Third Heaven Discourse

Psa 46:1 (NKJV) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Beloved, this scripture provides a wonderful source of comfort and encouragement for us in our days of trouble. It presents some of the attributes of God as our refuge, strength and help.  The psalmist tells us that God is a very present help in trouble. I believe the word "very" in that scripture offers something insightful. There is a difference between "God is a present help in trouble " and "God is a very present help in trouble" . The latter offers more assurance . Let me attempt to show you as inspired. The reason God is very present in times of trouble is because He never left in the first place . He promised He'll never leave nor forsake us; that He will be with us always. Friends, that's why He is very present in our troubled days. If He left us occasionally and still showed up in days of trouble, then we could say " He is present in day...

Matt 5:14-16 (NKJV) You are the light of the world.....Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. In a previous post, I highlighted what Jesus said to His disciples, and to us by extension;  we are the light of the world . Kindly refer to the post if you haven't. Now, what does this tell us about our duty to our families, associations, relationships? Friends, it is crystal. The scripture tells us to be the light.  It also tells us to let our light shine greatly . In all our relationships, in every gathering, in every association, we are expected to provide illumination. Light represents good and knowledge. Our duty therefore is to be good to people  and also to provide knowledge consequent upon God's Word. Let darkness and everything it represents flee from every relationship, association as a consequence of your presence! That's why you are there. God bless you!

John 14:27 (NKJV) Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you;  not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid . The scripture above reveals that we have the peace of Jesus  because He gave it to us. Furthermore, the statement ".... not as the world gives do I give to you"  reveals how He has given us His peace. Beyond that, the bolded statement exposes God's pattern of giving to us generally -  He gives to us not as the world gives . To help us appreciate this, we need to firstly understand how the world gives. It is important to note that " the world"  represents a system that is contrary to what God instituted in the beginning. The world was created when Adam sinned. John 1:10 tells us the world does not know God. So when we think about the world, we think about man with his flaws, weaknesses and his 'less-than God's-standard' way of doing things. However,  if you are saved, then ...

1 John 4:18 ....But perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves torment.... Fear has torment; it is sometimes said that fear is faith in the negative, and because there's an element of 'faith', what we are afraid of sometimes tend to happen . It is important to note that it was Job's fear that eventually caught up with him . He said in Job 3:25, "For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me." So, fear isn't something we want to have a strong hold in our lives. It incapacitates, make you powerless, unloving and weak in mind ; that is why we are admonished severally in scriptures to "fear not" . Scriptures say "God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Tim 1:7). In as much as He hasn't, sometimes, because of the difficulties and challenges we face, fear does creep into our hearts and then we find ourselves worrying about our is...

Luke 1:34  Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” (NKJV) Mary asked the angel, “How can this happen, since I have not had relations with a man?” (ISV) When the angel Gabriel visited Mary with the awesome words of Jesus' conception, she asked a very interesting question out of wonder "How can this happen...?" I find this question intriguing because even though she was a virgin, she was engaged to Joseph who she was going to be married to shortly. So, it would have been expected that she would think that the conception of Jesus would happen when she got married and 'knew' Joseph. In addition, considering that the angel said "...the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David" (Luke 1:32), she probably would have known that King David was an ancestor of the man she was engaged to and thought Jesus would be conceived from their union. This would have been the easy, if not normal, reasoning. However, ...