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Living A Life Of Love

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We all know that a house can never be built without a foundation. Every house requires a properly laid foundation to hold and sustain it. A poor foundation will cause a collapse of the house by any storm that blows against it. So in other to build a strong house, we have to build it on a strong and solid foundation which can hold it through the midst of any storm.     Similarly, our lives need to be built on a stronger foundation. In the book of Ephesians 5, we are told to be followers of God as dear children, and walk in love. God is love, and He's the perfect one to turn to for the true meaning of love. Love is the foundation of our Christian living. We cannot effectively live our lives without love. What's love? The dictionary defines love as a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties. Howbeit, love is a complex word which goes beyond our contemporary definition, and that’s what makes love very hard to be defined. Amazingly, the

Saved By Grace

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The concept of salvation has been an ongoing debate among the major religious groups. Each group has their own belief of how a person can be saved and thus promote it.  Misunderstanding of how one is saved is causing a lot of people to struggle in their salvation. Howbeit,  Christianity among the rest of the religions, points to a different belief on the notion of salvation. So the key on how to be saved is well thought and explained in the Bible, which lifts weights of our shoulders. How can we obtained salvation? I strongly believe that our salvation has to depend on the one who calls for us to be saved.  For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 Regardless of the beliefs of the worldly religions, no one can ever save himself. Salvation is obtained only by the grace of God through our faith in Christ Jesus. The Bible says that there's none righteous, no, not one ( Romans 3:10 ). Salvation is the gif

Are All Dreams From God?

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In one of my posts do you dream? , we saw that God is the source of our dreams. He uses dreams as a medium of communication to reveal things to us. However, not all dreams are from God. What I mean is that not all of our dreams are inspired by God. Shocking but it's the truth. And as Jesus said it's our knowledge of the truth that will set us free (John 8:32). So our knowledge and understanding of dreams will help us to properly deal with them. For  we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against  the rulers, against the authorities, against  the cosmic powers over  this present darkness, against  the spiritual forces of evil  in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 As Christians, we are in a constant battle with demonic evil forces whose ultimate goal is to see our destruction.  Can our dreams be influenced by evil spirits? Amid  thoughts from  visions of the night,   when  deep sleep falls on men, 14  dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all

Do You Dream?

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One common shared trait of every human being is the ability to dream. Whether good or bad, dream is part of our lives. Dream is a God made medium of communication. It has been so since the creation of man. God often reveals Himself in our dreams to instruct us. And we are often inspired to do things through dreams. So dream is an essential aspect of our lives.  What's A Dream? Being a Christian, I'm going to base my definition of dream on the Bible and then move on to our basic understanding of what dream is all about.  5  In a dream,  in a vision  of the night,  when deep sleep  falls on people  as they slumber in their beds. Job 33:15 The above scripture gives a lot concerning dreams. First of all, a dream is a vision of the night, which occurs when people fall deeply asleep. For our understanding, dreams are like visions according to the Bible. There are Prophets in the Bible like Daniel who will dream and have visions as well. A vision is something tha

God's Perfect Timing

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God lives outside of time, yet He works with time. There is a time He has appointed to fulfill His plan and purpose in the life of His children. The timing of God, however, is never like ours. O ne day  is  with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:8). We cannot comprehend His ways.  What is God's Perfect Timing  The perfect timing of God is simply a time set aside by God to release the answers or perform the requests of believers. It is a time He has set aside to accomplish His promises to us. In His time, He brings our dreams to pass. He hath made every  thing  beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 We find it hard to trust God's perfect timing because we are a people who want everything fast and on the spot. Sometimes we feel as if we are not on God's clock. Days, months and years will go by

A Life Of Obedience

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There is something remarkable about salespersons that is going to help us in this article. Every good salesperson has a quality embedded him that enables him to touch the heart of his customers upon his approach. He is able to study every new costumer and know how to convince them that their product is worth of buying. As believers, we are not salespersons, but we ought to have certain qualities in us that will enable us to prove to God that we are worth of His goodness. Being in a relationship with God calls for a thorough study of Him. We need to study God and His ways so we will be equipped with the ability to know how to touch His heart. Apparently, there is no amount of work that we will do that will ever equate God's goodness or love for us. However, the Bible gives us an "easy" way of reaching out to God's heart.    And Samuel said, Hath the  Lord  as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the  Lord ? Behold, to