My Elements

I love the air

I love the whooshing sound of the wind when driving

I love the gentle touch of the Cool breeze during spring

I love the hasty sound of the fleeting wind in autumn

I love the rain

I love the scent of early rain on dry sand

I love the tickling feel of the early morning dew

I love the goose bumps on my skin

When the drizzling starts

I love the clapping sound of the heavenly waters

On corrugated iron sheets

I love the sun

I love the smiling face of the sun

I love the bright yellow of the sunflower

when exposed to the sunrays from above

I love the crackling sound of leaves under my feet in Harmattan

I love the greenish blue of the sea in a clear sunny sky

I love the moon

I love the semi-circle style of the crescent

I love the way the clouds seem to flee in the brightness of the night

I love the man who seems to sit on a

mountain when the moon is in full bloom

I love the children sitting on mats to hear the moonlight tales

I love the beauty of nature

How that they all fit perfectly as though

Arranged by a master strategist

I love the voice of the day and of the night

Quietly communicating to humans of the fleeting

Nature of this terrestrial abode

While consistently showing the works of God

I love the green grass

That makes for food for the living things

And beauty for the fading earth

I love the Lord of them all

The maker who placed them all to fit in His wisdom

Beauty Enthroned

You are beautiful
Therefore do virgins love thee
Your name is as ointment poured forth
Poured on the stenched in our soul
Our putrid heart you consecrate

The virgins love You,
They run after you
Like the hind of the doe

Your steps are on the mountain tops
As of a mountain goat,
Beautiful to behold
Our sister call forth your name,
seeking your face,
To taste the kiss of your mouth

Beauty enthroned,
Petfected in the majesty of wisdom.
The young ladies doth chase,
The bride doth seek,
To taste the love of your ointment
The purity of your eye.

Your eye is as fire,
The beauty of your robe calling and inviting.

Your lips are as honey
Calling us to the throne of life.
After you we doth pant
Your way we doth chase
Your face we doth seek
Beauty enthroned.

New Creation Realities Day 18

Fellowship of His Suffering
By His death we enter into His life and part of what we partake of by being in His life is to suffer with Him. This is perhaps a truth that is not welcomed in some quarters of the church and is a less embraced aspect of the new creation realities, but this does not erase its truth or importance.
Christ died and resurrected again that we may have life and life in abundance, that we may partake of life in the fullness of it, He embraced death and suffering for us but He told us unequivocally that we will also face afflictions, sufferings and persecution on earth. Luk  “21:12  But before all these, THEY SHALL LAY THEIR HANDS ON YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU, DELIVERING YOU UP TO THE SYNAGOGUES AND PRISONS, BEING BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS FOR MY NAME’S SAKE.” This is from Christ our savior Himself. Php 3:10  “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death” and finally Paul charged his son in the faith thus Therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. And that you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry. 2Tim 2:3  and 4:5.
It is a true saying that Christ suffered for us and in our place yet it is no less true that we will partake of sufferings and afflictions here on earth in different phases and seasons. He took our place on the cross but we also have our own cross to carry as a kingdom mandate. “SO, SINCE Christ suffered in the flesh for us, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God], So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.” 1Pe 4:1-2 Amp
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New Creation Realities Day 19

Blessed!
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.” 2Co 8:9  cool right? Someone not only died for me but also suffered for me so that by his poverty and suffering I might become abundantly blessed materially. It is unbiblical and ungodly to associate poverty with righteousness or wealth with unrighteousness because as part of our salvation package is sound health and material wealth. Of course we know Christ was not poor, but He was made a “little lower” for a while all for our sakes.
By His stripes we were made whole and the beatings that brought us peace was laid upon Him, so why should we remain under the bounds of sickness? The truth is we can have sound health and lead a healthy life without suffering the torment of sickness or illness.
Might it also interest us to know that we do not only have blessings in things pertaining to this world but we also have blessings that are spiritual in nature, Eph 1:3  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ”. We have as our heritage a blessing which is purely spiritual in nature, it is in the heavenlies and we have it in Christ. We can not even phantom it fully till we see Him face to face when we will see our heritage, hidden for us since the foundation of the world. Psa 16:6  “The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.”
HE HAS LAID UP FOR US HEALTH AND WEALTH IN THIS WORLD THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD MIGHT BE ADVANCED THROUGH US AND WE HAVE THAT WHICH IS NOT TANGIBLE AS WELL, THE BLESSINGS OF GOD FOR US STORED UP IN ETERNITY.

