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Isaiah 10:²⁷ “And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.” (KJV)

Life is a cycle of adversities. So rather than wanting to escape adversity, build strength. God wants you to pay attention to building strength even in the remaining days of this year and beyond. Take the COVID-19 pandemic for instance. Read the rest of this entry →

Psalm 29:¹¹ “The Lord gives his people strength. The Lord blesses them with peace.”

A lot of people think they are humble, and some even claim they are humble. But I say to folks, you cannot say you are humble until you have the resources to be proud, and you refuse to be proud. Read the rest of this entry →

Proverbs 24:¹⁰ “If you fall apart during a crisis, then you weren’t very strong to begin with.” (The Voice, emphasis added).

If, makes it a conditional statement. You do not have to fall apart during crisis. But if you do, then you were not very strong to begin with. If you faint in the day of adversity, it means your strength is small. Read the rest of this entry →

Daniel 11:³² “And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” (KJV, emphasis added).

One of the ways to enlarge your mind is through the books you read. Guess what? This also increases your strength. What is strength? Strength is the capacity of an object to withstand great force or pressure. Read the rest of this entry →

Proverbs 24:⁵ “A wise man is strong, Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength”.

God’s miracles usually require you to stretch for you to possess them. However, when we are calling things forth, we expect that they will enter into our pockets or drop on our laps. God is saying, it is going to be within your reach. Read the rest of this entry →

Isaiah 54:² “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” (NIV, emphasis added)

A lot of people are confused, and they think that they are self-made because they can stretch and take hold of the things that God has put within their reach. They think they have worked hard for their money, jobs, and business breakthroughs. Read the rest of this entry →

Proverbs 25: ²  “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”

When we stretch our minds, we have the platform to stretch our strength. Our strength has the foundation on which it can be stretched. But the mind is the first place that stretching must happen. Read the rest of this entry →

Isaiah 54:^2-3 “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities. (NIV &NLT)

As you move in directions that will enlarge you, you will be stretched. The natural human response is to hold back. Inherent in stretching is stressing. And when the stressing begins there is a tendency for us to want to hold back. Read the rest of this entry →

Malachi 3:¹⁰ “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” (NIV).

Generosity is not something that God wants from you. It is something that God wants for you. God is not trying to get something from you, He is trying to get something to you. Read the rest of this entry →

1 Peter 2:¹⁵ “You see, it is God’s will that by doing what is right and good you should hush the gabbing ignorance of the foolish”. (The Voice)

A kind heart is a forgiving heart. Kind people forgive, but mean people do not forgive. When you are enlightened, you know that you are not standing by your strength (if you are standing at all). Read the rest of this entry →