tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275258202024-03-05T06:31:46.013-08:00Githeko's BlogWhat is that loud sound up above in the sky? It is the Messiah coming for His sheep. It is the Lamb of God coming for His bride. Are you ready? Prepare the Way, the Messiah is coming very soon.Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-86137254485645701942018-04-17T15:37:00.001-07:002018-04-17T16:24:37.402-07:00JUDGEMENT - THE FISSURES AT SUSWA AND NAIVASHA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The judgement was spoken on 11th April, 2016. Here is the prophesy:<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RQSGkjCytr4?rel=0&start=1489" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></span></div>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wO7s5zIhX6k" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-51293322623141300952018-04-12T02:47:00.001-07:002018-04-12T02:48:29.250-07:00INVADED BY HEAVEN<p dir="ltr">Heaven has invaded the earthly realm. I feel trepidation. The earth will never recover from this invasion. Heaven never retreats.<br>
<i>The days of Enoch are here.</i><br>
<i>The days of Noah are here</i><br>
<i>The days of Moses are here</i><br>
<i>The days if Elijah are here</i><br>
<i>The dispensation of Joel is </i><i><u>here</u></i>. <br>
<b>2:30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth</b><br>
The signs and wonders come in rapid succession. The LORD interjects our conversation. It seems HE has finished with the gentile church and moved on to the next mission. </p>
<p dir="ltr">May the KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS help me be ready today. <br>
I repent for corrupting the earth with my disobedience and idolatry and immorality. May the LORD OF ALL THE EARTH forgive me and my family and those over whom HE has given me charge.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Amen.</p>
Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-89656790948847349272018-03-07T22:45:00.002-08:002018-03-08T16:09:28.587-08:00The LORD Honours Righteousness<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-112-1">Blessed are those who fear the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-1">who find great delight in his commands.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-112-2" id="en-NIVUK-15806"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Their children will be mighty in the land;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-2">the generation of the upright will be blessed.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-112-3" id="en-NIVUK-15807"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Wealth and riches are in their houses,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-3">and their righteousness endures for ever.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-112-4" id="en-NIVUK-15808"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-4">for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-112-5" id="en-NIVUK-15809"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-5">who conduct their affairs with justice.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-112-6" id="en-NIVUK-15810"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Surely the righteous will never be shaken;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-6">they will be remembered for ever.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-112-7" id="en-NIVUK-15811"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>They will have no fear of bad news;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-7">their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-112-8" id="en-NIVUK-15812"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-8">in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-112-9" id="en-NIVUK-15813"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-9">their righteousness endures for ever;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-112-9">their horn<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NIVUK-15813c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIVUK-15813c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[dignity]</sup> will be lifted high in honour.</span></span></span></div>
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-23657456391108337152018-02-06T14:37:00.001-08:002018-02-06T14:37:28.630-08:00Holy is the LORD<p dir="ltr">"Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name" [Jeremiah 34:15]</p>
<p dir="ltr">And so repentance leads to righteousness. Seek the LORD when He may be found.</p>
Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-51805901076732108042018-02-06T14:30:00.001-08:002018-02-06T14:30:52.265-08:00AND THE LORD CATCHES UP WITH ME<p dir="ltr">BELOVED BISHOPS, <br>
PRAISE THE LORD JESUS, </p>
<p dir="ltr">RE: ELECTION OF BISHOP-ELECT PROFESSOR GITHEKO JASON INTO THE HONORABLE OFFICE OF PRESIDING BISHOP <br>
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<p dir="ltr">Hear ye!<br>
Hear ye all,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Blessed Saints, <br>
This is an official notification of GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT NEWS to the entire Ministry and to The National Council Of Bishops, that THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HAS on this day elected Senior Pastor Professor JASON GITHEKO into the Venerated Office Of Presiding Bishop in THE GLORIOUS MINISTRY OF THE LORD, THE MINISTRY OF REPENTANCE & HOLINESS. The Jurisdictional DUTY assigned BISHOP-ELECT GITHEKO will be posted at The National Council of Bishops, in due course.</p>
<p dir="ltr">THE CONSECRATION, ORDINATION & ENTHRONEMENT of BISHOP-ELECT Professor GITHEKO will be announced to THE ENTIRE MINISTRY and posted within the National Council.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I therefore take this earliest opportunity to congratulate BISHOP-ELECT PROFESSOR GITHEKO on this greatest auspicious occasion of his venerated election by THE LORD into The Noble Office of Presiding Bishop. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I also take this wonderful opportunity to officially admit BISHOP-ELECT GITHEKO into The National Council & College of Bishops. </p>
<p dir="ltr">You all realise that this tremendous calling of BISHOP-ELECT PROFESSOR GITHEKO comes at such a time when the coming of THE MESSIAH has drawn nigh, and yet the church of CHRIST GLOBALLY faces such a myriad of spiritual challenges relating to the righteous and holy requirements of JEHOVAH GOD.</p>
<p dir="ltr">May THE LORD JESUS bless BISHOP-ELECT PROFESSOR GITHEKO to accomplish his most important life's mission of preparing the holy and righteous, glorious church for THE GLORIOUS COMING OF CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD THE MESSIAH. </p>
<p dir="ltr">THE LORD JESUS BLESS YOU <br>
BISHOP-ELECT PROF. GITHEKO.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yours Faithfully, <br>
IN CHRIST JESUS THE MESSIAH <br>
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SERVANT OF GOD ALMIGHTY</p>
<p dir="ltr">cc. Senior ARCHBISHOP <br>
cc. COUNCIL OF <u>BISHOPS</u></p>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His precious Blood dripped onto the rocks at Golgotha. His blood soaked into the soil at Calvary. Will you continue to sin? If you do, that Blood is offended. That Blood will accuse you because He was without sin. He was tortured for YOUR sins and now watches from Heaven saying to Himself: "Is this the people for whom I suffered? Is this the church for which I died? Are these the Christians for whom I was crucified naked by a highway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What price will they pay who offend the Blood of the Messiah? Could there possibly be forgiveness for such? If He were human, I doubt He would forgive. But He is the Everlasting FATHER; full of GRACE and TRUTH. He came from a High and Lofty place. His standards are not of this world but of Heaven. His LOVE has no bounds. </span></div>
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<br />Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-55048129959457100922017-07-26T21:42:00.001-07:002017-08-07T10:00:58.492-07:00Resurrected!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Elisha resurrects the son of the great Shunammite woman - 2 Kings 4 : 4 - 36</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> A dead man comes back to life when he touches Elisha's bones - 2 Kings 13:21</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Jesus resurrects the widow's son at Nain - Luke 7:13-15</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Jesus raises Jairus' daughter from the dead - Matthew 9:18 - 25</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Peter raises a female disciple named Tabitha from the dead - Acts 9:36-42</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the depths of my being: cracked, void, empty.<br />Who guards the voids of the soul?<br />Who stands at its entrances?<br />Who occupies?<br />Who inhabits?<br />Whose habitation is it?<br />For whom was the void designed?<br /><br />Stand guard at the gates of my soul<br />Sanctify my soul<br />O King of Heaven<br />Evict the invaders<br />Eject the dark mists<br />Burn up the heaviness<br />Crush the marauder<br /><br />Let my soul be Your Habitation<br />O LORD of lords<br />My Creator<br />My Maker<br />My Redeemer<br />My Eternity<br />My Life<br /><br />Come LORD Jesus<br />Inhabit my depths<br />Let Your Abundance manifest in my life<br />Let your Presence shine like <br />the Bright Morning Star<br />O Sun of Righteousness<br /><br />Evict darkness<br />O LORD of Light<br />Clothe me in your Righteousness<br />Make me worthy to stand in Your Presence<br />I surender unto You<br />I honor You<br />I bow down to worship You, King of my soul<br />Glory, glory, glory<br />For ever and ever<br />Amen</span></span></div>
Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-358085094353941952017-05-19T14:22:00.001-07:002017-05-19T14:22:23.970-07:00Glorious Mathare Sunday Service<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLw5hJrkwmZhoi7efEeFgw8vECbdl-tTnG" width="425"></iframe>Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-68172985026647082532017-02-02T13:47:00.003-08:002017-02-02T13:47:49.674-08:00Era of Post-Truth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is going to be a really short article. The year 2016 saw the creation of a new word in the English language that is of great interest to me: Post-truth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It means an era in which decisions at the highest level are governed more by emotion than facts and where facts are "shaped" to follow these emotions. We now hear of "alternative facts" and suchlike language. Non-truth is falsehood and the father of lies is the devil. It means we are now in an era in which falsehood is not only trending but dominates the global power play.</span></span><br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-33341277429929751632016-06-25T02:24:00.001-07:002016-12-22T12:48:23.137-08:00When you do not expect Him<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As we watch Brexit and Trump vs. Clinton and Syria and Crimea and Immigration crises and changes in the global power architecture, it seems that the world in in hyper mode. Every word in scripture must be fulfilled. The Messiah Himself made this promise: <span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16px;">Son of Man will come at an hour </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; font-size: 16px;">when</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; font-size: 16px;">you</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; font-size: 16px;">do</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; font-size: 16px;">not</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; font-size: 16px;">expect</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 16px;"> him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">What is the lesson? The greater the outer noise becomes, the greater our internal silence - stillness before the LORD - needs to be. The greater the attention on the worldly events, the more our inner eyes need to seek the glory of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, the Portion of Jacob. The bigger the cacophony of hate-mongering across the planet, the more urgent our need for the love of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">If the time is very near as the Mighty Prophet of the LORD has announced repeatedly, and if he has already seen the great harlot of Revelations 17, it seems that the noise and commotion will divert attention to earthly things. We run the risk of being consumed by the wisdom of the world, the pointless philosophies and doctrines that dot the terrain of the 21st century like acacia trees in the Savannah. Men and women argue about climate change and evolution and political leanings ad infinitum. Meanwhile, the Messiah is on His way. Is it not written "</span><span class="text Heb-12-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">run with endurance the race that is set before us, </span><span class="text Heb-12-2" id="en-NKJV-30215" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">2 </span>looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">our</i> faith" ? [Hebrews 12:1 - 2]. If we let our spiritual eyes off of Christ, is it not likely His coming will find us unprepared? </span></div>
