Life is a privilege!

13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.4  14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Hebrews 11: 13-16 KJV

A young man a few weeks ago woke up in the morning, got dressed and went out. He came back had a shower, changed and was home to relax after a hard day. But he didn’t live to see the end of the day. It is a privilege to be alive but a lot of us take this privilege for granted. If things are not working well for us we blame the circumstances or the people around us for the things happening in our life. It is nobody’s fault, but yourself. It boils down to our attitude to life. It is all about you and how we chose to react to and accept the things that happen in our life.

The Bible says the fore runners of faith believed God to the end. The earth is not your home and so we are to live our lives to count for the home we would spend eternity in. It is important for us to make sure that the life we live counts and is relevant.

You know what? When a person dies, those alive forgets about him/her. Even from the preparation of the funeral the forgetting begins because life is nothing and there is nothing in this life.

Whatever life you have let us use it well. Avoid all those things that would make you miss your way. Remove from you the spirit of arrogance, pride, lying and all other vices.

What you need is to “MAKE LIFE COUNT”. Set your priorities right. Serve God well and serve Him properly. If you are not interested in serving God, don’t bother, Serve God because He deserved to be served. Serve Him in spite of your pain, in spite of your suffering, in spite of whatever challenges you are going through.

It is important that that we take God serious if we want to take him serious. Go into communion with Him, be one with God.

Created by God and God alone Pt 2

Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. Daniel 1: 4 KJV

There are some things in our lives that does not seem good for or to us, but God permits those things to happen. Why? God knows that He will bring you out of those situation and His name will be glorified.

The scripture we have read in Daniel tells us how the world is. It opens to us what to expect of the world. On seeing the attributes of God’s gift in your life as alighted by Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 1: 3&4 -

1. Being of the king's seed, and of the princes; 
2. Children of God  in whom was no blemish, 
3. Well favoured, 
4. Skilful in all wisdom, 
5. Cunning in knowledge, 
6. With understanding, 
7. Such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, 

The world wants to teach you their evil ways “and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans”. A lot of time if you are a useless fellow the devil has no use for you, but if you are very brilliant, capable, intelligent and knowledgeable he is ready to attack you. Why? So that he can teach you his own language and change the direction of your life.

We need to watch out for the changes that may occur in the life of your children and even in your lives. The enemy tries to steal what is rightfully given to us by God who has created man and testified that is creation is “GOOD”. It is this goodness that the world tries to take away from the lives of men. The tension and pressures of the world is a tool that the enemy uses to take away the glory and goodness that God has deposited in us.

The enemy always wants to be in power in the life of those they put in bondage. A lot of us go through life thinking that we would get what we deserve, but we get what we ask for. If we are gentle about the works of the enemy in our life, they would have a field day in our lives.

The world wants to change the destiny of many. They start this by giving you a new name, They call you a name that suits the change they want to bring about in your life. The four Hebrew boys had their name changed as a precursor to changing their destiny. Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego. Daniel 1:7 KJV.

When you see a man of great destiny that the devil has changed his destiny, you will see him doing great thing but in a small scale. This category of persons would stand out even in poverty or in their downtrodden state. We should be very careful not to say negative things into the life of people and into our life.

It is up to us to do what Jacob did that gave him the name Israel.  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Genesis 32: 25 & 28
What if the enemy has been able to change your destiny, all is not lost. You must wrestle that destiny back from him and get back what is rightfully yours. God is waiting and their to make it happen, just talk to Him about it.

Created by God and God alone

Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. Daniel 1: 4 KJV

A lot of us for the love of money, the love of ourselves and the thirst for all things good, we have not being able to stand the test of time. The world dearly wants to attack the ones with the bright star, it wants to put the brightest in bondage. The world is ready to use your intelligence to advance themselves.

