I wonder if SUCH A LOSS IS REPLACEABLE

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When our loses Become GAINS.

I can imagine how the prophets and the pundits of the day felt about Job`s sudden loses and tragedies or how much of a loss Jacob felt when His own sons sold their brother Joseph because of Jealousy. I can imagine how it felt like in hell when Jesus was killed. IT WAS OVER ! WE WON ! The demons might have screamed. Anytime the Apostle or members of the early church were killed or tortured for their faith there probably was a celebration. In the wake of my moms demise 4 days age , I have been really thinking about the essence and true meaning of Loss in the Christian context. Paul says "But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.....that I may gain Christ". Satan felt He was finishing Job by taking away ALL that HE HAD . But rather HE set him up for a DOUBLE FOLD BLESSING RATHER. JACOB LOST A SON JOSEPH BUT GAINED A PRIME MINISTER OF EGYPT IN RETURN. JESUS LOST his EARTHLY LIFE ON THE CROSS but GAINED ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. The principle still remains that with GREAT LOSES comes GREAT GAINS. I LOST MY LONGEST buddy, confident and mother for 32 years 4 days ago. ALTHOUGH CANCER TOOK her body away , Christ has given HER a NEW AND GLORIFIED BODY. AN incorruptible body THAT CANNOT BE DESTROYED BY ANY DISEASE OR SICKNESS. My most assuring times were with her. I never really had to try hard to impress HER. I WAS THE BEST TO HER JUST AS I WAS. NO GIFT was ever TOO LITTLE OR TOO LATE LATE. IN HER FINAL DAYS soft , slow utterances were always full of encouragement and concerns for my well being. My best moments with mom were the moments spent alone at our front porch discussing anything from her health , to politics , to dumsor (power rationing) , to my wedding preparation etc. These times could last for hours sometimes. The beauty of it was its unplanned nature. I would bump into her accidentally and a simple question could turn into hours of conversation. Sometimes I wonder if SUCH A LOSS IS REPLACEABLE BUT WITH GREAT SACRIFICE COMES GREAT PROMOTION. I do not know how God will TURN this into a GAIN but I KNOW HE is FAITHFUL. I PRAYED , FASTED , SOWED , CONFESSED , ANOINTED ETC. so that she wont go this way BUT SHE WENT. AT SOME POINT I REALIZED THAT MY FEAR OF LOOSING HER HAD MADE ME SELFISH BECAUSE I WAS DENYING HER GREATEST GAIN , WHICH WAS TO BE WITH THE LORD . MAA I KNOW YOU ARE OUT THERE LOOKING DOWN AT ME . AND I KNOW THAT THROUGH YOUR LOSS GOD WILL BRING ME GREATER GAINS. TILL WE MEET AGAIN. ‪#‎dailymeditationsforyoungpeople‬
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Dear Mr. President (Past , Present and Future ones ):LAPAZ GIRLS or KWASHIEMAN GIRLS..?

Dear Mr. President (Past , Present and Future ones )
LAPAZ GIRLS or KWASHIEMAN GIRLS..?
On Friday night I was using the NI highway from LAPAZ TO KWASHIEMAN which you invested over usd 100 million into and I made an interesting observation. I noticed two sets of "entrepreneurs" plieing their trade along the stretch ie the Sex Workers at Lapaz and the Petty traders at Kwashieman. Both were busy at work running in and out of the highway around 11 PM . I am sure your daughters were asleep or watching a movie at the time , where as girls like them were up around 11 pm risking their lives to make ends meet .
Mr. President(Past , Present and Future ) most of these ladies are victims of the economic situation your policies haves created in our land . Where as you require a fat salary and an ex gratia in the millions of dollars without paying tax , buying fuel , paying for accommodation , electricity or even the food you eat (which I dont have any problem with anyway) . The only thing you can do for these ladies to help their situation a little will be to come up with policies and initiatives that will provide them with some form of basic wages and salary.
Your colleagues in Europe and America have done , please dont miss your opportunity to prove that the black man is capable running his own affairs is a reality and not some empty rhetoric you tell us just to get power . I observed the ladies at Lapaz and I realized that they were all very beautiful and gorgeous Ladies just like your daughters who really wouldnt be doing this job if they had another way out. The situation at Kwashieman was no better , to the ordinary mind it may look like they are atleast making an effort to earn what we call a DECENT LIVING at least they were making better use of the Highway as compared to those at Lapaz but that is not the case at all.
Mr. President(Past , Present and Future ) please how much much can you make selling Nkatie borga at ghc 1 , sachet water @ 0.20p , MTN ,TIGO , Vodafone recharge cards etc.Would you want to consider that trade for yourself or your daughters .To make matters worse Mr. President (past,present and the future) they were doing this business in the MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY at 11 PM !
So where as the Ladies at Lapz where killing the population by spreading STDs like HIV A.I.D.S. the ones at kwahieman were killing themselves by undertaking their trade in the middle of a Highway with fast moving vehicles at 11 PM !!! This is the legacy of the Highways you`ve done for us .
Please dont get me wrong ,it used to take over 30 minutes to move from Lapaz to Kwashieman but THANKS TO the HIGHWAY you provided for us it takes me less than 5 minutes these days .
So I really appreciate the roads and infrastructural development you use tax payers like me`s money to undertake . But please do something about the economy , create jobs , build factories , stabilize the dollar , liberate us from some of the taxes , make utilities affordable for us wae ..Please dont take offence at my continuous reference to your daughters , its just that when I saw the ladies the only question I kept asking myself is how would I feel if one of these ladies were to be my daughter .
I just couldn't imagine my sister or daughter doing any of these two.
Selling your body for money is not good but risking your life to sell in the middle of the highway at 11:00 pm IS EQUALLY NOT THE BEST. THIS ELECTION IS NOT JUST ABOUT NPP OR NDC BUT IT IS REALLY ABOUT THE NEED FOR A SERIOUS CHANGE IN HOW YOU HANDLE THE JOB WE ENTRUST INTO THEIR HAND. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY NEEDS REAL ATTENTION. ALL THE BEST IN YOUR ENDEAVOURS YOURS DANIEL MANFORD JUNIOR BYE

