The ONLY way to Heaven

THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN

Here is the only way to get to heaven

Heaven is a FREE GIFT

 

Romans 6:23 The gift God is eternal life

 

In order to receive this gift we must be PERFECT or HAVE all our sins Taken Away

 

Mathew 5:48 You MUST be perfect just as your father in Heaven is perfect

 

We can never be perfect

BUT Jesus paid for all your sins by dying on the Cross

 

John 14:6 Jesus said,

I am the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE no one comes to the father but by me

 

Now, you can receive the gift of eternal life by doing one simple thing

 

REPENT….SAY THIS PRAYER, Father, I am a sinner, please forgive me of my sins and from today onwards I wish to be your son, please receive me, I promise not to disobey you any more…Amen

 

If you said this prayer, may you let us know so that we give you more information for your Spiritual growth mathew@biblestudyforkids.com is my line for you to connect to me.

We love you and would like to pry for you and with you...get connect to us and we talk.

In whom who Saves
Mathew

The 40 Days...

Beloved Brethren, the purpose of this 40 day fast is to seek God’s face that He may heal our land and pour out His Spirit graciously upon the Church, our families and the land. There is an increasing level of worldliness and godlessness which is very alarming. It is also a time of dedication; personal, family and ministry that we may experience times of refreshing from the Lord

Praise and Thanksgiving

We bless, praise and thank you Lord for revealing to us a need of your heart for the church, our families, our land of Mvara and ministry -

Thank God for the zeal, courage and jealousy He has aroused in our hearts to respond to His needs        

Pray that the Lord continues to speak to us about the battle, gives us more details, specific instructions – Jeremiah 33:3

Fills us with Devine jealousy for you and your glory and a Devine hatred for evil and satan

Repentance                                                                                                                                                                      Repent of all known and unknown personal sins- impure motives, deceit, pride, un forgiveness, lust, bitterness... etc, receive forgiveness by faith through the blood of Christ- 1John 1:8-9, Psalm 32 & 51. Pray for purity of heart, mind, hands and motives

Repent on behalf of families/Church and the land according to Daniel 9 and 2 Chronicles 7:14, Acts 2:38  Idolatry, drunkenness, sexual immorality, theft, witchcraft, drug addictions  

Pray for the fear of God upon the land that souls will faint for God; both young and old. Pray for multitudes to give their lives to Jesus Christ. Let sinners see their lost and helpless state and cry for mercy.

Warfare Psalm 68

Time

TIME

"You cannot kill time without injuring eternity "

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

~ William Penn

"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."

~ John Randolph

"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose."

~ Thomas Edison

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

~ Eva Young

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

~ Michael Altshuler

So what is yours....

Love you,
Mathew.

GOD IS SEEING YOU...

Oh..dear friends in Christ, i am back after long time being off Blog for organizational issues. Thank God i am able to be back.

Let me tell you a story
One day a church teacher was preaching in a funeral service of a known person under a mango tree in the community and he was preaching about death. He said,
....brothers and sisters, we should not fear death because it is the only way we shall get to heaven. Even this one we are burying today is able to go only through death. We shall all die and go, so we should not fear death.....
..and he was going a head when mistakenly a green snake of about 35cm fell from the mango tree in-front of the church teacher and seeing that it is a snake, he took off...ran...

So brothers and sisters, when we speak, we are not only speaking to men on earth but we are also speaking to God. You see, death comes to us in different ways and at different times. So why do we speak to people when we can not keep in practice what we are saying yet we as church leaders and servants of the Lord are suppose to be exemplary.

Let us live exemplary life in the Lord by not corrupting our works and sayings by the desires that have earthly bases. Sometimes we speak when we do not know that God can mean to test you there and then in-front of the people or public.

Just like prayers, God answers prayers either before you pray because he knows your needs, during praying and after praying.....thus is also what we speak which is subject to test and evaluation by God any time anywhere. The Bible tells us that as church  leaders, we should not let HIS children to stumble by giving false testimony, poor exemplary life, if we do, great punishment awaits us.

