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This is your Easter Treat(2)...&we still admonish you to *Reflect!* *_Jesus Paid the sinful Price on our Heads._* _You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.( 1 John 3:5)_ _For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.(1 Peter 3:18)_ _For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.(John 3:17)_ *SO I SAY:* *What's There To Do Then: Reflect on his Love, Open Your Heart,Accept him or betterstill Rededicate Your Life to him today.* *Let's Live To Please Him!*

This is my simple Easter Treat(1). It is a simple Easter message. So some 2 years ago, i planned on doing this simple message thing... couldn't do it last year. Thank God it is here this year... *_Jesus Took our Pain, Born our suffering ..And so he died for You...Such an Unconditional Love.😊_* So, You want to know What this Love...this unconditional love is?😊 *_This is how we know how Love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters._*(1John 3:16) *SO I SAY:* *Can we?...Is it Possible especially in a world today?...My SimpleAnswer is only in this- Let's make time this season to really Reflect on this Love for then we know it is ever possible😉...ooh Yeah it is possible😁💪🏻🙌🏻🙏*

_*I always remind myself of the worst things I will never be.*_ This is a personal quote which i often allow myself to cautiously engage in&I must say no matter the worst state;it further helps& solidify me not to be. In Essence,making me run back to God and his Grace all the time. *Playing the Devil's Advocate* is to argue against or attack an idea,argument or proposition even  though one is genuinely in favour of it. Often times, when people play the Devil's advocate, it is mostly to further examine its strength,validity or details.Also, it is a conscious move to exhaust all possible avenues and know the best way possible. And here, we are looking at one that pleases God. So,What if the Bible or God himself plays this devil's advocate. You can relate the Job situation between the devil and God himself. However, In 1 Cor.15:12-, Paul sought to play the devil's advocate with this 'What ifs' which happens to be the basis of our faith. Check it out b...

Paul declared the Resurrection of Jesus with such cork surety. He wasn't even there when it all happened like the disciples yet he was sure. Aside the deep conviction from his personal spiritual encounter with God, he stood on one pivotal substance- *The Scripture.* _V.3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the *Scriptures,*_  _V.4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the *Scriptures,*_ And then he goes to give further evidence all according to  scripture. _V.5 and that he appeared to Cephas,and then to the Twelve._ _V. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep._ _7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,_ _V.8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally b...

Let's do another edition of  Meditate this morning as we implore you to chew on it and let God speak to you. *Unity and Maturity in the Body of Maturity* V.1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. V. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.  V.3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. V.4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;  V.5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism;  V.6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. V. 7 But to each one of us gracehas been given as Christ apportioned it.  V.8 This is why itsays: “When he ascended on high,he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” V. 9 (What does “he ascended...

It is fascinating quotes this evening. Let's Enjoy #Blessings Has God ever done something for U that U just didn't know how to thank Him,not because Udon't want to.But because you were so overwhelmed?- Nathaniel Bassey In arguments,there is strong exchange of energy...The technique is in making sure that u keep your energy level. You were born unique and original. Don't die a copy.-@funny04teen Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?- @Tweets2Motivate Our God is not a God of behaviour modification, He's into soul transformation- @hillsong We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.-Rudyard Kipling I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. -Albert Einstein If you judge people, you have no time to love them.-Mother Teresa Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.-Will Roger...

As it stands now, it may look like the most expedient option... After all, what is all to this life...Do you always have to play *that* fair to get? Whether i am bad or not,this is today's world, this is Ghana, this is Showbiz for instance&so let me cleverly create this controversy,people will talk, i will trend&ride on that to the _'so-called fame.'_ I make the money,houses,Cars,Conglomerate of business,even win people over by being 'generous'...but... *ANYTIME YOUR NAME IS MENTIONED?...* _Hmm...who cares about Name?...Good Name?...Ebi Good name we go chop...Man dey hung oo...I have family to take care of oo...Do you know how we have suffered?_ It must be said sometimes it can be that pathetic....So, are they Good or Justifiable Reasons to let slide? _Proverbs 22:1-2- *A Good name* is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold._ Today, with a hypocritical society dotted all over, they will push you,hail you&out...

Lawrence Darmani is a Ghanaian novelist, poet and publisher. His first novel , Grief Child, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize as best first book from Africa. He also writes devotional articles for Our Daily Bread , which touches the lives of many Christians around the world. He fellowships with the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Today, I bring you one of his writings from the Daily Bread entitled- *Written On Our Hearts* Here we go: _In my Neighborhood,religious inscriptions abound-on plaques, walls,doorposts, commercial vehicles and even as registered names of businesses._ _*By the Grace of God* reads an inscription on a mini-bus; *God's Divine Favor Bookshop* adorns a business signboard.The Other day I couldn't help smiling at this one on a Mercedes Benz- *Angels on Guard!*_ _But religious inscriptions, whether on wall plaques,jewelry or T-shirts, are not a reliable indicator of a persons love for God. It's not the words on the outside that count but the truth ...

