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  • Was Jesus Separated from the Father on the Cross?

    At the very heart of the Christian faith lies the death of Jesus Christ — the greatest act of sacrifice, love, and justice history has ever known. However, one statement Jesus made on the Cross has been tremendously misunderstood and misinterpreted because of lack of doctrine. After this study, you will realise why the emphasis of the Spirit this Easter is on doctrine. When we don’t know the voice of Scripture, we will pick a detail and ignorantly misinterpret it out of the bigger picture and not know how dangerous it is. Was Jesus separated from the Father on the Cross? This question is often provoked by Jesus’ harrowing cry:

    “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
    Matthew 27:46 / Mark 15:34

    Some have taught that in that moment, the Father turned away from the Son. The Father could not look at His Son because He was so filthy from carrying the sins of the whole world. He separated from Him temporarily, especially the humanity aspect of Jesus. For the first time in history, Jesus suffered rejection from the Father. From forsook to abandon to separated, but is that what Scripture really reveals? Let’s carefully journey through this question under three clearly established biblical doctrines.

    God is One

    Before facing the brutality of the Cross, Jesus made this unshakable statement:

    “Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.” — John 16:32

    Even as betrayal loomed and death approached, Christ affirmed His confidence in the Father’s ever-present oneness. This unity wasn’t temporary — it was, and is, eternal and indivisible.


    If Jesus cannot be separated from God, why did He say that His God has forsaken Him? Jesus was pointing out by Himself that His sufferings and pain were not random; it was prophesied that the Messiah will have to go through it all to fulfil all righteousness. He was quoting Psalm 22:1, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” He was not declaring a divine divorce — Before 1227, there were no chapters and verses in Scriptures. Because the Bible was memorized in Jewish custom, immediately you mentioned the first verse, you were reminding them of the entire chapter. Jesus was showing them that Psalm 22 is a Messianic Psalm whose biblical details pertained to Him right now on the Cross. Read Psalm 22. Inasmuch as the first verse was asking why God has forsaken him, it clearly shows severally that He wasn’t forsaken at all:

    “For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from him; but when he cried to Him, He heard.” — Psalm 22:24

    But Daniel, this explanation you are giving is too long and sounds too technical. Biblical doctrine has established without fail that God is One. Thus, all Scripture ought to be interpreted from that light. Besides, if God the Son could be separated from God the Father, why will the Son now commit His Spirit to Him while still on the Cross? The final moments affirm this:

    The Triune Work of Redemption

    Just like in creation, redemption was also the work of the Triune God. God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit had distinct roles to play. Thus, the Cross was not a moment of divine division — it was the greatest demonstration of the Trinity of the Godhead at work to redeem humanity and reconcile them into divinity.

    “Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God…” — Hebrews 9:14

    The Son, through the Holy Spirit, offered Himself to the Father. Notice — Father, Son, and Spirit — all actively and harmoniously involved in the work of redemption.

    Even as Jesus bore the full weight of sin, “In Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form (Colossians 2:9). God was not absent. In fact:

    “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them.” — 2 Corinthians 5:19

    Notice — not “God was separated from Christ,” but God was in Christ. It cannot get clearer than this. The Father didn’t abandon the Son; He was actively present in Him, reconciling humanity to Himself. The Son was not alone on the Cross. The Spirit strengthened Him, the Father was with Him, and redemption was fully accomplished through perfect divine harmony.

    Why is it Important to Know This?

    The idea that the Father turned His face away from Jesus is not only unsupported by Scripture — it is theologically dangerous. We just took one harmless verse out of context and read exaggerated meanings into it, not knowing how harmful it is to the overall framework of Scripture. Notice how i didn’t explain intellectually; I used Scripture to explain Scripture. Now, show me just one verse that says that Jesus was separated from the Father on the Cross? So you see how false doctrines are innocently yet dangerously formed?

    This false doctrine is actually not new at all. It leans toward Nestorianism, an early heresy condemned by the Church, which dangerously divided Jesus’ humanity from His divinity. If the Father forsook the Son, it implies a fracture in the eternal Trinity — something that cannot happen.
    God is eternally one, indivisible in essence, nature, and being. To say there was separation is to say Jesus stopped being God for a moment. To say there’s a separation is to say there’s a difference between the human Jesus who suffered separation and the Christ who is God. All are doctrinally wrong and dangerous. Have you seen how one exaggerated explanation of one verse can cause a serious doctrinal error condemned and contrary to Scripture?

