My child, fear not. We are placed on earth for a purpose. We have to run our race victoriously inspite of the trials we face.
In your walk of life you will meet many kinds of people. Understanding people is a skill. No one or nothing can pull us out of God's hands when we understand people.
Yes, my child, people are people whether they are pastors or church leaders or just family or friends. Whether they are your employers or employees, educated or not educated. Everyone has a heart and a mind and a free will. It is how they use it, that will determine their course of life.
To get along with others whomever they may be, you need Christ in you. To work alongside with them, you need Christ in you. To manage their temperaments, you need Christ in you.
Many people think that they can make it on their own. The Babylonians thought just that, when they built the tower of Babel. Time and again it has been proven that man can't make it on his own. He needs God. People who climbed to the top without Christ in their lives have had a terrible fall; worst than Humpty Dumpty's.
Now, many will say all gods are the same, but only have different names. But we know, don't we? Only Christ came as a man and died for our sins and resurrected and is now seated on the right hand of the Father, interceeding for us. Only Christ Jesus said, "I Am The Way, The Truth & The Life! No one comes to the Father, except through Me!"
No one else suffered and died for us, no one else died and came back to life and no one else in history said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me!"
Either, Jesus is telling the truth or He is a liar. Either, we believe Him or we don't.
Heaven and hell are real. Where we go when we die, to be there for ever and ever and ever and ever, for all eternity, depends on our decision now.
When we stand before God when we die, we will be standing alone. No one will be beside us. No father, no mother, no brother, no sister, no friend. Alone we shall stand, to give Him an account of every second of our earthly life. How are we going to feel then? As one who has completed his earthly race successfully? Or as one who failed miserably? As one who has conducted his life well? Or as a loser who has handed over God's gifts which were lavished upon us to the devil? Are we going to experience joy when we meet our Creator God? Or are we going to be fearful and hide in shame because of our spiritual nakedness? We must decide. Decide NOW!
Next, my child, we must surround ourselves with people who have the same passion to run the race with the Holy Spirit. Only then will they help us if we fall or fail. People of the same mind will think alike. When we are too long with people who are not interested about Jesus and what He taught, if we are too long with people who are only interested in this life and it's affairs, we will soon begin to be saturated with their thinking. We will begin to think and act like them.
We must make a conscious effort to surround ourselves with friends who are passionate about winning souls for Christ in the marketplace. I am not saying all Christian friends have a passion for Christ and for winning souls. Not all Christians are following Christ. Not all Christians are disciples of Christ Jesus. There are many Christians who have backslided and are in need of help. And what about non-Christian friends? Although they may be of excellent character, kind, compassionate, honest, patient and good, they will not have a passion for winning souls for Christ because they do not know Him themselves.
I am not saying that we must not have friends of other faiths. What I am saying is that we must be soaked in Christ so that we can be influencers instead of being influenced by them. We must first of all have a living, ongoing and intimate relationship with Christ. Our thoughts, our speech, our actions must reflect Christ, in order for them to be transformed and for us to resist temptations to sin.
We must have friends, but keep work friends at work. Do not meet up with them too often. All other friends, keep at arms length, but pray for them. Remember it is not a coincidence that God places people in your circle of influence, be it work or outside. We are responsible for their souls and need to pray for them. Pray and with the Holy Spirit's leading share the Good News of Christ with them. But first of all be an exemplary follower of Christ because they will follow what you do and say and their coming to Christ greatly depends on your modeling after Him.
Next, keep selected friends who are good Christians, who are passionate about going to heaven and about winning souls for Christ, only those who are disciples of Christ. Meet up with such friends at least 2 to 3 times weekly. Read God's Word together with them. Check one another's Christian walk and correct one another's speech and actions to help one another walk in the narrow path, to walk in morality, in Christ's path to reach heaven. Select your Christian friends carefully.
Then also be very careful when selecting a life partner. Do not fall for anyone who talks sweetly or entices you with her/his looks, words, money or rich lifestyle. Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to send you the right person. Your partner must be one who loves Jesus more than you and must be one who has a passion to save souls from perishing into hell. Take time to select, because a wrong choice will bring countless miseries into your life and please do not blame anyone for your choice.
