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True Thanksgiving

2 Timothy 3:1-3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, One of the signs that we are in the last days is the ungratefulness of people. Today, even as we commemorate the Westgate attacks that happened last year, let us choose not to focus on the negative, but see things to give thanks to God. The terrorists, as one witness said, could not hinder Kenyans from donating blood, or giving freezers to store the blood that was donated and did not have a place to store the blood, among other helps. We are not undermining the effects of what people went through, but at the end, we can look at the event with lamenting and cursing the day, or we can look at it and thank God that it could have been worse, but was not. Irrespective of what was planned

Discernment: The Way to Walk in God's Perfect Will

"Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone." John 6:15 Watching Jesus is the best thing you would ever do. When the Bible tells us that He was tempted at all points just like us, yet without sin (Heb. 4:15), it didn't only refer to the three temptations in the wilderness at the beginning of His ministry. Throughout His lifetime He was being tempted, and our opening verse talks of an example of the same. After feeding the 5,000 men, women and children excluded, they wanted to make Him king. Jesus knew that He had come to establish His kingdom here on earth, and that He was the long awaited King and Messiah, but He also knew how this would happen. It was not to happen the way men expected it to, the way they wanted to do it and they way it was always done, but through the Father's way. He discerned that they were about to get Him out of God's will, and He

Arise, for Your Miracle Awaits You

Time has come that we arise from any uncomfortable situations we are in, and jump right into our miracle. Some people do not want to get up from the habits of sin, walking round and round and so on, but the Lord wants us to arise and walk into what He has in store for us. 2 Kings 6:24-30 And it happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver. 26 Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!" 27 And he said, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?" 28 Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me

Not Just a Man

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. John 5:18. One of the most feared and controversial truths is that we are not ''just humans''. It baffles everyone, and irritates religious people. To some extent it's also scary to think of yourself as a supernatural being. People are scared to do so, while for others it simply doesn't make sense, as what they see in the natural doesn't interpret to this truth. Jesus was not afraid of being associated with God. He went around boldly talking about His Father, and left people to think what they wanted to think. In the Jewish culture, it was wrong to call yourself God's son, as every child's identity comes from their father's. A dog's offspring is still a dog, and so is a goats’, a cows’ etc. So God's offspring is a god. Jesus knew this, and went around identifying God