No One Knows the Time

So then, you also must always be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.

Matthew 24:44 GNB

Reflection:

While the vain enjoy their vanity, do not envy their enjoyment. For when the time comes, the price will be dear. And no one knows the time.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for keeping me in good stead and close to you, may I always acknowledge this time of my life to the merits of your Son Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour. And may your  Holy Spirit keep me aware of your presence at all times. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Your Friend in Christ

We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 2:12 GNB

Reflection:

God reaches out to us in different ways and one of them is through his people, even pondered on the fact that no mater you are you will at least have one friend/acquaintance who will nudge you closer to God. Say a prayer for that person today.

Prayer:

God Our Father, Thank you for sending your messenger in my life.  May I pay heed to thy word so that it is at work in me through the merits of Jesus your son. And may your Holy Spirit help me discern the truth. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

God will protect your heart

Herod was afraid of John because he knew that John was a good and holy man, and so he kept him safe. He liked to listen to him, even though he became greatly disturbed every time he heard him.

Mark 6:20 GNB

Reflection: 

Have you ever got a message from the Bible, or religious person or a friend and felt very uncomfortable about it, yet there was a certain peace that guarded your heart. That message came from God.

Prayer: 

God our Father Thank you for protecting my heart. May my life's message always be that of proclaiming Jesus as Lord and Saviour. And may your Holy Spirit assist me in this my endeavour. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

The Real Value

You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’  You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Matthew 23:18‭-‬19 NIV

Reflection:

At times we get over sighted and give value to the tangible things in our lives rather than ones who make them valuable. Let us not be blinded by our short sight but see the world as Jesus taught us to see.

Prayer:

God Our Father, Thank you for helping me see the world as you want me too, help me each day to walk in the path of your son Jesus and value all those who touch my life. And may your Holy Spirit be with me at all times. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

The Revelation of Jesus

“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Matthew 16:15 NIV

Reflection:
This is a question Jesus asks us every day, in good times or bad. In health and sickness. Can we say to him then, You are my Lord and God and no matter what, I love you and trust you.

Prayer:
God our Father, Thank you for revealing the truth about your son Jesus to me. He is my Lord and Saviour. May your Holy Spirit always be of assistance and counsel to me. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Sticking to Gods ways

For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Matthew 23:12 NIV

Reflection:
The world today walks a different path to what Jesus preached. Humility is considered a weakness. But as followers of Christ we got to stick his ways. For God's ways our not our ways.

Prayer:
God our Father, Thank you for teaching me your ways, may I always be humble as Christ even though I am put on a cross. And May your Holy Spirit teach me to discern my actions. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones  :)

The Greatest Commandments

Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 22:37‭-‬39 NIV

Reflection:

God commands us to love both, himself and his creation, for man is created in God's image and likeness. We cannot love God without loving man, and cannot love man without loving God.

Prayer: 

God our Father, Thank you for creating me in your image and likeness, may I always reach out to my neighbour in love, just as Jesus taught. May your Holy Spirit teach me to love, forgive and be generous. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Miracles

Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”

John 1:50 NIV

Reflection:

At some point in our lives, we've all experienced the grace of God in a miracle. And when we acknowledge the presence of God and his hand in the miracle. God assures us of even bigger graces.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for your grace in my life. May I grow in the spirit and wisdom of your son Jesus as your Holy Spirit makes me more aware of the miracle of this life I live. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

The Generosity of God

Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you.

Matthew 20:14 NIV

Reflection:

God's generosity is beyond our comprehension, for John the Baptist laboured all his life, while the thief on the right of the cross made his peace with God at the last hour. While the reward is the same, the motive for one's labour can make all the difference. Let us continue our work not looking for how much we can get, but how much can we give.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for calling me to serve your people. Your timing Lord is perfect, may I grow each day in the knowledge of Jesus Christ my lord and may your Holy Spirit be my advocate and counselor. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Nothing is impossible with God

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luke 1:37 KJV

Reflection:

As humans, there is only as much as our understanding of life. But God is the giver of life and is beyond all else, therefore nothing is impossible with God.

