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Break free from evil part 12: Growing in faith and confidence

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, In : Word for the week 
There are three keys of success in our Christian life: 1) the faith that overcomes the world, 2) our trust in the Scriptures as His inerrant Word and 3) intimate relationship with the Lord. Let’s discuss how we can grow in faith and develop confidence that can help us grow and do mighty exploits for God. There are teachers that teach self-confidence is a vain thing in this world and therefore we must throw it away. There are also teachers that tell the opposite that we need it and we cannot...
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Break free from evil part 11: Shake your fears away

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, July 12, 2010, In : Word for the week 
Fear binds the soul of man like no other just as faith strengthens us and promotes well-being in our souls. In addition, just as faith is the vehicle that releases power in our midst so that the forces of heaven works with us, fear attracts the powers of hell to bind us and destroy us. It is written that Jesus came to set the captives free, that He was sent in order to “render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death...
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Break free from evil part 10: The cross--the remedy for sin and bondage

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, July 12, 2010, In : Word for the week 
I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. Isaiah 63:3

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

The old rugged cross was a symbol of the Roman empire’s prestige, power and position. It is shameful to be crucified as the Scriptures say that cursed be the man that hangs on a tree. The cross was a human invention of the most wicked scheme of punishment to his fellow; yet just as the human mind intended it ...


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Break free from evil part 9: The incubation of evil

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, June 27, 2010, In : Word for the week 
Evil does have a life by itself. It cannot be denied that once this life form infects the human being, he becomes its target until he is fully overcome. The devil establishes itself in the believers mind and heart as clearly expounded by Paul, For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against t...
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Break free from evil part 8: The transmission of evil

Posted by Edison Macusi on Saturday, June 19, 2010, In : Word for the week 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6

Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. Romans 6:13 (NIV)

Like a virus that needs a host before it can infect an animal or plant, evil is not transmitted without a host. It needs body before being incubated and then shots up to infect othe...


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Break free from evil part 6: Fear hijacks your destiny

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, May 24, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Apart from afflicting nations and people groups just as we had discussed, fear can also hijack the destiny of a nation or a person. Because Israel allowed the fear of the sons of Anak to conquer them, they were never able to conquer their Promised Land. This generation wasted for 40 years in the wilderness and did not see the fruits of the Promised Land. Where a nation or people group continues to allow fear to control them, they will stop moving forward, that’s the end of a nati...


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Break free from evil part 5: Fear-the door to oppression

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, May 17, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Just as faith is the door for God’s Kingdom in one’s life, fear is the door for Satan to enter into a person’s life and oppress him. He controls people, kingdoms and nations through fear. To the degree that one has allowed fear in his life that is the degree that he is influenced by fear. Every time there is distrust among nations and among friends, it is because one has been affected by fear.

For example the conflict between Christians and Muslims in the south is not merely ...


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Break free from evil part 4: Faith—the door to freedom

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, May 14, 2010, In : Word for the week 
How can someone have faith in God? Is it fact or feeling? Or how does one know he already believes in God? I had such questions on my mind when I was just starting up as a disciple. When I found that the Lord’s disciples too had the same questions, I found, I was not in bad shape or in bad company. They too had many questions but Jesus did not answer them by explaining their faith. He pointed them to the Source, who alone can grow such faith. I was always wary whether I am growing up ...
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Break free from evil part 3: God's Power and Authority

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, May 6, 2010, In : Word for the week 
“The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.”  1 John 3:8

The Lord could have easily bound Satan when He arose from the dead but He allowed him to remain at large for the simple purpose of maturing the saints. He was sent to destroy the works of the devil and just as He was sent for this purpose, He has also sent the church to do the same. There is really nothing that can hit us that God has not allowed to come to pass. He does this to perfect the...


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BReak free from Evil part 3: God's power and authority

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, In : Word for the week 

“The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.”  1 John 3:8

The Lord could have easily bound Satan when He arose from the dead but He allowed him to remain at large for the simple purpose of maturing the saints. He was sent to destroy the works of the devil and just as He was sent for this purpose, He has also sent the church to do the same. There is really nothing that can hit us that God has not allowed to come to pass. He does this to perfect...


