Month: November 2022

“21. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

35. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

This morning, we are shifting our attention to another output of the Heart which is Unforgiveness. This may look somehow closer to bitterness because it comes as a result of bitterness. One leads to the other. Many offenses that cause bitterness of heart leads to Unforgiveness. This is the issue with Unforgiveness, if you can’t do away with the Bitterness it will be very hard to forgive.

Cain, The first child of Adam, was bittered that his offering was not accepted by God. He transfered his bitterness towards his brother which he couldn’t forgive and let go, and later murdered him. This is the danger in Unforgiveness. When unforgiveness is at it’s highest peak, it can lead to evil act like that of Cain.

When we forgive one another it’s a way of healing our heart and allowing God to take over the situation. For this to happen, you have to believe that,

1. No sin or act is unforgivable.

2. You need to seek for God to heal your heart.

3. You need to control your heart and who you speak to about the issue.

4. You need to call and speak to the person involve.

To forgive may not be easy but it is possible, you can do it, we can make it possible through the help of the Holy Spirit who rules our heart. May The Holy Spirit heal every heart this Morning, going through one uncontrollable situation, in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

” 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Yesterday, we discussed how we caused ourselves bitterness. It was made known that, bitterness is traceable to negative thought going on within us, it’s self generated and you can choose to do away with it. Today, we are seeing how bitterness can come through others and I want each and everyone of us to check through if we are not the cause of Bitterness to others. 

We can be the reason for other’s bitterness. Generally, when you mock people with their cry to God, for instance, when you mock an awaiting mother, mocking those who ask you for help, exposing other secret entrusted with you, talking people down and more, it’s in a way causing bitterness for others. As a man who kept beating, abusing his wife, calling her printed names, you’ve created a space for bitterness in her. Flirting around with ladies at the expense of your marriage. As a woman who nag and trodding a man down for lack of job, comparing him with your friends hubby, the man has been filled with bitterness. Lover boys and lover girls, jilting them after promises unfulfilled, it’s a wound with many years to heal. As a boss who deny promotions because they refuse to dance to your ugly beat, it’s bitterness. When you do to others what you never wish to experience in life, someone is experiencing a bitterness, it’s high time to stop breaking and destroying people’s heart everywhere. Any heart with bitterness will hardly achieve anything meaningful, may you not be reasons why others will not be fulfilled in life. If you find yourself in this shoe, it’s not too late to reconcile with them, to correct and redirect your steps because God rewards us all for every of our seeds to others and the reward of God is always far greater than what we sow. Sit back and check what you’ve impacted on others if it’s bitterness or happiness.

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

“18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:”

What we do and say is a product of what goes on in our heart. Every good and bad attitude you can mention is a produce of the heart. Before every action, there was a rehearse In the heart. We are the result of what goes on in our heart. For every success or failure in life, the heart is the starting point. What are the output of your heart?

The foundation of every output of the heart is either Evil or Good thought. This is where everything that happens in the heart start from.

Proverbs 23:7.

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.”

How does these thought start? By believing someone is better than you or you are better than someone, this is the begining of a thought. Now, for you to deny the fact that you are created differently from that person, and see the better side of you is the beginning of Negative thoughts. If you accept that the person is doing well but in his own field and not yours, that’s beginning of positive thought. Where are your thoughts leading you? What kind of thought is running through your heart? Good or Evil? Peaceful or troublesome thought? What you dwell on determines the output you have. So, the need to guide our heart diligently arises here, because the product is what determines who we become in life. What are you thinking on continuously?

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

 

“13. And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

We are thanking God today for all His Prophets, servants of God, He has used to lead us out of different challenges in life, I know that rings a bell in your ear, Yes, those ministers of God whom God has instructed you through their teachings and counselling. Many ministers strive to make sure we, their members, and sheep, are well nurtured spiritually even at their own detriment. We rush to them when faced with difficulties, even at instances of nightmare not even knowing what they are going through in their privacies, it’s time to Thank God for having them around, for them answering the call of God and carrying out their assignment over us. Let’s also Thank God on behalf of their families, their home and ministries.

God said He will lead us out through His prophet, meaning, He will guide us through His servants and ministers. Thank God for the guidance you’ve received from them, thank God for using them to lead you out of every dangers in life, for the word of life you’ve been bless through them. Thank God for always hearing them when they make a decree in His name. Also Thank God for making them a coverage and a shield over you. It’s time to Thank God for having them around and not focusing on their weaknesses only. Thank God for not quitting being a servant of God. Give God praise over there lives today.

