Sekou Abodunrin
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Thinker. Wordsmith. 100% joyful. Christ is the exegesis of God and explanation of All. @graceplaceuk @graceplacelagos
Barming, Kent, United Kingdom.
Joined October 2010
Musings on a predictable steely resolve My resolve It is the revelation of Jesus to the ends of the earth. Undeterred by how many have unsuccessfully tried before us, of this be very sure, If you'll point us to people who are hungry for the bread of life, 1/6
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RT @niyigbadamosi: Man, everybody should be listening to @sekoutoure. Pastor Sekou explains scriptures too well. Grace Place on Spotify sho…
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If we continually expose our hearts to poor examples from folks that we look up to, even if we don't like those examples, except we intentionally and copiously expose ourselves to good examples, we'd act out the very things we don't like.
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Don't be so hasty you throw away word-inspired and spirit-birthed persuasion just so you can belong in a crowd. Mobs are fickle!
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Paul the Old Man was a terror to good men. He was religious, ambitious, brilliantly devilish - a poster boy for flawed humanity. However, in his revelation of Christ, Paul the New Man lived, thought, and wrote in a way that leaves every man who has lived in the last 1900 years indebted to him. That is almost two thousand years. Interestingly, Paul was not alive when his teaching began to grip the world in its radical power. Dear reader, do not let how you might have thought and lived up till this moment discourage you from responding boldly to the transforming power of the revelation of Jesus.
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Save yourself heart attack, panic, and man-made stress. Luke's testimony of Anna in Luke 2:36-38 is rich and instructive. Anna had a ministry to discharge towards another who was unborn. Way before Mary agreed with the angel's message and birthed Jesus, Anna had prayed extensively for decades for various phases of the Messiah's birth and ministry. We don't know the nature and content of her prayers for Jesus after He was born and how much farther into His adulthood she supported Him in prayer for - You'd have thought that such a woman would be the one to broadcast her adventures in prayer and commitment to its execution. No. she never wrote about it. The taste of this pudding was in the eating. No noise. No fanfare. Yet, she was highly effective in the discharge of her God-given assignment. Kudos to Anna. What a saint! Her focused praying, would have been her response to spirit-born promptings and knowings that God, by His spirit, would have stirred up within her for sustained periods spanning decades. Imagine converging your efforts in prayer on a person for over 50 years - that is over half a century of spiritual excellence in prayer for another. She’d have known ahead about specific details of the Messiah's ministry, purpose, and pursuit. She would have known details of and prayed out the Messiah's ministry. She'll have phenomenal detail about the large place the cross would play in His ministry to humanity. These knowings and sensings would have lingered for decades in her heart and on her mind. It is easy to assume she was praying about herself. It is a high dose of sanity and contentment that would cause her to know that she was not the Messiah that she prayed so much about. Here is the interesting part: When you are given to the written word and you pray for someone for that long and over a sustained period, you come to know a lot about that which consumes you in prayer. It would have been easy for her or the folks in her circle to conclude that the things she had prayed so long about and the promptings that she had been sensing were about her or something that she was to do at a point in time. Thankfully, fleshly ambition and haste did not make her "seize the initiative" and approach the cross as the Redeemer. That would have been suicide! We are to know our place, and find contentment in us doing our part and in us helping others take their place even if their place is more visible than ours. Let's keep friends who help us develop an eternal perspective. More importantly train yourself to listen to their counsel.
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