Be valiant for the truth

 

Our world is sinking deeper into spiritual darkness. Falsehood has grown strong in the land. People don't want to hear the truth anymore and I'm not only speaking about spiritual truth but any truth at all. People love lies and deceits, because lies and deceits make them feel better about themselves. The truth is hard to swallow, so people hate the truth and many stay far away from it. Many call those who speak the truth, haters. When you tell them the truth, they say you are spreading negativity.

And so it is in this climate of falsehood that God has called us to be a witness for the truth. To proclaim the truth boldly, to attack the lies and set the captives free. The Christian must be valiant for the truth. The Christian cannot be a coward, for the Christian is a servant of God, a soldier of the Most High 💂🏾‍♂️ and as such he must follow the orders of His Sovereign. And the order the Lord has given us is to go throughout all the world to spread the gospel of  Jesus Christ and make disciples.

The Christian must be brave for he must preach the truth to a world that love lies, righteousness to a world that love sin and wickedness. The Christian must be brave for he must be able to face scorn and ridicules while calling sin by it's right name. The Christian must not spare, he must not show partiality,  but must preach the truth of God wherever he is sent or to whomever he is sent. The Christian must be valiant for the truth.

The Christian must resist the temptation to be a people pleaser when it comes to the truth . He must resist the temptation to preach what people want to hear, but preach what the Lord has commanded him. The Christian must not be afraid of losing friends or people being offended by the preaching of the truth. The gospel is naturally offensive to those who are in darkness, to those who hate the truth. Preaching the truth will naturally separate many people from you, but preach it  you must as a faithful soldier of the Lord 

And finally in order to be valiant for the truth, the Christian must be a man or woman of prayer 🙏🏾. The Christian must be connected with God, the source of all strength. It is only after we have bowed before the eternal King we will have the boldness, the firmness to stand against men, against overwhelming storm of wickedness and falsehood in the land. In daily communion with God the true Christian receive wisdom on how to speak, what to say and receive the strength to go out as valiant warrior to fight the battles. The true Christian is mighty because he or she abides under the shadow of the Almighty. 

Be valiant for the Lord, spread the truth near and far 

Love has to be demonstrated

 Love has to be demonstrated

I love you ❤.
How many times have you heard this word from someone and yet their actions say something different. I love but yet when I'm angry I curse at you. I love you and yet I use you for my own personal gain. I love you and yet I have no time for you. I love you and yet I dismiss your pain. I love you and yet I ignore your love language. I love you and yet I cheat on you. I love you and yet i have no patience, no compassion for you. I love you and yet I'm unwilling to forgive you when you make a mistake.

We use the word love too casually. Words are easy to say. I can easily say I love you even though some people find saying it difficult. But truth is telling someone you love him/her is easy but demonstrating your love is a much harder proposition. The first problem with our " I love you," is that most people don't really understand what it means to love someone. When people think of love, they normally think of having "butterfly feelings 🦋,"  in the stomach for someone. They feel good when they think about the person and they conclude I love the person, but such love is only infatuation.

What does it mean to love someone 🤔? Love is not just an emotion, it is a principle, it is action. To love is to desire the good of someone else. To love someone is to want to make their life pleasant, to be a blessing to them. To understand them and to relate to them in a way they can understand.  To love someone is to make his/her life beautiful to the best of your ability. To love someone is to seek to give them the good and withhold the evil. To love someone is to accept them just as they are, even as you seek to elevate them to a higher joy. To love someone is to serve them.
Therefore love has to be demonstrated. Loving someone means listening to them. For it is difficult to understand someone if we do not spend the time listening to them. Loving someone means to understand their love language. All of us have different love language and for you to seek to love someone in a way that doesn't appeal to their love language is simply selfishness. It reveals that you dont really care about the person, it reveals you never listen to them nor understand them.  Example, I don't eat meat 🍗, if you were to bring me chicken for dinner, it would mean you don't love me or don't know me that well. But you would only know that by spending time with me.

Love requires self sacrifice. Love require one to do things that are difficult, things that are inconvenient for the sake of others. Love requires you to go out of your way to do what is right, good for the person. Love requires me to give up self for the other. I may be tired, but a friend need a ride, love demonstrated will have me getting up and go pick them up. A wife may be sleepy but her kids and husband are hungry, love demonstrated will have her wake up and cook for them. You may be busy but a friend need to talk, love in action will have you sacrifice your time to speak to them. Love has to be demonstrated otherwise it is meaningless word .

