Christ Diplomat (Exhortations)

TEXT: 2Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. MESSAGE Some years ago, a past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria noted that one reason why the most populous and arguably the most endowed African country was living very far below its capacity is because there are more think-tanks than there are 'do-tanks'. How true is that of us today? How many brilliant plans of yours have died inside you or simply embalmed in the pages of your diaries and planners? How many prophesies and promises of God have you been intimidated into discarding? How many God given concept have been buried in the grave of procrastination? Oh did you think that you simply manufacture that brilliant concept? Is that why you think you have the right to either implement of kill it? No! As a child of God, you have the mind of Christ if you study God's word. Thus many of our concepts are Holy Spirit inspired concepts. Th...

TEXT JOHN 3:16-19 16 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.  17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ROM 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. MESSAGE Good morning beloved. I got this and I thought to share part of it as part of our today devotional At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death . At the time Crucifixion was the "worst" ...

TEXT: Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. MESSAGE Its been great studying the fruits of righteousness. Righteousness is the foundation of all things that we ever got by coming to Christ. No wonder Jesus says to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Then shall all other things be added to us ( Matt 6:33).    Today we shall be examining a very important fruit that we can and should bear as righteous beings. This fruit is called the fruit of the spirit. The fruit of the spirit refer to the manifestation of the nature of the regenerated spirit of man .the new person, that God has made to be like him. That person only does what is right. That person is really and completely good, like God." (Eph 4:24 Easy English Version). The regenerated spirit of man has the exact nature of God. He is fashioned t...

TEXT: Hebrews 13:15 B y him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of  our  lips giving thanks to his name. MESSAGE One of thr fruits that righteousness produces in us is the fruit of our lips. In our text, the Holy Spirit through the writer of Hebrews (and I strongly believe it to be Paul) explains that thanksgiving is that fruit of our lips. It is the fruit or product of righteousness that manifests on our lips as the evidence of the state and content of our heart.  Praise is a mode of worship. The praise or worship that God delights in is the praise that is offered in spirit and in truth. Jesus says:  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23-24).  Therefore the praise or worship that G...

TEXT JOHN 15:16   Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and  that  your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. MESSAGE Since God created man He has always longed for our fruitfulness. That's why he blessed man to be fruitful. In fact, " Behold, the husbandman [God] waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain ." (James 5:7). The enemy has tried to stop this all the while. he mutated man to the point that he does not have the capacity to generate such fruit. Jesus knew that you cannot teach man to produce the fruits God is talking about. Man needed a change of nature to do so. Thus He says:  " Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. for out of the abundance of the heart...