A GLORY IS INVOLVED (1)

It saddens to see many people using what they have passed through [or are passing through] as excuses for staying at low level of productivity. Life has brought its strong hands on almost all of us in one way or the other. Challenges are common to all people. So you are not the only one. Different things in different forms in our different lives have happened to almost all of us differently at different points in time. 

As a little kid, I remember our penniless grandmother would convince us that sugar and cold palp (èko tútù) was the best food in the world; and we believed her. All you need to do is to dip  morsels of palp in powered-sugar like that of amala in gbegiri, then you are good to go. It took several years later before we realized that a highly concentrated 'povertic acid' had been added to our equation. We went through all that because of the glory that will soon be revealed in us. There are usually plenty blessings in dirty experiences.

A man was born blind and Jesus said it wasn't a consequence of his or his parents' sin but that God's glory was wrapped in that his dirty situation. Can you imagine the kind of emotional, mental and physical frustrations the man would have gone through in the 40 years of his life? Yet God was still committed to his case because a glory was involved.

Don't make your situation look as if it cannot heal due to the extent of damage that has been done to you by circumstances, culture, environment or people around you. Lying beneath every ash is a beauty. Just under every spirit of heaviness is oil of joy. There's a garment of praise after every mourning. After every midnight is a dawn! To God, his servants are gold in his hands while himself is gold purifier. It is God's way to perfect his vessels in the refiner's fire and fuller's soap untill the  glory embedded in them begins to radiate. If you stay long enough with your story, it will yied up its enwrapped glory!

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Go Through Something! ...from WINEPRESS

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You can hardly appreciate what you got so cheap. Ingratitude for and abuse of God's blessings are usually deeply rooted in 'getting blessings so cheap or too soon.' Whatever you labour for will most likely be appreciated, maximized and thankful for. 

A young person once reacted to marital advances towards her, "God, did I ask you for a proposal!" However, should God seal off the heavens that there should be no more rain of such blessings until her late 40s, then the narration would change! Her blessing came so cheaply. It came too quick.

Sometimes God decides to take us through some "inconveniences" to shape us and not topple us. Sometimes, he delays our blessings intentionally to build us and not to break us. Most of the time, going through such "uncomfortableness" is a huge blessing although it may not look like it now. Those things that look like setbacks are actually setups for your elevation. If you don't go through challenging situations in life, how light you are!

Go through some stuff. We have been conditioned as the "bread and butter" generation of Christian to think any form of inconvenience is a demonic attack on us. No. Not all seemingly negative incidences in our lives are demonic attacks. Many of them are links to our destiny.

In those days in the village whenever we were to go to the farm to work and it was about raining, we children would like to complain, hiding under "rain" as an excuse not to go to the farm. "Dad, it's raining." His response would always be, "Do you have holes in your head?"

Go through the rain of life; you don't have holes in your head. Go through the scorching; you're not shea butter. God, sometimes, intentionally uses the challenges we passed through to build us so that we can be able to give others the comfort that God has given to us when they're also troubled.

Storm in our life is glory announcer! It was Goliath that put David on the map. The Rea Sea that announced Moses. Jordan announced Joshua. Widowhood announced Ruth. Insufficient wine in a wedding ceremony announced Jesus. Median oppression announced Gideon. Pharaoh's puzzle announced Joseph.

May nothing chase you in life when there's no Red Sea in view. The glory is planted in the Sea. When Israel got to the Rea Sea, she wanted to retreat. God said to her, "Go through it." The victory will come through the Sea. The glory is right there in the storm. The promotion will come through the challenges. The expansion will come through the toughness, and roughness, and hardness, and tightness, and, and...my God!

Stop mourning your situation. Your case is not the most pitiful one. God is only passing you through some storms designed for your making. I do pity people who rarely encounter frictional forces in life. That's not how life is designed.

You need storms to glide. You need the storm to push you higher. Storm pushes the eagle up. Stop circumventing challenging situations. Your elevation will come through it!

