LIVE A LIFE THAT PLEASES GOD

Have you ever been in a position where you feel like you’re living to please someone? My answer to this question is YES. I bet you’re wondering whom I was pleasing right. Well keep reading I’ll tell you more. It got to a point in my life where my main aim in life was to please the people around me like my friends. I could go an extra mile just to make a friend happy. I quite remember back in secondary school I could lie about the things I don’t have just to fit in with some type of people I met. I used words to paint my life the colour I wanted it to be for others to see.

But by the grace of God my aim is to live a life that’s pleasing God now. Thank God for salvation. Well, I just want to encourage you to aim to please God in all that you do. I’m going to share with you some ways in which you can please God. The Bible says in Hebrews 11:6 that, “And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.” (NLT)

What this verse is saying is that in other to please God you must have faith and believe he exists. What is faith then? Faith simply means having belief and confidence in someone or something based on spiritual conviction rather than proof. So instead of lying and doing certain things to please humans who will disappoint you have faith in God and that will please him.

Another way of pleasing God is by doing his will. This is confirmed in Hebrews 13:20-21 which states that, “Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.” (NRSV)

A powerful man of God once said that, “The will of God is so mysterious that we will never understand it” Trying to understand a mystery will just take an individual round in circles because we can never understand it. However when you pray, you have to find time and pray for the will of God to be done in your life because praying for the will of God covers our past, present and future.

You can also please God by fearing him. If you fear someone you obey their words and treat them in such a way that they never get angry with you. Psalms 147:11 says that “The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.” (KJV) The verse above is saying that God will be pleased with you if you  have a reverential awe of him and honour him.

Offering God the sacrifices he deserves is another way of pleasing. In other words God is pleased and he appreciates it when we give him sacrifices of praise as his word says that we should bless him with our soul and everything within us. God is pleased if we appreciate him for whom he is and offer him sacrifices accordingly. Hebrews 13:15-16 says that “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” (KJV)

Dear reader if your aim is just to please your friends and the people around you then I’ll suggest you change your style. Aim to live a life that is pleasing to God by having faith in him, doing his will, giving him the sacrifice he deserves and by fearing and obeying him. Let pleasing God become the highest priority in your life/

Stay blessed and remember to share to encourage or bless someone

~ Louisahazel

THINGS THAT FINISHED ON THE CROSS WHEN JESUS DIED

Happy easter everyone,
Hope you're all having  a great Easter. It takes love for God to send his only son to die for our sins. Well today's post was inspired by the messages Preached by Bishop Richarcd Aryee and Rev Steve during my church's  easter convention. It really blessed me thats why i'm sharing it with you guys.

Easter is a fantastic time where great things happened. Through easter we learn about the greater love of God. God sent his son to die for us so that we may have access to him freely.

John 19:30 says that
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." (ESV)

There are a lot of things that finished on the cross when Jesus died. I'm going to share 4 of these things with you all.

4 THINGS THAT FINISHED ON THE CROSS WHEN JESUS DIED

1. Bondage and slavery to sin
Bondage and slavery of sin finished on the cross when Jesus said 'it is finished'.
If Jesus didn't die satan would have still rule our lives. Sin puts us in bondage and sin leads to death, but by grace we are saved from the wages and punishment of our sins as Jesus paid our debts on the cross
Romans 6:6 confirms this and it says that,
"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." (KJV)

Christ died on the Cross that we will never live in sin. Sin robs us from our destiny in Christ Jesus.
Sin creates a distance between ourselves and God. People tend to run away from God when they sin.
If Christ didn't die on the cross this world would have been worser than it is now.
Hebrews 9:22

2. Diseases and sickness ended with Christ on the cross
God bore our infirmities and diseases that we will never suffer from there anymore.

1 Peter 2:24 says that
"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed" (ESV)

By his stripes you are healed. If you dont believe in this verse it will never work for you.
We have to have faith in order to be able to name, claim  and take what we believe in.

  3. Disgrace ended on the Cross
Disgrace ended on the cross. The devil's intention is to steal our joy and disgrace us.
The bible says we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
God sent his son to die for us so that we may have access to God freely.

     4. Weaknesses finished on the Cross
We are natuarally weak people but Christ died on the cross to that we will be strenghened
in our weaknesess.

2 Corinthians 12:9 says that, "But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (ESV)

We should remember that Easter is not about the eggs and chickens and hot cross burns but rather it is very significant as it helps to remember the big sacrifice Jesus made for mankind.

Have a blessed Easter and Keep loving God because he loved you before even before we were born.

Remember to share as an Easter present for someone.

~Louisahazel