Morning with Ebenezer

OUR SHALOM

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
Ephesians 2: 14-16 NKJV

According to Strong's Concordance 7965 - Hebrew Shalom ..... A word study in the New King James version for SHALOM says: Completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord.Shalom comes from a root verb shalom meaning to be complete,perfect and full. 

The Bible calls Jesus who is Yeshua in Hebrew, Prince of Peace or Sar Shalom in Hebrew. This Jesus of Nazareth, the son of carpenter who was born by a virgin in the Bethlehem of Judea during the time of king Herod. He came to be our shalom, to bring us the Gentiles in flesh who at once we did not know God and had no promises separated by the sins of our flesh. He came and paid the price of our peace through  His death on the cross as the eagle Prophet Isaiah prophesied 700 years before Christ.

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
 he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed. 
Isaiah 53:5 NIV

This morning you may be among many people in this world who day and night are seeking for peace, completeness, welfare, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest and harmony. Many people in our modern world seek those things through material possessions, sex, entertainment and some through witchcraft acts. But those things do nothing to fill that great desire of peace in our soul that only God can fill. Those things only cause distraction and prevent us from finding true peace.

There is only one way to true peace which is in the Word of God, through the person of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Jesus is our Shalom, He can satisfies you more than a man or a woman can do, He can complete you more than a great wealth and fame can offer. His name is Jesus, the Son of Living God who is the same yesterday, today and forever will be. Give him a chance in your heart and I assure you that your life will never be the same again.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. This morning I surrender all my being into your hands, I'm asking that You may give me your peace in exchange that I may live a victorious life in all my days under the sun. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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THE GOD OF DAVID

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

Psalm 94:19 KJV

King David was one of the great kings ever ruled in Israel. David knew the Lord, he feared God from his young age and that's why in the age of seventeen years old he killed the great warrior of Philistines who was known as Goliath by using a small smooth stone which he kept in his shepherd's bag (1 Samuel 17:49). Since the time he killed Goliath and married a daughter of Saul who was the first king of Israel, David was running from here to there because king Saul wanted to kill him for he knew David will be a king after him.

During those days which David was running from one city to another, one kingdom to the another God was still with him. During those thirteen years of running from Saul who wanted to kill him, he got a chance to see and to know God who derives who trust him. He wrote many songs which reflected what he was going through that time and He praised his God for being faithful in all His ways and later those writings came to produce the book of Psalms which is one of the most comforting book in the Bible.

One day he said, ''In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul''. Which he meant when am worried about many things, your assuring words calm or relieve my soul. David knew the secret of overcoming depression and to have a stress free life was through reading and meditating the Word of God. He knew if he was in the middle of a certain crisis where his enemies wanted to kill him; he knew that, 'he shall not die, but live. And declares the works of the Lord,( Psalm 118:17).

This morning you may be having many thoughts about your situation in life right now. May you have sleepless night for quiet some time now and you don't know to get out of it. I'm encouraging you to go and find a Word in the Bible which speaks concerning your situation, read it carefully, then meditate it and start speaking according to that Word. When you will start speaking by faith it will be no longer you speaking, but God will be speaking against your situation through His Word. The God of David is your God, believe me that very soon you will get the answer you need and the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ will feel your soul once again.

****Morning with Ebenezer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Lord I'm asking that you may give me strength to read your Word, understand it and be able to make it to be my daily meditation. That in the day of my trial I may be able to have your Word within me to speak against any circumstances which will arise before me. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Morning with Ebenezer

HOME SWEET HOME

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:1-2 NKJV

One of the main difference between Christianity and other religions in this world is this; us who are called by the name of God we have assurance where we will be after this life. Other religion they promise good things during your lifetime here on earth but they will not give you assurance where you will be after you have died. Jesus before He went on the cross and rose up to go back to heaven He assured His disciples and followers where they will be after they finish their work here on this earth.

The word mansion came from a Latin word mansiō which means ( the act of remaining or staying). So mansion is the large, impressive house and U. S real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over 8,000 square feet (740 m²). So when Jesus said in my Father's house there are many mansions He meant something like what I tried to explain above. Whoa! what a joy we will have to live in those mansion which Jesus went to prepare for His bride who is the church for almost 2000 years now.

