WHAT IF

Do you ever think about certain things and then ponder on it more to ask yourself a simple question like what if? Well there are lot of questions that comes to our minds day in and day out but the only problem is we never really find answers for them.
Now take time and ask yourself these questions

What if, GOD couldn't take the time to bless us today because we couldn't take the time to thank Him yesterday?

What if GOD decided to stop leading us tomorrow because we didn't follow Him today?

What if, we never saw another flower bloom because we grumbled when GOD sent the Rain?

What if GOD didn't walk with us today because we failed to recognize it as His day?

What if, GOD took away the BIBLE tomorrow because we would not read it today?

What if, GOD took away His message because we failed to listen to the messenger?

What if, the door of the CHURCH was closed because we did not open the door of our heart?

What if, GOD stopped loving and caring for us because we failed to love and care for others?

What if, GOD would not hear us today because we would not listen to Him?

What if, GOD answered our prayers the way we answer His calls.

What if, GOD met our needs the way we give Him our lives???

What if, we make we become great examples for non-believers to follow????
I’m sure there would be a lot of saved Christians around if we take it upon ourselves to become good examples to our friends, family and the people we live with. As Christians we should aim to be soul winners because the bible says in Luke 15:10 that “I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.”(NKJV)

Imagine what the atmosphere in heaven would be like if more than one soul repents.

The bible says in Matthew 5:16 that “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven”(NKJV)
WE can let our light so shine in this world by standing out and doing the will of God rather than the things the world classifies as normal. For instance when your friends are listening to secular music you can choose to listen to gospel music. When you see people posting a whole lot of unnecessary stuffs on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks you can choose share the word of God or other inspiring materials.

The last question is what if you gave God your all and seek his face always?

Some days our thoughts are a mangled mess and concentration is just impossible. On such days we need A Moment of Inspiration to keep us moving on. A way to figure out what is irritating, depressing and worrying us. Today’s blog serves as broom for my brain and hopefully for you. Since I hope you were inspired and encouraged.
Have a lovely week ahead and remember to let your light so shine.

~Louisahazel

TRUST IN THE LORD

Happy Saturday to all my wonderful readers and followers,
Hope you all had a blessed and fruitful week
Today’s post is about Trusting God.

The bible says in Proverbs 3:5-6 that "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct[a] your paths." (NKJV)
This verse is saying that we should genuinely have a firm believe in God with all our hearts and that we have to trust God completely and believe that he has the ability and power over everything in our lives.


What does it mean to lean on your own understanding?
To lean on your own understanding means to believe strongly that your perception and judgement about a certain situation is the best and final. However the verse is saying, ‘Do not lean on your own understanding,’ in other words we have to start leaning on God's understanding. We can do this by submitting to him and also by accepting that he alone is the superior force and highest authority that has ever existed.
Leaning on our own understanding will just lead us on the wrong path. In fact God’s understanding is life and our understanding is death.

The bible says in Proverbs 14:12 that "There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death” So if we continue to lean on our own understanding we will end up on a very wrong path but acknowledging God in all our ways and submitting to him will give us the opportunity to end up on the right path.

I understand that it is very easy to think that trusting in God wouldn’t make some situations better in your life. But it is said in the bible that the Egyptians you see today you’ll see them no more (Exodus 14:13). Just believing in God and trusting him to sort out your issues will attract God’s favour.

My church (Lighthouse Chapel International) recently had a homecoming convention and Bishop Dag Heward-Mills said something that really stood out to me. He said "Sometimes you don't have to understand before you believe, Just believe and trust in God" This s very true because it could take you forever to understand the will of God for your life but just trusting and believing in God will help you to overcome a lot of troubles.

To my dear readers,
Do you always trust your own instincts?
Are you having problems in trusting God?
Do you ever feel that you can do all things without the help of God?

Then I believe this is for you. Pray for the Holy Spirit to help you recognise that you’re nothing without God and that trusting in him will make your entire path straight.

