Bear Fruit

God through the Blood of Jesus gives us a lot of chances to repent and bear fruit.

Luke 13:6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 
7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 

8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 

9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

About a year after I finished school, I use to be reckless and speed around in town. The one late afternoon, it was raining, and my car had cracks in the disks of the brakes. The road ahead had a curve in and there was a car parked in the middle of the road. Heading towards the car at high speed, it seemed like the car was parked next to the road. When the road started to straighten, I realized the car was on the road. I stepped on the breaks gently then suddenly it locked and won't release. The car slid on the wet road and it almost felt like the car was sliding faster than what I was driving. So, I crashed into the other car and my car went into the field across from houses. Luckily by the time I hit the car, my car didn’t seem to be at high speed by the eyewitnesses that were in the house looking out because of the skid noises of my tyres. They were angry at the other person for parking in the middle of the road to answer his phone, and people had to drive around him if they were using that road. So, I drove home and the engine barely made it because the radiator was broken. I got off that one easy.

The next day while I was walking to my friend, I thought of all the accidents my friends and I were in before. There was a couple of car accident I was in and never got hurt. Not even a stiff neck like some of my friends did in previous accidents. Then I started to feel almost invincible. Suddenly while that thought went through my head, I felt God talk to me, saying, if it wasn’t for your mother’s prayers, you would have been dead by now. I got the fright of my life.

Pride and taking God’s Mercy for granted can cause us not to bear fruit. A selfish person is basically fruitless.

If God should have a look at us now, will He find fruit on us? He gives a lot of chances and we should not waste them.

Overwhelming Anxiety

One of the worst bad habits a man can have is to constantly worry about things. Worry about food, what to wear, home, transport, family and then even our relationship with God. Sometimes the more we worry the worst we feel about our relationship with God because He tells us we should not worry. We just can’t seem to stop worrying, to a point the worrying gets overwhelming and anxiety starts to form.

The only way to get rid of these fears is by spending time with God. Every day, even if you feel guilty for worrying. Just spend time with God.

Luke 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 

34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

There was a time in my life all went bad and I lost everything. I felt God told me to start my own business and at a point, it felt I heard wrong. I then told God; I will leave everything at His feet. No matter what people think or if I end up on the street, I will do what he tells me. I then started going to a church I used to attend, and they told me to help with youth and a lot of other things that needed to get done. It wasn’t even a week from starting to help at church, a lot of contracts started to go through for my business. Suddenly I made twice as much as I ever got per month.

Sometimes God just wants to see if we really trust Him and will sacrifice our time for Him.

Superstition is Dangerous

A few years ago, an old couple helped me and my wife with cheap rent for an apartment. We moved to the area with a promising career but when we got there, the new employer I worked for clients wasn’t interested in the projects anymore. His clients were dependent on one big factory/plant in that town and there were rumours of letting some vendors go. Then we had to move from an apartment we just started renting, after moving 150km from where we used to live. So, me and my wife urgently prayed for a solution and for a roof over our heads. Then this old couple from church told the pastor (church me and my wife just started to attend after moving there), that they can help with this cheap apartment till we are back on our feet.

I knew God called me to have my own business, that is the reason why things went wrong the moment we got there. I started working on what I felt God called me for, even sometimes till 4 in the mornings. I had a lot of ideas for my business and knew God will bless it.

I shared my business passions with the old man I rented from and he asked me to develop his software for his company to send out invoices. I was very grateful for him helping me and my wife, so I agreed. Not long after, the old man’s project started to grow so big that it took almost all my time. For three month 98% off my time went into the software for his company.

Almost at the end of the three months, I realized that the old man was not really interested in the software anymore. Also, he started telling his family and church people that I am too lazy to work, and we never go anywhere, just stay in the apartment the hole day. When I greeted his son and ask him if he was enjoying his visit to his dad, then he replied, I’m here to work, not just sitting around. Also, the old man started telling me that I should wash and polish my car, God can’t bless people that drive around with a dirty car.

Even though I was pushing his project and trying to get to mine which was pushed aside. I started to wash my car and do things just to keep him off my back. I had to look out for a job because we waisted 3 months on his project and didn’t get other clients or any of our projects out on the market. We had to get away from there, not just because he will not pay us for the job, but the old man wanted us to prove ourselves the whole time. “The only thing that will work, is what he says will work”.

Superstition is dangerous and they had a lot.

Luke 11:37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.  39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

If you believe God can only bless you when your car is clean and because you dress up. Then you better keep it that way, or else you will go down. Whatever you say and believe, will come to pass.

The old man and his wife went away for two weeks. One of his vehicles was gathering dust while he was away. The day before he came back, his workers washed the vehicle. When he arrived, I asked him how it was going. He then said he lost two of his biggest clients. At that moment he said it, I looked at the vehicle that was gathering dust the previous days, and it’s like I just realized, the power of superstition. He nearly lost everything in the two weeks he wasn’t there to check that his vehicle left at home was cleaned.

