WHAT SATAN'S MADE OF

'Sorry' is pretty hard for anyone to say. It's a general problem: PRIDE, the stuff Satan's made of. Because it took pride to make Lucifer Satan, if you get my meaning.

But these days, it's almost like we don't care when we hurt God. Sure, we'll say Grace did this, Grace did that (which she, or better still He did) but no one hurts a person they love and doesn't apologize - already forgiven or not.

So heads up to the girls who like me small small (please don't hate ✋), I don't like proud girls... But God actually goes so far as to resist the proud (know your Bible).

So here's my gift to you, pride checker verses if you will:
1 John 1:9-10
Drop your pride and open the verses yourself. I ain't spoonfeeding today.
✌KayO

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS 😬 intro

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS  intro

I would like you to know even before I start that I have failed in this quest to hype my Lord. No strange reason... It's just impossible to do complete justice to the topic of His awesomeness.

Mama Darlene Zschech sang it this way: No words could say, or song convey all You are, the greatness of our God...

The Bible put it this way:
Isaiah 55:9-
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

So I'll try, really I will... But no matter how good it gets, please remember that no matter what I write, it just might be an understatement.
KayO

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS 😬 1

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS  1

Solomon was one serious guy.
Money? He was loaded.
Wisdom? Too much.
He built the most glorious temple of his day.
1 Kings 3:12-13 let's us know that in wisdom and riches there was never anyone like Solomon, neither will there ever be anyone like him... So we thank God that our Jesus was not like Solomon, after all he messed up later... As a matter of fact Jesus said of Himself:
A greater than Solomon is here. Matt 12:42
So He was nothing like Solomon... Just greater  (Rosh paa nie)

So here's today's hype shortly:
Solomon built a glorious temple (good job Solo), but aside from the fact that Solomon himself was made by this our Jesus (Jn 1:3), for every believer you can count who has ever lived, and will ever live, that is one more glorious temple of the Holy Ghost that Christ has built over Solomon's. And the cost of this architecture... The blood of God's own Son. My friend in the Lord, you are expensive!!! Only a Greater than Solomon could pay for you. 
KayO

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS 😬 - 2nd try

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS  - 2nd try

Of course I'll try again, lol.
I'm still on Solomon's case though. We all know Solomon was a serious guy. Akɛɛ onalɛ player ( forgive the Ga). 300 concubines and 700 wives... 1,000 women. Whaaaaat?!  As a single brother, this beats my mind, lol. But then God designed marriage and relationships right, and He can't be beaten at His own 'game' (mind you relationship is no game). So what did Jesus do? He took every believer, joined us into one body, His church, His bride, and He marries us. And the two become one! He unites us with Himself on the ultimate spiritual level. So Solo had thousand women? Jesus has every believer... Ever! 
... Well, that's today's attempt. Tomorrow we'll try again 
KayO

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS 😬 - Take 3

AN ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS  - Take 3

They say the third time's the charm... Charm or no charm, I'm trying again. 

The sun. The scientists say it's a huge ball of burning gases... Like a million times the size of our earth. A long time ago, people thought it moved across our sky, now we realize we're the ones moving, while it stays put. All it does is to shine.
Throughout time, one man made the sun 'stop' by a prayer, we actually now know he made the earth stop rotating, which is pretty cool anyway. Joshua in...
Another made the sun 'move backwards' King Hezekiah, so now we know that he reversed the earth's rotation... Awesome!
But there was one Man. When He died, the sun refused to shine for 3 hours... Mourning her Boss. I bet an angel had to be sent to alert her that He would rise again, or else, anka forget... Universal dumsor koraa. So yeah, today's early morning hype... Jesus proved He was the light of the world when His absence put out the sun. If you can top that, I'll worship you. Today's gonna be a good day .
May the Original Light be with you.
KayO

