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My Toilet Prayer Point Toilet? Yes! I noticed that the tank for one of our toilets had cracked. I don't know how it happened and I had installed this toilet in November 2015. I decided to go to Home Depot (HD) to ask for a remedy. I told them I didn't know how it cracked and showed the picture. They looked at the receipt which was almost six months ago. I was told it had exceeded the return date. I said there must be some guarantee for a toilet that new. I was sent to the next supervisor who said she can’t do anything for me. She decided to call her supervisor. The next supervisor decided to replace the toilet tank. I had only come with the picture and was asked go back to bring the cracked tank. I went back but did not return immediately. By the time I came back, different people were at front desk. I told them my mission and they told me I must be crazy because no one returns after three months and there is nothing they can do for me. There began my toilet adventur...

Stop Worrying and Anxious Right Now Grace (seven) woke up in the middle of the night running to me and saying 'daddy I had a bad dream'. She just started talking to me and not for a second thinking that I was sleeping but rather with full confidence that I must be awake and listening. She also had the full confidence that I was going to give her immediate safety and comfort in her situation by just listening. She does this time and time again whenever she has bad dreams and troubled. Now that is faith and it is great example for me of being anxious for nothing and not worrying. You and I are waking up many moments sitting and just worrying about our lives’ bad dreams without running to the arms of our Heavenly Father. We chew and regurgitate our worries as if they are real. It is just a dream of what you think will happen and how it will turn out. Yes, you have facts but God has final say. Let’s just stop worrying right now. Listen to God’s word as Paul speaks to the Phi...

Rejoice and be Gentle to All There is true biblical joy. Our God is a joyful God so are/should His Children. We are not talking about joy as an emotion but joy as the essence of our being. Joy cannot be made up. Joy is in the person of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. We are being asked to rejoice and not to make up joy. True joy is exemplified when I visited a friend in the hospital and I walked out more encouraged than I came in. Why? Because Christ in her spoke encouragement that transcends her current situation of finalities of life in a hospital room. Apostle Paul to the Philippians restates the theme of his letter: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, take pleasure in Him]; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit [your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience] be known to all people. The Lord is near. Philippians 4:4-5. God will finish the good work He started in us until Jesus returns. Our rejoicing is in the Lord. This chapter starts o...

Sisters Stop Your Fighting The Cold War between Russia and America may be over but it is not over in many churches, families, bedrooms, work places and etc. The first war started in the garden when Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the devil. It progressed to the first ever sibling rivalry of Cain and Abel. This one did not end well because Cain killed his brother Abel. You get the picture? Fights aren't new. Have you wondered why we fight and quarrel with others? Apostle Paul is calling out two dear sisters to stop the fighting. There are three parties here. The two women who are quarreling and the by standers who are indirectly affected. Everyone has a responsibility to stop the fighting. Take a step toward peace today. “2 I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to agree and to work in harmony in the Lord. 3 Indeed, I ask you too, my true companion, to help these women [to keep on cooperating], for they have shared my struggle in the [cause of the] gospel, together with Clement an...

My Beloved Stand Fast in the Lord Has civility gone out of the window especially during this presidential campaign? How do we see one another? Paul said I have stopped seeing people in the flesh. What about you and me? Do we see people based on their color, accomplishments and their sins? We must look beyond what we can see presently in people. Watch and note the dear terms Apostle Paul used to address the Philippians while encouraging them to stand fast in the Lord: “Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved”. Philippians 4:1 How can Paul go from almost rebuking the Philippians to calling them my beloved and my joy and my crown? It is because of the great word “therefore” in the verse. What is the therefore for? In the previous section Paul had just reminded the Philippians of their citizenship in heaven and that Christ is coming to transform their (and our) lowly bodies to his glorified body. That is enough to ...

I will Rise from the Dead. Will You? With the latest ISIS bombing in Brussels Belgium, the Western world is scared and worried about the next target. We condemn every act of terrorism and pray God’s comfort for the families in Brussels who lost their loved ones. Worldwide, there are about 56 million deaths per year, 153K deaths per day, 6.5K every hour and 107 deaths every second. We cannot not escape death because “it is appointed unto man/woman once to die and afterwards, judgment”. The real question is am I going to rise from the dead into a glorified body to be with God forever? Are you? Everyone will rise from the dead for judgment, but some with a glorified body that will never die again. I thank God Jesus rose from the dead and is alive and sited at the right hand of the Father. Like Jesus, I will rise from the dead with a brand new glorious body just as Jesus’ resurrected body. I believe and trust in the crucified and risen Christ who paid for all my sins and reconciled m...

Enemies of the Cross of Christ Unfortunately many of the enemies of the Cross of Christ are in the Church. Hello! Are you hearing Paul? He says watch out and note those who walk/live in the pattern of Christ. Many are not walking after Christ and are walking/working for themselves. Paul warns his Philippian friends and us: “17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things”. Philippians 3:17-19 Observe the characteristics of the enemies of the cross of Christ: 1. They preach a different gospel and not “Christ crucified”. They make up various criteria of being a Christian other than believing and trusting in the finished work of Christ on the cross. They reject and oppose Chr...