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God Bless You 😊

WHEN DESTINY CALLS, SUSPEND OTHER THINGS! ....from WINEPRESS

The priority of choice is the heart of wisdom because wisdom is principally the ability to discern difference in choices; and decision is the mechanism through which we side with destiny. You see, that thing they normally refer to as "the future" is not ahead of you; it's not sometime in years to come. Rather, it is within you; you experience "the future" every day through drops of decisions you make. The future is the resultant or compounding effect of efficient or inefficient use of every hour!

Life is serious, and yet ephemeral; hence one must figure out the dot in the circle of life and live purposefully in that destiny zone. Priority must of necessity be given to enhance those tributaries that empty into the ocean of destiny. Activities should be purpose-driven and destiny-propelling. Whenever destiny calls, wisdom demands that every other thing be suspended because it is whatever you do for destiny's reward that will constitute life's net worth when there's no more life. Wisdom reveals who is wise and who is foolish through what they prioritize. What you prioritize is revealed through your choices. 

Jesus met two men one day. He called the first, "Dude, be my disciple." The man told Jesus he would first go and bury his father. Jesus had to teach him this great truth. "Leave the death to bury their death. You go and preach the Kingdom of God." In other words, destiny is calling you, attend to it first and suspend every other thing, that includes your father's burial. 

The second man said to Jesus, "Lord, I will be your disciple, but let me first go home to bid my family members farewell." Jesus said to him, "Guy, you would have missed the call of destiny by the time you come back. The decision to be my disciple is a destiny decision, and it requires that you suspend everything else whenever destiny calls."

Whenever it comes to Kingdom matters, Jesus suspends every other thing. Where to sleep doesn't matter because foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head. Hunger has lost his power because his meat is to do the work of his Father and to finish it. Whenever destiny calls, and Jesus' family members are also calling, He would rather answer the call of destiny because his mother and brethren are those who hear the Word of God.

 

Jesus didn't disrespect or disregard his family. He was simply teaching us a powerful lesson: Whenever destiny is calling, let every other thing be on hold! If you are not this crazy as far as purpose fulfilment is concerned, you can hardly fulfill one!

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WE ARE SAVED FOR GOOD WORKS..!

 

“For by grace are ye saved through faith… not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8, 9)…

…but, we are saved for works.

Sometimes ago, a question was asked concerning Christians who maintain that as long as their heaven is sure, they care less if others don’t make it to heaven, they just want to get there by all means, at all cost.

The truth is, heaven is not a place for those who don’t want to go to hell, heaven is for those who love God and are ready to do His will.  Our Lord Jesus Christ said; “if you love me, you will obey my commandments” and at the end of His ministry here on earth, He commanded His disciples saying “… go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

This means as believers, we have the obligation of showing others the way to salvation. We are not expected to live our lives as though we can protect it and keep it to the end. We can’t keep ourselves from sinning by living in the consciousness of sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ said; “he that keeps his life shall lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake shall keep it”. The bible in Rev. 12:11 says “And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the power of their testimony, not loving their lives unto death”

The story was told of a newly employed young man in an organisation, for the first few months he was doing so well that his colleagues had to approach him to learn of his secretes, secretes about how he's managed not to break any of the company’s rules; he gets to work very early, he doesn’t sleep on duty, among others. His reply was “I'm not aware of any of the rules, I only do what I think is the right thing to do”. The following month, he got his first query, why? He became aware, and conscious, of the rules.

As long as we continue to live in the consciousness of sin, we will always be its slave, but once we understand that sin has been defeated and power over sin has been given to us by Christ, then, that is when we begin to live in victory over sin.

The kind of life lived by the early apostles is a very good example that corroborates this, according to Apostle Paul in 2Corinth. 11:23 – 33. He said they were always in one danger or the other, but never for once do they ever think of saving their lives because they are “… persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 38 – 39).

Therefore, as believers, we are not saved just for the sake of it, but to also serve as a light for others to be saved.