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Today’s Message:Choose Life and Blessing

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TODAY’S SCRIPTURE

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”

(Deuteronomy 30:19, NKJV)

TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria

Did you know that with your words you can either bless your future or curse your future? Your words have creative power. If you want to know what your life is going to be like five years from now, just listen to what you’re saying about yourself today!

Too many people go around saying, “I’ll never get well.” “I’ll never get out of debt.” “It’s flu season. I’ll probably get it.” “This marriage is never going to last.” Then they wonder why they don’t see things turn around. It’s because they’re calling defeat into their future. They’re calling in mediocrity. Don’t let that be you! When you get up in the morning, no matter how you feel, no matter what things look like, instead of using your words to describe your situation, use your words to change your situation.

Make a declaration of faith by saying, “This is going to be a great day. I have God’s favor. He’s directing my steps.” When you do that, you are choosing life and blessing. You are calling in favor, increase and opportunities, and you will move forward in the life of blessing He has for you!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father, I commit my words to You today. I choose to speak good things over my life and bless my future. Keep me close to You and use me for Your glory in Jesus’ name. Amen.

— Joel & Victoria Osteen

42 COMMENTS

    • in my Quest to free my people from some of the lies propagated by religion. i will respond everytime on message for the day with proof of lies found in the bible. Todays proof.
      Genesis teaches us, that God created the plants on the third day and the sun on the fourth day. then how did the plants survive for a thousand years without sunlight? If the days were long epochs or thousand year periods, as demanded by critics of a literal Creation Week, plants could not survive.

    • I was once a Christian. I believed. I prayed. There was a time when garbage such as “Muzungu jesus potrait” wouldn’t have bothered me in the least.

      I am fortunate that I had the intellect necessary to figure out what a depraved falsehood Christianity is, and that I stumbled across a wealth of evidence that could lead to no other logical conclusion. If only everyone could be so lucky. Whether or not the world would be a better place I cannot say, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.

    • @Sage Please keep your atheism to yourself! I was and I am not engaging in debate with anyone. Was simply doing my duty of praying to my God. I am devout catholic am I have no intention of exchanging that with anything. Cheers!!!

    • @Quest
      If you don’t want to engage him/her in a debate then why call him an atheist….this is why will have religious wars as we have closed minded indoctrinated people like yourselves who believe their religion is greater than the next man’s.
      For your information an Afrikan can not be an atheist, its not just in our make up as we are a spiritual people this is far greater than the man made religions your worship blindly and this also is 100% incompatible with religions.
      All I ask of you is simply to dedicate this week to researching about the origins of Christianity in relation to early Afrikan Egypt.

    • Sage i feel your pain my brother. If only our brothers and sister can just get themselves beyond the point of just following and maybe once in a while stop to think and hopefully ask why to some of the doctrines in christianity,islam and their religious books like bible,torah,koran etc.maybe we can ge there with freeing our people from the enslavement via christianity here in zambia especially.
      Jay jay, your response to our brother/sister is perfect.i couldnt have written any better than this.
      In trying to help our people,i have startd to write proofs of falsehoods in the bible. maybe this can get them to question and ask why and seek more knowledge.i ask that maybe jay jay and you sage can contribute.we can start with the book that they trust,the bible and work further to other books

    • Call me closed minded indoctrinated. I don’t mind. Go on with whatever you believe )or don’t believe in), Islam, buddha, atheism, satanism, boko haram ideology etc. I believe I am free Man, free to make my choices!! I DO NOT NEED Sage’s or Jay Jay’s permission or approval to say my prayers to my God!

    • @Quest
      How can you honestly call yourself free when you can even think for yourself…in other words how can you worship to a slave master’s religion like Christianity or Islam and call yourself free.
      Its an insult to your ancestors, take some time off and research about self.

