Day-By-Day Word vol.5

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Day-by-Day-

Word

Vol. 5

Mthobisi Dladla


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Give God a Chance.

Jeremiah 2:5(KJV)

Thus saith the Lord, What INIQUITY have your fathers

FOUND IN ME, that they are gone far from me, and have

walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Long before we ever truly know God, we have SO MUCH

to blame Him for; we blame Him for poverty, for

sickness, for death, for sorrow, for almost every bad

thing. We are so consumed with the idea that God is

responsible for everything and we forget that there are

two sides in a coin. James wrote something very

profound in his epistle, he wrote "My brothers and

sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear

figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh

water."(James 3:12). Therefore how can David say "the

Lord is good"(Psalm 100:5) if God is bad? how can a

good God do bad? God cannot be good & bad at the

same time, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. God is good. There is a

person who is responsible for the bad and all the

misfortunes that we see in the world and his name is

Satan. He doesn't want to be recognized for his

wickedness, he hides himself behind God, he transforms

himself to an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). He


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rejoices in pain and suffering, he rejoices in evil, Jesus

says "he was a murderer from the beginning"(John

8:44). The reason that God sent Jesus was so that He

could destroy the works of the devil, and release those

who were oppressed by him (Acts 10:38). He is the

opposite of God; he only stands for evil & wickedness.

God doesn't find joy in our sufferings and pain, that's

the reason for Jesus; He came to restore peace, love

and joy. He came to give us life and life in abundance

(John 10:10) while Satan came to kill, steal & destroy. I

saw something that a lady posted on her status update

on Facebook today and her words were "God has failed

me again, my grandfather passed away". To tell you the

truth I was sad to see such words from a believer, and it

made me realize that God was right when He said "My

people perish because of lack of knowledge"(Hosea

4:6). It is evident that God doesn't enjoy people's deaths

when He says "I DO NOT DELIGHT in the death of the

one who DIES" (Ezekiel 18:32), but because some of us

don't know that, we blame God for people's deaths.

Have we ever imagined or thought that maybe thereason there is so much trouble and evil in the world is

because of our fallen nature and our tendency to sin?

Does not the book Genesis speak about mankind and

say Now the earth was corrupt in Gods sight and was

full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had


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become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their

ways. (Genesis 6:11-12). Let us give God a chance by

getting to know Him more. Let us strive to know Him

personally, to know Him deeper. He greatly loves. J.I.

Parker in his book titled "Knowing God", he wrote

something extraordinarily powerful, and he wrote

"there's a difference between knowing God and

knowing about God". That statement changed my life

and my perception of how we relate to God. Let us not

know about God but know God. As we know God more

we will see that there is no iniquity with Him and that

He is all loving and all true.

God Bless You


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We may BODLY SAY;

Hebrews 13:5-6(NKJV)

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content

with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, I

will never leave you nor forsake you. SO WE MAY

BOLDLY SAY: The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What

can man do to me?

Without a doubt, the truthfulness of any word is judged

by the character of the person who utters it. It would

be complete gullibility to trust in the words of

someone's character you haven't been acquainted

with. Being trustful and being gullible are two different

things. If somebody promised to buy you a car at the

end of the month, unless you were completely sold into

believing that the person would do it (judging both their

credibility and or ability), you would never tell anyone

about it, just in case that person doesn't keep his word

and you are shamed. However if you believed and have

known that, that particular person is faithful to his word

then you would go to the streets and SHOUT WITH

BOLDNESS your new found blessing. It is the same thing

with the Gospel. We go out evangelizing to people,

telling them to receive the grace of Christ with


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BOLDNESS because we believe it is the truth. The reason

we can be BOLD about the measure of love that God

has for us is because "we have known and believed the

love that God has for us" (1 John 4:16) as John says. In

that way we have judged Gods word and found it to be

true since God would never lie. Thus if God says "he

disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities"

(Colossians 2:15), WE CAN BOLDLY SAY "no weapon

formed against us shall prosper," (Isaiah 54:17). We say

whatever we say from God's word with BOLDNESS

because God said it. We have judged God and we have

found Him FAITHFUL to His word, as even the bible

speaks concerning Sarah that "she CONSIDERED HIM

FAITHFUL WHO PROMISED" (Hebrews 11:11). We

BOLDLY confess what God says about us, simply

because of His truthfulness, trustworthiness and

faithfulness. Let us live by that same SPIRIT OF FAITH

that he had who wrote "I believe therefore I speak" (2

Corinthians 4:13), and confess with BOLDNESS the word

of God, professing what we believe. We can also pray

for one another, as Paul asked the Ephesians to pray forhim "that utterance may be given unto him, that he

may open his mouth BOLDLY to make known the

mystery of the Gospel of Christ" (Ephesians 6:19). In

fact let us not delay, let us pray now; "Blessed Father in

the name of Jesus, you say to us, we must come to


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Your Throne of grace with the full assurance that faith

brings and with boldness, therefore Father we ask that

you give us boldness to speak Your word without fear,

to confess your word with the power of faith, and to

hold Your Word in sanctity and speak it as it is in truth,

THE TRUTH, which works effectively to those who

believe, in Jesus' glorious name we ask, AMEN &

AMEN". Now let us expect to receive.

