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Psalm 44:8.    In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
 
Ah Friends, the natural disasters continue unabated; this time a little too close to home. Yesterday, a powerful storm swept through Central and Southern Ontario; from the Toronto area, all the way east to the capital of Ottawa, leaving a swath of destruction and misfortune in it’s path. Luckily, for me, it began a few miles north of my area. Obviously, these disasters, like our God, are no respecter of persons, times, places and things, so you can’t predict with any surety when and where they’ll show up next. And unfortunately the hurricane season is about to begin, meaning that anything is truly possible with the crazy weather patterns now predominating. But Friends, that only gives us more reason to turn to our God, cling to Him with all our might, and do as our Bit says: ‘In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.’ Yes my people, our God is the only thing or person worthy of boasting upon in this world! Nothing, or nobody else deserves that special praise; only the Lord God Jehovah! Boasting in any other thing or person falls under the banner of human pride and conceit, which we all know the Lord intensely dislikes. Our job is to talk continually, pleasantly, not aggressively, but assertively about out great God, and offer praise to His Holy Name, while doing the acts of kindness, LOVE, mercy, forgiveness, etc. that He has planted in our hearts. It’s a two-sided coin; we have to both spread His Word – talk it – then do what it says – walk it – through the way we live our lives. Bruh David says it perfectly in Psalm 44, re the Lord hears the righteous: ‘I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.’ (Ps.44:1-3) Oh Friends, that’s how Christians ought to live their lives; in harmony with God, and each other. But are we doing so? Unfortunately that seems to be more a dream than a reality these days, for instead of coming together as one, praising God and working in His Name, believers seem to be splitting up, creating more dissension and divisions amongst the ranks of Christ’s Church. But people, this negative activity bodes no good for Christ, only for the enemy, Lucifer, who’s seeing his abominable plan, to divide and conquer, working to perfection amongst believers. Oh my brethren, can’t we see, don’t we understand that Beelzebub and his evil cronies are fighting tooth and nail to discredit us, and we, in our foolish human pride and conceit, through our selfish machinations, are working on his behalf, rather than furthering God’s kingdom. The Church is supposed to be Christ’s body on earth, a unified body. But if it is divided, split up, dissected into little bits and pieces, how can it survive, much less do the work Christ expects of us? My people, it’s time we start turning the tables around, start coming together as truly one body in Christ, rather than creating even more splits. We all know that selfish pride and personal aggrandizement are at the heart of most of the divisions, so please, let’s try and weed out the disgusting, ungodly desires which tend to put our personal glory above that of Christ. We each need to begin a serious soul searching to see where and how we are allowing our personal agendas to overtake, or flourish above God’s. Then, with prayer and sincere desire, we need to call on the Lord for help to remove those barriers from our lives; those sinful, worldly lusts and desires that cause us to be so much less than we ought to be. Now this is a very serious task my brethren, because it can impact our work for Christ either negatively or positively. And if like now, we’re not all on the same page, but foolishly fighting amongst ourselves over trivial personal matters, while God’s work goes undone, falls by the wayside, then we certainly don’t deserve the beautiful and righteous name Christian, which denotes coming together in Christ, not breaking apart. Oh Friends, I know it’s a huge task to unify Christ’s Church with the many disparate sections and divisions it now contains, but remember with God’s help, nothing is impossible. And if we’re truly serious about reclaiming unity, then let’s start by examining ourselves and our motives, purging the ungodly aspects, then truly begin singing God’s praises, continually boasting about Him, with a right heart, while doing our best to bring both believers and unbelievers, as one, into His LOVING fold. And we’ll end with some fitting words from Jeremiah, re the knowledge of God is man’s glory. ‘Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise LOVING-kindness, judgement (justice), and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.’ (Jer.9:23-24) There you have it Friends, directly from the Lord. So please, let’s try and implement it, as quickly and as thoroughly as possible nuh, for what exists in the world right now is the exact opposite of what the Lord desires, and furthermore, it’s only driving us to drink, damnation and destruction. Much LOVE!…he who has ears to hear…let him hear…