The next day which was Tuesday; Digging Deep, I went to church with the hope that all the weed would have dried up, but I was wrong. In fact the weeds we you herbicide on was still standing firm. I got annoyed and ask the Minister what went wrong. And he said “I think the herbicide had expired”

On Thursday I went to church for faith clinic and the Minister called my attention to the weed. Behold they all dried up. While meditating on what I saw, the Lord ministered to me. This is one of the reasons why so many prayers are not answered and sometimes when answered, the person who prayed will be found wanting. Doubt is never a thing that please God only faith. Hebrews 11 vs 6

 When we pray and no immediate answer we easily give up. We let doubt take the position of faith. In this context, Doubt is never the absent of faith but rather it render faith handicap. Doubt sit on the throne of faith. Doubt has no face, it gives too many alternative way while faith in God has only one way. but very few are ready to walk that way nothing minding tribulations that may follow.

Have you prayed and no answer, remember blind Bartimaeus Mark 10:46-52. He didn’t see Jesus, he only heard of him that he was passing by. He began to cry out. Jesus heard him but didn’t stop. People even told blind Bartimaeus to keep quiet but he cried out the more. Until Jesus stood still and ordered that he should be brought to him.

While some people pray and get answers immediately, some will have to continue in prayer until something happen. The Will of God differs in our life just as He has given to everyone a measure of faith Romans 12 vs 3. You still do not have what you’re praying for, keeping praying for it as long as it is not an evil or self-centred request.

Remember Daniel 10. Right from the movement he began to pray, answers to his prayers had been given but the prince of persia withheld the Angel who was to tell him that God had heard his prayers. Daniel continued praying for 3weeks. And at the end he saw a vision.

Never give up on God in whatever situation you find yourself. Job didn’t give up even though he lost everything. The only thing that remained told him to curse God and die. Yet Job remained steadfast. God has never giving up on any one, else He wouldn’t have given us a NAME by which we can call upon to and be saved. Romans 10 vs 13

When everything seems not to be working fine, remember we have a Cloud of Witness Hebrews 12vs1 who had pass through what we are passing through, and now, they all have a testimony written all over the footprint of the scripture for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and instruction in righteousness. 2 Tim 3vs16

Never give up on God because He has not given up on you. He has never failed. He will never failed. Forever and ever He remain the same and ever faithful Isaiah 49vs15

  

God bless you

I was opportune to minister at a youth vigil of recent. And while the service is going on, the Lord ask me to pay attention to how they recite the Lord’s Prayer. Truly it was discouraging because they were reciting it like poem. But that was not all. Before I step up to alter to give my sermon, they repeated the Lord’s Prayer again like reciting poem. These was a confirmation to the topic I was to treat that night. Understanding the Lord’s Prayer.

The Lord’s Prayer is a prayer that we should be careful with when saying it or using as a guide to prayer. These is a prayer from Heaven to man. This prayer is not meant for unbelievers but rather for those who have confess Christ Jesus as their personnel Lord and Saviour. The content of the Prayer can testify of that. This prayer does not give room for repentant, it is repentant first then the Lord’s Prayer.

You say I am a Christian, but that is not all there is more. Only the broken in the Lord can access the Throne of grace, mercy and power with the Lord’s Prayer. The Lord’s Prayer need to be understood for it to be effectual.

Some will say ‘so those little children reciting the Lord’s Prayer are not worthy’. I am not saying that, and God himself is the Judge of that alone. But as many that are matured most especially those who profess Christianity, I say to you “do you really understand the Lord’s Prayer?

His disciple said to him Teach us how to Pray.

Our Father, how art in Heaven hallow be thy name.

When we utter such statement with our mouth, do we really know what we are saying?  God is the God of all the earth but a Father to do who live according to his will. You call him Father but does he acknowledge you as a son. Do you have a personal relationship with the one you say is your Father in Heaven? Do you fear His name in all thy dealings?. We all know the name of our President, does that means the president knows us?  John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

Matt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven? When we say thy kingdom come, are we really ready for His return. I have ask some ladies {all choristers} at different places that do you want Jesus to come now. Believe me they all said almost the same thing. I want to get married, have my house, my companies, my children and the likes.. This ones are not ready for His kingdom yet they pray…… let your kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. Let us ask ourselves, are we really doing the will of God on earth? Because only the fellow doing the will of God on earth is equipped to declare the will of Heaven on earth. Do we even know the will of God for our lives? Misplace priority is one of the foundation of unanswered prayers. Matt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sin as we forgive those who sin against us.

