DO NOT GIVE UP, BUT BE ENCOURAGED!

Today I had a burden for those people who are struggling to make ends meet.  I want to encourage you as I am not an exception.  Life is unfair as I always hear people say.  To be honest sometimes life seems unfair from all quotas when you look at things literally.  But today, I want to encourage you out there, who is feeling so down and you have no hope to move on.  The other day I was just figuring out, if someone was put in my shoes if they would make it as they seem to.  And to my surprise I tried to figure out and saw many of the people you see around, if they were told to walk on their own without support from others, you would be shocked what kind of people they would be.    How did I come up with such a conclusion?  Just look around you, if that lady was not married to that well to do man and vice-verse, things would not be as they are.  Is it true?  If one was not born to that rich family and may be tables were turned the other way round and found themselves in the slums, would things be the same?  If that guy who got a job just immediately from college and you had the same grades and yet you have tarmacked since memorial, if they were put in your shoes, would life be the same really?  If ……. ……. the list goes on and on and on.    But that is beside my point; my point is not to make those people who are making it feel offended because I have said that.   If they fall in those categories, then, instead of getting offended, they should thank God that things are going on well on their side and they should not boast lest they fall.   My wish and prayer is that we all flourish and enjoy life in abundance but that is something that  I have no control of as God knows all the plans he has for us all and that is why depending on him at all times is what matters the most and not what we have or do not have. 

My top most agenda today as I write this is, to encourage someone who is on the verge of giving up.  As in, things have not been going on well with you, or you have been doing well and all of a sudden things have turned upside down, or you have tried many times and nothing is coming up.  You have done all what is needed to be done for you to go to your next level and it’s like a big block has been put ahead of you.  Today, I want to encourage you that do not to give up.  I know it is easily said than it happens but I want to tell you today, do not depend on your own understanding or on your shortcomings.   Ask God to help you in all what you do.  You might have tried so many times and things have not worked for you.  I can’t imagine what you are feeling inside yourself, that, nothing good can ever come out of you just because you have failed many times.  My word for you today, be encouraged and know that God is on your side and he will come for you not too late even if you have toiled for how long.  The most important thing here is not to give up. I know what fails us most of the time is losing hope and giving up.   I have a short illustrating about being hopeful even if things are not looking good or interesting.

Yesterday I left the office early enough to go and receive my son from school so that I can take him to my friend’s house as I do not have a house help.  My friend moved from her previous house two days ago and my baby did not know where they had moved to, though it was within the same estate.  In the past, he used to go to that home whether I was there or not.  But because they had moved, I had to show him the new house.   As my responsibility, I always make sure I have received him from school and take him to my friend’s house personally to ascertain for sure that my baby came from school and I took him to my friend’s house before I hit the road to school.     Yesterday, things did not go as usual as my baby was left by their school bus, meaning that he was to wait for the second trip.  I do not like him being dropped in the second trip as he usually reaches home so late.  Unlikely, he missed the first trip and thus he was to wait for the second trip.  For me, I was really inconvenienced because, when he comes early, I am able to give him something to eat and take him personally to my friend’s house so that I proceed to class as I am an evening student.   So, yesterday I was in a dilemma as whether to just proceed to class or wait for my child.  But something kept on telling me, ‘class is not greater or important than your baby, you should wait for him then proceed to your class’.  Somehow, I listened to the inner voice but things were not rosy for me as time was really flying as I was supposed to be in class by 5.30 p.m.   

