worry not

in the cool of the night
His love in you Holds
In the silence where future is unknown,
even the crickets in the thickets
are assured of this
as sure as the night endures
Daylight will come and steal the night away.

and such a hope is ours friends,
The year is up and rolling
And as the steam of the will
and the comfu of the intellect
meets all that life demands
Know that you operate in his love

Lest you get tired and wearied
wondering where has my resolutions brought me
Dont you know what they said
that you re blessed coming in, blessed going out
therefore don't stress yourself over life
what you will accomplish
what you have not, have have not

isn't life more valuable than possessions?,
How quickly you forget the ways of a child?
worrying about nothing, because papa has it all fixed
How about a momentary gaze at the birds
to realize that we are more of worth
than the creatures which toil not
 Christ in us and Christ in us.
that's How things roll, on this effortless side

Goodnews for the year

Good news for the year; God doesn’t register a scorecard against us

 

Its yet another great year full of expectations and hope. Its another year that is promising us changes, growth, new challenges, new opportunities and the many iverse things we expect to see in a new year.

 

January is that time of the year where New Year resolutions are trading like Hot –cake. Our performance levels seem to sky rocket because we believe somehow that there is something new and special something that fosters an extra impetus for life as we approach a new year. Yet when the clock ticks and the month crosses over many of us feel weighed down by the expectations we had for the new year. We get into that place where the rubber meets the road . I have been to that place too, where I made many rules for myself to govern me through the year but immediately February starts I get struck with the numerous demands of your resolutions list, stressing, isn’t it?

 

 

Romans 8:1 there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Esv)

 

8:1 there is only one conclusion. God has not registered a scorecard against us. In Christ discover the true gift of no condemnation. Discover how to walk in the manner of your true design (the spirit) and not after the manner of contradictions (flesh) (Kainos amplified)

 

 

 

 

So what about the scorecard?

Life comes along with its demands, some demands we impose for ourselves. At the end of the day we have scorecards to hit. We are governed by life full of deadlines, bills to pay, people to satisfy, rules to follow, seasons, plans, etc. When we don’t attain the levels which life has for us, we get upset, disappointed, derailed, furious with ourselves and others.

 

I love the conclusion that Paul arrives at. That now there is no scorecard registered to us by God. We may be tempted to think that the same way life demands from us is the same way God demands from us. God thoughts though are higher than our thoughts and his ways higher than our ways.

 

So what now?

In Christ discover the true gift of no condemnation. We don’t live by our lives resolutions but by the gift of God. You wonder why many people are dissatisfied with life, its because of the demands we think we have to meet in order to enjoy life.

 

In this new year, you may have set goals for your life(which is not bad, actually very commendable.) you may say, in this year, I want to pray more, to be a more loving spouse, to be a more devoted Christian, etc. You may stick to your resolutions or you may fail. The conclusion is this and is what gives me insurmountable peace and comfort that God is not busy examining my next failure or success. What we should be worried about is being in Christ rested and having his life influencing us everyday of our lives. It gives God pleasure to avail to us his life.

 

Friends there is a life that is higer than this lowly life of deadlines, resolutions, bills to pay, worried about the next meal. This life is called In Christ, where the life of Christ is our life, where the peace of Christ is our peace, where the inheritance of Christ is our inheritance.

 

In this year you can live a live free from condemnation. Even as you look forward to achieve certain things , know that you are not governed by what you do, by your failures or success. You are in Christ even when things are not working for you. I call this Peace and serenity right in the centre of storms of life. You are blessed.

the Power of Now

Most oftenly what we have currently is more valuable than what we think we dont have or we will accomplish in the future.

it was said that Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift, that why we call it present.

we are prone to think that that which is in the future is perhaps more glamorous than what we enjoy currently. We think and believe that our joys and bliss are found in some future date and therefore when we are tempted to enjoy the moment , the unknown of tomorrow catapults us into a fear and a waiting mode.

Theology itself has done us no more justice. Salvation in its quarters is deemed to have been accomplished but not fully yet. we  were saved we  are saved and we will be saved . The most logical thinking is to think that there s some happiness, some joy, some peace that God has purposed for us not to enjoy here on earth but in heaven in some future date albeit we can taste that here briefly.