    This is one of the heresies the devil perpetuates in literally every generation because it affects two fundamental aspects of Christianity; the humanity of Jesus and the divinity of Jesus. This forms part of the essentials of biblical doctrine and if you don’t believe rightly, you are not to be even considered a believer. You ought to believe that Jesus is both fully human and fully God, that there is one God, and that there is no separation between Jesus (the human) and Christ (the Lord). We should never in any way try to separate Jesus and Christ. He is literally the same person, fully human and fully God.

    Believing in a moment of separation also dangerously portrays a God divided at the hour of salvation. Yet He said “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5). If this is His promise to us, how much more was it true for His only begotten Son, who He is eternally one with? The Cross was not God punishing an innocent Jesus while turning away — it was God in Christ, fully present, bearing our sins, conquering death, and reconciling us to Himself. Let us not use the Cross, the place of reconciliation of divinity with humanity as a place where divinity was separated. That’s heresy.

    The Cross : The Altar of Reconciliation

    The Cross was not a moment of abandonment — it was the climax of eternal unity. Yes, Jesus felt the crushing weight of sin.Yes, He endured the agony of death that humanity deserved. Yet, He was never separated from the Father. The Father was in Him.
    The Spirit upheld Him, and God accomplished the greatest act of love and justice ever witnessed in history. As believers, we rest confidently in this unbroken truth: “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” — 2 Corinthians 5:19

    We have been given this same ministry of reconciliation, for those who were far have been brought near by the Blood. I have been committed with the Word of Reconciliation. I implore you: be reconciled with God!

  • Systems of Creation & Rest: the Kingdom of God

    God created the world in six days and rested on the 7th. Why would the Omnipotent God who can create everything at once take His time to create the world in six days? Because He is a God of Protocol and Structure. He created time for the purposes of processes. He does not live in time and is not bound by time. Therefore, His work in time is preplanned, protocoled, structured and executed. He never skips any process whatsoever. Until we understand the protocols of Heaven, we will doubt the Omnipotence of God.

    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Since the creation of the heavens is of no direct benefit to us now, the details of creation are focused on that of the earth. See, not everything is given to us to know. What is secret belongs to God. What has been revealed belongs to us. You can easily waste your life acquiring strange knowledge that will not benefit you in any way.

    Knowledge is good but not all knowledge is relevant. Sometimes what you know stops you from knowing what you ought to know. The most difficult people to bring to light are those who have studied darkness. Stay away from reading extra-biblical and occultic books. If it’s not relevant to the Gospel of the Cross of Christ and the Kingdom of God, it’s not for you to know in this age. Selah!

    Wherever you find formlessness, you find darkness. Wherever there is a void, you make room for darkness. In every relevant area of your destiny and life, never leave room for even doubt. Speak the Word of Light into that area. Fill it all with the Light of the Word. So you see…on one hand, you can be swindling in the deepest darkness (if your light is darkness, how deep that darkness is) when you meddle in needless study of “darkness”.

    On the other hand, the very areas where you ought to speak light, you may have left unattended. You may be studying doctrines of demons. Meanwhile, the corridors of your soul that need attention are encapsulated with gross darkness. Seek light! Any form of ignorance in an area you ought to know is a foothold for the kingdom of darkness. What you don’t know will be used against you.

    In the creation, we see an alignment. The first day corresponds to the fourth day. The second day corresponds to the fifth day. The third day corresponds to the sixth day. On the first day, God created day and night so that on the fourth day, He could create the sun to govern the day and the moon to govern the night.

    On the second day, God separates the waters above from the waters below so that on the fifth day, He could create birds in the waters above and fish in the waters below. The same pattern is seen in the third and sixth day where God created the land on the third so he could create land creatures on the sixth. He also created seed-bearing trees on the third so He could create seed-carrying humans on the sixth.

    What does this teach us? A system that works first of all creates its environment before creating its product. God created land before creating land animals. Do the opposite and you will create products into a void. This is why the first thing you need before you create anything is Light. Be enlightened.

    If you lack Light, things will remain without form. How does one activate the Light into gross darkness. The pattern is clear! It is a partnership between the Spirit of God and the Word of God. This partnership brings life into a situation, just like that of the dry bones in Ezekiel’s time. This Life is the Light of men.

