Thursday, 26 June 2025

The Purpose Of Challenges & Difficulties


Everything in life has a purpose even if you do not know what the purpose of what you are going through is.
Experiences that are unpleasant, challenges and difficulties have a reason, a purpose.
We need to have the right perspective about life and its issues, even difficulties and challenges.
The purpose of challenges is to glorify God in your situation and to benefit you.
Yes, God wants to be glorified through your trials and difficulties and He wants them to turn out for your good.
Your trials, challenges, and difficulties turning out for your good simply means they end up benefitting you.

God is a God of purpose.
Since He is a God of purpose, everything He permits or allows to happen has a purpose to it.
God's purpose is His will.
He is intentional about all He does and permits, this includes your life.

You are on this earth by God's will and design and your life's journey and path has a purpose.
This means your challenges, difficulties and trials have a purpose to it whether it was ordained by God or it was caused by the enemy.

God's will or purpose doesn't always play out automatically.
We have a role to play in understanding God's will and purpose for us on this earth.
It is not everything that happens in this world that is God's will and purpose but God can use anything and all things, including our mistakes, poor choices and the work of the enemy in our lives to glorify Himself and benefit us.
He is the God who can bring a message out of our mess, testimonies out of our difficulties, triumph out of our setbacks,  miracles out of our mistakes and the champion in us out of our challenges.
He makes things work out for our good and for His glory.
But we have to pray.
We have to believe.
We have to hunger for His will and plan.
We have to search, even the scriptures to gain understanding.
These are our responsibilities.

The Spirit of God is also available to those who ask, and stay sensitive to Him to know the thoughts, mind and heart of God concerning the sometimes unpleasant things we go through in life.

Every difficulty qualifies you to receive a miracle from God through Jesus Christ.
Every challenge puts you in line for miracle solutions through Jesus Christ.
Many people want miracles but very few understand that miracles are God's solution to the challenges that are beyond us.
Miracles are God's intervention in human affairs to fix a situation that is beyond the human.
Miracles glorify God.
Challenges and difficulties precede the miraculous!

Begin to see your challenges and difficulties as qualifying you to be next for a miracle!

 

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

the Stones & the Kingdom


 The kingdom of God is likened to a stone, just as Jesus is the rejected stone which became the chief cornerstone. Believers are living stones, we are a part of God's spiritual building.

Stones are used for building, for artwork, as a part of hunting tools and as weapons of warfare.

 It was a stone David used to kill Goliath! 

Stones are not as useless as many of us might think.

It's interesting Jesus and the saints are likened to stones.

It's also amazing Jesus said stones would burst out and give Him worship/praise if the Jews didn't.

Why stones?

Some of us live in parts of the world where it is not uncommon to find stones on our path and grounds everyday.

Due to this, stones are seen as common and often taken for granted.

In God's kingdom, that which is seen as common, taken for granted or irrelevant can be very valuable.

It is interesting the Lord of all creation is likened to a stone, a rejected stone.

Jesus is the rejected stone that became the chief head of the corner.

This example is one of stones being used for buildings,  in building constructions.

What this means is that the rejected stone became the most important stone for the construction work, 

A rejected stone is the least useful stone for the purpose it was chosen for.

It is a stone that was chosen, tried and workmen or building experts concluded it doesn't qualify so it was discarded.

Man's reject is God's elect.

God is a God of the underdog.

God gives the underdog a chance.

He does this in His wisdom and mercy.

Within God's kingdom we find many individuals who were underdogs who God gave a chance, they emerged heroes of faith.

This is the spiritual mystery of stones.

Stones are the underdogs of creation many do not often see the value of.

They are often tossed away, walked on and at best played or toyed with by toddlers who pick them up from the floor not knowing any better.

It takes an artistic eye to see what can be done with a stone.

Great sculptors like Leonardo Da Vinci have sculpted beautiful images out of stone and marbles many didn't see a use for.

David the shepherd boy was a resourceful teenager who knew what to do with stones.

The stones many walked past by the brookside were potent, tried and useful weapons in the hands of the young shepherd.

With one out of the five stones he picked from the ground he cracked the skull of Goliath, liberating the whole nation from the intimidation of the giant who had kept them in fear for forty days.

Stones are easily taken for granted, left on the floor, trampled upon, without discernable use.

