Knowing Deceit: In Relationships, Business and Everything

Knowing Deceit: In Relationships, Business and Everything

You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Matt 7:11

The Bible amazes me, God amazes me! The key to so much can be found in just a verse in the bible. The word of God says by their fruit you shall know them.

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. Matt 12:35

So many people claim to be what they are not, even what they are very very far from being.

So many of us wonder if our friends are good, honest, God fearing people as they claim to be? We wonder if our Priests.Pastors, Spiritual leaders are as God fearing as they seem on the altar? If our fiancé will make a good husband? If perhaps the person we work with is honest?

Everyone can carry a bible but very few actually read it and even fewer understand what they read. Deceit is everywhere,in the house of God, in relationships, in business, everywhere!

How do we find and sieve the real from the fake? The illusion from the reality of a person? How do we see what deceit and hidden motives? BY THEIR FRUIT!

A diseased tree can never produce a healthy fruit. Sometimes a fruit may even look great from the outside and then you open it and you see that it is diseased in some way. This happens to me all the time especially with garden egg. Sometimes you can see evidence of a diseased fruit just by looking at it. Other times you buy believing it to be healthy only to open it and see the contrary.

Don't be deceived by talk, and all kinds of external appearances but wait and study the fruits of these people around you and you will see, recognize and understand their fruits.

If you see your fiancé disrespecting his mother in any way, how will he respect you when you are married. If he is nasty to people he considers lower class (waiters,helps e.t.c), those are fruits you should not ignore.

As is the tree, so is its fruit; if the tree is good, it will bring forth good fruit. The tree that brings forth good fruit, is good antecedent to the fruit it produces; it is first good, and then puts forth good fruit: it is not the fruit that makes the tree good, but makes it appear to be so; but it is the goodness of the tree that makes the fruit good. As a good man does, and will do good works, but his works do not make him a good man; he is so before he performs good works, or he would never be able to do them; " Gills exposition"

Written by KACHI

Prayer: Heaping Empty Phrases

Prayer: Heaping Empty Phrases

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Matt 6:7

According to the canons of the Pharisees, every day a man ought to pray eighteen prayers. Their prayer books abound in tautologies, and in expressing the same things in different words, and by a multiplicity of them. " Gils exposition on the bible"

There are formulas, programs, advice and techniques for getting what you want from God.This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. 

As loving Parents, we all want the best for our children. Their wants and desires are not always the best for them. I for one as a parent would like my kids to approach me with their desires and wants in the most simple way without a lot of drama. I would rather they come as they are not with escorts to ask on their behalf but as they are even if they are incoherent. No matter how incoherent my child is, he/she is my child, I will understand the incoherence.

God loves us so much that He gave us His only Son without our asking  so why do we find it difficult to approach the One who loves so much more than our parents ever could. God says in Matt 7:10-11"If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

"He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:32

Some people feel their voice is not good enough or strong enough for God to hear but God loves you just as you are!    For God so loved (not just love "so loved") the world (we sinful,unworthy people) that He sent His only Son (the best that heaven has to offer) that whosoever (thief,prostitute,ugly,stammerer,ex-convict,my father was a missionary,my mother is a senator,my father was in the occult,my mother hates me,disowned child,mad men,serial killer,Boko haram,Isis) believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life! john 3:16

God says whosoever! Let us come bodly to the throne of grace that we may obtain grace for help in the time of need.

Written by Kachi

Grow Down

Grow Down

How honest and direct children are with their needs! If it feels good, they laugh. If it hurts, they cry. If they want it, they ask for it—or just take it.

In Luke 18:17 Jesus says, “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

These words about children actually preceded Jesus’ conversation with the rich young ruler who couldn’t admit his need for God and Jesus’ interaction with Zacchaeus, who scaled a tree — like a child — to catch a glimpse of Jesus. Jesus set the stage with a truth and then illustrated it both negatively and positively. By contrasting two men’s actions — one who couldn’t admit his needs and one who readily admitted his needs to the point of making himself look like a child — Jesus clearly teaches us how to approach God with our needs.

What do you need? Patience with a potty-training three-year-old? Wisdom with a truth-stretching six-year-old? Compassion with a troubled thirteen-year-old? Jesus reminds us that when we admit our needs with the honesty of a child, he’ll meet them.

Take a moment to pray today:

Dear God, I need _________. Today. Right now. Please provide for this need in a way that I can understand. Like a child, I’m asking, I’m reaching out, I’m standing on tiptoe to watch you work. I pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

From the Moms bible

Posted by kachi