DONHOLM CFF

By Pastor Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship (CFF) DONHOLM, KENYA.

Heaviness is lack of interest, the state of not being lively.

Spiritual heaviness is weight in the spirit and is different from spiritual burden.
With the former, the devil manipulates a believer to cause afflictions that result in uneasiness in spirit and confusion, while the latter comes from God for the purpose of His work.
Spiritual burden is Holy-Spirit-controlled and makes known God’s ways.

The whole purpose of spiritual heaviness is to cause believers to suffer.

According to Matt 11: 28- 30,
Christ gives rest. A believer should never carry any weights; they should cast their cares to Christ who bears all.

EFFECTS OF THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS.

1. Quenches our faith.
Faith is a key to spiritual freedom. When your faith is quenched you will be made a spiritual captive. This is exactly what the enemy wants; to hold you in bondage.

2. Makes one feel all alone.
Although you will never be alone, the enemy will make you believe that God has deserted you.This results in prayerlessness and loneliness.
Being alone makes the perfect timing for attacks where the devil will make sure you will no longer be at peace.

3. Brings oppression.
Every time you are on the verge of breakthrough, the spirit of heaviness steps on you and takes you right back, so that you will not go beyond a certain level no matter the spiritual input.

4. It steals your love.
It dims your love for God and others.You find yourself in a position where you don’t want to interact with others including your family.
The time you give to seeking God diminishes and you find yourself revisiting the past failures and mishaps because you are not free, you remember where you failed and start analysing those that wronged you. Remember this spirit comes to afflict.

5. Darkens our hearts.
A darkened heart knows no rest and peace.
You will take offence anyhow.

6. Darkens your countenance/face.
As believers we are supposed to be happy always regardless of our situations. The heavy spirit comes to steal your joy. It affects so bad that it turns your face gloomy.

7. Fights rest.
When your spirit is troubled your life will be troubled. When the inner man is not in rest, the outer man will suffer.

8. It dims your vision
The devil will bring the spirit of heaviness so that you lose sight of your vision.
He knows what God put in you and his purpose is to violate that burden.
Burden in this case refers to the gift you have from God.
Where there is no Godly burden there is weight.

9. It Robs our hope.
Once the spirit of heaviness takes over, it renders you hopeless where you see yourself never accomplishing what you had set your eyes on.

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT:

1. Put aside sinful behaviour. Heb 12:1
Sin ensnares. Living holy will put you in a good position not to be trapped in spiritual uneasiness.

2. Deal with strongholds in your mind. 2 Cor 10:4-6.
Dont believe anything negative. If you want to defeat a negative thought put a positive thought; A Godly thought.

3. Have faith in God.
In Jer 32:27 God asks whether there is anything too hard for Him.
Faith moves mountains and it is because of it that you should learn to cast all your cares to God, 1 Peter 5:7.
Put on the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness, (Isaiah 61:3)

Psalms 42: 5, “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.”

There are two types of preachers here; the preacher of burden and the preacher of weight. Whom do you listen to? The voice that assures you that you are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus or the noise that afflicts and causes you to be uneasy spiritually?
Have the burden of the spirit.

Never get held back by fear and defeat. The battle belongs to God and He has the final victory. Focus on God not on your circumstances.

By Pastor Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship (CFF) Donholm Kenya.

God speaks in various ways to us whenever He needs mesages delivered. In the Old testament, it was mainly through audible voices and various manifestations.

Today, God speaks mainly through inner voices among other ways including:

1. PICTURES

These images include dreams and visions. In most cases, dreams should not be interpreted directly; they require a certain insight because most of them hold hidden meanings.

In a vision, one’s eyes are opened to see something that conveys a revelation.

Please do note that the devil also uses pictures to intimidate which manifest through dreams mainly.

Know the difference between Godly dreams, Satanic dreams and normal dreams. While Satanic dreams project fear, intimidation and confusion, Godly dreams are not meant to confuse us. When God delivers a message through dreams and visions, the whole point is giving direction and hope.

