Leave The Formalities At The Door

Many times we think that we have to be so formal when we talk to God. Think about the type of people that we usually get formal with. Usually its people we don’t know, people we want to impress, or people who we respect but don’t know well. Some of us do that with parents who we respect but most of the time they aren’t very close to us. If we try to be formal with a close friend or relative, they would begin to wonder if there was something wrong with us. God is closer than the closest friend. He is kind and compassionate. He loves without limits. He forgives so easily even though He knows our hearts and all our secrets. He is patient and waits on us. He even allows us choices when we insist on doing life our way. He is the perfect Gentleman, He never barges into our lives. He knocks at the door of our heart and request entry. He watches over us and comforts us in the darkest times of our lives. He laughs with us and smiles with us. He blesses us when we don’t expect it. He carries us when we don’t know how to do life on our own. He is a true friend. So why is it that when we talk with Him, we act as if He is a stranger or some unknown person. Can you imagine how He feels when we come to Him as if He is a stranger. It must hurt Him to hear our conversation. He desires to walk with us as He...

The Christ In Me Requires The Best From Me

When Jesus came to earth to give His life as a living sacrifice, He gave His best to His Father. He always made time with His Father a great priority, He made time for His friends, He served with His whole heart, He never compromised His Father’s standards for the world’s standards, He loved with His whole heart, He gave His Father His best. We are tempted everyday to compromise on excellence and give the least of ourselves but God gave us our potentials and gifts so that we can make excellence our standards. The reason for this is that we are His ambassadors and when our lives are lived in excellence, we testify of Him. Many of us may be  shy to witness but our lives lived in excellence will be our testimonies. When we give God our best in everything that we do, He will get the glory and honor. Sometimes when we do something, at work, at church, as a favor, we think that we are just doing it unto the person or employer or friend or family but in reality we are doing it unto the Lord. Most of the time those people may not know what our attitudes are in our giving or service but God our Father knows. There is a story that goes like this: A retiring carpenter told his boss that he was retiring but the boss said to the carpenter, just build me this one last house and then you can retire. The carpenter was tired of his work because he had been doing it for so many years and...

When You Feel LIke You’re Losing Control

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel like you have lost control? Like you’re in the middle of a whirlwind, and can figure nothing out. Everything around you seems to be tearing a part? That’s never a good feeling because we always want to feel in control. The truth is, its good when this are out of control! Its good when we can’t figure it out! It’s good when nothing seems to be connecting! You know why? Because God is in control, He knows the plans He has for us. Plans for good and not for evil, plans to give us an expected end. He is faithful to keep us in perfect peace. The sad thing is that God has to make us “feel like we are losing control” so that we will realize He is in control. He wants us to trust Him, and even when we don’t understand whats going on we can say like the woman in 2 Kings 4 whose son died that “It is Well”. Let us be encouraged 🙂 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For...

Welcome to TPCOGblog

Welcome to The Promise Church of God community blog. All are welcome to sign up and contribute comments so that we can all learn from one another. The Body of Christ needs more unity. We need to come together and share our happiness and our sorrow, our accomplishments and our cares. We are our brother’s keeper and as long as we travel through this temporary training ground, we have to look out for each another. Let us use this blog to uplift  and instruct one another. We only have a short time to be here an so its time to prepare each another for the difficult journey ahead. I hope that this blog will assist all of us in drawing closer to...