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<span class="text Heb-12-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">Therefore, stay awake, alert, fully clothed in fine linen white and clean - without blemish, stain or tear, that garment of Righteousness that will qualify each of us to enter the banquet hall of the Wedding of the Lamb of God. [Revelation 19: 7 - 8] </span><br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-4468897864186653082016-05-29T15:03:00.001-07:002016-05-29T15:25:43.905-07:00The Weight of Unbelief<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Like a massive bolder of heavy rock, unbelief threatens to crush and pulverize. Unbelief drives us right into the ground, down in the direction of hell. No one can hold up its weight. Nothing can remain vertical under this massive load. No growth can occur under its influence. Unbelief is a shortening, a flattening and, ultimately, annihilation. <span style="font-family: sans-serif;">None can flourish or prosper under its dark shadow. </span>Unbelief is like an airplane without wings, like a bird without feathers. You can't fly without faith.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">But faith is like a super-magnet that attaches you to God. It is like a tremendous wire that taps into the power of God. It is the jet engine that propels you at supersonic speeds. It is a mighty ship that holds up the soul and the heart. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br>
He is a God of allegiance. He never lets down those who belong to Him.<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> He takes all the calls. </span>He never abandons His children. He never has a missed call on His phone. He handles every situation. Never is He asleep. Always He remains God. Never changing. Eternal. What more would one want than a promise of life that will never be broken? In who else can we put our trust? To whom can we surender our life except to the King of kings?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's all about His word and His promises. Its more definite that tomorrow's sunrise or the rise and fall of the ocean tide.<br><br>And what of Christ, who do you say He is? Is He not the Lord of lords and the King of Kings? Is He not the Faithful Witness? Is He not Melchizedek, Mighty Eternal High Priest? Is He not the First and the Last, the Alpha and Omega? The Prince of Peace? The Sun of Righteousness? Is He not the Word of God? Is He not the Mighty God? Is He not the Everlasting Father? Is He not God, the Creator of Heaven and earth.<br>
<br>But the world had placed the Messiah on a lower pedestal: not quite God. Perhaps equal to man; a little more enlightened? Even a Prophet among many Prophet's?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Apostacy has come to visit. Disbelief has come to stay; to reduce Christ, He who is called Emmanuel. To bring Him down from Heaven and equate Him to a man. To demote His Awesome Majesty. To overthrow His Kingdom. To deny His Power and His Glory.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The massive mountain of unbelief evolves into abusive rebellion. Men mock God. Men abuse Him. Men deny His existence. They actively fight Him. They join the enemy's army. They consult with sorcerers and witchdoctors. They fellowship with devil worshipers. They partake of human sacrifice and abominations, depravities unspeakable. Unmentionable. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The crushing weight of hypocrisy is utterly destructive. It is the prescription for flawless hopelessness. The way back into darkness, depression and insanity. The way back into chaos and uncontrollable terror. A heartbeat away from lawlessness. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Christ is Lord. He is God. He is the Everlasting Father. The King of Kings. The LORD of lords. The Ancient of Days. The Eternal. Without equal. High above the highest heaven. Far beyond human comprehension. Beyond human wisdom. Beyond science and philosophy. Infinitely beyond. He is the King of All Glory. The Holy One. Yet after all is said and done, He seeks our worship and sanctifies those who revere and honour Him. He makes them His precious possession, His elect. Citizens of His household.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Lift up the LORD. Glorify the Christ. Worship the King of Kings. He is coming for His righteous Bride. Will you be ready when He comes?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGOlWJh3rbs-ph7Ke-JlZtl1ppE653Ah0rBPDtMZW4MNSLLrXF0mHfnoPIfm2LfZn3N6tMcc9cYlUX-2XkIOk_tjFFFVe4CZO_0gfHHzJsht8Y9shomEjLdMtOv3uezLDfPw/s1600/CWsjhiQVAAIuDNs.jpg-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGOlWJh3rbs-ph7Ke-JlZtl1ppE653Ah0rBPDtMZW4MNSLLrXF0mHfnoPIfm2LfZn3N6tMcc9cYlUX-2XkIOk_tjFFFVe4CZO_0gfHHzJsht8Y9shomEjLdMtOv3uezLDfPw/s640/CWsjhiQVAAIuDNs.jpg-large.jpg"> </a> </div>Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-63963894596868746412016-03-04T04:09:00.002-08:002016-12-22T12:56:39.894-08:00Far, Far Away?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Heaven can be very very far away. In the midst of hustling to make a living, to complete the urgent tasks, to meet the deadlines, to sort out the challenges of earthly existence, we tend to drift away on the oceans of this realm. Focused on the winds and storms of this life. Consumed by the pursuits and occupations of one's vocation. Barely time to sleep and eat. Li<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f</span>e is so hectic...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But hang on a little. If your ship is drifting without a skipper to chart its course, have you considered that the ocean has whirlpools that may suck you into an irretrievable depth? Have you considered your communication links with heaven may become so weak, they may break altogether. Not that God lets go, but Man does. What if you let go of your end of the rope? Can you blame the Lord if you fall?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like a synchronized machine, like a big clock on your wall, we need to calibrate regularly; synchronize with the Creator so you are on the same page as He is. He never sleeps. Never dozes off. He asks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off? </span>[Jeremiah 23:23]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eternity awaits. It matters not whether we have money or have none. Whether we have an American or a Kenyan passport.Whether we have three college degrees or none. Whether plebeian or aristocrat. Finally, the things of the earth will be left behind. Perhaps even its sorrows and tears. Perhaps. It all depends on how close we stay to the true Father. No wonder He has names like Ebeneezer, Strong Tower, Wings, Hiding Place, Refuge, Counselor, Comforter, Deliverer, Door, Saviour!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Father of Mercies, Sure Foundation, Fountain of Living Waters,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Love, Joy, Freedom;</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Our Shield, Our Rock, Our Peace, Father to the Fatherless, Healer, Sanctifier, The Bright Morning Star and hence, the Harbinger</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of the New Day and the Usher of the True Dawn. It will be the final dawn without a sunset for ever and ever. He will be the Light and the Lamb its Lamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it </span><b style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">light</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">, and the Lamb </span><b style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">is</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">its </b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">lamp</span>.[Revelations 21:23]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">For this reason, move near to Him. We are made in His image, therefore, like us, He too values conversation; He too honors fellowship. He prefers that His children sit next to Him. And because <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">H</span>e is also God, Lord and Master, He desires worship and praise and thanksgiving. These are the instruments of His Communion. He loves to hear the sounds of a repentant heart as it turns from sin. That sound of <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">true repentance</span> is the sound of victory. The sound of resurrection.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">What a God! Who compares with Him? Who creates the grains of sand as easily as entire galaxies. Who knows the secrets of life; who creates life; who authored it? Who comprehends the raw material of the soul and the spirit? Who is worthy to stand before such a God? Who can fathom His glory? Who can define His extents? He is to be worshiped and revered and greatly honored. </span></span></span><br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-3075938040383682292016-02-25T12:45:00.001-08:002016-02-25T12:53:05.350-08:00YOU ARE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We live on a planet called earth. Some 150 million kilometers away is a big orange ball called the sun that gives out light, heat and a storm of particles called the solar wind capable of causing geomagnetic storms on earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Around this sun extending for a distance of about 100 light years is the <b>Milky Way</b> galaxy. It would take 100 years travelling at 300,000 kilometers per second to traverse the galaxy. Yet, the Milky Way is a relatively tiny place compared to the big galaxies such as <span style="background-color: white;"><b style="line-height: 25px;">Hercules A </b><span style="line-height: 25px;">which is estimated to be 1.5 million light years in diameter, that is, 15 times bigger than Milky Way. Beyond and around the Milky Way is the observable universe estimated to be about 90 billion light years in diameter. It means light from the edge of this universe takes about 45 billion years to reach the earth. Even more fascinating, no one knows the extent of the universe or even, whether it has an extent at all and if so, if there are other universes and, further, what on earth (!) lies in between. And what do you call a collection of universes?