One day, one of my mentors switched on his laptop and noticed it was behaving abnormally. It had become very slow. As the day progressed, its performance got so bad till it reached a point where it could not function any more; viruses had attacked the hard disk. So he had to get and install an antivirus to locate and destroy all the viruses.
You may remember this popular “ILOVEYOU” email virus that caused over $10 billion in damages (infected almost 10% of computers across the world); devastating!
I’m pretty sure you’ve had to deal with this too, not so?? I believe we’ve all had our fair share our annoying computer viruses and quite recently the entire world has had to deal with deadly human viruses: AIDS, COVID, Monkeypox, Marburg, etc. And in the case of the human virus, things get pretty bad quickly; the virus replicates so fast; your defences are overpowered, and without appropriate medical care, vaccines, etc., it leads to death and many dire consequences.
Don’t forget, viruses are not made from within us, we get them externally…!
“And even as they did not like to retain God in[their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,…” ~ Romans 1:28-29
Our brain is the hard disk of our body and life. Every day, it is being attacked by viruses from social media, TV, friends, films, music, and even negative words. You may not realize it, but this eventually corrupts our minds, reflects in our decisions, and finally shows in our actions.
We begin to do things that are not convenient or helpful. You may become involved with greed, gossip, slander, pornography, drugs, infidelity, stealing, the occult, lying, or even exhibit a bad temper, etc. These are only fruits of the virus-seed sown.
Thankfully, God has provided an anti-virus to debug the mind; a vaccine to prevent our hearts from being corrupted. It is called the Bible. It is the main source of knowledge about God. We need to read our Bibles every day and debug our minds to avoid corruption! Listen, there is no other way besides this – anyone who tells you otherwise does not love you enough.
Read your Bible regularly; pray before your read; read it with faith; ponder over what you read (ask questions), and He will reveal His truths to you!
Oh Heavenly Father help me develop a deep love for Your Word! Help me be faithful in spending quality time with You daily. Help me Jesus! Help me endure the pain of daily discipline to feed my Spirit so that I do not end up with a corrupted mind and heart. Grace Lord, I need your grace more than I thought I ever would. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen! (Do share with others).
We want to encourage you to join the 30-Day Quiet Time Challenge as we reward you for keeping your spiritual fervour and zeal with your daily quiet time. For the month of November, the first ten winners of the 30-Day Quiet Time challenge get to win amazing prizes.
Oh and Happy birthday to me! Do pray for me, and ask God for more grace for this work. Let us know if you will want to support with the prizes for the Quiet Time Challenge, help us purchase an external display screen for the work, airtime bundle support, or any of the projects being run. Much love and stay blessed!
Super grateful for your help and we pray God blesses any heart touched to give with an overflowing purse 
You can give via:
- Vodafone Cash: 050 137 5689, (kindly use reference: Project grace)
- Guaranty Trust (GT) Bank account: 304 101 149 1590
Branch: KNUST Branch
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Bank Address: 25A, Castle Road, Ambassadorial Area, Ridge - Name on both accounts is: Eric Ebenezer A. Boham
We appreciate all your love and honour and well wishes! God bless you greatly!
(Special appreciation to Prophet Kakra Baiden whose message inspired this). Love you sir!