Psalm 139: 7-12 God Is Always Present With Us

Psalm 139:7-12 Where shall I go from Your spirit, or where shall I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell at the end of the sea, 10 even there Your hand shall guide me, and Your right hand shall take hold of me.11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light shall be as night about me,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines as the day, for the darkness is like light to You.

Are you feeling alone or abandoned? Guess what? If you are, I have some good news to share with you! God wanted me to tell you that you are NOT alone! He is with you wherever you go! This is indeed good news to all those who are feeling lonely and or alone.

God’s spirit is inside of you, therefore God is always with you! Yes, your body is the temple where God’s spirit dwells” 1 Cor. 6:19, MEV).

God is “omnipresence!” This means that there is no place where God is not at all times. He is everywhere all the time! Isn’t that good news!

The Psalmist David ask several rhetorical questions in this text, and in doing so, He is making a statement of God’s everpresene with us.

Whenever the enemy of your mind shows up with his lies about God not being with you, remind yourself that the Lord your God is with you when you rise, lie down, when you go to the grocery store, when you go on a walk, when you go to work, church, or anywhere else, God is there!

Emmanuel! God with us!

Psalm 95:6-7 Come Worship The Lord

Psalm 95:6-8 O come, let us worship and bow down;  let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker. 7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.Today if you hear His voice,
8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, and as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

This text is an invitation to worship the true and living God, who is our creator.  We are called to kneel and bow our hearts in worship to the Lord in songs.

The call to worship is a posture of our heart that reveals reverence, humility and recognition of God’s authority over all of creation, including us.

What’s interesting about this call to worship God is that we are called to corporate worship as a body of believers. This means that we must not forsake the assembling of ourselves together at the House of God. We must meet together as much as possible. We are the Christian community of God’s people.

The command is to sing to the Lord in His presence, and shout joyfully. In doing so, we are recognizing our own limitations and our need for dependence on God.

We are to worship God with our whole heart. A worship that expresses genuine praise, worship, and adoration to the Lord our God with songs of worship that is free of deceit, or any hidden agendas. Songs of worship to the Lord our God in spirit and in truth.

Guess what? “It is the Lord God who has made us, and not we ourselves.” (Ps. 100:3, MEV) The Lord is our God and we are the sheep of His pasture. There is no other God!

The last thing the psalmist commands of us is to “harden not our hearts” as the Israelites did in the desert. We are being called to recognize and exalt our God with our whole being, and to remember His benefits.

For Christians today, this text challenges us to go beyond just singing praises in church. It calls us to give God the best of what we have, which is our time, talents, and resources. Bringing an offering doesn’t necessarily mean giving material gifts; it can also mean dedicating our lives, our work, and our efforts to God’s glory.

Come let us worship the Lord, feast at His table together! Sing of His goodness!

God bless you all!

Minister Aiken

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2 Timothy 3:1-5 Is The World Transitioning For End Times

2 Tiomthy 3:15 - Know this: In the last days perilous times will come. 2 Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, slanderers, unrestrained, fierce, despisers of those who are good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Turn away from such people.

The days are evil! The world is transitioning into end times right before our eyes! When will the days of the end times appear? No one knows! One thing we do know is the fact that perilous times are indeed approaching quickly. The root cause of perilous times is ungodliness.

The signs that the Apostle Paul reminded Timothy of thousands of years ago are evident in our world today. Apostle Paul sent a clarion call to Timothy back then, and He is sounding the alarm to us believers on today. Paul told Timothy, and is telling us to pay attention, and understand the time in which we live, for the days are indeed evil.

God bless you people of God! Stay focus, keep believing, keep hope alive, and keep trusting the Lord your God!

There is a crown of life that awaits us in eternity if we do not give up and quit!

God bless you all!

Minister Aiken

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Micah 6:8 We Need Your Mercy Lord

Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Mercy is the Hebrew word “rachamim” which means to have compassion, pity, or love tenderly. 

As the people of God, the Lord our God has told us what is right and what he demands of us. These are the Lord’s instructions to those who confess Him as Lord and Savior in their lives.

(1) Act justly-To commit to doing what is morally right and fair in every circumstances, even when it is not popular.

(2) To love mercy - This implies ajoint loyalty and faithfulness to love God, which, which is demonstrated in our love towrds others.

(3) Walk humbly with our God - Walking humbly means being mindful of how we live our life before God. A call to a life of service to God, and to put God's will before your own. It involves being open to God's guidance, and recognizing that God is the source of your strength. 

This is a clarion call to Christians around the world. A call to an active faith that is lived out with actions and interactions with others and not just with words from our mouth.

People of God, now is the time to put these words into action, and live them out daily in our lives! God expect us to!

Acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with our God is our commission! No more excuses!

God bless!

Minister Aiken

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Proverbs 4:23 Guard Your hearts

Proverbs 4:23 -Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Guard our hearts! What does the word “guard’ means? The "heart" refers to our innermost being, which also includes our thoughts, emotions, desires, and motivations. Yes, our thoughts are at the center of our being. The place where our true values and beliefs resides, therefore, we must protect our thoughts from negative influences.

The heart in this text is referencing the mind. God, through His Word is warning us to guard our thoughts. Do not allow our hearts (mind) to become polluted from the thoughts of this world, but instead allow our minds to be renewed or transformed by the word of God.

 The mind of a man reflects who he or she really is. What we say and do is a reflection of what is in our heart.  What's in our mind determines our attitude, and our action in all circumstances, therefore we must be very careful about what we allow into our mind gate.

Thoughts come to our minds from every angle of life. All day long, we encounter not only our own thoughts and opinions, but those of others as well. For this and many other reason, this is why it is key that we daily study the word of God and pray for guidance as we journey through life each day.

