Category Archives: Guidance
A Vulnerable Heart
‘I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night’ Ps.63:6
Everything starts with an idea. Many times when God wants to give us a vision for our lives, He starts by giving us a mental picture –an idea. Some of us get most of our ideas in the bathroom. Have you experienced getting songs in the bathroom? Have you ever wondered why? The reason is that when a lot of people come to church, even though people hear from God in church also, they are full of themselves. They seem like they are Read the rest of this entry
Could Be & Should Be
‘I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all’ Ecc.9:11 [KJV].
We are delving deeper in engineering your dreams and we trust that God will help us, in Jesus Name. ‘I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time.’ Ecc.9:11. This scripture on the surface kind of suggests that life is just by luck. But we are going to learn that that is really not what this scripture is saying. The word engineering defined by Wikipedia.com means the science and art of acquiring and applying practical knowledge in order to design build and maintain structures, machines, devices, systems, materials, and processes. Big definition! Engineering simply means the science and the art of taking an idea from inspiration to fruition. In application, engineering your dreams means the science and the art of taking your dreams from idea stage of inspiration into the reality stage of fruition. And by dreams, we mean a mental picture of what could be. Having a dream is the first step but you need to receive a vision. Now it starts with a dream [a mental picture of what could be], a vision on the other hand is a mental picture of what could be and should be. The mental picture could be still, motion, motion picture with sound, still picture with sound, or without sound of what could be and should be. Vision is so important in leadership. All of us are leaders in one capacity or the other; you cannot lead without vision. If a blindfold is put around your eyes and you are told to run, how far can you run? If you run at all, you will probably be trying to feel what is in front of you lest you bump into a wall. Similarly, if you are a leader leading your home, business, family, life without a vision, you are apparently groping. And I pray that will come to an end today in Jesus Name. ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish…’ Prov.29:18 [KJV]. Read the rest of this entry
Game Changer
‘“These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him’ Acts 7:9.
Joseph was hated for being favoured. To compound Joseph’s problem, he was a favoured dreamer. If you are favoured, you will attract attacks. If you are a dreamer, you will attract attacks. Now combine both, a favoured dreamer – double jeopardy! So Joseph was doubly hated. ‘One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever’ Gen.37:5. The first level of hatred his brothers had for him was for the favour. The second Read the rest of this entry
Understanding Favour
‘For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly’ Ps.84:11 KJV
You need to celebrate favour because envy insulates you from God’s favour. Envy builds a shield around you so even if your time for favour comes, guess what happens, the shield of envy repels it. That will not be your portion in Jesus Name. You need to rid your heart totally of envy. There is nothing anybody has that I am envious of – nothing. And I do that deliberately because if I really need anything, God says He will not withhold anything good from them that fear Read the rest of this entry
The Truth About Favour
‘A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity’ Prov.17:17 [NIV]
The reality of favour is that favour attracts attacks. ‘A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity’ Prov.17:17 [NIV]. Joseph’s bothers that were born for adversity hated him. Meaning Joseph was practically hopeless. Many times we wonder that if it is true we are favoured, then how come we are struggling here and there? The truth is that sometimes it is really because you are favoured that is why you are struggling. Look at Job; he was just on Read the rest of this entry
Get Comfortable
Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe’ Gen.37:3.
God’s word to us this morning is ‘Dare to dream again’. For some of us this word translates to ‘dare to dream at all’. But for some of us it is ‘dare to dream again’. ‘Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age… But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him.’ Gen.37:3-4. His brothers hated him so much they could not say a kind word to him. What Read the rest of this entry
Stay On The Wheel!
‘So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over’ Jer.18:3-4.
Let’s go back to the beginning but this time, let’s see what would have happened if things played out differently. The angels were marveling at God just speaking the words and the earth taking shape at His word. ‘Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us’ Gen.1:26. And at this point, the Almighty God bends down, takes dust, and begins to form it. And all the angels begin to speak at once in total amazement. ‘What is He doing? He has been calling forth everything but why is He picking up dust? He is going to get His hands dirty!’ But God is focused on the dust in the palm of His hands, Read the rest of this entry
Stay With God
“O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.’ Jer.18:6.
Today, we will continue in the discourse about the signs of hardness of heart. You know your heart is hard when your praise and worship is no longer by the tenderness of your heart towards God but rather it is about the adoration of men as you pretend to worship God. A typical example would be waiting till midnight when you know the neighborhood is quiet not to be with God but to sing loud enough for everyone to hear you and know that you are spiritual. It is when we would never have Read the rest of this entry
In Perspective
‘But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires’ Jer.18:12.
In today’s scripture reference, these people had made up their minds that they will be hardened clay. Have you ever seen or heard of a potter work with hardened clay [set clay]? It is not possible. The potter will have to break the piece to work with it. It is like someone who says, ‘I am an adult, I can make up my own mind, what I want to do is what I want to do. Nobody should tell me what to do. I am not a baby. I am a full-grown man/woman’. Yes we know that; but that means you are not a Read the rest of this entry
All Things Beautiful
‘Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end’ Ecc.3:11
Only the Potter can see what He is working out in you from beginning to end. Can the potter make a piece of pottery without the wheel? Not at all. Even if the wheel just seems to be going in cycles, the Potter needs it to make the beautiful you that He has conceived in His mind. Again I urge you to stay on the Potter’s wheel. When the challenges of life come, stay in the Maker’s hands because He is crafting something beautiful with your life. It is not about the comfort of life; it is not about the Read the rest of this entry