One more thing to encourage you is that, it is written in God's word  that there is nothing impossible for God. So whatever situation you might be going through God has an answer for you. Keep believing and trusting God.

Have a blessed week ahead and remember to share with others the love of God.

~Louisahazel

THE GREATER LOVE OF GOD

Happy Valentine's day to all my dedicated readers and followers.
Trust you're all doing great and you all had a fruitful week.
I believe it's a good time to share about the greater love God. The bible states in John 3:16 that  "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (NIV)  
                                                     

In fact words cannot describe the love of God. Let me ask a quick question will you ever offer your only child because of the love you have for the world? I guess not. Well my answer to that question is a BIG NO, but guess what? God gave up his only son (Jesus Christ) to come to this evil world and die on the cross to save you and I from our sins. Yet after all this we're sinning. Wow we serve a merciful and loving God.

God's love is an everlasting love. The word everlasting means long lasting or eternal love. The greater love of God is till eternity that's why God never gives up on us. This is confirmed in Jeremiah 31:3 which states that  "The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."     
                                   
God loves us dearly and unconditionally and it's fair to say that the greater love  of God is deeper, genuine and more affectionate than the love we receive from our family,friends or even our spouses. In other words the love of this world do not compare to the love of God at all.

Sometimes we ask ourselves if God really love us then why are all these bad things happening in this world? But then we forget that the scriptures said that during the end time all these things will happen.

                       

The bible says in 2 Timothy 3:1-3 that "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,  without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good." (NIV)

2 Timothy 3 talks about  some of the things that will happen in the end days. So the fact that they 're happening doesn't' mean that God has stopped loving us.       
             
Mostly we see mothers as very loving, caring and passionate. Don't get me wrong mothers are very loving but it'll surprise you if i say the love of God is greater than the love a mother has for her children.This is even confirmed in Isaiah 49:15 which states that "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." (KJV)

It is true that some mothers do forget their children. Indeed the love of a mother is a great thing to behold  but it cannot be compare with the greater love of God at all.

May a day like this filled with love remind us all of the greater love of God always and may we appreciate it as the greatest gift ever given to mankind. Keep loving God and enjoy the  sufficient grace of God.

Have a blessed week ahead. Remember to share and leave comments. Thanks for reading.

~Louisahazel

WHY IT IS A GREAT THING TO SERVE THE LORD

Happy new month lovely people, apologies for posting this weekend's blog late.

Hope your January was fruitful and you enjoyed the first month of the year. God has made it possible for you to see the second month of the year. We serve a Wonderful and an Amazing God. For the past two weeks I have been blogging about “Serving God” and i hope that it has helped you to figure out whom you’re really serving. Well today’s blog is to remind you about your benefits of being a servant for God.

This title was inspired by a message preached by my pastor, Bishop Richard Aryee earlier this year.

Most of us think that when we serve God we’re doing him or our church leaders a favour. I’m sorry if that’s what you think, then I must say you’re very wrong. Serving God will rather benefit you and not your pastor. This is because serving God opens doors for you and helps you to receive favour and blessings from God. The funny thing is if you don’t serve God someone else will but who’ll be losing out here? I guess you figured out the answer for that question.

Well let me share with you three reasons why I believe it is great thing to serve the Lord.

It is indeed a great thing to serve the Lord because

• Serving God helps us to draw nearer to God 

When you serve God it gives you the opportunity to draw closer and nearer to him. Just like the servants on this earth draw close to their masters so will a servant of God be ear him.

The scriptures says in Psalms 73:27-28 that “those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you. But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.” (NIV)

From the verses above you’ll realise that if you serve God faithfully you get the opportunity to get closer rather than far so that you will not perish.