Normal dreams come as a result of one’s surroundings and whatever they have been thinking about.

2. THE VOICES WE HEAR.

We hear God through voices in three ways:

1. Audible voice.

God will call your name out audibly and deliver the message. This, however is rare.

The devil, since he is a counterfeit, also talks to people through audible voices but then if you are sensitive in the Spirit, you will always tell when satan is speaking, God’s voice has no replica. Those that know God know exactly how He speaks.

A good example of a person called into ministry through an audible voice is Saul in Acts 9.

We must be able to measure whether voices are truly from God. How?

– Measure whether it is in line with the Word of God. When God speaks He does not go outside His word.

– Measure the voice with a lot of wisdom.

Gal 5: 17 says that the spirit and the flesh are contrary to one another. Both of them talk but you must distinguish how. The inner voice will warn you against doing something while the flesh gratifies it’s desires.

2. The inner voice. Our consciences.

Every born again believer has their consciences always examining their decisions especially when they are not in line with God’s requirements.

This is the voice of God and the moment you received Christ your conscience came to life. Do not, however get into a habit of ignoring your conscience; with time it will die.

Remember when you did something like put on a certain dress and the moment you looked at yourself in the mirror heard an inner voice tell you to change into something else? That was God speaking through an inner voice.

3. Through other’s voices.

God speaks through other people’s voices. For instance a preacher.There is a time you probably listened to a preaching and felt like it was you the preacher was addressing.

Have you ever gone through something then met a random person and they gave you a Bible verse that spoke to you in that situation?

That is the voice of God coming to you through another person’s voice. This also includes prophecy and teachings.

Other voices could also take the shape of circumstances.

You will go through hardships and difficult situations so that you can hear God. We dont hear God while in our comfort zones. He must press us to know what is really in the inside of us.

Take Moses for instance: he had to be driven out of the palace into the wilderness where he took the lowest job as a shepherd to be spoken unto.

The burning bush was not in Pharaoh’s comfortable palace but in the heat of the desert.

Through the current global menace in the name of Covid-19, many people have and will hear God’s voice to be holy. Others will have their God-given-purposes made clear right here in the heat of the Covid 19 desert.

When God speaks in our lives:

• There is a Godly desire.

You will desire to know God and serve Him more. The possible question you will ask yourself is “what do i love to do?”

• There are Godly ambitions.

You will be determined to achieve success. “What do i dream of doing in the Kingdom of God?”

• There is an urge to know Godly gifts/talents. You will want to know your position, where you truly fit in and the roles you should play in edifying the Body of Christ.

“What am i most effective at doing?”

When God speaks through circumstances:

• It builds our characters.

It is the difficult moments that build us not the comfortable ones.

• It brings us closer to God.

The current global epidemics are a good example where a sense of yearning for God and the Gospel is being driven into many.

• It pushes us into God’s purpose.

It is in the heat of the desert where Moses was pushed into His life’s purpose.

• It makes us testimonies.

Dont dwell in the wilderness know the will of God and let the voice push you into your purpose.

3. THROUGH THE SENSES/ WHAT WE FEEL

God speaks through our emotions and when the presence of God is within, it feels different.

When a believer is sensitive in the Spirit, they will be aware of the presence in their surroundings.

You have probably gone home and felt a strange presence in your house and you were sure it was not the presence of God.

Once you are in the Spirit, you will always be sensitive and that is another way in which God speaks.

By Pastor Gitahi Daniel Christian Foundation Fellowship (Cff) Donholm Kenya.

As a believer not everything in this world or life is for you.
The scriptures talk about some of the things we are supposed to lay aside wholly and fully.
1 Peter 2:1, “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
James 1:21, “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
For this topic, we will rely on these two scriptures.

1. All Wickedness (James 1:21)

Wickedness is a higher level of evil. A wicked act is beyond evil. All wickedness is evil but not all evil is wicked.

