Who Are You Following?

Where are you going and who is guiding you to the place? Some people know where they are going but are following the wrong guides. It is one thing to know where you are going, and another thing to know how to get there. This post emphasizes the importance of following the right guides.

And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers. Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left – Isaiah 30:20-21 (NKJV)

Prepare your outside work, make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterward build your house – Proverbs 24:27 (NKJV)

He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed – Proverbs 13:20 (NKJV)

It is vital that you discover God’s plan for your life and equally important to know who will guide you to your destiny. The path you want to tread, some persons have gone on it before and were successful. Isaac Newton made us to understand that if we have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. You need to find the giants, and it should not be any person but the people God ordained to guide you.  So, just like you received your purpose in life, go back to God and ask Him who you are to follow.

God promised in Isaiah 30:20-21, that your teachers will not be hidden from you, they are there to tell you which side to turn to per time. They can do this face to face, or through their books, CDs or live teachings. They are not far from you, so find them. Where you are going is glorious and you must get there. Read more...

The Power of My Spiritual Eyes

How powerful are your spiritual eyes? How far and what you can see determine what comes to you.  Many are looking but seeing nothing and this is affecting the full delivery of God’s promises to them. This post is a call to re-evaluate what you see with your spiritual eyes.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from your law – Psalm 119:18 (NKJV)

So he said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.” – 2 Kings 2:2 (NKJV)

How much of God’s promises you experience in your life depends on how much of it you see with your spiritual eyes. If you can see the promise of God in the word of God, you will have it. When you see it, your understanding comes alive, and then will you have it. It’s not enough to read the word of God, you have to go beyond reading to seeing it, only then will the truth come alive in you. And when you see it with your spiritual eyes, no matter how long it takes you will see it with your physical eyes.

God demonstrated this principle in many places in the scriptures. In Genesis 13:14-15, God promised to give Abraham all the land he could see: northward, southward, eastward and westward. I believe he saw the land with his spiritual eyes, because the land God gave the Israelites when they came out from Egypt, a man’s physical eyes can’t see all of it.

Also in Jeremiah 1:11-14, God got Jeremiah to see His word before He could relate His message to him. In one, He told him, “You have seen well”. How well do you see? Jeremiah needed to understand God’s word before carrying it to others, and it was preceded by him seeing it first. God walked in the same manner with Zechariah (Zechariah 4:1-14, 5:1-4) Read more...

Whose Plan Are You Acting On?

Whose plan are you acting out? Every action of yours is geared towards a particular plan and you consent to it by your actions. Many people do many things without considering whose plans they are. This post is emphasizing that you follow the plan of God.

And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” – Luke 22:31 (NKJV)

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope – Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV).

God has a plan for you and Satan has a plan for you too. God’s plan for you is of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. However, the enemy’s plan is to kill, steal and destroy you and your destiny (John 10:10). God’s plan is to beautify your destiny (Psalm 149:4) and make it glorious. But you decide whose plan will be carried out.

Satan’s plan for Peter was to sift him like wheat and waste his life and destiny.  Jesus prayed for him so that, the enemy’s plan though started will not be completed and at the same time enabled Peter to fulfill God’s plan for him; which is for him to be the rock upon  which God would build His church (Mathew 16:18).

The result of Christ’s prayer for Peter shows that you can turn from the enemy’s plan to God’s plan through prayers. However, you need the help of the Holy Spirit to ascertain God’s plan (1 Corinthians 2:11) for you, help you pray it to manifestation and to fulfil it. Read more...

Resting In God

Are you tired of that challenge? Challenges drain people’s energy and make them despair of life. Such people sometimes wish morning never comes. But this is not the case for those who rest in God. This post admonishes that you cease the struggle and rest in Christ Jesus.

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. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light – Matthew 11:28-30 (NKJV).

It is very good to work hard, being diligent because it will cause you to stand before kings (Proverbs 22:29). However, when it becomes a nightmare, takes your joy and peace and makes you sick, then you have crossed over to counter-productive hard-work. It is time to apply the break and check your resting position in God. This also applies to situations that are beyond your control, mountains that have refused to be moved or problems that you seem not to have solutions for.