_And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he(Jesus) departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed._(Mark 1:35) _You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head.Be kind to yourself._(unknown) _My Best conversations are from 12am-3am. They know all my Secrets.😁_(unknown) Today, we do the above title- *Don't Lose Your Precious Me Time.* Last week I did *You Can't Do It All...All Alone..All by yourself* to achieve your purpose on earth. You will definitely need someone to help you in that. However, there is one that You *Can&must* do it all...All Alone...All by yourself&that is *Your time of Solitude... Your Me Time...And it better be Precious.* Yes, it better be *Precious*...because i'm not talking about those scary times you give your loved ones when you hurriedly run to your room after that dejected moment Or wanting to be alone to think about those dirty&irrelevant stuff, conce...

Let's do *meditate* this morning from the books of Romans. Powerful...Be Blessed! _V.14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace._ *Slaves to Righteousness* _V. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!_ _V.16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?_ _ V. 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance._ _V. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness._ _V. 19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves a...

On Quotes Saturday, I bring you Quotes from a young Songwriter, Musician,Artist,thinker - *Jonathan McReynolds.* His current Album Make Room has powerful lyrical songs like Cycles, Not Lucky,Lover of my skull, Not Loved. You can check out the link to the cycle song below. Let's check out some powerful quotes from him: _You can't undo what you did now so take the clean slate._-Better (Make Room Album) _What I lack, you are full of. Where I am broken, you are whole. Where I doubt, you are sure of. I will trust the lover of my soul_- Lover of my Soul(Make Room Album) _We have plenty of pressures. We have the pressure to succeed to a certain level. You have peers that are doing so well, or some peers that are not doing so well and whether you like it or not you are constantly being compared to them. And of course you have the church pressures._ _Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect a c...

*You can't do it all*... _I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.(Phil 4:13)_ They seem to conflict right?...Oh No, I'm not trying to spark any debate.😁 *You can't do it all* is as deduced from the intercourse between Moses&his Father-in-law Jethro. Once again, today, a summary of the whole account will do in Exodus 18: _After allowing God to lead him to deliver the Israelites from the  Egyptians, Moses left his family including the father in-law for a while._ _As his family returned to him, they were all full of praise for what God had done. However, Moses' father-in-law noticed something about  him..._ _And that is, All the Israelites from morning to evening came with their cases so that *Moses alone will sit as judge*&help solve their disputes as well as inform them of God's will &decrees._ _This prompted Jethro,the in-law to utter these words in v.17-18_ *_“What you are doing is not good. You and these people who co...

* You can't do it all * ... _ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.(Phil 4:13) _ They seem to conflict right?...Oh No, I'm not trying to spark any debate.😁 * You can't do it all * is as deduced from the intercourse between Moses&his Father-in-law Jethro. Once again, today, a summary of the whole account will do in Exodus 18: _ After allowing God to lead him to deliver the Israelites from the  Egyptians, Moses left his family including the father in-law for a while. _ _ As his family returned to him, they were all full of praise for what God had done. However, Moses' father-in-law noticed something about  him... _ _ And that is, All the Israelites from morning to evening came with their cases so that * Moses alone will sit as judge * &help solve their disputes as well as inform them of God's will &decrees. _ _ This prompted Jethro,the in-law to utter these words in v.17-18 _ * _ “What you are doing is not good. You an...

We may not all be but God has made us all great.Of course, Knowing & Realising this will take different formats... ...And this is why I believe *Not all*...Yea, *Silent Greats.* A summary of this biblical account in Numbers 4 will throw more light: _The Levites is one of the 12 tribes of Israel.(as derived from the 12 sons of Jacob)._ _Among the Levites are these 3 clans-The Kohathites,Gershonites & the Merarites. Now these group of Levites had a very simple, rudimentary, monotonous&maybe seemingly unrecognised task  to carry out._ _Their core duty was to carry those things in the Tent of Meeting- i.e. carry,put it down &carry it to another place...And for the rest of their lives, they were to repeat this again &again._ _Meanwhile for all the holy instruments that made the tent of meeting, it was only Aaron&his sons who were assigned to get close,touch and handle it._ Wouldn't you say Aaron&his sons had the very visible &better role to play? ...

Let's do meditate this morning from Deuteronomy 6:1-12. Be blessed! V.1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, V.2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. V.3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you. V.4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. V.5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. V.6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. V.7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and whe...

