatians and then turn aside after false teachers (Gal 1:6).some of us profess loudly while   our feelings are warm, as Peter did and then in the hour of trial deny the lord ( Matthew 26:74-75). We do see many of us who end up losing our first love as the Ephesians did (Rev 2:4) and this is but just among some of the examples of how we tend to go back even after some encounter with God's power. It is indeed a bad thing to be a backslider, of all the bad things that can befall a man this is one I will call the worst. This is because it leaves one with “a wounded conscience, a mind sick of itself, a memory full of self-reproach, a heart pierced through with the lord’s arrow, a spirit is broken with a load of inward accusation.” [1] This can be a very troubling t...
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Jesus Model of Discipleship

      J esus started His ministry when he heard that John the Baptist had been arrested and it all started with the preaching of repentance for the kingdom of God was at hand. This was in Capernaum near the Sea of Galilee where he saw two brothers Peter and Andrew who were fishermen. The invitation to the transforming life in Christ comes to them in a simple but complex analogy when he said to them, “follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” [1]  They did leave their nets and followed him so did two other brothers James and John who were fishermen as well and eventually, we know of the twelve men who today we call them apostles ( Luke 6:13;  )  the calling of these men could be likened to the calling that is given to the world, “come to me all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest” that invites men to respond to Christ in faith and give them a new birth ). This is the foundation on which discipleship is built; a process that ...
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DO I PURSUE GOD?

T o have found God and still pursue Him is indeed a paradox of love, the lack of this is the reason we are in this low estate as believers. We have reached a place where we no longer have the desire for God but a state of complacency has set in. this is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth as he reminds us in revelation 3:20 that "He stands at the door and knocks, if we hear his voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they with me." This is a continuous process meaning the desire never ends but the sad news is that for many of us he really waits for too long, so long in vain. T his generation is complex with simple things, and in the process we end up having more of programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. The shallow of our inner experience, the hollow of our worship, which has pushed us to imitate the world is the evidence of our methodolo...
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SAVE YOUR LIFE

How to save your life Salvation is one of those things that has been overrated as some will put it.   One time a very dear friend of mine told me that if hell was real, then the solution is simple just carry with you an extinguisher. And all this are some of the speculations that a majority of us have when it comes to the reality of eternity. The truth is Gods judgment is coming and there is only one way to save yourself from his wrath and this is how. Jesus said “whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it but whoever loses his life will keep it ”(Luke 17:33) this was interesting for me as well because at first I thought it’s about saving oneself but then it hit me hard that’s not it.   Trying to save the life we work so hard to build is the reason many of us will miss the kingdom, harsh I know but the scripture puts it out clear don’t try to save your life. Do the opposite accept to lose it for the sake of Christ and you will save it. What we choose is of great i...
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AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANITY

Authentic Christianity Well, guys! there is something that I wanted to address as we continue with our studies. This past month a friend was sharing and then these words come out. “When it comes to people of the other faiths it’s not my place to judge them but just share Christ and love them which in return God will use to transform them.”  well put especially if all you want is to keep your peace but from a close look something is totally wrong and I want to share on this. First of all, Christianity is the true way to God and this is done through Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:8-9 “for by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. Not a result of works so that no one may boast.” And also to be clear I am not referring to the phony Christians who are not really Christians but a people who just like to feed upon consecration services and dedication meetings.   Using the right terms and behaves in the proper orthodoxy but the re...
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