tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19520033755968243852024-02-18T17:43:41.349-08:00ministry of life"...to have life, and to have it more abundantly enough to share with as many as possible".Michael Olusegun Banjokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18272815168633263086noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1952003375596824385.post-88708252091053072652013-09-07T01:10:00.000-07:002013-09-07T01:10:12.898-07:00My Visions of Syria<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My heart has been stirred by the impassioned letter dated 4th September 2013 sent by the Syrian government to the United States pleading against any military strikes on their nation. Of particular impact was the phrase which read,<i> “...we write to you as fathers and mothers, as members of families and communities which really are not so different to yours. Moreover, we write to you as human beings asking: If you bomb us shall we not bleed?! The innocent people will be harmed.”</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;">I believe the resolve of the warring factions to either plead or bleed is a strong litmus test and ought to speak volumes to the powers that be, thereby exposing who the real culprits of the chemical weapons attack are, and hopefully awaken everyone to righteousness. </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is therefore my prayer that through the insight below, the world leaders will see history reaching out again with a ‘helping hand’. This time it’s in the form of insights from History’s Observatory - The Holy Scriptures.</span></span></h4>
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<br />Michael Olusegun Banjokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18272815168633263086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1952003375596824385.post-75820797573762532392011-06-15T11:03:00.000-07:002011-06-15T11:03:05.726-07:00LET US REASON TOGETHER<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>TRUE OR FALSE? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">'choosing the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked'</span></span></b></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://thinkexist.com/search/searchquotation.asp?search=path+of+least+resistance+&q=author%3A%22Napoleon+Hill%22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">http://thinkexist.com/search/searchquotation.asp?search=path+of+least+resistance+&q=author%3A%22Napoleon+Hill%22</span></a></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Like most things in life, whether it's true or false is not the issue but rather what we can learn from it. It's what we <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">learn</span><b> </b>that remains ours, not what we are<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">taught.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>In order words you choose what you learn, regardless of what is being taught.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The whole idea behind 'training', whether for the child, the childlike or the 'childish' is to reinforce the power of choice. Our ability to reason through even the most daunting matters is a display of that power of choice. One of the tragedies of this age is the systematic erosion of that power of choice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Take for instance a person found on the <b><i>path of least resistance</i></b>. Due to some 'motivational' encounter decides to quit such a path but the power to choose is suddenly more elusive than ever imagined. This has been the reason why most people have been plunged deeper and deeper into the dark deep hole of despair. As though this is not bad enough, they then conclude that this is what life has to offer, and have thus influenced others along the same path.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Thank God the story does not end there! What if you were told that somewhere in our make-up, a perfect choice for life had been made on your behalf? That t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">here is someone who has gone beyond restoring our power to choose, gone beyond pulling us out of the pit of hopelessness, gone beyond clearing the 'paths of least resistance', gone beyond dealing with clandestine enemy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Jesus said: </span></div><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, ..."</b></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 22px;">John 15:16</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 22px;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's look further. One of Jesus' effective teaching tools were parables. He found them useful for many reasons, in particular, for coding truths. In other words, anyone can understand the stories in those parables, but the truths they carry are actually hidden <strong>FOR</strong> you not <strong>FROM</strong> you. In one of the parables of the kingdom, Jesus told a very short story. <strong>Matt 13:44</strong> <strong>"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field". </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The natural understanding of that parable would be this. The treasure is the kingdom of heaven, the man who found it is us - mankind. The joy of salvation made us sell all that we have, and buy, as it were, this treasure of a salvation. Honourable as it sounds, I've found it to be a lateral inversion of the truth. I know if i sold all that i had, it probably wouldn't buy a return ticket to the field, talkless of buying this treasure beyond measure. The hidden truth lies in our understanding of the grace of God - <strong>"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich" 2Cor 8:9.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, <strong>the kingdom of God is within you</strong>". Luke 17:21</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us" 2Cor 4:7.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Jesus, out of exceeding joy, sold all he had, and bought the field.