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New Creation Realities Day 17

Shame defeated
The devil is called the enemy of our soul because he is a seasoned strategist. Guilt, shame, condemnation etc are forces and weapons in the hand of this master strategist and he uses them effectively well.
Shame is a direct effect of the fall of man as we see that the very first thing the fallen man did was to ‘hide himself from the presence of GOD’ in shame of what he has done and a major victory and wisdom won for us and in our place, is the freedom from this force called shame. By the suffering of Christ on the cross, HE won for us and showed us freedom from shame.  Heb 12:2  “looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT OF THE THRONE OF GOD.”
Let me differentiate these two, there is a shamefulness that comes as a result of doing wrong, and there is a shamefulness that comes as a result of trying to live a holy and righteous life. Here I am talking about the latter. As a result and direct confrontation of the world system on the Christian lifestyle, there is a way the world will attempt to make one shamefaced even though you are living right, attacks and assaults from different angles all to make us cower in shame and retreat behind the scene and it may come in different ways.  You see “WE HAVE RENOUNCED THE HIDDEN THINGS OF SHAME, NOT WALKING IN CRAFTINESS, NOR ADULTERATING THE WORD OF GOD, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” 2Cor 4:2 so we can walk in this shamelessness.
BY HIS CRUCIFIXION, DEATH AND RESURRECTION, CHRIST BECAME AN EXAMPLE UNTO US TO FOLLOW, HE DESPISED THE SHAME OF COMING TO MEN AND DYING LIKE A CRIMINAL  AND WE ALSO BY HIS SPIRIT WITHIN US CAN DESPISE THE SHAME THAT COMES WITH THE GOSPEL AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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New Creation Realities Day 16

Our Salvation; The Body
1Th 5:23  “And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your SPIRIT and SOUL and BODY be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Our spirit is saved, our soul is being saved and our body will be saved.
Question; what type of body do the resurrected possess? When a man dies and his body experiences putrefication, how then shall he possess a living body again? Well we see the perfect example of Jesus  after HIS death and resurrection and we see the example of Adam before the fall. WHEN A MAN EXPERIENCES DEATH AND RESURRECTION THEREAFTER, HE IS RAISED WITH THE GLORIFIED BODY, A CLOTHING THAT IS BOTH SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL AT THE SAME TIME and it was with this that Adam was clothed before the fall of man in Eden. THE BODY WE CARRY NOW WAS GIVEN AFTER MAN FELL AND COULD NO LONGER CARRY THE GLORIFIED BODY GIVEN HIM AT CREATION.
We see Jesus after HIS resurrection with a body that can be touched yet it can still penetrate solid substance, a body that can eat but did not need food to be sustained, a body that can levitate and move in the air and vanish as easily as it can appear. THANKS TO THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, THIS IS OUR HOPE OF OUR BODY BEING SAVED AND GLORIFIED, A NEW BODY THAT CARRIES THE PRESENCE AND FULLNESS OF GOD BODILY.
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New Creation Realities Day 15