    We are really like a tree as Psalm 1:3 says. We are synthesized by Light. In His Light we see Light. Photosynthesis is the process of making food with light. We feed ourselves with light. The more light you have, the more you shine away the darkness in secret places. The very first we are compared to are trees and it’s not a coincidence at all. Like trees, we are planted in Him, deeply rooted and stemmed from Him.

    Like trees, we carry seeds and are fruitful. We are pruned and watered by the Word. As trees, we grow roots first. The leaves are what make photosynthesis possible. Have a structure that makes receiving from God always possible. That’s how you grow. The deeper the depths, the higher the heights. The tree system is the most self-sustaining in the whole earth. Every company that builds its structure like a tree will be sustainable; take root, one simple stem, complex inner networks, many branches, surplus fruits.

    Also, a system that works is one that creates an environment and then creates a government to overlook the enabled environment. It is not a system if it is not governed or overseen. There is no sun and moon for the first 3 days of creation. Scientifically, we think it’s not possible because what causes day and night is the rotation of the earth around the sun. However, the main reason God created the sun was to govern the day.

    Check Genesis 1:16. That means the sun is to make sure that there is daytime. What a God! The sun tells the time of the day, the moon tells the day of the month and the constellation of the stars tells the month of the year. These lights are for signs and seasons. Even time is governed in God’s system. What system have you created without government?

    God did not rest until He created the ultimate steward; a man in His own image and likeness. He could have chosen to create man first and make him observe how He created the world. As aforementioned, that detail was irrelevant to His purposes for man. He chose to create a miniature Heaven on Earth before creating His Image and Likeness to steward it.

    One of the worst mistakes you can make is to choose a “governor” and not give any mandate. Any employee who does not know the vision of the company will only work to get paid. Yet, we have church members who know nothing about the tenets of their faith. Eve failed because of inadequate information about the mandate. The devil exploited her ignorance and brought in darkness. You are not at rest as a creator if your followers don’t know the vision and mandate.

    So you see? Until you create a structure that governs your works, you cannot enter into rest. In rest, you stop working while your system works for you. If only you could read more, I would have shown you the systems God put in place with the Tabernacle of Moses. You have ignited your spirit with fire and you are wondering how people stay on fire for the rest of their lives? They have set up a structure to keep them continually ablaze.

    You want to be consistent and yet you are leaving so much to chance. Diligence is not by lack. It is sustained by systems. Set up structures. Creating an atmosphere is difficult. Sustaining it is even more difficult. Set up structures. What structures have you put in place to put you at rest in a particular matter?

  • The Good, the Bad & the Devil

    God is good and the devil is bad. A 3-year old can perfectly understand this statement but a 30-year old may have his/her own doubts. How can such a simple statement be so difficult to understand? That’s because the systems of the world work hard to make the devil more real to us than God. Not just that; sometimes certain mindsets and ideologies make us think as if God is the devil. Even worse, sometimes we make God look like the devil’s accomplice, allowing evil to befall us as He looks unconcerned.

    As a result, the world makes it easier for us to blame God and unfortunately, people generally fear the devil more than God. No doubt the “God is good, and the devil is bad” statement is becoming a hard pill to swallow for the average person. Good is the new bad or bad is the new good? How come the devil is getting sympathy votes while God is getting blamed like He is the devil?

    People are so bent on believing that God is not always good that they will be tempted to believe that the devil is sometimes good as if they are the determiners of what is good and bad. God is good. The devil is bad. It’s not just their acts, it’s their embodiment. No matter what God does, it’s good. No matter how bad it looks, it is good. Look in the mirror; who could have imagined that dirt would look so good? lol

    In the same vein, no matter what the devil does, it’s bad. He doesn’t have the ability to do good. Remember the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? His good seems right to man but the end is death. His good leads to evil. No matter how good it looks, it turns to evil. He’s accursed. In fact, that’s the same curse that worked its way and spread throughout the earth when the portal of sin was opened. Everything in its natural state will eventually corrupt. No matter how beautiful a flower is, it will begin to decay and suffer death as its wage.

    The same logic that makes us confuse good with bad is the same one that makes us confuse love with lust, confidence with arrogance, sustenance with greed and so on. It is important to understand that good and bad takes their roots in Love and hate respectively. If God’s Love for us and the devil’s hate for us has been downplayed in our thinking, obviously it will be hard to understand who is good and why He’s good and vice versa.