God Bless You


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Expect to Receive.

Acts 3:5 (NKJV)

So he gave them his attention, EXPECTING TO RECEIVE

SOMETHING from them.

This is a huge element of faith; namely expectation.Jesus says Therefore I tell you, WHATEVER YOU ASK

FOR IN PRAYER, BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT,

and it will be yours(Mark 11:24). Believing is the first

element. When we believe, a release is made or by faith

our prayers are granted, so to say that what we asked

for has been granted to us - that's the prayer of faith. It

is faith that makes a way for expectation because you

cannot expect what you didnt have faith to receive.

James puts it this way, If any of you lacks wisdom,

YOU SHOULD ASK GOD, who gives generously to all

without finding fault, and IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU.

But when you ask, YOU MUST BELIEVE AND NOT

DOUBT, because the one who doubts is like a wave of

the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person

SHOULD NOT EXPECT TO RECEIVE anything from the

Lord(James 1:5-7) THIS VERSE IS POWERFUL. James

is saying if you dont believe when you ask and put

your faith to work in your prayer, DO NOT EXPECT TO


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RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM GOD. Expectation is a

concept of welcoming what we have received by faith.

For instance when a woman is pregnant and she's

aware of it, she doesn't believe that she's pregnant, she

KNOWS IT and she is waiting for the day of delivery, that

is why that whole process is called EXPECTING. Likewise,

when God has given us things or promised us things, all

that we have to do is WAIT for the materialization of

those things; the day of delivery. If you pray to God for

an opportunity and you believe that you've received it

by faith, then you should expect that opportunity, that's

why Jesus says "which of you fathers, if your son asks

for a fish, will give him a snake instead?" (Luke 11:11) -

In other words you don't ask God for a fish and He gives

you a snake instead. The bible says For surely there is

an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off

(Proverbs 23:18).Therefore it is important that we make

specific requests to God when we pray because Satan

can also take opportunity from our requests and give us

things which we think are from God. However, God be

thanked because every good and perfect gift is fromabove. Enjoy your faith and believe God for all things

you ask Him.

God Bless You


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Release a Blessing

Ephesians 1:3(NLT)

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who HAS BLESSED US with EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING in

the HEAVENLY REALMS because we are united with

Christ.

The verse says 'God HAS'and not 'God WILL', as though

talking about the future. In other words, all the

blessings that God would ever give us, have been

prepared and made available for us already in Jesus

Christ and upon our union with Him; God has packaged

them and made them ready for us - for a time when we

need them. But He says they are in the "heavenly

realms". Hence for us to get them we need to take

them from the treasure room of God in heaven. But

how?? Very simple, Jesus says "whatever you bind on

earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you

LOOSE (RELEASE) ON EARTH will be LOOSED

(RELEASED) IN HEAVEN"(Matthew 18:18). So I don't

have to literally go to heaven to get a blessing when I

need it, I can be anywhere on earth and when I need it; I

release it - WITH MY WORDS. Prayer is effectual in this

regard. God invites us in the Book of Hebrews "to COME


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BOLDLY to His throne of GRACE"(Hebrews 4:16). You

could be enjoying your day & suddenly something

happens that changes your mood or changes the state

of your day to being BAD, it doesn't matter where you

are (at school, at work, at home, etc.), you can reverse

that STATE with a blessing from God, the bible says "the

blessings of the Lord maketh one rich and He adds no

sorrow with it"(Proverbs 10:22) and in another place

"Every good & perfect gift is from above"(James 1:17).

