Category Archives: Focus
Retention Capacity I
‘…Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. Soon every container was full to the brim! “Bring me another jar”, she… “There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing’ 2 kings 4:5-6.
Principle #8 is the capacity principle. The capacity principle simply states that a container cannot retain more than its capacity. For instance, someone has a two-liter container. Then the contents of a hundred liter tank are emptied into the two-liter container. At the end of the day that container will only retain two-liters. So capacity is more important than anything else. You and I need to invest in our capacity. We need to read, stretch our minds, and stretch our capacity. ‘So she Read the rest of this entry
Locating Oil?
‘What can I do to help you? Elisha asked. ‘Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied’ 2 Kings 4:2.
Again, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the prophet did not have money in the house but he had oil. It would be a disaster if the prophet had money and didn’t have oil. Pause and calmly think about this. We have established that oil is something of value that you are good at, that you enjoy doing, and you will get paid for. If you have something that you enjoy doing and you get paid for but you are not good at it, then you are about to be fired. This is the simple truth. Read the rest of this entry
Man
‘And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.’ Gen.1:26 [KJV].
As a loving father, God goes ahead of us to prepare a place for us. And like He did in the beginning, God will put you in that place to dominate and to crown it. Getting into the prepared place ahead of God’s timing is a choice to settle for a lower position. Moreover, God will not share His glory with anyone. If Adam had been there with God during creation and perhaps God asked Him to bring a bucket of water, Adam would probably Read the rest of this entry
At Dawn!
‘And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes Lord, so that he may see”. Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariot of fire all around Elisha’. 2 Kings 6:16 [NIV]
You need to know that when the morning comes and it is time for action, heaven knows it is time for action. But guess what the enemy also knows that it is time for action [2kings 6:15-18]. It was dawn for Elisha and his servant but when his servant went out he saw that enemy chariots had surrounded them. And he ran to his master and said ‘alas what shall we do, we are surrounded master?’ And Elisha got up and smiled and said Read the rest of this entry
What Is Your Goal?
‘I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!’ Phil.3:10-11
What are those things that you considered valuable before you met Christ? After you met Him are they still that valuable? ‘For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ’ Phil.3:8. What must you count as garbage today? No one in his/her right senses wants to keep garbage consistently in the house. As soon as you identify it as garbage, the next instinct is to throw it out. We have come to the beginning of another year and while we must not take our focus off being thankful to Read the rest of this entry
Pursue Peace
‘Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty’ Ps.91:1
And if you look at the history of man, man has always been at loggerheads with man. There is no weapon that man has made that man did not use. Check, every weapon man has used. From stone that Cain used to murder Abel, to arrows, knives, guns, and bombs. So the question is not if the weapons that exist will be used, rather the question is where will you be when they will be used. For us as believers, God wants us to pursue peace and be Read the rest of this entry
Settled
‘You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine’ Ps.4:7
‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God’ Matt.5:9 [NIV]. The grace that is able to save you is able to change you. If you are experiencing a grace that is saving you but is not changing you that grace is suspect. Mostly people focus on getting all you can, canning all you get, and siting on the can. For them the person who successfully does that is blessed. But Jesus disputes this because ‘blessed are the poor in spirit for Read the rest of this entry
Loose The Cracked Cisterns
‘For my people have done two evil things: they have abandoned me- the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all’ Jer.2:13.
God in the above scripture is referring to His own children, those who He has marked as His; those who He sent His Son to die for and who He has given up nations for. Yet these same people have hurt Him by doing two evil things – left Him, the fountain of living waters. And as if that is not bad enough, they have also created their own source of me time. Some people stand in front of their mirror and worship the idol in the mirror for two to three hours. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against your choice to take care Read the rest of this entry
It Must Be Now
‘Thou shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea the set time, is come’ Ps.102:13 [KJV]
As believers we must know that with God there is a set time for everything. The Bible lets us understand that even before we were formed, God had a plan. ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’ Ecc.3:1 [KJV]. The children of Israel had a season of response; the set time for them had come to enter into God’s Promised Land. But they hesitated and told God they were unable to enter the land because of the giants and the season of response passed. Although they came back a Read the rest of this entry
Eagle-eyed II
‘Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted’ Titus 1:15.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. Yesterday we began to unpack the three-fold meaning of seeing God. The pure in heart will see God in: 1# eternity
#2: See God in communion with God: ‘Who may climb the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy Read the rest of this entry