Come to think of it. It  doesnt add more faith to think that God will do something for you in future that he hasnt done currently. Faith is not believing that God will do something in the future but faith says now. Faith is a response to the overwhelming evidence of Gods preceding actions. Faith is the mouth that recieves and eats the substance of Christ. Picture this;


He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?Rom 8:31
  


Friends , there is nothing God is withholding from us at the moment. If he gave us Christ, then he has freely availed everything that pertains to life and Godliness.This means we can Live Consequently of what God has done for us .This is the language of love. God is joyed when we are satisfied in him. When we acknowledge that we have been made complete in him. Does this mean that we have to validate this by what we see with our physical eyes?

At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.(Heb 2:8b-9)

presently we dont see everything subjected under Christ but we do see Christ crowned with glory and honor. And when we see Christ crowned wit glory and honor, we see ourselves too redeemed and restored in Him.This means that even though we don't walk on water like Jesus did or not all people are healed as we ought to see, it does not negate or contradict the extent of what Christ has already accomplished for us. Its a tragedy to see yourself less of what Christ sees you to be.

Let us embrace fully as we have been embraced the gift of christ.Let us see ourselves through the lenses of completion for what we believe or have been fuly convinced of is most certainly sure of being manifested in the physical, Halleluiah . 

beyond

OOH LORD

Ooh lord you have satisfied

Us with life beyond the expanse

Of the seas beyond the mention

Of many lips, you have satisfied

Us oh lord you have satisfied.

Yes you have satisfied

 

Ooh beyond our dreams you’re

Found beyond our repentance speech

You are true beyond mans devotion.

You are realer than mans impression

For with love you have satisfied

Us ooh lord you have satisfied

 

There is a place called beyond

There we reign, surely we do beyond

The tranquil and the limits of below beyond

Time, space and distance beyond

Successes, failures and regrets

You have satisfied,

Us ooh Lord you have satisfied.

 

eph 2: 6For he raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with him in the heavenly realms -- all because we are one with Christ Jesus.

 

 

Foundation

 

 

 

Theme; Foundation; 11^th Aug 2013

Sermon delivered inKitengela ; kajiado County: Wonders of faith ministry

By Kevin Kainos

 

•  IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKEN, WHAT WILL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? The house ABOVElooks nice but what will happen when its foundations are shaken and its not strong enough? You see the Tragedy?

• If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will take you there.

• It’s not always in the seen but in the unseen where the cookie crumbles.

• Beyond and beneath, we find Christ as our only foundation. Christ is the foundation and the power that runs our lives.

 

 

Word; 1^st Cor 3:9-11 for we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

• What is the foundation of our lives? Why do we believe what we do believe in? Do we believe stuffs because others have set the precedence for us? Do you believe things because others have merely believed on your behalf?

• Why are you a Christian? Are you a Christian because one day you prayed a sinner’s prayer? Are you a Christian because you can pray well in the morning? Is it because of what you did and are able to do, or you are who you are because God makes you?

• Do you believe that you are unconditionally accepted by God apart from your performance?

• The tragedy of the church is to engage in self help Christianity. Its to be denied the rights of being in Christ and many people are thrown into self help mechanisms of getting themselves to be accepted by God.

• We have been marauded by forces of demand. Life seems to demand from us from every corner. Life has a way of trying to pull us from the position of rest that we think that because we are used to getting things the hard way, that’s the way it should be between us and God.

 

However

·        We are Gods fellow workers. He is the worker and we are his work. You are not on our own. God our maker is our creator and the worker. He is the one who works in us and through us both to will and to act according to his good purpose.

·        No other foundation can be laid other than the one that has been laid. Our foundation is Christ. He is the source of our lives. We should subscribe to Christ in our going out in our coming in. No other principle Holds water if it doesn’t find its end in Christ.

·        Deut 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.(ESV)

 

 

The ancient God is home on a foundation of everlasting arms. He drove out the enemy before you and commanded, "Destroy!"(The message)

·        We are who we are by Grace; which means Gods ability and genius works beneath who we are. Our lives are hidden with Christ in God. We are no longer helping ourselves so that God will help us, rather our lives are hidden with Christ in God.

·        Nobody should deny us our rights which are in Christ Jesus. We have been bought by a price. Christ is the price that guarantees our redemption that raises us up from death to life. Everything holds together in Him. Everything we know in life must pass the test of Christ.