I could not imagine what I was going through as I knew I was missing class and I was also supposed to pick my baby personally to my friends new home.   I was torn between the two and none was I ready to give up on. Gosh, I was wishing I was a fly I just fly, go pick my baby and move on with my agendas.   But if wishes were hoses, beggars would ride.  I had no option but I held on and I did not give up.  But pressure was really mounting on me as I kept on talking to myself and asking many questions that did not have answers.  The driver of the school bus was also making me more miserable as he refused to pick my calls.  I can’t really tell why he refused to pick my calls,  but I guessed he thought I was very disappointed and thought maybe I would quarrel him, as I had called him earlier and he confessed to me he did not pick my child as he was not released from class early.   Oh!  My goodness, I kept on waiting and somehow something inside me told me, ‘Rose, please just be calm and everything will be alright’.  Gosh!  That is unlike me as I am usually a very impatient person, but since God has been walking me through this thing of my impatience to patience, I listened to him as I knew what I needed was patience enough to overcome all what I was going through rather than make a fuss out of nothing as no one, to all of us starting from the teacher, my baby, the bus driver and myself was to blame.  I kept my cool and waited.  At around 7.00 p.m., as I was nearly giving up going for my class and taking my plan B which was not to go for class that day, I saw the bus coming. I was so excited, though time was not on my side.  It was also about to rain and something still told me, ‘you can as well miss the class for today only’.  Another voice would tell me, ‘Rose, do not give up.  Missing class would mean you won’t do the cat today as the teacher had said.  You would rather appear just for the sake of the cat and also know what they learnt and borrow notes if worse finds you.   Besides, you will sign up the register so that you do not be marked absent and that will be a plus for you than missing classes’.  I felt comforted somehow by the facts that I deliberated on from my heart.  For sure, missing class is and offense in the campus that I am training in and it made a lot of sense not giving up.  It also made sense that, who knows I would find them doing the cat and also do it rather than miss out?  And finally knowing what transpired in class that day would be better than missing out all the same.  So I listened to the latter voice.  I picked my baby from the bus very fast and rushed him to my friend’s house as there was no time to bond as we mummy and baby each other.  I felt for him but I had nothing to do as I pulled his hand and rushed him to my friend’s house.   My baby could not understand what was happening to him as I was really pushing and pulling him to run faster so that I do not waste more time. 

We reached the house and I just dropped him and left running.  Usually, I use the public means because of the heavy traffic so that I save on fuel and also jump out of the bus in case there is so much traffic so that I walk the remaining part of the journey.  But because I was late, I decided to use my car.  I jumped into my car so fast and drove like a mad woman.  I was just praying that nothing bad happens because when you are on a hurry that is when the devil visits and distracts you.   God is very faithful; a route that takes me a like 30 minutes to 1 hour, took me only 10 minutes.  I was in shock as in, how could that route have no vehicles and the other side of the highway, cars were not moving? To me that was a miracle and I was just celebrating in it.  I could overtake cars that were dragging on the way and I guess my fellow drivers were wondering where is this mad woman running to as I could tell with the way they were giving me way as I tried to overtake them. 

Oh!  In 15 minutes time, I was in class and I entered so slowly like an innocent child who knows she or he is wrong but does not want to be punished.  Luckily enough I got a sit that I found vacant a place I do not normally sit as I was late and my comfort sitting position was occupied.  Anyway, I tried to pick up my breath as I had walked up to second floor where my class was located and I was running out of breath as I sat down in class.  Immediately I took my sit, I asked my desk-mate what they had done and she told me, ‘you are lucky the teacher has just arrived.  He had left a handout and said we be reading and then answer a question that he will post when he comes to class, and he has just arrived a few minutes before you.’  Then I asked her, ‘have you done it yet?’ she told me ‘no the teacher has just come and he is asking us question in relation to what we have been reading.   I guess it will be a take away exam.’  I was just waiting to hear what the teacher would say and at the same time I tried to scan through the handout and I could see nothing but a black out.  Gosh!  I wondered what I would write in that exam. Not long after the teacher asked like five students what they got from the handout, I heard him say, ‘our class today is ending now at 7.30 p.m.’ Meaning I just sat in that class for less than 15 minutes and he said ‘that exam will be a take a way.’  Then he reasoned again and said, ‘I am going to do something I have never done as in I am not very sure if I give it as a take away, whether people are going to be honest enough not to Google for the answer or work as an individuals.   He said, to be fair enough; since the exam was out of two, that he would give everyone the two marks for free.  He also gave us an option to read the hand out or not.  The whole class clapped their hands as it gave everyone a sigh of relieve.   I guess because may be all of us were not ready to do that cat.  We said the grace and left for the day.

What am I saying?  It is good not to give up.  You can imagine if I missed out the class I would have really lost as to me it’s like I lost nothing because the teacher also came to class late, he also said no one would do the cat as per that day and thus I was included to those who would get the free marks, I was also updated on what transpired in class as I also got my hand out so that I would read it when I got home.  And last and not the least, I was marked present for class that day.  To me, this was a very encouraging lesson that, as much as things are not going the way I want them to, God has a better way of handling them and I do not need to panic or be impatient or curse the day, as all things work together for good.  I would also have quarreled the school bus driver for no apparent reason and cause a bad blood for nothing.  I would have not made the right decision if I meddled on the negative and thus jeopardize my son’s responsibility and expose him to uncertainties that may be, would have caused more damage to me and my baby.  Today, I want you to be encouraged and be calm and be still and know that God is in control.     