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS - 4th Try

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS - 4th Try

They thought I wouldn't try again... Mo boa koraa.
Today deɛ.
Have you ever thought about the concept of an eternal punchline? I mean something that can astound anyone anywhere because it never gets old?
Jesus did THAT!
For now, let's forget the sad fact that yesterday I neglected to mention the way the earth quaked when He died, and how the curtain in the temple divided when He gave up the ghost to allow us access to the Father. Let's even forget that He touched lepers and 'infected' them with healing...
He had the audacity to make this statement (the crazy part is, IT'S TRUE!!!):

He said, "Before Abraham was I AM" (John 8:58)
No I did not type wrong... Before Abraham was, HE STILL IS!!!
This punchline was delivered in the 'I AM continuous tense' ... Read that again.
He's not bounded by time, eternity lives in Him. He doesn't obey deadlines, He is the deadline. Alpha and Omega just made more sense, didn't it, #Throwback has nothing on Jesus.  God bless you.
KayO

5th ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS

5th ATTEMPT TO HYPE JESUS

Vee stirred this one up.
I don't need to prove to you that you are weak... Really, you are not worth the attempt. Don't take offense -- neither am I. You sinned yesterday, the day before that, and before that, and before that... (You get the picture)
Only one Man ever crushed Sin entirely, and on our behalf.
C.S. Lewis said it this way (paraphrasing), we do not know how bad temptation can get because we give in too early.
I mean, once you have fallen and fornicated, the deed is done, the temptation ends (mind you, Jesus died for that). But for as long as you resist the sin, the temptations get worse (ask Joseph), so by simple logic, He who stood through all temptations has seen the worst!! But the Word says: ...Yet without sin!! (Heb 4:15, 1 Pet 2:21,22)
So here's the hype: He walked 33 years, never lied, never dabbed, never watched porn, never succumbed like you and I have. I would have said He's better than us, but we'll call that an understatement. He's the best!!!
Humbling huh?

1 Cor 10: 12  Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
KayO

Once upon a cross, one Man carried the full weight of the sin of everyone who's ever lived and ever will live. No, He wasn't a body builder, just a carpenter.

And then suspended between Heaven and earth on that same cross He bridged the gap between them. No lie, no exaggeration. He closed the gap. We couldn't see it, but it was there. Some people never found out what He did for them, but He did it all the same.

So how can I let this sacrifice go waste? Life carried the mother of death, sin, and died to kill death in sin in Him.
Please don't get confused, it all makes sense. For every wrong we've done Someone died for that. So live like Someone died for you.
Your turn to hype Jesus. Tomorrow I'll give my last hype, then it's over to you. Why should I have all the fun.
KayO

The Last Hype

THE LAST HYPE... FOR NOW

I have to get this one right. I really do. The only issue is I don't trust myself to do justice to it. So I'll let God speak for Himself, about how He made His Son the epitome of awesomeness:

Phil 2:
 8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
 9  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name:
 10  That at the name of JESUS EVERY knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
 11  And that EVERY tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
KJV

God has made Him Lord, and this is undisputed. The verse above is undiluted.
If God says He is Lord, He is Lord... My hype ends where God's starts.
#humbled
KayO

START AGAIN

START AGAIN
Jude 1: 20  But ye, beloved, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost

Act 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, WHICH IS ABLE TO BUILD YOU UP, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

I've started to hit the gym again. It's been months, and my body is reminding me... painfully.

Today I couldn't even push weights that back then I could push in my sleep.
But I can't pick up where I stopped in October, nah, that was a totally different body, a stronger one. What can I do but start again?

But there's something worse than to 'fɔn' physically, which is to 'fɔn' spiritually. You don't pick up your spiritual stature next semester where you left it last semester if you don't workout your Spirit during the vac.

So keep visiting the gym of the Word and prayer, else pretty soon you'll have to start again and trust me, you don't want those body pains.
✌KayO

Few

1 Sam 17: 28 
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

Forget about the old English. Forget about the length of the verse. There's just one word I want you to see: F-E-W, few.

Ain't that amazing? OK, sorry, maybe you don't get it: David used to play his harp in the bush to God - before his FEW sheep. He wrestled with a lion - for his FEW sheep. He fought a bear - for his FEW sheep.

Then what did God do? He picked him from playing before sheep to playing before kings... From bear-brawler to giant-slayer... From shepherd to King!