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Break free from evil part 2: Man-God's agent on earth

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, April 26, 2010, In : Word for the week 
“The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.” Psalms 115:16

The earth is the battleground between good and evil. It is occurring in the hearts and minds of people. Even if we think we are inside the church, God and the devil are pursuing us with diametrically opposed purposes and intentions; the two most powerful beings in the universe are both trying to kill us! Just as God desired to walk with man in the garden in close and intimate fell...


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Break free from evil part 1: Training for reigning

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, April 26, 2010, In : Word for the week 
“I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!” Luke 12:49-50

God did not instantly translated us to heaven

Many complain of the evil they see around us. Many are downright angry at the bottom of their hearts. They complain of abortion, of their corrupt leaders, of the Muslim insurgency, of the economy and so many other things. They question, why God did not translate us to heaven earlier when we were born again? Why can’t it be like Enoch or Elij...


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A heart ablazed for God part 13

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, April 15, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Resurrection power

There is true life in the Lord. Everyone who dies in the Lord lives again. If this is the end of all things-we are the greatest of all fools and our preaching is vain, and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, no...


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A heart ablazed for God part 12

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, In : Word for the week 
Death and deliverance

The natural man is most bound by the fear of death (Hebrews 2:15). There is nothing more feared, even reverenced by many than death whether this is by culture or by religious practice. Some religions weight their sins by the good they do in a given day. But it is clear from the Scriptures that man cannot be saved by his good works because this is considered rags by the Lord.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the ...


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A heart ablazed for God part 11

Posted by Edison Macusi on Saturday, April 3, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Set at liberty

When truth sets us free, it liberates like no other so that even Jesus said that “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32 KJV). There is no truth that man cannot live by and be set free of because it overcomes the lies of the devil. To be in the truth means to live free from deception. But to think that we are perfectly living in it now could also be a misunderstanding of the truth. We live the truth only when we have first understo...


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A heart ablazed for God part 10

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Word for the week 
A burning light

Few men have witnessed the fiery splendors of heaven as much as those magi who went to look for the King who would one day rule the world. They understood that the heavens do speak of the glory and majesty of the Celestial Being, who ordered the starry host at night to shine their lights and the moon to reflect the light of the sun and give light at night. The entire heavenly host seems to move at the beating of the Unseen Conductor, standing right at it. They had unde...


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A heart ablazed for God part 9

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Patience in the Kingdom

John who could have been waiting for deliverance was tested for his patience inside the dunk and dark dungeon where Herod had thrown him. In fact, he sent some of his disciples to ask the Lord if He were the One they were waiting for. It was the sad voice of a man already hard-pressed. When I passed through his cell, my thoughts were flying again, racing through as I tried to remember the days that other apostles have gone through. Most leaders who were entruste...


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A heart ablazed for God part 8: Humility

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, March 15, 2010, In : Word for the week 

“Farewell my brother,” I bid him. Tears welled from my eyes and started flowing. I sobbed. I could not keep my heart from grieving knowing what awaited him in that dungeon. What could have happened had John kept his mouth shut? Could he have live a little bit longer? Could he have disciple more men? Those questions were coming to me like rushing waters. But I bet, it is not the will of the Lord that this man should live the way I thought of him. Even Paul could have lived to be 90 ...


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A heart ablazed for God part 7: The Witness of Light

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, March 8, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Almost all of us were swept with fear when our friend and brother bid us to go. He said that his work is finished and the time to depart draws near. He had been as prayerful as during the first time I saw him. He did not pray with any structure nor did he pray with highfaluting words, it was as if Jesus was conversing with His Father again. He prayed for his disciples to be strong and to know the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. He prayed for strength, joy and the cour...


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A heart ablazed for God part 6: John’s testimony

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, March 1, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Yesterday was different. The clouds seem to have their shining luster, stirred as if brought nearer into the clouds of heaven, full of stars. The Jordan river was not full and overflowing at the day nor it flooded its banks. This is the place where many come to refresh themselves and gather some water for washing their camels and donkey. Few have ever imagined that this River would still continue its coarse running for more than 4,000 years feeding Israel and the Jordan valley for the neede...