For instance acts of fornication and adultery are evil but bestiality is surely wicked.
It does not mean that we are allowed to be evil though, lay aside all evil lay aside all wickedness.

2. All Malice

Malice is wrongful intention or the desire to harm someone. Some people are driven by wicked urges to do others harm for no reason.

Do not harm anybody no matter how defenceless you think they are. You will find an employer not paying an employee his/her dues in full for no reason or someone just looking down on someone else because they think they are lowly.

Get rid of that scornful attitude now! You could be born again and miss Heaven for the same because on the contrary, God does not respect persons. For the record you are not better than others. If anything, be a shoulder that others step on to scale up in life.

3. All Guile

This is the quality of being good at deceiving people in a clever/ cunning way for an advantage. It is a dishonest act of fraud.

In John 1:47, the Word says that Jesus saw Nathaniel coming and expressed how truly guileless the man was. What would Jesus say about you?

Can He testify in your favour like He did with Nathaniel?
We are required to follow in the footsteps of our Master Jesus whom in 1 Peter 2: 21-22, the Word specifically says that no guile was found in His mouth.

Psalms 34:13 echoes that we ought to keep our tongues from evil and our lips from telling lies. In our spirits there should be no deceit as says Psalms 32:2.

4. All hypocrisy.

This is an act of pretension where what one says is not what they do. Ananias and Saphira said one thing and did another in one of the highest acts of hypocrisy ever recorded in the Bible. The repercussions is what we all know; death.
God does not take pleasure in hypocrites, lay aside all manner of pretension and insincerity.

5. All envies.

To look with ill will.
Being envious/ jealous of others’ blessings will waste your time and lock you up in a closet of lack and curses.

It will steal your time and joy because you are so bitter with how blessed others are.
James 3:16 says Where envy is there is confusion and every evil thing thereof.

Be happy when someone else is being uplifted, it will onlý pave way for you to be blessed as well.
Prov 14: 30 (b) says ‘envy rots the bones.’ This just shows how serious this issue is

Want to be happy and put your life in order? Lay all envy aside.
Envy begins with thoughts like; “that is not fair. Whom do they think they are? Why dont i get the recognition? Why is it always that they are blessed? Why not me?”

In Prov 27:4 envy is classified as being worse than wrath and anger. This means that an angered person is in a better position not to do the harm an envious person would do. Think about it. It was because of jealousy that Cain murdered Abel. In that moment he forgot they were brothers. This is where envy was born; in hate.
Love is the remedy for envy (1 Cor 13:4 )

6. All evil talking.

Evil speech include the use of vain words, exaggerated words, flattering others inorder to get an advantage, use of harsh words etc.

The solution to not falling into this trap is avoiding too much talking as the scriptures say in Prov 10:19, “where words are many, sin is present.”

As believers, we are in the habit of overlooking sins. Sin is sin no matter what shape it takes.

If we are going to lay aside say sexual sins, so to speak, we need to lay aside all other manner of sins like guile, hypocrisy, envy and all the others addressed here.

With such spots on our garments we will surely not be counted worthy in the Kingdom of God.

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By Pastor Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship Donholm (CFF) Kenya.

This is the last stage of the Road to Calvary. Here, Jesus was glorified and is now sitted on the right hand side of God.

Similarly, this is the place of graduation for a believer after they have been through Gethsemane, Gabbatha, Golgotha and Garden Tomb. One will be uplifted after all the pain, shame, travail, loneliness, desertion etc.

For 40 days (Acts 1: 3) after His ressurection, Jesus walked on the face of the earth and revealed Himself to many people as a proof that He had conquered death.

When He finally ascended, He went back as God the son. He left the glory in the world.

John 17: 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.

There are various things that Jesus left for us when He was glorified without which the work of the cross would have been incomplete.

1. Glory, John 17:22.

At this point grace has already been born and the once lost hope has now been affirmed. Once in Christ we become glorious. You have probably been told by someone to lend them money which you did not have and when you told them so, they did not believe you this is because you are covered in glory.

