Emmanuel Okoro (aka MrLift)

Every action is a proceed of thoughts. Your thoughts and your actions work hand in hand. For anything to exist it must first exist as a thought. If it can happen in your thoughts, then it is permissible for it to happen in your life. If it can't happen in your thought, then it does not have permission to happen in your life. "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. (Ps.10.4) One way to live a pure life is to have pure thoughts. If your thoughts are not pure, your life cannot be pure. While the fool says in his heart there is no God, the wicked banishes God from his thoughts.  "This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions". (Col.1.21) The way we were in time past separated from God was first in our evil thoughts and then our actions. And since our thoughts produce our actions, our actions could not be any be...

How do you describe someone invisible? That may sound like an incorrect question. So let's rephrase the question. How do you describe an invisible concept or a virtual reality? Any good teacher knows that when you want to introduce an unknown concept, you go from the know to the unknown. That way most students will be able to relate. That was what God did to us when He wanted to show us His invisible self. Jesus told his disciples, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father. "Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" (John.14.9) The same truth is what the Apostle Paul explains here : "We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created". (Col.1.15) To see God we have to see the son, and when we see the son we have seen t...

There are so many benefits that we have in Christ that we are not enjoying. I remember sitting in a service where someone said that God is our Jehovah Tsidkenu, that is, the Lord is our righteousness (see Jer:23:6) And then that still small voices on my inside said, yes, we say these things but most people do not really believe them. If they did, they will not live under the weight of guilt and condemnation. He became sin for us, now we are the righteousness of God in Christ (see 2 Cor:5:21) "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins". (Col.1.12) In Whom... Who? In Christ, we have redemption through His blood. Our redemption is not because of our good works or lack of it. Our redemption is based on everything Jesus did on the cross. We are not going to have it. We already have it. We also have the forgiveness of sins. In other words, God has forgiven us our sins. We have forgiveness of sins. We are not going to get it, we have i...

The reason man was created was to fellowship with God but before we actually got down to that, the man was corrupted by sin. And the man lost his place in the garden of Eden. But this did not take God unawares. He knew that man was going to fall and made plans for man's redemption. While God the Father was busy at creation, the Son was at redemption, and the Holy Ghost at regeneration restoring man to the place of fellowship. "[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, (Col.1.12 Amp) The Father did not only deliver us but He also drew us to Himself because that was the plan all along. To have an intimate relationship and fellowship with the Godhead. We are no longer under the dominion of darkness. We are not under the influence of darkness. God delivered us. But furthermore, He transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. We are now...

When the rich young ruler called Jesus good Master, Jesus replied to him that none was good except God. When Adam sinned in the garden of Eden, everyone in his loins became sinners even before they were born. "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one". (Rom.3.12) That's the reason the Bible tells us that all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Rom.3.23) All of these, man in this helpless state of utter disrepair, shows his need for a saviour. But man was not in a position to redeem himself. None was good enough so God came down in the form of man so that He is akin to man and then able to rescue and redeem man and in so doing qualified man. "Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God 's holy people) in the Lig...

"We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul--not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy". This passage is self-contradictory in so many ways yet true. How does one endure the unendurable and how does one grit one's teeth with glory-strength? Sometimes what you need is the tenacity to stick it out over the long haul. Imagine that angels came to rescue Christ at calvary. Jesus said it this way, 'he that endures to the end the same shall be saved. "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved". (Mark.13.13) We are not in this for the short run but the full length, the long haul. God did not promise a trouble-free ride but He promised never to leave you. He said He'll be with you in the fire that it will not burn you and through the...

To walk worthy one ought first to be worthy. There are many schools of thought that lead credence to the unworthiness of man but you must understand that if you are in Christ, you are a new creature, a different species and so therefore you are worthy. Let's even make the argument for the unworthy nature of man. Who will die for but a good man even scarcely so. If truly man is unworthy why would God give His best to redeem mankind? You are indeed worthy... Now walk as such... "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God". (Col.1.10) God requires that you walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Look at the prodigal son for example. His father did not begrudge him that he collected the portion that fell to him. It was his to spend as he chose. The father did not stop him from going into a far country. But this was where the problem was, he went out with so much expectat...