CHRISTMAS IN DUBAI

CHRISTMAS IN DUBAI

I had met one of the directors of one of the biggest companies here in Ghana and had the chance to share the gospel with him a couple of times. He has planned to spend the Christmas with his family by taking a vacation in Dubai. Everything has been put in place for the enjoyment of this trip: the clothes, the hotel, the shops and other tourist areas to visit, I mean everything. To my amazement, he requested for Christmas carols as well. This was quite surprising to me. Why? I will tell you.

He has a believe that this JESUS that we talk about is simply one of the numerous “religious” talks and should not be heeded to any seriously than the other religions. Amazingly, these carols he requested for as part of his travel package to Dubai all talks about “Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the NEW BORN KING; Silent Night, Holy Night…Christ the savior is born” and so on. Then I ask myself, who is this new born king in the carols he wanted? Who is this SAVIOR OF THE WORLD these carols are talking about? So what goes through his mind when these songs are being sung? How does he even sing it? Ironically he enjoys his children singing such songs as it is being played at home and whiles he drives them to shop at the mall. Is it just about the songs for the celebration of the season?

I also encountered a man from Geneva who was also taking a Christmas vocation with his family. He enjoys the season and the songs with his family, but cannot come to terms with the reality of the lyrics of the song he sings.

Everything about this season of Christmas gets me excited, joyful and keeps me smiling: the songs, the programmes, Christmas shows organized by different groups of people, the atmosphere and even the very air I breath seems to carry some chills of joy down my soul, all because it is Christmas! I realise that it is a season where everyone is having a good time and in a happy mood, just celebrating the season.

In as much as we celebrate this season, let us do so with the right mentality, IT IS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF JESUS! It is about the CELEBRATION OF GOD’S LOVE to mankind by sending his son as an ETERNAL GIFT to man. This gift, just like any other Christmas gift is FREE, you can accept this gift by believing in your heart and confess with your mouth that indeed Jesus is Lord and God raised him from the dead, then you are free to access this BIG LOVE in God for the rest of your life.

 CHRIST IS THE REASON FOR CHRISTMAS. Don’t waste the opportunity, take advantage of God’s love this season. Share his love with someone, buy someone gifts, but most importantly, share God’s love with them. Keep Enjoying Grace!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

By: Gifty Sitsofe Amewor

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Reality of The Word Series - The Doctrine of RIGHTEOUSNESS Part 3**(FINAL)

**Reality of The Word Series - The Doctrine of RIGHTEOUSNESS Part 2**

**Reality of The Word Series - The Doctrine of RIGHTEOUSNESS Part 1**

The Prodigal Son And His Elder Brother - Was Their Father Unfair Or Not?

The Prodigal Son And His Elder Brother - Was Their Father Unfair Or Not?

When we read Luke 15:25-33, we see the story of the “bad” son who demanded his father to give him his share of his dad’s properties. This is quite surprising because his dad hadn’t even died yet and here is the younger son, not even the older one demanding his share of the properties. These properties he didn’t even work for, those were the results of the toils of his father. As kind as the dad was, he gave him his share and he went off to a far country and squandered all his money to the last penny! The Bible says he WASTED his possessions! And here was his elder brother always being the “good” boy of the house-the daddy pleaser. Amazingly, the father always stands in front of the gate in anxious expectation of the return of this “rascal” and “disobedient” son. At this point I thought daddy was being unfair to the elder son. What about him? Is he not also a son who needs his father’s attention and care? Or is it that daddy didn’t love him as much as he loved his second son?

RECIEVING ANSWERS TO OUR PRAYERS...PART 2

RECIEVING ANSWERS TO OUR PRAYERS...PART 2

Greetings to you Lovely buddies! I promised last week that I was going to bring you the last part how to receive answers to our prayers. Now the last part is this:

3. BELIEVING IS SEEING

Mark 11:20-24 NKJV

Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.” So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.  Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

It is often said that 'seeing is believing'. Our main focus is on verse 24, which says that 'whatever things you ask when you pray,  believe that you recieve them, and you shall have them'.

Thus contrary to world views, in Christ,  BELIEVING IS SEEING. The ending part says that whatever thing you prayed for, the fact that you don’t see them physically doesn't mean God didnt give it, you should first believe you have received them, and you shall have it.