Decide for your self but my request is that let us do and speak what the Lord directs us to do and speak and be firm to defend by being exemplary in our words and acts so that others will get to know the real stand in us that they may BELIEVE and follow

Love you all in HIM who SAVES
Mathew

BEING THANKFUL

Being faithful

 

Jeremiah 33:11

“Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good, his love endures forever.”

 

Thankfulness is a way of expressing gratitude for a blessing. God creates us and our creator Almighty God gives that everything we have to us.

 

When your father gives you something, you give a reply by saying “thank to you dad”. When your mother gives you something, you say “thank you mummy” or else when a friend, relative or someone gives you something you like, you answer “thank you” and others add, “May Gob bless you” as an expression of real and joyful acceptance. We give thanks to appreciate the offer/gift we receive from someone.

 

Now let us together look at what it means to give thanks or being thankful…

 

Paul declares to us that to give thanks is a duty and something a duty is something we do as our personal attribute/responsibility, part and partial 2 Thessalonians 2:13. When you thank someone who gives you something, the person gets pleased understanding that his/her gift is appreciated…thus is for God. You are saved by Gods grace and therefore you ought to thank him.

 

God created you…………………………………………..give thanks

God gave you life…………………………………………give thanks

God loves you…………………………………………….give thanks

God saved you from your problems……………………...give thanks

God protects you………………………………………….give thanks

God provides for you…………………………………..…give thanks                                          all these and many more that the Lord has done and is still doing to your life

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When therefore should we thank God for the good things and gifts we have received from him and that we are yet to receive???

 

Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:16 that we must thank God ceasingly, we should not stop because a lot is yet to be done to us. Since it is a duty to thank God, do it every day/spontaneously Philippians 1:3, Romans 1:8. When we give thanks to God for what he has done to us, in whatever condition and circumstance, He gets to know that we really appreciate what he has done to us and therefore gets pleased to give more. When we are giving thanks to God, we have to do it faithfully in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Why do we always direct our cry, thanks giving, confession, and requests to God through/in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ??

 

Now listen carefully….

 

We must know that we were once lost in sin due to the disobedience of our ancestors, but now the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only bridge for us to reach heaven finds us. Faith in Jesus only can let your prayer (talk/words) reach God, but when we do not believe and trust and have faith in him, God will not hear us because it will look like we are jumping a step that is impossible.

 

Let us go to Book 1 in a kids series of biblestudyforkids.com “Developing a relationship with Jesus” and open to pages 29, 30 and 32; and see why Jesus is such a central figure to us.

 

John 10:30. “I and the father are one”, 14:9b tells us “anyone who has seen me has seen the father”. Understand that our salvation depends on Jesus’ flawless divinity, Jesus-God clothed with flesh lived sinless and was crucified for our sins as a sacrificial lamb (Leviticus 22:19-21, John 1:29-30). We are brought together in Christian union by Jesus Christ through his bloodshed to save us and that is why we give thanks to God/Jesus because he is;

 

1.      “the bread of life” (John 6:35) meaning jesus sustains our life/soul from earthly life to heavenly life (Spirit) if only we accept to feed on the bread of life.

2.      “the light of the world” (John 8:12) so that we don’t walk in darkness. Imagine you are in a room where you have no knowledge of how things in the room are arranged and that incidentally light/power goes off. You will knock yourself on certain things in the room as you look for source of power/light to shine the room. Also is the light of Jesus that shines a head of us so that we see the obstacles of the evil plans of the devil.

3.      “the gate” John 10:9 through which we can enter in. Jesus is the only one who knows the way to heaven since he was from heaven and therefore he is the only gate to that way. For you to access that gate, you have to be pure in heart by having confessed with your own lips all your sinful iniquities. Also accepting that Jesus is Lord and that he came and died for you and me and faithfully believe in him as your one and only Lord and Savior because “no one gets to the father except through him (John14:6).

4.      “the true vine” John 15:1-2. If we do not bear good fruits, we are pruned and disposed off to the fire for burning so that healthy and good fruits are ensured. Imagine  if this is how grasses and weeds burn in a wild fire, how will it be for us in the everlasting fire if we do not give in to Christ.