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A heart ablazed for God part 5: The lamb of God

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, February 28, 2010, In : Word for the week 
John spoke many exhortations to the people and was the first one to preach the gospel to them. His sermons are clearly related and had the same flavor as what the Lord preached later before the congregation. And he said to them, “Collect no more than what you have been ordered to.”

Some soldiers were questioning him, saying, “And what about us, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not take money from anyone by force, or accuse anyone falsely, and be content with your wag...


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A heart ablazed for God part 4: Brood of vipers

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, February 28, 2010, In : Word for the week 
The words of the Lord were like fire that cleansed all darkness in my heart. We were still in the wilderness and His words are cleansing me over and over again. This could be the reason He has also said that faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of the Lord. A clean heart is a powerful heart, able to listen and obey the Lord without any reserve. Some people speak about serving God, others do serve God but only those whose service are genuine and full of joy will truly get reward....
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A heart ablazed for God part 3: The wildman

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, February 28, 2010, In : Word for the week 
As I was about to get out of the Jordan meeting where John was doing his crusade among the people, the Lord caught me up to show me where He had trained this man. “Lord, you have anointed your great prophet with such power that few sinners could even resist.” “You had heard John’s fiery sermons but do not look at his fire, look above where his fire comes from. Come and I will show you some things.” Then the Lord took me in the desert wilderness of Judea where only the fox or v...
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A heart ablazed for God part 2: Repentance

Posted by Edison Macusi on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Word for the week 

I slept only to rise up and open my eyes to see the desert wilderness of Judea, it seems untrue, but my dream was real. The blinding light has penetrated my only cover, the rolled blanket I took from my grandmother since travelling to Israel. We were just young children then, talking about going somewhere and doing things with no profoundities but some absurd foolish heads jesting about their future. I heard of the Messiah who will come again and judge the world in truth and righte...


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A heart ablazed for God part 1: Introduction

Posted by Edison Macusi on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Word for the week 

I have promised to our guru readers last year that I am working on a new book release apart from the first one which you have already read, “Awaking the church into her glorious destiny.” Writing has not been my craft in High School and college though I wrote a lot of letters to my love ones and especially to my wife. To prove that, I have been part of the TNHS Newsette since my second year in High School but for my three years of stay, I had never been given the chance to go t...


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Leadership roles in the 21st century: helping others see and take action part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, February 1, 2010, In : Word for the week 
The five essential traits of spiritual leadership
  1. Vision-the eyes of the leader beholds the panorama of how far, how wide and how long he can go in the revealed purposes of God. Vision takes precedence in the life of leader because he must see so that he can lead others. The lack of vision sounds the death knell to any existing enterprise or organization. It is by having a vision that we can understand and see how many more steps we need to get nearer to what God called us to do. Just as Jesu...

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Leadership roles in the 21st century: helping others see and take action part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, February 1, 2010, In : Word for the week 
There are many definition for the words leadership and leaders. Just googling the word leadership gives you 122 million entries to look up. That is how desperately varied we are in defining what leadership is, some definitions of leadership are the following,

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Thomas Carlyle, writer, historian

“Times produce the person and not the other way around.” Herbert Spencer, philosopher, social darwinist

“Leadership is influence....


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Understanding your purpose and walking in it part 3

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Word for the week 

As I have written last week, understanding your purpose to answer the call of God in your life could be the greatest cure to the church’s spurious and superficial life in the spirit. True spiritual regeneration brings with it genuine changes and fruit of eternity that could only be counted once we graduate in heaven. There are general purposes which the Christian life follows and fulfills on this earth. Only the naïve thinks that this is all there is, however. Following the Lamb must b...


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Understanding your purpose and walking in it part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Last time we addressed the question as to whether man has really a purpose on this earth. And if he does, how can he find this out and through which door can he enter to discover it. Just these previous weeks I have been involved in giving lectures concerning the purpose of man and how he can find this out. When I tried asking the audience if they knew their purposes in this life, most of them would not even raise their hands except for a handful few. If this is the state of the church to...


