HUMILITY – A Principle of WISDOM

What is Humility?
Humility can be defined as being meek, lowly and the absence of self. It is also the opposite of pride and arrogance. Humility is stems from self-control and selflessness.

It is amazing to know that humility (meekness) is one of the fruit of the Spirit. It is also a way we know we are allowing the Spirit of GOD work in us into His Christ-like nature.

In the mouth of two or more the truth is established, so we will take 1 Sam 2:8
James 4: 6 and 10
1 Peter 5:

JESUS is our perfect example. We need to learn from Him. All His working, miracles, words and successes, He acknowledges the Spirit of GOD and the Father for them all. No matter how little or great.

James 4:16-17 teaches that being able to fulfil any planned goal We must also learn to honour all men. Those greater than us, those equal and those lower than us. We have received His grace.

Humility is not just respecting people or honouring GOD directly but also indirectly too.

Do you lose faith when you fail? Do you feel dejected because you planned something and couldn’t get? By strength shall no man prevail friends. We must learn not to give up. Trust in the LORD’S strength, wisdom and His Spirit not yours. If you do fail, straighten those knees, rejoice, persevere, stay focused and He will lift you up. Hebrews 12:2

Reward of Humility Matthew 5: we shall inherit the earth because the earth’s is LORD and the fullness thereof. We live in the earth and as much as we are citizens of heaven, we are also ambassadors of GOD on earth. We don’t only preach the Word of GOD we believe in words but also in deeds, in character. Many people of GOD in the Bible and in our days were and are able to achieve great things not just with strength or by being smart but because of their full dependence on GOD. We must acknowledge that we need GOD in our heart, mind and head. That is also being humble because it is GOD that shows us mercy. We will definitely see him come through.

Another insightful scripture in the word of GOD is

Proverbs 15:33 Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the LORD, and humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 22:4 Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life.

An instruction from Wisdom is to be Humble. Being humble is an act that shows you dear (honour) GOD. The reward for being humble is riches, honour and life which according to the Book of Proverbs is the reward also for obtaining Wisdom.

Apostle Paul’s prayer usually ends with the grace of JESUS upon the church. Hidden in the message is His constant reminder for us to humble ourselves before GOD at all things. Come boldly before the throne of Grace but come acknowledging the LORD who grants us such privilege. GOD wants all to be saved but no all are yet. Grace found you! Humility is key to unlimited grace.

Stay humble, keep being lifted. The proud are ultimately brought low.

More Closer than Farther

Main Text: Job 14:2-7

Isaiah 1:18-19 ‘ Come let us reason together, says the LORD. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land.

The KJV Bible

As men grow older, we grow more closely to the day we take our last breath and farther from our birth. Unlike trees that gets second, third, and even multiple chances to rejuvenate after being cut down, it is not so for humans. Usually only GOD sustains a man and dead men come back to life on the account of the mercies and miracles of GOD.


A sinner doesn’t get his chance of rebirth, nor grows back strong and flourishing if he refuses repentance. This is because he or she becomes more terrible than a dry scourged tree. He is nowhere near the living spring or river. Hence, his root does fail him. JESUS is the living water; the ever-flowing spring of life. We need Him and He is ever willing to keep us blooming and fruitful.

As written in the book of Psalms 1:1, which speaks and likens men who trust and abide in JESUS to be as trees planted by the river side. Men who abide by JESUS are blessed and secured even in the toughest drought and frosty chills. Our LORD is our Hope, our Help and our Sustenance. He is the well that never runs dry; the River of living waters, LORD All-Sufficient, and LORD Most High. We know you and I am loved by Him.


Don’t die a thirsty sinner! Don’t die a lone-grieving soul! Let the LORD quench your thirst with sweet water for He did turn the water of Mara (bitter water) sweet.


Tomorrow might be too late! Repent today, be revived too. You might have been hurt but you need to let go! We are drawing closer than we are moving farther. Aren’t you tired of the thirst and weariness? Come to JESUS! He is running to you too with arms wide open. He makes even the darkest and scariest crimson white.

Written by: H.S and P.M

WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

John 8:13-14 ‘So, the Pharisees said to Him, “You are bearing witness about yourself (but He bore witness of Himself because He is the LORD); Your testimony is not true.” JESUS answered, “Even if I do bear witness about Myself, My testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.’

The HolyBible

Discuss:

Holy Spirit said to me (which I believe He wants you to answer to) “You know where you come from but where are you going?”

Me: To Heaven.

Holy Spirit: Say after Me, ‘To fulfill PURPOSE’.

Me: To fulfill PURPOSE.

Holy Spirit: You can not come to Heaven without fulfilling purpose. All who have called my friend (Immediately, I had a mental picture of Moses, David, Abraham, Joshua the High Priest), now in Heaven were received because they fulfilled PURPOSE.

JESUS said I know where I came from – but why did I come from there? I could have stayed back if all I needed to do was to just walk the earth and return. Was my main reason simply to come and go back to heaven?