On Saturdays, we mostly do Quotes & today I serve you with one from the Daily Bread....Be Blessed! _The secret of Peace  is to give every anxious care to God._ _Jesus longs to turn our mistakes into amazing examples of his Grace._ _Daily Blessings are daily reminders of God._ _God pursues us in our restlessness, receives us in our sinfulness, holds us in our brokenness._ _Compassion is understanding the troubles of others couples with an urgent desire to help._ _Christ Showed his love by dying for us;we show ours by living for him._ _Life challenges are designed not to break is but to bend us towards God._ _The heart of prayer is prayer from the heart._ _God is in the small things as well as the Great_ _The Journey is as important as the destination._ *SO I SAY ending with this:* *In Christ,The End  does justify the Means;For the Means is as important as the End* *This is Saturday Quotes from Our Daily Bread.*

Hello Christian, I know you have your  clothes on😉 but let me ask again- Do you have your clothes on today? _Colossians 3:12-15 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, *clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone.*... Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on *love*, which binds them all together in perfect unity._ Yesterday, we looked at these virtues which the bible figuratively describes as clothes to put on perpetually. We continue with: *Gentleness*: It also means meekness. *And please we are not* looking at the human/dictionary definition which is Excessive submission, prepared to obey unquestionably, naive et al. This is bad &should not be encouraged. - It is rather an attitude that should be expressed to God only. i.e An attitude of total trust to God without disputing or resisting ev...

Almost all Professions,jobs&even hobbies come with unique apparels or clothes to adorn. Lawyers,Waiters just to mention but a few. One sport or hobby with a fascinating attire to put on is Athletics. Isn't it interesting how its costume is tight-fitting &revealing yet doesn't seem to be appealing to the eye causing that stir as it would normally have.(The focus is somewhere unless you...😉😆) There are always clothes for whatever  spectrum of life &uniquely they become 'clothes' that identifies us. We also have Clothes as Christians. What you are thinking?... Ooh yea, of course,primarily *we are to look *decent*,clean, and then with appropriate outfits &  additionally *Nice*.☺ However, the focus is another kind of clothe that the Bible tells us to wear. _Colossians 3:12-15 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, *clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.Bear with each oth...

It is Independence day and whichever way we want to put it, I believe we can still be grateful to God for how far he has brought us as a nation. No matter how far we have lagged behind, i still believe the way out is not just in ranting but in always focusing& looking out for the solutions in our every sphere of national life. Today on your *All Round Devotional*, we bring you an Excerpted Speech from the famous Black American Baptist Minister&Activist- *Martin Luther King,Jr*. "I've Been to the Mountaintop"Speech was delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple(Church of God in Christ Headquarters),Memphis,Tennesse. *The Speech:* _. . .The world is all messed up. The nation is sick.Trouble is in the land;confusion all around.That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars._ _And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding._ _Something ...

Quotes is back & I bring you another edition of SALVATION QUOTES. A need for us to remind ourselves of how crucially vital salvation is in our lives especially in today's world. Let's hit it: “ Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.- Franz Kafka. People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too- William Faulkner There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.- Kirk Cameron How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? Oscar Wilde There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. James A. Baldwin The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. Charles Spurgeon No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, sa...

Hello Wonderful People, let's do Meditate today on your All Round Devotional. The first 2 verses one of my favourite scriptures & indeed a blessing! Here we go: V.1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, V.2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. God Disciplines His Children. 4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not l...

So we all do *Aha or Ahaa* when we suddenly understand or find  something interesting or intriguing.Well, sometimes, it is a way of cheering us on in a conversation. (Basically, used to express satisfaction, triumph, or surprise.) However, there is  one 'Aha!' that also denotes mockery, contempt, irony, according to the manner of utterance. The Bible talks of  *'Aha!'* in these two ways.Let's look at them and draw lessons: The Serious: Psalm 35:25  _Do not let them think, “ *Aha,* just what we wanted!” or say, “We have swallowed him up.”_ Psalm 35:20- _They do not speak peaceably,but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land. 21 They sneer at me and say, *“Aha! Aha!*_ Psalm 70:3(Also in 40:15) _May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” turn back because of their shame._ *Of course, a lot of people sit in wait genuinely looking for your downfall, shame, defeat, disgrace. All this while ...

One of my Inspirations _'Our Daily Bread'_ exceptionally blows me away with this one & I would like to share. Well, if you've read, just count it all joy to be blessed once again.😉☺ The Message: _When I clean my house for a special event, I become discouraged because I think that guests won't notice what I clean only what I don't clean._ _This brings to mind a larger philosophical and spirited question: Why do humans more quickly see what's wrong than what's right?_ _We are more likely to remember rudeness than kindness. Crimes seem to receive more attention than acts of generosity. And disasters grab our attention more quickly than the profound beauty all around us._ _*But then I realize I am the same way with God. I tend to focus on what he hasn't done rather than on what he has, on what I don't have rather than on what I have,on the situations that he has not yet resolved rather than on the many he has.*_ _When I read the book...