AS you KEEP WALKING YOU draw CLOSER and as you DRAW CLOSER it becomes CLEARER

KEEP WALKING : The CLOSER you get the CLEARER it becomes.

Hebrews 6:12 : We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Yesterday I went to a popular prayer park in Accra , Ghana to pray. As I got closer I saw a car parked at a DISTANCE that looked just like the car of some one I was knew , SAME MODEL , SAME COLOR . So I tried to check the registration number of the vehicle to be sure .

BUT no MATTER HOW HARD I SQUINTED the number was just not very CLEAR FROM A DISTANCE . My only solution was to KEEP WALKING and as I WALKED CLOSER IT BECAME CLEARER and easy to read .

GOD`s VISION , PURPOSES and PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE ALWAYS LOOKS BLUR WHEN YOU start WALKING TOWARDS them .

Abraham had to leave his Father`s house to a LAND WHERE GOD WOULD SHOW HIM , THE Israelites had to follow a pillar of cloud and fire to A LAND THEY HAD NO IDEA OF ITS WHEREABOUT ABOUT. GOD led Elijah to A PLACE CALLED THERE . All these people embarked on what Bishop Dag Heward Mills of Light House Chapel calls "MYSTICAL JOURNEYS OF FAITH " . It mystical because you know there is SOMETHING OUT THERE BUT at THE SAME TIME YOU FEEL IT Could ALL JUST BE A WASTE OF TIME AND RESOURCES .

The Israelites did not have google maps and GPS technology they just had to KEEP WALKING towards a VISION that GOD HAD PLACED in THEM. BUT AT KARDESH BARNEA IT BECAME CLEAR . THEY SAW THE LAND . KARDESH BARNEA IS where the VISION finally becomes CLEAR and you begin to See a physical manifestation of that WHICH WAS PROMISED .

Sometimes the harder you try to understand what and where GOD is really leading you to , the more frustrating it becomes .

IT brings a certain loneliness I have dubbed "IDEOLOGICAL LONELINESS" where nobody really gets what you are about and even think you have missed it . It becomes worse when time and resources seems to be wasting away and yet still nothing seems to be clear and straight forward

But as you KEEP WALKING you draw CLOSER and as you DRAW CLOSER it becomes CLEARER. God is bringing you to your KARDESH BARNEA where everything will become clearer.

May the LORD give us Strength to CONTINUE WALKING TILL we GET TO THE PLACE WHERE IT ALL BECOMES CLEAR.

In just a matter of time God`s VISION for the business , ministry , marriage , education , career etc WILL BECOME CLEAR.

YOU JUST KEEP WALKING.

God bles you .

AMEN

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KOKONTE POWDER OR TOM BROWN ? : The Gibeonite Deception , A CALL FOR SHARP DISCERNMENT

KOKONTE POWDER OR TOM BROWN ? : 
The Gibeonite Deception , A CALL FOR SHARP DISCERNMENT.

Joshua 9:22 Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by saying, ‘We live a long way from you,’ while actually you live near us?

Yesterday I went to a shop to buy what I thought was TOM BROWN only to be told that it actually was KOKONTE POWDER !

We live in days when a lot of things look the same but they are not the same. There are many professed Christians who really aren`t genuinely saved . Many so called breakthroughs and opportunities  that are really Satanic traps.

Like the Gibeonites they come in the form and appearance of genuine Christians but in actual fact their lifestyles and situations is far from Christianity .

I have met married women and men in very SEEMINGLY stable marriages who are actively involved in ADULTEROUS HETEROSEXUAL AND BISEXUAL RELATIONS , seen SEEMINGLY wonderful looking couples whose marriage is on the VERGE OF DIVORCE , beautiful decent looking people DOUBLE DATING / CHEATING , rich looking people who are actually paupers etc .

WE LIVE IN A TIME WHERE THE NEED FOR SHARP SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT IS REQUIRED FOR EVERYTHING , FROM FROM CHOOSING A PARTNER TO CHOOSING A CHURCH and even choosing WHAT ADVICE TO LISTEN TO . 

MANY OF OUR SO CALLED COUNSELORS AND CHURCH LEADERS ONLY PRESENT POISON NOT BASED ON THE WORD OF GOD BUT HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES WHICH CONFUSES THE MINDS OF MANY YOUNG PEOPLE .

SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT IS NO LONGER A PRESERVE OF A FEW SPIRITUAL GURUS  BUT RATHER A DAILY REQUIREMENT FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN.

Today many are still asking the question : Is is TOM BROWN OR KOKONTE POWDER ?

May the Lord give us the spirit of discernment so that we may be able to tell "THE TOM BROWNS OF LIFE FROM THE KOKONTE powder"..lol

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