</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, <strong><em>a people belonging to God</em></strong>, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light" 1Pet 2:9</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are <strong>God's possession</strong>--to the praise of his glory" Eph 1:14</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; <strong>who for the joy that was set before him</strong> endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb 12:2</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Put the pieces together and what do you see? A masterpiece or masterpeace as the case may be. If i may, let me also contribute my piece to the amazing story of grace. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The beauty of our salvation is only captured when our heart is founded purely upon the grace of God - <strong>Eph 2:8</strong> <strong>"for by grace are you saved through faith".</strong> Heb.11:9 says <strong>"Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. <u><span style="color: red;">It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace,</span></u> not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them".</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We might never be able to understand why Jesus went to the most extreme of lenghts, depths and heights to buy this field. The discipline of grace encourages us to just take his word for it. I have learnt that the benefits of such obedience far outweigh the toils of unbelief. He found this treasure and his heart has never looked elsewhere ever since. As dark and deceitful as the heart is, its beauty is only in the eyes of the beholder. What an amazing ongoing love story. One to which we are all entitled to play our roles in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">...to be continued.</span>Michael Olusegun Banjokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18272815168633263086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1952003375596824385.post-45819795038344092352011-04-12T18:54:00.000-07:002011-04-12T19:35:51.247-07:00The Simplicity of Faith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Over the years I have always held on to a belief which has been tested, tried and proven to be absolutely true – </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>God is so simple; it takes man to complicate Him</strong>.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To further simplify things for us, God did not only <strong><span style="color: red;">'show us</span></strong> <strong><span style="color: red;">what to do'</span></strong> (Matt.17:5), His Son Jesus has <strong><span style="color: red;">'showed us how to do it'</span></strong> (John14:1), and finally the Holy Spirit has come <strong><span style="color: red;">'to help us do it' </span></strong>(Jn 16:13). Such is the amazing trilogy of the Godhead. All obstacles or excuses for unbelief have thus been removed in Christ Jesus. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">God came to personally solve mankind's misguided search for Him by searching us out. The turmoil that our troubled hearts have put us through came to an end when God wrapped up all our expectations towards Him in one person – His Son Jesus Christ (Heb.1:2b-3). The simple act of believing in Jesus hands over the driver's seat of our troubled lives to the Author and Finisher of our faith, thus initiating peace with God.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This shows the heart and wisdom of our God. There will come a time in your life when you'll realise there must be more to life. A lot more than what you've seen so far. What drives each one of us to this point might vary but the purpose is the same - TO CRY OUT TO GOD.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The cry of our heart gets God's attention like nothing else does. We established in a previous article that God's got nothing better to do than to look at our hearts. Why? He's watching and waiting for you to just cry out so he can set in motion the series of events meant to lead you to fulfillment. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Foremost of these events would be salvation. This will singlehandedly secure you in a good place while all other events take their course.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Of all God's creation, only Man has the capacity to cry out to God in the language of sonship. A Son's heartfelt cry can never go unanswered. It triggers a process that will ultimately lead to you fulfilling God's ultimate plan for your life. Most people have been cut down by the wicked one before reaching this crying out stage. The enemy knows that once that God-ordained process has been triggered, nothing can stop it, not even death. I am of the opinion that Death is one of the enemies that is included in the promise that says; "When a man's ways pleases the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him" Proverbs 16:7.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This is why the prayer of the faithful is perhaps the most lethal weapon dreaded by the enemy. So don't complain and thus waste a good trial, turn your heart heavenward and cry out instead. That's always something the forces behind our trials never bargain for. You are living in the best of times, at time when adversity can be turned into opportunity. A time when you've sank or dropped so low that the only way is up.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCJAVlESEo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCJAVlESEo</a></div><img height="79" src="http://www.blogger.com/video-thumbnail.g?contentId=e537871af54e32fb&zx=wwghvhvq6at" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 322px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 84px; visibility: hidden;" width="96" />Michael Olusegun Banjokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18272815168633263086noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1952003375596824385.post-82907888435236327152010-11-04T04:33:00.000-07:002010-11-04T04:48:57.070-07:00God's Treasure Chest - 2<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">There are so many amazing things about grace, and there are quite a few books that have done great justice to that matter. I would however like us to pry into something I consider to be beyond amazing. Let’s talk briefly about God’s seeming ‘obsession’ with the heart – particularly the heart of man. