Heart of the Wise

Are you truly saved? How do you know?  Merely repeating a sinner's prayer or walking an aisle to answer an altar call or filling a new converts card in a church house or crusade does not necessarily save you. Understand the Gospel. Realize you're a depraved sinner deserving of eternal damnation. Believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ died as the substitute and payment for your sin. Put your faith in JESUS! Salvation is a supernatural work of God's Spirit in a man's heart. By grace you are saved, through faith, and that not of yourself; it is the gift of God! The Cross of Christ is the symbol of God's Love for man. Open your heart to God's Love today! Come to the Cross of Christ!

God created us for his pleasure: to please him. (Isaiah 43:7&21, Colossians 1:16, Revelations 4:11)  But being loved by God does NOT mean we're pleasing to him. We must seek to please him. Being loved by God is different from being well-pleasing to him. His love is unconditional. Pleasing him isn't. That a father loves a child doesn't mean the child is always doing what pleases the father. His love for the child must be unconditional and unfailing even though the child is not well-pleasing to him at every or any point in time. That's how God's love is. We know God loves everyone. But not everyone does what pleases God's heart. Being loved by God is unconditional because God loves us irrespective of what we do. His love for us is not fickle, as the love of men is. God's kind of love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:8) However to please Him, we need to do certain things. For example, the Bible says: "without faith it is impossible to ple...

As we walk sincerely with God, He will work on our heart to develop our character, teaching us His truth in His word, molding us with tough experiences, correcting our blunders and straying, and leading us in the right path. He only needs us to have humble and trusting hearts, keeping our eyes only on Him. He knows us inside out. He knows each man's ability and each man's heart. Until He becomes our everything, until we stop trying to play smart and hustle in our own cleverness, until we learn true heart humility and unconditional love and forgiveness, until He has tried our heart and purified it of every idol, every vanity and every false method, we may never see Him in His fullness on our behalf even with all our convoluted religion. Do you have this real, personal, conscious walk with God?  If you do, you will know in what areas He is working on you per time, sometimes in hindsight, sometimes in real time, but you will know. You will hear Him, if you car...

Salvation is a supernatural work of God's Spirit in man's heart. It is not something you assume. To be born again is to be spiritually reborn, made alive from the dead and awakened to the Fatherhood of God. This is a real personal experience. It is not presumed. Faith is real. Stop the religious games and make sure you are truly born again. Quit playing with your soul. And don't be deceived by any false hope or false religion. Be concerned about the state of your soul. Your eternal abode depends on it. Are you born again or born into religion? Do you have a real heart yearning for God? Do you seek Him sincerely in His Word? Is your spirit or heart awakened or reborn? Are you for real? Is the Cross of Christ, His work of death and resurrection, real to your heart? Are you saved? God's love, mercy and grace have been given to save us from our vile hearts and wicked ways. Don't neglect this great Salvation out of sheer carelessness, worldliness or bus...

Due to the prevalence of poverty, many preachers and professed 'Christians' have made a priority of prosperity over and above authentic spirituality (the simple, honest and wholehearted devotion to Christ that yields Christ-likeness or the fruit of the Spirit, which is in all goodness, righteousness and truth). To be clear, it is righteousness  (with its integral elements of social justice and cultural ethics, in a sociocultural and socioeconomic context)  that exalts a nation. Sin or lawlessness is a reproach to any society. Thus, an altogether prosperous nation, abundant in resources of varied sorts, without social justice and cultural ethics (namely, the culture of rightness, uprightness or righteousness), will be ruined by entrenched and endemic corruption and social injustice, largely through misappropriation of funds and mismanagement of their abundant and varied resources. True wisdom and understanding is the practical application of the principles ...

Life is beautiful To those who are beautiful Life is beautiful If seen through eyes of beauty Life becomes beautiful If we become beautiful We can make ourselves beautiful To see through eyes of beauty Think about this for a moment: “Life is beautiful.” Do you believe this to be true? Life is beautiful to those who are beautiful and if seen through eyes of beauty.”   What does this mean? Does it mean that the “ beauty of life is in the eyes of the beholder of life” ? Life can actually take on a beautiful meaning for an individual, if that individual has learned to become “beautiful” on the inside.  Character ethics proponent, Stephen Covey, made this revolutionary statement: “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are, or as we are conditioned to see it.” This holds true because it is not what we see going on around us that matters most. There’s only a legitimate extent to what we can possibly do to change people or to control ...

    Freedom is like beauty and love—it is difficult to define but you know it when you experience it. (Myles Munroe) Life is beautiful To those who are beautiful. What is life all about? What really is the be-all and end-all of life? Permit me to offer my contemplative commentary on this. Life is about knowing, loving and glorifying God with our lives and growing progressively in our experience and expression of our God-given graces and gifts. In simpler words, life is about knowing God and fulfilling God-given purpose in life. Life is about living with purpose  - not just existing but living life to the full, although different people have different concepts of this. Different strokes for different folks. Thus, life means a lot of different things to different people. However, the basic thing about life, as simply put as possible, is this: know God for yourself and find out what you were put on Earth to do.     ...