Prayer: 

God our Father, Thank you for the gift of life, I am where you desire me to be. Let me always walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ so that I too can walk on water as I am led by your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Worldly offers

But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

Matthew 19:22 NLT

Reflection: 

The world has a lot to offer, but all it offers is limited to this lifetime. God gives us a free will to choose, and we ought to choose well.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for choosing and giving me life. May I always seek your Kingdom as I keep the commands Jesus your son gave. And may your Holy Spirit teach me your ways. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)  

Gift and Call from God

For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.

Romans 11:29 NLT

Reflection:

When God gives, it is a given. There are no two ways about it, nor God will change his mind. For that is how He set the world in motion and has allowed it to continue despite it being abused.

Prayer:

God Our Father, Thank you for the gift and calling to Eternal Life. May I be led by your Holy Spirit to the way, the truth and the life found in Jesus your son. Amen.

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Be Child Like

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”

Matthew 19:14 NRSV

Reflection: 

Ever realized that no matter how you feel, when you see a child, it just changes how you're feeling. Because children are not only true to others but with themselves too. They are special to God and he wants us all to be like them. 

Prayer: 

God our Father, Thank you, for making me your child, may I always look up to you in every moment just like Jesus your son did, giving you thanks and praise at all times. And may your Holy Spirit help me discern. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :) 

Gods plan and man

"So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

Matthew 19:6 NIV

Reflection: 

A manufacturer knows his product well, He evens knows how it's best used and therefore puts a manual in the box. Similarly, God knows why he made man and through his word, He has given us the plan.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for all the plans you have for me, may I find them in Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, your Word made flesh, as I am directed by your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

God see our hearts

“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

Matthew 18:35 NIV

Reflection:

While in our visual world we may think and assume because we see, know that God sees beyond what the human eye can see, for God sees our hearts.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for seeing me through at all times, may I grow in faith and compassion like your son Jesus as your Holy Spirit teaches me your precepts. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

The Agreement Prayer

"Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven."

Matthew 18:19 NIV

Reflection:

Another secret Jesus reveals to us, as to how to ask for anything according to God's will is through the agreement prayer. So whenever you pray with someone, pray in agreement.

Prayer:

God Our Father, Thank you for all good things come from you. I pray in agreement with my brother/sister that in my life, let your will be done. In this journey may Jesus be by my side and may your Holy Spirit help me discern. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Mary, Mother of my Lord

In a loud voice, she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Luke 1:42‭-‬43 NIV

Reflection:

Even Elizabeth acknowledged that Mary is the mother of her God calling her Blessed. Do we acknowledge Mother Mary in the same way especially when we pray to her?

Prayer: 

God Our Father Thank you for choosing Mary as the instrument to bear your son Jesus, for she understands us and intercedes for us at all times. May our devotion to your daughter always bear blessed fruit and we surrender our all to your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

To Love: Is To Do

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

1 John 3:18 NIV

This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:17 NIV

Reflection:

We are all called to love, but to love is to put into action. To do and not just say. And that is why Jesus died on the cross, for God so loved the world.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for your unconditional Love that you sent your son Jesus to die for me. May this new life He gives me, bring me closer to you as I am lead by your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :) 

Being Rooted in Faith

“Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”

Matthew 14:29‭-‬30 NIV

Reflection: 

While faith can propel you to super quick action, you also have to be rooted to it, for then even if the winds of doubt blow across, you will not sink.

Prayer: 

God our Father Thank you for keeping me rooted to you through your Son Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour. May your Holy Spirit be my

guide at all times. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Faith is...

He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 17:20 NIV

Reflection:

Faith is a starting point to all we are called to do. When you have faith you believe without a doubt and when you do so, nothing is impossible.