This morning I want to encourage you, that if you are passing through hardships and trials in this earth just be of God cheer. God has prepared a dwelling place (Home) in His house up on high. There is a hand of God still with you and that's why you are reading this message. God has intended to bless you supernatural in this life and has prepared a place for you after this life.

Keep on trusting on Jesus, keep on holding your faith. When sinners come to you and tell you that there is a short cut of getting wealth, fame or good life according to their definition but you should do somethings which   are against the Word of God. You need just to say no and tell them in their faces that, "You devils leave me alone with my Jesus, and in the Mighty Name of Jesus I root out and pull down, I destroy and I overthrow, every plan of your father Satan over my life. I build faith and plant prosperity in my life". By doing that you will leave a victorious life in all the days of your life.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I'm coming before You by the blood of Jesus. Lord I'm asking that you may give me strength and courage to contend for my faith knowing after my victory in this life, I will get a dwelling place in your house. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Morning with Ebenezer

THE BLOOD

Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

Hebrews 9:13-14 NLT

One of the amazing thing which changed the history of the world and it's entire humanity was the death of Jesus on the cross. His death was the beginning of the new era in the history of man after the first Adam fall. To most people they just term it as an historical event which took place somewhere in Middle East in land of Israel some 2000 years ago; most of them to do not pay attention to the truth and details of this man death on the cross so they found themselves remained in their sins.

The Bible says in the Book of 1 Corinthians 1:18; For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For those who are heading to destruction the message of the cross for them is nothing else like a Hollywood horror movie but for us how are being saved by the blood of New Covenant is the power of God to set us free from our sinful nature so that we can worship the living God.

This morning I want to encourage you, that there is a  power in the blood of Jesus. There is a blood of Jesus which can set you free, heal you and make you whole again. The blood of Jesus is the one which can wipe away fear in you, remove the scars of the past in your heart, the blood can cause your weeping which you had last night to change to joy this morning.

You do not need to be afraid, but you only need the blood of Jesus. That peace which you have been seeking in your life is found in calling upon the blood of Jesus because it is written the punishment of our peace was upon Him on the cross and by His stripes we are healed and made whole(Isaiah 53:5). Hallelujah! What a truth! Call the name of the Lord today, ask for His blood and your life won't be the same again.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I'm coming before You by the blood of Jesus. I thank You for the gift of salvation through Christ Jesus. Now am asking that you may wash me way my sins and make me whole again by the blood of your Son. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Morning with Ebenezer

THE LAW OF FAITHFULNESS

He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much.Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [case of] unrighteous mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions), who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not proved faithful in that which belongs to another [whether God or man], who will give you that which is your own [that is, the true riches]?

Luke 16:10-12 AMP

Jesus was the man of prayer, it is believed that He spent half of His life in prayers. The Bible says that He could not speak anything except which He saw His Father speaking in other words He always spoke the Word of God and there where His anointing and prosperity sourced ( John 12:49). One day he said whosoever will be faithful in very little thing will be also faithful in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little thing is dishonest and unjust also in much.

He continued saying if you have not been trustworthy in handling the world wealthy, who will going to give you true riches? He said that to mean if you won't be faithful in giving God what He has given you in this earth through offerings, tithes, and helping widows, orphans and poor. How will be able to get heavenly riches in that New Jerusalem which is coming? 

In what I call the law of faithfulness, I believe if God has given you something whether a gift, office to take care, church, people to lead or a man or a woman in your life. If you will be faithful in that gift of yours, office, church and leadership; God is going to also to show Himself faithful to you by entrusting with things which even your carnal mind can not comprehend.