WORK ON YOURSELF TO BE ABLE TO RELATE WITH OTHERS

Today I woke up feeling so bad about people who take advantage of others.  I am saying this because most of the time, we claim to have many friends and little do we know all these friends are pretenders and are not ready to walk with us in our strongest point to even our weakest point.  It is very disappointing to see someone you really trust, can talk behind your back or does something you did not expect them do.  When we come across such encounters we get so offended to a point we also pretend to them they did not hurt us and yet inside us we are hurting or looking for ways of venting and revenging.

As days go by, I have come to realize the best thing to do is to have a  few friends and build on those friendships.  I know it cannot be a very easy thing to do in the world of today, but it is good to be vulnerable to a few people than a multitude of people who will always laugh at you and wish you the worst every time, when you think they are supporting you.   Most of the time the many people you have as friends will gang up to fight you, and you wonder how come all of them treat you the same.  The fact is that, they have ganged against you/colluded to fight you and they will never treat you well nor wish you well.    

It is still very unfortunate that the same people you share with your victories and weakness will make sure you do not enjoy your victories and will also use the weaknesses to pin you down to a point that you can’t even raise your head.  If you can have a few friends, whom you will be vulnerable to, then it will be easy to handle such friendships because there is no guarantee they will be 100% good to you, but you will try to be the person who is in sane and help them bring sanity in the world of today that is full of uncertainty.   What I mean here is that, you will be the peace maker and they will emulate your good and thus have a circle of friends who have value for each other and love each other genuinely without judging each other and taking advantage of each other.  When you do this, you will bring the difference in the friendships, where you will love unconditionally, respect even if you are not respected as respect is earned,  tolerate some things as you work on how to deal with them accordingly,  know what to say, when and how to say it, take care of your vulnerability so that you are not taken advantage of,  be ready to serve others rather than wait to be served, in case you hurt someone be the first person to say you are sorry and make up very fast instead of creating a mountain out of a molehill,  be the first to see something bad coming and you fight it before it catches up with you and your friendships and embrace many other positive aspect that brings about good and cherished friendships, that I have not mentioned in my examples.      

It is also good to realize that friends come in your life for a reason and for a season.  When that season and reason is over then you are allowed to let go when that time comes and wait for the next season and reason.  It is important to know that we are all human beings and we reason differently but still can be used positively to bring about constructive attributes rather than the negative ones to make our World good and enjoyable to live in.    It is also important to make a note on working on yourself first as it will be easy to relate with others whether they agree with you or not.  Remember not all will like you for who you really are.   To crown it all, have a personal relationship with God as he will guide and direct you in all what you do.  Today, I have decided to pray for all those who have hurt me in one way or the other.  If you are reading this and maybe I have crossed your way, please, I beg you, forgive me and let us walk in love and respect each other.  This world is very small I do not know where I will meet you, as may be, you will be the person who will help me or connect me to my destiny.  Love, Peace and Unity is a song I have chosen to sing from today henceforth.         

ARE YOU A POLITICIAN? LET ME BE ONE TODAY AND HEAR WHAT I HAVE TO SAY!

I hate politics but sometimes i am forced to engage in it once in a while as it is affecting me left, right, top and bottom.    When I pick newspapers and see how people react towards our President, I wish I was a fly, I fly all the way to their ears and be the irritating insect that jumps and enters in ones ear so that they become restless and uncomfortable, so that they can behave and know how to talk and especially to their President.  It is very painful to see the kind of leaders we have in our country, who are teaching our children bad manners and behaviours and we think we will ever bring change while we are impacting these phenomena so deeply through the children we are raising and leading.  It is sad when we sing all over how our President has failed and I wonder, do you want him to come even to your homes to lead your children.  Remember we are all leaders and we should start leading from our homes and not at the top country level only.  I know Kenyan’s are to be blamed because of the people they elect.  I will say this has been a scapegoat about the people we elect.  Remember there are many Kenyans who elect the right people but the ones who come to the leadership are the majority who are evil because they have manipulated people to sing their songs through their bribes,  fake promises where they take advantage of them using the very problems they have to be helped.  When someone comes and brings water, food and shelter for only a month we think that is the person who will help us, not knowing he is just blinding us with what we really need and that is the man we run for instead of looking for God and asking him to direct and connect us to the right people who are the few but are never put in positions just because they do not bribe and have no big support and crowds to back them up.  If you can stand before of a multitude and say words that are not worth to be said by someone like you ‘leader’ do you think you are doing good to your children and the people that are around you?  If you can also stand before men and tell them how you are going to bring change to them and when you get the position you are fighting about the money allocation and for the last two years you had the allocation that has not helped even a chicken, surely are you fighting for justice?     