Total rest is in Christ: you will find rest spirit, soul and body in Jesus. Rest in Christ means you understand that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither is bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill (Ecclesiastes 9:11); and that the blessing of God does not depend on one's own willingness or on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God having mercy on him (Romans 9:16).

Resting in God means that you have faith in God (Mark 11:22), that you believe that He is the wisest God (Romans 16:27) indeed and that there is nothing impossible with Him (Luke 1:37). Also, that He is able to handle everything that comes your way. Furthermore, it means that you are not anxious for anything, but that in everything by prayer and petition, coupled with thanksgiving, you present your request to God (Philippians 4:6). Read more...

A Call To Be Different

Do you know that God has called you to be different? You are to be different from the world and from those who claim to be Christians but live in the flesh. God is coming for a spotless church and He loves you to be there. This post emphasizes God’s demand on you to be different for Jesus.

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” – 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 (NKJV, emphasis mine).

                            

The world is becoming churchy while the church is becoming worldly. Nevertheless, the Lord knows them that are His. Anyone who is named of God should depart from iniquity (2 Timothy 2:19). The day you surrendered your life to Christ, you made Him Lord over your life, and He is saying, “Don’t be like others, be different; be like Me”.  You are answerable to God; you should not be concerned about how people see you, rather be concerned about how God sees you.

As a true child of God, you have nothing in common with unbelievers; you are apart as far as light is to darkness. By salvation you have become different, therefore come out from among them and be separate. God has put a seed of greatness in you, so be great.

Jesus Christ has called you the light of the world. How will you manifest the light if there is a shade of darkness in you? He said that you are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13-14), but how will you preserve your savour if you are unequally yoked with unbeliever? Read more...

Go Again

Are you about giving up on God answering your prayers? God does not store prayers, He answers them. Unanswered prayer today does not mean unanswered prayer tomorrow. There is need for you to be persistent till you receive your answers. This post emphasizes that you should not quit but that you should go again.

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”

So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”

Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’ – 1 Kings 18:42-44 (NKJV)

There may be things you believe God for that are yet to be answered and you are getting tired of expecting it. You may have gone many times in pursuit of them and you are about quitting; I am here to tell you to go again, till you receive the answer. What God has promised in His word to be your inheritance or portion you should not let go of. God is watching over His word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12).

Elijah was praying for rain and never stopped until he saw a sign of his answered prayer. Seven times he told his servant to go again and check for a sign of rain while he prayed. You may have gone twice in pursuit of your desire; I believe God is saying you should go again. Have you gone ten times? Still go again till you receive your answer. Read more...

Challenges Of Being Different 4 Jesus

Are there challenges standing out for Christ? The possibility of challenges makes some people not to decide for Jesus; however, that will be foolishness. The truth is that if you are for Christ, you will have, not only blessings but also challenges, and being prepared for it will enable you to stand till the end. This post tells you more about these challenges.

So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life – Mark 10:29-30 (NKJV, emphasis mine)

Standing for Jesus Christ is the wisest decision to take. It has numerous blessings BUT with challenges. When you are not prepared for them or refuse to acknowledge them, they will overcome you. That will not be your portion in Jesus name. In Mark 10:29-30, Jesus assures you of the benefits of living for Him but He added persecution. You are not to be ignorant of this truth, so that you will not be destroyed (Hosea 4:6). The summary of all challenges is persecution.

Persecution

No true child of God will escape persecution. Is this to scare you? No, it is to prepare you. Persecutions come in different forms; it can be mild or severe, subtle or obvious. It can come from your family, colleagues, associates or the society.  But in all, you should like Paul not allow any of these challenges to move you; don’t count your life dear to you so that you can finish the race with joy (Acts 20:24). I always remind people that eternity is more than a few years on earth. Even if you live up to 150 years, you will still die one day. 150 years is like a tiny drop of water compared to eternity. The highest your persecutor can do is kill your body, but God is able to destroy both body and soul in hell (Matthew 10:28), so fear Him instead. Read more...