When Jesus cursed the fig tree in Mark 11, there was no sign that the fig tree had died. Its leaves were still green at the time. But what we didn't see was what was happening to the roots of that fig tree when Jesus gave the word.  Thus by morning, everybody saw the results, the fig tree had its leaves dried up,  that was when the disciples believed what Jesus prayed for the day before.

The world will always have contrary views to what God has told you. When we ask God for something, instantly there is a response in the spirit, the answer is ALWAYS released. It takes your faith and confession to bring the answer to light. The fact that you didn’t see your admission letter doesn’t mean that the administration of your preferred school is not working on it. Lol

Let your reasoning, your talk and your attitude show that God answered what you asked for in prayer. 

 Sometimes we get desperate when it seems to keep long, but that doesn’t mean you should despair, because the moment you do that, you have nullified what you prayed for, you have aborted it before the answer even reaches you.

So brethren, in-between 'AMEN' and 'THERE IT IS',  is our FAITH!!!

And you have enough faith to recieve anything you asked for in prayer, so draw on that faith inside you, and enjoy the benefits thereof.

Don’t be distracted by people and circumstances around you, that is why we need to FOCUS on JESUS, the author and perfector of our faith. In other words FOCUS ON THE WORD OF GOD!  When we do this, we will not be distracted, and we can bring answers to being in our lives.

WE NEED TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH. It means holding on to God's word and conquering doubt and fear, not regarding your present circumstances, but seeing yourself in the light of God's Word despite adverse circumstances around you. You just can’t bow to them! Holding on to the SPIRITUAL even though the PHYSICAL seems real, but believing and knowing that the SPIRITUAL is more real.

HOLD ON TO YOUR FAITH BUDDIES,  BECAUSE YOUR FAITH IS REAL AND POTENT TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN YOUR LIFE!!

In our next post, we will talk about PRAYER: THE HIGHER TRUTH.

Please read, comment and share!!! You Are Blessed!!!

Gifty Sitsofe Amewor

RECIEVING ANSWERS TO OUR PRAYERS..PART1

RECEIVING ANSWERS TO OUR PRAYERS...PART1

Hello wonderful people of the Kingdom. We saw from our last issue concerning prayer that God answers our prayers because his word says so. We also saw that God is more willing to answer our prayers than we are willing to pray. Now to receive answers to what we pray for we need to take not of these few stuff:

1.      GET YOUR MOTIVE RIGHT- The primary purpose of prayer is for fellowship with God, it is to love God. We do not pray only to place a demand on God just because we need him. Otherwise we get desperate in praying and frustrated because of impatience from waiting to receive from God. Prayer is a love affair with God. When you understand this, praying will not be seen as a burden, but always enjoyable.

As we enjoy our fellowship with God through prayer, things you need are added as and when you need them. Matthew 6:33 says “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you”. If you are born again, you have sought the kingdom and his righteousness. Every other thing you need for life and godliness is added to you already. God doesn’t want you to see him as an ATM which you visit only when you need money. What God wants is your fellowship, your friendship, your attention.

We need to get our motives right, we need to understand that God loves us too much not to provide our needs. This perception will influence the way we see and relate with God. When we begin to view God in this light, it will conquer doubt in our minds about what God has provided for us in His Word. If you see God as someone who is stingy with answering prayers, well then, that is what you get.

2.      SPEAK TO THE MOUNTAIN-

Matthew 17:20 NKJV: So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

In the scripture above, Jesus told his disciples to SPEAK to THE mountain. Many of us instead of telling our problems how big God is and how He is able to solve them, we rather speak to God about our problems, complaining and telling God how big our problem is and how bad our situation is. For example if someone is praying for a job, instead of mentioning a particular kind of job you want and how you can get it in prayer,  we most at times tell God how our friends have already gotten their jobs and have started earning,  and how we are still at home miserable! No! Thus after several hours of complain, we don't receive answers to what we thought we had prayed for. This is another reason we don’t receive answers: we rather complain to God, we don’t pray. We make the problems look too big like we can’t do anything about them, but the truth is we can! That is why we pray. Amen!

Thus in prayer,  we SPEAK to our mountain,  remember, it is not 'A' mountain, but 'THE ' Mountain. It means you speak to a PARTICULAR issue in your life. You need to mention the name of that specific issue and speak God' s word to it. Don’t tell God how bad that issue is, rather SPEAK GOD’S WORD concerning such a problem.

Glory to Jesus forevermore! The last part of this issue will be out next week… Keep Loving God !!!

 

Please read and share…Bless You!!!

Gifty Sitsofe Amewor