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Understanding your purpose and walking in it part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Word for the week 

One of the greatest fear that man struggles todays is to have lived a life that lacks purpose. Everyman asks for what purpose his existence has been granted in the council of the Eternal One, and almost everyone either ends up finding one or they are bent looking for it in the wrong places. Do we have a purpose? Shall I answer this in 40 points like Rick Warren did? Neigh, but let’s get down to the basics. God created man for a purpose, that no one can doubt but as to why He made you an...


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Understanding your purpose and walking in it part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, In : Word for the week 

Last time we addressed the question as to whether man has really a purpose on this earth. And if he does, how can he find this out and through which door can he enter to discover it. Just these previous weeks I have been involved in giving lectures concerning the purpose of man and how he can find this out. When I tried asking the audience if they knew their purposes in this life, most of them would not even raise their hands except for a handful few. If this is the state of the church today...


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Putting away the holes in your pocket

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, December 21, 2009, In : Word for the week 

One evidence that we have matured is to find out that we are not anymore dictated by the course of this world as much as we are by the Holy Spirit. There are many reasons why a Christian is supposed to be guided by an internal source rather than by external circumstances that violate volition and clear mandate from the Scriptures. More than a

The Holy Spirit filled believers to the brim so that they were overwhelmed with joy and fire to proclaim God's message to the world

phi...


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Finding Christ in a broken world

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Fröhliche Weihnachten! Naragsak a Pascua kadatayu amin. These two words are often painted in canvass of mixed colors, splashed with creativity, they hang almost everywhere in most shops and department stores. Some even glow at night with neon brightness. This happens not just in Europe but around the world where Christ is named and the

To the extent that we do good deeds to the least of His Brethren, we did it to Him

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The cry for justice and righteousness

Posted by Edison Macusi on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, In : Word for the week 

Vehicles along with the victims were apparently dumped in ready made pits by the perpetrators

It has since been more than three weeks and we have been seeking justice for the sake of 57 innocent people who have been mercilessly killed for the sake of selfish ambition and territoriality of the Ampatuan prowling lions of Maguindanao. In due time, the Word of God clearly elaborates more and let us hear what could be the cry for righteousness and justice of those who have been buried i...


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A functioning body

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, In : Word for the week 
“For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Just as the body of man is but one, so is the Body of Christ but one

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for ...


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Salt and Light of the World part 4

Posted by Edison Macusi on Saturday, November 14, 2009, In : Word for the week 

William Tyndale

A man with genuine faith once stood without regard for his life and said, “I defy the pope, and all his laws;” and added, “If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.” So William Tyndale begun the English Reformation that changed the very flavor of Christianity in the

William Tyndale2

William Tyndale, reformer and Bible translator

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Salt and Light of the World part 3

Posted by Edison Macusi on Monday, November 9, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Even if Wycliffe had not translated the Bible in English, his action of training lay preachers or common men to preach the Word of God in England before the priests of his day was a rebellious act tantamount to excommunication. But he excelled even when pressured to stop his program and it was during these times when he was already under fire of
lollards

The lollards were disciples who took up the vision of Christ to preach the gospel to all men as Wycliffe activated the movement

Rome that he wa...


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Developing Confidence part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 22, 2009, In : Word for the week 

In 1 Samuel 17:1-11, we are told that the Philistines were all lined up in battle against the Israelites, and then, as if to display their arrogance, brought their massive weaponry into the thick of the conflict and challenged the Israelites if they could truly fight them. “Bring out your champion and let each of us fight together,” shouted the giant in taunting manner. “If he will win, we will be your slaves, but if I will win, you will be our servants,” rung the words t...


