Sanctification is a Process

One of the tricks satan uses to get you to backslide when you give your life to God through Yeshu’a is by giving you the unrealistic expectations that you are meant to be transformed and give up all your bad habits instantaneously. And when this does not happen and you find yourself committing sins, he flashes the condemnatory thought in your mind that you are not really born again and that the whole experience was an emotional one. He subliminally put thoughts of guilt in your mind and if you believe him you will gradually slide out of faith, but satan is a liar! God does not expect you to be immediately perfect because of your born again experience. No! Proverbs 4:18 says “the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day”. It is a gradual process that will not be competed until the perfect day. And do you know what the perfect day is? Hebrews 12:23 teaches us that in God’s Kingdom, “spirits of just men (will be) made perfect”. So, perfection will not come in this world! Next time satan tries to bring condemnation into your heart, remind him of your destination (God’s kingdom) and his (the lake of fire) and see if he sticks around!
Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God

Be an Effecter not an Infecter.

If you keep treating people how they treat you, people will keep treating you how you treat them. If you want to change things, start treating people how you want to be treated and they will treat you the same. It’s just like this-if people have a cold and you shake them you will catch it too. If you shake others they will also catch it too. But if you shake someone with a cold and you immediately wash your hands, you will not get infected by the cold virus and you won’t infect others. So don’t let other people infect you with their bad attitudes, words and behavior. Wash your hands by refusing to react to them. Instead infect them with your good attitudes, words and behavior. This is what Paul meant in 1 Thessalonians 5:15 ‘See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men’.
Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God

The Divine Path to Promotion

Satan was one of the most intelligent angels created but because he didn’t have character, God demoted him. In making decisions to promote, God looks to a person’s character where men may look to their intelligence. Just think about it for a second-how much of your intelligence can you ascribe to yourself? Whether you have a sharp mind, are able to analyze issues or dissect then clinically, those abilities are gifts from God. But virtues like faithfulness, patience, long suffering bad tolerance are things that you have to develop with discipline. Yeshu’a was the most intelligent man who ever walked the earth, but listen to the reason God gave for promoting Him “being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death– even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name”-Philippians 2:8. Yeshu’a’s promotion by God was a function of His character not His intelligence and you will be promoted to the degree of the improvement in your character.
Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God

Never Submit Faith to Logic

Sometimes you just feel led to do something, and you start to do it, then your carnal mind starts to feed you with logic and you begin to see and then your faith disappears and you begin to fall. Nothing cancels out faith like logic and the children of this world are so full of logic that they can reason you out of your faith. I remember when I worked at African International Bank. I got admission to a university in England and everybody told me I was a fool to consider leaving a bank job with a nice salary for the unknown of England, but I sensed a strong pull in my heart that God wanted me to leave. I defied everybody and went to England and within two years of my being in England the bank collapsed! Meanwhile, going to England set me on a trajectory that has led me to the privilege position God gave me in 2011. Logic has its place, but God did not call us to walk by logic. 2nd Corinthians 5:7 says ” we walk by faith, not by sight”. Faith is superior to logic. Never take what God has told you by faith and submit it to logic!
Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God

Everything Points to God

Everything on earth attests to the existence of God such that Romans 1:20 says “since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse”. For example, it is readily accepted by people that Ebola which causes death can be passed to a nation by one man’s blood, yet intelligent people reject the idea that the blood of Yeshu’a (Jesus) can give life to the nations of the earth. It us also common practice to enter a secure website after clicking ‘I Agree’ yet people still doubt that they can enter God’s Kingdom merely by saying I agree to Yeshu’a. If you consider it logically, there is no other explanation for your dreams and Déjà vu than that a spirit exists on your body. And in my opinion, it takes more faith not to believe in God than it takes to believe in Him.

Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God

Sons of God

As a believer, have you ever had a strong feeling that you ought to do something that defies logic? If you have such a strong sense of doing the unreasonable and you confer with men, they will talk you out of it. Paul had such a strong feeling and his response was this “immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood”-Galatians 1:16. What you do at that instance determines whether you are a son of God or a babe. Romans 8:14 says “as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”. We see a perfect corroboration of this in Luke 4:1 “and Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness”. Are you led by the Spirit or led by the flesh? “It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life”-John 6:63. Many times, you know that God has spoken to you, but you have allowed reason and fleshly advice to interfere with what you know God has asked you to do forgetting that nothing cancels our faith like reasoning. From today, if God has spoken to you, “conferred not with flesh and blood” because “to obey is better than sacrifice”-1 Samuel 15:22. Be like Peter. His fleshly experience and the counsel of his fellow fishermen was that there was no fish in Lake of Gennesaret. But when Yeshu’a told him to cast his net he simply said “Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net”-Luke 5:5.

Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God.

Unconditional Love!

God loves us so we can be inspired by that love to go and do good things, however, He does not love us because we do good things. It is possible that our sins may separate us from God, but nothing, absolutely nothing can separate us from God’s love. “No power in the sky above or in the earth below–indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 8:39 (NLT).

Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God.

Familiarize Yourself With the Word New

If you make it to God’s Kingdom, you will have to unlearn some words from your vocabulary. Words like old are not used because “He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new”. But even before you leave your body in death, as a follower of Christ the word old will begin to fade away from your vocabulary because “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”-2 Corinthians 5:17. So, familiarize yourself with that word new. It has special significance in this world and the next.

Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God. 

The Folly of Anger

The reason they call it losing your temper is because when you do, you lose. You never gain. You can never defeat small minded people by responding to them in kind. The best way to view lowlands is by climbing to higher grounds. So don’t succumb to anger and speak evil words. Ecclesiastes 7:9 says “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools”. Fools speak negatively about their nation then pray positively about themselves as if they can prosper in their home after cursing it with their mouth?

Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God.

Don’t Steal God’s Vengeance

One curious thing about the life of David is that you never read where he took revenge on his enemies. God used David to destroy His (God’s) enemies but whether it be Saul, Shimei, or Nabal, David restrained himself against his own enemies. David knew that no one is as good at revenging as God, hence he said “Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me”-Psalm 35:1. David was no weakling, neither was he a coward, yet he restrained himself when he had Saul under his power, when Shimei was insulting him and when Nabal provoked him. Why? Because as he wrote in Psalm 75:7, “God is the judge”. Are you one of those who go about settling scores with people? Remember how upset your parents were when you hit your sibling even though your sibling hit you first? They always told you to report to them instead. Your parents’ ability to punish far exceeded yours and letting them handle the matter saved you from their wrath. But when you hit back they often forget about the offender and faced you. God is our ultimate Parent. Vengeance belongs to Him. Don’t steal it. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith The Lord”-Deuteronomy 32:35 and Romans 12:19.

Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God.