This is me (in front and dressed in white shirt) in 2011 with some team members arriving at a mission field in Rivers State, Nigeria. The mission field is like my natural habitat and it gives me so much joy. Unfortunately, the brother behind me, Solomon Bassey, has gone home to be with the Lord. The lady beside him is Nancy his widow.
This is one of my memorable photos when in 2011, we led some hundreds of undergraduate Christian students to a rural mission in a riverine community called Emelogo and Adada in Abua/Odual Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria. You can call it a risky voyage. But we saw it then as a big fun and passion to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank God there was no casualty.
Satan knows his boundaries, just like the seas and oceans. No matter how he threatens and rages, his proud waves can't extend to your territory. You're safe and secure.
Job 38:8-11
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" Job 38:8-11
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This is such a romantic but very spiritual scripture:
"Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." Song 7:11-13
God created man after everything was created. The first thing Adam did was to rest on the Sabbath before his works began. He was born into rest. The Christian life began when Jesus finished His work on the cross. We were also reborn into rest. We need to sit and rest in the finished work of Christ first, before we can progress in our walk with God.
Hallelujah!
"He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets." Colossians 2:15 MESSAGE
"And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." KJV
"When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through the cross." AMPLIFIED
God has wrapped Himself with "darkness". His presence is within us, yet it's veiled in the garbs of divine mystery. God's aim is to elicit commitment and banish casualness from the hearts of seekers.
"He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies." Psalm 18:11