 

David co crucified Kimtai says

Isaiah 51:1"Listen to me, all you who are serious about right living and committed to seeking God. Ponder the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were dug. (The Message)

 

In order to understand foundation, we must go back to the beginning. If the foundation is strong, then the whole building

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• Christ is the rock of ages. God our father is the rock of all times and we have been created in his image and likeness. Its in order to say that we have proceeded from God. If we are cut from the rock then we are of the rock. We are rocks and God is the rock of ages. Of Him(Christ ) we are. He is our wisdom, redemption and Holiness.

• We are established on Christ the solid ground. In him we stand. He is the guarantee and the guarantor of our blessings.

• We are no longer orphans, weaklings tossed by every wave of doctrine. W are fearless and so we declare that as he is so are we in this world. 1^st John 4:16-18.

• We look back to the cross we see the rock of ages and we see ourselves established in him, unmovable and secured in his love , grace, truth, righteousness and everything that comes from our father, Halleluiah.

looking back.

Psalm 32:1-2 blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

While the Old Testament looked forward to the coming of Christ and to a day when finally man will be restored and reconciled back to God. The New Testament looks back at the objective center of our redemption and restoration.

The psalmist above was looking forward to a day when the trespass of man will be forgiven, when humanity’s sin would at least be covered; for even in the priestly order, the blood of the Bulls and goats would not suffice to purge human guilt away.

We however look back in time and see Christ. We see the cross . At the centre of man’s redemption and the great expanse of eternity is he cross

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

At the center of all things is Gods call that announced the great success story, that humanity has been embraced in Christ.

So in Christ we look back and see

Ø      Transgressions forgiven: Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven. In Christ our forgiveness is announced even while we were dead in our trespasses and sins, God made us alive together with Christ Jesus having forgiven us of all trespasses and sins; eph 2:1-10

Ø       Sin has been washed out! Good news isn’t it? We look back and see the evidence that our sins are washed as white as snow. Even Isaiah the prophet was looking forward to this; “that though your sins are as red as scarlet we will be washed as white as snow.” Our sins have not been covered but wiped and effaced out. How much has the blood of Christ purged us from an evil conscience?

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.(Heb 9:13-14)

Ø      No iniquity of the heart. The heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it. These were Jeremiah‘s insights against a sinful kingdom of Israel who had deserted the ways of their fathers. In the context of the Old Testament this reality is understood but we are in Christ and what David the psalmist looked forward unto has been realized in Christ.

Ø      Our spirit has no deceit. The greatest commandment of loving God with all our hearts souls and strength is now accomplished in Christ. John wrote about this in his epistles.

7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 1^st John 2:7-8

The new commandment has been inscribed in our hearts. Its old yet its new because what is true about God is also true about us. What is true in him is also true in us. God has no deceit in him and that is true about him and its also true about us. God has no sin in him. That is true about him and also true about us.

Halleluiah lets look back and see where we are from. God has this testimony about us that we re truly redeemed, restored and set free. He who the son sets free is free indeed. We are rested in the arms of God our love. Whenever you are unsure about your salvation because of one or two things you did wrong, just look back. The cross speaks of your unconditional state of perfection and completion in Christ. In Christ all fears are stilled , all fears are effaced and we are left abandoned face to face with God. Beholding the face of Christ who is the glory of God.

The great Misconception

It’s a great misconception; I see it as a blanket that has canopied the church. In fact this as the tragedy that has ravaged the church. The Church has misconstrued the meaning of this big word and as a result she is maimed and impotent at the same time.

Am talking about the word Gospel. What is the true meaning of the gospel? What has the church really understood the gospel to be? What are the greastet misconception that have been conceived thereof?

Another tragedy that has been overdue with us is the failure to question our deeply held beliefs. We are drinking all the stuff that is passed over to us in Church and wherever without critically thinking and searching the scriptures to find what to believe for ourselves. As a result we have canopied ourselves with shadowy descriptions of biblical truths that we consider as the gospel. Here are just but a few misconceptions we may have had about the gospel

1. The great Misconception number 1: The gospel refers to a particular truth we knowing the Bible.

You have heard it being proclaimed in the pulpits. “The Bible says” several quotes are made from the bible to communicate what the Bible says. We develop truths from scripture because of what we read as written in the Bible. Although many are the times that what we read in the scriptures is not necessarily what the bible says.