Remember when Stephen the first Christian Matry was set before the council where the scribes and the elders came to bear false witness against him? The Word of God in Acts 6:15 says that the people saw his face like that of an angel.

This was actually the glory of God that Jesus left behind for us. Once you are born again, walking in faith and power, living righteously and in God’s will, you will be covered in this glory, the Kavod type of glory.

2. Power and Authority, Luke 10:19.

As believers, we have been given power and authority. Signs and wonders accompany those that believe. We do not follow them they accompany us as long as we are serving Jesus who is alive.

Jesus crushed the authority of the devil and put Him under our feet. We don’t have to fear for the complete work at the cross to glorification enabled us to be positioned at the Heavenly places. We shall do exploits.

3. Keys of Heaven, Matt 16:19.

He further gave to the Church the keys of Heaven to bind and to loose, Matt 16:19.

People in the old testament for instance Elijah did many miracles but they were disadvantaged in the sense that they did not have the keys, hence could not even cast out demons. In the old testament the devil still had the keys.

For the new testament believers, we should never be afraid or coerced by forces of darkness. As long as we are living right and away from sin, we have been raised and are sitted in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:6)

There are other scriptures that echo the significance of us having the keys including Luke 10:19, Matt 18:18, Matt 10:8

The authority and power that Jesus gave also puts the Church in a special place where nothing can prevail against it; not even the gates of hell.

This type of Church is a ‘kavod,’ a glorified Church.

We have been redeemed, saved and delivered, the task was accomplished.

God started honouring man since. Once you get born again, God starts honouring you but only if you honour Him.

According to Eph 5: 27, Jesus was spotted so as to present a spotless Church, one without blemish. The Church had been born at Calvary but was incomplete without the risen Christ.

The Risen Christ made:

1. The Church spotless without wrinkles

2. The Church holy without blemish.

Col 3:3 says that we were dead and our lives are now hidden with Christ in God.

Please note that since the Church was glorified there is no place for spots. Jesus does not want us to keep on repenting, He wants us to live holy.

Be holy.

By Pastor Gitahi Daniel,

The _tongue_ is a small yet powerful organ that will ultimately lead to the destruction of many if we don’t learn how to tame it.

How many of us use our tongues to praise God and simultaneously curse and gossip? Yet, James 3:11 explicitly states that fresh and salt water can’t flow from the same spring.

Proverbs 18:21 also warns us that the tongue has the power of life and death. In essence, our tongues carry both judgment and eternal life. We must guard our tongues (Proverbs 21:23) because it’s full of poison (James 3:8).

Beware that the tongue carries nine sins, which have no room in God’s kingdom. Which of these sins are you guilty of?

1. The lying tongue
Lying is one of the things God finds detestable (Proverbs 6:17) and all liars have their place in the lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). You should also note that the devil is the father of liars (John 8:44).

2. The Flattering tongue
God hates flattery (Psalm 12:3-4) and as believers, we should be humble instead of praising ourselves. We must also distinguish between flattery and favor.

3. The proud tongue
A proud/boastful tongue is sinful (Psalm 12:3-4). Proud believers are full of themselves and learn little from anyone else. We must remember that whatever we do, we do it for the glory of God and not men (Colossians 3:23).
You should always let somebody else lift/praise you and know that God loathes pride and such persons won’t go unpunished (Proverbs 16:5).

4. Overused tongue
An overused tongue is one that talks excessively. When you speak too much, you not only sin but also reveal your character (Ecclesiastes 5:3). There’s wisdom in silence and as such, we should strive to be people of few words.
In fact, Proverbs 10:19 reinforces this when it states, “when words are many, sin is not absent but he who holds his tongue is wise.”

