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  “ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness .” Psalms 145 : 3 , 6 - 7 NKJV The praise of the great goodness of God is no doubt the ridicule of the woeful wickedness of the enemy. And the longstanding strategy of the enemy in our homes, assemblies and societies is the skillful embargoes against the praise of the great goodness of God. For the mere fact of life’s survival throughout the schemes and activities in the year 2025 up until this moment, it implies that God has manifested His great goodness against the enemy’s strategy of exclusion, extinction, and extermination in believers’ homes, businesses, and professions. Unfortunately, many so-called believers are readily hired to promote the woeful wickedness of the enemy and to undermine the praise of the great goodn...

  “ Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the Lord God of Israel, they came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the fathers’ houses, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.” But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, “You may do nothing with us to build a house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.” ” Ezra 4 : 1 - 3 NKJV Everyone knows that any house building project requires lots of help and human labourers, and a reasonable building contractor will readily accept and use all offers of labour dispassionately. Zerubbabel stood out as an exception to the concept of ‘use all labour-offer ’ building contractors. He refused the offers from ‘the adver...

  “ The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword. Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood —” Psalms 144 : 10 - 11 NKJV Had king David not exposed to wilderness experience and foreigners’ falsehood in his earthly kingship, he would have been stranded by the limit of earthly salvation to kings. However, real life experiences taught David that God is “ The One who gives salvation to kings “; and He is the only source of faultless freedom to believers today. When He promised those who come to Him freedom or rest, it is important to underscore that His freedom or rest is faultless, full, and free from fraudulent practices. While an experience of delay is often required to perfect the restoration of all stolen property and inheritance into their rightful positions, the offer of faultless freedom from the Lord is a gift from the omnipotent, omnisc...

  “ Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood .” Psalms 144 : 7 - 8 NKJV If only the heart is made to recognize the right status of its associates, especially in the light of the sovereignty of its creator, there would be no account of fear and intimidation from any camp of the enemies. The acknowledgment of the superiority and sovereignty of God actually enables believers to trust wholeheartedly in the promises and provisions of the Creator of heaven and the earth. Unfortunately, the activities of great waters at home, business, and workplaces often threatened every believer's submission and consecration. Sometimes, we are made to worship and bow down to these foreigners, especially in the assemblies of God’s people and the commonwealth of believers. Notwithstanding, the scriptures maintained that these foreigners are full of falseh...

  “ Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. ” Psalms 143 : 8   NKJV When Peter plunged into the wide ocean as a walkway, it was certain he wasn’t using his brain. And when he suddenly does on transit, it was too late for him to trace his steps backward; and he was left with no other option but to cry out apparently like the psalmist “ Help me…for I lift up my soul ONLY to You ”. With sensible consideration of the economy, security, and empirical facts, a wise walkway is constructed simply on the basis of consultation with people, principals, and principalities in the society, system, and institutional setups. And always by the conflict of interests of these setups against the divine counsels, the recommended wise walkways in our world are often open to disobedience to the winsome walkway. Obviously, the winsome walkway is not usually the popular walkway, but it ...

  “ But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.” And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ” Revelation 5 : 5 - 6 NKJV The revelation of Jesus Christ as both the Lion and the Lamb presents the fundamental principle of peacemaking to believers. As rightly submitted in Nicky Gumbel’s devotional on Revelation 5, “ doing hard things requires us to be lion-like - i.e., bold, steely and courageous. Doing things the right way means being like a lamb - i.e., gentle, meek and submissive ”. Christ was bold, steely and courageous by His confrontations with sin and sinners; and He was gentle, meek and submissive to the consequences of these confrontatio...

  ““You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”” Revelation 4 : 11 NKJV The major reason why the redemption story is remarkable is that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only One source of the world’s all-time salvation. All other lords may only boast of their power to steal by their schemes, kill for their kingdoms, and destroy towards eternal damnation; but they lack the power to reverse the destinies marked for darkness and destruction into the marvellous light of life. For example, only the power of God could switch the story of Mordecai and the perishing Jews in Shushan from death to glory and promotion overnight; while the enemy Haman got the gallows he had prepared for the execution of Mordecai. Therefore, whenever believers are ever enraptured by the power of God’s remarkable redemption, they get the singspiration to declare “ You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and pow...