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">Now, if light from the edge of the known universe took 45 billion years to reach earth, it means that the observations we have of this universe may be as old as 45 billion years: What we know of the universe is historical. If our sun went off, it would take 8 minutes to find out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">If Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to our Milky Way was suddenly snuffed out, it would take earthlings 2.5 million years to find out! Where does that leave science? We must assume that the universe is stable else much of what we claim is out there may not be there at all: but it was, millions and billions of years ago... What a </span></span><span style="line-height: 25px;">conundrum.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">Now go the other way: drill deep into molecules and you will get past atoms into protons and neutrons and electrons. Past that into into a fascinating world of bosons, quarks and leptons....Beyond this, your guess is as good as mine. Theories seem to abound but how to prove them is quite a huge challenge. This marks the edge of science. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">The edge of science is the beginning of I AM. Here He stands and declares: '</span><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> </span></i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><i>Tell me, if you understand</i>.' </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">Then He asks: <i>On what are its footings set? </i></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth <b>beneath</b>; [Isaiah 51:6]</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Did he obscure the fact that his eyes were lifted up so he could see the earth below? And where was Isaiah as he saw the vision of aircraft full of tourists going to visit Israel on its 60th birthday as a nation-state?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">‘Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests? [Isaiah 60:8]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">What did Paul see when he was lifted up to the third heaven? [</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">2 Corinthians 12:1</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">] . And what profound mystery did he pronounce by declaring </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For when I am weak, then I am strong? </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">2 Corinthians 12:10</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can one conceive of their own origin, can a stone understand itself? Or, instead, could we, by our intellectual weakness allow the Spirit of the <b>God Who Created the Heavens</b> to reveal His secrets to us? Could we step aside for a moment and allow this LORD to take the stage and expound His mysterious to an inferior species? Is the mind of Man sufficient to comprehend the enormity and the totality of the universe? Can we fathom the form of the spirit of man? Can we locate the mind of a person and measure its extents; weigh its weight; identify its colour and shape? Can thoughts be captured in a pot and stored for latter use like garden peas and Irish potatoes?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Is there a Creator? How big is He? How should the created approach their Creator? With what kind of honor and reverence should the created speak to their Creator? Could the creator possibly have any obligations to the created? Can the created allocate themselves rights independently of the Creator? What are "human" rights anyway? Pebbles collected from the local stream? Twigs from the old fig tree? Can eternal rights be assigned by a mortal man? What means does he have to enforce them in eternity? To what eternal principle are they anchored to give then t</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;">ranscendence? If no t</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;">ranscendence, then whence comes their power? If no power, then are they not mere breeze? A puff of air: purposeless, aimless vapour?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> The true Man can only be they who are faithful to their Creator's will and desire.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> True humility can only be to comprehend the stature and enormity of this LORD! To acknowledge that our relationship with HIM can only be Worship! That Praise and Thanksgiving are hardly a sufficient appreciation of the gift of Life and Being and Sentience.[</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Revelation 4:11</i></span></span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">]</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HE who has no genealogy, no father or mother, no beginning or end but instead is the beginning and end of all things; is the source of all being; all life; all all.[</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hebrews 7:3</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HE is the matrix within which being can arise and prosper. [</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Acts 17:28</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">16 </span><span style="color: #990000;">for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.[1 Corinthians 2:16]</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;">I bow down to you Precious LORD</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">I adore you Glorious Saviour</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">I thank you Mighty Redeemer</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">I worship you My God and Master</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">I surrender to Your will o My God</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">May your Name be praised eternally</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">May the heavens and the earth rejoice over Your Brilliance</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">May the oceans and the sky sing praises to Your Unfathomable Power</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">Creator, Father, Deliverer, Teacher, Preserver, Comforter: Life.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">My life, my destiny, my eternity is in You.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">YOU ARE. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">YOU WERE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">How beautiful </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">on</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">the</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">mountain</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">s are </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> feet of those who bring good news, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’ [Isaiah 52:7]</span></span></div>
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-9445946355597890422015-12-10T17:28:00.002-08:002016-02-25T22:22:39.541-08:00Eyes See, Ears Hear<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eyes See</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is battle time on the southern sector. The sounds of war rise up all around me like hawks swooping for prey. Now diving steeply. Now soaring up. But you wouldn't notice unless your ears were rehabilitated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What would you see if your eyes could regain their sight? You would see the armies of Yaweh Sabaoth heading into battle. If you looked up into the sky, you would see chariots of fire. You would see Yahweh El Shaddai swooping into the enemy's territory with fire and with sword. Then you would know why He is called Yahweh Shamma. When the strangers come from Egypt, all you need is to call out to the C<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">ommander of the army of Yahweh. He's there waiting to defend His sons and daughters against satan and his horde of demons; against sorcerers and their potions. Nothing can withstand the precious blood of the perfect Lamb of God. No one can challenge the triumph of the cross. What a futile battle. The victory was clinched at Calvary. Go in confidence into the thick of things, into the dust and the clamour. Rush headlong into their camp and overturn it. Its time to see like the servant of Elisha.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">17 </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, </span><span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 24px;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">, so that he may see.” Then the </span><span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 24px;">Lord </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-9692A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-9692A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> of fire all around Elisha</span>.[2 Kings 6:17]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="text Isa-66-14" id="en-NIV-18937" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #990000;">When you </span><b><span style="color: red;">see</span></b><span style="color: #990000;"> this, your heart will rejoice<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18937AM" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18937AM" title="See cross-reference AM">AM</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and you will flourish<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18937AN" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18937AN" title="See cross-reference AN">AN</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> like grass;</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">the hand<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18937AO" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18937AO" title="See cross-reference AO">AO</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> of the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will be made known to his servants,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18937AP" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18937AP" title="See cross-reference AP">AP</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">but his fury<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18937AQ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18937AQ" title="See cross-reference AQ">AQ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> will be shown to his foes.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Isa-66-15" id="en-NIV-18938" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">15 </span>See, the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is coming with fire,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18938AR" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18938AR" title="See cross-reference AR">AR</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-66-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and his chariots<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18938AS" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18938AS" title="See cross-reference AS">AS</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> are like a <b>whirlwind</b>;<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18938AT" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18938AT" title="See cross-reference AT">AT</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Isa-66-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">he will bring down his anger with fury,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-66-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and his rebuke<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18938AU" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18938AU" title="See cross-reference AU">AU</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> with flames of fire.