5. Swift tongue
A swift tongue is quick to speak. We should learn from James who urges us to “be quick to listen and slow to speak” (1:19). Believers with a swift tongue are always the first to spread news without verifying the accuracy.
In Proverbs 18:13 we learn that, “he that answers before listening; that’s his folly and shame.” Most of us are guilty of speaking too fast when we really need to wait before saying anything.

6. Backbiting tongue
While Proverbs 25:23 speaks against backbiting, it’s also important to know that backbiters have no space in God’s kingdom. These kinds of people use their tongue against you when you’re absent but won’t dare face you. They would rather stir up dissension than offer solutions to problems, so beware of them.

7. Gossiping tongue
This is the tale-bearing tongue that’s forbidden in Psalm 15:3 and Proverbs 18:8. These people engage in conversations about others, usually involving details that are unconfirmed as being true.

8. Cursing tongue
Some Christians use their tongue to curse yet we’ve been called to bless.

9. Piercing tongue
The piercing tongue is sinful as revealed in Proverbs 12:18. While conveying a message to you, these people tend to speak indirectly in reference to something that concerns you.

In which of these areas are you guilty? Make a deliberate and conscious effort to control your tongue lest it leads you to hell. Allow the Holy Spirit to reign over your tongue today!

By Pastor Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship (CFF) Donholm Kenya.


After Golgotha, Jesus’ next big stop in the five- phase journey was the Garden Tomb. This is where He was laid to rest.

John 19: 38
•Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, rich men who followed Jesus privately in the course of His ministry prepared Jesus’ body and placed it in a new tomb.
Remember Jesus had been carried for nine months in a fresh womb by Mary. New womb and now new tomb signified the newness of life for us; the birth of grace.
•But then Jesus was not in the grave long. Earlier on the disciples were crushed when they witnessed His lifeless body being given for burial; all hope seemed lost.

•Then came a twist: In Matt 28:2, the Word says that an angel of the Lord rolled back the stone and sat on it. Jesus was no longer in the grave.

In the Garden Tomb,

1. We see the appearance of angels.
There, hope finally revealed itself.
You have been waiting too long and gone through phases of Gethsemane, Gathering Gogotha and are now at the Garden tomb, worry not the stone is about to be rolled back.

When it seems all dark dark and gleam, that is exactly where new light is shed.

2. We also learn that our source of life is God who ressurected our Lord Jesus on the third day.
All hope is not lost even in a grave. That grave you are in will open and you will be brought out. (Ezekiel 37:12)

3. God’s hope does not disappoint. Whatever you are going through do not allow yourself to be disappointed as long as in the garden tomb, the stone was rolled away on the third day.

4. God’s hope blesses.
Jesus is not in the grave, He is life and ressurection. Just hold on for your blessings.

5. Our hope is assured and is a shelter to His people.
When Christ the hope of all glory is in us, we need not waver in faith.


• It was at the garden tomb that our hope was renewed. As long as our Master Jesus conquered the very last thing that was supposed to break Him, we should never grow weary of waiting upon our Lord.

Psalms 34: 18, “

The Lord is nearer to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
1 Peter 5: 10 assures that the suffering wont last forever.

Sidethought
Jesus was in the habit of uniting, or rather reconciling the poor and the rich, the learned and the unlearned, the highly and the lowly in the society in His life: the first people to visit baby Jesus were the poor shepherds and the wise men, those that laid His body to rest were rich while the first person to witness His ressurection, Mary Magdalene was poor. He is a God of the rich and the poor, the highly and the lowly.

No matter where you could be in life, He is your God, all that He wants is for us to be at the right standing with Him.

My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Ezekiel 37:12 (b)

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On the next episode of this series, we’ll look at the final stop, “the Glorification”.

By Pastor Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship (CFF) Donholm Kenya.

•Guilt is a weapon that the devil uses to attack believers.
There are things you probably did in your past that keep coming back to you, begging three questions:
1. How could God ever forgive me?
2. I have really messed up, what does God think of me?
3. How could God ever forget what i have done?
Abortions, murder, sexual sins, occultism name it; the truth is no matter how dark the past looks to the eye, when you are in Christ the past is long forgotten.

