TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
“This is my command — be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
(Joshua 1:9, NLT)
TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria
Did you know that fear works just like faith but in the opposite direction? Faith opens the door for God to work in our lives; fear opens the door for the enemy to work in our lives.
The Bible says that fear has torment. Fear has no mercy. If you act on fear instead of acting on faith, it will keep you depressed, miserable and lonely. So many people today are missing out on God’s joy, peace and victory because they keep giving in to fear. They feed fear by what they watch on TV or at the movies. They worry and dwell on all the bad things. Don’t let that be you! Romans tells us that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. The more you fill your heart and mind with God’s Word, the stronger you will be so you can stand against the powers of darkness.
Remember, the power that is in you is greater than the power of fear. When thoughts come that say, “You’re not able,” choose faith by saying, “I can do all things through Christ!” Choose faith today so you can overcome fear and live in the freedom and victory God has in store for you!
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father, I receive Your Word today which is life, health and strength to me. I choose to close the door on fear by guarding what I say, what I listen to and what I dwell on. Fill me with Your love and faith as I meditate on Your Word in Jesus’ name. Amen.
— Joel & Victoria Osteen
Surely, the word of God is life. To God be the glory great things He has done. AMEN
Amen. Lord Jesus help me not to give in to fear.
Do you even know the true meaning of the word “AMEN” and where it was derived from?
just came here to read jay jay the atheist comments.
Why should you believe when you have the chance to know. for 8 weeks consecutively i showed you from your own bible the lies and deceptions there but you still cling on. The character Morpheus in the matrix was right; when he said the older mind always have problems letting go even if you give him proof and good reasons why he/she should let go. the old adage goes; you cant teach an old horse new tricks. Most people will continue believing in the bible as true historical events. but why believe when you can know. its not even a historical fact that the israelites were ever in egypt and that they were slaves. no one can prove this,but yet christians believe and even vilify the egyptians forgetting that the old egypt,not arabs is actually their ancestors.
Read people and know!!!
Praise be to the Almighty for he is God
Once you come to understand that GOD and RELIGION are two different things, your view of the world will surely begin to CHANGE.
I think fear is responsible for bringing about religion and for Man to create God in their minds. Without fear religion and Gods would disappear
Some people never cease to amaze me.Even on real issues of life like Christianity they want 2 bring politics.
God is good, is faithful and never fickle. Those of faith are blessed for He chose us. We should pray for people like Jay Jay. Everyone can see his words are those of a dead person.
@Austin2021
There is nothing real about Christianity…in fact its the biggest fraud in human history…black people should be last people who should be embracing these religions ie Christianity or Islam.
If God accepts ONLY those who accept him HOW does that make him better than us?
Matthew 5:46-48 Read between the lines in what the creators of the scriptures were trying to put across.
@Patriot Abroad
The more you know, the more you realise you don’t know!!
@Austin 2021-its not politics, infact you should count yourselves as lucky to have a brother like Jay Jay who truly cares for you by telling you these truths. I wonder whether you actually do the little research of things he asks e.g what does amen mean and where did it come from. it just takes a minute to type in google search and then take it from there. you dont lose nothing by reading.
I get it that we are a spiritual people, but why do we cling on to foreign religions that are specially designed for the originators and not us, no wonder their gods answer their prayers and never ours.They bless their lands and yet we the most believing people wallow in poverty why is this so?Religions is opium for the masses,it makes you docile and easy to manipulate. thats why they gave it to you
What God deserves worship who would “bless” a violent, soul-destroying act with an unwanted living reminder?
If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today, according to an African Proverb….the only way we as Africans are going to be free is if we free ourselves from the slavery of religion.
Religion is a means to self destruction for a people or culture, history is riddled with examples…do you think if the Chinese or the Japanese gave in to religion they would be great nations.
Wake up people!!
@ JayJay,
Sometimes it’s important 2 keep quiet on matters you have no passion of than 2 play hero. Whether you like it or not Christianity is real and am not ashamed of it coz i’ve been one for the past 30 years.Anyway for people like you will only face reality on your deathbeds unless you become born again.The rest i leave it to the creator to review himself to you through Jesus Christ lest i judge you.
So what happened to our ancestors who were not converted to Christianity before the missionaries came to Africa?
This is what religion does to you even intelligent individuals like yourselves are unable to think…it thinks for you.
Don’t you know that even Adolf Hilter was also a devout christian.
austin 2021-you are the one on a death bed, because you wallow in lies and deception. You are in darkness which you believe is reality. Your Jesus in one of his last commands according to you bible, tells you that he did not come for you but for his own people the so called Israelis.he told his deiciples go ye not into the lands of the gentiles which is you and me according to your bible but yet you still cling on because you comfort yourself with the verse preach th gospel to all four corners of the globe when infact he meant israel. He calls you dogs,worse than a servant and yet you keep saying jesus,jesus.How can a merciful person burn you in sulphur and brimestone for eternity because you didnt believe in him.thats a savage god,why cant he just destroy you once and for all,finish!!
If only UPND cadres could follow such teachings
@Zagaze & Jayjay,
My humble prayer to God is that He may open the eyes of your hearts and remove the veil that i perceive has darkened your hearts.Our constitution guarantees freedom of worship and if you feel Christianity is nothing to you, hard luck.Remember what Charles Darwin said on his death bed after misleading a lot of people through his theory of evolution,another food for thought.
