Heralds Digest

  “ Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.” Psalms 67 : 5 - 7 NKJV It is no news that the people’s engagement in reactionary praise are outrightly ignorant of the power of progressive praise. When the psalmist says “ Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You ”, it suggests that people’s minds are naturally chained and imprisoned by some sort of giant syndrome. During the psalmist’s days of internship, he was exposed to many fearsome giants, like lion and bear, even before meeting Goliath, the 9-feet tall champion of the Philistine. Those whose feet and hands or minds are shackled by the fear of the giant figure in their lives cannot praise God. Whereas, it is only the sincere praise of the majesty of God above all the manipulative gestures of giants that can set true believers aside for bre...

  “ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. ”” John 14 : 21 NKJV When Jesus said greater works are manifested through His disciples because of His ascension, He anticipated every disciple to be His manifest to the world. A manifest is a comprehensive repository of the commandments or words of God.  Imagine every disciple of Christ as the embodiment of Jesus in this world of sin, compromise and unrighteousness, Jesus and His world will become evident in our family, business, and societal lifestyles with rebukes to unrighteousness and the returns to the ministry of reconciliation. Unfortunately, today, pride and arrogance would not always allow the influence of the words of the Lord to take root. For example, when king Saul can no longer retain being little in the eyes of the Lord, he jettisoned being the master’s manifest and modified the words of the Lor...