I've got joy!

John 6:29(ASV)

"Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he hath sent"

We are still meditating on how to know if you are believing or not

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing… (ROM15:13 ASV)

The second yardstick

How to Believe

John 6:29 (ASV)

Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Believing is very important to an individual in your experience with God. Jesus referred to it as the main thing in the believer’s life. Therefore you must have a way to measure if you are believing.

The first thing that enables you to know

Faith speaks

Mathew 17:20 “… for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say…”

In our meditation yesterday, I pointed out to you that faith takes what belongs to it. But faith is voice activated, receiving or taking does not

Watch what you say

Mark 11:24 “ Therefore  I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”

Faith takes what belongs to it. Faith takes a hold of what belongs to it. It does not wait for it to come, it takes it.

In the natural, we use our hand to take things offered. What is the hand in the realm of the spirit? “death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that

How to stop worrying

Philippians 4:6 (NLT) “Don’t worry about anything: instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done”

Lastly, on our meditation on worry. If you have been overtaken with worry, then do the following things to put it away from

Pride makes you to worry

Philippians 4:6 (NLT) “Don’t worry about anything: instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done”

We are still looking at worry. There is another root cause of worry. It is pride. Look again at yesterday: Proverbs 19:1,3 (amp) “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity then a rich man who is perverse in his speech and is a [self – confident] fool… The foolishness of man subverts his way [ruins his affairs]; then his heart is resentful and frets

The root of worry

Philippians 4:6 (NLT) “Don’t worry about anything: instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done”

One of the things that make people to lose out in their faith walk is worry.  But worry does not just happen, it has a root cause. What is it?

“A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness

Keep on standing

1 Peter 5: 9 (AMP) “Withstand him, be firm in faith [against his onset – rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined] knowing that the same (identical) sufferings are appointed to your brotherhood (the whole body of Christians).

Lastly, in fighting back, you have to be:

a) Firm – it means not soft or

Resist the enemy

Mathew 11:12 (GNT) “From the time John preached his message until this very day the Kingdom of heaven has suffered violent attacks, and violent men try to seize it.”

We continue our meditation on the

Fight back!

Mathew 11:12 (GNT) “From the time John preached his message until this very day the Kingdom of heaven has suffered violent attacks, and violent men try to seize it.”

Dear friend, when the enemy tries to take what is yours – your joy, your marriage, your children, your spouse, don’t just sit and watch. Don’t throw up your arms in the air and give up, fight back. This is what we

Overcoming faith

1 John “This is the victory that overcomes the world, even out faith”

I want you to know that there is nothing in this world and its systems that faith in God will not overcome. 

Let us examine some characteristics of faith

Lay hold on it!

John 1:16 (MGS) “We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift. We got the basics from Moses and then this exuberant giving and receiving, this endless knowing and understanding – all this came through Jesus, the Messiah”

I want you to understand that faith is a response to grace. This is because faith can only lay hold on what grace had made available. If grace

You are a speaking spirit

Hebrews 3:1 “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus”

Let me give you some reasons why speaking is so

God's blessings

Psalm 81: 10 

“I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it”

God is very much interested in blessing us much more than we are interested in receiving. To receive God’s blessings we

My light will shine

Philippians “2:16 “Holding forth the word of life…” “holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the word of life…” (Amp)

I will like to show you something else in our passage above today. According to Websters’ Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary “holding” means having the effect of holding back or delaying something. Then the word “faith” means to “put out into view”. 

Putting these meanings together to

Let your light shine

Philippians “2:16 “Holding forth the word of life…” “holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the word of life…” (Amp).

The scriptures says you are to let your light shine for men to see. What is the light of the believer that this world needs to see? 

Mark4:20,21 reveals that a life that the word

Answer Back!

Mark11:23 “For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain. Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have what soever he saith”.

The second word used for say in the above passage is the word “epo” (Greek). This means to answer, bid, bring word

Setting the course of your life

Mark11:23 “For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain. Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have what soever he saith”.

There are two major words used for the

Seeing clearly

2 Cor. 2:11 “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

We are still examining the strategies the devil uses that enable him to destroy or devour people. From John 10:10 “ we saw that the first thing he does is to steal the word. 

The second thing is to kill”. The word for ‘kill’ here is an interesting word. It is the word “thou” and it is properly translated “to breathe

The devil has been exposed

2 Cor. 2:11 “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

One thing that comes out very clear is that everyone is naked before God (Hebrews 4:12,13), and that includes the devil. The devil and his ways are completely exposed and made naked by the word of God. This is why we can avoid

God is faithful

“Have faith in God…”

When we talk about having faith in the character of God, in who He is there is a lot to talk about. But I will address just one more.

Deuteronomy 7:9

“Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He

The goodness of God

“Have faith in God…”

Another character of God in His goodness”. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart”  

Understanding that God is good, means to have faith in His goodness . If God is only good, all you are to expect from Him

God is light!

Mark 11:22 “Have faith in God…”

We are still meditating on the above text. So far we understand this to means have faith in the character of God.

Oswald chambers said “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time”.

So let us examine another of God’s character. “…God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all”. (1John1:5). How do you relate

Having faith in God

Mark 11:22 “Have faith in God…”

We are still meditating on “Have faith in God…”. Yesterday I said, it means to have faith in who He is, not what He can do.

One word to describe who He is – character. So, in practical terms, to have faith in who God is, is to have faith in His character. What then is the character of God?

Firstly, God is love. That means to

God cannot lie

Mark 11:22 “Have faith in God…”

Have faith in God means just that! Have faith in God, not in a man, not a system not anything man made. You must remember that God is not a man that He should lie neither the son of man that he should repent or change His mind. 

So having faith in God is having faith in someone who cannot and would not lie.

It also means our faith has to be

Take up the shield of faith

Eph 6:16

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked”.

When it comes to the subject of faith, many still lack an understanding, which is, it is your responsibility to do something about it. You

Faith is the defence

Eph 6:16

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked”

Faith is the defence and guard of every other Christian virtue. The word faith is from a Greek word “pistis” and it is from a root word

Let the word become flesh...

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God”

The scriptures have been from the beginning, before you were, the word has been and after you are gone, the word will still be

Creating wealth

Heb 11:3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. So that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear”

When God created the world, He did not create it empty (Ps 24:1), He created it rich and full. 

So we can say there is wealth on this

How to mix with faith what you hear

Heb. 4:2 “For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it”

What does it mean to mix with faith what you hear? Firstly, it is to meditate on what you hear. Meditation means to focus one’s thought on it. 

Secondly, it is to take what you heard and say it

All things are possible

Mark 9:23 “Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth”

Jesus said if you would believe, all things will be possible. That is all that is left, your believing, this is because there is a guarantee from God’s end to make things possible when you believe. What are these guarantees?

      a)    God tells us there is absolutely