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My life is my life and I will not trade it for anything except Christ, even saying that I still ask for strength on a daily basis to live by it. Life itself is a roller coaster with fluctuating emotions such as pain, agony, victory, defeat, so on and so forth. However, I believe it is the uncertain situations in life that shape us into the individuals we are today and are to become. Basically, what I am trying to say is, your past can shape and influence the future in a major way. My real name in translation means “Born in Wealth.” I was born in Lagos, Nigeria in the year of the Dragon and as far as I can remember, it’s been a bumpy ride. Growing up in Nigeria was intense and a bit tedious, for lack of better words. It is a “No padi for jungle” time zone, with the motto of “Shine your eye,” which pretty much adds up to "every man for himself." It is a place where everyone wants to go to heaven, however, no one wants to die to get there. Growing up as a child, I learned a lot through folktales and such. I remember sitting by the burning firewood at night listening to my grandmother's stories of enlightenment. These stories had morals that shaped my thinking and mentality today.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

THE HELPER



1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know." 5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." 8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us." 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. 12 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. 19 "A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
What are the benefits of knowing & believing in Jesus?
John 14

·         You will know God Vs7
·         He will intercede on your behalf Vs16
·         He will prepare a place for you in heaven Vs2
·         You will get to the father through him Vs6
·         He who has seen Me (Jesus) has seen the Father Vs8
·         He will give you another Helper (The spirit of truth) Vs16
·         whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son Vs13
·         He will not leave you orphans Vs18
·         He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Vs21
·         You will believe in God The father Vs11
·         Greater works than these You will do Vs12
·         You will live Vs 19
·         You will be loved by God Vs21
·         You will understand Jesus is The Helper Vs16
·         where I go you know, and the way you know VS4
·         Eternal life John3:16
·         The words that you speak should not be of your own authority; but the Father who dwells in You  does the works Vs10 (We must be directed by the holy spirit at all time)
Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart.
James 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
How do you show God you love him?

Vs24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.
·         Keeping his commandment Vs 21

Ø  Being obedient & bearing fruit as disciples ( John 15:8) By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples
John 13:35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Ø  Listening to the voice of the Good shepherd (John 10:14) I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own
Ø  Taking heed to his warnings (Mark 13:23) But take heed; see, I have told you all things beforehand
Ø  Diligently seeking him
Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
(i)     Knowing the Word is knowing God (John 1:1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

·         The great commandment

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your (entire) mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
1 Corinthians 13: 1-8 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away

TO GOD BE THE GLORY
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