He came to establish a new covenant on earth and save mankind; the ultimate desire and will of the Father that all men be saved and come into an intimate, never ending fellowship with Him, He had more than just to die and return afterwards. Even in the between the transition between His death and Resurrection, He dismantle the powers and authorities of the devil, hades, grave and death setting the devil forever in his continuous move towards his day of damnation.

Where are you going child? It is not just heaven. Fulfilling GOD’s divine will for our lives is being in Heaven [Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven – Luke 11:2]. And finally, when the time does come, after fulfilling all and being empty of all earthly embedded gifting and treasures (treasures are potentials, talents and abilities residing in your that you must discover some you may not even know are there) and being filled with fullness of Heaven and Christ’s Spirit. If it is by Chariots of fire, or whirlwind, or laid to rest in the peace of the LORD, our humble souls shall see the face of the LORD in glory but not without fulfilling His will and completing that which have sent to do.

You are very important, too important even if you don’t believe it. Even if you don’t get to travel the whole world preaching the gospel like evangelists, the little spot you hold is very important to GOD. Like Mary whose main purpose was to raise Christ, Elizabeth scorned bore John the Baptist in old age (he is seen as one of the greatest prophets of old), Samson’s parent and other parents of old and now. Many which were not mentioned more than once but without their involvement, they would have crippled the plans of GOD. The boy with the loaves of bread and fishes which he gave to JESUS, though we don’t know his name but will forever be remembered. His giving was instrumental to us seeing a dimension of GOD we had not known. The adulterous wife of Hosea who later changed, her lifestyle GOD used to demonstrated Israel’s relationship and attitude towards Him. Ananias, the person GOD used to commence Paul’s ministry. Paul did exploit in the Kingdom with the comforting hands of Barnabas.

Child, you are important! You may not understand your role yet. It might not look like it is necessary but without you, the purposes of GOD could be thwarted. The LORD sees the ‘small’ you in a different and greater light than you see yourself. You can do it! He chose you because He knows you can and He will help fulfill all He has spoken over and inscribed within the scrolls concerning you.

You are not your own the bible tells us. The grace we have each received should not be compared among ourselves. The bible says it is foolish to do so. We have different roles in the kingdom. Not everyone will be pioneers of kingdom movement but no matter the eye dares not say to the heart I don’t need you. Everyone sees the eyes, the lips and the outer ward organs but the not more important than the organs we can’t see or access and speak about. We all have received grace, the bible says, according the measure of His gift in us.

These gifts are not for keeping or storing away. They are for our using: to the family next door, the haggard man in the corner of the street, the proud friend who will not stretch his hand though he needs help (don’t lose him! Stretch yours, he will thank you afterwards no matter how much he resists), to anyone and everyone.

I want to be able to be able to stand before the Father of Light, the LORD of Host, the King of Glory and humbly say ‘Thank You Abba and Lord King JESUS! Holy Spirit kept all the way and has led me here. I greet You in the name of JESUS Christ, My LORD.

THE BECKONING: WHY STAY THERE?

I have seen many things in time past and heard of such wondrous events. Much beyond words can truly express. I am more than delighted to let you know many of such things are true and not just fables.
It is true that those things may look unreal but many times, over again He had done them not once, not twice, not even thrice but much more than we can count.

Many times, GOD is more than willing to do exceedingly and above all that we think and ask. But friends, we hinder that.

Still what do we say to these? He is the GOD of awesome wonders; to many to count, to great to explain, to unique to replicate in human form. I am talking about the works of GOD. How great is our God, my friend. So great, languages of various kinds are not enough to express it.

I give you a tea to drink yet it feels like you are having something sweeter than honey. I give oil to rub yet it feels you are enveloped in a gentle aura. Absurd, yet intentional. Lovingly embraced in the arms that overwhelms you. Really, you can’t deny the love you feel. It is like something you have never experienced.

This, my friend, is the love of GOD our Father.

A heart to heart talk. Someone has got to understand your true intentions, what you really mean, even if it be difficult to put in words. But the word comes out, you hear a voice speak. It’s not one you can see, but it will be if your eyes be opened. But then again these eyes are opened. I don’t see a man or woman around me but I audibly hear His voice.

This also my friend is the voice of GOD; by the Spirit of GOD.

I thank the Spirit of the LORD for His marvellous work in me. One which He can replicate even greater in another if He is allowed by such individuals to do so.

Always trying to do things in the appropriate way rather than in GOD’s way.