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Isa-66-16" id="en-NIV-18939" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">16 </span>For with fire<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18939AV" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18939AV" title="See cross-reference AV">AV</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> and with his sword<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18939AW" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18939AW" title="See cross-reference AW">AW</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #990000; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-66-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will execute judgment<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18939AX" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18939AX" title="See cross-reference AX">AX</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> on all people,</span></span></span><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fff2cc; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span class="text Isa-66-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">and many will be those slain<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-18939AY" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18939AY" title="See cross-reference AY">AY</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> by the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">[Isaiah 66: 14 - 16]</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="text Isa-66-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Isa-66-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">In all this commotion, its wise to remember that there are two parties involved: the sons of God and the foes of the Most Mighty. How could one possibly decide to be the Lord's foe? What will become of such? How many of such are there? I think there are many. Much more than you might guess because everyone who does not heed the voice of the Lord becomes His enemy. Everyone who fails to love Him with all of their hearts and all of their souls and all of their minds has missed the mark and fallen short of His standards. He IS God after all and Sovereign. His word is law. No appeal court exists that will sit to hear a case against the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's BIG. These are times and seasons that even the prophets and the angels longed to see. We are the privileged witnesses to the closing seconds of the age. It's battle time. This time listen. Listen to that noise above the trees. It's the armies of God on the move. The Lord is moving into position ready to strike. Down comes obeah. Down comes juju. Voodoo comes crushing down. The Kabballah priests seek where to flee. But the escape routes are sealed off. The time of reckoning has arrived. Decide quickly before the fire descends and turns every foe into charcoal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> If only you could hear the awesome marching of this army, you would tremble with dread. How blessed are the ears that hear and heed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #351c75; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">24</span><b><span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #351c75; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; line-height: 24px;">As soon as you </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: red;">hear</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; line-height: 24px;"> the sound</span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-8157A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-8157A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; line-height: 24px;"> of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the </span><span class="small-caps" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #351c75; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 24px;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #351c75;"> has gone out in </span><span style="color: red;">front</span></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-8157B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-8157B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b> of you to strike the Philistine army.</b>”</span>[2 Samuel 5: 24]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; line-height: 24px;">With a noise like that </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #38761d; line-height: 24px;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #38761d; line-height: 24px;">chariots</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; line-height: 24px;"> they leap over the mountaintops, like a crackling </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: red;">fire</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> consuming stubble, like a mighty army drawn up for battle</b>.</span>[Joel 2:5]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Therefore go forth in confidence because Yahweh has gone out ahead of you. His fiery chariots are like a whirlwind. Go with Him. Vanquish the enemy and complete the victory of Calvary. Its time to go into the mission fields. Knock on the doors. Announce from the rooftops. Broadcast this breaking news: The Messiah is coming! Prepare the way.</span></span></div>
Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-61856496291544640192015-12-04T19:49:00.000-08:002015-12-04T19:49:00.625-08:00The LORD of Storms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.[Mark 4:39].</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Lesson? The Lord was asleep in the storm. He was not in the storm. Neither was He in the earthquake. Nor in the wind and the fire. [1 Kings 19:11 - 12]. But in the midst of the storm, if you call upon the Lord, He will save you. He will answer you. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Call upon Christ and He will save you. Remember the Lord in the midst of the storm. He has power to command it: "Peace! Be still!". [Romans 10:13; Acts 2:21; 1 Corinthians 1:2]. But you may ask, how do we call upon the Jehovah ? He answers in Joel 2: 15 - 17 :</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="text Joel-2-15" id="en-NIV-22327" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">Blow the trumpet<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22327AT" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22327AT" title="See cross-reference AT">AT</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> in Zion,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22327AU" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22327AU" title="See cross-reference AU">AU</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">declare a holy fast,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22327AV" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22327AV" title="See cross-reference AV">AV</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">call a sacred assembly.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22327AW" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22327AW" title="See cross-reference AW">AW</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Joel-2-16" id="en-NIV-22328" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">16 </span>Gather the people,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">consecrate<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22328AX" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22328AX" title="See cross-reference AX">AX</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> the assembly;</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Joel-2-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">bring together the elders,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22328AY" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22328AY" title="See cross-reference AY">AY</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">gather the children,</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">those nursing at the breast.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Joel-2-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">Let the bridegroom<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22328AZ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22328AZ" title="See cross-reference AZ">AZ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> leave his room</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and the bride her chamber.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Joel-2-17" id="en-NIV-22329" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">17 </span>Let the priests, who minister<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22329BA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22329BA" title="See cross-reference BA">BA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> before the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">weep<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22329BB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22329BB" title="See cross-reference BB">BB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> between the portico and the altar.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22329BC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22329BC" title="See cross-reference BC">BC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">Let them say, “Spare your people, <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22329BD" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22329BD" title="See cross-reference BD">BD</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">a <b>byword</b><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22329BE" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22329BE" title="See cross-reference BE">BE</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> among the nations.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; position: relative;">Why should they say among the peoples,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">‘Where is their God?<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22329BF" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22329BF" title="See cross-reference BF">BF</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>’”</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">And how does the Lord answer? He answers in mercy and compassion and finally, abundance of grace:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="text Joel-2-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Then the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> was <b>jealous<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22330BG" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22330BG" title="See cross-reference BG">BG</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> </b>for his land</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">and took <b>pity<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22330BH" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22330BH" title="See cross-reference BH">BH</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> </b>on his people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Joel-2-19" id="en-NIV-22331" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">19 </span>The <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> replied to them:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="text Joel-2-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">“I am sending you grain, new wine<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22331BI" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22331BI" title="See cross-reference BI">BI</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> and olive oil,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22331BJ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22331BJ" title="See cross-reference BJ">BJ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">enough to satisfy you fully;<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22331BK" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22331BK" title="See cross-reference BK">BK</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Joel-2-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">never again will I make you</span></span><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></span><span class="text Joel-2-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">an object of scorn<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22331BL" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22331BL" title="See cross-reference BL">BL</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> to the nations...