The right life partner is vital. If you marry an unbeliever how is he/she going to help you raise your kids in the way Christ taught us to? There will surely ensue a struggle between you both and this will be a cause of dissension and marital problems. Then seeing that, the kids will either grow up hating God or following your partner's religion, if he/she is successful in teaching then his/her ways. Oh, for them to grow up knowing and loving Christ intimately, and walking in His footsteps, you must work a trillion times harder than, if you marry a believer who loves Jesus and knows Him intimately. (You dad and I are believers and we love Jesus and strive to walk in His ways. And...I am still travailing in prayer for you my children)
When will be the best time to decide to tie a knot? When you yourself are well settled, when you are able to work and are able to earn well to support a family on your own instead of depending on your spouse or parents. When you have earned, saved and have taken care of your parents (who brought you forth into this world and made numerous sacrifices for you) for several years, before you are joined in matrimony with your partner. What we do now, we will reap in our future. So do not neglect your aging parents.
Again pray daily, select your army of friends carefully and let God select a partner for you.
Pray not only for yourself but also for your parents, brothers, sisters, friends and all whom Christ has put in your life. Pray not only for their health and material needs but pray also for their spiritual needs; that they will know, love and serve Christ and be in heaven for all eternity. We have a responsibility towards our family members and all whom Christ has put in our lives. Jesus said the punishment of those who lead others astray will be great. So we must lead them to Christ through our thoughts, words and actions and not away from Him.
Many things we go through in our lives now are the consequences of our past actions and decisions. Whether we did them knowingly or unknowingly, purposely or playfully or ignorantly or because of others. Outsiders will not suffer the immediate consequences for our actions and decisions but we and our family members will. So think before you decide on anything; choice of enjoyment, choice of the type of relaxation, choice of friends, choice of education, choice of job, choice of a life partner etc. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you. Include Him in your planning. He is our best friend and guide.
We are made of body, soul and spirit. Physical death is sad but not frightening. Spiritual death is extremely frightening, it means separation from God for all eternity. For our spirit to be alive in God we must have an ongoing relationship with Christ Jesus, we must be filled with the very Life of God, Who is the Holy Spirit. He lives within us. We are His temples. Let us keep God's temples (body, soul, spirit) free from smelly filth and keep them clean so that the Holy Spirit can reside in a perfumed and clean temple. Having a perfumed body but smelly soul will sadden God's Spirit Who is in us.
We who have known Christ Jesus, know the truth. So therefore let us continue to worship, praise and thank God day and night for everything in our lives. Let daily dig deep into God's Word to feed our starved souls and let us constantly communicate with, talk to our best Friend, the Holy Spirit Who is the Only One Who has the Power to Save us. Please, let us not let anyone stop us from running our race faithfully, to go to heaven. Remember! It is our race, not theirs. So run it well with the Holy Spirit in Jesus' Name!
If you think you have walked far away from Christ Jesus, run back to Him. When we realise our faults and run back to Father God in Jesus name, although we may have stopped thinking about Him, talking to Him, worshipping Him or stopped reading God's Word, or even done somethings which He will not approve of, when we go back to Him and tell Him we are sorry, He will run towards us, welcome us with open arms and make all the wrongs in our lives right. Run back to Him my child and then, all your affairs, job, education, life partner etc will be ordered and secured by Him. You will be protected from the evil one and its temptations.
I pray the following and believe and receive it for you in Jesus name my child.
God's hedge of protection will be around you always. You will be the head and not the tail. You will succeed in every good thing you do. The work of your hands will be blessed abundantly. You will be a leader in your field and will lead countless people into God's kingdom. You will obey and respect authority. You will honour your parents. You will be successful, prosperous and healthy all your life. You will be a blessing to all those around you. Heaven's storehouses will always be open above you and your family and loved ones and you will have no lack in your life. No weapon formed against you will ever prosper. Every word that is spoken against you, you will refute it in Christ Jesus. Every accusation about you and every negative word and curse hurled at you will be null and void in Jesus' Name. When your enemy rises up against you, he will stumble and fall. When fear tries to tell you lies about who you are and who you are not, it will fall on deaf ears. When sickness and disease try to attack your body, it will flee from you seven ways. When doubt tries to confuse you, it will meet the faith in your spirit and break every assignment waging war against you. I declare this in Jesus name! Amen!
My child, I want to be with you in heaven singing praises to our God & King, our Lord Jesus Christ for all eternity.
Love you lots & lots.
Your Mum in Christ Jesus.