5.      “the good shepherd”  John 10:11. This indicates to us that we the sheep owned by God and Jesus is the shepherd who even laid down his life for the sheep. Jesus died to pay for our sins offering us eternal life and that is why Jesus says he is

6.      “the resurrection and the life” John 11:25 when he was talking to Martha. This proves to us that nothing is impossible through Jesus.

 

Now having known all the above, why do we thank God?

 

We thank God for;

1.      Food (John 6.11, 23). God gives what we eat to us and we must therefore give thanks to him for the food so that it is blessed for both our Spiritual and Physical satisfaction.

2.      Wisdom (Daniel 2:23) No one has wisdom by himself. All source of wisdom comes from God. We must therefore thank God for giving us that wisdom that we have.

3.      Converts (1 Thessalonians 1:2) receiving those who turn away from evil acts of Satan to follow Jesus Christ with thanks to God.

4.      Prayer answered (Esther 1-10). When Haman who had rage against Modecia plotted to destroy, annihilate all Jews young and old, Esther and Modecia went down on their knees praying faithfully to God and had their prayer answered. In chapters 9 and 10, we see the Jews rejoicing and giving thanks to God for having answered their prayer. You might also be praying for wisdom and knowledge to pass your tests and examinations, for job or anything, once granted please give thanks to Almighty God so that it is not meaningless in your implementation.

5.      Victory (1 Corinthians 15:57). We give thanks for the victory over death through Christ Jesus our Lord because we shall not die again. Jesus died for us so that we may live after the earthly death.

6.      Salvation (2 Corinthians 9:15). We give thanks to God for his love to us by giving his son Jesus Christ to die on the cross on our behalf. This is an indescribable love and therefore we must give thanks because it is the most biggest gift that God has for us.

 

So continue with giving thanks to your Lord God because he loves you and has plans for you, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. Jeremiah 29:11

 

Love you all with the Love of Jesus Christ.

 

Mathew

 

 

THE GOODNESS OF GOD

The Goodness of God

God is love and those who live in him should be in love, love one another just as we are loved by Jesus. John 13:34.

Dear friends, the last topics we looked at were QUIET TIME and DESTRUCTION A SURE DEAL TO THOSE WHO DO TRUST IN THE ITEMS OF THE WORLD and for now, we are going to look at something similar, “THE GOODNESS OF GOD”.

God loves you and me; he wants us to live in him and with him so that he also lives with us and in us. God has plans for you and me in this world. Due to his love, he has plans to prosper you and me but not to cause harm on you (Jeremiah 29:11) because he is with us in every step of our life (Zephaniah 3:17).

Now if I may ask, why do we cry when we face problems, persecutions, challenges or fail to attain our desires? It is because we do not live a life expected by God of us. For a good relationship to take place, God expects us to live a life dedicative to him because he does not want to willingly bring affliction of grief to anyone (Lamentations 3:33). Our human negligence turns us away from the love of God paving way for Satan to take charge of us with all the pains and sufferings.

As it is written in Romans “there is no one righteous, not even one” (Romans 3:10) meaning that everyone has sinned and turned away from God, including you and me making him to withdraw his love from us. We have to note that once God leaves us due to our disobedience, we are subject to sufferings, pain and hardships because there is no one to love, protect and provide for us.

But due to the goodness of the Lord God, he has promised to forgive our sins however on the condition that we are able to agree that we have knowingly and unknowingly sinned and are able to confess of our sins. God’s love is genuine, he does not want us to perish but be in him so that we can inherit an everlasting life (John 3:16) so that if we believe in Jesus, we may find life. (John 3:36).

God is welcoming you and me back so that we can restore back the Brocken relationship (Joel 2:12-13). Can you just see this goodness of the Lord, after your bundles of sin; he still needs you back and can forgive all the sins. However much we go wrong against God, he is ready and just to forgive us if only we admit and do confess. Render your hearts to the Lord; let him be your leader and director in life. You should also know that walking in obedience please God (Hebrews 11:5-6, also Colossians 3:12-14) and do not take the help you offer to your friends as a burden to you but a help to glorify God (Colossians 3:23). We need to have fear for the Lord because our deeds are accountable to him (Ecclesiastes 12:13-13).

