Eleventh Hour Action For Breakthrough

What can you possibly do at this time of the year to provoke divine intervention? The year seems to be rounding up and you are yet to receive your heart desire from God, don’t worry I have good news for you. God, who created the entire world and everything within it in six days, is able to meet your needs even now. This post emphasizes on what action to take at this eleventh-hour for your breakthrough.

Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. Psalms 103:1-2 (NKJV).

Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him - Psalms 67:5-7 (NKJV).

Many people have great expectation for this year and are yet to see the fulfillment of them. Some of them have given up and are offended in God, murmured and complained. This attitude will not get your desired blessing; instead it will complicate matters for you. However, there are others who are still expectant and will hold on to the end. They are persuaded that God is able to fulfill His word in their lives (Romans 4:19-21). Are you one of these latter people?

What to do at this time?

1. Count your blessings and name them one by one

As the song writer Johnson Oatman stated, you need to count your blessings and name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. People focus on one or two things they desire from the Lord and then, forget the ones God has been doing for them daily and the additions He added without their asking for them. They are sad and depressed, yet they are heavily blessed but they can't see it. Read more...

The Lord God Is The Supreme God Who Should Be Feared

How powerful is the Lord God to you? What is He to you? How you know and see God determines how much you will believe and trust in Him. God is the “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14). This post tells you that God is the supreme God and you should fear Him.

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]–yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end – Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP).

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; And God requires an account of what is past – Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 (NKJV).

Scientists have tried to unravel all that God created, to explain creation and give reasons and processes for everything God created. However, they can only go to the level for which God allows them; the rest they cook up stories and expect people to believe them. Interestingly, or should I say unfortunately, some people believe their stories.

Ecclesiastes 3:10-11 make it clear that the labour of men is the task that God gave men to occupy themselves with, and they can never unravel God’s plan or work from the beginning to the end. Nothing can be added or removed from what God has done; and nothing is new on earth, everything came from what has been (Ecclesiastes 3:14-15). This is so that men should fear before God.

But what do you see: many people have no fear of God, instead they fear men and the devil that manifests himself in different forms. People take the mercies and grace of God available through Christ (Ephesians 2:7-8) for granted. They forget that though He is love (1 John 4:8), He also is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). Read more...

Jabez Prayer-Prayer For A Change

Do you desire a change in your life? A change is possible if you will believe God for it. God's thoughts for you are for good, to give you a future and an expected end. However, when life is different from God's will for you, you will need to ask Him for a change. This post uses Jabez prayer to encourage you to go for a change in life where you need it.

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested - I Chronicles 4:9-10 (NKJV, emphasis mine).

The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it - Proverbs 10:22 (NKJV).

A wise man said, "What you don't want, you do not watch". If you desire a change in life you need to do what needs to be done for the change to be realized. Some people need a change of name for things to change in their lives. However, most of the others, if not all, need to pray like Jabez prayed for a change to come.

Jabez was named so by his mother because she bore him with sorrow. Jabez means “sorrowful or sorrow-maker.” This meaning kept speaking in Jabez's life though he was more honourable than his brethren; he was causing pain and making people to sorrow (1 Chronicles 4:9-10). But one day, he desperately asked God for a change in life. He asked the Lord for His blessing, enlargement, His presence and protection from evil, and God granted him his request. Jabez's prayer was a comprehensive prayer that covered all areas of his life.

When the Lord releases His blessing on you, it makes you rich all round and adds NO sorrow with it. Jabez's prayer for God's blessings took care of the sorrow in his life. In other words, he asked God to break the hold of his name in his life and God answered him. This blessing also includes healing, total health, long life, fruitfulness and provisions.

He asked for enlargement of his territory: increase in what he commands and possesses. This can be related to business, financial and career breakthrough. He didn't want to remain a 'nobody' or a mediocre, but a person of substance. Enlargement of territory can also be seen as multiplication of persons in his family, thereby leading to expansion of his borders. Read more...

A Change Within Births A Change Outside

Do you desire change in your life and circumstances? If so, there is a place to start and that is within you. A change within you will give rise to change outside you. As such, your tomorrow depends on your thought patterns. This post emphasizes the need for renewal of the spirit for a better life experience.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law - Galatians 5:19-23 (NKJV)

The battles of life are won or lost within. Your thoughts concerning God, your neighbour, community, business, finance, health, success and life generally determine what happens around you and how you respond to it. You are a product of your thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says that as a man thinks in his heart so is he. However, you need the right spirit within you to order your thoughts aright.

Galatians 5:19-23 list the manifestations of both the flesh and of the Spirit. A close study of it shows that when you have the Spirit of God in charge of your thoughts you won't manifest the works of the flesh. The question then is “do you manifest the fruit of the Spirit in your life?” The fruit of the Spirit will not allow the flesh to manifest its evil acts. Jesus Christ admonished the Pharisees to first cleanse within the cup and platter, so that the outside of them may also be clean - Matthew 23:26. In essence, we should cleanse within us so that our outside will be clean also.

The right spirit will give rise to the right thoughts, which will ultimately determine your words and actions - the very pillars of your life and destiny. You will find yourself thinking only on things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, and on things that have virtue and are praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8). Read more...