As the people of God, we are reminded in 2 Corinthians 10:5 to cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

What we allow to process in our thoughts, be it good or evil, will manifest itself through our words and our actions.

People of God, guard your hearts with all dillgence, for out of it flows the issues of life!

God bless you all, and be encouraged!

Minister Aiken

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Acts 1:6-8 The Power To Witness This Advent Season Is Within Us

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth

The disciples questioned Jesus by asking Him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” Jesus responded with these words. “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority” (v7).

Jesus redirected the Disciples thought away from trying to figure out God’s plan, to finding their purpose and fulfilling it. The goal here is for the disciples, and us to pursue and fulfill God’s plans for our lives, which is to be God’s witness in the earth. We can’t figure God out!

God’s Holy Spirit power indwelled us at the point of salvation. In this power given to us is the fruit of the spirit, which is the character and conduct of God that is described as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

This advent season, the most powerful message we can give isn’t a testimony or sermon, but the way we live our life through the fruit of the spirit.

The world in which we live is in desperate need of witnesses of godly love for one another, and peace in our hearts, and relationships with one another.

My prayer is that these next few weeks of the advent season, our actions will be one of the fruit of the spirit that is revealed through our deeds and our actions towards one another.

People of God, we are called to be partners with Christ in ushering in the Kingdom of God on earth. We are called to be the hands and heart of Christ in this lost world.

This Advent season let our joy be a vehicle for Christ to transform us and those around us.

I leave us all with this reminder that we are Christ witnesses who are called to proclaim His first coming as Savior, and His second coming.

The greatest Gospel message this Advent season is seen in our actions of love towards one another. With love being the first action, the other fruit of the spirit will follow.

CAN I GET A WITNESS?

God Bless.

Minister Aiken

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Deuteronomy 3:18 Never Will I Leave You Nor Forsake You

Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV. The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

God makes an everlasting promise to us on today! He reminds us that He will NEVER leave nor forsake us, but instead, He will be with us through this life and all of eternity!

Never alone! Did you hear that? God is speaking to you! God is making you a promise of his everlasting presence with you! Receive this word from God on today concerning you!

There is no one in creation who can make this promise! Guess what? Our eternal God can, and He just did!

O what a promise! God’s everlating presence with us! “Emmanuel, God with us” (Is. 7:14, NIV).

When the enemy of your mind comes to torment you with his lies about God not present with you, rebuke that lying thought from your mind, in the name of Jesus, and begin to concentrate on God’s promise of His everlsting presence with you.

Not sure who this is for on today, but God is calling you to be encouraged! He is right there with you!

God bless.

Minister aiken

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Jeremiah 1:5 God Forenew Me

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[a] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Today is my 66th birthday, and I am reminded that it is the Lord my God who had predestined before the foundation of the world that I would be born this day 66 years ago. It is the Lord God alone who knows the plans He has for us.

Lord, I thank you for keeping me over the years through danger seen and unseen. I thank you Lord for keeping me in my right mind, even at times when the cares of the world made me thought I was going to loose it! Lord, I thank you for the blood of Chirst!

Thank You Lord for saving me!!! Great is your faithfulness, Lord unto me!

Thank you Jesus! I love you Lord!

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Ephesians 4:31-32 Forgiveness

Ephesians 4:31-32 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Forgiveness! What? You are asking me to forgive someone who has emotionally and psychologically abused me for years? Are you really asking me to forgive the person who violated me over and over again? You are joking right? No, absolutely not! God commands it!

I want to make sure I am hearing what you are saying, because forgiving my abuser makes no sense to me, after all the hurt and pain I endured from that person for so many years.

Without a doubt, you are hearing me correctly. God commands us to “Put aside all bitterness, losing our temper, anger, shouting, and slander, along with every other evil” (Eph 2:31, CEB).

We are commanded to remove ourselves from such behaviors. Instead, God is calling us to be a people who are kind one to another, tenderhearted, and forgiving of each other, even as He forgave us in Christ” (Eph. 2:32 ESV).

As Christians, when we learn to let go of these negative emotions that God is calling us to rid ourselves of,  not only will we be able to freely walk in newness of life, move forward in our relationship with God and others, but we will also be able to live an impactful life of experiencing God’s presence and His power in a much greater way as we minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ to others.

Let’s walk together in the love language called “forgiveness,” so that we may be witnesses for Christ. God Commands it!

May God richly bless you for you willingness to forgive those who have wrong you.

Min. Aiken

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Job 14:1 A Troubled World

Job 14:1 Job 14:1 “Man who is born of a woman  is of few days and full of trouble."

Indeed, trouble is in the land. Wars and rumors, crime, gun violence, and so many other troubles are plauging this land called earth.

I am reminded of what I use to hear the Saints of old say about trouble when I was growing up as a young girl. They would always say "if it aint one thing it's another.”

It's time to come to Jesus NOW! Today is the day of salvation. The affairs of the world is reminding us that this is the time to seek Jesus with urgency!

Job describeds the days of life as being full of trouble. Is your "SOUL" anchored in God? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Reminder: "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9:17, KJV).

Where will you spend eternity? With God or apart from Him? Where will it be?

Ponder these quesitons, and with urgency make up your mind to follow Jesus. Yes, He is calling you to a personal relationship with Him, even now as you read this post.

Jesus is our place of rest. He is "our refuge and our strength in the time of trouble" (Ps. 46:1, NIV).

Trouble seems to be everywhere, but the good new on today is that God is everywhere also. There is no place where God is not!

What are your plans for eternity?

God bless!

Minister Aiken

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