ENDURANCE:THE KEY TO ETERNITY!

ENDURANCE: THE KEY TO ETERNITY

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden



According to Tabitha Suzuma one can't make it through life with out bearing one another's faults, frailties, weaknesses, crosses or burdens.  We as Christians must answer the call to bear one another.  Another word for this in the Bible is called forbearance.  Each of us has been given a unique make-up. Each of us is a colorful design painted on the canvas called life. We each make up a special mark of artistry upon the pages of life. Each of us represents a new book or chapter spoken out of the mouth of God before the beginning of time.   It is God's desire that we love and respect His word, His voice and His decision to speak each of us in our own uniqueness into existence. To not bear one another's existence is to not bear God's spoken word or decision to create your fellow brother, sister or human being.


The word of  God says:

And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. Mark 15:21

Simon, a Cyrenian was  chosen to bear the cross of Jesus. Jesus who had previously been scourged with a cat of nine tails, the Son of God needed someone to help Him bear His cross. Simeon means heard, to hear or obey, and also means stone or rock.  This word Simon is also is what Jesus calls Simon Peter.  The church is built on the stone or Rock of understanding that Jesus is the Son of God. Hear in this text it takes a stone a rock, a person of firm character or belief to carry the cross or burden of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Simon had a spirit of humility and willingness to obey the soliders and carry the cross of Jesus.  A man that wasn't Jewish which was meant as an insult. A filthy Gentile was only fit to carry the Son of God's burden in their eyes because they did not recognize Jesus for who He was. God divinely orchestrated this as a sign that salvation is not only for the Jew but for the Gentile In addition to that it was to signify the fact that it would be Gentiles who in this day and time would carry the burden of the cross to the lost and to the uttermost parts of the earth.

That word Cyrenian means supremacy of the bridle.  This means that Simon represents a person not only a person of strength of faith, humility, endurance but self control.  Supremecy of the Bridle suggests that He was a man who was able to control his temper, emotions, attitude, and thought life.  Nobody really asked Him to bear the cross of Jesus, they made him. Instead of becoming angry and refusing, he obeyed. Perhaps it was  compassion, love and humility that caused Simon to go ahead and carry the cross of our Lord.

Simon represents a man with incredible endurance. We as Christians have been asked by our savior to bear one another's weaknesses, burdens, troubles and cares.  This means making sacrifices to help others at times when it inconveniences us. Rest assure if we are obedient God has for us a crown of life awaiting us in eternity.
 
Pastor Please Thomas once said,"If you don't love everybody, there is no need in loving anybody"

This statement is so true. If we as Christians fail to bear one persoin's faults or frailties there is no use in bearing any ones, because we won't make it to heaven with hate, unforgiveness and bitterness in our hearts.

So Be encouraged to bear the infirmities, weaknesses, faults, and frailties of others.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:2-3


So today I encourage you to forbear, endure, and bear the crosses of one another. God promises that if we endure will shall be saved. It's not always easy to love those who cause us harm, but that is what we were called to do to love one another as Christ has shown us to love and love endures all things!

And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Mark 13:13


May your day be filled with the LOVE of CHRIST!

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God, the Father of Compassion: God remembers you! You are Imprinted on His Mind!

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God, the Father of Compassion: God remembers you! You are Imprinted on His Mind!

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

With out the supernatural love and compassion of Jesus Christ where would we be? It is necessary! With out God's compassion and love we can never fully become who God intended for us to be! God's love enables us to reach beyond our weaknesses and frailties to productivity, successfulness and triumphant. 

Triumph for the believer looks like this:

When we walk into heaven as disciplined believers who have served God with pureness of heart and faith; we have triumphed! God is looking for a few believers who are willing to stand up for right! God in his love and compassion for mankind, extends his compassion by allowing us plenty of time to develop the character He desires for us to have. He knows that when we develop the character of Himself; love, joy, peace, patience, meekness, self-control, faithfulness, and gentleness we can complete our God-Given assignments. Having developed the fruits of the Spirit we will definately make it to the New Jerusalem with a reward waiting for us!

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelations 21:8(KJV)

All we have to do is believe and take advantage of His compassion. God has given us Grace and Mercy through the blessing of time. God gives each of us time to take on a Kingdom mindset. A Kingdom mindset is which taking  on His Image, His way of doing things and being what we have become in word and deed. 

We must decrease so that He may increase! Our way of doing things must become His way of doing things! This is only possible by staying in His presence and allowing God to change our nature.

Psalms 111 says

⁴ He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious, merciful, and full of loving compassion.