</span>.[Joel 2: 18 - 19]</span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Then He adds:</span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="text Joel-2-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">28 </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">“And afterward,</span></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">I will pour out my Spirit<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22340CM" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22340CM" title="See cross-reference CM">CM</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> on all people.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22340CN" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22340CN" title="See cross-reference CN">CN</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Joel-2-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Your sons and daughters will prophesy,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22340CO" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22340CO" title="See cross-reference CO">CO</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">your old men will dream dreams,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22340CP" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22340CP" title="See cross-reference CP">CP</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">your young men will see visions.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Joel-2-29" id="en-NIV-22341" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">29 </span>Even on my servants,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-22341CQ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-22341CQ" title="See cross-reference CQ">CQ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> both men and women,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Joel-2-29" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">I will pour out my Spirit in those days. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">[Joel 2: 28 - 29]</span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="text Joel-2-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text Joel-2-29" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">When you see the tall, dark storms clouds gathering, remember the Lord. When you see the news about Paris or San Bernardino or about Westgate and Garissa University, remember Christ. He promised to return for His sheep - for those who have prepared and kept ready for the Bridegroom. The rescuer is ready but are you ready for the rescue operation? It's the season of dark clouds. Be wise.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-40385927308104071082015-11-25T17:05:00.002-08:002015-11-25T17:09:54.314-08:00Foundation of God's Covenant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He comes to kill, to steal and to destroy. The devil goes around like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour. The weapons of satan are deception, violence, intimidation, death and destruction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the Lord's weapon is love. Because of His love, He sent His Son to die for us so that those who believed in Him will not perish but have eternal life. Let love rule your heart. It is the mightier weapon. Nothing can separate us from this love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="text Rom-8-38" id="en-NIVUK-28155">For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, </span> </span><span class="text Rom-8-39" id="en-NIVUK-28156"><span style="color: #073763;"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.[Romans 8: 38 - 40]</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-13-1" id="en-NIVUK-28667"><span class="chapternum">13 </span>If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-2" id="en-NIVUK-28668"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>If
I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not
have love, I am nothing. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-3" id="en-NIVUK-28669"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-13-4" id="en-NIVUK-28670"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-5" id="en-NIVUK-28671"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-6" id="en-NIVUK-28672"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-7" id="en-NIVUK-28673"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-13-8" id="en-NIVUK-28674"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Love
never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where
there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it
will pass away. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-9" id="en-NIVUK-28675"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>For we know in part and we prophesy in part, </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-10" id="en-NIVUK-28676"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-11" id="en-NIVUK-28677"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>When
I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood
behind me. </span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-12" id="en-NIVUK-28678"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>For
now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to
face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully
known.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-13-13" id="en-NIVUK-28679"><span style="color: #20124d;"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. [1 Corinthians 13: 1- 13]</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text Eph-3-17" id="en-NIVUK-29269"> <span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, </span></span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span class="text Eph-3-18" id="en-NIVUK-29270"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp <b>how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ</b>, </span> <span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.[Ephesians 3: 17 - 19].</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who can comprehend the love that would cause one to sacrifice His one and only Son for the sake of another? What measure of love is this? What would you do if, after such horrendous sacrifice, the one on whose behalf the sacrifice was made, spat on it and rejected it?</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you were God, El Shaddai, the All Mighty and All Powerful God, how would you respond to such contempt and disdain? Was the holy, pure and perfect blood of Christ poured out in vain? Was His terrible and horrendous suffering at the cross for nothing? Was His pain futile? Have we rejected the offer of salvation from the guarantee of death than awaits us? Can we grasp eternity in unending fire? </span></span><br />
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<span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I tremble to imagine and conceive of this endless conclusion to "life." To envision this eternal death is almost an impossibility yet any moment it may befall us because we delayed to accept the offer of Life. We delayed to accept this Perfect Sacrifice. Instead of falling on our knees in repentance, </span></span><span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">we dilly dallied</span></span>. We sought intellectual pleasures of 21st century philosophical past times instead of seeking the voice of the King of Life. We stood as though equal to the Creator lacking understanding that He is Sovereign. No court or jury directs His decisions or offers Him counsel. </span></span><br />
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<span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His covenants are established in love. We must reciprocate in love or perish. If love then obedience. If obedience, then perfection. If perfection then holiness. Do not wait. There is no time. Can you not hear the sound of His coming? Do not perish with the foolish. Instead, act will speed and precision to seize the moment of your salvation.</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Eph-3-19" id="en-NIVUK-29271"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May the Holy one of Israel be with you. </span></span></div>
Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-69817248111364077852015-11-25T16:24:00.000-08:002015-11-25T16:24:05.054-08:00The Beautiful Ones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One Sunday morning I saw the feet of a woman. I never saw her face but the voice of the Lord spoke and said: See how she seeks purity! See how beautiful she is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I understood that in the Kingdom of God, true beauty is defined by spiritual purity. And so it is written:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text Matt-5-8" id="en-NIV-23243" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; position: relative;"><span class="woj">Blessed are the pure in heart,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-23243A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)"></sup></span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Matt-5-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will see God. [Matthew 5:8]</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then the word goes on to say:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="text Isa-52-7" id="en-NIV-18704" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; position: relative;">How beautiful on the mountains<sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18704V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)"></sup></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-52-7" style="position: relative;">are the feet of those who bring good news [Isaiah 52:7]</span></span></span></span><br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-51171899152745461202015-11-25T16:22:00.000-08:002015-11-25T16:22:10.719-08:00Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Before they disobeyed and ate the fruit of this tree, they were naked and yet felt no shame. But once they ate, they saw nakedness and were ashamed.So what was this Tree?<br />
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<span class="text Gen-3-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">God had purposed innocence. There was no awareness of nakedness, no grasp of the concept of immorality, no shame. They had no understanding of good and evil. These things did not cross their minds. Animals are still like that today. No dog looks for shorts to cover its nakedness. </span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-3-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">There was innocent beauty. Man was enthralled by woman. Fascinated, Captivated. Yet there was no capability for guilt until they ate from the Tree.</span></div>
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God did not hide the <b>Truth</b> but prohibited its total consumption. Stay within the limits of our God. Keep away from the prohibited and you shall sustain your life. Eat the prohibited and you shall surely die. Respect God's secrets. It is better to obey the Word of God than to seek esoteric mysteries that lead to eternal death. Do not be tempted to seek <b>Satan</b>’s so-called deep secrets. The worm hides the hook whose object is death. Do not be enticed into the realm of sorcery and witchcraft for that is where satanic voices will lead. Where the Lord is absent, there is sorcery and witchcraft. It's inevitable.</div>