If you are in relationship, and you believe that God has given that man or woman to you for a purpose. I dare you to be faithful to her or him even if she or he may tend to be unfaithful to you because in that way God is going to bring a right person in your life who is going to become your wife or husband. In other words if you have someone and you are faithful to him or her and viceversa just be sure God is going to entrust him or her to be your life mate one day.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Lord am asking that you may forgive me for being unfaithful before your eyes. Now am asking that you may give me strength to be faithful on what you have entrusted to me with right now ooh Lord. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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TRUE PRAISE

And yet [in spite of all this] many even of the leading men (the authorities and the nobles) believed and trusted in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that [if they should acknowledge Him] they would be expelled from the synagogue;

 For they loved the approval and the praise and the glory that come from men [instead of and] more than the glory that comes from God. [They valued their credit with men more than their credit with God.]

John 12:42-43

Jesus when He was in the fresh in this world, He did many signs and wonders before people who lived in His  day. One of the astonished miracle was when He raised Lazarus from dead, this made many people to come to Him but the Bible puts it clear that they did not come not only to hear Jesus but also they came to see Lazarus who they heard that He was dead and Jesus raised him back again to life.

Some of the rulers, noble men and famous people of His day believed and trusted in Jesus; but because of Pharisees( whom were religious leaders) they did not confess it, for they feared that they would cast away from the synagogue. Since many religious leaders of His day where against Jesus. It is the same in our day that many of us like to have approval from our friends and people rather than to get approval from God.

Many of young people in colleges they found themselves engaged in what we call risk behaviors because simply they wanted to get approval from their friends. Now days people who are called by the name of God (born again Christians) are the laughingstock among the unbelievers and they are given every kind of disappointment names that they may feel bad and at the end  leave their faith.

You may be in the state where the environment is forcing you to compromise, water down the Gospel of Jesus and do some things like the way people of this world do. I have a message for you my friend that, God praise and approval is above all what a man can offer to you. God approval is eternal but man's approval is for the shorty period of time while you still have something to benefit them, but soon will fade away and you will just remain with regrets and sorrow.

Renew your mind, change your attitude, seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all things shall be added into you. Do not sell your body for someone who promised he will marry you and forget that fornication is sin. God is faithful, He will give you double for your trouble. Wait for Him soon He will come for your rescue.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Lord I'm asking that you may forgive me for the sin of compromising, now I am asking that You may give me strength to stand for you alone in all the days of my life. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Morning with Ebenezer

IT'S NOT OVER

We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.

Romans 8:28 AMP

Have you ever thought that you have reached the end of you, end of your potential, end of your gift or even the end of your life. People who came from broken homes, broken relationships or being out of work for a long period of time they can tell you that it reached a point they sought that it was over and there was no more for them in God's store.

I may be talking to someone who has been experiencing abusive environment or maybe you know somebody who have been in a financial problem and he has already given up that he will not be able to recover his life once again. Girls who have lost their virginity before marriage due to couples of reasons, they may reach a point in life and say that,"I'm done!", and there is nothing more for me because I  ruined my own life.

God has sent me this morning to to tell you this; This is not the end, and as He Word says in Isaiah 61:3a,
To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

No matter what you have been going through in life all this time and the devil keeps telling you that you are done. That disease is going to kill you, that sin which you did in the past is going to make you pay for it and you are going to be ashamed before all people. The good news is this, the Lord wants to console you, to give you the ornament of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of heavy, burdened and falling spirit.

The devil is a liar, when God is in it there is no limit just know it's not over. All things will work together for good to you because you love God and you have been called according to His design and purpose. Be encouraged, whatever you thought was ending in your life just know that God is going to open another door which will be better than the former one.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I'm coming before You by the blood of Jesus. Lord I'm trading all my sorrow, I'm trading my shame, I'm trading my sickness, I'm trading my pain, I'm laying it down for the joy of the Lord. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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PRAYER FOR YOUR BREAKTHROUGH

Up to this time you have not asked a [single] thing in My Name [as presenting all that I Am]; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete.

John 16:24 AMP

The Word breakthrough means:- an offensive trust that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line in warfare, an act or instance of breaking an obstruction or a sudden advance especially in knowledge or technique. A breakthrough happens when God takes you from one place to another or from a lower level to another higher level in life. In order for us Christians to get breakthrough in different aspects of life we need to pray in such a way we will be able to break and get what God wants us to have in life.