After David killed Goliath he went from leading sheep, to leading armies to leading Israel.

So few sheep huh? Isn't it amazing what God does for this who are faithful with 'few'?
✌KayO's back.
#LazyWriter

A Touch Of The Master's Hand

A TOUCH OF THE MASTER'S HAND
Mark 1:
41  And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
 42  And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

   From one Max Lucado book I learnt this. The touch never healed the leprosy, and it's true. Verse 42 makes that clear. But Jesus was not one to waste gestures.
   Here was a man whom no one had touched in years on account of leprosy. Although Jesus' words healed him, he took the time to touch him first. Do you see it yet? The touch healed the hurt inside. The hurt of rejection, of being unwanted and unloved.
   We all knew Jesus would clear the leprosy... sharp. But He wants us to know, He'll take time to go deeper. To heal us from the inside out.
   Touch me with Your hands... Maybe now you realize that song is deeper than we thought.
✌KayO

A Touch Of The Master's Hand

A TOUCH OF THE MASTER'S HAND
Mark 1:
41  And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
 42  And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

   From one Max Lucado book I learnt this. The touch never healed the leprosy, and it's true. Verse 42 makes that clear. But Jesus was not one to waste gestures.
   Here was a man whom no one had touched in years on account of leprosy. Although Jesus' words healed him, he took the time to touch him first. Do you see it yet? The touch healed the hurt inside. The hurt of rejection, of being unwanted and unloved.
   We all knew Jesus would clear the leprosy... sharp. But He wants us to know, He'll take time to go deeper. To heal us from the inside out.
   Touch me with Your hands... Maybe now you realize that song is deeper than we thought.
✌KayO

DIVISION

DIVISION
This is a little longer than usual, but it's probably the most important thing I've written yet. It might not sound so deep, but please read on.

Jentezen Franklin preached a message titled Dream. You should hear it:

Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and forgot, but he knew it was no ordinary dream, so he called his wise men and magicians and said, "The thing is gone from me (I've forgotten my dream): if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill." (Dan 2:5)

So in Nebuchadnezzar-land, if you didn't get the dream you'd get chopped up and your home would become the home of 'crap', literally. Forgive my vocabulary.

But this happens around us all the time? Divisions in the church, in marriages and families. The man and wife are one flesh so how do you divorce half of yourself? The church is Christ's body, so where's our unity?

If we don't get the dream, the vision of the head (Jesus), we can't fully join ourselves.

One Michael Essel said anything with 2 heads is a monster, so it has 'di-vision' and there will be division.

Everyone is 'relationshiping' so you go with the flow. No vision. Please don't worry someone's daughter. Churches with names that tell you 'God didn't inspire this', please don't attend such a dunghill.

What is our Lord's vision for His church?:
Matt 16:18b...upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Till we understand this, we are cracks in the cement of the church. More on the blog.
✌KayO

Connected

There's this song that gets me every time:
We have no power of our own.

It's not the beat or anything oo, just the words. They are too true.

Jesus told us:
John 15: 5  I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

The day you find a lone branch lying on a veranda bearing fruit, it's either you've found Aaron's staff that budded (congratulations), or this verse has lost its relevance. But I promise you, you are more likely to find Aaron's staff, which has been missing for over 2,000 years.

So the verdict is: apart from Jesus... well, dry branches end up as firewood in this part of the world. Stay connected.
Good morning.
✌KayO

Death

This post is a few days old...

I want to talk about death today. Yes, I said death and no, I won't change the topic. For 2 reasons:
1. A scorpion was playing around my foot at a prayer meeting this evening.
2. I feel like it.

There's a movie about a sniper who died 2 years ago. Among the soldiers of the US army he was a legend: Chris Kyle. But eventually, there's just one question: Where is Chris now?

That all depends on one book. You see, after the gun salutes and the memorials and movies, is His name in the book of life?
I dunno, but you should probably make sure yours is.
As for me? Well, Luke 10:19, scorpions and snakes are our carpets, so I'm cool.

Rev 20: 15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

The escape is Jesus.
✌KayO