The point we are coming to today is that evil will always want to take the lead, take control and to seize power. The average person always wants to seek evil and get power. Everywhere you go in the world you tend to see that the wicked and the evil tend to take power. The irony is that generally, people tend to chose evil. When the Hebrews needed to chose between Christ and Barabbas; they chose the convicted criminal over Christ. So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor. "Barabbas," they answered." Matthew 27: 17, 21 KJV. The bible says the flesh lusts against the spirit and so we find it difficult to do those things that we desire to do. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. Galatians 5: 17 KJV. 


This is the war we find our self in almost all the time. The world seeks to and wants to change the destiny of many Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: 7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego. Dan 1: 6-7 KJV. The world gives the bright stars a new name, the world dearly wants to change your destiny. They change the direction in which you should follow. They use their wiles and every evil ways to take away that which God has imputed in you.

We are not to give in to the works of the enemy. God alone has given us all we need to be who we are created to be. No power or persons have the right to change what God has done. But it is important that we also stand firm and refuse to be derailed from our goal and from who we were created to be. We must say no to name change that the world wants to give us.

Do you need a makeover? (Where is our shine?)

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. Exodus 34:29 KJV

Why do you come to church? A lot of people come to church for different reasons. Some people come to church to do business, some come because they are on the look-out for a spouse, others come to worship, and lots of other reasons.

The bible says the face of Moses shone, why? His face shined because he had an encounter with God. When we have an encounter with God we have a shine that is visible for everyone to see. Just as the children of Israel were not able to look at the glory of God that shone on Moses’ face, we would also have that shine of God reflected in all we do that darkness would not be able to have its way in our life.

Is your face shining? Can people see the glory of God reflected in your life?

Why do you come to church? Basically, we have come to church to seek God for ourselves. We are supposed to seek God by ourselves, whether the choir sings well or not, whether the minister’s sermon is good or not. We must have a personal relationship with God, spend time with God. We need to learn how to spend time with God.

Seeking God for yourself ensures that we are internally regenerated, and the glory of God in us is eternally proclaimed.
As you come out everybody would know you have had an encounter with God.

Why is it important to spend so much time with God? To get answers to questions that are bothering us and seems difficult for us. To worship God. To have a focal point in life, so that we can achieve much, succeed and excel in life. Spending time with God gives us control and puts us in a place of dominion.

Do you know that God is waiting for you? He wants you to have an encounter with him, so that you can have that change you desire from the inside of you.

Who or what is the god in your life?

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Daniel 3:1 KJV

We serve a great God who does things that are strange to us and allows strange things and concurrences in the lives of men. Life and the circumstances we are faced with makes us to worship other Gods.

In Exodus 32, the children of Israel spoke to Aaron and asked that he makes them a god that they could control. A god that is in their control and one that they can be attached to. A god of convenience. The insecurity of men and aspiration for power pushes men to worship other gods. They would worship money, men, fame, power, food, and all the things of insignificance that they have around them.

A lot of times life would give us rules and regulation that don’t make sense. Sometimes we are moved to worship other gods because of the music we listen to and the culture we adhere to. Some people are tricked to worship other gods because they are ignorant of the one true God, while some others are moved to worship other gods using intimidation and fear.

How do you know that you are worshiping other gods?

1. Anybody that is not born again is worshiping other gods
2. If their is a groups, a person, an organization, material possession or something that you have placed as more important than God in your life
3. If we are in a group where things done do not glorify God, they are worshiping other gods
4. If your happiness is dependent on something and someone, that person or thing is a god in your life
5. If their aspects in your life that you can’t do without and takes you away from God, you are worshiping other gods
6. If you have something or someone that consumes all your time to the exemption of God, then you are worshiping other gods

To get out of worshiping other gods we need to have a relationship with God. We need to seek God, become a new being, ask God to take over our life and make God and God alone the center of your life.

It is God and God alone that can give you the turn around that you need in your life, He alone can destroy the works of every strange God controlling your life. All you need to do is invite Jesus into your heart and your life, dwell on His words and ask Him and Him alone to be the Lord