⁵ He has given food and provision to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever and imprint it [on His mind]. Psalms 111:14-15 (AMP)

God's wonderous works simply means to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action

What distinguishes God from everyone else?
What makes Him Awesome, Wonderful and Different? What makes Him a cut above the idol gods that the world presents to us?

It is His ability to set aside His disdain for sin and remember His promises! It is His ability to look beyond betrayal and see loyalty, to look beyond denial and see us claiming Him, to look beyond disobedience and to see compliance, to look beyond rebellion and see submissiveness, to look beyond unforgiveness and see forgiveness, impatience and see forbearence, looking at Adam and seeing Jesus!

God has the ability to look beyond where we are and see where we will be once we choose Him. God can step outside of eternitynd into time at any moment and stop the constant abominations of sin that are present here on earth. But what stops Him?

Compassion and Love for millions of seed that He has sown and that He expects a harvest from. God wants us to be productive. He wants to see the damage satan has done to our nature and watch it go from being deformed, to reformed, to being transformed into the likeness of His son! God wants it so bad that He is willing to wait out all of the other bad seed, just to see the good seed that will come forth with a shine that only exemplifies who He is!

Imprinted on the mind of God is that He made a covenant with Abraham. In Genesis the 12th chapter it is here where God promises that all of the seed of the earth will be blessed through Abraham's seed. We all know that this seed is Jesus Christ. When Jesus took on our sin, He blessed the world with a unique opportunity to be saved and to experience redemption!

So be encouraged! When you are committed to God you are IMPRINTED on His mind! His promises are yea and Amen! If He said it He will do it! Every promise that He has made He will keep because that is His nature! All that we have to do is believe! God is full of compassion!

Every Morning is  a new opportunity to make sure that you are right with God by confessing your sins and making a decision to do your best to walk upright! We don't have to worry because God is a God who remembers His promises!

If you are weary! God remembers you! You are Imprinted on His Mind!
If you are discouraged, God remembers you! You are Imprinted on His Mind!
If you have backslidden? God remembers you! You are Imprinted on His Mind!
If you need Christ?God remembers you! You are Imprinted on His Mind!

Just make the choice to find yourself with Him even if it is in the form of a come back! Come back and watch Him transform you before your own eyes.

Behold old things have passed away and all things have become new!

And Remember He wants you to be TRIUMPHANT! He wants you to make it to the finish line! So get in the race! Stay in the race! An get back on the track! God is waiting on YOU!

Let your day be filled with the love of Christ


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God, The Father of Compassion: Do Your Part!

And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 13:17-18

The word compassion in this particular text comes from the Hebrew word, rä·kham'. It simply means:

to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion

It also means to have a soft spot for, the love of parents towards their children, to behold with tender affections and to hold close or near the heart. It also means to obtain mercy.

Basically what God is saying in this scripture is that if the Israelites choose to turn away from distractions, ungodly desires, false gods and turn back to Him and become obedient to His words then He will stop being angry with them and show them compassion.

The Israelites kept turning back to their sin and every time they looked at them they saw Satan, sin, dirt and this separated them from their father. It was God’s desire to rectify this situation. He hated being separated from His people so He had a plan to exchange this ugly fact for a beautiful picture; so that every time that He looked at His people when they repented He would see the Best picture and that is His Son Jesus, His Image looking back at Him!

God chose to create Adam. He is the sole progenitor and Father of Life. He is the spring from which every river of water flows from. He is the greatest tributary from which all bodies of water flow. He is the source and seed of all productivity. He is father who teaches us by example.

John 3:16 says that For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever shall believe on Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

Knowing that Adam and Eve would sin even before He had created them, a father of compassion provided a way of escape through His only begotten Son. A son not produced of the earth who sits at His right hand on His heavenly throne. A son who in obedience to his father shared in the compassion of His father to be made to dwell in human flesh and to die for the sins of a people who were inferior to Him in power.

As a son who operates in oneness of His father, He is sent as the only example of what it truly means to be a Son of God. He exemplifies in every action and in every thought on earth compassion.

God’s love is so deep for His earthly children that He gave up and was separated from the truest example of what it means to be a Son, a son of obedience, love, purity, compassion, kindness, gentleness, meekness, and self-control, Jesus! Priceless!

God’s compassion for man is exemplified in Psalms 103

^1-2 O my soul, bless God.
    From head to toe, I’ll bless his holy name!
O my soul, bless God,
    don’t forget a single blessing!

^3-5 He forgives your sins—every one.

    He heals your diseases—every one.
    He redeems you from hell—saves your life!
    He crowns you with love and mercy—a paradise crown.
    He wraps you in goodness—beauty eternal.
    He renews your youth—you’re always young in his presence.