Some heroes of faith can identify with that, that is how they were seen and treated by man but God had other plans

But the same stones we see daily and take for granted have lots of potential.

They can be cleaned, polished and used as part of artworks. 

The same stone that was on the ground and not put to good use today can suddenly become an object of value or part of a treasure!

When cleaned and polished up their value is appreciated, their beauty is seen, and their usefulness discerned.

There's nothing God has made and which exists today that doesn't have any usefulness.

The question is, can you discern the purpose or usefulness of what you have around you?

Can you see or recognize what others cant?

The same builders who rejected the stone that became the chief head of the corner were the ones who went back to fetch the rejected stone they discarded after discovering its usefulness, after seeing where it fits, after discovering its value and where it should go in the building construction. It turned out the most useful stone, in the most important position!

Jesus was rejected by His own, spat on, left to die, beaten and bruised yet He forgave defied death and the grave, rose like a phoenix and sits in the most exalted position!

He knows what underdogs feel and He has experienced their story.

When we are translated into the kingdom of God, our Creator who knows us and sees the usefulness in us that man often misses takes us and places us where we fit, where our value is noticed and our glory manifests.

The kingdom of God is the place to be!

God has a way of taking the beggar from the dunghill and setting him up among princes.

That boy, girl, man or woman you are taking for granted today because of their present state just might be diamonds in the mud, precious stones who will shine with a bit of encouragement, direction, help and guidance.

They are precious stones in the hand of God!



Monday, 16 June 2025

Do Phoenix Exist?


 The legendary phoenix is an intriguing creature.

The phoenix is a mythological bird for many, that resurrects, a mortal bird whose life is renewed in fire.

The phoenix is renewed to new life and a new existence after it's old life is burnt away.

I believe phoenix exist. 

The life of Jesus the Christ was very phoenix like in that He resurrected.

The phoenix is a bird associated with renewal and resurrection power which Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit produces and gives.

The phoenix's intrigue and uniqueness is that it is associated with fire, a burning bird!

With similarities to an eagle, the phoenix renews itself even as an eagle does when the eagle flies on to the highest mountain top it can find to undergo renewal to emerge almost brand new.

The phoenix also undergoes renewal from what can be seen as its death.

Phoenix are as real as eagles are!

If eagles exist, phoenix exist!

There is something very spiritual about the phoenix just like eagles are.

A phoenix is a more dainty, colorful, elegant version of the eagle, it's structure and elegance makes it have a certain peacock like kind of form.

The phoenix is associated with immortality.

Human beings have spirits and our spirit man is our true essence which is immortal like our God- the Father of all spirits the immortal One.

The phoenix is associated with fire, flames of fire.

Fire is one of the symbols or representations of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit as flames or tongues of fire appeared on the head of all those in the upper room on the day of Pentecost which is believed to be the day of the church's birth.

The phoenix rises from the ashes.

Like the phoenix, God would have us shake the 'ashes' off our lives and rise out of them.

Ashes can represent anything negative from sin, the flesh, the works of the enemy, our unpleasant past, the enemy's bites and attack e.t.c

The phoenix is also associated with healing.

 It's believed the tears of the phoenix brings healing.

God heals us through the stripes of Jesus Christ.

He heals us emotionally, physically, and spiritually, He heals every area of lives where we need healing, He does it in faith, with His word, by our belief and sometimes in time.

The phoenix is a symbol of rebirth.

The new birth or born again is rebirth in its simplest definition.

It is God making all things new in our lives, it is being born anew by God's spiritual adoption.

The phoenix in some cultures, particularly the Egyptian culture is linked to the sun.

The rays of the sun is good for our bodies, our health, our earth, the plants and animals.

Jesus is called the Sun of righteousness whose wings has rays that bring healing.

The phoenix is linked to resurrection and eternal life.

Jesus is the resurrection and the life!

He is the resurrection and the life not just by words but by action and life's experience!

He is the giver of eternal life and resurrects the dead for He is the God of the living not the dead!

Obviously the phoenix is a very useful birth with many attributes and correlations to the essences of the Christian faith.

These are not mere coincidences, the phoenix is as real as dragons are, they are as real as unicorns are, they are as real as aliens are, they are as real as the dinosaurs were, they are as real as angels are, and they are as real as the kingdom of God; even the kingdom of heaven is.