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-66759223602906178002015-11-25T16:11:00.001-08:002015-11-25T16:11:30.061-08:00The Edge of the River<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We must now wade into this river. We must now drink deeply of its water; wash in its currents; soak it its depths. Deeper and deeper we shall wade until we are covered up; until we descend into its depths, conveyed by the currents, revived, renewed, invigorated , healed, purified, uplifted!<br />
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LORD of All Creation, draw us into this Mighty River. Teach us your ways. Release your understanding; your insight; your revelation and your secrets to your humble servants. To those who seek your will, those who enlist for service to the King, those who submit to your authority. </div>
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They desire life, they desire victory, they desire joy; a hunger for worship, a craving for the Bread of Heaven, a thirst for the the Spring of the Water of Life. We wade in to seek knowledge of the Word of God. To breath in the Breath of Life. To wield the Sword of the word of God. To unleash its power upon the slave master and release the captives.<br />
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We wade in to learn your ways O LORD. To gain understanding. To walk with you. To receive your counsel, your guidance, your direction. To hear your voice.<br />
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I desire to serve with perfection. You O LORD are perfect. Make me perfect in service. I desire to harvest a mighty harvest for the LORD. You are the LORD of the harvest. Help me O LORD. I desire to establish your sheep in righteousness, the currency of heaven. Shine upon them Sun of Righteousness.<br />
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We want to stand close to you Father. Inaugurate this fellowship O Mighty King. Your sons are ready to move into position. Let them sit in the seat of sons. Let them receive the favour and blessings of the firstborn of the Spirit. Let them obtain a double portion of anointing. May they become true servants who do exploits for the Master. Admit them into the echelons of priesthood that they may take charge of your courts. Send them to the muddy villages to seek the sheep of your flock. Dispatch them to the dusty hills to seek the lost ones, the broken ones, the deceived, the wounded, the despairing, the ensnared and imprisoned.<br />
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It is the hour to march out in formation; to raise up a standard; to go into battle. We must cross the Jordan and take territory for the LORD. Amass at the edge of this river, the last river, the last vale, the last battle. Wrap yourself in zeal O Mighty God of Israel. Let your fearsome fire go before you. Overthrow the enemy. Route them out. Smash their demonic altars. Crush dagon; every dagon; every dragon; every snake; every hand that practices divination and sorcery; every knee that bows to the devil. Let it be a day of Your unassailable and terrible presence.<br />
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Open the eyes of those who are veiled in darkness; the stoppered ears of the deaf. Strengthen the weak legs of the lame. They must relocate onto the Way of Holiness; they must walk with You there. Let your glorious splendor light up the way. Let the thunder of Your voice resurrect their souls. Restore hope. Rehabilitate peace. Reconstruct faith. Revive joy.<br />
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They are lost LORD. On the mountains and hills. On the seas and oceans my King. In sinister forests and dank dungeons. Lost in philosophy. Astray in doctrine. Marooned in the ocean of tradition. Disoriented at the colonnade of pride. Blinded by the pitch darkness of this hour. Help them find this River whose current saves.<br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-70933485500415485762015-11-25T16:03:00.001-08:002016-02-25T22:36:45.074-08:00The Dying Seconds of the Age<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Mark-13-37" id="en-NIVUK-24755"><span class="woj"><span style="color: #cc0000;">What I say to you, I say to everyone: “Watch!”’</span> [Mark13:37]</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Mark-13-37" id="en-NIVUK-24755"><span class="woj">These are the words of caution by He who is called </span></span><span class="text Mark-13-37" id="en-NIVUK-24755"><span class="woj"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Isa-9-6">Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, </span></span><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-9-6">Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace</span></span> [Isaiah 9:6], </span></span><b>Lord</b> <b>of</b> <b>lord</b>s and <b>King of kings</b> [Revelation 17:14]. Those followers of this Prince who seek common ground with eastern religions will find none unless they subsist on deception. Christ is God. In His own words, He said He would call out His people [John 5:25] on that Day. A day dreadful for many but for others, the completion of their salvation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ is our Victory because He will put all His enemies under His feet [I Corinthians15:25]. He is above all, even death. He comes conquering [Revelation 19:11 - 21] with a fierce demeanor accompanied by the raptured saints. To those who reject Him: No more Saviour; no more Mercy; no more love; no compassion. But now <b>Destroyer</b> of God's enemies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The time to chose sides is now when grace is still available. When mercy can still be found. There are two sides. The side of evil and the side of the God of Abraham. There is no middle ground. The qualifications for membership to His Kingdom are not negotiable. It is "Be holy for I am holy." It is "Without holiness, no one shall see God." It is "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." Those who preach the doctrine of compromise are liars at best for the wages of sin is death. The eyes of the Lord can not tolerate sin. Sin can never enter heaven. That is why repentance is indispensable. How else can our sins be erased except by repentance?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The choice before us is not a passive choice but an emphatic, unequivocal assertion of allegiance to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He has no time for wilted hearts and half-hearted soldiers. He demands wholeheartedness. Nothing less. When asked what was the greatest commandment, He responded:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="text Matt-22-37" id="en-NIVUK-23910"><span class="woj">‘“Love the Lord your God with <b>all</b> your heart and with <b>all</b> your soul and with <b>all</b> your mind.”</span> </span> <span class="text Matt-22-38" id="en-NIVUK-23911"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup><span class="woj">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span> </span> <span class="text Matt-22-39" id="en-NIVUK-23912"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup><span class="woj">And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.”</span> </span> </span><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NIVUK-23913"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: #cc0000;">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’</span> [Matthew 22: 37 - 40]. 'All' = 100%. He does not accept 99%.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NIVUK-23913"><span class="woj">To those who are halfhearted, He says:<i> I will spit you out!</i> It means they taste nasty in His mouth. Once spat out, they are for ever condemned because spit is never retrieved and somehow purified and re-ingested. Spit means violent rejection. It means to be despised and disowned. Condemned. Cast out. The place of the rejects is the fire where all that is unfit for the Kingdom of God is cast. Heaven has it rubbish dump. It's called hell.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NIVUK-23913"><span class="woj">Therefore, we can not love God and hate His creation yet claim membership in His Kingdom. And love can not be demonstrated by reciting verses in scripture but only by our acts. For He says: By their fruits you shall know them. By their behaviour, you are able to identify them. Not merely their outward behaviour but their thoughts and feelings and attitudes are under His keen scrutiny. We can't fake it. We must become new. Transformed. The Transformer is the Spirit of God Himself: The Master of renovation and rehabilitation. Only He can reengineer and restore. Therefore, after repenting out past wickedness and evil, now we must walk very close to the Spirit of God so that we may hear His whispered directions. He knows the Way into the gates heaven. No other Guide has been sent except He.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NIVUK-23913"><span class="woj"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NIVUK-23913"><span class="woj">The gates of Heaven do not respond to dollar inducements nor can the Highway of Holiness be traversed but 4WD SUVs or luxury limos. No way. Only the prepared can walk there. Only the few find the little gate. But the promise still stands:</span></span><br />'<b>Ask</b> and it will be given to you; <b>seek</b> and you will find; <b>knock</b> and the door will be opened to you.' [Matthew 7:7]</span>. <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not casually but strenuously, intensively, passionately seek Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">David beseeched his son thus:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Chr-28-9" id="en-NIV-11153" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>“<span style="color: #b45f06;">And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-11153A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-11153A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> and with a willing mind, for the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> searches every heart<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-11153B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-11153B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> and understands every desire and every thought. <b>If you seek him,<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-11153C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-11153C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>he will be found by you</b>; </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>but if you forsake<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-11153D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-11153D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> him, he will reject<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-11153E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-11153E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> you forever.</b></span></span><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span></span><span class="text 1Chr-28-10" id="en-NIV-11154" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>Consider now, for the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.</span>”[1Chronicles 28:9 - 10]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Chr-28-10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And remember, He does nothing without informing His servants the prophets, [Amos 3:7]therefore, pay close attention to His one true Mighty Prophet.</span><br />
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<span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NIVUK-23913"><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May the God of Moses, the God of Israel, shower you with abundance of perception, understanding and forgiveness. May He purify and prepare you. And may the Holy Spirit be your guide across this dark Valley and into the Kingdom of God. Amen.</span></span></span><br />
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-17173272060459728362014-10-19T15:16:00.001-07:002015-05-18T10:15:37.104-07:00Our Confidence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are like a plane preparing for landing.