Love has to be demonstrated. God doesn't just tell us He love us, but Ge demonstrated His great love for us by giving up His only begotten Son to die in our place. Jesus doesn't just say He loves us, but lay down His life in order to pick us up from the degradation of sin. He did all that was necessary to give us a blessed life . Love has to be demonstrated. Many people claim to love God but their actions shows contrary. Claim to love God but have no time for Him. Claim to love God but don't listen to Him. Claim to love God but continually doing things that He hates. This is not love. For God says if you love me, keep my commandments.

If you love me, let your actions reveal it. Love is intentional. You have to work to demonstrate it. Loving someone is not easy, it doesn't come natural. If you love me, be kind to me. If you love me, be true to me. If you love me, seek to understand me. If you love me, seek to know what I like and what I hate so that you know how to make my life a blessing. If you love me, show me by your willingness to lay down your pride, your anger, your selfishness for my sake. Love has to be demonstrated and love is long term. For you can claim to love me now, but time will reveal your true intentions. Time will show if you were just saying things, to lower my guard and use me for your own sake.

Love is kind, patient, it doesn't boast, it is not proud, it doesn't dishonor others, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love doesn't delight in evil ( meaning if you wrong me, I will not be planning to get back at you) . Love rejoices in the truth. Love always protect, always trusts, always hopes,  always persevere. 1 Corinthians 13: 4- 7. Based on this definition of love, can we really say we love God🤔? Can we really say we love anyone beside ourselves? Friends, most our love is self seeking but we can change by going to God in prayer and ask for a heart of love.

 Love has to be demonstrated

  

The next stop on the train to destruction

I read an article recently about the United Nations that appears to be promoting sex with minors. "Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent may be consensual in fact, if not in law,"😯 the Geneva- based international commission of jurists wrote in March with an assist from UNAIDS and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for human Rights. The report is title " the 8 March Principles for a human Rights- based approach to criminal law proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use,HIV, Homelessness and poverty.

The next step on the speed  train to destruction 🚅 is Pedophilia.The normalization of sex with children .The LGBTQ + movement is a slippery slope of wickedness. Satan is behind the movement and Satan will not stop until he has destroyed all restraints and all of God's blessing to us. He has corrupted marriage through sex before marriage, adultery . Then he introduced homosexual marriage, a contradiction, a crime against nature. When he accomplished that, he introduced transgenderism. The lie that a man can become a woman and a woman can become man.

Now that Satan has accomplished his goal of destroying marriage, he is moving to his next step, grooming children for sexual exploitation on a massive scale. This is why we have been hearing of a lot of drag queen homosexuals doing performances for children at schools, libraries etc.. This is why we had movie like "cutie" came out on Netflix in recent years. Homosexuals don't procreate, so they need to corrupt young children to grow up as deviants.  So it is of great importance for the LGBTQ movement to corrupt young children and the most effective way Satan has to corrupt young children is through Pedophilia. 

This is the reason now we are seeing the UN saying a minor can consent to sex. I have seen a Ted talk where this lady was talking about Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and that pedophiles were "born this way." And I read some article in which a Canadian professor was making a case for understanding Pedophilia as a sexual orientation just like any other sexual orientation. God gave only one sexual orientation, a male should be married to a female. But the Devil has introduced countless sexual orientations and our children our next in the firing line.
The Devil, the world are coming after our children, we better hide them in God, the only place of safety. If you have children, you better start praying with and for your children, better start making the education of your child your personal duty and start raising your child in the way of the Lord. If not the public school system,under the control of wicked people will groom your child to destruction. Having child in these dark last days is perilous. May God help us 🙏🏾

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/un-backed-legal-recommendations-normalize-sex-minors-critics-say

Sum of your choices

You are the sum of your choices. Who you are now are the results of the choices you have made in the past. We have many people in this world going around blaming everyone and everything for the situations they find themselves in currently. These people are afraid of being accountable. The truth is no one is responsible for your life, you alone are responsible and you alone will be held accountable.  But you say Ric, that's not true, my parents did this and that and those things make me who I am now. False, while parents do have great influence on their children, your parents are not responsible for your choices and for who you have become.

Are your parents responsible for who you are today 🤔? No.While your parents influenced you greatly, they are not responsible for who you are today. Look at the life of your parents and ask yourself is my life the same ? The truth is you choose which part of your parents' teaching you wanted to follow and which part you wanted to reject. You are not like your parents because you made choices that were different from your parents. You can't blame your parents for who you are today. They influenced you, play a part in your development but you alone are responsible for where you are today.

