FAVOR!

My God causes His face to shine upon me. I am the son of His FAVOR. The FAVOR of God surrounds me as with a shield! I'm soaked through and through, drenched, filled to the brim and overflow, zapped one too many times with the FAVOR of God!
FAVOR races me down the street as I go about my everyday chores, to overtake me and go on ahead of me to change rules, and regulations, mindsets and mentalities, cultures and traditions and to prepare everything that's necessary for me to receive the best in life simply because I am His highly FAVORED child. Where FAVOR is, worry cannot abide. I choose to indulge in the FAVOR of God instead of being taunted by worry.
FAVOR ain't fair and I'm on the blessed receiving end. Grace is undeserved FAVOR. I'm FAVORED because of Christ! I am an incubus and a dispenser of the FAVOR of God everywhere I go. Thank God for His divine FAVOR.
I am the head and not the tail, up and not down, blessed going in and blessed coming out, destined to proper in everything i set my hands out to do. I'm blessed beyond my wildest dreams because my Savior is more than enough for me.

Highly FAVORED,
Ben

Read more...

In LoVe!

the King of kings and Lord of Lords, the great IAM, the architect of heaven, is deeply IN LOVE with me. I am the apple of His eye. I am His beloved child. I am His chosen generation. I am His royal priesthood. I am a man after His own heart. I am His precious prize possession.
By this I know love, not that i first loved Him, but that He first loved me and sent His Son as a propitiation for my sin. I know love because He first loved. I know how to love becasue He first loved. I can and am in an intimate love affair with my God. He is love therefore He loves.
My beloved is mine and I am His. The more I know Him, the more I love Him. The more I love Him the more I obey Him. He IS my reason to rejoice. He is my all sufficient Savior, my King, my Shepherd, my Confidence, my Shelter, my Strength, my Lord and my God.
The more I experience of this intimacy with Him, the more I want and the more I'm aware of how much more He has to offer. Soak in His presence and let Him love on you today!

Able to love because I'm Loved,
Ben

Read more...

By His Grace


The experience of dwelling in His Presence is just indescribable; you need to experience it yourself; as written in Psalm “Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere”. In His presence is where we belong to, His presence is our HOME SWEET HOME. Everything will seem to fade away; our worries, fear, insecurity will just be stripped off as we are steeping into His presence. In His presence there is PEACE and JOY. Abba father is longing for fellowship with us, He is deeply in love with us; All He has in His thoughts is us; keeping the universe as the way it is, the earth going around its orbit, the blue sky, the green forest, the breeze of wind that blew gently on our face; EVERYTHING, is just specially for us from our ABBA Father . Instead of fixing His eyes on our sin, weakness and fault, He filled His eyes with compassion, mercy and grace. God choose mercy over justice. By His GRACE we are welcome into His presence.  

GRACE is a gift of kindness given to someone who does not deserve it. It is costly and someone has to pay the price for it. Jesus has paid the price of SIN. The curse of sin is on Him, so that we the blessing is on us. He bore our sin on the cross, so that we are righteous in ABBA’s eyes. He died on the cross for us; though He don’t deserve; so that we have eternal life. That is the wonderful work of CHRIST. The Lord is merciful and gracious; slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. Grace is what God relate to us moment by moment with perfect love.  

By His GRACE, we can now boldly step into our HOME SWEET HOME. Come just as you are, though you felt lost in this world, you will find yourself in HIM. Make a decision today; choose to stay in HIS PRESENCE, get drunk in His love, for dwelling in His presence is indeed better than a thousand years elsewhere.

“My soul longs, yes even faints, for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living GOD”

Psalm 84:2  

Read more...

No More In Lack!

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want” Psalm 23:1

The word “LACKING” has been haunting me for quite some time. The feeling of lack started to manifest as I turned my eyes away from my God, who is FULL of all good things. When I focused on my abilities in my ministry, my studies and my finance, fear overshadowed my trust in Him. I felt lost, uncertain, faithless, and overwhelmed. I felt worse when my eyes were opened to my weaknesses; it feels hopeless, and alone. The only thing that keeps me going, knowing that I have entrusted my everything to Him. Just as when I felt “knocked down” and heavy burdened, God Himself encouraged me with His word, from Psalm 23.