The Bible says our war is not against fresh and blood, but is against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places, Eph 6:11b. This means there is a force in the heavenly places which is the spiritual realm preventing the children of God to gain access to their breakthroughs. This lead us to have another type of prayer which is quite different from other daily prayers.

Daniel was praying for the breakthrough of children of Israel when they were in exile in Babylon and he fasted and prayed constantly for twenty-one days. Later the Angel of the Lord came and told him that God answered his prayer from the very first day but the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia wrestled with Gabriel that he may not send Daniel answers for twenty-one days. As Daniel continued praying earnestly to God, it gave a chance to Michael to come and help Gabriel to fight with the kings of Persia and  finally Daniel got his answers, Dan 9:12-14.

This morning you may be having king of Persia in your way to your breakthrough. May be you need spiritual breakthrough you want to know God in an extra-ordinary way, may be you need a financial breakthrough, breakthrough in your marriage, relationship, education or even in your loved ones that they may know the Lord as you do. I have a good news for you that you need to change the type of prayer which you have been asking God for your breakthrough.

You need to have a earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer from today which later will bring tremendous power available enough to cause your breakthrough to happen, James 5:16 b. While you are doing that kind of prayer( with all others prayer) remember you need to be holy in all your conducts that you may give chance God to prove Himself faithful through your prayers.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Now am asking that you may give me a persistent heart of keep on praying and pushing in my knees until I get my breakthrough. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Morning with Ebenezer

PERFECT WALK

 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV

The Bible says, Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].Heb 11:1, we see many examples in the Bible of the great men and women of God who lived by faith in their lives. Everyone of them were given promises by God which they did  not make sense in their present time according to what they were facing in that time but through the eye of faith they obtained their promises.

We see Abraham by faith called by Go to go to a foreign land which he did not know; We see Moses who by faith passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. We see David by faith being anointed to be a king in his young age it is believed he was seventeen years old but he came to gain the throne when he was thirty years old, thirteen years later. 

Walking by faith is what I call the Perfect walk. Many of us God has placed desires inside of us of reaching a  certain level in our lives one day. Some we had dreams of accomplishing great things in life, others we got the grace of being shown by God through dreams in the late time of the night what God wants us to become in the future. But our present circumstances and reality denies what God has placed inside of us concerning our future and at the end of the day we find ourselves confused.

Should I continue believing in my dreams? should I continue trusting God for what He has shown me? will I be able to reach my goals in life? these are questions which most of us have been battling with them for quite some time now. This morning God wants you to know, you don't have to live with what you see or you don't have to live with what you feel. But you need to live by faith.

Faith in Jesus Christ, faith in the Son of God. This is the master key to open to your future dreams and visions which God has placed in your heart. God is faithful, all what he has promised you for sure he will do for you if you will faint not. He has a good plan for your life, He wants you to continue believing in His work on the cross and to know that there is only one savior and only way to the Father in heaven and on the earth who is Jesus Christ.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for sending your Son Jesus in this world. Now am coming before you this morning asking that you may give me the gift of faith that I may walk by faith and not by sight, I may live on what you have said you will do in my life through your Word and not what I see in my present circumstances. Thank You for answering my prayer, In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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THE HOUR IS NEAR

And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 13:11-12 NIV

The word slumber means, to sleep, to be dormant, to pass time in sleep, or a state of inactivity or dormancy. As we know sleeping is not a bad thing especially during night hours after you have done all what you supposed to do during a day. But there what we call spiritual slumbering, or the state of being spiritual dormant. This can manifest itself in most of the people who call themselves Christian but who have been bound with religion and normal practice of their religious groups but not the leading of the Holy Ghost.

The Bible says the hour has come for us to wake up from our sleeping or dormancy, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. Their is a tendency in the Church of Christ of people to forget where the Lord brought them from and they just take for granted their salvation and forget that they need to stay in their watch [To look or observe attentively,continuously or carefully; be closely observant:] waiting for the Bridegroom who is Jesus Christ to come.