In prisons you will find many people in there blaming others for being incarcerated.  But its a lie. No one can force you to commit crimes, they can influence you but the choice is yours. Someone can offer you money to kill someone but the choice is yours. Someone can sweet talk you into committing fraud, but the choice is yours. A gang can intimidate you into joining them, but the choice is yours. No one can make you do anything that you don't want to do.
You made the choices that resulted in who you are today. You are the sum of your choices for good or evil.

God has giving us two choices in life, good or evil. Everyday we wake up we are making choices for good or evil. Good choices today will lead to good results tomorrow, evil choices today will lead to evil results tomorrow.  You reap what you sow. You are responsible for your present situation and your future state. The Devil is not to be blame for the decision you have made. The idea of the Devil made me do it will not stand in the judgment of God. Adam and Eve tried it and it did not work because each person is a moral agent, solely responsible for the choices we make 

So friends, if you want a better tomorrow, start making good choices today. If you want eternal life with Jesus, start making good choices today. By praying today, it will be easier to pray tomorrow, by seeking the Lord Jesus today, you will draw closer to Him tomorrow. By working with Christ today, you will be a better worker tomorrow. By being kind today you will get a kinder person tomorrow. By doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord today, you will be stronger to do right tomorrow. You are the sum of your choices. Choose the good, hate the evil.
Do what's right and you will have life forever more 

Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Samson vanquished!

Samson the Hebrew, the chosen of God, the mighty man 💪🏾, the Nazarite, the 7 dreadlocks one, the great warrior, a judge of Israel, tormentor of the Philistines, the one man army 💂🏾‍♂️, the champion of Israel is vanquished not on the field of battle surrounded by thousands of strong warriors, but on a woman's lap, in a bedroom 😮! How is it that the strongest man who ever lived is vanquished on a woman's lap, in a bedroom ?  You would think such a man would have fallen in the midst of battle with " garment rolled in blood." But no. Today we will look at how Samson, the mighty man was vanquished

Samson was a man born with a mission. Chosen from the womb 🤰🏾by God Himself to begin the deliverance of the children of Israel from the Philistines. God gifted 🎁 him with great physical strength 💪🏾 to be used in his work of  delivering the people of God. God made a covenant with Samson. Judges 13:5, the angel of the Lord told Samson's mother," For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazarite to God from the womb.." Samson was to live a life of consecration to God and as long as he abide in God, God would be his strength

The Lord was with Samson and in every battle he found himself, he overcame. Samson defeated a lion 🦁 with his bare hands 😮. " With the jawbone of a donkey," he killed a thousand men. Samson became a tormentor of the philistines, spreading death and destruction anytime he meets them in battle. The philistines did not know what to do, but they soon found out what to do. Samson, despite being the strongest man had a weakness. Guess what it was, women 🤦🏾‍♂️. Samson had a weakness for women, the Devil knew that and the philistines came to understand that. Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, the rulers of the philistines came to her and say we want to know what makes Samson so strong. 

They offered her a lot of money if she can find his secret . And she went about doing the work of uncovering Samson's secret. She nagged him continuously, kept on saying if you love me Samson, please tell me the secret to your great strength 💪🏾. Samson kept playing with her until her continuous nagging wore him down 😫 and he told her he was consecrated to God as a child, and no razor is to cut his hair, if his hair was to be cut, he would lose his strength . Nagging is no joke 😮! The strongest man who ever lived, who defeated thousands of men in battle was taking down by a nagging woman. The power of the nag is like a dagger to the heart 💔 🗡  Samson was vanquished. Delilah cut his hair 

Delilah put Samson sleep and while he slept, asked for a razor and cut his hair. Then she awake him and said Samson the philistines are upon you and Samson realized he had lost his strength. Behold, the mighty man of Israel is overcomed, vanquished by a nagging woman. His lust has lead to his ruin. Satan has gotten the victory. But what led to Samson's defeat? Self confidence led to his defeat. Samson trusted in himself, he trusted in his strength and not God while gifted him the strength.  Samson was a selfish young man, he used his great strength for himself and not for the glory of God.  As he became more selfish, he lost more and more of his hold on God and Satan was able to catch him.

What happened to Samson can happen to anyone of us. Whatever we have in life is a gift of God 🎁. Beauty, talents, wealth, health etc.. are all blessings of God, meant to be used for His glory, to lead others to know Him. But when we start to use God's gifts for selfish means, to satisfy our own desires, to fulfill our own expectations we will find ourselves slowly departing from God and the Devil will be sure to lead us further and further until we are fallen asleep on his lap of seduction and there he will have our hairs cut and enslave us. Samson loved women more than God and the Devil used a woman to seduce and overcome him. 