His word hit me when the verse “I shall not be in want” come across my eyes. In another word, David meant that He DOES NOT KNOW LACK. The word LACK is just not present in his dictionary. God is making a covenant with me that He want to be MY SHEPERD, He want to be MY PROVIDER, MY SPONSOR for my whole life, putting me in a place that the word “LACKING” doesn’t tremble me for I know that He is my shepherd. When I turn my eyes to Jesus, I found myself in such a place that lack doesn’t apply. My life is full of Him. He is my peace, my strength, my love, my refuge, my comfort, my provider, in short HE IS MY EVERTHING.

Start seeing Him as they way He is TODAY. He is faithful and He will never forsake you nor leave you. That is just His nature. He can’t help it but to love and care for you always, cause nothing at all can separate you from His LOVE.

“Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other effort”

George Buttrick

Read more...

Encounter Him!

My heart has been calling and crying out for more face to face, life halting, tangible encounters with God. A love encounter with the Most High. He is madly, deeply, truly, entirely, wholly sold out and head over heels in love with us. He didn't hold any part of Him back at the cross and that's what He's looking for with each and every one of us. He longs for fellowship. He longs to create a race upon whom He could lavish nothing but His best. He stepped out in faith when He demonstrated what love was, at the cross. He has given His all. Now He's calling for us to respond in the same manner. 

I abandoned myself to a love relationship with Jesus a few years ago and I haven't turned back since. My will power, like that of most others falls miserably below the standard required to keep me hungering after this day to day love encounter with God. However, the love of God is so unconditional, so preserving, so peaceful, so empowering, so... perfect that in itself, it contains everything necessary to keep you grounded in Him. His love compels, energizes, empowers and enables you to love Him back. We love because He first loved us.

Hunger for an encounter with the Love of God today. You'll never be sorry. You'll never have the appetite for anything else this world has to offer. An encounter with the love of God strips you of all your defense mechanisms and walls and leaves you perfectly safe, entirely exposed and totally vulnerable in His arms. Yet, somehow, exposed as you are, presented with all your failures and weaknesses, you feel perfectly safe, accepted and loved. The love of God is amazing. the Love of God is real. The love of God is indescribable. 

Make a choice to ENCOUNTER HIM!

Read more...

PERFECT SENSE!

I came to the realization, just a few months ago, as i was battling God's plan and call for my life that the only place in life where the call of God for your life makes PERFECT SENSE is in His presence. Every where else, the phrase 'UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE' would seem like a major understatement. God's mandate for my life seemed almost preposterous. It seemed too BIG. too HARD. too CRAZY, too RIDICULOUS, too.... IMPOSSIBLE! 

Time again I found myself bowing to the thoughts and notions and taunting of fear, insecurity, inferiority,  and doubt. Every time I considered the idea of taking God up on His offer, I was crippled by the overwhelming and gut wrenching feeling of timidity and fear of the many uncertainties of life. 

 Finally, one worship service this last July, as I was leading the church in an experience of intimate worship, like none other that I've experienced before, it dawned on me that in His presence, I was suddenly no afraid. there was a sense of PERFECTION and SOLITUDE there as I knelt in awesome wonder of my King. His plans for my life no longer overwhelmed, or intimidated or imposed itself on me. I saw the Father's heart for what it was. 

He calls because He loves. He loves because HE IS LOVE! He has never once given me reason to doubt His faithfulness. He has never once failed me. He has never once let me go. I wept as I realized that God equips you for the call, and that He is my past, my present and my future. He is already in His call for my life. All I needed to do was to walk right up to Him. I smiled, stood tall and thanked Him for being just HIM. 

So today, whenever I doubt or get overwhelmed, I rush back into His presence and life makes sense once again. His presence is so very sweet and calming that everything makes PERFECT SENSE!

Intoxicated by His love,

             Ben

 

Read more...