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  For this is what the LORD says:  You will see neither  wind nor rain,  yet this valley of vows,  pit of payments, and ditches of debt  will be filled with water and you, your responsibilities,  and your other obligations will DRINK.  

You are to worship the Lord your God, and He will bless your food and water. I will make sure none of you fall sick. No woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will make sure you live long lives. [ Exodus 23:25-26 FBV] A wonder of Worship: a God-given baby!   What incredible promises! God commits to doing the following: - Bless our food and water to abundance - Remove sicknesses - Prevent miscarriages - Every married woman to have their own baby   But these vows come with a call to action: To be in service to God. The word ‘worship’ in this text means ‘work’ and ‘serve.’ * So this is not your mediocre once-a-week, go-to-church Sunday worship. This is toiling for righteousness. It’s being a love slave to our kind and benevolent Master, Christ Jesus.   In what capacity did the Lord ask you to serve Him? It’s not our own terms or personal preferences, but God’s choice. [see 2 Kings 17:25-28] How do you express your love to the Lord ...

Once, a scholar asked, “Mentor, which is the greatest principle of life?” The Master replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest principle. And the second is like it: 'Love others as yourself.' All life-giving principles are based on these two.”   (see Matthew 22:36-40)   Love God, Love self and others, and Obey God.  This metonymy was derived from the Lifebook, the Book of Principles – the Holy Bible . Who has a better say on life principles than the Author of life Himself?   King Solomon’s take was this: Fear God and keep His commands, for this is the whole duty of man . (see Ecclesiastes 12:13)   So now, my Top 3 List of Life Principles is complete:  Love God,  Love myself and others, and Obey God.   Life begins and ends with God.   My life principle #1: Love God with all that I am.  How do I love God? By spending time with Him. I have le...

We all have religion, but we are not all religious. Just because we have a form of religion does not mean we are spiritual - even atheists have a devotion, a denial of deity.  ( Psalm 14:1 )      A reputable  dictionary 1  traces this relic of a word to Latin, having the meaning "obligation" and "reverence." It is like open ing a  door to a room full of closed doors, an answer that stirs up a hornet's nest of questions: "Obligation to whom? Reverence for whom?" Help the helpless, and stay clean and free     Research shows that the subject of religion and its derivatives appeared around the 11th century, like religio , religiun, religioun, and  religare . 2  Furthermore, deeper  etymology 3  brings it around the 5th century. We are now confronted with a realization:  I s it the word itself, or the substance that it brings?  The s pelling changes over time, and even definitions vary, but concepts and intentions re...

  Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. For God had made every woman infertile in the household of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. [Genesis 20:17-18 NHEB] The Lord God is the True Healer of the Womb.   In this chapter, it was wrong for Abraham to make his wife a shield to protect his own life by saying they're just siblings, and not as married couples. With this lie and outright deceit, the king of the land, Abimelech, took Sarah into his harem. As it was, God’s judgment had fallen over the land, affecting a lot of innocent people. For that period of time, the Lord's judgment was about infertility. The king wanted to increase his royal family, but the Lord did the opposite; He opposed it – all the women stopped getting pregnant. This was all because Abimelech took a married woman, and he was about to violate a marriage covenant sealed by God.   But God is faithful; He didn’...

  My choice of candidate is only as good as when I vote. My vote is only as good as when it is counted. But when the tally comes, my choice is irrelevant – God  decides  who is king.   Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. (Romans 13: 1 NASB)   Our future does not depend on the person who gets elected, but on the One who sits on the Throne. If God has already decided, then why do I need to vote? This sounds like the clay who talks back to the Potter, “Why did you make me this way?” [see Romans 9:19-20] Let’s admit it: Though we vote according to our conscience, our conscience is formed by information made available to us. We can only know so much about a candidate, but God knows all things. In choosing, our sense of compatibility and personal preference are at work. We like a certain candidate because we feel that we like something about them, or w...

  I've chosen him so that he will teach his sons and their families to follow the way of the Lord by doing what is right and good, so that I, the Lord, can do for Abraham what I promised. [Genesis 18:19 FBV]   The Lord does more than just fulfill His baby promise, He also plans ahead for these children and the generations afterward to be taught concerning the things of God. There is a proper way to worship Him, and that established structure is needed to be taught. The Sovereign Lord will always have His way. The God-given promise is not just for a baby, but to bless us entirely. The Lord can only accomplish this when we do our part to obey Him. God's wonderful covenant of blessings is a partnership with us; He can only complete His part when we have done our share of the promise. The parent is always God’s choice to teach their own kids. We lead by example. Our words of instruction lose their power when we don’t practice what we preach. God’s promises are condition...

  Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?” And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’ Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”   [ Genesis 18:10, 12-14 BSB]   Nothing Is Too Hard For The Lord   This is the first time that God declared the statement “Nothing is too hard for the Lord,” and it involved having a baby. The Lord repeated Himself in this same way to Mary concerning Elizabeth’s pregnancy, and it was also about having a baby. (see Luke 1:36-38) It’s amazing to know that God measured His ability in this way – in the manner of granting babies. The Lord does not treat it lightly when we laugh at what He is able to do. For God ...

  No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. [ Genesis 17:5-6 BSB]   Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah. And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.” [Genesis 17:15 BSB] Live a Life of Expectancy. More than just optimism; it’s hope and faith in the God of Miracles. God's baby promise is within the marriage covenant. The Lord is not pleased if we fulfill this promise in our own capacity, and sinfully, outside our wedding vows. God values the “one flesh” of every husband and wife because the blessing includes our better half.   The Lord also changes how we are called or named to reflect the future that He has for us. T...

  The Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up at the sky. See if you can count the stars! That's how many descendants you will have!” Abram trusted what the Lord said, and so the Lord counted Abram as being in a right relationship with him. [Genesis 15:5-6 FBV]   And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. [KJV]   The Power Of Visualization   If you've been looking at the small confines of your own little world for too long, then it's about time to look up and look out to where God displays His splendor. It is always good to look and think out of the box, but we have to always align that with God's Word. In Abram's case, he had a specific Word and promise directly from God: Descendants that are as many as the stars. There’s something about the act of ‘telling’ and ‘counting’ that exercises and builds our faith. Go ahead and ...

Hey Dads! How about making your kids laugh, while you show them by example how to walk in the ways of the Lord? #Eph6v4 Fathers, do not irritate  and  provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training  and  discipline and the counsel  and  admonition of the Lord. (AMPC)  

  But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”   Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.” [ Genesis 15:2-4 BSB]   Right here and now, we remind ourselves again that having a baby is all dependent on God's grace and mercy. We cannot make any of this happen on our own. In this stage of Abram's life, he has no child, and no parental obligation. His nephew, Lot, had just parted ways from him. It could have been Lot as an heir apparent. But with Lot gone, Abram was then left with a non-relative, who was next in line to be an heir prospect.   Abram was willing to adopt Eliezer (or his son) and treat him as his own. Adoption, in itself, is good and godly. The whole Bible is ...