But this plane is not a Boeing or Airbus. The landing is not on a runway. We
are approaching the Day of Rapture. The Day the Messiah calls up his precious
ones to go home. The Day He gathers up His remnants for the wedding supper of
the Lamb of God.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Festivals of the LORD<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We start this story in the book of Nehemia,
the governor of Jerusalem and Judah who returned from Susa in Persian with the
permission of the king. He returned to Jerusalem after receiving the report of
the terrible condition of the city of Jerusalem and the temple of the LORD.
Having obtained the kings favour and release to return to Jerusalem, he set
about repairing the walls of Jerusalem, a city that had been burned down and
plundered by Nebuchadnezzar. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ezra was the chief priest in those days.
When the walls of Jerusalem were repaired and its gates set in place and when
all the people had settled in their towns, they found time to assemble before
the LORD and read the Book of the Law of Moses. After this reading Ezra,
Nehemia and the other teachers, scribes and Levites declared: <b>Do not mourn</b>! Later, they celebrated
the feast of tabernacles also called the Feast of Booths that in Hebrew is called
Sukkot. I call it the Feast of Joy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This feast followed the Day of Atonement in
the sequence of appointed festivals listed in Leviticus23. Christ is called
the Word of God. He is called the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
He is all things. Therefore we must ask: what is the significance of this Feast
of Joy in the plans of God?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I find my answer in the prophetic timeline
of scripture. As the last feast and festival; as a festival of joy, it points
to a day of great rejoicing, the day all mourning will end for the people of
God. It points to the successful transit through the valley of the shadow of
death (Psalms 23:4). Is it not a foretelling of the celebration of the wedding
supper of the Lamb of God (Revelation 19: 6-7)? Is it not about the time when
mourning and crying will be banished (Revelation 21:4)? Will it not be that Day
when a joyful procession will enter Zion, the city of God (Isaiah 35:10,
51:11)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is what the word of God says in Isaiah
61:1-3<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><sup><span lang="EN-US">1</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">because the
Lord has anointed me</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">to proclaim
good news to the poor.</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">He has sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">to proclaim
freedom for the captives</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">and release
from darkness for the prisoners,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><sup><span lang="EN-US">2</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> to proclaim the
year of the Lord 's favor</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">and the day
of vengeance of our God,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">to comfort
all who mourn,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><sup><span lang="EN-US">3</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> and provide for
those who grieve in Zion—</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">to bestow
on them a crown of beauty</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">instead of
ashes,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">the oil of
joy</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">instead of
mourning,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">and a
garment of praise</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">instead of
a spirit of despair.</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">They will
be called oaks of righteousness,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">a planting
of the Lord</span><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US">for the
display of his splendor.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">For those who grieve. For those in despair. For those enveloped by the
heavy and dark spirit of depression. For those swept by waves of loneliness.
For those in chains and snares set by satan. For those who mourn for loss of
loved ones. For those whose souls are downcast when they look back at their
lives. For those whose lives have lost meaning. They live on the edge of the
precipice, the edge of hell almost ready to end their miserable lives. It was
for you that He came. It is your victory that the Feast of Joy celebrates. He
came to bind up the broken hearted. He sent his shepherds to do exactly that
(Ezekiel 34:4) though they have failed. Christ is the chief Shepherd. He is the Repairer of broken
hearts. He is the Comforter of lonely souls. He is the whisper of encouragement
amongst the fires and the earthquakes and the great storms of life.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">He came to proclaim freedom to the captives: those caught up in
bondage to sexual immorality, bondage to alcohol, bondage to worship of the
devil, bondage to murder and violent robbery. Those who are married to satan
and sacrifice human lives to their god. Those whose tongues cannot rebuke sin.
Those who speak lies and practice deception. Those who practice magic and
bewitch their neighbours. He came for you to release you and set you free. If you accept Him, He comes to comfort you and make His
enemies His footstool (Psalm 110:1).</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Therefore, we shall celebrate. We shall drink water from the deep well
of His salvation (Isaiah 12: 2 - 3 & 5 - 6). There shall be tremendous rejoicing. All creation
will jubilate - even the hills and the trees sing and clap their hands! Surely
it must be a great day!</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">But why is this? What makes the day great? At the beginning Adam
disobeyed God and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The LORD
had promised: "for when you eat from it you will certainly die."
(Genesis 2: 17). The formular was simple: The wages of sin is death. You sin,
you die. It is an immutable law of God. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Because we are all sinners, we are condemned to die. It was this
realization that caused Josiah to tear his clothes and weep and mourn before
the LORD. The truth of the human condition was revealed to him when they read
the Book of the Law (2 Kings 22: 3-20). What then must we do? What is the way out
of this cul-de-sac. It seems like a hopeless situation. But wait a moment - did
Isaiah not point the way out in Isaiah 9:6? A child will be born who will restore
the kingdom of God. The kingdom of righteousness. The kingdom of holiness. The
eternal kingdom.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The devil deceived Adam and Eve but the LORD would not allow the enemy
to gain victory. Victory belongs to the LORD. Therefore, He says: I will take
away your punishment! (Zephaniah 3: 14-15). I will justify, forgive, pardon,
acquit, absolve, liberate, discharge, vindicate, defend, exonerate, exculpate,
release, exempt and pass over you. It is written that the zeal of the Lord
Almighty will accomplish this. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<h2>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Confidence from Faith<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">He sent His only begotten son to die in our place. He sacrificed His
own son for us. The blood of Christ became the blood of atonement. Because of
love - an inscrutable love. An infinitely deep love. A mysterious love. After
all, He <b><i>is</i></b> love. Can we ever grasp the depth of His commitment? Can we
ever repay for that epic sacrifice? Who is like the LORD? Who can compare? Who
can sacrifice his son for the sake of a friend?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Because of the holy and precious blood of the Lamb of God that was
shed at Calvary, we can do every day what the high priests could do only once a
year and even then with great care and preparation. We can enter into the Most
Holy place. We can draw near to His seat of mercy. We can be sprinkled in the
holy blood of the Lamb and cleansed for ever of sin. It is written that He will
remember our sins no more (Hebrews 10: 14 - 23; Romans 3:25; Ephesians 3:12
& 2:11-13). We are forgiven through faith in Christ, therefore, we have
assurance; we have complete confidence; we know it to be true what the LORD has
promised. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">He has never failed. He will never fail. Accordingly, He says, that
righteous ones shall live by faith. And He is not pleased by those who shrink
back; those who backslide; those who are complacent, casual, halfhearted,
lukewarm, headless, mindless, perfunctory. He cannot be pleased by those who
treat the blood of Christ with contempt. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Faith<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Faith means to believe God. Abraham believed God and it is credited to
him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6, Romans 4:3; James 2:23). The promises of
God are "Yes" in Christ. They are yes for those who are in Christ.
