Jabez's Prayer

God bless me. Enlarge our territory! Let Your hand be upon me and deliver me from evil!

Where is our territory?
I am asking about your personal territory?
This prayer is meaningless if you are not mindful of what you pray ie where is your territory.
Start asking God and believe Him for that territory!

Miracle Catch and G12

We are thankful to the God for the experience of miracle catch. as a church, we saw 33% increase in total attendence, we saw more salvations than last MOL in december 05, etc.

But i agreed with the poem from our tribe, this is just THE BEGINNING. we need to be good parents to the new converts. we need to go beyond these new converts and continue our sacred tasks of making disciples and not counting decisions.

In fact, i am appreciating more of the call to make disciples and see every harvesting events as ways to increase the pool for discipleship. Thus, leaders and members, if you are reading this blog, return back to lead your group/people to Jesus. Send them to consolidation. Pray real hard that they encounter Jesus. Help them to grow under your care and through the LOS. Fast and lay hold of God till they become leaders/disciples in God.

Don;t waste time, we have only 5 more months to see the growth God desired to bless us. Go and make disciples!!

Life is simple. Life is complex. Life is NOT Complicated

I find myself explain this very often. Thus i decided to blog this for all my readers. Life is not complicated! This means that Life is not so intertwined that we cannot make sense or meaning out of it. Life is complex! This means that life is interrelated to other factors of life. But because Life is interrelated, it can be untangled. Let me illustrate with "body soul and spirit". Our body can influence our soul eg if you are sick, you can feel down and depressed. This can happen the other way around too. Thus, by sleeping, you can untangle depression within. While sleeping (physical) is not directly related to emotion (arena for depression), the physical dimension of our lives can bring wholeness to our emotional dimension of life. Thus, when dealing with life, make sure you are not compromising Physical, Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual dimensions of life. They are all interrelated and thus bring complexity to your life. But if you are not developing them systematically, you will be able to live life simply. it is that SIMPLE.

The necessity for reflection

Only the wise reflects!
Since reflection is not natural, the normal canal side of us would choose to flow with the events of life and not make sense out of them. We allow days to flow through our lives only to be awaken occasionally by crisis, supernatural encounters, etc.
The bible called us to live life wisely. Wisdom, as defined in scripture, refers to the art of living well under the hand of God. The Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Why? Fear of God helps us to be conscious of God regularly. Reflection, or biblical reflection, calls us to be conscious of God. Reflecting on daily moments by seeking out God's agenda and lesson for us, helps us to be conscious of God. Thus making one wise.
Fools, on the other hand, said in their own hearts there is no God. They are not stupid people. They are just people who sincerely live lives without any consciousness of God. They may even profess with their mouths that there is God but their lives are lived without such consciousness. Often it is not what we say but how we live in private that truly reflect who we are.
SO are you wise or fool? Reflect about this!

Mt K challenge

We came we saw we conquered. As a family!(italic mine)
It was indeed a faith stretching exercise for me and my tribe to attempt this challenge.
Out of the 39 of us who attempted, 34 summitted (1 summitted at the 8km mark. we counted him because he could have made it to the top if not for the closing timing)
2 sisters chose not to go, apart from some physical conditions, did so to take care of the others. Their actions spoke volume of love to us. Not forgetting Cindy and Nicole who chose to come and stayed at the Park Ranger’s office to pray for the entire team as well.

Lessons learnt;
1 The Pleasure of God was what we sought throughout the trip. We lived out our professed love for one another throughout the challenge. We did so because we wanted His pleasure to be with us. Many carried the load of others to empower them to move one more step literally.
2 The Passion of God kept us going even at the toughest moment. At the final ascend, every step was met with great physical constraint – it remembered us of Jesus on His road to Calvary hill. Ours climb is nothing compared to His.
3 The Plans of God must be what we live for! Beyond Mt K, we need to conquer the rest of mountains He has in store for all of us. Conquering Mt K is only a physical rehearsal to the actual “mountains” in our lives. We need to press on and transfer the learning; the assurances of God, the power of family love, into our daily walk within God’s plan.
4 The Power of God’s love is what we really need! We need to go beyond living out our professed love, we need to strengthen our motivation to love. I realised while we can act on LOVE to one another…but our motivation could be weak or superficial. It is easier to show love by doing something for others, but it takes another level of love to honestly loving someone in our hearts. I believe God is showing me some cracks in the family love and that I need to repent (on their behalf) and return to model genuine love (to my 12 and 144).