Friday, 25 July 2014

The Benefit of Dwelling in God's Presence

Throughout the Bible we have read about those Men and women who benefited as a result of dwelling in the presence of God. When we talk of dwelling in His presence it’s not a house that you get in, as far as God is omnipresent His presence moves with you wherever you go.
This is what God told Moses: “My presence shall go with thee, and I will give the rest”.
Exodus 33:14.
Listen what, the Lord say “My presence shall go with you” means the presence shall go with you wherever you go, at your work place even when going to the supermarket. Its power and peace shall go with you everywhere you go. Anyone who goes with this presence has benefited from it
It’s not anyone who goes with the presence of God, some even denied His presence and got penalties from running it. Still those who went with the Presence of God are known by their lifestyle praise. They praise God in difficult times they don’t allow their problems to exemplify their Praise,
What is Praise by the way? Praise is honouring God for what He is, Praise differ from thanksgiving as it honours God for what He has done.
Now when you honour God for what He is (Praise) as you go with His presence everywhere despite your situation, your praise brings God into your situation immediately?
………..And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. Acts 16:26 (KJV)
When Paul and Silas was put in prison the Bible says at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God. The moment they began praising God their deliverance come immediately why because their praise brought God into their situation .
What praise does, Praise brings God into your Situation immediately, and Praise brings deliverance .
You may be imprisoned right now by Debt, Poverty, Fear or Sickness, just begin a lifestyle of Praise and the presences of God shall strongly manifest upon your life and your deliverance shall come immediately- Amen


Thursday, 13 March 2014

On Being God’s Instrument

A plain ball-point pen in the hands of an average human being can make some cute doodles, but a pen in Rembrandt’s hands can create a masterpiece. It is not the pen – the instrument – that matters. Rather, it is the Author and Creator who can wield a glorious work of art from simple tools.
 When I was younger – a child, a teenager, a new college grad – I had big dreams and goals for my life. I observed grown-ups and thought to myself that few of them seemed to be very goal-oriented or intentional about personal growth. Most of them just seemed to live to get through each day. I have known a small handful of individuals who have admitted to keeping a list of goals for their lives, often arranged in categories, like physical, mental, spiritual, etc., and this has impressed me. I have often thought to myself through the years that I did not want to lose that sense of purposeful learning, growing, and striving.
 Periodically, maybe a couple of times a year, I pause to glance back through the recent past and imagine the future, and I am inspired to work towards a particular goal. Sometimes these goals are personal and internal, like training for a new goal in my workouts or learning how to create a new crafty project. Increasingly, the goals are spiritual, and I sense they are promptings from God, who is always growing and changing me (Phil 1:6: “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.”).
 The theme of my thoughts and prayers lately has centered around being an instrument of God. Over the past few years as my relationship with God has developed, I have been intentional about Him working *in* me; I have taken classes and read books to learn more about God, to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to die to myself and to live for Christ. While God has worked *through* me to some extent, I have not been as intentional about allowing Him to truly and deeply use my life.
 Providentially, as I have been praying through these thoughts over the past month or so, our pastor’s sermon this weekend focused on this very issue. He quoted 1 Thessalonians 2: “We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.” I do not wish to just learn about God and allow Him to change me, though I do want to continue to be intentional in that way, and I do not desire for God to use only my skills, but I want Him to use my life. This year, I want to focus on intentionally becoming God’s instrument.
 As I have begun thinking this way, God has revealed to me several occasions where to say “yes” would be to serve another person, yet because of my selfishness and desire to avoid discomfort, I am tempted to say “no.” What kind of ambassador for Christ am I if I am praying that God would use me, yet the moment it infringes on my personal comfort, I shy away? I am thankful God is revealing these occasions to me.
 I have been reading the book “Instruments in the Redeemers Hands,” and Paul David Tripp, the author, writes that “everybody ministers and everybody needs ministry. . . I need to wake up in the morning and say, ‘God, I am a person in desperate need of help. Please send helpers my way and give me the humility to receive the help you have provided.’ And I need to pray further, ‘Lord, make me willing to help someone else see himself as you see him today.’” That passage is powerful to me. I want to be God’s instrument to help others see themselves as God sees them

Saturday, 8 February 2014

God’s Love


There isn’t a heart too cold,
that God can’t melt
there isn’t one too stony
where He can’t be felt.
There isn’t a heart too cynical,
that God can’t shake
there isn’t one too hardened
that He can’t break.
There isn’t a heart too rigid,
that God can’t move
there isn’t a heart too rough
that He can’t smooth.
There isn’t a heart too lost,
that God can’t find
there isn’t a heart too far off
that He’d leave behind.
There isn’t a heart too broken,
that God can’t love
there isn’t a heart in the world
that He would ~ let go of.
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John 3:16
King James Version
“For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”
Copyright 2014
Deborah Ann Belka