All that a man has, the Lord is not without the knowledge of it. Psalms 73 whether acquired by false or in truth. It is a must that we request for our daily bread. The bread is in two fold. The physical bread; which is food and the spiritual bread which is the word of God. Man can go a day without the former, but the latter we can cannot do without. It is a means where by the Father commune with us. How often do we ask for this bread?

If we don’t forgive any who offend us, our prayer is meaningless. Because we are telling God that He should forgive us since we have obeyed is commandment to forgive all that wronged us. We can’t come to God with anger, grudges, hatred in our heart and position ourselves to say the Lord’s Prayer, He will not hear us.

And lead us not into temptation {this is a topic of its own and to be discussed soon.

In conclusion, understanding the Lord’s Prayer does not discourage anyone from praying but rather help us to know our right standing with the Father. It in fact help us to consider our ways. 1Cor 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

I Pray the good Lord will give us more understanding in Jesus Name. Amen

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Some will wonder what the philosophy of satan is.

Every bible studying Christian must have come across this word “Skin for Skin”

This was the reply satan gave to God concerning Job. But do we know that satan was in fact referring Man as a whole? He told God “Skin for skin, all that a man has he will give to save his life”. Both the rich and the poor will do anything to save their life. To save life does not necessarily mean, to save one’s self from death. 

It goes beyond that. Life itself is a compound word and all that is within it is very important, just like the body cannot be body without the head, the eyes, hand, leg and likes.

Satan told God that man can lose everything. But has long as they still have life, they will do anything in their power not to lose it. When we talk about life, we talk about anything of worth. Some things man cannot do without. Sometimes they can be abstract things like Respect, honour or tangible like materials things. Both the poor and the rich have saved themselves many times by bowing to the philosophy of satan.

Remember Esau in the bible. He gave his birth right in other to eat and stay alive

 Many poor people have sold the only thing they have, which might be their integrity in other to stay alive. Some have lied their way through, bear false witness of what is not true and go as far as to kill in other to stay alive.

Remember Herod. For fear of losing respect and honor, he gave up John the Baptist.

The rich men have done the worst. To save their self from disgrace and shame, from dishonour and excommunication they are ready to do all that it takes not minding the cost. “All that a man has he will give to save his life”. Sometimes in our lives, we have bow to this philosophy. But glory be to Jesus Christ for victory over sin and for the words of truth which indeed set us free.

The philosophy of satan is a false philosophy. For Jesus said whosoever will save his life shall lose and whosoever lose is life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, the same shall have it. Mark 8:35.

The life will live is never ours in the first place. It was given to us. Why then do we struggle to keep it? When we can lay it at the feet of the giver to safe guide it for us.

This is a food for thought for everyone including me Enebeli ifeanyi, the writer of this piece. Most of the time if not all the time, we don’t remember what Jesus said about the Soul. What shall it profit a man when he gains the whole world and lose is soul? Yes we can give all we have to save our life, but what about our soul which is beyond our reach?

Please let us meditate upon this words and share it if you can.

I pray that the York upon you, which you now carry because of the philosophy of satan be broken in Jesus Name

This is a question for everyone no matter your position. Remember! He that thinketh he stands should take heed less he falls. Remember Peter in the bible. After made a confession of who Christ his, he thought he was ready but three times he denied Christ.

Some people have never been to church yet they claim to be a Christian perhaps they were born into a Christian family; that is the case of many.

Some do go to church because they feel that as a Christian, they should be in church on Sunday and rarely attend weekly service. But is all that?

Does going to church make you a christian? even unbelievers goes to church

Everyone knows who a Christian is, but every few know what it takes to be a Christian. You enter a taxi and the driver takes you to your destination. The both of you are in the taxi but there are two different people inside. The passenger and the driver. The passenger may know who a driver is, but he can never know what it takes to be a driver and to be driver that particular taxi.

Gandhi said ‘’I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

When we call ourselves Christian we’re telling the world I am a follower of Christ. I live after the pattern of Christ but does our way of life concur to the ways Christ? 2 Tim 3:5 Titus 1:15

The followers of Christ where first called Christian in Antioch because they had some characteristics, some peculiarity that could only have come from the crucified Saviour Jesus Christ. In Act 4:13 is a good example of the peculiarity.

What then are the attributes of a Christian?

They are numerous, but shall narrow them down to few.