Dominion Over Marital Challenges

Are you having marital problems? Marital challenges are real but what is more real is the truth that you have dominion over these challenges. God will never allow any challenge more than you to come your way. The issue is how you tackle the problems that come your way. This post gives you the ground on which to stand to exercise your dominion over all marital issues.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you - Matthew 6:33 (NKJV).

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God - Philippians 4:6 (NKJV).

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose - Romans 8:28 (NKJV).

Many people are going through a lot of marital challenges and they are allowing them to drown them, when they should be dominating them. Dominion has been given to you by God right from the beginning (Genesis 1:28). All you need to do is to position yourself well and take your dominion.

What position should you take?

1. Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness

2. Make your request known unto God with thanksgiving

3. Be anxiety free

God knows you have need of those things you are anxious about. He knows you want to be married or to have children, and He has made provisions for you to have them in His word, so it is settled, a done deal.

Focus on God and everything He is interested in, while you make your request known unto Him. Believe that He has answered you there and then and start thanking Him for the answer. Keep serving God in all kingdom work that you are opportune to do like praying for the Lord's will to be done on earth, preaching the gospel, giving your resources, time and energy for the spread of the gospel. Soon, your answered prayer will become a reality. Read more...

Why You Must Love Praying To God Always

Do you have the passion and time to pray? Many Christians want so many great things but don't have the time to pray them into manifestation. For some Christians, it is hard work and time-consuming. However, it is the main source of a victorious Christian living on earth. This post states why you must love praying to God Always.

Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know - Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV).

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls - Matthew 11:28-29 ([NKJV).

Why should it be a difficult thing to pray to God Almighty if He is your Father? If you are His son or daughter you will look forward to your conversations with Him, if not your relationship with the Lord is questionable. Relationships are built on communications, and that is prayer when it is with God. Prayer is the act of communicating with God. It is dwelling in the Lord's presence, and you can't be in His presence and remain the same.

WHY PRAY TO GOD ALWAYS?

1. Prayer grows your relationship with the Father

Prayer gives you the opportunity to build up your relationship with the Lord. Communication is the cement for relationships and that goes for your relationship with God too. The more you talk with God in prayer the more you know and love Him, the stronger your faith in Him (Jude 20) and the more of Him you want in your life. This is a fellowship if you experience once you would love to return for more. Enoch in Genesis 5:24 must have been enjoying his fellowship with God that he kept going back again and again to the point that the Lord took him. All the people God used mightily in the scriptures were people who had a great relationship with Him. Abraham was called his friend, David a man after God's heart and many others whose exploits emanated from their relationship with the Father. Read more...

Praise God, It's A New Year!

It's a new year. Praise God, you made it into the New Year! A new year, new beginning, new opportunities and another chance to do better than before. No matter how last year was, this year gives you the privilege to do better. This post encourages you to celebrate, for God who caused you to see this year will be there to help you take greater steps this time.

It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare your loving-kindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night - Psalms 92:1-2 (NKJV).

Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassion fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness - Lamentations 3:22-23 (NKJV).

It is really good to give thanks to the Lord for last year; this means that it is bad not to give thanks to the Lord. If you will be sincere, you know that God's love, mercy and faithfulness were obviously in manifestation in your life throughout last year. A wise man said that if you have lost anything, it is because of God that you didn't lose everything, and that includes your life (paraphrased).

No matter what may have transpired last year contrary to your plan or desire, you still owe God praise and thanksgiving because it could have been worse. Many people had great plans for this New Year but they are no more to execute or see them materialize, but you are alive to give the year what it demands for a glorious future.

It's time to lift your hands in worship and praise to our merciful and faithful God, who despite all odds counted you worthy to see this New Year. Certainly, we are not better than those that are no more; it's just the grace of God speaking on our behalf. So, it's celebration time; time to count your blessings and name them one by one. One of such blessings is that you are alive to see this New Year. Read more...

What Are You Running With-An Ambition or a Vision?

Do you desire to excel, succeed and prosper in what you are doing by the end of this year? Is your quest to fulfill your own desire hindering the fulfillment of God's desire in your life? Many times we put our ambitions ahead of our God given vision or assignment. Unfortunately, you will never be your best pursuing your desires, nor will they be accepted by God. This post encourages you to pursue God's plan for you rather than your ambition because of your love for Him.

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.” - John 21:15-17 (NKJV).

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them - Jeremiah 2:37 (KJV).