I love the opposition but I hate the opposition that I see in Kenya in all areas it does not matter in homes, schools, work places, churches and the entire country.    The opposition we always get is not opposition to bring good change but fights, chaos, abuses, lack of respect, competition, jealous and many negative aspects that I have seen that I believe is not good opposition.  Today I want to talk as a leader from the blues but I have strong words to pass because I am this leader who is powerless but very powerful when it comes to expressing myself through my writings that are not published.  But I believe the few that will back me in the secret will stand with me and pray and ask God to give us wisdom so that we can affect and influence those that are around us positively and not negatively.  I am a fighter of justice, peace and harmony and I feel sad when I see everyone crying and looking for where to get help and they cannot.    May the Lord give us leaders who will focus on God and not human beings so that he can lead us in the right direction.   I love my country so much and I would never want anything bad to happen to my country and that is why I am waking up from my slumber and join those who are impacting the world in the silence and bring good and hope in our land.     

When a whole leader stands in a podium addressing the whole world and telling Kenyans how our President is operating under phobia and not looking so far what he has done, but just talk the negative instead of the positive, my heart bleeds as I say no to that and let me scream it out from my ribs.  You cannot be a leader way before my President was born and make noise towards him while you came in this world before him and you should be the one ruling and bringing all those changes and goodies you are talking about but not thwarting his efforts that he is trying to put to clean up the mess first that you left for him to come and lead from.  It hurts me so deep to see that, instead of supporting our President and helping him lead us well, you are there fighting him and making his leadership the hardest thing ever and you go on having sleepless nights making noise all over with your big mouth that can never be shut.  Instead of using the same big mount to proclaim peace, love and unity that will bring the good things we want in our country.  

Let me tell you today, you who is fighting the man God has elected.  You will pay a dear price for all what you are doing.  Remember it is not anyone who put President Uhuru Kenyatta in power.  It is God who did it.   It does not matter how you look at it.  That is your opinion only yourself can respect and can stand for.  But for us who know God and the God who we serve with our hearts, mind and soul.   We are convinced that He was picked by God. 

My point here as a Servant of God let me warn you all, before a calamity befalls all those who are making this reign difficult.  You will not see the goodness of the land when the Lord restores our country but your children will eat the fruit because they will be shocked by what the Lord will have done through you and it will be a big warning to them not to do what you are doing.    They will be forced to obey God and not a man because you are full of idols that you have made gods that have brought pain and havoc in our country.  No one is superior to our God and I will stand up and say, there is no man superior to God in our country Kenya.  Those gods you have put there so that you make them become a thorn in the flesh to our President Uhuru Kenyatta, God will strike them all and you will be shocked at what He is going to do soon.  He has already warned you through a few things he has done that have no explanations even after putting up forensics to see into them.  My dear friends you will be shocked by what the Lord is going to do.  You have become stubborn in the things of God and what you only want is the riches of this world and you have put the poor man in more pain and distress. The Lord in Heaven is seeing all this and when his wrath comes, no one should say we were never told.  My message today to everyone who is reading this message is, mind your big mouth and respect and honour the men in Authority.  If David himself could understand that point so clearly whereas he had all he had to kill that man (Saul) and take over because there were many chances for him to do that, but look at what that man of God did.  He waited for his time. But while he was waiting, he was not fighting Saul but he was serving his people fighting for them and defending them by doing things practically by fighting for them and giving the best example of leadership and not making noise that has no basis and fueling anger, pain and distress to the people.      I am posing a question for you leaders both in opposition and in the ruling parties.  My friends, what are you doing to the people that chose you, so that you bring change in their lives?  Were you put there to enrich yourselves and make all the mess we are seeing around us?  Look at our country, it is full of corruption, jealous, fights, diseases, fear, poverty, killings and many other things that we selected you to go and fight against, and especially for us people who are powerless but depend on you our leadership.  I am telling you those in leaderships, be it in the homes, villages, societies, communities, counties, countries, continents, and the entire world.  If you won’t stand in your places and influence the good that is expected, calamity is coming and will fall on us all because of ignorance, lack of obedience, self-control, greed, selfishness and injustice.  God in heaven is seeing all what is going on. We have taken advantage of the goodness that the Lord has given us and we are forgetting it is because God loves us Kenyans so much.   I wish we could have a glimpse of what other countries that are in torment and distress are going through.  That pain cannot even amount to our lack of food in our country for a day.  Why can’t we love God with all our heats, mind and soul and seek him so that he can show us the way?  I am not prophesying doom here, because God is speaking to us Kenyans. The rains can tell you of the love the Lord has for us Kenyans, the vegetables are singing in awesome of our God.  Look at our country a day like today 29^th May 2015.  It has taken many years to see such a climate and the food that is all over for us.  That is a sign that the Lord has heard our cry for those that are praying in our private places.  The Church has cried to God and asked for forgiveness from the Lord.  He has heard us, as the Lord is telling it all through the land vegetation and the green from the rains.    My dear friends let us respect God and love him with all our hearts.  To the Church, the Lord has heard our prayers and He says let us not give up on Him.  He is faithful and He is in control.  He has given the mandate to the Church and we are continuing to pray.  But he is saying let us not see the green and the plenty in the land so that we stop praying and trusting him.  He says let us continue loving him and walk in purity and obedience. He is going to do great things in our Land.  He is going to restore us and give us all what the devil has always fought against us.  But he tells us not to stop praying, fasting and obeying his word.  Arise! you who are called by him to serve him in the little and in the big places.  You have been placed by God and the Lord will lift and honour you.   He will restore your family, He will restore your homes, He will heal your land.  He will heal your bodies, He will bring hope where it has never been, He will crown his minority to majority, He will wipe all our tears, He will put gladness in our hearts. He will comfort us because it has not been easy in a long time, He will be lifted and glorified in this place our Land KENYA.