    Since you’ve heard time and again why God loves you, how about I tell you why the devil hates you?

    The devil wanted so bad to be like God (Isaiah 11:14) that he convinced a third of the angels in heaven that God is bad to make him look good. Before God humbled Him, He made man in His image and likeness. Do you get it? What the devil was dying to be, God put it in dirt and multiplied it all over the earth. God made man what the devil wants to be.

    The devil was thrown down to earth only to be teased and terrified by the very people with the deity of the Godhead dwelling within them. No wonder He hates your guts so much. Any good he does for you is an attempt to exchange for the authority as an image of God. Remember Esau so you don’t sell your priceless birthright for the devil’s cheap goodies.

    Now you not only know why God loves you so much, but you also know why the devil hates you so much. Don’t ever think he has anything good to offer in any way. God created you to be more superior to the devil. It should make you more confident as a being and also cautious enough to not hand over your authority to it. So live life knowing that not only is the devil under your feet, but the good God is on your side. Isn’t God good?

    I love you ❤️

  • How Faith Works

    How Faith Works

    “And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, “Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
    Luke 17:5-6

    Mulberry Tree
    Notice in the verse above that Jesus didn’t say ask God to uproot the mulberry tree. Sometimes out of desperation, we pray to God to take “Goliath” away. But Jesus told us to speak to the mountain and to the tree, the obstacle. Speak! That is the believer’s authority. In the above verse, notice that the verbs (pulled up, planted) are in the past tense. It is called the passive imperative tense. It means speaking about something that will happen like it has already happened. Faith is not believing in what God will do. It is believing in what He has already done. So when you speak, speak as if it is done. Notice that it is also a command and not a request. “Be pulled up!” not “please go”. Command that sickness to leave. Command that burden to fall off. Command that yoke to be destroyed. Command that curse to be uprooted. Command it in Jesus’ name.“Do I have to say it once and fight my mind from doubting?”. Jesus said, “if you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say…”
    The phrase “you can say” is the Greek word “lego” which is in the imperfect active imperative tense. This means it is a repeated action. It means as long as you don’t give up, it will come to pass. When God sends His Word, it doesn’t return to Him void. When you send His Word, it won’t return to you void.When you stop believing, it is like cancelling the Word you sent. Because Faith is the driving force of the Word. The Word is a Word of Faith. So I want you now you keep believing. And keep speaking. Speak words into the atmosphere. Speak words into the universe. And as long as you hold on to Faith, the Word will not return to you void.I love you ❤

  • El-Dosted: The God that Maketh Rich

    So last week, we started a profound conversation about what actually makes one wealthy. Initially, I didn’t want to conclude anything, especially on the three sides I chose; God, Hard Work or Wisdom. From the comments I got, I realized how everyone agreed that it’s pretty much complicated.

    After careful contemplation, I came to the conclusion that the 21st-century person is more unlikely to believe in God for wealth. Perhaps, the lifestyle of the Christian pertaining to riches has been such a poor example to the simpleton that people would rather believe in anything else other than God to make them rich.

    In fact, the average Christian believes in God but not in the money aspect. That part is none other than theory to all of us, I guess. Practically, we shout amen to all the declarations and go back to our poor miserable lives the next day. So why don’t we talk about that? Does wealth have anything to do with God at all?

    I’m case you missed it, click on the thumbnail below to catch up on what we are talking about. Then, you can jump back in again.

    What Makes One Wealthy? God, Hard Work or Wisdom?

    The Provision of God

    For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

    Matthew 5:45

    Christians think they are so special. Just like any other religious group, they think their God will only be kind to them and be rude to everyone else. God is not like that. Even though the sins of the wicked will not go unpunished, He is still gracious to everybody. We are all God’s creation. We are God’s handiwork.

    Remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to become rich.

    Deuteronomy 8:18

    We are made in His image. When it comes to ability, potential, purpose, and provision, He gives each and everyone that. Whether you believe it or not. Whether you know Him or not. Whether you are a Christian or not. That provision of God is still made available to you. This provision includes the potential to be prosperous and the ability to make wealth. God shows favour, not favouritism.

    The Propensity of God

    The LORD makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up.

