A word of encouragement for the journey!!!

God help me! I am inspired to write this post expecting that the good Lord will minister something to you. 

I love the Word of God!! I just keep loving it more and more each day. Over the past couple of days i have been reading verses i have read before and the Holy Spirit has just been opening the eyes of my understanding and i want to share. There are absolutely no contradictions in God's word. One is born out of the other and if you do not seek understanding from the Holy Spirit,you won't get it when you read.

Sometimes we can have so much activity but nothing is productive. These times are real!! More than anytime, now is the time to be reading, praying, studying and witnessing to people. In

John 15:1-4 Jesus tells us that "He is the true vine and God is the vinedresser and that every branch in Him that does not bear fruit He will remove and that every branch that bears fruit He will prune, so it can bear more and more fruit. He says we are already clean because of the word He has spoken to us and that we should abide in Him and He will abide in us. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can we unless we abide in Him" this is a very powerful revealing read. 

Jesus is saying to us, we can never be productive, no matter how busy and occupied we are unless we stay connected to Him. I was at a retreat last week and it blessed me beyond my imagination. What God did in my life in those few days, i cannot tell it all!  

We need to constantly stay connected to the vine. Who are you listening to? Who is speaking into your life? Because you need to listen to what God says about you. He is the gardener! He is working in your life even when you are asleep. God is BIG!! He is good. He is the one that uses ALL things no matter how good or bad to eventually work together for our good. This our God! He will employ the circumstances of your life and produce fruit that will only leave you in awe.

We have to do all we know to do and more in knowing who God really is. I believe most of the trials we face are magnified because we really do not know who God is. Without knowing God , how do you expect to know what He wants you to do?

Trials are a good thing! They prove you and make you better. I remember when i was going through a tough trial in my life and one of my blessed brothers said to me " mama you are going through bootcamp and it is going to be tough but by the time you come out, you will be a strong warrior for Christ ready to face any battle" and boy was He spot on!! He was more than spot on...Everything that God has called us to do, He gives us the power to do. It is when we do not do it the way He wants us to do it but in our own strength it becomes difficult.

The way the devil is constantly seeking for a way to steal,kill and destroy is the same way God is after a manifestation in our lives. We have to be encouraged to know God is after fruit in our lives and we must be connected to Him at all times. We must guard our relationship with God jealously..do not allow the enemy steal that from you because if he steals that, he has stolen everything...The world is full of so much business, craziness and more. We must not allow the world take our connection with God...we must not. We need Him!!!  He is our dependency!! Our sufficiency!! We need to confess " God i won't let anything to rob me from being in a place with You where i am connected". 

This world is deceitful! Oh so deceitful in so many ways..We must pray and stay connected! Stay connected to eachother because we grow at the place of our joints. When one is down, the other can pick up. We must stay connected through His word. I don't trust my own instincts, they are deceptive..I always have to take it to God because i trust Him. We should love one another as Christians and help one another. Your success is my honour, the world has to know us by the love we have for eachother. I cannot just start with God! I have to finish with God..I want to always do what God commands because i love Him so much, i want to follow His will and not my own desires for my desires will destroy me if they are not inline with His word. We need to abide and when we abide you will see fruit, that is evidence of our abiding in Him. We need to have it pasted in our heads that there is not one element of us that is good without Christ.

You know it's funny because sometimes we may think we are in a good place with God or that we are actually abiding in Him until there is pressure, then you will be surprised at what comes out of you. Even at then He is still waiting for us to come to Him so He can refine us. He wants to help you, He wants to cleanse you. It is really when you are pressed, crushed and pushed that you know if you are connected to the vine or not. I want to be as fruitful as He intends me to be. I am not going to allow the business of my life take me away from God and i pray that as you read this you take stock of your life too. What do you spend most of your time, time that you will never get back doing?? 

I hope you are encouraged because that is why i have spent time writing to you, so you can be encouraged. Spend more time with Him..we have no reason to compete with eachother..don't envy, don't judge because you really do not know even when you think you know. We are all unique and special in our own ways and there is always something you can give that another doesn't have.Be willing and obedient and you will see what the Lord will do in your beautiful life. Don't just sit there, there is work to do in the kingdom for each generation has a responsibility to close evil doors that have been opened by the previous. We must focus on what God wants and not what we want...i love you all. Stay strong, stay rooted, stay grounded, stay connected to God and other Christians and you will win.

Remember that life is always going to throw stuff at you but you can make it through absolutely anything as long as you abide in the vine. No matter what the devil tries to do, he is already defeated. Have a blessed and productive week ahead and keep smiling like me.......Maamamia xxxx