Sacrificial life of Christ

28/01/2025

17/12/2024

Closely related to advocacy are concerns and issues of autism, which I hold dear to my heart. My work focuses on increasing people’s understanding to accept and, therefore, include those with autism. Youth education is a priority for me; I conduct workshops where I explain that autism is not a disease and that members of this community have specific abilities and needs.
Another important aspect identified is inclusion. This is because I work as a speech facilitator with schools, employers, and community-based organizations to establish the right conditions to celebrate neurodiversity. This includes fighting for sensory integration and/or educating the staff and peers to ensure they know how to handle those with autism.
By these efforts, I hope to replace the type of poster that currently gives a heads up on certain things and makes people accept those things. Through awareness of these talents, with consideration of the special abilities that come with autism, I look towards embracing everyone and having an accommodating society for all with the intent of the individuals to be embraced.

10/08/2023

BREAKING! ECOWAS ANNOUNCED IMMEDIATE ACTIONS AGAINST MILITARY JUNTA IN NIGER REPUBLIC.

27/03/2022

09/08/2021

Imminent Second Comming of Jesus Christ.

11/07/2020

God Promises His Compassion

Introduction

There is only one constant in this ever-changing world, and that's the character of our heavenly Father. The very earth itself is undergoing changes constantly. What seems the most immovable now will one day be done away with. But God is unchanging. God is unwavering. He's completely faithful and committed to seeing through the promises he's made you. As we look this week at the promises of God may you ground yourself in his unchanging love. May God's character become your source and refuge—your constant and unshakable foundation.

Scripture
"'For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,' says the Lord, who has compassion on you." Isaiah 54:10

Compassion is something seldom experienced in a world filled with indifference and cruelty. Most people don't seem to possess the level of selflessness compassion requires. Our society makes it clear that our acceptance has everything to do with our success and little to do with the grace and compassion of others for us. How we are loved and respected is based on our accomplishments and abilities rather than the love and compassion of those around us. But our God is not of this world.

In Isaiah 54:10, God gives us his beautiful promise of compassion, "'For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,' says the Lord, who has compassion on you." The love of your heavenly Father is steadfast and immovable. His compassion for you is more sure than the very ground you walk on. And what's more, your God's compassion is tethered together with his grace. Psalm 103:8 says, "The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love" (NIV). God's compassion is not the result of what you do, but instead the direct result of his boundless love for you.

God's love is foundationally different than the love of others. In a world founded on the notion of works and rewards, cause and effect—God wants to build your foundation on his unconditional compassion. God longs to establish your relationship on the building blocks of his love and grace. It was God's compassion for you that drove him to send Jesus to his death. It was God's compassion for you that led him to search you out when sin had wedged a great chasm between you. And it's God's compassion that drives him even now to pour out his unfathomable love and affection over you.

Where in your life do you need to experience God's promise of compassion? Where do you feel like you don't measure up? Where do you feel unloved? Isaiah 30:18-19 says,
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

Cry out to your God today. You can place your trust in his compassion. His love will not fail you. Again, "He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you." Rest in his promise of compassion. Let his love build you up in all of the areas where the world has torn you down. May the foundation of your life be built on the promise of God's limitless grace and compassion.
Shalom!
: daily devotion

25/06/2020

God’s Heart to Meet with David

Introduction

Throughout Scripture we see countless examples of God meeting with man and countless lives being transformed as the result. These examples are in Scripture to stir our faith and fill us with a desire to meet with our Creator. When we read about the life of David, we should be filled with a longing to live as he did, centered around meeting with our heavenly Father. When we read about Gideon or Moses, we should long to know our God as they did. When we read about Jesus coming down to us or his heart for the woman caught in adultery, we should respond by pursuing encounters with our Savior. And when we read of Pentecost and Jesus' second coming, we should seek out the fullness of God's presence available to us on this earth in preparation for the age that is to come. May your heart be filled with a wholehearted desire to pursue meeting with God this week.

Scripture

"How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God." Psalm 84:1-2

Devotional

The meetings between God and David shaped human history forever. David knew what it was to be in the presence of God. In fact, being in God's presence was his fuel, greatest joy, and source of courage. In Psalm 16:11 David writes, "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." And in verse 5 he writes, "The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot." David was a man who consistently chose to meet with God over filling his days with the fleeting and unsatisfying things of the world. He centered his life around meeting with God, and it changed the history of not only his nation, but nations to come.

In 1 Samuel 17:34-37, we see a glimpse into the impact of David meeting with God early in his life. Scripture says,
But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God." And David said, "The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you!"

Out on the fields, David learned of God's power and desire for deliverance. He learned what it was to meet with God in the daily work of life. And he carried that knowledge with him into every battle, trial, and failure. We see it in Psalm 16:1-2 where David prays, "Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, 'You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.'" King David, the greatest king that ever sat on the throne of Israel, claimed, "I have no good apart from you." David, about whom 1 Chronicles 29:28 says, "Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor," claimed he had no good apart from the Lord. David knew that God's presence was the best part of life. He knew that meeting with his heavenly Father was far greater than any victory, possession, status, or honor. And it was for that reason that he lived a life full of the very thing he sought: the presence of the living God.

Your heavenly Father longs to meet with you as he did David. He loves you the same as he loved David. And through the powerful sacrifice of Jesus, you have even greater access to the heart of God. You have God, the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. Choose today to seek meeting with God above all else. Center your life around the presence of your heavenly Father the way David did. Live for transformational encounters with God and watch as the things of this world fall into proper place, providing you with transcendent peace, joy, and purpose in the midst of any circumstance.

23/06/2020

God is good. All the time

22/06/2020

"Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts." Jeremiah 15:16

22/06/2020

Encountering God through Scripture

Introduction

Having consistent and transformational encounters with God while on earth is meant to be foundational to the Christian life. Our God has not left us. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we've been filled with the very Spirit of God who longs to reveal to us daily the nearness and love of our heavenly Father. We are never alone. There is nowhere we can flee from the presence of our God. May this week be filled with transformational encounters with the living God as we learn what it is to seek the face of the one who has formed us, knows us, and loves us unconditionally.

Scripture

"Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts." Jeremiah 15:16

In Scripture, we have a perfect and direct avenue to powerful and transformational encounters with God. Jeremiah 15:16 says, "Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts." In Scripture we find both our weakness and God's unfailing love portrayed through countless stories. God has spoken to us all we need in Scripture to both understand and pursue wholehearted, unveiled relationship with him.

The very Spirit who authored the words of Scripture longs to use it to guide you and me into powerful encounters with our heavenly Father. I fear that many believers today are missing the intended meaning behind Scripture. The Bible is not God. It is designed to act as a guide to knowing its Author. It is designed to give us a desire and understanding about this God who is living, active, and near to us.

Isaiah 55:11 says, "So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it." God's purpose has always been restored relationship with his people. His goal is our hearts. And his word is powerful in accomplishing his purpose. Psalm 1:1-3 says,
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

The Lord longs to plant us by the streams of his presence. He longs for us to be a people that consistently and purposefully encounter his unending love. He longs for us to meditate on his laws that we might live according to his will and be blessed in all that we do. His heart is for us to know his love through his Spirit and word that we might live a truly abundant life marked by his unceasing faithfulness.

May we as fully loved children of the Most High God seek all that is available to us in Scripture. May we gain heart-knowledge about our Father as his word guides us into more consistent, true, and impactful encounters with him. May we be a people filled with the stories of God's redeeming love that we might live in response to the unchanging, active nature of our heavenly Father.