When You Can’t Bear It Any More..

Philippians 1:6-10

When life is tiring, when you are struggling with your sin, When family members aren’t a saved, when bills aren’t paid, When school is difficult, When work is exhausting, When your health is failing, When your loved ones hurt, When the future is unsure, When a good friend leaves.. It is easy to be discouraged.

Discouragement is a thief. It steals your vitality, your zeal, your joy, your peace, and your contentment. 

When discouragement is present, it brings along some other friends namely: fatigue, hopelessness, despair, self-pity, depression, bitterness, doubt.

Discouragement is dissatisfaction with the past, distaste for the present, and distrust for the future. It is the result of blindness, or being myopic. It is ingratitude for the blessings of yesterday, indifference to the opportunities of today and insecurity regarding strength for tomorrow. It is unawareness of the presence of God, unconcern for the needs of our fellow man, and unbelief in the promises of His word.

We need hope and peace and the knowledge that the Lord knows our troubles and He has great concern and compassion for us and He is not going to leave us unloved and uncared for.

 •Keeping or fixing your eyes on Jesus is the best way to be encouraged. In Him alone you can find encouragement and hope and peace and Joy! 

•You need to find His words, promises..

•Find comfort and peace and encouragement in God alone.

Not Too Late

Psalms 31:5. Luke 23:32, 39-43.

Isaiah 60:1

As the month is winding up, we gotta remind ourselves that going into the ‘second-half’ of the year is not an excuse not to do notable acts.🌚

It is never too late to ‘Begin’, it is not too late to commence. 

It was never too late for the the thief nailed on the cross beside Jesus.

Peter and his crew couldn’t get any catch all through the night, but it was never too late for them, immediately ‘Jesus stepped in’ the timing/duration no longer mattered.

The woman with the issue of blood suffered her predicament for many years, But when she heard about Jesus; She arose, determined to ‘Start’ a new living..

Putting away the verdicts of ‘humans’, Predictions of whoever; ‘You Are Not Too Late’

Be encouraged, Strong-willed and step on into Newness; because It is Not Too Late🤗🤗

 

BEFORE Night Comes

John 9:1-10

There is always time for everything done underneath the earth. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is timing for everything. Even God understands, and works with ‘Time’. Aside from the familiar time space we know and use (GMT +1, 5AM...); we still have another illustration for time: Morning, Afternon, Night.

God knows that Man cannot live forever, and so from time to time.. He calls us to order to explain that we have exceeded time, or maybe have to exercise Patience.

Moses; he was passion driven and zealous but it was not yet time. He had to wait for God’s timing.

Jesus, was born at the perfect timing when the reigns of Kings, Prophets, Judges did not bring the reconciliation (of Man) from sin unto God

Samson, Jeremiah, Samuel even Abraham’s heir came at God’s perfect timing and they were people of destiny.

 God recognizes the need for exploit. He still recognizes that time waits for no one and the wise one will make great use of his lifetime.

The night refers to the time when you resign, retire, sit back and not work.. when your strength is reduced 

Do not allow your night season come without you doing good in your Day season. 

Do good, Do exploit, achieve greatness, that will sustain you at Night.

The Day is the time season you have to do all you need to do to have a bountiful harvest and good rest at Night.

With every aspects of your Life in place, 

‘Before it is Night’

Total Goodness

Isaiah 59:1-10

God is very good

God is very good... (repeat always)

God’s goodness is continually working on your behalf.

We have to live in confidence that He is in control of our lives. Isaiah 14:24,27.

God isn’t just good, but He does good, always.

Every perfect and good gifts comes from above (God) and this illustrates that God is always interested to bless us, prune us with His love.

Experience the strength that comes from being quiet and trusting in the Lord; for He is good and He will do you go surely!

Discover Life and Purpose

Proverbs 19:8 Isaiah 6:1-8

Search me Lord

And know my ways,

If there is any evil way;

See me through 

Everlasting Lord

I belong to you.

Actually, a walk with God begins with self-discovery and repentance. Before one will become great and useful to God, such person must see him or her self, be touched and changed through ‘a personal encounter with the Lord’. People encounter God through many ways, and this encounter brings about a turn-around in one’s life.

So many examples of people in the Bible to illustrate with, who encountered God; genuinely.

The woman with the issue of blood, Blind Barthmeous, The Samaritan woman, even the disciples. Everyone who has an encounter with God got their lives transformed; WHY? Because God’s power and word superceeds human knowledge, expertise, experience, understanding and it is capable to deliver, save, liberate, establish a man totally.

James 1:25. 