Through Jesus Christ God has created for us the greatest form of compassion!  Through Jesus God forgives our sins, redeems us from hell, crowns us with love and mercy, wraps us in goodness through His Holy Spirit, and renews our strength in the inner man through the Power of the Holy Ghost by way of salvation through faith in His Son Jesus Christ!

Isaiah 53: He was looked down on and passed over,
    a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
    We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
    our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
    that God was punishing him for his own failures.
But it was our sins that did that to him,
    that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
    Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
    We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong,
    on him, on him.

^7-9 He was beaten, he was tortured,
    but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
    and like a sheep being sheared,
    he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
    and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
    beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
They buried him with the wicked,
    threw him in a grave with a rich man,
Even though he’d never hurt a soul
    or said one word that wasn’t true.

¹⁰ Still, it’s what God had in mind all along,
    to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
    so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
    And God’s plan will deeply prosper through him.

God is a God who shows us compassion and can only show us compassion as long as we are willing to turn to Him and give Him ALL!  He gave us ALL! Jesus Gave us ALL! God gave us the best part of Himself, Himself! Then He turned around and gave us His Holy Spirit to lead guide and teach us!

God is sheer mercy and grace;
    not easily angered, he’s rich in love.
He doesn’t endlessly nag and scold,
    nor hold grudges forever.
He doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve,
    nor pay us back in full for our wrongs.
As high as heaven is over the earth,
    so strong is his love to those who fear him.
And as far as sunrise is from sunset,
    he has separated us from our sins.As parents feel for their children,
    God feels for those who fear him.
He knows us inside and out,
    keeps in mind that we’re made of mud.
Men and women don’t live very long;
    like wildflowers they spring up and blossom,
But a storm snuffs them out just as quickly,
    leaving nothing to show they were here.
God’s love, though, is ever and always,
    eternally present to all who fear him,
Making everything right for them and their children
    as they follow his Covenant ways
    and remember to do whatever he said. From Psalms 103 Message Bible

The Message

Gather the plunder in the middle of the town square and burn it all—town and plunder together up in smoke, a holy sacrifice to God, your God. Leave it there, ashes and ruins. Don’t build on that site again. And don’t let any of the plunder devoted to holy destruction stick to your fingers. Get rid of it so that God may turn from anger to compassion, generously making you prosper, just as he promised your ancestors.
¹⁸ Yes. Obediently listen to God, your God. Keep all his commands that I am giving you today. Do the right thing in the eyes of God, your God.

Turn back to your Father! The God of Compassion has made the way of escape through His Son Jesus! If you confess your sins He is Just to forgive you of your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness!

Focus! Stay away from distractions. Stay hidden in God and His purposes and plans for you! Examine your day to day activities and make sure you make sufficient time to hear from God! Examine your friendships and relationships. Make sure that they don’t take you away from fulfilling God’s plans for you! God never leaves us! His compassion is always available through His son, Jesus! It is never too late to return, to get in right standing, reprioritize your time and make new plans that are constructed around God’s instructions to you about what He wants you to do in your life.

Homework: Do a time log of your day and see how much time you truly spend in the arms of Compassion, God. Make changes to your schedule that includes God. His Compassion cannot be shown if you are not looking at Him.

So be Encouraged, God has provided His best for you through His compassion to give us JESUS!

May your day be filled with the love of Christ!

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And when she opened it, she saw the child: and behold the babe cried. And she had COMPASSION on him and said, this is one of the Hebrew's children.

And the child grew...and he became her son and she called him Moses and she said because she drew him out of the water.

Exodus 2:6&10

There are many scriptures in the Bible that highlights the compassion of God. It is impossible for the world to truly experience compassion with out the softening of the human heart by God. God being the creator of all, whose power extends beyond the earth and over the universe has the power to destroy or allow to continue to exist. Life and death truly lies in the hands of God.

The truth is the only reason why man exists is because of His love and compassion on us. As a mother has compassion on her child so is the love or compassion God for has his children.

God shows his compassion as a parent in Genesis when Adam and Eve sin instead of destroying them, He provides for them and their seed a way of escape.

Over the next few weeks we will examine the compassion of God! Today's scripture gives us a big picture of what compassion truly is. In this text the word compassion means to pity, to spare, meekness, gentleness, mild and long suffering.


Here in the text in order to save her child Mose's mother makes an ark out of bulrushes and sends her child down the Nile river in it. The baby is watched as it reaches its destination, the house of Pharoah. (A Great House)

Often when this story is told the faith, love and determination of a mother is highlighted. However today the meekness and compassion of the daughter of Pharoah is center stage. This woman was faced with a choice. She could choose to kill this child or take it in as her own.

What could make a woman of power make the choice of compassion. Was it the weeping of the child? Was it the covering of God? Was it because she had no children of her own?