    1 Samuel 2:7

    Oh yeah….one thing about God; He does what He likes. He can make you poor. Always remember this; prosperity is for a purpose. Forget about the person not being a Christian. God has the Propensity to make someone rich and lay it on the person’s heart to solve a world problem. When God gives you wealth and you think it’s for only you but it was up to only you to become rich, God can take it away.

    Why is this important to know? People think this makes God look schizophrenic, doing both good and bad and playing God and the devil sometimes. This is not so. If God didn’t have the power to destroy, cause afflictions, send poverty etc. He will have to rely on the devil to punish wrongdoers, thus making Him the devil’s accomplice. Every Judge has the power to save and destroy. If God can make you rich, He can make you poor. If He can exalt you, He can humble you as well.

    But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’ ”

    Luke 12:20

    This is a really hard truth that many people don’t want to hear. The same God who can save can destroy. If He can make you whole, He can also make you empty. If He can make you rich, He can also make you poor. This is not a dualistic universe where God can only heal and the devil can only destroy. God can do all things. God can heal and also destroy. That is why Jesus said do not fear the one who can destroy the body. Fear the one who can destroy both the body and soul.

    The Exceeding Riches of God

    And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because a person’s true life is not made up of the things he owns, no matter how rich he may be.”

    Luke 12:15

    The Exceeding Riches of God is not even about having a fat salary. It’s not about money. It’s not even about material wealth. Do you know that, even in the financial world, a wealthy man is not one who has a lot of money? It is the one who has the ability to create wealth. This is why people who win the lottery never sustain their wealth. They go back to being broke. If you took all the money in the world and shared it equally, eventually those who were rich will become rich again.

    This is why you shouldn’t be jealous of the facade of worldly riches. Worldly riches don’t last. It is not sustainable. The Exceeding Riches of God is from generation to generation. Can you become rich outside of God’s principles and outlines? Of course. You can go for blood rituals. You can join a rich occult group. You can engage in Internet fraud. You can create/ modify deadly diseases in the lab. You can even sell your soul. Guess what? That wealth won’t last.

    God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who please him. But if a sinner becomes wealthy, God takes the wealth away and gives it to those who please him.

    Ecclesiastes 2:26 NLT

    In the end, it is God who blesses. There are those who made wealth and cannot even enjoy it. Down the line, that wealth ended in the hands of the one God wanted to give it to. The Exceeding Riches of God is a kind of wealth that nourishes you multi-dimensionally. There is a kind of wealth that people get at the expense of their family and relationships. Others, at the expense of their health and vitality. No need to be envious of such wealth. It is God who blesses, and He adds no sorrow to it.

    Good people will have wealth to leave to their grandchildren, but the wealth of sinners will go to the righteous.

    Proverbs 13:22

    You don’t need to live a lifetime to discover this. If you want the kind of wealth that is not tied to something outside of you; the kind of wealth that is multi-dimensional; the kind of wealth that you get to enjoy; the kind of wealth that you get to pass to your children and grandchildren; the kind of wealth that is tied to God’s purpose; then look to no one else other than El-Dosted. His streets are made of pure gold. Gold and silver are His. His rewards exceed all riches, for His Exceeding Riches are incomprehensible.

    Shout-out to El-Dosted!

  • What It Means to Have Intercourse with God

    Imagine being a King. Everything you create becomes a slave to you. Then one day, you look in the mirror. You see your image. It smiles when you smile. It talks when you talk. Then you get a wonderful idea. “Since I can do whatever I want, how about I give life to my image. He will rule over everything I’ve created. He will think like me, and be my best friend.

    What’s my point? Without downplaying the established fact that God created us to worship Him, the primary reason God created us is for intimacy. For us to understand how much He desires us, He intentionally creates everything apart from what Adam could actually be very intimate with; a woman. This was somewhat Adam’s first experience of how God feels when He sees us.

    As soon as Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh“, he fundamentally understood in his own experience our intimacy with God. “For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.” We will never fundamentally understand God as our Father until we become a parent. We will never fundamentally understand God as our Husband until we fall in love. What’s my point? Your whole experience in life, regardless of the fall of man, was designed to bring you into experiential knowledge and intimacy with God.

    That’s why we have sex; so that by experiencing what it means to be one flesh with another human, we understand what it means to experientially know God. That’s how come Paul was able to easily explain it to the church of Corinth; do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. In other words, all experiences in life in obedience to God is a replica of our intimate experience with God.