 

Lord hear us and come for us.  We need you every day in everything we do.  LONG LIVE KENYA!  Lord guide, direct, protect and give our President Uhuru Kenyatta  and his team wisdom, favour and patience to takes us to the next level. In Jesus Name I pray!  AMEN!!!!!!

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY JESUS TOLD PETER, ‘GET BEHIND ME, SATAN!

Are we sailing in the same boat when you wonder like me why Jesus had to tell Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan!  You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.’  Those who are Christians are familiar with that verse I have just quoted.  For those who are not, I will give you a chance to read it in Matthew 16:23.  It will not break any arm if you read the whole chapter including the verse to understand better.  By reading it, it may even make more sense/or get the gist to understand what I want to talk about.  The concerns of God that Jesus was talking about were the hidden things that we do not know about us, but are revealed to us as mystery through Him (Son of God Jesus Christ).  These are called the Spiritual matters in other words. 

I have been going to church for many years and I have read that verse many times, but I have never understood why Jesus had to tell a friend that.  I felt somehow he was too hash to Peter and every time I read that, I did not want to be fooled that Jesus was calling Peter an enemy whereas I knew they were good friends and actually one of his favourite disciple and i am happy i did not do that as my Pastor through his preaching confirmed to me that, he was not trying to pin him down as many of us would think.  As I read more before, I always felt that Jesus was unfair to Peter forgetting I was judging from my human perspective and Jesus was judging from the Spiritual perspective, that is, according to Gods interpretation and not my thinking and understanding.  Peter was just trying to convince him not to die as he is a good person and does not deserve to die. Imagine a friend who you always walk with, eat with, fellowship with, preach with and do many other things with, telling you such a thing as, 'Get behind me, .......  I mean, I would feel very offended.  Many times our friends tell us things and we get so offended to a point that we do not even talk to them anymore.  Unfortunately, we do not get the point or misinterpret them to be bad people yet may be they meant it good for us telling us the truth who we really are but we never like being told who we really are especially when we are doing wrong knowing or unknowingly.      Can I also make you ponder on what Peter felt when he was called a Satan?  As for me as I was not there, I will guess that he felt so offended and no wonder we see him denying Jesus three times later.    Was he revenging because Jesus told him all that, or was he just being human where he wanted to save his life so that he is not implicated as we always do when we find ourselves on crossroads and fear to be associated with our friends especially when they are in problems?   We cannot really tell but this story is not different from our day in and out behaviors towards one another.  Peter is not an exceptional nor are you, as we are all human beings and we are bound to fall short of the glory of God.  Remember Jesus knew everything that Peter was going to do and as much as he knew that, he did not put him aside and said, this one, will deny me at some point I do not need him as a friend, or he is not someone I can trust.  Remember Jesus was doing everything with him even in His knowledge that he would deny him at some point, cut someone’s ear and doubt him when he gets in the middle of the water when he called him and many other things that are not recorded in the Bible to get the gist even clearer.  These are the things that we do always in our daily life.  Denying our Lord by mistreating others, doubting God when we are going through storms, defending sin, or murmuring and grumbling when things are not working our way just to mention a few.  But Jesus made Peter his best friend still even with all these struggles he had.  This applies to us too, as in, Jesus does not call you because you qualify, but he calls you because you were disqualified but qualifies you as you walk with him daily.    To him it did not matter about Peter’s weaknesses or shortcomings.   What mattered is that the will of God would be done as he had ordained it through him.  We also see Peter's role and presence was also ordained as we see he became one of the biggest teachers of the word after Jesus died and resurrected.       