Many times, Christians pursue other things other than what God had assigned them to do and they will be praying that the Lord will help them succeed in them. This is putting ambition ahead of vision. However, God doesn't back up any assignment He didn't give you.

No matter how right your work may be, if it hinders or takes the place of God's assignment it will not be accepted before God and you will not prosper in them. Obedience is paramount to the Father, and if you love Him you will obey Him despite the seemed inconvenience. It is one thing to do the right thing and another to do the right thing at the right time. Your love for God helps you to do the right thing at the right time. Read more...

Having Done All, Stand

Do you feel you've done all and you want to quit? No, it's not time to quit but time to stand. When you have done all, the next thing to do is to remain standing. As long as you are standing, you will not be defeated. This post urges you to keep standing when you have done all you know to do.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—Ephesians 6:13-18 (NKJV).

 

Are you struggling with your business, career, health, children and you are about to give up? Quitting is not an option. If it is for a good cause and the Holy Spirit is not prompting you that you are in the wrong, then you must stand. Victory has been declared concerning that issue, yours is to stand to see it fulfilled. This may seem difficult but you need to stand, being strong in the Lord and guarding yourself with the whole armour of God.

In a wrestling match, as long as the one on the floor can keep raising the hand, the other cannot be declared the winner. Your Father is not a loser and as a lion He gives in to no one. You as His offspring should do likewise. You are born to win. Stand therefore with the whole armour of God in place.

The whole armour of God

The armour of God enables you to stand strong no matter how long it may take. It is the dressing for victory over your enemies. It will ensure that the enemy does not steal, kill or destroy anything that concerns you.  These include:

1. Helmet of salvation – is being born again having heard the word of life, which is giving your life to Jesus and accepting Him as your personal Lord and Saviour. John 3:3.

2. Breastplate of righteousness – is being and living right as stated in God's word and having a right standing with God. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21.

3. Belt of truth - embracing and living by the word, which is the truth. John 8:32. Read more...

Praise-An Act Of Faith In God Almighty

Do you believe in God Almighty? If you do, then you should be a praiser of God. Praising God is an act of faith in God and His ability to do what He said He will do. If you believe, you will praise the Lord. This post emphasizes the need for you to praise the Father as a believing Christian.

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God - Romans 4:19-20 .NKJV).

Nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer - I Corinthians 10:10 (NKJV).

Many Christians say they believe God and His words but their actions say otherwise. They are more in doubt than they are in faith. The challenges around them are choking the word in them and they have forgotten that the just shall live by his own faith (Habakkuk 2:4) and that without faith no man can please God (Hebrews 11:6). If you believe, you will open your mouth wide and declare it, 2 Corinthians 4:13.

Praise unto the Lord declares Him bigger than all

Praise, especially when you are challenged, shows that God is bigger than your problems. But when you complain and murmur, you are saying that the problem is bigger than God. Paul and Silas were locked up in prison for preaching the gospel. Instead of murmuring against God, they chose to praise Him. They saw Him as being bigger than the chains and truly, He manifested Himself bigger by breaking the chains and opening the doors of the prison-house, Acts 16:25-26. Read more...

Praise As A Life Style Is What You Need At This Time

Do you know that life without praise unto God is a disaster? Praise unto the Lord is the solution for the challenges of life at this time. As such, making praise a life style is absolutely a wise decision. This post emphasizes the need to be praising the Father as a lifestyle.

But You are holy, O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered] - Psalm 22:3 (AMP).

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).

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree— All the trees of the field are withered; surely joy has withered away from the sons of men - Joel 1:12 (NKJV).

The enemy has so screwed this earth that many people are living in fear, anger, hunger, sickness and disease, poverty, depression and frustration. It now looks as if it is the normal thing. However, it was not so originally. It is the absence of adequate praise unto the Lord that resulted in what we are seeing and experiencing this day.

Praise changes the atmosphere of a place. It determines what force or power that takes charge of an environment or situation. Praise unto God brings Him to the scene while praise to the devil attracts the enemy. Are you wondering how people praise the devil? Any time you are declaring the works of the enemy you are praising him. You are expected to declare the works of God at all times.

What happens when you praise God?

1. God dwells with you - Psalm 22:3

God dwells wherever praise is offered. This leads to abundant joy because you find joy in the presence of God (Psalm 16:11). Where there is joy, there is fruitfulness and no dryness. Dryness connotes among other things famine and poverty. Also, if God is for you, who can be against you (Romans 8:31). When God is with you, the enemy can't afflict you. Read more...