>Look at the below scriptures:
John 8:32 says that we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us FREE.
Isaiah 1:18, God calls us to reason together with Him.
John 8:36, When the son sets FREE one is FREE indeed.
John 10:10 (b) Jesus came so we can have life and have it in abundance.
John 1:12, those that believed He gave the right to become His children.

>Guilt should never bring you down, you should never be condemned by the things of your former life.

What guilt as a weapon does:
1. Tears us down.
Demolishes and dismantles the inner of us.
2. Makes you feel dirty.
Makes you feel filthy and as unclean.
3. Makes you unworthy.
The feeling of having no value and not deserving of respect.
4. Robs your faith.
Takes away the very foundation of your salvation.
5. Takes away your confidence.
Guilt takes away the certainty you should have in Christ.

•Guilty Christians are injured, wounded and experience other accompanying effects of guilt:
1. Feel guilty when they have hurt people
2. Feel grief when they have suffered loss.
3. Hold grudges when someone has caused them pain.

How do we defeat guilt?
If you are always condemned by the things you did in the past you will always be bitter instead of better.

1. Stop thinking about your past failures. After getting saved you are no longer condemned. You are in Christ and worthy. Micah 7:19 says ‘you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our inquities into the depths of the sea.

‘When you get born again:
-You become a son
He prepares the son to be a servant and a soldier.
-You are given a tool with which to work now that you are a servant.
-You are given a weapon to be a soldier and fight for this kingdom.

Phil 3:13-14, reach forth to the things ahead. Press on towards the goal.

2. Stop focusing on the problems.
Dont think about the problems that have been dealt with. Meditate on the truth of God and yearn to stay right with God as long as you do not go back into the former things.

Psalms 103:12 says that God is merciful and has removed our transgressions from us.
Rom 8:1, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Note:
•One of the reasons why most believers live defeated lives is because of guilt.
•As a door, guilt is one of satan’s most effective weapons against believers.
•Jesus did not only come to cleanse us from sin but also to set us free from guilt.

Be free!

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By Rev Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship (CFF) Donholm Kenya.

Matt 27: 32- 54

•Golgotha is a hebrew name that means the place of the skull. •From the place of gathering, Jesus was brought to Golgotha which is same as Calvary. •This place where Jesus was crucified was both ugly (Golgotha) and beautiful (Calvary). Jesus went through all the shame and the pain, Golgotha, while man received victory and gained power, Calvary.

•Golgotha stands for the pain of the cross, Calvary stands for the grace of the cross. Golgotha stands for the struggle and the violence of the cross, Calvary stands for the triumph of the cross.

•At Golgotha, Jesus shed blood in three ways; through His legs, hands and ribs.

The events that took place at GOLGOTHA:

•Jesus the tree of life (Rev 22:14,) the middle man, was crucified between two thieves.

•Jesus was crucified naked and there curses were dealt with.

•Mountains moved, rocks split open, there was major earthquake in the whole world because nature could not stand the crucifixion of the one in whose name everything came into being. Remember everything was created in His name (John 1:1- 3) •Graves opened and the saints were raised back to life.

•The sun darkened for three hours. Jesus the light of the world had just been killed.

•The curtain of the temple was torn into two from top to bottom.

At CALVARY:

•Grace was born and the curse of the law was broken, when Jesus proclaimed ‘it is finished.’

•Jesus got into labour pains and birthed the Church.

•The new covenant was born. The old covenant, the law, that had killed thousands was overshadowed by grace. •Jesus got rid of man’s loneliness. He looked like He was alone and deserted at the cross but he was taking away man’s loneliness.

•Jesus completed the mission here. He broke the curse of Eden and paid the price of sins, sicknesses, curses and poverty.

•Man’s joy began at Calvary for he was set free and all had all his debts paid.

