Eben Karl

Nov 7 2024

Purity and Holiness - for the forthcoming year (2025)

Let's grow past demonic influenced condemnation. Let's grow past self inflicted guilt. Let's grow past the shaming of our brothers and sisters with shaky legs, let's grow past the measuring up of religious standards of righteousness. Let's grow together, building one another in love and faith

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Today's Word

Psalm 25:15: Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Christians have a place to go, born again Christians have the hope of life after death and the honour that comes with it.

But the best seats, some of the best crowns will be worn by praying mothers and grandmothers, and people in the background who no one values. Those who in secret have tirelessly worked for the propagation of the gospel. Those people who never for once desired the fame and acknowledgement of the spotlight but remained in the background to put the light (focus) on Jesus Christ🙏

I am on my way home and as I get getting closer to home. A certain blessing that I have been blessed with keeps occurring to me that 3yrs ago, I was praying about this and getting frustrated about what seems to be a delay

It happens that 3yrs ago, God was working on my present situation.

What a faithful God!

Psalm 140: 7 - O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

My shield, my song, my strength, the coverer of my head, the coverer of my shame and my nakedness - thank You🙏

Have you ever met someone special?

If you have you will realize that it is the value and importance you attribute to them that makes them special. No one can be special without someone believing they are special

REMEMBER

"Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage”
Deuteronomy 8:12-14

The unrighteousness of forgetting commonly affects people who are full!
People who live in their own houses tend to forget God. Those who have multiplied all that they have also quickly forget God.

You must become the type of person who is rich and prosperous and yet mindful of where you came from. It is a sad fact that many rich people talk a lot but give little. People speak about the blessings God has given them but they do not honour God for what He has done.

May the Lord deliver you from any terrible betrayal! May you escape whatever has been planned to crush you in Jesus name

The sad state of Ghanaian politics is this: the main opposition has nothing to offer the people except unnecessary cries of the corruption and arrogance of the current government while they forget the log in their own eyes.

And the current government, lies and lies and polishing of lies that seems nice against contary evidence.

And the others, promises of rivers, ghost stories and fairy tales.

The people's choice; let's choose the bad government we can tolerate

Wise people ask questions

I still think the toughest thing about being human is dealing with people's thoughts and assumptions about you and your situations. And how their attitude towards you are based on these assumptions, the truth, and what seems to be the truth. Some people even base their judegement, decisions and attitudes towards you based on what they feel in their heart or for other people, what they feel in their gut.

What is worse is that we respond to this by what we think they are thinking or assuming. This is a whole mess! Another thing is that what is wrong today may be acceptable tomorrow.

The solution to this problem is simply talking about things and getting clarity on situations before we start over thinking and making decisions.

What prevents us from having these kinds of conversations is that we have convinced ourselves to believe that being silent over an issue or something you don't understand is a sign of maturity.

Eben

Jesus looks down from the cross and seeing His mother. He decides to give her a gift, a son, a person.

He looks in the crowd and finds His person, John, His most beloved disciple and says

"woman this is your son". He may have been thinking "mother, you have lost me today, but I give you someone in my place".

Many times, the people we meet in our short lives on earth are gifts that are given to us. They may be raw and uncut diamonds and it is up to us to decide whether they are a rare and precious stone, or just a piece of broken glass.

Eben☘️