    Even giving birth to someone who looks or behaves like you in one form or another makes us understand what it’s like to be born of God and be in His image. And Adam …. begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, Genesis 5:3 says.

    It’s interesting to know that Moses used the Hebrew word yada as the verb in Genesis 4:1; “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived”. It’s obvious Adam had sexual intercourse with Eve, but Moses didn’t use sakab which he used in Genesis 19:33 to refer to Lot’s daughter sleeping with his Dad. The connotation is, we know someone on a very different level after having intercourse with them. Intimacy is not just sakab, it’s yada.

    Jesus said, “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. Revelation knowledge is birthed in intimate relationship with God. Did you get it? God wants to yada with us. Nyame yada wo. The question is, wo yada Nyame? God is not looking for someone who has figured Him out. He will always bring confusion to the tower of Babel. God is looking for someone who longs for Him.

    Isn’t it interesting that the Bible says that “in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge? Not just the fact that it’s ALL. It’s also the fact that it is not only found in Him, but hidden in Him. He wants intimacy. He wants yada. That’s why He speaks in mysteries. These mysteries will never be understood outside of relationship. It’s just information when you’re outside of intimacy. It’s transformational when He reveals to you in the confides of His intimacy with you.

    That’s why your dreams from God are not straightforward. He doesn’t want you to replace Him with a dream manual. He wants you to yada with Him till He reveals it to you. That’s why it’s wrong to seek God for ministry or revelation or insight. You’re saying, “I want the fruit of intimacy without the intimacy”. That’s why your prayers aren’t getting answered. You want the benefits but you don’t want to commune with Him. The prerequisite for getting all your prayers answered is yada. “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.“

    I’ve given you the secret of the covenant. Write it in your journal. Meditate on it. This is why we seek God. This is why God always speaks in a mystery. This is why we meditate on God’s Word. By meditating, we yada Him.

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  • God’s Best Model

    Every creator’s fingerprint is evidentially left on his creation. Everything God created manifests His Glory. Every living thing teaches one thing or another about God. God is seen in all He created. His creation was made in His likeness, but guess who is His best model? You guessed right! We are His masterpiece.

    Jesus said you shall be witnesses unto me, not witnesses unto the world. Witnessing is not just evangelism. It is a legal term.

    In the law court, when I choose a witness to support my stance, the person is a witness unto me. What does the witness do? He comes as an evidence that what I actually say is real and true. The world will believe if we live the life we promise they’d have if they believe in Christ.

    We are a living evidence to the Kingdom of God. We are called to live the Kingdom life. You can only teach what you’ve experienced. You can give only what you have. You can impact what has been impacted on you. Walk the talk. Even children follow your example, not your advice. If you truly believe what you confess to be, then it must reflect in your life.

    We’re a living epistle of Christ. This is the life. Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Let’s be true models to the world.

    I love you ❤️

  • The Foolishness of God

    The Foolishness of God

    God’s first foolishness is seen in his outpour of free will to His creation. Why give all heavenly beings free will if it can bring about the possibility of a devil? What makes it an even harder pill to swallow is the fact God knew it would happen. And He literally sets up the stage for it then watches it happen.

    God’s second foolishness is seen in His creation of man. If God ever had a weakness, it was us. That’s why the enemy spends all his time trying to destroy us. God literally said that “…whoever touches you touches the pupil of my eye”, and that’s exactly what the enemy wants to do. Human beings are so dumb in the eyes of the powers of darkness. To them, we look like a prince who doesn’t know he’s a prince and lives like a pauper. They’re literally always licking our brains to believe in the dumbest things.

    God’s third foolishness is putting that tree in the garden. He put right in the middle, where it cannot be unseen. Then, He tells the man not to eat from it. It’s like telling a kid not to switch on the TV and putting the remote right next to him. It only sparks more curiosity. Did God actually expect Adam not to eat from the tree? If He didn’t, why did God put the tree in the garden?

    God’s forth foolishness is dying for the sins of humanity and giving us grace. God must be pretty dumb to think we wouldn’t abuse Grace. Now instead of praying to God for a car for many years, I can steal one in a day then ask for forgiveness. The picture of God in our minds has moved from an always-angry, l-will-strike-you-with-thunder schizophrenic to the Mr Nice Guy literally everyone takes advantage of.