•Man gained power to be great and powerful, to be more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. Rom 8:37

•Faith was born at Calvary. Remember without faith we cannot please God and faith comes from hearing the Word of God. The word is Christ hence faith is Christ.

•We won our dominion. Jesus put the enemy under His feet and there we were given power and authority to tread on all forces of darkness. Luke 10:19

☆It was because of love that Jesus underwent all the pain and shame. Infact He demonstrated all the fruits of the Holy Spirit according to Galatians 5:22.

Jesus performed miracles everwhere He went. This includes when He was being put to shame there are 6 of those that He performed at Golgotha.

1. The thief that cried out unto Him at the cross was saved. Jesus promised to be with him in Paradise on the same day.

2. The veil of the temple was torn into two from top to bottom. This gives everyone who accepts Jesus, the head of the Church, the chance to access the holy of holies unlike in the old covenant where the holy of holies was only accessible to the high priests. No more need to have a man as a link between us and God, no other middle man/bridge other than the Master Jesus Christ.

3. Resurrection. Those that had died in the Lord ressurected because Jesus is life and ressurection. When Jesus introduced grace, nobody died and instead of death there was resurrection. In sinai, during the birth of the law, there was fear and command, in Golgotha, when grace was birthed there was love and invitation to salvation.

4. The whole world trembled through an earthquake. On that day every curse on the land was lifted.

5. The centurion, an enemy, testified that Jesus was truly God.

6. Darkness came over the land when the sun of righteousness touched the natural sun to let man know that without Jesus, the light, the world would be full of darkness.

☆In His silence and when He seemed defeated, Jesus was on a touching mission. They had the lamb slain and humiliated but the Lion of Judah was in full operation:

•He touched the sun, darkness came over the land.

•Jesus touched the temple, the veil was torn int two.

•Jesus touched the earth, the rocks split and there was an earthquake

•He touched the graves, the saints were raised.

•He touched the centurion and other guards, they testified that Jesus was truly the son of God.

☆We were surely bought at a price, therefore let us honour God with our bodies. 1Cor 6:20

By Rev Gitahi Daniel, Christian Foundation Fellowship Donholm (CFF) Kenya.

2 Tim 2:22 says “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

• Our social lives are very vital when it comes to spiritual growth.
• Paul, in the above verse, puts into perspective three important points that are meant to help us run our spiritual races well to the very end and emerge victorious.
We derive the 3 runs according to 2 Tim 2:22 as below:

1. Run from sin/lusts.
• Paul is advising us to run away from all manner of sexual sins and sin in general.
• Addressing Timothy, a young man at this time, Paul knew to what extent he was vulnerable to fall into sin as a youth.
• As today’s Timothys and believers we are cautioned against lusting after the pleasures of this world; that which the world paints a good picture of, is a no go zone for us.
• In today’s world, which we are in but not of, sin is popular and kind of allowed: this includes sins such as fornication, adultery, idolatry, pride, drunkenness, hypocrisy, malice, sexual perversion and more.
Sadly, this is also evident in the very places sin should be rebuked; churches.
•As a believer if you find yourself in the same place as the world, please run.

2. Run to Righteousness|Faith
• When we have been able to flee the world and its desires, we need to run to Christ who should be our hiding place.
• As a result we will produce righteousness, peace, faith, charity etc.
• Christ is the true vine, and we are the branches. Without Him, we cannot bear any fruits. Without Him, we are nothing.
• When we are truly built on Christ our spiritual foundations cannot be shaken, hence run to be Christ like.

3. Run with the righteous, those that call God from a pure heart.
• When you get born again, it goes without saying that you cannot afford to keep the same circle of old friends.
• Those on the same mission as you, pursuing righteousness, are the ones you need to keep close.
• This does not mean that you are now hating the people from your past; be a light to them and bring them into salvation but keep your distance lest you fall right back into the former self.
• Walk with those that call on Christ from a pure heart.

Remember, run away from sin. Run to Christ. Run with those that pursue righteousness.

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