    • why do you have to believe when there is proof for you to know. Do you want to believe or do you want to know? Even your bible tells you that to know is the ultimate goal and not belief. it tells you that when you meet your jesus then you shall know all truth. but what the brothers here are telling you are truths that you can know now and make adequate changes in your life.How can you know what free is when you have never tasted freedom.True Freedom is practice of a peoples culture and influence in all situations,circumstances and at all times. If you cant practice this, then you aint free brother.you just have a perception of freedom as given to you by your captor.Pray to the god you believe in, but as jay jay implored you earlier,just take time to read some history on ancient egypt

    • I am NOT stopping you to worship your ancestors or ancient egyptian gods or (I am not stopping anyone from smoking ganja in Chibolya in the name of a religion (my due respect to Marcus Garvey and Haile selassie). We now have white, yellow pink rastafarians, christian converting to Judaism Islam etc and vice versa. Do whatever you want bros BUT please dont bother me. I am a devout Roman catholic. I HAVE FOUND PEACE! What is your problem? I have reflected those questions you are trying to pose to me in my youthful days. Roman Emperor costantine who took over an empire that worshiped several gods and for political expediency should have carried on with business as usual & Paul who persecuted christians are my inspirations! You are free to choose egyptian gods, ancestors, leshina etc

    • Oh dear you know nothing about the evil Roman Emperor Costantine or the history of Catholicism. Its just ironic you laugh at your ancestors praying to different ancient gods when your pope prays to black Madonnas but when you go to African churches they have put White Madonnas in them have you ever wondered why? You have no idea where the selfsame religion was stolen from….it really painful that our people have been lied to in such a manner. They do not know how powerful their ancestors were.
      Research more with an open mind!!

    • Since you are a devout Roman catholic as you say, you go and ask your priest or bishop about the black madonnas? Ask about their origins? I would love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

    • I am alive that to the fact that the catholic church & its brethren is NOT without sin. But we have learnt our lessons. The black madonna u are writing about is nothing compared to the sins that we as catholics committed during the Spanish inquisition (or as Conquistadors in latin america) in the belief that that killing and torturing those who did not agree with the church (and its political role then deserved death). Practices that I see so prevelant in today’s faiths. And yet I believe my God is FORGIVING to all those that REPENT. My belief in in the Christian God & Catholicism is not an accident, fashion nor misinformation. I am well read on the subject & I am equally fully aware of our imperfections as Catholics (like all of of humanity). May you see the divine light!…

    • Quest-when jay jay talks about the black madonnas the roman popes worship, he does not imply that they were evil or anything, but rather trying to show you how powerful and revereed our ancestors were. He is trying to tell you that, you worship white statues,idols of jesus, maria when your highest vicar of christ is busy worshiping a black madonna in the vatican somewhere. Now the question he was hoping would click in your mind is, why would a pope worship a black virgin and not a white one which they have planted in all churches in africa? There is some history to be learnt here. I know quest, you are a bit rusty in your history and again i implore you to go back and revise them books,this time not just for passing exams but to know the real truth about your powerful ancestors.

    • Who cheated u that the pope worships black madonna? Utter misinformation/gibberish, conspiracy theories. You are probably reading too much fiction from Dan Brown or the like. Continue with your ancestral worship anyway!

    • Jay jay and Zagaze: I can only assume that you are cursed though I hope not! Little wonder on the desperation and disquiet with people that don’t agree with you! Wasting so much time 24/7 on LT to find someone to agree with you. If you are so confident and happy with your path why go to such extents? You should be happy and not give a heck about me!!!! I ASPIRE TO WALK IN THE WAYS OF MY LORD AND MAY HIS DIVINE LIGHT , PROVIDENCE & PROTECTION BE UPON MY HOUSEHOLD AND I. PRAISE BE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AMEN.

    • Quest, do you even know what amen really means or where it comes from? My brother do some research for your own good. if you dont know where to start, ask and we shall help you. we love you as a brother and only want to help you see. what you decide after seeing and knowing the truth is your own choice. but i as an afrian will strive to free my people from the lies of christianity because you are my brothers and sisters. what you do after is your choice. you can only take a donkey to the river but cant force it to drink from it.

