An Herald's Cry!

  Because you have chosen originality over the fakeness of life doesn't mean that the people who seek originality will always find you. Because you love God doesn't mean you will be Loved by everyone. In the last episode of my podcast (Heralds Hub), I talk about "rules", Those circumstances our subconscious has registered as "always true". Really, life happens. And I tell you. It is never predictable.  There's no special rule about how things goes or rather, there shouldn't be. But because what you expect doesn't align with what you get doesn't mean you should quit. Living original and in liberty of Christ is simply accepting both huddles and flat grounds with the same smile. You can't always be respected. You can't always be praised. You can't always be loved. You can't always be recommended. You can't always be trending. You service to God sometime may seem in vain because you do not get the results that you expect. But ...

 Is the Sermon On The Mount Meant for Everyone? The teaching of Jesus from Matt 5 up to Matt 7:28 is called “The Sermon on the Mount” because Jesus preached it on a mountain side. This sermon shows what Jesus meant when He commanded people to repent. It reveals what entering God's kingdom means, both in one's inner experience and outward behavior. It reveals principles which operate in the kingdom, and those things which exclude people from the kingdom. The sermon begins with the word “blessed”. So we can say the sermon sets forth the blessed life – who the blessed are and how they should behave. The blessed are those in the kingdom of heaven (Matt 5:3). This sermon does not give specific instructions as to how to enter God's kingdom but shows what sort of people are in it, and what they should seek to become and do. This sermon, for the most part, is for disciples of the Lord Jesus, not for everyone. However, it seems clear from Matt 7:28 that many other people besides H...

 The Wise Men Visits Jesus Here is the first time after Jesus came to earth that people of another nation and religion recognized His greatness and came to worship Him. The wise were the first of a great multitude to come. And i think there's much more wisdom in these wise men knowing that Christ is Lord and leaving their towns to find Him so that they can worship Him. What we know is that they were truly wise as they were wise enough to seek Jesus. They were wise enough to seek information. They were wise enough to worship Jesus when they found Him. Christ's Gospel is for all men. He is the Saviour of all who trust in Him, regardless of nationality and background. Notice the Wise men were not from Jerusalem and may have not been Jews. The wise men had to go to Jerusalem to seek information on where to find the Messiah. The religious leaders and scholars of Jerusalem knew that the Messiah would come and knew the place of His birth. But they made no effort, it seems, to find Him...

  The name “Jesus”, like the Hebrew name Joshua, means “the LORD (Jehovah) saves”. The word “Christ” is from the Greek language and means “anointed one”. Its meaning is the same as “Messiah” taken from the Hebrew.  The Messiah was to be anointed by God – that is, set apart and consecrated by God, to fulfill the promises of the Old Testament. He was to be prophet, king, and priest. According to the Old Testament the Messiah had to be a descendant of Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation, and of David, Israel's greatest king. To show that this was true of the Lord Jesus, Matthew gives this genealogy in Matthew 1 which shows how Jesus relates to David and Abraham by Ancestry.   Jesus as to His human nature was descended from David who lived a thousand years before Him, and from Abraham who lived nearly two thousand years before Him. The women whose name showed up on this genealogy (Rahab, Bethseba and Ruth) teaches us of God's wonderful grace and mercy towards sinful peop...

  𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬  Did you know that there is a "do not fear" Verse for each day of the year? Yes, the subject of fear and anxiety was mentioned 365 times in the bible. And then I wonder why God consistently tells us not to fear when it feels so much like an uncontrollable emotion.  Truly, we all have our own fears. I get nervously scared of change and new things. I had this bland fear late last year of how 2023 might look like for me. Sometimes I fear that God's will may not be what people expect of me. The list is endless.  But you know the best part? Our God is so much aware of our emotions and so much interested. Don't forget that Jesus also wept. Well, here's the point; You, I, can't manage our emotions without first accepting that emotion. God wants us to admit our emotions that's why he consistently shows us that He cares. I began with fear, that's because it's the most common and the most likely hidden emotion. I heard a g...

  𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨? Is reading romance novels, watching romance or listening to romantic songs good for us as Christian teenagers and youths? Hm. I had the opportunity to ask some people this question yesterday and their answers blew my mind. Hence the need to address it here. We might end up shaking some tables but I beg you to read til the end. We all know what these things are; romance novels, romance movies and all. So I won't be giving definitions. Let's go straight to the truth of the matter. Read this slowly The eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is CLEAR [spiritually perceptive, focused on God], your whole body also is full of LIGHT [benefiting from God’s precepts]. But when it is bad [spiritually blind], your body also is full of darkness [devoid of God’s word]. BE CAREFUL, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness. So if your whole body is illuminated, with no dark part, it will be entirely bright [with light], as when the lamp gives y...