•  If you’re not a servant of God then you’ll be a servant of ungodliness and sin

The truth of the matter is it’s either you’re for God or against God. In other words it’s either you’re serving God in an acceptable way or you’re just serving ungodliness and sin. The bible says that God is a Jealous God. So you can’t serve anything else alongside him. You have to choose between God and ungodliness. It is a privilege to be God’s servant because if you don’t serve him wholehearted you’ll serving the evil things of this world.

There you have it; Matthew 6:24 says that, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” (NIV)

•  He will deliver you in times of trouble and crises 

It is a great thing to serve the lord because when you serve him faithfully he’ll will  protect and deliver you in times of trouble. This can be confirmed in Psalms 121:7 which says that "The Lord will keep you from all harm, he will watch over your life." (NIV)

Be rest assured that you’ll never serve the Lord in vain. Thanks for reading and have a fruitful week ahead.

~Louisahazel

JUST GO

Hello my dear readers and followers, I hope you had a great week. How well were you able to serve God throughout the week? Well, guess what you have from today to start serving God if you so wish to. The blog for this week is also related to serving God.

Matthew 28:19 says that “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (NIV)

Go because ‘Go’ is the first word of the Great Commission. The great commision is a command so we have to honour God by obeying his words. I know I’ve shared on ‘Making Disciples’ before but I still feel the need to share on this topic again because most of us lack boldness when it comes to going to tell people about God. 

Going out of your way to tell someone about Jesus is a very bold step as sometimes you don’t know what to expect. However, you never know who you might be saving from hell. Using myself as an example. I have been in church all my life but I was still living in sin. When I moved to London for higher education, I had plans to have fun and church wasn’t part of the picture till I met two beautiful ladies called Tracey and Cloudia. They invited me First love Church, London . And here I am blogging about the Word of God and loving God like never before. Glory be to God I'm still in church and it is a great thing to be saved.

The truth is, if they didn’t go out of their way to invite me I don’t know where I would have been by now. But my life has been changed through one church invite.The question is, ‘why keep quiet if we you can talk?’ OR ‘why sit at one place when you can go and win souls for God?’ Trust me when I say we all need to GO because there are a lot of people out there who don’t know who Jesus is. They will only know about Jesus if we're kind enough to share with them that Jesus is the Son of God and the Saviour of the world.

I'm sure a lot of people who stay in church stay because they were invited by somebody. It doesn’t take a lot to go on outreach. Let me emphasise on this point again. Going on outreach won’t change your name, your identity, your body parts or even your phone number. I understand that some of us are very shy when it comes to speaking with total strangers about God. That is why we have to pray for Boldness and the guidance of the Holy Spirit anytime we go on outreach.

The Bible says in Matthew 7:19 that “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”(NIV) 

As Christians we are the trees so we have to get nutrients from the soil, use the light from the sun and have enough water in order to bear fruits.

Praying continually, reading and obeying God's word can be the nutrients to help the tree to grow but in order to bear more fruits we have to take on boldness which will be our sunlight as well as sharing the love of God with others which will be the water.I don't know about you but, I really don’t want to be a fruitless tree. In other words, I don’t want to be a useless Christian. So from hence, I’m going to pray for boldness and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help me bear more fruits or win souls for God. 

If Jesus, the Saviour himself preached to others to win souls for his father, How much more us? I'm sorry but we have no more excuses so  JUST GO. 

One thing I’m going to leave you with today is that make it your burden to enhance God's kingdom. The question is, If we don’t go who do we expect to Go? Pray for boldness and know that you'll not labour in vain. God will truly reward you.

Have a great week ahead and don’t forget to GO!

~Louisahazel

SERVING GOD

Hi guys hope you're all loving and obeying God,
The title for this weekend's blog was inspired by the theme for my Church (Lighthouse Chapel International) for  the year 2015 which is 'SERVING GOD'. The question is, ‘How do you serve God whole heartedly?’ Serving God whole heartedly means serving God with all that we have and genuinely from our heart.

