Hey, I know it has been a while since you have heard from me. but while I was away,I was out trying to gather the best information and articles that will help propel you into this new year of great wonders.

GODLY RESOLUTIONS...

By: Pastor Samuel Olugbemi

(Senior pastor, Christ Ambassadors Ministries)

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?”JOHN 21:15

As you begin a new year you may be painfully aware that you have failed your Lord in many ways. Jesus has a wonderful way of restoring us when we fail Him. He does not humiliate us. He does not criticize us, rather He takes us aside and asks us to re-affirm our love for Him.

Peter miserably failed his Lord when he fled with the other disciples from the Garden of Gethsemane. Later, he publicly denied that he even knew Jesus. Peter must have wondered if he had been capable of being Jesus’ disciple when he was unfaithful to Jesus in His most crucial hour.

Perhaps you were not faithful. Perhaps you disobeyed His Word to you. Perhaps you denied Him by the way you lived. Jesus will take you aside as He did Peter. He will not humiliate you or berate you. He will ask you to examine your love for Him. He asked Peter, “Do you love me?”If your answer like Peter is ‘Yes, Lord” He will re-affirm His will for you. If you truly love Him, you will obey Him. Jesus does not need your New Year resolution. If you truly love Him, your service for Him in the New Year will be of the quality that He desires.

                                                                                                            Adapted from: Godly Resolutions;2011

The bible says in Psalm 23 that, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." It did not say the valley of death but the 'shadow' of death, signifying that the devil just wants us to fear, hence rendering us incapable of accomplishing anything in life, or any area we find ourselves in. One assurance we is that God is always with us and with Him all things are possible to them that believe.

Pastor’s Desk

“I will fear no evil, for thou art with me”

Psalm 23:4

By: Pastor Samuel Olugbemi

(Senior pastor, Christ Ambassadors Ministries)

Behold how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Spirit can make the Christian!

What a bright light may shine within us when it is dark without; how firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed. Let us have confidence in the blessed Spirit’s power to comfort us. Bethren, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not, the divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty of abundance. Are you conscious of a growing failure in your body? Little do you know how every pain shooting through your body, may be a refining power to consume your dross – a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your soul’s best music and his person your dear delight.

Adapted from: Church Bulletin; Christ’s Ambassadors Ministries.

The word of God tells us that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up on winds as eagles, they shall run and not be weary and shall walk and not faint. I pray that you find these words motivational in your daily walk with Christ.

Pastor’s Desk

“The go from strength to strength”…..Psalm 84:7

By: Pastor Samuel Olugbemi

(Senior pastor, Christ Ambassadors Ministries)

There are various renderings of these words…

They go from strength to strength, but all of them contain the idea of progress. They grow stronger and stronger.

Usually, if we are walking, we go from strength to weakness, we start fresh and in good order for our journey but by-and-by the road is rough, and the sun is hot, we sit down by the wayside, and then again painfully continue our weary way.

The Christian pilgrim, having obtained supplies of grace, is as vigorous after years of toil-some travel and struggle as when he first set out. He is much stronger in all that constitutes real power, and travels, if more slowly, but far more surely.

‘The youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up on wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.’

You will never find a bundle of affliction which has not bound in the midst of it enough grace. God will give the strength of ripe manhood with the burden allotted to full-grown shoulders…

Adapted from: Church Bulletin; Christ Ambassadors Ministries, September 2011

The love of God is something that cannot fully be described by words alone, only in one experiencing it can its true nature be understood. I hope these short words from the Pastor's Desk, will be encouraging and be a word for the season. God bless..

Pastor’s Desk

“The love of the Lord”

Hosea 3:1

By: Pastor Samuel Olubgemi

(Senior pastor, Christ Ambassadors Ministries)

Believers, like the Israelites looked back on all their experiences­;

-how He fed and clothed them

-how He put up with their murmurings, and all their longings after the fresh-pots of Egypt

-how He opened the rock to supply them with water and fed them with manna that came down from heaven.

Think of how his grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles; how His blood has been pardon for all your sins; how His rod and His staff have comforted you.

When you look back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey His love in the future, for, remember that Christ’s covenant and blood have something more in them than the past. He, who has loved you and pardoned you, shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha and He shall be Omega also, He is the first and He shall be the last. Therefore, when you pass through the valley of the shadow of death, you need fear no evil, for He is with you.

Surely as we meditate on the love of the Lord, our hearts burn within us and we long to love Him more…

Adapted from: Church Bulletin; Christ Ambassadors Ministries, June 2011