My dear lovely friends, I wish to tell you that we should therefore be alert and desist from the attacks of Satan, put on the full amour of the Lord (Ephesians 6:11) so that it will not be a surprise attack on our lives (Ecclesiastes 9:11-12)

I love you with the love of our savior Jesus Christ and I do expect you to love one another wherever you may be just as Christ loves us.

Be Blessed

Mathew.

 

DEDICATION

DEDICATING TO GOD

Hi,

In this study, we are going to look at “Dedicating to our Lord God’’ and in this we shall answer several questions of;

• What does it mean in dedicating to God?
• What do we dedicate to God?
• Why do we dedicate to God?
• When do we dedicate to God?

We are all initially children of God by creation, but with passage of time as we grow by, interacting with the events and changes of the world, we begin to seal our self from being children of God. In most cases this is due our lack of dedication to our Lord God who is the owner of our life.

In this context, I will say ‘Dedicating to God is the process letting God to take control of your life in all aspect of your life in this world’. Dedication is a process, it is just not once. It is a continuous process.

Note these…

• It is due to dedication of our love to our friends that we live in love, peace and harmony.
• It is due to the dedication of the love of a father to his children that he provides for them.
• It is due to dedication of love to marriage partners that the married do stay together in the marriage till death separates them

Above all, it is due to the dedication of the love of God to us that He is protecting us, providing for us up to date though in times of happiness, sorrow and what ever circumstances we may be in, because God said that He is with us. “The Lord God is with you. He is Mighty to save. He will take great delight in you; he will quiet you with his love…” Zephaniah 3:17 and God has plans for you and for me. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. Jeremiah 29:11. Our being children of God is not our own wish, but by grace and love of God Ephesians 2:8.

Dedicating to God is a process of giving up our life as a living sacrifice to the service of God, letting God to take control of our life. It is a process because it is from the time we identify our self as SINNERS and admitting that what we have been in, is SIN and therefore taking a step of accepting and coming to Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior, up to the time of our death (when God takes us to be with Him in His Kingdom). One thing we have to note with concern is that our dedication to our Lord God is being instructed/ a command, for we were once lost in sin when Adam and Eve went beyond Gods’ commands, but by the Grace of God we are been drawn back to him through the death of Jesus Christ for our sins. Galatians 3:26-27, Ephesians 2:4-5, 13.

Remember that our relationship with God was terminated by the act of Adam and Eve. They took pleasure in themselves and the events of the world that they failed to dedicate themselves to the expectation of God, thus sin came in Genesis 3. Even during the Egypt- canner journey under the leadership of Moses, Aaron and so, Israelites failed to dedicate themselves to the expectation of God (Exodus), they kept sinning on the way.

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross has redeemed us from our sinful state and nature and “we are put in one body with Christ through Baptism” Romans 6:3-4. If you are still behind and have not yet identified your self with Christ Jesus, “repent and be Baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the forgiveness of your sins”. God dedicated Jesus Christ to die for our sins so that we may find salvation in Him. The gift of God (Kingdom) can not be bought with money or wealth like what Simon the sorcerer tried to do Acts 8:18-24. “We must go through hardship to enter the Kingdom of God” Acts 14:22b. During Baptism, “you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received a spirit of Sonship” Romans 8:15.

Therefore my dear friends, “clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ ad do not think about how to gratify the desire of the sinful nature” Romans 13:14. Remember that “The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever” 1 John 2:17.

Action needed…….

Read Deuteronomy 22:9 reflect on the writing and evaluate your life, boldly come and act upon. Know that once you are with Christ, nothing will separate you from the Love of Christ. Romans 8:35-39. Even do not worry over a single thing or issue for the Lord your God has plans for you, “to prosper you, not to harm you” Jeremiah 29:11. “Brothers and sisters, “God is with you” (Zephaniah 3:17) in all your struggles.

Be blessed as you dedicate/devote to God, and if you have never been doing so, it is high time you act. You may need special prayers request, please do not hesitate to write to me.

Love in Christ to you all.

Mathew.