The sign which may indicate that you are in the slumbering mode in your life is this:- You will forget your first love[ the love you had for Jesus when you received Him], meaning what you felt before when you believed in Christ, those fellowship which you had with Him in your spirit, you did not go to bed without reading the Word, you wanted the whole world to know about Jesus and you repented immediately when you noticed a sin in your life. If those signs are no longer in your life and you won't feel the passion for the Gospel and the lost as before be that sure that their is dormancy in your spirit.

This morning God wants you to know that He is coming to take His bride who is a Church so soon. He needs  you to stand on your watch by prayer, fasting and continue witnessing the Gospel to the lost that they may get to know God who you have already known. Stay away from sin, keep clean the robe of holiness in your life and trust God in everything while you know inside of you that all things works together for good to those who love God.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for another wonderful day. Lord am asking that you may forgive me for being so dormant in my life. Now am going against with the spirit of slumbering in my life in the Name of Jesus. I speak new beginning in my spiritual life and by faith I will do all things which God wants me to do in my life. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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BROKEN HEART

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows].

Psalm 147:3 AMP

The word Broken heart according to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia means; intense emotional pain or suffering ones feels after losing a loved one, whether through death, divorce, breakup, physical separation,betray or romantic rejection. Most of us we are smiling outside but deep inside we are broken and most of the time when we try to find the proper way to cure our pain and suffering we ended up in more pain.

One day someone said, a broken man has no else to go to that he may be healed but only in 1the church. But still we have some folks in our churches who are still hurting inside and as the days goes on the pain increase. May be you have experienced a death of your loved one, a betrayal from a close friend or you had a romantic rejection and still no one is there to comfort you.

The Bible says that God is a one who heals the broken hearts, after all one of the things which the spirit of God anointed Jesus for was the healing of broken hearted as recalled in Isaiah 61:1:-

“The Spirit of the Lord   God is upon Me,

Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

God wants you to know this morning, if you will turn your pain in his care He will take care of it. He has seen your cry and that deep grief which you have inside of you, that's why he sent this Word in order when you read it and receive it by faith you may be able to receive your healing. No rejection can stand against God, if you were rejected by a man or woman be sure that she or he/she was not meant for you and that's why he left but if he/she was yours the time will bring him/her into your life once again.

Jesus is the greatest physician! No matter who you have lost in life right now, no matter what you have found yourself going through whether it may be divorce or physical separation with your loved ones. I just want encourage you that still there is hope in Jesus, you can have your total peace if you will choose to trust Him and freely let Him to be God of your life and allow His will to done into you.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for sending Your Word to me this morning. Lord I desire to see Your healing anointing power works through my deep wounds in my heart and that You may set me free from my past. Devil I rebuke you in the Name of Jesus, I refuse to be bound with the past while am living in the present. I speak new beginning and I'm asking for new anointing of a new day, In Jesus Name, Amen.

 

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BUT GOD

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 NIV

If there's a road of bandage and sin that you've tried, don't give up,so did I,but God demonstrates His own love towards me and through His amazing grace He set me free from every kind of bondage and sin which the devil had in store for me.

There are many of us who had many sleepless night or deep like giving up thoughts inside of us on how we can overcome certain behavior and sins in our lives. Some had been struggling with a certain common sin in our lives which the Bible calls that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us (Hebrews 12:1b). This can be Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness,laziness and e.t.c, and you wonder how in the world will you be able to get out of that which I call a common sin in you.

It's true that you have tried many different ways to live holy life, maybe you have been reading different books and magazines which instruct people to follow some steps that they may live the good life; and you have been doing all religious activities according to what you have been taught since you were a child but still you are struggling in different parts of your life.

I have a good news for you my friend, I was there too struggling like you do, there was a time I opt to give up and to let the devil keep pressing me down and just pretend like all things were just alright. But God, but God intervened, He said son, enough is enough, I heard the Gospel and I was touched by it. I surrendered to Him Jesus and He became the Lord of my life. I'm telling you my friend God is about to do the same to you, He will deliver you from that valley of sins and set you into higher places in Christ.

