Saturday, May 18, 2013

1 Corinthians 2:9




































This is a typography of a verse in the Holy Bible. The verse is so beautiful and I just love it. It gives me hope and a reason for living, knowing that all hope is not lost, and that God does love me. Enjoy! 
1 Corinthians 2:9
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

10 REASONS WHY MY EFFECTUAL, FERVENT PRAYER, WILL NOT RESULT IN JACK!
















Hey friends, today, I want to share on why some of us pray and do not get any answers, even when we keep praying about the same thing.

I believe most of us do not pray much because we don't really see anything coming out of the many prayers we pray. 
Because if indeed, we were receiving answers to everything we asked for in prayer, then we would pray a lot. In fact we would pray all the time!

Let us consider two stories in the Bible.



Luke 1:12-20
New International Version (NIV)



12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. 13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid,Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. 14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.16 He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
18 Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”
19 The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. 20 And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”

Luke 1:26-38
New International Version (NIV)


26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[a] the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.




DID YOU SEE THAT???

I have always had a problem with this chapter of Luke because, I believed that the angel Gabriel was not fair to Zechariah. Both Zechariah and Mary asked "how can this be"???  

YET, ZECHARIAH WAS MADE DUMB AND MARY WENT AWAY SCOT FREE!

So, After asking the Holy Spirit to give me a deeper understanding, I realised that the solution to the problem, could be found in verse 13.

Whereas Mary was chosen by God to fulfil God's divine will in her life, Zechariah actually had been praying and seeking God's face for a baby. Yet, when he was presented with the answer to his petitions, he began to give reasons why the very thing he had been asking for, could not be possible!!!!

MASSA, IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR IS NOT POSSIBLE, THEN WHY ARE YOU ASKING GOD IN THE FIRST PLACE???


And I realised that it was not only Zechariah who had a similar attitude. 


Remember when Peter was captured and imprisoned with a death sentence hanging around his neck???


The Bible says that EARNEST INTERCESSION WAS MADE FOR HIM BY THE CHURCH (ACTS 12:5). 


Whilst they were still praying earnestly, God sent an angel to go and rescue Peter. Peter went to John's mums house and knocked on the door. 


To my utmost shock and disbelief, these "ogyacious" (charismatic) christians, who were still praying with all manner of tongues and skills, when they were told that Peter was at the gate, they told Rhoda (the servant) that SHE WAS OUT OF HER MIND!!!


WHAT A SHOCK!!!

Chale, how would you feel if you were God???

Let us consider this; God is: 
1. ALL-POWERFUL
2. ALMIGHTY
3. ALL-KNOWING

How would you feel, if you were God and you granted audience to somebody as weak and insignificant as man, showed him all the things you are capable of doing, including the amazing things you have done in his life and then he laid his petitions before you and then, guess what, he says;

"DEAR LORD, I KNOW YOU ARE ALMIGHTY, OMNIPOTENT, CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. I KNOW THAT YOU LOVE ME AND YOU SAID I SHOULD ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO ME. BUT ALMIGHTY, SOVEREIGN  RULER OF THE UNIVERSE, I HAVE TEN REASONS WHY YOU CANNOT ANSWER THIS REQUEST THAT I HAVE PLACED BEFORE YOU!!!"


It may sound funny but in reality, that is the attitude that a great majority of us portray. 

We ask God to save somebody and then turn around immediately and start condemning the person and talking about how this person will never change!

OR 


We pray earnestly for improvement in the economy of the country and turn around immediately and begin making negative confessions about how this country will never get better. 

OR 

We pray and ask God to heal us or whatever else we pray about, and then turn around and start saying, as for this my sickness dier, whenever it likes, then it comes and whenever it likes, then it goes!!!

PLEASE, LET US STOP THIS NONSENSE!!!

Cyb3r

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Regardless Heaven and Hell ft Jayso (Typography)