Therefore blessings are there to give you joy & prosper

you. And you know what? There are more than enough

blessings for everyday of your life. Whenever you need

a blessing, even if you are not having a bad day, just say:

FATHER I NEED A BLESSING UPON ME TODAY AND I

RECEIVE IT IN THE NAME OF JESUS. You can even PRAY

one for a friend, or a relative, family, spouse, children, a

stranger, ANYONE. There is more than enough for ALL of

us; Peter says "Do not repay evil with evil or insult with

insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing,

because to this YOU WERE CALLED SO THAT YOU MAY

INHERIT A BLESSING."(1 Peter 3:9). We are too blessedto think about releasing and speaking CURSES upon

others and even if we wanted to, GOD WOULD NEVER

ALLOW US, look at Balak for instance when he is talking

to Balaam, he says "Come, let me take you to another

place. Perhaps it will PLEASE God to let you curse them


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for me from there."(Numbers 23:27), however the

prophet had said before "HOW SHALL I CURSE WHOM

GOD HAS NOT CURSED? And how shall I denounce

whom the Lord has not denounced?"(Numbers 23:8).

Speak a blessing to somebody today, let your words be

seasoned with salt and filled with grace. Since we

cannot be CURSED, therefore we NEED to bless.

God Bless You


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Dead to Sin.

Romans 6:11(NLT)

So you also should consider yourselves to be DEAD TO

THE POWER OF SIN and ALIVE TO God through Christ

Jesus.

This is a very profound thing - to be dead to the power

of sin. The power of sin is its strength over us and its

slavery over our own lives. The reason that sometimes

we struggle with sin is because we haven't accepted

what Jesus did for us as a reality. Sometimes we justify

ourselves and say that "itsimpossible for us not to sin",

but that's not true. The act of nobility that Jesus did at

the cross was more than just make us right with God;

He died so that sin might have no power over us, so

that we may be DEAD to the power of sin and be ALIVE

to God. If we are alive to the power of sin, then we are

dead to the reality of God. Moreover Paul says "Once

you were dead because of your disobedience and your

many sins...But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us

so much, THAT EVEN THOUGH WE WERE DEAD

BECAUSE OF OUR SINS, HE GAVE US LIFE WHEN HE

RAISED CHRIST FROM THE DEAD. (It is only by God's

grace that you have been saved!"(Ephesians 2:1,4-5).


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So we are no longer dead but alive, alive to Him who

gave us ETERNAL LIFE. One of the reasons that sin still

has a hold of the Christian could be because of the Law,

because thats where sin receives its strength from. Paul

says The sting of death is sin, and THE STRENGTH OF

SIN IS THE LAW. (1 Corinthians 15:56). The moment

the Law is involved in a persons life, sin receives its

strength and it revives through the Law in a persons life

like Paul also says I was alive once without the law,

but WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME, SIN REVIVED

AND I DIED (Romans 7:9). Let us start walking in the

grace that God gave us, and consider ourselves dead to

sin, but alive to Him so that we allow no sin to have its

power over us anymore, let us accept this grace as it is.

You can wake up every day and meditate on the

opening scripture to remind the devil that he has no

claim over your life anymore, he has no power over you

and sin has no power over you as well.

God Bless You


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Natural Teaching.

1 Corinthians 11:14(KJV)

Doth not even NATURE ITSELF TEACH YOU, that, if a

man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

Nature or the natural sphere of life was created by Godjust as the spiritual. God formed it in His initial design of

creation, He had a plan with it and He was PLEASED to

see it through as the bible records "God saw all that he

had made, AND IT WAS VERY GOOD."(Genesis 1:31).

There are so many elements of creation that we cannot

talk about at this point in time but we will look at them

however a little later on. After the first man Adam; who

by delegated authority was given everything on earth

sinned, even nature itself FELL from the glory of its

Creation and was subjected to evil forces. For instance

lions were not supposed to eat people but as it

appears they do. Nonetheless even in the fall of nature

itself, God has left a NON-PERISHING SIGNATURE of

who He is in the things He has made, like an artist; after

he has created his master-piece he leaves a signature,

an identity confirming that it was his hand that made it.

In fact according to ART EXPERTS, a piece of art is not

finished until the artist puts his/her SIGNATURE on it .


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However God's masterpiece which is NATURE has

something more in it than a simple signature, of its

Artist. God's creation declares His very EXISTENCEand

His very ATTRIBUTES are witnessed by it. No man has

studied NATURE and its beauty and never came to a

conclusion that a Higher Being has formed it, unless

BLINDED by the power of Satan. In fact Paul in his letter

to the Romans mentions "for ever since the world was

created, people have seen the earth and sky.

THROUGH EVERYTHING GOD MADE, THEY CAN

CLEARLY SEE HIS INVISIBLE QUALITIES--HIS ETERNAL

POWER AND DIVINE NATURE. So they have no excuse

for not knowing God."(Romans 1:20). God is CLEARLY

SEEN through His creation, Hes seen from the things He

has made and we hold the closest RESEMBLANCE to

God, did He not say "LET US MAKE MANKIND IN OUR

IMAGE, IN OUR LIKENESS..."(Genesis 1:26)? There are

some who don't know God as it is now and the greater

part insists that He doesn't exist even though God has

PORTRAYED Himself so clearly from them and nature. It

is for that reason Paul even says "so they have NOEXCUSE for not knowing God.