But God can deliver you, but God can set you free, heal and make you whole once again. Start this morning while knowing you are victor against sin and death and not a victim because of the sacrifice which Jesus made for you on the cross. If you will know this truth in your heart, there you will have confidence to ask for forgiveness of your sins and cast away the spirit which comes with that common sin of yours far away from your life.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for being faithful to me by giving me the Word in a right time and hour in my life. Now am asking that You may wash away all my sins by the blood of Your Son Jesus that I may have confidence in the day of your coming. Thank You Jesus for your love, in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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THE POWER OF APPRECIATION

Then one of them, upon seeing that he was cured, turned back, recognizing and thanking andpraising God with a loud voice;And he fell prostrate at Jesus’ feet, thanking Him [over and over]. And he was a Samaritan.Then Jesus asked, Were not [all] ten cleansed? Where are the nine?Was there no one found to return and to recognize and give thanks and praise to God except this alien?And He said to him, Get up and go on your way. Your faith (your trust and confidence that spring from your belief in God) has restored you to health.
Luke 17:11-19 AMP

Jesus was in His way to Jerusalem, and it happened while Jesus was passing along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering one village, he met with lepers who stood at distance. Then those lepers raised their voice and they called out, Jesus, Master! Have pity on us. Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests and as they went they were cleansed.

Later only one man came back to Jesus with praises in his mouth thanking God for what He has done for him. This surprised Jesus and he asked if not all ten were cleansed? but he was amazed to see only one person who was not even a Jew but he was the one who came to show his appreciation to Jesus. As the result his health was totally restored and I believe he become so new that it wasn't possible to believe that he had leprosy few hours before Jesus came across that village.

When we look the meaning of the word appreciation we can say is the act of recognizing the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of people and things. As that Samaritan recognized the value of the healing which he received from Jesus, we also must learn to recognize and appreciate all what God has done to our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

It is very easy and obvious for a human being who was born by a woman to count troubles which he face, disappointments, unattained  goals, failed dreams and defeats which he suffered in his life time. But God wants you to stop focusing on what you can't do, can't go, can't have, can't see, can't win, can't say, can't give, and all related with can'ts and start thinking on what God can do for you, can say to you, can win for you, can give you, can help you and who can restore everything and make them new.

You can change your attitude today, you can start by appreciating all that God has done for you and which He is going to do for you by faith. This morning start your day with the heart which was in that Samaritan man and God is going to do all what He has planned for your life.

****Morning with Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word. I'm asking for forgiveness for my bad attitude before you Lord,help me to change my attitude that I may live a thanksgiving life in all days of my being. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Morning with Ebenezer

VICTORY THROUGH JESUS

But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57 AMP

The word victory means, defeat of an enemy or opponent, success in a struggle against difficulties or an obstacle or in other words we can say the state of having triumphed. In a Christian point of view this word can also bring forth several meaning such as:- To conquer, to carry off the victory, come off victorious of Christ, victorious over all His foes of Christians, that hold fast their faith even unto death against the power of their foes,  temptations and persecutions.

We all need victory in many areas of our lives, even the people who do not know God work day and night to gain the victory in their daily chaos of this life. Some of us we need victory in our spiritual condition to overcome demons and spirits of the families or of a certain region which have been dominated in generations after generations. Some we need victory in a certain sin, weakness or behavior which is not good.

The Bible puts it clear that the only everlasting victory in our lives is through Jesus Christ. Who is a son of God, born through the power of Holy Ghost by a virgin and who was raised with a carpenter of small town of Nazareth in Israel. When he was thirty years old, God His Father started using Him in an extra-ordinary way until the day which He died on the cross and saved the man kind from the power of death and hell.

Today that same Jesus offer victory for every creature under the sun through believing His Word, surrendering to His will and know in your heart that He did not brought you this far to fail. No matter what you are going through this morning, commit it to Jesus, trust Him and He will make you to come out of your situation triumph and a new song in your mouth.

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I'm coming before you by the Blood of Jesus. Lord am asking you to forgive me for having divided intention to your Word which led me to be defeated in every area of my life. Now am asking you that you may be in charge and help me to have total victory though You Jesus. In Jesus' Name, Amen.