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for your continuous faith in me that I too will walk in the path of your son Jesus fullfiling the very purpose you created me for. May your Holy Spirit be with me in this my endeavour. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Bearing Fruits

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

John 15:4 NIV

Reflection:

Growth is inevitable, we were created to grow, however, the choice of in whom you want to grow, solely rests with you.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for choosing me as the seed to bear much fruit. May I fruitfully grow through the merits of Jesus your son and may your Holy Spirit teach me patience and understanding. Amen.

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Joyful Giver

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV

Reflection:

The best things in life come to you when you give it away be. Smile at someone and they'd seldom not smile back. This comes to us because God's nature is of giving and we are made in his image and likeness. Therefore Joyfully Give...

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for giving me life but more importantly for giving me the gift of Jesus your son - the font if Eternal life. And may your Holy Spirit spur my heart to be a joyful giver. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Keeping Faith

Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

Matthew 15:28 NIV

Reflection:

Your faith will be tested at times, you not only need to have it, you need to keep it. For in due time, God will reward your Faith.

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for your faith in me, that keeps drawing me to your son Jesus, may everything I do, be rooted and guided by your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

The Truth

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

2 Timothy 4:3 NIV

Reflection:

The word of God was written by humans but inspired by the Holy Spirit. It's interpretation too should be led by the Holy Spirit. Two Thousand years ago Jesus established his kingdom, appointing a head authority. For Kingdom to continue till he comes again.

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for constant calling me to a new life in Christ Jesus who is the truth, the way and life. May I always be led to your ways by your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Give it all to Jesus

“Bring them here to me,” he said.

Matthew 14:18 NIV

Reflection: 

Do have dreams, hopes, and aspirations? Are you carrying burdens, doubts, and fears? Give them all to Jesus

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for your constant calling, your unending and unconditional love. Help me to surrender my all, into the precious Hands of Jesus Christ your son. And may I be moved by your Holy Spirit. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Authority from God

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”

Matthew 17:5

Reflection:

Jesus got his authority from God our Father and he is very clear about it, that even his disciples heard it. Let us respect the authority and name of Jesus.

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for the freedom you give, may each day be spent like your son, Jesus who taught and has been a good instructor. May your Holy Spirit be with me always. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones 

Promises and Words

That he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

Matthew 14:7 NIV

Reflection:

We ought to be careful about the words we say and the promises we make, lest we say and promise and are unable to fulfill them. But in God's word we have a promise of Eternal life.

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for your eternal word that you made flesh in Christ Jesus, by his death and resurrection you have purchased for us Eternal life. May your Holy Spirit helps us to be rooted to your promises. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Value of Home

And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”

Matthew 13:57 NIV

Reflection:

We seldom value the ones who are closest to us, often taking everything they do for granted. You want to change the world start with yourself at home. For Charity begins at home.

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for all your generosity in blessing me. May I learn to accept my daily cross just as Jesus your son did. And may your Holy Spirit sustain me at all times. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

God will direct your path

but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.

Exodus 40:37 NIV

Reflection:

When you submit to God's ways, He will direct your path. Be still and know He is making a way....

Prayer:

God our Father Thank you for directing my path to the heart of your son Jesus, in whom is the source of all goodness. May your Holy Spirit be our guiding light at all times. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Child of God

So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.

Galatians 4:7 NIV

Reflection:

We were created out of love, but in disobedience we rejected it. Yet the love never ceased. It came forth in human form, died and in rising again won for us the right to be called the children of God. 

You are a child of God.

Prayer:

God our Father, Thank you for all the love you bestow on me, Help me to be more like your son Jesus so that each day I can be obedient to your calling as a Father. May your Holy Spirit fill me with wisdom and understanding. Amen 

God Bless you and your loved ones :)

Good and Bad

The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one.

Matthew 13:38 NIV

Reflection:

While there is good on one hand, there is bad on the other. The choice to choose between them is with us.

Prayer:

God our Father thank you for your grace that abounds all goodness in me through the merits of your son Jesus. Help me to continue on this path as you send your Holy Spirit to be my counsel and guide. Amen

God Bless you and your loved ones :)