Being Like Jesus

  SHOULD WOMEN PUT ON MAKEUP? 💄 Many have been on the opinion that women should not, while some have been on the opinion that women are permitted to wear them. Both may have their valid reasons, but the Word of God remains our final authority and any issue that may arise.  Let's start with the history of makeup before we can build our stance from the Scripture. Women Mattaz Part 1: Indictment For centuries, women have been wearing make up. It has gone through some pretty drastic changes between how make up is worn, what is used for make up, and who wears make up. The earliest known record of make up being worn comes from the 1st Dynasty (3100-2907 B.C.) of Egypt. Jars of unguent were found in tombs from this time period were scented. Unguent was a substance that was worn by both men and women to help moisturize their skin and to avoid wrinkles. During this era, women would decorate their eyes by applying a dark green color to the under lid and darkening their eyelashes and u...

Colossians 4:12 NLT Epaphras, from your city, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident of the whole will of God. This man Epaphras might not be well-known, for Paul to write to the church in Colossae that he is a member (not even a worker) of that church. Then he made it known to them that the reason why they are standing perfect and complete in all the will of God is because one 'unknown' man laboured fervently for them in prayers. Ezekiel 22:30 NLT I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one. Here God told prophet Ezekiel that He is looking for someone among them to intercede. Some versions put it as 'a man.' Nobody's name was mentioned. Just like Epaphras, someone who is also faceless. As we gradually ...

PROPHETIC INSTRUCTION FROM THE LORD  2023 is the year of light, and so anyone without a Word from God will walk in darkness.  "In the beginning was the Word... In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." (Jn. 1:1,4). "The entrance [understanding] of Your words gives light..." (Ps. 119:130)  Those without the Word of the Lord, 2023 will be one of their darkest years. 'Covet earnestly for light.' (Eph. 1:17,18).  Businesses will crash if there is no light. But anyone who encounters the light in 2023 will experience no loss. Don't run 2023 alone! Run with light! Those without the light will end up becoming spiritual orphans. 2023 which is the year of light, dark practices of immorality will be exposed by the light of the gospel as many will come to the light, and knowledge of the truth. And false churches will be judged together with their members who refused to come to the light because of the sinful pleasure they enjoy, and the comfort they find ...

  30 DAYS DEVOTIONALS WITH PREACHER SAM THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2022. TOPIC: SONGS OF PRAISE II BIBLE READING: PSALMS 89:24-37 VERSE FOR MEDITATION: PSALMS 36:5 NKJV Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. We come to the end of this journey of exploring on the faithfulness of God. And we are sure that you can judge God faithful and rely on His faithfulness. Songs of praise is not just an attempt to explore God’s faithfulness in the book of Psalms, but it is also an attempt to stir up a heart of thanksgiving and rejoicing. The Samaritan who was also among the ten lepers that Jesus instructed to go show themselves to the priests, came back to thank Jesus after noticing that he was cleansed. And what was Jesus’ response? “Your faith has made you well.” (Lk. 17:11-19). Could it mean that those other nine lepers were not completely made well or cleansed? In Acts 16, after Paul and Silas were being thrown and locked up in priso...

  30 DAYS DEVOTIONALS WITH PREACHER SAM THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2022. TOPIC: SONGS OF PRAISE I BIBLE READING: PSALMS 89:1-18 VERSE FOR MEDITATION: PSALMS 40:10 NKJV I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your loving-kindness and Your truth form the great assembly. Last year we said something about songs, that Apostle Paul admonished us to speak to ourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and that we should sing with grace in our hearts to the Lord. You know, it is after the word of Christ has dwelt in us richly in all wisdom and the Spirit of God has filled our heart that that’s when the former can happen (Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:18, 19). We dwelt on the word of Christ that has produced in our heart the faithfulness of our God, and we can say assuredly that His Spirit has filled and saturated our hearts. And so, we shall be concluding this journey by speaking to ourselve...

  30 DAYS DEVOTIONALS WITH PREACHER SAM THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2022. TOPIC: THE WORKINGS OF GOD V (THE NAME OF JESUS) BIBLE READING: PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11 VERSE FOR MEDITATION: ACTS 4:30 GW Show your power by healing, performing miracles, and doing amazing things through the power and the name of your holy servant Jesus. Today we will be concluding on this topic; the workings of God. From the New Testament to this present dispensation, all that God is doing is in Christ Jesus. In Hebrews 4, Jesus Christ is the promise of God’s rest (Ref. Matt. 11:28, 29). So God has ceased working (Heb. 4:10), but all His present workings are in Christ Jesus. We see that in Elohim, all things came into being. Now in Jesus, He makes all things new (Rev. 21:5). In El-Shaddai, we have our sufficiency. Now in Jesus, His grace is ever sufficient for us (2 Cor. 12:9). In Yahweh, we have our dependency. Now in Jesus, we can lean on Him (Jn. 13:23) and fully depend on Him too (2 Cor....

  30 DAYS DEVOTIONALS WITH PREACHER SAM THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2022. TOPIC: THE WORKINGS OF GOD IV (JEHOVAH RAPHA) BIBLE READING: EXODUS 15:22-27 VERSE FOR MEDITATION: EXODUS 15:26 NKJV And said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals.” There are hundreds of names used for God, and each of these names reveals to us the workings of God or how God operates. The name Yahweh, which is God’s eternal name has been expressed in various ways by God Himself. “I am who I am,” is His eternal name to be called what you want Him to be in every of our present situation, that’s why He is “I am.” “God is our… very present help in trouble.” (Ps. 46:1). Yesterday He was, today He is and tomorrow He will be, because “I am” is ever present (Heb. 13:8). Jehovah was latini...