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, we all know It’s an absolute rarity to find the word ‘impossible’ associated with God, as the scripture says “…for with God nothing shall be impossible” Luke 1:37. Where we however find God linked to impossibility, then you’ll agree with me that such should demand our utmost attention.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We are told that <strong><span style="color: #ffd966;">“</span></strong></span><span style="color: #ffd966; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong>…without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him</strong></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong><span style="color: #ffd966;">”</span></strong> Heb 11:6. The only place in the universe that has the capacity to deal with this impossibility is the heart of man – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">“</span></b></span><span style="color: #ffd966;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For it is with your heart that you believe...</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">”</span></b></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Rom 10:10. In other words, no other creature has the capacity to respond through faith but Man. And no other being in all creation has the ability to respond to faith but God. Whenever, or wherever man responds in faith, God shows up to honor it. When David said in his heart that <strong><span style="color: #ffd966;">“One thing have i desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after…”</span></strong> Psalm 27:4. God showed up saying <strong><span style="color: #ffd966;">“I have found a man after my heart,…”</span></strong> Acts 13:22. Where this divine ‘hide and seek’ is going on there is only one valid question – Who initiates the first response?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Bible makes it clear that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">“</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ffd966; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us… We love because he first loved us;”</span></b><span style="color: #001320; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> 1John 4:10;19. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Faith is therefore not our pursuit of God, but our response to a pursuing God. Truly amazing isn’t it! With this in mind, we can begin to why Jesus saw, still sees a jewel of inestimable value in this earthen vessel, and will forever continue to respond to faith, wherever or whenever. Nothing else captures this more than recent insights from the global phenomenon that took place 2000 feet in the dark bowels of the earth in Chile</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CBN News recently inte</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">rviewed miner Jose Henriquez, the man some called "The Pastor," who helped his companions go from darkness into the light. He is a man whose life has been forged in the mines of Chile, where he has worked for 33 years. For the same 33 years, he has been married to his wife Hetiz. Thirty-three is also the number of miners who were trapped in the San Jose mine. According to Jose, <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The 33 miners needed more than food and physical strength to survive 2,000 feet underground during those two months. "I believe that the key to all this was in the Word of God, in having <strong>believed God</strong>," he added. "That's why I say to the whole world that the Lord wants them to believe in Him to believe in His Word". <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/October/From-Darkness-to-Light-A-Miners-Story/">http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/October/From-Darkness-to-Light-A-Miners-Story/</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2Chro.16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.". God saw faith in the heart of one believing miner, and He came to the rescue of the entire 33. Some of us may have also felt trapped in our lives, maybe not 2000 feet below the earth, or perhaps deeper for some. Please don't lose hope. Such situations simply chart the course to the typical location of God's Treasure Chest. Where we see dark and deceitful, God sees weird and wonderful. The Bible tells us that "For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." 2Cor.4:6.</span><br />
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What God did at creation in Genesis, he is doing again in our heart. This time in the face of (or against the background of) the second Adam - Christ Jesus our Lord and saviour. The heart was the stage on which the story of grace began. It might appear to have been lost for a moment in time, thanks be to God who <strong>always</strong> leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads <strong>everywhere</strong> the fragrance of the knowledge of him 2Cor.2:14" The light that gives the knowledge of God's glory has nowhere else to shine from but our hearts. This is why we are told to guard our hearts with all diligence, because out of it flows the issues of life Proverbs 4:23. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxzi7HGx8SUZKW4NoRPMz2h6ABTSPY1rdYZZ7EgnreIfOyKXEYDvtd1Lco4hDVALu-zvqoSg7gfmWTXsTNzmQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wherever the enemy, the thief has come to steal, kill or destroy in your life, let's take heart and take Jesus at his word. His has come that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. The miner Jose had this life in him. He knew God, and through his faith in God, 33 miners spent 2months in the bowels of darkness, but God showed up. Today, they are definitely having that life in abundance. This life is also yours just for the asking. I humbly echo the words of the enbedded movie, 'though i ain't good enough, but he still loves me'. I welcome you to lift your hands, sing, dance and pray your way into this Love.</span></div></div>Michael Olusegun Banjokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18272815168633263086noreply@blogger.com3