Nature reveals to us the POWER of God and His mind,

His design and building skills, as it is even said "for every


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house is built by someone, BUT GOD IS THE BUILDER

OF EVERYTHING."(Hebrews 3:4). The great psalmist

speaks of God's creation this way, "The heavens

DECLARE the glory of God; the skies PROCLAIM the

work of His hands. Day after day THEY POUR FORTH

SPEECH; night after night they REVEAL KNOWLEDGE

they have no speech, they use no words; no sound is

heard from them. Yet their VOICE goes out into all the

earth, THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE

WORLD."(Psalm 19:1-4). The Psalmist had great

revelation of God in nature and that's where it should

be and many miss it because they are keen on abusing

this world. Imagine he says the VOICE of nature goes to

all the earth and even the ends of the world, meaning

that everyone in the earth should have a revelation of

God by NATURE and also how the stars REVEAL

KNOWLEDGE, its really amazing. Its quite fascinating

when we read about Jesus and we realize that MOST

of His PARABLES had something to do with the

elements of NATURE, some which are the greatest

principles in the world; the kingdom of God and themustard seed, the tares, the salt and many such

parables which He spoke all with different KINDS of

natural teachings. The opening scripture says

something quite powerful really about one of these so-

called natural teachings, "A MAN WITH LONG HAIR",


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Paul says "doth not even NATURE ITSELF TEACH YOU,

that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto

him?"(1 Corinthians 11:14) - What a powerful

statement, NATURE ITSELF TEACHES US. Some things

are unnatural, whether we like them or not and because

Satan is a liar and he has made some of the most

unnatural things in the world to look and seem

NATURAL. For instance same sex marriages are NOT

NATURAL but in this world system such things are

accepted, even COMMENDED because Satan is the

author of this world system however such things are

not from God. The people in Sodom and Gomorrah

were UNGODLY because they were against the NATURE

of God; these are DEBASED things of this life and God

will judge such things. When I think about the

lawlessness that will come in the last days and the

destruction that Satan will cause and the ungodliness

that will dominate people I feel sad, because that is not

what God intended for His creation. It was in the times

of Noah that God REGRETTED creating everything that

has breath because of GREAT WICKEDNESS, even in theHEARTS of MEN, how much more in the last days?

God Bless You.


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Small Beginnings.

Zechariah 4:10(NLT)

Do not despise these SMALL BEGINNINGS, for the Lord

REJOICES TO SEE THE WORK BEGIN, to see the plumb

line in Zerubbabels hand.

There is no doubt about it; growing is one of the best

experiences in nature, to see something reaching a

level greater than its former state. Everything in this

world has its beginning stage, a point of birth, a level of

commencement. The opening scripture is a way of

encouraging us as we journey through life to reach that

which God predestined for us. Now it is evident that

God has something He brought us for in this world,

some form of work that He needs us to accomplish FOR

HIS KINGDOM. Jesus said "My food, IS TO DO THE WILL

OF HIM WHO SENT ME AND TO FINISH HIS

WORK."(John 4:34). We are sent by God to this world to

do His will and to finish His work which He has given us.

Each and every person in this world has A GOD-GIVEN

ASSIGNMENT, which God prepared for that man

before He was born, as Paul says "for we are Gods

handiwork, created in Christ Jesus TO DO GOOD

WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US


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TO DO."(Ephesians 2:10). I once spoke to a man of God

who was beginning a campus ministry and he said to me

"I now know what God wants me to do but THE

BEGINNING STEP, IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST" - I held

those words close to me. In these different ministries

that God has called us to the most difficult part will

always be the initiation part, because truth be told, WE

DON'T KNOW WHERE EXACTLY TO START, but we have

to start somewhere. The opening scripture is too

powerful in the New Living Translation, Zechariah says

"Do not despise these SMALL BEGINNINGS, for the Lord

REJOICES TO SEE THE WORK BEGIN..." - this is too

wonderful. If God rejoices to see the work begin then

we should never despise the beginning phase of the

work we are doing for God. Nehemiah says "THE JOY OF

THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH."(Nehemiah 8:10), if God

rejoices in what we are doing then we are strengthened

- even if its SMALL, that is why we should never despise

SMALL BEGINNINGS because that is when we are filled

with God's power the most. We need to learn patience,

we cannot start BIG all at once, we need to learn to waiton the Lord, for "THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD

SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH; they shall mount up

with wings as eagles; THEY SHALL RUN, AND NOT BE

WEARY; and THEY SHALL WALK, AND NOT

FAINT."(Isaiah 40:31) - This is it.