    But here is the Truth; God doesn’t need anyone to defend Him. He doesn’t need anyone’s advice. He doesn’t need to explain Himself to anyone. We are too finite to understand His infinite picture. He knows exactly what He’s doing. His Love cannot be taken advantage of and His Grace cannot be abused. The fact that he gave all of us minds of our own and even the ability to argue with Him that he’s wrong doesn’t mean He sometimes doesn’t know what He’s doing.

    There’s nothing that has happened; that is happening; that will happen that has taken, is taking and will take God by surprise. He cannot be blamed for our own demises because of His foreknowledge of all things. Sometimes our way of thinking actually equates God to the devil if we think about it carefully. He has the right to punish yet He chooses to admonish love. He allows our mistakes and gives us time to mature. He’s not accountable to anyone but everything is accountable to Him. Though we may be His weakness, He is our strength. Though He gives us the free will to push Him away, He will always hold us close.

    “because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.”

    He loves you ❤️

  • When God Became Man

    When God Became Man

    “But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,”

    ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭4:4‬ ‭GNB‬‬

    Jesus is the Son of God. Unlike us, Jesus chose the time He would be born; the perfect time ( Gal 4:4). But to us, God’s perfect time is usually not what we think it is.

    Jesus wasn’t born in the golden era of King Solomon, when there was so much peace and gold that even silver was considered worthless (1 Kings 10:21). No! He was born at the time of the Roman Empire, when Israel was still under the rule of the Romans.

    Julius Caesar is considered the most famous emperor of all time. When he died, he was canonized as a god. His son was enthroned and made Augustus Caesar, the emperor at the time Jesus was born (Luke 2:1).

    Augustus Caesar went by the title, the son of god (his father Julius Caesar) and he himself was also made a living god. He was popularly called our lord and master. Sounds familiar? These titles are what Jesus is popularly known by in our world today. But at the time he was born, it was popularly known to be the titles of Caesar across the entire world.

    By Jesus (popularly known to be a carpenter’s son) claiming to be the Son of God and God Himself, the Lord and Master, he was placing Himself in direct opposition with the emperor, the ruler of the world at the time.

    Jesus didn’t oppose Caesar but accepted his lordship in that world by claiming that His Kingdom is not of this world.

    What do we learn here? The fullness of God’s appointed time comes with the fullness of adversity. The more detailed the vision, the more entailed the opposition.

    Don’t ever think that because God has promised it, everything is going to run smooth. God can do it without promising, but the reason why He is promising you is because a rough road is coming. He gives you His promise so you have something to hold on to when the hard times come your way.

    Thus, the saying; He never promised an easy road but a safe landing. Hold on. God’s time is still the best!

    I love you ❤️

  • What It Means to Love One Another

    What It Means to Love One Another

    P.S. You don’t have to agree with me on this issue. We live in a system that makes people suspicious when you’re so good to someone and unsurprised when you do them bad. Love has become self-centeredness and people will be quick to take advantage of whatever love you have for them. Loving one another has therefore become culturally irrelevant.

    Loving one another with the Love of God means loving people unconditionally. Regardless of the person’s actions, words and deeds, your love is unrelenting. This is the kind of love that makes everyone know that we are disciples of Jesus (John 13:35). If you can show love to someone who feels unworthy, dirty or hard-hearted, it changes their lives forever.

    You cannot love someone more than you love yourself. Therefore, how you love others can depict how much you love yourself unconditionally. If someone wants to capitalize on your love for them by having you to prove it in any form, they don’t love you unconditionally. Remember, love is not earned. If there’s a reason why you love someone, that’s the condition for your love. Think about it!

    Loving with the Love of God means sacrificing your life for others. Jesus laid His life for us so that we’ll be able to lay down ours for others. This is what He means by losing your life for His sake (Matt 10:39, Matt 16:25, Mark 8:35, Luke 9:24 says the same thing). No matter what we do, our decisions affect other people. Love does not sacrifice others for the sake of oneself. It does not mean sacrificing oneself to the detriment of oneself either.

    There is the need to understand that you CAN lift others up by lifting yourself up. It’s not always that one has to come down for another to go up. Sacrifice is not always a substitution. Most times, it is taking that better alternative. Sacrificing for others simply means taking decisions that not only benefits you but benefits others also.