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Salt and light of the world part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, In : Word for the week 
The Middle Ages

One characteristic of the Middles Ages is the combination of drastic fall of the Church from one reigning as supreme with the risen Lord in the heavens to one earthly minded and having lost its savor. There are many important lessons that we can get from the Middle Ages but one prominent event that plays well into the modern history of nations is the

There would have been no modern world as we know it today without the man who brought freedom movements into the fray. Truth spoken under the anointing has a prophetic authority unrivalled in this world.

There would have been no modern world as we know it today without the man who brought freedom movements into the fray. Truth spo...


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Salt and light of the world part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Previously we discussed that there is an ongoing battle between light and darkness and ultimately, light will win just as when you open your lights at night, it drives away darkness in the room. A basic way to gain understanding how best
Blackholes can suck the light of others when nearby stars passes them by

Blackholes can suck the light of others when nearby stars passes them by

we can truly become the light of the world, is by examining the Scriptures which Jesus used to teach the people about being lights. It is imperative that if we want to properly u...


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Developing Confidence part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, In : Word for the week 
There are three keys of success in the Christian life: 1) the faith that overcomes the world, 2) our trust in the Scriptures as His inerrant Word and 3) intimate relationship with the Lord. Today we will be discussing what is confidence and how can we develop it in our lives. There are teachers that teach self-confidence is a vain thing in this world and therefore we must throw it away. There are also teachers that tell us the opposite, that we need it and we cannot survive without it. So who...
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How to become a living witness of the Light

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Word for the week 
How can one be a living witness? This is one of the most urgent questions and probably the most answered question by those who have gone through a Christian witnessing course. But is witnessing the whole point of being a living witness? Jesus called Himself the Faithful witness (Revelation 1:5) and the Faithful and True witness (Revelation 3:14) while He also called Antipas as His faithful and true witness who was martyred for His name in the city of Pergamum (Revelation 2:13). The Word witne...
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Finger on the wall

Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Word for the week 
One of my favorite books in the Bible is the book of Daniel. This man of God tread down the serpent and acted as counsellor, watchman and interpreter of God in the courts of the Kings during his days. He served one of the most cruel king ever born of woman, Nebuchadnezzar. He also served Darius the Mede as well as Cyrus the great. During one instance in his service to the house of Nebuchadnezzar, when his son was already ruling in his place, a finger appeared suddenly on the wall. Lost of wor...
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Overcoming the spirit of fear part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 8, 2009, In : Word for the week 
As we have been discussing previously, fear binds the soul of man much like the jaws of a predatory animal clasps the flesh of its prey. Previously, we said that there is nothing to fear, except to fear God Himself because He is the Lord Almighty who holds the hearts of kings like water and turns it wherever He wants (Prov. 21:1). We also said that faith is counter to fear and this is held by the peace of God in our hearts. I want us to take a closer look on this fruit of the Spirit that keep...
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Overcoming the spirit of fear part 1

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 8, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Fear binds the soul of man like no other just as faith strengthens us and promotes well-being in our souls. In addition, just as faith is the vehicle that releases power in our midst so that the forces of heaven works with us, fear attracts the powers of hell to bind us and destroy us. It is written that Jesus came to set the captives free, that He was sent in order to “render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were ...

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The conflict between light and darkness part 3

Posted by Edison Macusi on Thursday, October 8, 2009, In : Word for the week 
We continue our discussion on how we can best become the harbingers of peace and light into our families, communities and eventually our nation. The church is the most powerful entity in this world when we all combine our resources together as one big cooperative and institution. Whenever the Lord looks down from heaven, He does not see His body as bodies but He only sees one Church, His Bride. It is therefore very repugnant if not at all presumptuous to think that we own the people of God as...
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The conflict between light and darkness part 2

Posted by Edison Macusi on Sunday, September 27, 2009, In : Word for the week 
Previously, we discussed that one of the greatest barriers that is coming down is the carnal reasoning that we must only take good care ourselves and forget the others. Being our brother’s keeper is loving our neighbor as we love ourselves which is the second commandment of Love. Probably, all the great mistakes in history is rooted in self-preservation, thus Jesus forewarned “For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it. “For w...
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Shaping your destiny through prophetic declarations

Posted by Edison Macusi on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, In : Word for the week 
 
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