IT'S MY LIFE!

"when Christ who is our life...."    (colossians 3:4)
so I remembered this song when I was about to post this article, "it's my life, it's my li-ife (3x)"
and people would just sing to it and dance a lot not realizing what's really up.
so I was led to this verse above, and in the previous verse (i.e vs 3) when read you understand that you are dead and your life is hidden in Christ Jesus...you know, just reading this verse may appear normal then further meditation makes you understand what the verse truly depicts.
this verse drives the thought deeper that this life that we live in is truly not ours, for we died and are now raised with him....therefore the attractions and distractions of this world should really not affect us. I believe when we come into deep understanding of vs 1, 2 and 3 we understand that we're as christains are called into the abundant life...where fame, money, women is no longer our priority as regards to our old man,
     So therefore when you're walking on the road and someone stops you and asks "how's life?" you don't reply "my brother, we're just managing" or "well, we thank God" or " well, we all know this life is not fair"..NO, NO and NO!!! our reply should be something like this "well, since Christ is my life, my life is doing exactly how Christ is doing" meaning YOUR LIFE IS FRUITFUL, BLESSED, PROSPEROUS, PLEASING TO GOD, FILLED WITH JOY,SUCCESSFUL  and many more Christ-like attributes. Now if they like let them say your answer is too spiritual, leave them jhor besides last time I checked WE'RE SPIRIT BEINGS WHOSE LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD!
HALLELUYAH!

God Bless.
ibksuper.

THE INTIMACY THROUGH PRAYER.

You know of recent during my fellowship time, this question just came to me "so why do you think you have to fellowship with me or come worship me?" and you know for a moment I was just silent, was the fellowship time just to fufill all righteousness so that I can say that I prayed for xxx hours today or just to feel like a christain....what really?
      and you know this is a question a majority of us have to ask ourselves.WHY DO WE NEED TO FELLOWSHIP? and you know today after 2 days of not having my proper ellowship time just been there in his presence and i blurted out straight from the heart i said "God you know there's this hole within me that only you can fill, nobody else can do that" and there goes the answer!...we go to him to learn more of him, know more about him and which other way but through prayer and worship.
    You know this phrase that most people use "if prayer doesn't work, try praise"..its sooo wrong because we understand from mark 11:24 that whatever things we ask when we pray, BELIEVING that we RECEIVE them and then we will HAVE them. So you see ther's no 2-way about it.but the problem is, even while we're praying we christains are still thinking, "will God do it or not?" and then he's wondering "then why do you ask?"
   So you see go to him in prayer, ask him so your joy may be full because that's what he wants, Worship him, Praise him, just Surrender yourself in his presence and I promise you a life-time of Joy-overflow!

You're Blessed.
ibksuper :)

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?..GOO!!!

So the holy spirit reminded me of Matthew 28 from vs 18;

                       " GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS"
You know how we all write our goals for the year or for the month and we write "lord i want to win xxx number of souls for you this year/this month" and at the end of the year/month you notice that you didn't even go halfway or even a quarter.You know what happens most times is that we forget about the fact that we are  to GO not wait for these people to come and meet us wherever we are.For the Christians of this day I translated this verse as;

                      "MY FRIEND GET OUT OF THAT COMFORT ZONE OF YOURS AND MAKE THE PEOPLE IN DARKNESS COME TO MY LIGHT"
you know that was the way it sounded to me when I read it, I suddenly remembered the number of people I would like to bring into his light this year and well I haven't really gone far...and why??...because of this "where do I go to preach the word" mentality.Thank God all that is no more.

    So my wonderful readers and my brethen...let's not just sit down there and comfort ourselves saying at least I tried and don't use follow-up as an excuse for not making disciples for Christ because if no soul is won then what or who really are we following-up???

P.P --> Lord, i Receive grace to go out and preach your word and make disciples in your name (not making excuses anymore)

God Bless
ibksuper.

WHAT ARE YOU REALLY DOING?

Ok, so picture me staring at a blank i-touch...new, untouched, un-used, un-scratched, un-broken (allow me), un- ugly (still allow me)...ok let me stop there.Now i'm sure you'll be wandering why are you staring at it and not using it, right?...why am i staring at it??...but you see that's the problem, I can't get it to work. (sigh)

    So now let's picture something else, a human being this time alive, beautiful , handsome, eating, drinking, sleeping, working, gisting you know like the sims game?!..just that this time even with all the hustle and bustle your creator (God) is jhus looking at you...like *serious straight face* expecting you to come on (like with the i-touch scenerio),but you know this time this scenerio is more annoying why? because
First of all, he has made us in his image and likeness....meaning when pple see us, they should see him
Secondly, he's your father, meaning you are born of him...so he's wondering where did you get all these acts and mindsets from.

Thirdly,he has given us all the necessary materials we will need to achieve that which he has set before us so he's wondering why all the muttering and complaining
Fourthly, how many times have you missed your way and he has sent so many people your path just to get you up

Lastly he has showered and bestowed his love upon us, he's wondering what else do you need?

P.S --> there's surely still many more but just these few things came to my mind

      Now please tell me, if I could do all this to my i-touch to make it work, WOULDN'T I??...even if I won't (which I would despite the fact that I've paid for it long ago, I won't mind the extra cost) You surely would!

     You see!!! but God did all these and is still doing all this despite the fact that he gave up his son (A BIG SACRIFICE) a long time ago but some people are just not **working**(permit me to use that word in the i-touch sense) but you know the good part of all this, my wonderful friends?! he's still staring at you and he keeps going back to check you if you're **working or not**... when he closes his eyes you still come up in his head...and you know the greatest part HE'LL SURELY NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU! (i wonder if i can say the same for my i-touch after some time)

So brethen, Please let's wake up and ask ourselves WHAT ARE WE REALLY DOING??