The Holy Spirit teaches me these:

  1. Not all that is right is good for you. GOD’s way is the right and good way for your life.
  2. The things you think are the most important, may be the least important and what you think is least important, is most important. Let GOD show you what and how!
  3. Patience is the key. If it is GOD’s, it will not tarry though it ‘seems like it’ tarries.
  4. Rivers of living water is already in you. Just let it flow!
  5. He did it before, He will do greater this time.
  6. When it looked like it was over, He showed up great and made a way. So even if it is over now, He will do what He does best…. Make a larger way!
  7. No need crying over spilled milk, He will just give a carton, packs of carton in fact. Too much to finish and definitely an amazing taste you can’t find any where else. He made all things.
  8. My LORD is not just the GOD of Possibilities… Too small. HE IS THE GOD OF CERTAINTY!!!
  9. When I get tired of the way I am or how I look and my faults, my head raises back up and with a broad smile I remember JESUS still loves me more than I love my own self.
  10. Satan has no hold on me. JESUS gave me this life I now live. So I owe it all to Him.
  11. I am soaring on the Wings of the KING of kings, even I can’t pull myself down.
  12. I have got my Papa’s eyes. He helps me see as He sees.
  13. And though it is not easy, JESUS makes everything easy.
  14. JESUS loves me, yes I know and HE loves you too.

May His Spirit be with us all! AMEN

Written and Copyright: H.S&P.M(Always remember that JESUS truly loves you!

The GOD who sees

Our Text: John 4:16-24

Inwardly, the Samaritan woman desired to serve GOD rightly. She could have asked about the right husband for her but she perceived Him to be a prophet and quickly wanted to use the opportunity to clear her doubts as to how and where the right place of worship.JESUS asked her about the husbands because that was her greatest scorn; her ridicule and thorn in the flesh. Can imagine how many people who have scorned and belittled her for her lifestyle. Maybe you are even in a similar situation, being scorned and looked down on by others? He was determined to bring her out of it and give her a new life but He knew she couldn’t be transformed without having to drink from the Living water. Have you and are you drinking from Living Water?

But you know, inspire of her faults and weaknesses, there was something GOD saw and knew that no one else couldn’t. Her in-depth desire to seek and know the truth, and that truth did make her free.

In John 2:8-9 and John 4:7-8, for both cases, JESUS asked the men(servants) and the Samaritan woman to draw Him water.

John 2:7-9 “Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. So they filled them up to the brim. Then He said to them, Draw some out now and take it to the manager of the feast [to the one presiding, the superintendent of the banquet]. So they took him some. And when the manager tasted the water just now turned into wine, not knowing where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—he called the bridegroom.” The Amplified Bible
John 4:7-9 “Presently, when a woman of Samaria came along to draw water, Jesus said to her, Give Me a drink—For His disciples had gone off into the town to buy food—The Samaritan woman said to Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan [and a] woman, for a drink?—For the Jews have nothing to do with the Samaritans.” The Amplified Bible

Both were in need of a miracle, a change and could have refused to perform the task. We can see in both cases that the Bible didn’t tell us that He immediately drank or even drank from them but there is a lesson strong to learn:

GOD tells us to do some things that might look inconvenient, inappropriate during our dire situations/circumstances to give us a testimony in our deepest need. Hence, thing we do are not actually for Him but eventually for us.

The need most important at the wedding feast at Cana was the wine to avoid embarrassment and for the Samaritan woman was a changed life even if she didn’t know it.
Either it is something for a short while like the wine provided at the wedding feast at Cana which would still finish after the wedding but go on to be the talk of the town for long while as the best wine ever served,

John 2:10 “And [the manager] said to him [the bridegroom] Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now!” The Amplified Bible

Or a lifetime, as the life of the Samaritan woman who could have been scorned and mocked by the town for having been with five (5) husbands (only GOD knew the cause of her issue), the fact is:

GOD is truly more than able to turn every situation around for our good. None is irrelevant or unimportant to Him for He is the GOD who sees, He cares.

If they are our needs, then He is ready and willing to meet them.

Philippians 4:19 “And my GOD shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ JESUS.” The Gideons International Bible

But we must remember that the ultimate goal is not just to have our needs met but to know Him and serve Him truly as He desires us to; and that is in Spirit and in Truth, drinking for His living water.

John 4:23-24 “But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (*Would you be among, child?) “GOD is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.” The Gideons International Bible

Let always ask the Holy Spirit joyfully_ just call His name_ do so without restraints or doubt. He helps us continually abide in His Holy place and study the Word of GOD even as we grow in intimacy (friendship) with Him.
Even if we do sin, GOD never sends us out of His presence. It is usually we who without understanding walk out or hid out of His presence.

Genesis 3:8 “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” The Amplified Bible
Genesis 4:16 “So Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod [wandering], east of Eden.” The Amplified Bible
Hebrews 13:5b “for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]” The Amplified Bible

Our Father is truly loving so don’t walk out or hid out by yourself. If you sin, just honestly admit, immediately ask for forgiveness and continue your communion with the Holy Spirit. GOD knows you are human and that is why Papa (Holy Spirit) is here so that He can help all to be who we are meant to be in Christ and stronger each day in Him rather than continually falling short. You were never made to stand alone without Him so come back home. He is always waiting, waiting, waiting. Come drink living water forever.

May His Spirit be with us all! AMEN
*Added emphasis by H.S&P.M

Written and Copyright: H.S&P.M (Always remember that JESUS truly loves you!