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

 

“32. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

33. And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.”

Many atimes we’ve enjoyed the help of God through human instruments. We’ve come across men and women who are ready to go extra miles to help us, this is the reason why we need to give Thanks to God for every Helper He has sent to us. Some Helpers are no where to be found after their assignment in our lives. Some are just sent to help us where we know no one. Some pay up our bills, save us from issues that would have caused us trauma for life, so let’s take out time and remember those helpers and thank God on their behalf.

In our early lives, school days, fresh graduate, in marriage or in ministry, God sent some Helpers who made things easier and comfortable for us. In the days Apostle Paul,God used many helpers to rescue him on several occasions. Our Bible reading today talks about how he was let down in a basket from the window of a wall, that wasn’t an angel, they were helper at the right time. When you think deep, you will realize God has sent such helpers to you in time past and even now. I remembered my school days, at a time the indigenes and students had crisis, I was camped in the house of one of the vigilante’s leaders without his knowing for more than twelve hours throughout the night, by the son of the vigilante’s leaders, it was God sending my enemy to deliver me from raw death. If you can think thoughtfully, you will reason well. Thank God for as many Helpers the Lord has sent your way in life, peradventure, someone is thanking God for you being a helper to them also.

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

 

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

The Fourth person to Thank God for are our Friends. As the saying goes, Friends determines your end. Friends has been the reasons for many reaching to the top in life, some are rescued by friends and many enjoyed the confident of friends during afflictions more than what a brother could have done. Although, we thanked and appreciated them with words but most times we never Thank God for having them around. Many have been delivered from death through friends, I’m talking about Good friends that sticks closer than a brother. Those you can’t do without mentioning their names when your success story is discussed. Most times we never got enough resources to show back our gratitude for their kindness. Get this, not all those you called friends really knows or treat you as a friend. This is the reasons they let you down when you needed them the most. Take a list of your friends today and thank God for what God has used them to do in your life and your family. David’s friends, Hushai, saved him from his son Absalom, 2 Sam. 16. David’s friend, Jonathan, Helped him to escape from his father, King Saul, 1 Sam. 20, and that was the reason David showed kindness to Mephibosheth. It’s time to thank God on behalf of your Friends who stood by you when everyone turns you down, when you’ve been rejected but they accepted you as you are. Solomon has this to say,

“Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” 

Thank God for those Iron friends that has been sharpening you all those past years.

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

 

“3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

4. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

5. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”

Today, we are Thanking God for our children. I know many parent do this often compare to thanking God for their spouses, still some complain about the children God has given them, some ask questions like;

1. Why should I thank God since I don’t have one? 

Isaiah 54:1-2.

“1. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;”

Thank God in advance because you will be celebrated soonest. God hasn’t forgotten you because you will have children as an inheritage from God.

2. Why should I thank God when my child is special child (physically challenge)?

Exodus 4:10-11.

“10. And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

11. And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?”

God knows about it and He will use those children to glorify Himself where we least expected.

3. Why should I thank God when I have a child out of wedlock?

Judges 11:1-3.

“1. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

2. And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

3. Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.”

Thank God because the child is not a mistake but a deliverer of His people. The stone rejected by the builder will soon become the cap stone.

Thank God for those children, many are still trying to get one. Thank God even if they can’t take care of you presently, many have enough but no parent to take care of. Give God Thanks for those Children because they are not a misfit, they are the heritage of God and His reward to you. Call them one by each and bless God for them then you’ll see the increase of God over them.

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

 

“23. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”

The Second person to Thank God for is our spouse (or yet to be spouse for the unmarried), yes, Thank God for your partner. Listen to me, what you Thank God for only increases because God is always happy when you appreciate Him on behalf of something. When you thank God about your partner you have the opportunity to enjoy one another better. Marriages filled with complain, grumbling, nagging and quarrelling doesn’t last much compared to marriages where you thank God for having each other. We easily find faults in one another but find it difficult to thank God for having one another. When last did you appreciate God for giving you your spouse? You only ask God why did I married this man/woman? You’ve never seen reasons to bless God that you have a husband/wife? What you thank God for increases, even when you are not satisfied with it, Thank God wholeheartedly for Him/Her. Many are willing to get what you are complaining about. 

When Adam woke up from sleep, he appreciated the woman he saw, and gave her a name. Thanking God for that man, that woman increases the closeness between couples. No man or woman is 100% good or 100% bad, but we mostly focuses on the bad sides of individuals so we only see reasons to complain and not reasons to thank God for them. Take out time today, as many times you remember, and Thank God for your spouse, thank God for what you are enjoying about them, thank God for giving him/her to you and you will see how handsome and beautify they become. 

God Bless you and Good Morning.

Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.

 

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