Always ask yourself and most importantly God, is what you believe from God. Anything else is from satan.

It is time well spent

Sometimes it feels so wrong just to relax at Jesus's feet and just think of nothing other than His presence of the Holy Spirit. Even if we are self-employed, we tend to worry about the pressure of our clients and to solve the problems they have. If we are at work, there is almost no way to just give some time just to enjoy the rest at Jesus or after work because of other people with us that we are responsible for. There are so many things and reasons we stress ourselves up.

Luke 10:38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

It could be difficult to be like Mary here in Luke 10:39. If we look at the lives of others, we all seem to be more like Martha. Even in our prayers we tell God how much pressure we have and complain that others take life lightly not to help us sometimes.

A couple of days ago, I had enjoyed so much the presence and realized we overcomplicate life with all these worries. Not long after that I read Luke 10 and got the revelation that God tells me to just trust in Him, and He will give us rest. Because the time spend with Him, will never be taken away from us. It is time well spent.

Repent

Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand

Who was the Nephilim and who was the sons of God? Man, Giant, Angel, Heavenly Being?

 

I just want to share to you what God has shared with me, A couple of years ago. And in this past few days I see it's quite urgent that people look for answers, and they rely on sources leaders and Google and all of that, for the answers. Simple example is where the Nephilim come from, and everyone asked his questions and asked about it.

Now when I started out reading the Bible and this was, actually I read it a couple of times before where God told me before God told me, take your translation, this is a translation my aunt gave me, and start reading it, and believe every word you read in here, like a child would believe it. And still God do reveal and some things are written not always in a simple context, but even then Jesus and the Holy Spirit will reveal it to you, what the context means of it in everything. A simple example like a said the Nephilims, if you read the part where they say the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair and they took of them wives. Now the sons of God there is, if you look right through out of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, we are referred to the children of God and in the Old Testament - the sons of God, simply because, the Jewish or before Jesus came the women were seen as less important. So that sons of God is a the men, the ones the chose before to follow God or had the relationship of God took their own daughters as wives. And then the offspring were Nephilims, which they thought, or, I don't know maybe because of Goliath he was also Nephilim, but he was only 2 to 3 metres tall. If you see that as a giant, it's a bit of taller than an average man. It's not that you would say wow they are really that extraordinary like people make them out to be, and that's according if you take the measurements from the Bible. They didn't say he was a giant the new translations does and even the King James the recent King old King James versions all refer to the Nephilim as giants, but that's because they come to the conclusion because Goliath was a Nephilim. And he was seen as a tall man, so they come to the conclusion that it must be Giants and it must be angels. I don't know why they decided that sons of God should be angels. Never was it ever referred in the Bible that, you know there was a lot of times referred to as angels when Lot approach the two angels. Now you see there it clearly says even in the oldest translations they were angels. So why didn't the Bible just from the start? You know the the inspired history book, the oldest history book he can ever find. It was inspired to write down sons of God. Now the reason I think they say sons of God is because to lay, to put it in a spot, they were the children of God and they decided to do the sin. Now you might say but they didn't have the Bible, and they didn't probably know it was wrong. The knowledge of the tree between good and evil, every man is born of a conscience and it's because of what happened with that tree we ate the tree from the tree. Adam did. Even Jesus said when they asked him what will happen with a man who never heard the gospel never heard of Jesus or God and he dies, what will happen him? And Jesus said that man's conscience will judge him in that day. When in judgment day. So, every man had the conscience and they were so close of God they actually knew it was wrong. They saw their own daughters were nice and they took them wives. And if you see wherever incest happen, deformed people will be born, and the, the Jewish word, where they got the word Nephilim from, says fall, they were known as the man of fall, and some say deformed. Some people say now that word actually means deformed.

So when I read my Bible even my Bible when I started reading it it said Giants, the sons of man got the daughters and me and because they their offspring with Giants. but even at that stage, I felt that Holy Spirit told me no this is not right, and then if well if we go to oldest translation say Nephilims. So, and if you translate the word Nephilim today it will say giant, but Hebrew word says fall it means fall deformed. So there is a problem, especially today newer and newer translations are coming out, and this is a big problem but if we intend to want to have a relationship of Jesus. We must start asking him again. You see in the olden days there wasn't Google, there wasn't all these things this is the age of knowledge now, and people will reject what they hear from God and they will take the knowledge. Because the majority and the easiest way to find answers these days, is by Google and external forces or people, not normally forces.

So I just want to challenge you, maybe that's one word I can use. To start rather if you feel a question in your heart come up to go to God, and ask him to direct you. I am not a professor or anything and God directed me. And then you can say of it exactly what makes me reliable source? I am NOT a source, I'm telling you to use Jesus and Holy Spirit. To ask the God the Father to give you the Holy Spirit to reveal you these things.