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Many of us have started with our ministries and callings

and we are still at the beginning phase and we are

looking at those who fore-ran us, and how much God

has blessed them and we are despising the LITTLE that

God has done; we should NOT. When Job lost all that he

had and was in mourning, one of his friends, Bildad the

Shuhite, said something that is powerful that we needto look at, he says to Job trying to comfort him, "IF YOU

WOULD EARNESTLY SEEK GOD, and make your

supplication to the Almighty...THOUGH YOUR

BEGINNING WAS SMALL, YET YOUR LATTER END

WOULD INCREASE ABUNDANTLY."(Job 8:5, 7) - Its

lovely. It doesn't matter where we are now; all thatmatters is where God wants us to be. If we walk

according to God's schedule, to God's timing, then we

are where God wants us to be, whether we are still

small or big. How glorious are the words of the Holy

Spirit through Solomon, as he said "THE END OF A

MATTER IS BETTER THAN ITS BEGINNING, and

PATIENCE IS BETTER THAN PRIDE."(Ecclesiastes 7:8).

Whats the point of starting out RICH and ending up

POOR, like Lot; is it not better to start in tribulations

and prisons but end with RICHES and HONOR like

Joseph. All that matters is how we ended our race, how

we finished our course. You could have been number


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10, when you started the race and become number 1, at

the finish line, because God is constantly RENEWING

YOUR STRENGTH. Paul says exhorting us "HE WHO

BEGAN A GOOD WORK in you will carry it on to

completion until the day of Christ Jesus."(Philippians

1:6) - Let us fear not brothers and sisters but watch God

turn something SMALL into SOMETHING BIG. Let us

learn from Elijah who prayed seven time for rain telling

his servant to go and see if there was any rain coming

and at the seventh time, the servant saw "a cloud as

SMALL AS A MAN'S HAND rising from the sea." and

Elijah said to him "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your

chariot and go down before the rain stops you."(1

Kings 18:44). Elijah even with smallness of the cloud,

perceived that GREAT RAIN WAS COMING, as the bible

even says "the heaven was black with clouds and wind,

and there was A GREAT RAIN"(1 Kings 18:45). Let us

believe the promises of God and have faith, and be

patient as it says "and thus Abraham, having

PATIENTLY WAITED, obtained the promise."(Hebrews

6:15). It could be business, anything small right now willgrow BIG eventually and there is no doubt about it as

long as we WAIT on the Lord.

God Bless You.


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Heavenly Mind.

Colossians 3:2 (AMP)

And set your minds and keep them set ON WHAT IS

ABOVE (THE HIGHER THINGS), not on the things that are

on the earth.

This is the mindset that God wants for us - a heavenly

mindset. A mentality of heaven, "the mind of Christ" (1

Corinthians 2:16). God wants us to think in the realm of

His existence, to be aware of His existence that there is

a heaven where He dwells, where He IS, which we are

born to by receiving Jesus into our lives. Paul says And

DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE

TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND

that you may prove what is that good and acceptable

and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2). The more we

think in that sphere the lesser we will think in the

sphere of the earth or of the world. The heavenly mind

is the mind that is filled with the environment of

Heaven, the environment of peace, of love, of joy, of

faith, of delight, of bliss, of tranquility, of comfort, of

warmth, of righteousness, of holiness. Jesus always had

His mind set on the Kingdom of God, He knew where He

was from, ("not of this world"), and we also ought to


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think in that sphere. The heavenly mind is the one that

always thinks of destiny, that we are here on earth for a

purpose, that we are sojourners and pilgrims in this

world and that we have a citizenship in heaven. It

imagines the beauty of heaven continually, the angels,

the saints in heaven, the worship & praise, the Throne

room of God, the sea of glass, the heavenly Jerusalem,

the unsearchable treasures of Christ, the life, the

beauty of Jesus, the fellowship of the saints, the trees

and rivers, the image of God, and all such beauty. Paul

says "whatever things are lovely...MEDITATE ON

SUCH"(Philippians 4:8). Every person's picture of heaven

is uniquely amazing and God has allowed us to meditate

on those imaginations, so that we may have hope and

strive to reach that precious picture of HEAVEN. We

havent seen heaven on a literal and tangible experience

but we imagine it, therefore Paul says but if we hope

for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait

eagerly for it (Romans 8:25). Believe me, what we

imagine is nothing compared to the true image of

HEAVEN.

God Bless You

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