It is a great thing to serve the Lord because through that, we help enhance the ministry of God’s Word and we also get blessings from God for being his servants. In what ways can you serve God? It will surprise you the number of things you can do for God. Some of these things include joining a ministry in church and also helping to even invite people to church and caring for others in church. We can also serve God by being faithful in our finances and by honouring the leaders God has chosen to teach us.


In order to serve God wholeheartedly we have to devote our efforts to the Lord. By devoting our efforts, we aim to work for God without looking at what others do. In other words we can devote our efforts to work to enhance God’s kingdom rather than to please our friends.
The bible says in Hebrews 12:28-29 that, “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” (NIV) 

Well just a quick question, Do you devote all your efforts to God or do you serve God acceptably in reverence and awe?
From verse 28 we see that we have to serve God in a way that is very pleasing to him and in a respectful way. One thing to remember as a servants of God is, we do what we do because of our love for God Not because we want to please our pastor or some people in church. So if you find yourself aiming to please anybody rather than God then I guess you have to re-assess your priorities as a servant of God.

The bible says in John 4:24 that “God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship him in Spirit and in truth.”(NIV)

In the verse above we realise that God wants us to serve and worship him in spirit and in truth. Are you serving the Lord in truth or in pretence? Serving the Lord in truth means to overlook the desires of your natural body and to deny yourself of what you feel is right for your body. In so doing you give God the chance to lead you on the right path and way. Serving God in the spirit also means to practice love, kindness, endurance, goodness, meekness, faithfulness, joy, peace and self-control in your work.  To serve God in spirit means to serve him with much effort and zeal, it means to serve him with a willing and thankful heart.

We need to learn how to serve God in Honesty, Holiness, Sincerity and in Humility. To be able to be a good and faithful servant we have to be as humble as a child. There’s no two ways about it. If you’re a proud servant your service and worship won’t be acceptable. In fact God will resist you.
James 4:6 says that “But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble..” (NKJV)

So aim to be a humble servant and God will lift you up and give you more Favour and Grace.
Thank you for your time and take time to think about your service to God whether it is acceptable or not. Aim to be a humble servant and serve God out of love and Sincerity.

Have a great week ahead and remember to share this with  your friends.

~Louisahazel

BEING DOERS OF GOD’S WORD

Hello lovely people,
It’s the weekend again and it is time for God’s Word. How has your week been? The fact that you’re alive is a miracle. Have you ever wondered how sometimes we go off guard and follow bad friends or listen to bad advice but when it comes to doing what the Word of God says we tend to ignore it and think we know best. It is amazing how we take God’s Word for granted but He still chooses to love us unconditional. Wow we serve an AWESOME GOD.The Word for  week is titled “Being doers of God’s Word”.

James 1:22-23 states that, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror (NIV). 

What is your understanding of this scripture?
The scripture above means that we should not be people who just walk in the surface of the earth with no Spiritual life but we should aim to be like Jesus and focus on building our spiritual life more. It also means that we have to take some actions that can change our lives if we hear the Word of God day in and day out.

What does it mean to be a doer? Being a doer simply means to act upon something you’ve heard or experienced. In other words the scripture is saying that we have to take the Word of God seriously and put it in action. As Christians, the Word of God has to be planted in our hearts for it to bear fruit. We have to keep our minds tuned to God’s Word.

Psalms 119:105 states that, “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path” (NIV). 

Basically, not putting God’s Word in action is like walking in darkness with no lights. So you have to make good use of the lamp to guide your ways and path in your everyday life. It is a great thing to walk with the Word of God. So make that decision and you’ll never regret it.  One way you can be a doer of God’s Word is by making a sober decision anytime you hear God’s word and making sure you walk in it.

I’ll encourage you today to make it a part and parcel of you to keep your mind tuned in to God’s word. Aim to be a doer of God’s word rather than just a hearer.
Hope you were blessed by this. Remember to share and leave comments. Have a great week ahead.