To the love of my life
To you I gave my heart,
It doesn’t matter where we started,
Or even how we started,
Because back then am worthless,
Even though you loved me before I knew you,
But yet you took me up,
And promised me a greater future,
Hmmm, to the one that love me,
And the one I love,
All I want to say is THANK YOU




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To the love of my life 2

Right from the bottom of my heart,
I wrote this great piece,
Just to express my gratitude.
I take a close look at myself​,
How useless and unworthy am I,
Not worthy of entering the palace,
Not to talk of sitting at your right hand.
But yet you said
"Am not done with this boy"
I need to bring him close,
To enjoy the luxury of my father's kingdom.
Things I won't ever dream of,
Now become things am enjoying in real life.
You asked me for nothing,
Only if I choose to believe and to follow,
Only if I won't at the end betray you,
You said you paid all the price of entering your​ father's palace.
Wow, I enjoyed so great a mercy,
To the love of my life
All I want to say is THANK YOU

P.S. : God's mercy is still calling us, we need nothing that to believe and to follow him. Just acknowledge his sacrifice over your life and start a journey of being a disciple with HIM.

#òtáìbáyòmí
Abayomi Adeoye

NIV:Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

NIV:But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.

NIV:All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Acts 6:1 - In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

NIV:This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.

NIV:Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them

Apostle Paul said For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Romans 10:2 (NIV)

You are saved right? Yes you are, but let's examine a portion of the scriptures together.
John 13:10 - NIV:Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”

John 13:10

The Bible says "those who have had a bath". The disciples which Jesus is addressing here have been with him pretty long, they were part of his ministry and more so they were the one Jesus intended to leave the gospel with. So I see them as the ones that have had their bath. Though the Bible says not everyone of them is clean ( he meant Judas Iscariot).

There is this popular Christian hymn "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power". The first line of the chorus reads "Are you washed in the blood of the lamb." And to be washed in the blood of the lamb you have to "acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, rely on the truth) that God raised Him (Jesus) from dead. Romans 10:9 Amplified version. (Emphasis mine). Literally, those Jesus was talking about are those that have been saved.

In our reference verse (John 13:10), Jesus went further to say "these people are the one that need to wash their feet." Let's first think of that like this. "It's not possible for you not to bathbut just washed your feet and say you are clean." I have seen unbelievers who don't steal, they don't covet others' property. In short, they kept Exodus 20 commandments but yet they don't believe in Christ. I term them as moralist, they kept moral laws. So they need to bath first to be clean.

But Jesus said those that have had their bath need to wash their feet. I see this as a time to time check up of oneself. Medical doctors will recommend a time-to-time medical checkup to run all test just to ensure that you are healthy and so Jesus as the great physician is also recommending that you wash your feet and make sure they are clean just like apostle Paul told the church in Corinth in his second letter that "AMP:Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?"

Wash your feet time to time

Remember, those that have been saved need to wash their feet time to time. I pray it is well with our soul.

Abayomi Adeoye

Two more lessons as we conclude our sharings this year.

#HumbleBeginnings will not lead to the desired end if your motive is to announce yourself.
David did not fight Goliath to show himself, he did because he couldn't bear a pagan, insulting The LORD.
If your motive is God alone, greatness is within reach.

The path to greatness may not turn out to be the greatest way available.
When David was to fight Goliath, he was offered the armour of Saul, couldn't he have been offered that of Joab, or Jonathan?
The Armour of an earthly king brings setbacks, but the knowledge of God propels unto greatness.

The young man who said of Jesus Christ  "Can anything good, come out from Nazareth?" later referred to Him as Rabbi, and King.

Remember, every tree begins as a little seed.

May the LORD bless you, and sustain you on your days of #HumbleBeginnings.

The LORD sparing us, we shall return on #ChristmasStories17 to explore the theme of #DivineVisitation.
Keep us in your prayers.
We're praying for you too.

Thanks for being part of the edition this year.

Remember the lessons.
Grace always

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