There was to be a story behind his dying on the cross and Peters role, plus Judas  and others were meant to be so that the prophesy can be fulfilled.  Now I understand why Peter was really against Jesus dying for us.  As in, would you want anyone that you love with all your heart dying for you in real sense?  Most of the time as human beings, we always want good for our family, friends and those that really matter to us.  For me, I find Peter a very good and caring person who would never want anything bad to anyone and especially his best friend Jesus.  I still now understand from my Pastors preaching on Sunday that, Jesus was not calling Peter Satan, but what the Satan was saying through Peter.  You will wonder can someone who knows God especially in our case, someone like Peter, speak something from the evil one? Most of the time we think as Christians, Satan cannot use us to carry his mission.  I will shock you, most of the times he does use us because when you look around you, the evil that is there is too much and yet we claim to be Christians 80% in case of Kenya for example.    I can’t mention about other parts of the world, as I can’t fathom the number of us who are Christians and the things we do that are so evil instead of influencing the world positively to curb the evil that is around us.    May the Lord have mercy on us!     When you call yourself a Christian and you go backbiting others, speak ill of others, analyze/judging others negatively, lying, taking advantage of others, feeling superior than others, not taking care of the weak ones and orphans, not respecting our elders and thinking we are of the same age, not obeying God in the very many ways he speaks to us, making this world a fighting ground, not respecting authorities, and being corrupt and doing injustice things, not having mercy and compassion and many other things we do that offend God, are we not being used of the evil one and we claim to be children of God?    Now get this, Peter was innocently defending Jesus as a friend and responded to him just as a human being.  Just as we do defend one another whether they are in the right or wrong as we always want good for our own.    But Jesus death was for a greater cause and mission that the devil knew very well and he could not allow it happen because it would have saved even that Peter as we see Jesus died for us all and not for some.  Unfortunately, the devil has been lying to most of us just as He was manipulating Peter not to understand that Jesus death was for a good cause, and thus, many people fear salvation or even fear to say they are saved/born-again when they are because they think to be saved you have to be very holy forgetting that we can never be Holy it is only Jesus who is Holy as he died for us so that we can be set free. We are only meant to understand that He is the Son of God; He came to earth and died for our Sins so that we can have a fellowship with God because when we (Adam and Eve) sinned there was a gap that needed a bridge so that we can reach God.  That bridge was no one else but Jesus Christ the Son of God.    That mentality of thinking that once you receive Christ you should not slip has made everyone scale Christians so highly posing it to look like if you are a Christian, you should never fall and if you do then that is so bad of you and people start talking about you and making it a big fuss. I am not defending sin here my dear friends, but I want to put my point clear here and now that, you can never be Holy on your own.  It is only through Jesus that you can be made Holy as you will always sin but our God is very merciful  and willing to forgive you and me as many times as possible as we work towards our perfection through him who perfects us and not ourselves.   This attitude has made many people even those who know Jesus deny him just like Peter as they can never say in public they are born again because of the sins that are entangling them in fear to be judged.    As I write this I will not tell you I am writing all this because I am not holier than thou.  I am saying this boldly that I am a sinner and I also get short of the glory of God now and then, but when he corrects me, rebukes me, I always go back to him and ask for forgiveness and my God is so faithful, this far he has brought me from the dungeons of the evil one to his best place of having a good and sweet fellowship with him personally.  I have come to realize most of the time when we are born again we think that there are things we can’t do or rather you think you keep yourself away from sin.   I will tell you, that is a lie  no man that can save himself and walk holy even if they lock themselves in a room where they will not mingle with sinners.    As a Christian you will fall many times but you will wake up, repent and go to your next level after you win the temptation.    It is only Jesus the Son of God who was assigned this mission to die for you and me so that we can be called the righteous of God and live a Holy life.   Without him we can never be Holy.  We face God because Jesus is our righteousness as He died for us and now we have peace with our God and we can face him directly through his Son Jesus Christ.  There is a lie we have always clung on that there are some people who are holier than others and we seek them to lay hands on us so that we can be blessed of the lord and be healed from all our sickness, be forgiven our sins as we think when they pray that is when God will hear them and forgive us.   We have been blinded so much by those who claim to be more holier or powerful making us think their prayers are more heard than ours, and many many things we do in the name of looking for health, wealth and forgiveness forgetting that Jesus is the only way the truth and the life.  No one goes to the Father except through him.   If you are his child you have all it takes to be used of the Lord through his Power for his glory.   If you know the power God has given you, you would not go seeking for other people to do anything for you, but have a personal relationship with him who will reveal to you many wonderful things that he has in store for you that you can’t think of or imagine.   You are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus.  If you do not know Jesus as your Lord, I wonder who helps you reach him because if you do it on your own, then your prayers and works are futile and they will earn you nothing but hell. 