I'm sure the phoenix will be a special bird in the kingdom of heaven, having a special place to the Lord among the birds of heaven.

God loves birds.

He created them, He provides for them.

May we rise to new heights, new life, and new glories like a phoenix by the spirit, even Spirit of God.


Friday, 13 June 2025

Do Mermaids Exist?


I know mermaids exist. 
Some people believe they are mere fictional characters produced from the imagination of some creative individual.
A mermaid is half human and half fish, the concept of mermaids is quite fascinating.
For those who are of the school of thought that mermaids aren't real, their belief is understandable. It is in the nature of human beings to doubt whatever they haven't seen or experienced before.
It is fair to say there is more to life and the world we live in than what we have experienced or seen personally.
No one has every experience of life and no one will.
There's no individual who can see, feel, know, and touch every single thing that has to do with life's experience.
We just have to depend on others for information, data, preserved evidence of truth and knowledge.

Mermaids exist and they are a part of the marine kingdom.
There is a sinister truth to mermaids many do not know.

The marine kingdom is part of the aquatic/water realm God originally gave man dominion over.
We have the three realms God gave man dominion over- the terrestrial, the aquatic, and the heavens/sky.

There are kingdoms in every realm.
As we have kingdoms on land we also have in the sea and in the heavens.
Human beings are familiar with earthly kingdoms and royalty because that is the realm we operate on and have always lived on but there are royals and kingdoms in the air (skies), in the seas (waters).

The happenings in the kingdoms of the sea and the air (marine and skies) affects the happenings in the realm of man on land (terrestrial).
Mermaids are part of the kingdom of the sea.

There is more to mermaids than how they are depicted in movies and cartoons.
Splash is an interesting 1984 movie featuring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, 
Daryl Hannah plays the role of a beautiful lady who is Tom Hanks love interest who has a secret- she's a mermaid!
The Little Mermaid is an entertaining children's cartoon which also has a 2023 film made of it with the same title- a romantic musical.
Mermaids also feature in Peter Pan films and cartoons.
The entertainment industry tends to portray mermaids as beautiful and often romantic creatures men fall in love with or as colorful friendly creatures.

It is a fact that the film industry has been something of revealing and prophetic about incidences that later happened or could potentially happen, creatures that have been proved to exist and featured in films, cartoons and animation.
We should wonder if mermaids are graceful loving creatures men tend to fall in love with as portrayed by the movie industry or is there something(s) we don't know about them?

The Bible is a book of truth.
Within the pages of the Bible we get answers to many questions and topics.
Mermaids are hybrids.
God doesn't do hybrids.
The hybrid perversion is a product of an experiment, a perverse experiment fallen angels who had crossed their assigned boundaries carried out.

In Genesis 6 we see the origin of hybrids, fallen angels in Noah's days came to the earth to take wives because the saw the daughters of  men were beautiful.
It was a sinister attempt to pervert humanity and frustrate the prophecy of the Messiah's birth.
These fallen angels or Nephilims and women marriage produced offspring that were hybrids or Rephaim.
Nephilims mean the fallen ones.
Rephaims are their children.
Rephaims are the source of demons.
Demons are the disembodied spirits of Rephaims.

This act by fallen angels triggered the anger of God and brought judgement on the fallen angels who did this.
God bound them in chain of darkness in a region deep beneath the earth called Tartarus.
They are having a very unpleasant experience there where they will remain until the judgement of the great day.

Their human wives were no longer ordinary women.
You can't be the spouse of a fallen angel and be ordinary, those women had been corrupted, these beautiful women of old became witches.
Their fallen angel spouses taught them magic, false religion, cosmetology and the dark arts.
They were turned against God.
This brought them under a curse, God's curse.
The curse made them fish like, they were banished to the water realm not to live as women on land anymore.
Mermaids are half witch, half human who hold nefarious intentions against humanity out of spite, jealousy, and misery towards humans and a hatred towards God.
They are part of the kingdom of darkness, a part of the gates of hell that operate from the waters.
Mermaids are products of a curse, they are the outcome of perversion.
God would not join a human and a fish together to form another creature.