Our Salvation; The Soul
The salvation plan of God for us is that we be saved spirit, soul and body. After the salvation of our spirit at new birth, of great importance as well is the salvation of our soul from the corruption that has taken over the atmosphere and conditioned the soul since the fall.
It may sound strange and alien that our salvation is not complete without the salvation of the soul and of the body, but it is no less a true saying. Our soul needs to be saved from the corruption that has affected it and made us subject to naught. 1Pe 1:8  “whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified, obtaining the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” So you see, the end of the journey of faith is this; THE SALVATION OF THE SOUL, that part of man which comprises the will, intellect and emotions of man.
Eph 4:22-23  “For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” So the renewal of the mind therefore is a part of our salvation package. With the renewal, we begin to align our wills, intellect and emotions with that of Christ the end product of which is “the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”
The soul has known a lot of corrupt intakes, and has been conditioned by the world system we were in before to make certain alliances, affiliations and alignments and it is by the Spirit and Word of God that we renew and submit to Christ.
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New Creation Realities Day 14

Our Salvation; The Spirit
Man exists on three levels; the body, the soul and the spirit. As it is, man is a tripartite being and God’s salvation plan embraces all three dimensions of human existence and experience. Today let us consider the salvation of the spirit.
AT THE FALL, THE HUMAN SPIRIT DIED. This translates that the human spirit, that part of man that is alive and responsive to God became subdued and came under the control of the natural human mind, thus making it difficult to relate with God in the same way Adam had communion with God. The first effect of the fall on man was this, HE HID HIMSELF FROM GOD because he suddenly became aware of something. Here we see that death and separation had taken place. And over the years, we see the death manifest fully in the hardening of the human mind against God.
AT THE NEW BIRTH, THE HUMAN SPIRIT BECAME ALIVE. The death and resurrection of Christ has made us alive in our spirit, it quickened our spirit man and made us alive to GOD. our experience at the new birth is this; the spirit of man was quickened and regenerated, restored to the perfect state God created us in. We saw this when we talked about the new life in Christ. Eph 2:1  “And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins”, Joh 3:3  “Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, UNLESS A MAN IS BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”
What enabled us to see and partake of this truth is the new birth of our spirit man into the kingdom. And that we call the born again experience.
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New Creation Realities Day 13

Spiritual Gifts
We are HIS body on earth, and extension of HIS operation on this sphere of existence. We have been engrafted into HIS body and that implies that we ACT AS CHRIST ON EARTH. To achieve this successfully, HE GAVE US SPIRITUAL GIFTS and HE ALSO AVE US THE RARE PRIVILEGE OF ADMINISTERING THE GIFTS ON EARTH.  Eph 4:11  “And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers” and the reason HE gave this gifts is this;  for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ so that we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. These are but some of the gifts that HE gave us that eventually WE MAY MEASURE UP TO THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST both here on earth and hereafter.  Beyond these we have the gifts of administration, government, giving, teaching and even of many professional vocations that we may through these manifest the life of Christ and show forth the many sided wisdom of GOD.
We also know of the gifts listed in 1 Cor 12 I presume, these also are part of the privilege given unto us to partake of the BODY OF CHRIST and manifest the kingdom life unto all.
So then, there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.  And there are differences of workings, but it is the same God working all things in all. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them

New Creation Realities Day 12

Our Ministry
We are HIS workmanship, an extension of HIS arm on earth and as a result of this, we have been given to partner with HIM in reconciling others as well.
Mat 28:19  “Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen.” This is the great commission as we know it, a commandment from Christ that we should go forth and preach the good news of the kingdom unto others, a duty is bestowed on us by those words and the duty is this; THAT WE GO FORTH AND PREACH THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM UNTO OTHERS WHO ARE STILL WITHOUT. We are called upon to show forth the love, mercy and grace unto others and thereby bringing the lost to repentance.
2Co 5:18  “And all things are of God, who HAS RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, AND HAS GIVEN TO US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION” and this is the gospel we preach 2Co 5:19  “That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.”
THE LIGHT OF GOD WAS MADE TO SHINE IN THE FACE OF JESUS AND WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN AS WELL TO SHINE FORTH THE SHINE THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL THAT CHRIST MIGHT BE REVEALED THROUGH US.