Happy are you who has given your life to the Lord not only your live but your will to him as your Lord and Savior.  Jesus did it for you once and for all on the cross, and  what you only need to do is to surrender yourself fully to him and he will direct the other things in place.    Not because when you do that you will not fall.  No! But because he did or rather died for you 2000 years ago, then you should not walk in guilt and fear of the unknown but walk with confidence that even if you fall, he will hold your hand and bring you back on the track so that you continue with the journey.  As in, you won’t walk alone he will be with you in all you go through, that is, your falling, your storms and all other things that you will meet on your way.  He will enable you overcome and crown you his servant.     Even if you will fall, you will realize your mistake and repent and seek him more so that you overcome all your weaknesses.  In the process of doing so, you will understand it is not you who called yourself but he called you just the way you are and as you continue having a fellowship with him, then, he will make you Holy just as He is because every temptation that will come your way, He will deal with it together with you and affirm you that it is over.  Jesus telling Peter go away you Satan did not mean he hated Peter or he had no value for Peter, it was just that he was speaking to the Satan himself because he knew the world (evil one and his agents) would have loved him not dying for his people and continue keeping them captive not excluding Peter whom the devil was taking advantage of.  We see he never hated Peter because even after he rose again, he appeared to him and other disciples confirming to them that truly He was God and no wonder he gave Peter the mandate to take care of his sheep (people) and proclaim Him all over the world that He is Lord.  And because Peter was set free he started a new journey with the Lord as a person who was set free and ready to be used of him and continued serving God in a mighty way.    

I guess sometimes we ought to rebuke the Satan in our own lives so that we can be set  free as still, there are those who are in the world of darkness and have not seen the light or ignored the light and sought to lead themselves.   Most of the time the things that hold us back, make us not enjoy life to the fullest because we live a lie with the enticements from the evil one who makes us lose the mark making things look like they are fine and okay whereas we are leading us to death/hell.     For example you are born again but you still practice things that are not good that have made you stagnate in your relationship with God, can you rebuke them and say as Jesus said to Satan, You adultery! You hypocrite!  You gossiper! You liar!  You intimidate!  You prostitute! You robber! You hater!  You silent criminal!  You cigarette!  You brothel!  You beer! You pornography! And many other things that you know are hindering you having a relationship with Jesus.  Can you rebuke them now and tell God to help you.  I know some might doubt if this can happen just like that.     I will tell you from deep my heart, you can rebuke all that and others if you just accept you are not walking right with God and ask for forgiveness.   God is faithful and just and will forgive you your sins and purify you from all your unrighteousness because if we claim we have no sin we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.  So, we all need Jesus every day in our life.  No one is exceptional here. We need to have a personal walk with him so that he can guide and direct us to  walk in righteousness and be used of him for his purpose and glory.  May the Lord help you to know exactly where you stand so that you can start a fresh with him.  If you are a backslider or you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour then do that very soon.  Do not waste any more time.  Visit one of the Bible believing Churches and connect with other believers. Your life will never be the same.  God bless you all.