Their children were evil and corrupt upon the earth, they were the major reason God chose to wipe out the known earth at that time with a flood!
Their children (Rephaims) were giants on the earth.
They became great men of old, the inspiration for many stories of heroism on earth.
I believe many Greek and Norse god stories were inspired by the exploits of Rephaims.
These fallen angel and human offspring went on to be founders of civilizations, they created wonderful architecture, and operated with technologies of that time that were ahead of the time they existed.

Mermaids and their giant children were washed away by the flood.
Today mermaids operate from the seas as agents from the marine kingdom.
Their giant sons died in the flood, their bodies perished in the flood but spirits don't die.
Their spirits are the demons on the earth today.
Demons are disembodied evil spirits that do the enemy's bidding and roam the earth looking for lives to destroy and bodies to inhabit.

I believe mermaids may have increased in number since the time women who fallen angels produced children with were cursed and washed away by God's flood.
They initiate ladies even today.
They are a part of Satan's network.

There are some people who have seen mermaids before.
I know someone who has.


 

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

The Thrill Of Freedom


 We can all probably remember moments from our childhood season, days when we got excited about being free to do certain things we wanted to do when we were children.

 It doesn't take as much to make children happy as it does to get adults excited.

Simple things can get children thrilled, it could be things as easy as their parents granting them permission to go and play outdoors with their friends, buying them a toy they've always wanted or getting them a treat/snack.

It seems children get thrilled about life more easily and much faster than adults do.

It would also seem the older we get the harder it is to get to those levels of thrill we used to feel as children. That's one of the many wonderful qualities children have- a zest for life!

It's no far fetched why the good Book enlightens us that we must be like little children to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Children are wonderful creations of God. 

They can be hilarious, they give us a sense of purpose as parents, they give us something to look forward to and they continue our lineage after we are gone.

We adults have to do better with regards to catching up on the thrills and joy of life, in a positive sense.

Freedom brings a thrill and excitement.

For adults our hobbies are some of the things that bring us happiness and pleasure.

Bikers have a fascination with motorcycling.

Motorcycling is a sport that can be addictive, ask those who are into it!

There's a thrill and joy it brings to the rider, and a great feel of freedom.

The movement and maneuvering of the bike, the speed, the sights, the sounds, the sense of risk and a huge thrill of the wind blowing against the riders face are reasons motorcyclists enjoy the sport.

Not to mention the admiration you get for having a nice set of wheels, a beautiful bike!

The excitement children display when they are in their heightened state of joy can be likened to the thrill bikers feel when riding their motorcycles.

That is the feel and thrill of freedom.

That is what it means to be free after being bound so long, limited so long, caged so long, and denied for so long.

In Galatians 5 verse 1 we are told Jesus set us free and we should not be entangled again with yokes of bondage.

The excitement children feel when they get what they have longed for is unhindered, they let it out, even if it's for the simplest or most basic of things.

It is similar to how bikers feel on a good day as they ride their bikes on a clear highway or road, when the weather is great.

These examples can also be compared to how we feel when we give our lives to the Lord.

The knowledge that we are free, that we are not weighted down by sin any longer, that we have been granted a clean slate, and our past and mistakes is not held against us is very liberating!

Many testify to feeling lighter, happier, and relieved after giving their lives to Jesus Christ.

It can be a very exhilarating and exciting feeling and experience.

Such is the thrill of freedom!

That's how God would have us feel and live regularly-with  a zest and an excitement for life.

I hope and pray you capture it if you have lost it.

Jesus Christ sets free.

Friday, 6 June 2025

God's Love!

As I stood on the sea shore at the sea side, an inspiration came to me as I observed the waters before me.
The depths of the sea, the expanse of it and its riches cannot be compared with the depth, length, breadth, height and riches of God's love for us.
Nothing is greater and bigger than God's love for us.
Not even the sand on the shore can measure up to God's love in quantity when counted grain by grain.
God's Love is grand & cannot be quantified!

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Freedom, A beautiful thing

 


Liberation/Freedom is a beautiful thing.

When you observe each of God's creation living freely in its own habitat it is a beautiful thing to behold.
It reveals a picture of happiness, joy, ease, and fulfillment.
Let's use our imagination for a moment.
Imagine fishes in the vastness of the ocean.
Visualize wild horses running free in the wilderness.
With your mind see, a dog running freely in a park.
These depict the thrill, excitement and awe with which God wants you to live your life.

Freedom is a beautiful thing.
Jesus came to set you free!
Be free in Jesus name!