If we read the scriptures with veiled faces , we may want it to say what we know but that is not what it says. Jesus told the Pharisees who were devoted to scripture reading

You search the scriptures earnestly thinking that in them you have eternal life: and it is they that bear witness about me(John 5:39)

If the chief end of scripture doesn’t lead us to Christ ad to testify of him, of his glory of what he has accomplished at the cross then we have already missed the point of scripture already.

We may have many Biblical truths, many principles to draw from the Bible but if we miss the point of seeing Jesus in the scriptures then we may have misconstrued completely what the gospel is. Many preachers refer to the many truths they preach as the gospel. We may know many things in the Bible but if we know them not under the focus of Christ, then we really don’t know what the scriptures are about and most definitely we have missed out on what the gospel really is.

If there is anyway we know of God, of Jesus and of his scriptures apart from the testimony of Jesus and of his finished works of the cross, then we have not really encountered the gospel.

2. The gospel being referred to a particular religious meeting, revival or a gathering

Another great misconception Indeed. I am used to hearing his whenever an invitation is made to an exciting Christian gathering, event, or even a seminar or a conference. “Welcome to this or that Gospel crusade” “That Church Preaches te gospel, you people dont” “there is a gospel meeting Down town.”

We have taken the word gospel and have clothed it with religious way of doing things. Whatever many people call Gospel meetings, gatherings or even conferences most o the time have got nothing to do with the gospel. The gospel is not something we can package in form of a well packaged religious program. Paul was very categorical in the way he perceived the gospel. He trembles and even shivers of the enigma of this thing called the gospel.

Ist Cor2:3-4 you saw me in my human frail and with fear and trembling it became apparent to you that my presentation was not according to a symphony of good behavioral conducts. I did not endeavor to win your popularity votes by my eloquence rather it was a clear expression of the limitless power of the spirit

(Kainos amplified)

1^st Cor 2:3-4 And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt. 4 And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you(Bible in Basic English)

1^st Cor 2:3-4 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, (ESV)

                                                                                                                     

The gospel is not found in how nicely we package our message to entice people to believe our so called Gospel; rather the gospel is the display of the spirit’s limitless power. The gospel is not found in going to that exciting meeting that you always look forward to at the end of every week, month or even year.(I appreciate and honor  the gospel gatherings out there, but the truth be told ) The gospel is found in the unveiling of your true identity which is revealed

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Not the power of a religious meeting unto salvation. A lot of people have been manipulated into hearing someone’s gospel. It has been made like a person must attend such and such meeting so that he can get such and such gospel. We have gradually graduated into a man seek church. We give church leaders roles and titles according o the gospels they preached. Ts no different scenario than that which paul observed. Some were chasing after Apollos and some after Paul as if Paul and Apollos were crucified for them. Without apologies I sa that you should not pay any allegiance to the so called Gospel preachers, Men of God who prowl for your loyalty.

1st Cor3:3 you are still subscribing to your fleshly ways; you display propensity to rely on the strength that comes from your outer sockets (you are carried out by emotions and a worldly view of one another) and the evidence of all this is the strife and jealousy among you. You are full of all manner of controversies and debates. Are you surely not in the self modification, Human methodology scheme?

1st cor 3:4some of you say long live Paul, we are with you to the very end, and some of you from another corner come to announce your allegiance to Apollos.What! Are you not just behaving like normal politicians?

1st cor3:5 I would like to ask you, who or what the heck is Apollos, who or what the heck is Paul? They are just servants through the administration of God through whom God has caused your faith to awaken (Were Paul and Apolos crucified for you? The next thing we’ll see is you wanting to cut us into small pieces of arguments and carry us home.)

(Kainos amplified)

The gospel is not in words, its not found in that famous evangelist you know such that you pay allegiance to him, the gospel is power, anyone purporting to preach the gospel must do it in such a way that it reveals power, power o call and summon people from darkness to light, to turn the blind to see the light of the glory of God. Ths is what the gospel is all about. The gospel should not be misconstrued, This great misconception must end. It ends with you and me.