Believers, The word of the gospel is the perfect mirror that will help us reflect ‘how we are’, ‘where we are’ ‘how we ought to be’ ‘what we ought to have become’ teach, coordinate, guide and guard us. 

The urgent decision to make now: Is to discover yourself, through the word of God- seek and see the perfect will of God for your life.

Put A Smile On Somebody’s Face Today

”Put a smile on somebody’s face today, Just because you can” 😊😊💪

I Peter 4:7-11

God has made us in His own very image. He called us to be His extension in a broken world. 

As believers, we ought to stand and encourage other people too, and aid the extension of God’s hand in this broken world. 

You have found yourself around people of different kinds (Male/Female; Friends, Colleagues, Relatives.. at work, school, office or wherever); Not just by chance or coincidence BUT to be a healing balm to their wounds and hurt. 

There are people around who are dying of broken hearts, pains in their bodies, confusion, depression, bitterness. Some employ materials to enhance their physical appearance or even smile to cover up but they still do not conceal or take away their problems. 

Anyways, YOU have the ability to mend their broken hearts, be the healing balm to sooth their pains, give encouragement to the down casted and bear their burden.

Introduce them to Christ, Inform them that Jesus loves them dearly, Tell them of the grace and mercy to enjoy from the throne of God; Proclaim the good deeds of the light of salvation that frees a man from sin and gives victory to live a new Life.

Rise to Duty Now (Isaiah 60)

Yes, you can😊

Down, But Not Out

Micah 7:8-13 Psalms 126

The heart is always the battle ground and hence the Bible urges us to ‘guard’ our heart with all diligence because out of it springs the issues of life. This indicates, that our heart houses every detail about the affairs of life and we need to ‘teach it’ ‘coordinate it’ ‘maintain it’ and watch it spring forth great things for our lives. 

The matter of success and defeat is in the mind💪. If one feels defeated inside, he finds it difficult to get up. People today, feel discouraged, distressed, depressed and even dismayed because they felt they could no longer move on, or soar greatly

The downfall of a man is not the end of His life. Believers today, bend to the voice of the

 Devil and accept defeat; But

“...I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me” (Micah 7:8-13)

Greater Praise, Greater Raise!

Psalms 148:1-14

Everything around us is praising God; the stars, the sun, the moon, the cloud.. the Cherubim and Seraphim, the twenty and four elders, the heaven of the heavens... the trees in the forest, the flowers, the seas, the cloud and every living creature; All that God has made are beautiful and they give praise for His great and good deeds!

Praising God is a command. God has created us for His own pleasure, and we ought to praise Him. We all are made in His own likeness and image and this is to glorify Him.

Pause for a while and tell yourself the truth: It is much more better to fill the atmosphere with praise than to bombard heavens with petitions. You gain heavenly access faster with praise and it also shows that you believe that God is a God of impossibilities. 

Count your blessings rather, Praise God for His kindness and mercies you have enjoyed— Build the attitude of ‘praise’ and  get more ‘raise’.

.. Give God more ‘Praise’ then get more ‘Raise’ in return😊😊

Psalms 103:2 Psalms 86:9-10

Psalms 29:1-10

Renew Your Mind

The New Living Translation renders  the scripture ‘Romans 12:2’ as thus; “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, But let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” One of the most needed things among the body of Christ today is having the revelation of the knowledge of the Word of God.
To understand what revelation knowledge is and how to get it functional in your life, you have to know at least some of the basics about your spirit, soul, and body. Your spirit is the part of you that was changed at salvation. II Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in a Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Your body and soul didn’t become totally new. They can be changed and renewed as you grow in the Lord, but that is a continuing process. (Romans 12:1-10). The only part of of you that is completely changed at salvation is your inner man or spirit. Our opening scripture admonishes thus; “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

This born-again spirit is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him. But this knowledge will not profit the physical body until it is released by the renewing of the mind. 

Our minds are actually the battleground. Our spirits are complete and our bodies will do what they are told, but our mind (which includes our intellect) have the responsibility to choose or exercise our free will. So in that sense, a person’s soul is the master control over the whole person. 

For the born-again man, the spirit is the driving or life-giving force, but the soul has the last say-so because of the will. God will not violate our free will except in final judgement. Therefore, it is necessary that we get this “mind of Christ” (which we have recieved in our spiritual man), functioning in our minds so we can make the right choices. 

And this is done by studying the Word of God. God’s Word is wisdom of God written down so that our minds can read and understand it. 

But we must have spiritual understanding because God’s Word is spiritual and it is life (John 6:36)

We can achieve this through the renewal of our minds through His Word.