I believe that the daughter of Pharoah had a heart that was meek, gentle and humble enough to see this child as a gift.

The Hebrew woman were having more children than the Egyptians and were fruitful and this woman had no children. Her lack of fruitfulness put her in a place of compassion and enough humility to show kindness to a woman who had given up her child.

This woman accepted a gift as a result of her ability to show compassion.

In contrast, a prideful woman would have passed up this opportunity. They may have felt too good to adopt the son of a slave. Instead sne chose to rescue a future Prophet of the true and living God.

If Pharoah's daughter chose not to show compassion God would have found a vessel that would have hid His annointed.

We as Christians must sieze God given opportunities to show compassion to others. God shows compassion through willing, gentle, soft hearted people.

Application: Ask God to give you an opportunity this week to show compassion.
Prayer: Lord God of compassion give us a heart like. lthe daughter of Pharoah . Give us a how to symphathize and emphathize with others and show compassion. I pray for those who have been raped, molested, abused, mistreated and caused to become embittered by by the trials of life: that you would heal their hearts and cause them to love and show compassion again.

In Jesus name Amen Amen and Amen!

Be Blessed,

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Lord illuminate the minds of your people !

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Life is like a box of chocolates!

Life can be so challenging and one can become weary along the way. Weariness causes spiritual dehydration, stagnation and complacency. Do not be weary in well doing. Dont stop praying fasting and filling up your spirit with Gods word and presence! Prevent spitual dehydration by trusting and believing God through your action to consistently spend time with Him. 

When you are dehydrated you lack the energy or enthusiasm to stay dedicated to time with God and fulfilling your Godgiven assignment including kingdom building, kingdom relationships and working towards kingdom financial resources. Stay prayed up! Stay Encouraged! Stay energized and stay on assignment.

Instability is one thing but complacency is another. Complacency causes you to not make kingdom advancements. When you are spiritually dehydrated you lack the stamina, divine revelation and righteous resolve to move from where you are.

It is important to always be evolving in your walk with God. Believers should always be in a position to hear or get a clear word from God. This takes consustency in prayer, increased time with God, fasting and quality study time with God. When believers fail to make time with God a priority a spiritual drought occurs.

Life truly is like a box of chocolates, it brings so much negative and positive with it. The worst thing a believer can do when a test leaves a bad taste in your mouth is not washing it down with some spiritual water.

The Holy Spirit can make some bad spiritual chocolates more palatable for you. Chocolate dehydrates because of the caffeine it contains.  The best thing to do when life throws you something negative is to chase it down with two gallons of the Holy Ghost! Gods spirit will sustain you!

So be encouraged! God is with you if you seek Him daily!

Be Encouraged!

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Give God the Greatest Pleasure!

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Give  God the Greatest  Pleasure!

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. Psalms 147:11

The Lord takes pleasure, is satisfied, and accepts those who fear Him.

He finds His greatest joy in those who respect, reverence, and are astonished and in awe of His greatness. Those who place God in His rightful place and see Him as He truly is, as a God who extends beyond our own strength and ability will live a life that matches that truth. The Life style that reflects respect for God is a life that pleases God and is a life that  pleases God.

Those who fear him Shoot or pour out their hearts before Him in prayer and in worship. Everything a person who fears God does gives Him honor and exemplifies the greatness of who He is. When our lives reflect the essence of who He is as a loving, Kind God with standards of righteous living God is pleased.

Those who fear God hope in His mercy because they realize that they are in need of it. Mercy is God's Goodness, Kindness and Faithfulness.

An example of faithfulness in the bible is the covenant that God made with the children of Israel. In spite of their constant disobedience He kept the promise that He made with Abraham that all of the worlds would be blessed through His seed.

From Abraham,  to Joseph, to Moses, to David to Jesus God showed His faithfulfulness to keep His promise even unto the seed of today!

God has promised you mercy through Jesus Christ! If we choose to live according to God's rules. If we present our bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service God will show His Mercy by giving us all of the Blessings He promised Abraham.

God chose to vindicate us through the blood of Jesus and if we embrace this truth  we can walk in FREEDOM, Productivity, Triumph, Success and His Best!   

God is the Best! He made us to be our best and our best  is  service through the way we live and treat others. When we show the love of Christ it gives God the greatest Pleasure.

So Be ENCOURAGED! If it is your sole goal is to be pleasing to God you will live a life that reflects what pleases Him! The end  result is pleasures forever more in eternity, provision while on earth and even some things that you desire!

For if you delight in Him He will give you the desires of  your heart! Psalms 37:3-4

Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Be Encouraged!

Let your day Be filled with the Love of Christ!

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