@Austin2021
Do you honestly think Darwin would have carried out his research if he was a devout christian and objections he encountered from the church at that particular point.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin was published posthumously and quotes about Christianity were omitted by his family because they were deemed dangerous for his reputation.
Here is one below;
[ I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.]
@JayJay & Zagaze,
I wish we could take this debate to another level if you like away from this medium.
Which medium? Please elaborate?
I will go the extra mile for you my brother in the quest to free your mind from the poison of religion. i will meet you all the way if necessary just to unplug you from the world that has been pulled right up in your face, the world that teaches you that salvation is through some being called christ. I love you brother and i will ask and pray our ancestors that they guide you to the spirituality of the african mind. then and only then will you be free.
Jay Jay and Zagaze do not cease to amaze me! They use English, a european language, to communicate; They are comfortable with the use of western technology; they wear clothes that are foreign made; they sleep under blankets, bed sheets and on a mattress that are not african made; they boast to be highly educated with a european education; they drive in european made cars but reject christianity because it is not african. What nonsense! What hypocrisy! To me it is clear that they suffer from serious inferiority complex.
Its this mental slavery Bob Marley was talking about…Its this type of mindset that is taking us nowhere and the type of mindset the powers that be tried to use to corrupt Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara but lamentably failed in the end assassinated them….both these men were exposed to western education and military training in the case of Sankara so you expected him to embrace everything?
Please wake up and study more about self…the internet is awash with knowlege…i urge you to go to YouTube; search and watch for the preachings of our brother Dr Ray Higgins, he used to be a Pastor and used to have his own christian church until he saw the light and was awaken.
You will relies that all this rubbish you go to on Sundays is beneath you as you are a far greater people than the…
Jay Jay, I can see you are a troubled soul. It appears at one time you were a “kin church goer” who later got disappointed because certain anticipation failed to materialise in line with the “teaching”. You may be a seed in one of Jesus’s parables.
Do not think that you are the only one who read the eternet materials or watch the youtube materials. We also do so. In addition we have also read many books that are critical of the word of God. Reading such materials with an open and critical mind has helped to strengthen our faith in God. I can see that you know very little about Lumumba like many others do. In our country a tribalist has been made a hero. Bob Marley was frustrated drug addict.
You forget that, clothes were not invented by europeans, if you have studied your history well, you will see that the african culture is diverse.before any white man ever stepped on the land of african, our people wore clothes(check pyramid hieroglyphs), in some areas they wore animal skin and others made covering just enough for their privates etc. do you think those of our people who wore animal skin would have continued to wear skin up to eternity without white intervention?i wear clothes cause i copy it from my fellow africans like the nubians,berbers and ancient egyptians(not arabs).So its not hypocrisy.You forget,that a lot of the inventions that the west enjoys were done by black people. lewis latimore created an improved carbon filament light bulb.i know who i am!!!
You raised three or more points. i can handle all of them, i believe i have tackled the issues of clothes, and partially innovations. let me tackle education for a while. first thing you should know is education is not math,science,history as given to you by your white masters. The twa, basarwa or saan people are educated in the skills of survival in hostile environments like the namib desert. they can tell where to find water, how to track an animal etc which you with your education can not do. so education is also relative to place and time. if you should know one of the first universities in europe were built by the africans in particular spain at a place called salamanca. then you wonder why the spanish have such a love for the word morena which means black. there is more but read!
@zagaze
Please enlighten these people…I think they do not completelyunderstand it when we tell them they are a great people son and daughters of kings and queens; Christianity is beneath them…its of no benefit to them. We Africans were in the forefront in research, medicine, commence and astronomy when the Europeans were in caves the writings are still there in books at Timbuktu….if you tell these people that giving birth by caesarean was normal in Uganda and was being successfully practiced even before the Europeans knew about it. it was the place where “abdominal section” was practiced with the hope of saving both mother and child.
This is why we always tell people to read more about self…so they can enlighten their children who are they most important people to our culture.
Tell them jay jay. These brothers and sisters of ours have forgotten who they really are.
I rest my case.
@Jayjay,
If u dont mind we can use facebook so that we can have enough time to chat because issues of faith are too personal.What do u think? We can still pierce the veil of anonymity and get 2 know each other.
@Austin2021
How the subject of Christianity and religion be too personal when our people are being brainwashed everyday? I don’t think you understand what blogging is all about.
I can’t believe such people like jay jay & zagaze exist. May the Lord have mercy on you & open your eyes so that you may see the power of his might.
Dear Lord could you let your light shine upon those that are still in the dark so that they may believe that Jesus is Lord & get to know the power of you word,Amen….
You can’t believe it because you are too indoctrinated to know otherwise…you know nothing beyond the Bible.
Interesting reads from Jay Jay and Zagaze. Unbeknown to most Zambian believers, our constitution allows change thus loss of belief and promotes conscience, opinion over faith.
GODS WAYS ARE NOT HUMAN’S WAYS!!! GODS THOUGHTS ARE NOT HUMAN TOUGHTS!!! All you humans thinking you are logical and intelligent are fools, period!!!
The Bible is more powerful than the USA,UK,UN armies…. to mention but a few.
Faith stands for:
F- Forsaking
A-All
I-I
T-Trust
H-Him (Jesus)
Yes, it is good to choose faith over fear. Good message ba LT.