It wasn't Delilah who overcame Samson, but Satan working through Delilah. Samson thought he was dealing with a cute little woman, but behind that cute little lady was the ruler of this world, the prince of darkness. Samson thought he could play with Delilah, with sin and he was overcomed by the Devil. When we depart from the Lord, depart from prayer, the weakest things of the world will overcome us because behind the things of this world is a power greater than our feeble strength, the Devil himself. Samson trusted in his strength and was vanquished. When me and you lose our hold on God and trust in ourselves we will surely fall. 

This life is spiritual and our warfare are not against people but wicked and powerful spirits working from the invisible realm. Only way to win the battles of life is to keep hold of Christ day by day. You may resist temptation today,but unless you make Jesus you daily strength, Satan will wear you down with continual temptations just like he wore Samson down through Delilah's continual nagging. Friends, let us take heed less we fall, let us hide our weakness in Christ. Only in Christ we will have the strength and perseverance to resist the Devil. 

1 Corinthians 10:12

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

The elites of this world are corrupt!

The Dalai Lama is one of the most famous religious leaders on this planet, a man of great influence, a respected world leader. Yet a video came out recently showing kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to " suck his tongue" at a public event in India 🤢. The Dalai Lama,  Tenzin Gyatso, is the "holiest " figure in Tibetan Buddhism and has lived in exile in India since 1959, when Tibet was annexed by China. As he is the supreme Buddhist monk, he never married.

 In the video in question, according to the guardian newspaper, a young male student approached a microphone at the event and asked the Dalai Lama: " can I hug you ?" The Dalai Lama, 87, told the boy to come up to the platform where he was seated. Motioning to his cheek, he is heard saying " first here", after which the child kissed him and gave him a hug. The Dalai Lama kept hold of the boy, saying " I think here also" and then planted a kiss on his lips 😱. " And suck my tongue," 🤢 the Dalai Lama then said, sticking our His tongue, forehead to forehead with the student. The boy quickly stuck out his tongue and went to move away while the Dalai Lama laughed.. and the audience laughed..

This is wickedness! Wickedness done in public,wickedness in high places. The question we must ask is if the Dalai does such a wicked thing as kissing a boy on the lips and telling the boy to "suck his tongue," one doesn't even want to begin to imagine the type of things this man may be doing in private 🤫. The catholic church has the same problem. In recent years, many revelations of pedophilia came out of the catholic church. Priests took advantage of young boys who were in their care, molesting them and doing all types of depraved things to them. Some priests went to prison as the revelations came to light and victims spoke out .

While they try to make it seems that only a few bad priests were doing these things, it seems more systematic because a lot of the superiors knew of the pedophile priests and just move them to different parishes when problems arose and this issue was a worldwide issue. The catholic church in defiance of the Word of God forbid priests from getting married and all types of wickedness have come up as a result. But there is a difference, in the middle ages, the priests used to have secret mistresses, but now it seems to be little boys who are the main attraction. Could it be that the elites of society are practicing great wickedness behind close doors ?

Look at the profileration of homosexuality in our society. The homosexual community is only a very small minority but yet they have so much power. Could it be they have so much power because many of the elites are practicing homosexuality behind closed doors? You think this is far fetched ? Look at what's happening in many of our schools, the drag shows. Where sick and depraved men dressed as women and teaching little kids, reading stories for them in libraries etc.. Homosexuality and grooming of young kids is being pushed upon us with great Zeal. You rarely see a movement being pushed with as much zeal by those in power. Could it be it is because they want to make secrets sins widespread?

Friends, the elites of this world are sick, depraved and corrupt and their goal is to bring about a sick,depraved and corrupt society. A depraved, corrupt society is easier to control. Homosexuality corrupts an individual and makes him weak, it emasculate men and rob them of strength. So it is in the elites vested interest to spread homosexuality throughout the land using all forms of media to corrupt the masses. And since homosexuals do not procreate, the elites must corrupt young children so they can grow up homosexuals. Hence why our young are being taught that can choose their own genders in the schools and in media.

The elites of society are corrupt and their goal is to corrupt you first and then control you. Protect yourself  from participating in evil things or beholding evil. Protect your children, teach your children the way of the Lord and remove everything in the home that will give the corrupt elites access to your children's minds. Educate your children, dont leave it to the teachers or the church to do it. It is your responsibility as a parent to raise your child in the fear of the Lord.  The Devil is using the elites of this world to corrupt and ensnare us, let us find shelter in the arms of Jesus, the Word of God and resist the evils of this world 🙏🏾

Ephesian 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/dalai-lama-apologises-kissing-boy-suck-his-tongue-video

https://tvpworld.com/69062080/uks-largest-teacher-union-votes-for-more-drag-queens-in-schools