Category Archives: Spiritual Growth
True Repentance II
Then David confessed to Nathan, “I’ve sinned against God.” Nathan pronounced, “Yes, but that’s not the last word. God forgives your sin. You won’t die for it. But because of your blasphemous behavior, the son born to you will die” 2Sam.12:13-14 [MSG].
You cannot use David as your justification for sexual impurity. David committed adultery once but you are on your tenth round. You are not David; you don’t even have a heart near David’s. You need to pray for one. Sometimes we only find true repentance when God disgraces us publicly and makes us publicly ashamed. It took David over one year to repent. Nathan finally came to meet him and made a public show of his sin. Why did it have to take that long? Read the rest of this entry
Maximize The Season
‘So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do’ Eph.5:15-17.
A lot of people that go through extreme rejection have serious inferiority complex. They react to things through the veil of that complex. But David did not have inferiority complex. He would not have been able to look his brothers in the eye. How do I know? When he needed to confront Eliab, he did it without resentment. ‘…and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart… And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?”’ 1 Sam.17:28-29. In order words, David was saying, “why are you all sitting in the tent like cowards? Is there not a cause?” No inferiority complex! That is what being in the Presence of God does to you. Someone says “if you can kneel before God, you can stand before men”. Another thing that comes with intimacy with God, in the case of people that are suffering from intense rejection, is not having a superiority complex. Intimacy with God protects you from having inferiority or superiority complex. People come out of the season of rejection and I’m usually shocked how they treat others that are going through the exact same thing they went through. “Let him suffer, I worked for my money”. Have you heard that before? God delivered you from something, you see someone else going through the same thing and you think you are superior to the person? Even the little Egyptian boy, David stopped to fed him and help him because David knew what it is to be left alone in the wilderness to die.Thirdly, David’s intimacy with God healed him completely and David was able to open his heart for covenant relationships. For some, after going through rejection and pain, they become suspicious of everyone. God brings people into their lives to help them reach their destiny and they are suspicious. God brings Jonathans into their lives, instead of embracing him and striking a covenant relationship, they dwell on the suspicion that he can sell them out to Saul. They begin to conjure up theories that don’t exist. That is a sign that they have not utilized that season embracing God. Read the rest of this entry
God’s Mind!
‘Now the Lord said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”1 Sam.16:1.
God can change His mind. Even though this is coming as a shock to some of us. However, it is one truth we need to know and pray never happens in our case. With Samson, it was an angel that told his parents this boy is going to be a Nazarene to the day of his death. God never said this Samson was going to grind corn for the philistines. Samson kept pushing the boundary; he kept sleeping with the prostitutes and nothing happened. He kept behaving like a spoilt brat. Over and over until they cut off his locks, Read the rest of this entry
Actively Engage
‘And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven’ Matt.16:19 [KJV].
Regardless of their size, their weight, or their hierarchy all the powers of hell will not conquer the church. Why, because Jesus says, “all the powers of hell will not conquer it’”. Simply put, the reason why you and I can expect to be victorious despite the resistance from the enemy is because Jesus says so!
A Message For You IV
‘And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven’ Matt.16:19.
The Lord’s fourth message to you is engage the supernatural. For that vision to come to fruition, for that dream to come to fruition, you need to engage the supernatural. ‘Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven”’ Read the rest of this entry
Recipe For Peace
‘Mary asked the angel, “How can this happen? I am not even married!” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come down to you, and God’s power will come over you. So your child will be called the holy Son of God’ Luke 1:34-35 [CEV]
If you examine Moses’ how and God’s how they were totally different. So plan the best you can but remember that a divine vision will always require divine intervention. So don’t be too preoccupied with trying to figure out the how of the vision. I know this is coming as a shock to some people but it is the truth that will renew your mind today. Don’t be too preoccupied with trying to figure out how. I am sure the question on your mind now is Read the rest of this entry
Intervention
‘Then Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. “How could I become a father at the age of 100?” he thought. “And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?”’ Gen.17:17.
I had a meeting with my wife’s former boss in the consulting firm where she used to work. I was trying to show them that if they patterned with me, we could take the whole industry. She looked at me and she said, “How are you going to do this?”And she started poking holes in the vision with the question how. By the time she finished with me, I wasn’t sure I had a vision anymore. I left the meeting convinced that some people are just Read the rest of this entry
The Big How
Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.” Luke 1:34
When we have qualified our dreams and authenticated the vision. What becomes clear to us immediately is the ‘what’. Once you know the what, the way we are wired as human beings, our brains begin to think of the ‘how’. How shall these things be? Your mind now knows what and so it attempts to calculate the how. But the challenge is when we focus so much on how, we begin to lose enthusiasm particularly because sometimes we Read the rest of this entry
Waiting Time IV
“The five who were foolish didn’t take enough olive oil for their lamps, but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil…the bridegroom came. Then those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was locked” Matt.25:3-4&10.
Many of us are too concerned about when it will be our time or when our time will come. The problem is not going to be your time because your time will come. That is outside of your jurisdiction. The issue is, will you be ready when your time comes? Would your plans be ready? Would you be ready as a person? Would you be ready? Abraham Lincoln said, “I will study, I will prepare and my time will come”.
Waiting Time II
‘But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!” Num.13:30
Waiting time is not wasted time, waiting time is Prayer time. Caleb at eighty-five said to Joshua, ‘give me this mountain’. Caleb was asking for Horeb where there were giants. Caleb says, ‘as I was forty years ago so is my strength. I’m going to go and kill these giants’. Many people would rather ask Joshua to send people to go and clear the place for them; but not Caleb. Learn from Caleb, Nehemiah, and David. You have to take Read the rest of this entry