And I it's just a couple of days I see this pop up everywhere. Everyone asking who was the Giants where did they come from was angels and was it all of those. Then I, I remembered that was the first thing I encountered, when I started reading the Bible. And that's why I'm sharing to you what God told me they were.

Now if you see the flood destroyed everyone even the Nephilims of that age, then where did Goliath come from? Now you see Nephilim or that word the Hebrews used. Refer to them as the deformed. Now if you look at Job when Sodom and Gomorrah, ag Lot when Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. After that his two daughters thought there won't be any more people on the planet, they thought that that was them. They made their dad drunk and they had intercourse with him. Another insist happened. So that can be the answer where they come from in Canaan where they were thought as Nephilim and as well as Goliath, was also seen as that so unfortunate. We stuck at the time where we must really stick to the old information or the old Bible. Their changed half of the times where it was referred to a son of God of the Bible they changed it to angels and heavenly beings. Even where the the Jews after the sacrifice they, set themselves before God, and God came down of the cloud by Job, and Satan approached him. God asked him where you come from? And he said now I was being all over the world here, up and down, and he said that you see my servant job? See this didn't play of in heaven. Because they translate where they said, the sons of God set themself before God. they translated to angels. So that gives people the idea it played off in heaven, that didn't play of in heaven.

And that's what God revealed to me, and again I say it's not what you should believe. If you feel this is not what you should believe. But what I know is God doesn't reveal a 1-story to another man and a story... I don't claim I have the truth, this is not what I'm saying. This is not the challenge for the point I'm trying to make. The point is we should really start going back to the time where we are on our knees, and study the Word of God. And not try to get quick access to knowledge.

Then thanks for listening to me and I hope this inspire you and gives you the drive to seek God's face rather than seek people's opinion and theories. We'll a theory will always keep in a loop, theories never add up, and God doesn't want us to get in a Genesis theory loop. He wants us to end up with Mark and Luke what Jesus did. The the most important part of the Bible is, the whole Bible of course, but Jesus teach us the knowledge to spread the Gospel for today. God won't call us to be stuck at Genesis, He calls us to make disciples of Jesus Christ and even Jesus said don't be part of this debates it's gonna end up wasting time just move on to the person that really needs Jesus, and start sharing the gospel with him. And if you stick on your knees and all of these Jesus will give you the answers. Even He said in His Word don't be afraid to what to say even in front of judges, earthly judges of course. The Holy Spirit will reveal what to say when you are in front of them.

And again, thank you for listening, have a great day, bye-bye.

Live Legally

These past days, God has shown me a few things that we should get rid of. Things that are not taken seriously these days by almost anyone of us.

Downloading movies, music and software illegally. Cracking operating software like Windows, other software like Office,  Drawing software etc. These are just some of the things we do that doesn't seem that bad.

So me and my wife went through all of our computers, tablets, phones and we deleted everything we do not have a legal copy of.

There are cases where we take things from work places that would have ended up in the dustbin, but the company policy clearly say that it will be illegal to take home even if it was dumped in the rain to rust; or even printing personal documents without permission.

God shown me that we all have some kind of authority. Having knowledge in a field, gives us authority there and we can be fair or misuse it. High positions is a very big temptation to misuse these kind of authority. The knowledge to get something illegally with out being caught is a good example of misusing authority.

About two days ago, while me and my wife was inspecting our live about these situations, I decided to read Luke 3. God is so faithful, He always confirm what He shares (or convict) with us with His Word.

When God ask us to give up something, He doesn't necessary throw the whole list at us. I think He mostly starts with one thing, and then if we are willing to give it up. He will show the next thing. It is so important that we will be obedient to God if we want to live Holy.

A lot of times we have excuses like; they would have thrown it away anyway; we will buy the product if we like it; it wont harm anyone; its not like we have broken in and stole it; if they didn't want us to crack it, they should have protected it better; and the list go on. A good excuse wont open the heavens with God's blessings.

I had to stop helping people with certain jobs because God showed me that He wants to bless me but helping people to be dishonest wont give God the Glory for theses blessings. Sometimes we tell God, He should provide first if He wants us to live honest. But we should rather live without any before considering the gray line, it will eventually lead us to the dark.

Romans 13 : 1-14 is clear instruction to obey the law. If we can get away with steeling a car and we are sure we wont be caught. Will that make it right?

But the fruits of repentance is to live legally, then we will be Holy. Luke 3 : 8-14

God bless!!

^{Luke 3 : 8} Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
⁹ And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
¹⁰ And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
¹¹ He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
¹² Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
¹³ And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
¹⁴ And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

^{Romans 13 : 1} Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
² Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
³ For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
⁴ For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
⁵ Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
⁶ For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
⁷ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
⁸ Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
⁹ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
¹⁰ Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
¹¹ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
¹² The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
¹³ Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.