  1. I am poor, after giving everything to “god” for five years, so I’ll grant you that descriptive term, and I was misinformed, too. I was misinformed that the Bible is true. I was misinformed that there was a “living god” who I could have a “personal relationship” with.

  2. I opened the mind I have today
    And I stopped Praying when I saw it was just the same
    It got me thinking what is up above
    Its your God and its not the God of mine
    The Problem of Suffering, yeah
    The Problem of Competence
    Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind
    Yet the brain is of the devil,
    and its requests denied
    Its need for nourishment is not from communion
    But from the words of Jefferson, Spinoza, and not men of faith
    This is a cry to all
    Think about the harm
    The young ones trapped in chains
    Walking on eggshells
    Poisoning the Brain
    All you need is faith but is not true that what you can’t know can harm you
    Faith the chain of the mind
    The shunt to progress
    The poor give hardily
    The Rich Prosper
    Churches grow grander
    The Poor grow hungrier
    All to…

  3. “Choose Life and Blessing”
    Sounds like a fitting mantra Sata’s family and other bloodsucking vampires should be chanting every day instead of pushing him to remain president. Sata is choosing death and curses by not letting go of a job that’s too strenuous for his feeble strength.

  4. you can always tell yourself that the Lord works in mysterious ways. Think about it; if god created human intelligence but doesn’t want us to use it to confirm his existence, then that is mysterious isn’t it? Case closed!

    …the conundrum of Faith itself. How can you have Faith without reason? As if God just tossed us all into this world saying, “Alright, I have a plan for you and mankind, etc. You won’t ever really know what my plan is, but it’s for the best and ultimately all for My Glory, ok? According to my ‘Word.” If God exists and the Bible is true then I believe God is insane. What a burden of nonsense.

    • Nice, very nice. its nice to know we are not alone out there. the challenge is to wake everyone up from this slumber especially our brothers and sisters in zambia.

  5. I knew that Satanists hiding behind atheism would soon start attacking this sight. I would rather live like there is God then discover that there is none than living like there is no God, then discover there is….coz it will be too late! Why can’t you keep your mouths frozen shut on things you claim don’t affect you? You are feeling the heat…you know that KING JESUS is ruling….Advice: Repent and be baptised…all of you…in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ, who reigns forever and ever!!!

    • Calling people names does not make you a good “christian”, you are merely exposing your ignorance…you are either like most of our brothers and sisters a blind worshiper unable to think on your own or only have the bible to refer to, which in itself is an anti African, sexist book ever written.
      Ask yourself who taught you this religion and where it came from?
      Stop perpetuating this lie about this fictitious character of JESUS CHRIST…Meryamun, Setepenre, Soter are words that were used to create the fictitious character in AD by Roman Emperor Constantine (Meryamun, Setepenre, Soter were used in B.C). The images of Ptolemy which are similar to the images that are depicted as “Jesus” today, were forced upon the Africans and were ordered to be worshiped by the people of Rome.

    • And the evidence that christianity is false is even in the words we use.Just reading a bit of history will reveal this.you wrote about Soter,who was the first of the ptolemaic rulers of egypt who was put on the throne by alexander the barbarian after his invasion of egypt in 322B.C.Now to gain acceptance amongst the rich egyptian culture and system they started to claim divine right to rule as did the pharaohs pre ptolemaic era. And thats were some of the compiled traits of a later christ came from.Soter forced himself on the people as a saviour. Infact in theology they have a field of study called soteriology-study of the doctrine of salvation.The root word is Soter.And his decree was:adore me as a god son to receive favor just like jesus asks today.people dont u see similarities here

  6. Psalm 14:1

    The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

  7. ZAGAZE
    which version of the bible did you read, where God created plants first then light later? Some of you are really confusionists.

    • Genesis 1:9-13 :- creation of the all plant life. this is the third day of creation.
      Genesis 1:14-19 :- creation of the firmament, that is the stars, sun and moon. this is the fourth day of creation.
      And i know what you will write next, but lets see how far you can drag this.

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