    Loving one another with the Love of God means seeing the good in people even in their evil. If God could see a great apostle to the Gentiles in a serial killer, why can’t you? Of course, this is not about being optimistic or positive-minded. It is about how you see people. Do you see people as their mistakes? Do you identify them with their flaws? This is a trustworthy saying; you cannot genuinely love someone and not see their true pure state. Love makes us understand that anything bad or evil people emulate is not their true nature. “Love does not rejoice in evil”.

    People are bigger than their shortcomings. How you identify them says more about you than about them.

    If only you could see through God’s eyes for one second and see how He sees them. God has indeed given us His eyes as the Body of Christ. If God can see bravery in Gideon who thought he was the biggest coward in the world, then you can too. If God can see a deliverer in a man who had become an outcast and send Moses back to Egypt and use him mightily, then you can too. But it’s only through God’s eyes.

    We can only love others unconditionally if we love ourselves unconditionally. On the other hand, we cannot love ourselves unconditionally and love others conditionally. It’s impossible! Truth is, we can only love ourselves unconditionally if we accept God’s unconditional love for us.

    God loves you. It’s not a theory. Once you bask in His Love and begin to experience His Love shed abroad in your heart, His Love flows to you through you to others. Therefore, our love for others shows that we love God. We cannot say we love God unconditionally if we don’t love others unconditionally. Unconditional Love is an unbroken chain. And it all begins with accepting God’s Love for you. Understand that God loves you. Love yourself. Love others. Love God.

    I love you ❤

  • Why Would A Loving God Send People to Hell?

    Why Would A Loving God Send People to Hell?

    “Who created hell in the first place?”

    “God”.

    “But why would a Loving God throw you in hell for not believing a set of beliefs? That’s insane.”

    “That’s a possible way to look at it, but that way would never make you understand. Let me give you an analogy;

    Accusing God for sending people to hell is like accusing a high court judge for sentencing someone to prison. What landed the person in prison; the judge’s verdict or the crime? The crime. The judge didn’t throw the person into prison, the crime did.

    God’s system is not flawed. Man’s system rather is. With man’s system, if you commit one criminal offense, you can end up in jail. However, if another with 1000 crimes cannot be proven guilty, the person goes scot-free. With God’s system, no sin can outrun God’s overlook. However, God doesn’t just dump you in hell after giving you just one shot.

    Our sins, which are rampant and continuous, have made all of us deserve imprisonment. The Judge, instead of pouring out the full sentence of our evil on us, decided to pardon us and offer us a better life. This offer was available for everyone, for everyone was at fault.

    But some still refused the offer because they were angry with the Judge for having a justice system. Others were offended by the Judge’s available pardon for everyone. Therefore, anyone who’ll serve the full sentence of their punishment are not those who committed many sins, but those who rejected the Judge’s grace. Did you get it?”

    I love you ❤️

  • The Revelation of Mystery: There Are More Questions than Answers

    The Revelation of Mystery: There Are More Questions than Answers

    It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Proverbs 25:2

    Mystery is not the opposite of revelation. It is the complement of it. What leaves us in awe of the God we serve is both the Revelation of Himself and the Mystery of Himself. God is an open secretive person. The more He reveals Himself to you, the more mysterious you’ll find Him. The hidden things of God in Christ are not hidden from us. They are hidden for us.

    It’s easy to have the notion that when we go to heaven, we’ll ask God a lot of questions. Because, yes, this realm limits our capacity to fully grasp anything of God although we have received the FULLNESS of the Spirit to know ALL truth. As Paul rightly said, we know in part and see but in a dim reflection as in a mirror (1 Cor 13:9,12).

    Going to Heaven will not automatically put in us the full knowledge of God. That is NOT the problem since this full knowledge of God, which is Christ, has been fully revealed and given. What it will do is increase our capacity to fully grasp, though we may never fully grasp.

    God is an unchanging dynamic God. Every day is a new day to understand something different about Him that He has always been and will always be. Heaven will not mark the end of Mystery, for there will always be more questions for more understanding. It’s an unending learning experience about a Mysterious God who loves to reveal Himself to us.

    The more God reveals Himself to us, the more we conform to His likeness. For when we see Him, we shall be like Him. It’s not just an eternal learning experience; it’s God’s Love story of how He draws His Lover into a matrimonial oneness.

    He’s intentional ❤️