Yes for those who submit to His will. Yes for those who, like Isaiah, say: I
will go. Send me. For those who are ready to do exploits for Yehovah. For those
who are hidden in Christ: They look like Him, act like Him, talk like Him. For
these the promises are Yes. The promises hold true always for those who love
Him. They will say "Amen". Because they are one with their God. There
is complete agreement. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">He has established His promises and prepared His plans. The Messiah is
coming to snatch away those who are His. By faith we know that His promises are
our reality. Abraham lived in a tent because he knew there was a better
country, a brand new city that the LORD had made ready. He preferred to wait
for that better place. He believed God and lived by that faith. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Now the LORD wants to know: Do you believe Him and do you live by that
faith? Do you believe the Messiah is coming for His sheep and do you live by
this belief? Have you prepared to receive Him? Will you hear the voice of the
archangel? Will you discern the times and the seasons? Will you serve His
people? Will you flee from idolatry and immorality and put on the garment of
righteousness that is Christ? </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Have you believed His blessings of </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deuteronomy 28: 1 - 14</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ? Then you must also
believe His curses for those who rebel and reject Him. He has a plan for them
too. It is not a pleasant plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">To live by faith is to walk on the promises of God knowing them to be
true even though we have not seem them fulfilled. Abraham did not live to see
Christ born but he knew that the Messiah will be from his bloodline. It was his
reality. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">But for those who hold on to faith, there is complete assurance
because of the unquestionable faithfulness of our LORD. He will never leave you
nor forsake you. That was the promise to Joshua (Deuteronomy 31: 6 - 8, Joshua
1:5). He is not pleased when we forsake Him (Judges 10: 13; 1 Chronicles28:9).
He is not pleased at all.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">It is that assurance that becomes the bedrock of our faith. He never
changes. Even Balaam, despite his wickedness knew this about the LORD: He is
not a man that He should lie; he is not a son of man that he should change His
mind (Numbers 23: 19). He never forsakes
those who seek Him (Psalms 9:10). </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Christ did His part to prepare a holy church. Blameless. Without
wrinkle. Without stain. Without blemish. Washed in that most holy blood. There
is nothing pending. He left for heaven having completed the work. The rest is
up to us. The rest is easy. The rest is accepting His promises, His salvation,
His redemption, His washing, His release, His forgiveness, His pardon, His
acquittal. Fully discharged, fully absolved. Ready for eternity but only if we
accept His will. We accept Him as LORD. We submit to the King of kings, the
LORD of lords and the Overseer and the Captain of our souls. The great Shepherd.
The Ancient of Days. The great Amen. The Rock and the chief Cornerstone of the
temple of God.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">He never changes. His promises remain "Yes" and
"Amen". Therefore we have full assurance. Therefore, we have complete
confidence. Walk tall. You are a servant of the most holy God. Stand firm
against the enemies of God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Reclaim
your inheritance of peace and joy and faith.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amen. May the LORD bless you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Deputy Archbishop Prof. J M Githekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448334613484701912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27525820.post-20410434574109609792014-07-02T16:28:00.002-07:002014-07-02T16:32:58.857-07:00Pull of Gravity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we keep away from the LORD. When we do not fast, the pull of spiritual gravity draws us downwards to the world. The only way to float up to heaven is to disconnect from flesh by way of fasting. When we fast, we slice off the spiritual loads attached to us, those hindrances, those hurdles, those obstacles, encumbrances, barriers, obstructions, impediments and restraints. We gain the freedom to execute a true relocation - from the realm of darkness to the real of light. We submit ourselves to the upward currents of the Spirit of the Living God. We surrender to the cleansing and purification of His fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Without revelation and without pursuing the way of wisdom, life becomes a continuing battle between this ominous gravity and the summons of the creator. Our attachments to this world become our tethering, our bondage, our imprisonment. But the instrument of freedom is now revealed. This vessel that is anchored to the mud can be released and anchored on the true Rock, the anchor of the soul! We must sail to a new sanctuary, a Safe Harbor. It is a safe refuge, the eternal destiny of those who belong to the LORD of LORDs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The instruments of bondage have names. But their sounds are not pleasant, not musical or artistic. They describe the chains of imprisonment like fleshly lust, uncontrolled bodily passions, unrestrained negative emotions, gluttony, sexual immorality, depravity, hatred, jealousy, bitterness, gossip, deception, false witness, prostitution, theft, pride and arrogance, rebellion, witchcraft, the love of money, contempt for fellow human beings, exploitation, corruption, false prophesy, devil worship, submission to satan, idolatry, heedlessness, selfishness, cruelty, drunkenness, homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, incest, cannibalism and every other evil that we fall prey to while on this earth. These are the chains of the slave-master and he who tells you it is OK to have sex outside marriage is a messenger of satan. Those who tell you it's fine to rape your own children are devil worshipers.Those who promote the doctrine of "equality" as the means to advance homosexuality and lesbianism are truly lucifer's errand boys. The only objective of all this war is to mock God and bring shame to the KING OF KINGS. It is the war of all wars and the LORD must win. Make sure you are on the side of victory. In spiritual war, there are no prisoners of war, only winners and losers. Be a winner. Be on the side of Christ Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To sanctify is to set apart as or declare holy; consecrate; free from sin; purify. I would add, 'to make righteous' because the scripture says: <span style="background-color: #fdfeff; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness[Genesis 15:6]. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The only perfect article from earth that can be presented before Jehovah is the precious and holy blood of Christ. Therefore, a <b>return </b>to the beginning means to be clothed and covered by that most precious blood. To be enclosed by grace, to become an object and beneficiary of the LORD's mercy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">It is a return that is executed by repentance to reconcile and reconnect with the Father who had evicted us from His household. We were rejected and alienated - a fatherless generation. But now, we have returned to Him by virtue of His compassion and mercy, by the way of repentance and forgiveness. We are able to re-enter the Garden where the God of All Creation, Maker of Heaven and Earth, walks with His children.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Surely it is a place of rest, a peaceful locality, a land of joy criss-crossed by the most clear water of the River of the Water of Life.</span></span><br />
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