In search of God

1 Peter 2:1-3, ‘Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.’ When you accept Jesus as lord in your life, then you need to make a conscious effort to shun everything that is negative. The only way to do that is by reading the scriptures so that they may nourish you and help you grow spiritually. We are not meant to be stagnant and struggle with the same things since our salvation. We need to put on the armor of Christ as we prepare ourselves for the spiritual war that we face daily. We need some spiritual growth.

1 Peter 1:22,23, ‘Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.’ God is love, and the best way you can demonstrate that is by loving Him and loving your fellow brothers and sisters as he showed us. Jesus summarized all the laws into two, love your God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbors as yourself. If you have been touched by the love of Christ in your heart, if you are saved by the Holy blood of Christ, then you must have love, you must preach love for all, and you must exhibit love.

1 Peter 1:17-21, ‘Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him, and so your faith and hope are in God.’ Each man, whether a believer or not will ultimately face judgment from God for His actions during the brief stay in this world on The Day. The good news for believers is that because of Jesus the Christ, your sins are blotted out from the sight of God because they were placed on and paid in full by Jesus at the cross. Now God in His divine wisdom saw it fit that men should be redeemed from the penal

1 Peter 1:13-15, ‘Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;’ When Jesus was crucified at the cross, He saved us from the penalty of sin which is death. Our sins were forgiven not because we were righteous or we deserved it, but we were credited righteous by the Father because we placed our faith and hope in Him. On His resurrection, He has given us power over sin, we now have the power to overcome and resist temptation. Most of us who believe do not however appreciate this and we continue to live as we did in our former lives, cowering and despairing, feeling hopeless and succumbing to temptations all the while having the power over all things of this world that we access through Him who was given this authority. Our holiness is

Where are you? Where are you going? Are you going where God is going? God put this message in my heart, and I typically would post my messages in a status, but this one is lengthy, please, bear with me, I request of you. One of the easiest things for human beings to do is to be stagnant, to settle in one place, build around that place, and seek to go no further. We are not fans of change, or constant movement, quite frankly we despise it, because it costs us. What does it cost us? It costs us the ease of remaining in our comfort place, it causes us to give up what we have established, it costs us when we have to move from the known to the unknown, when we have to leave our traditions and formalities behind for something new, something different, it costs us when we have to change our own way, or a way passed on to us, for a new way. You may have noticed today that one of the big issues large organizations and businesses deal with daily, is the reluctance which we have towards c

1 Peter 1:8,9, ‘Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.’ All who believe in God do so in faith. We believe in faith that the bible is the word of God, a revelation of Christ to man, we believe in Jesus to be the Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is fully divine and came to earth to be the son of man. We believe that His crucifixion was by divine design to unite us to God. We believe that He was raised on the third day by God, and ascended to be seated at the right hand of the Father. In faith we believe that our sins are forgiven when we confess our sins to Christ, in faith we believe that we die in Christ at the cross to our sinful life and nature, and are resurrected in Him as new beings full of power and eternal life, in faith we believe we are seated in Him at heavenly places at th

1 Peter 1:7, ‘These (all kinds of trials) have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.’ This world is full of trials and tribulations and many of us when faced we go around sad and feeling persecuted. But look at it this way, our Lord controls everything of this world, because control was given to Him, and if you are facing a trial, He has allowed you to face it for a reason, and the reason is for you to be shaped, molded and matured spiritually. Just like a pearl is shaped due to an irritation, a believer’s faith in the one who called us to Himself is built up. So when you face these trials, do not despair but rejoice because He that is in you is still doing His work in you to make you whole and without blemish, a pure bride for His second coming.

Isaiah 43:18, 19, ‘Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.’ When you become a believer, you are born again and are a new being in Christ dead to His former life that was in bondage to sin. But how many of us really shed off that longing of the former sinful life we had, how many of us let go of the guilt of sin that was gnawing at us. Christ is in us doing His work in us and will continue to do so until we become finished, a master piece. Even though now we may be feeling undeserving, unworthy of His love, His promise, His faithfulness abides forever and He will never forsake us. His love for us is everlasting. All we need is to place our faith in Him; and with this faith you will be able to see and receive His promise for you, you will be able to see His work in you and you will be able to break from the hold of your past and be free in de

Job 42:3, ‘…Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.’ We live in this world proclaiming to know everything about everything, labeling the bible as a bunch of lies, and claiming that our evidence supports the non existence of God. Just look at the evolution of our knowledge throughout man’s history will reveal that in reality we know nothing. Scientists believe that religion and science to be parallel which might be true; but you cannot separate yourself from God just because you are a scientist. Religion is not God; God is love and is the source of all knowledge. Just look at all the inventions that man has made throughout civilization, don’t you agree that they came at just the right time for mankind. Professed atheists and all non believers for that matter that eventually give their lives to the Lord appreciate what that Job after his tribulations, that even though we may not know or understand everything, our hope resides in the Lord in wh