Author: Oluboye Emmanuel

“11. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

12. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

15. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.”

When famine becomes the course of the day, what to listen to is God’s instructions. What is God telling me to do? What’s the way He’s leading you through? In famine, after the brook dried up, God still gave Elijah another instruction to go to a widow, (with the last meal for her and her son). When Elijah got there, he told her to give me water and come along with a meal, but the widow quickly responded, ‘the last meal was meant for me and my son’. But in her lack and needy, she went on to sow her last meal to Elijah first, then she and her son. The scripture says, they never lacked food till rain fell on the land.

When in famine, it’s a season to sow from what we have left. The widow made Elijah’s meal first, served him and ate with her son for day. During famine care for others even when you have little left. Sow seeds to those who needs more than you. Be a solution to other in your famine and see what God will do in your life. She obeyed the instructions even when it was very strange and dangerous but that was the end of famine for her household. What you eat or keep is not what sustains you in famine, it’s what you give and release to others. So, find what to sow in that famine.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“2. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

3. Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

4. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.”

I welcome you to this new week, may God make it a fruitful week for everyone in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen. We shall be focusing on “Sensitivity In Famine” as our topic for the week. Is God aware about famine? Yes. Will the righteous be exempted during famine? Yes, then How? By being sensitive to His instructions before and during famine. God is perfect in making ways in difficulties. He specialises in creating escape route in difficult times. Today, our focus is yielding to His instructions even when it seems impossible. God’s instructions may seems negative when in difficult times. Harkening to His specific instruction is always a way out of famine.

What God is saying in that famine is what singles you out of the famine. When His children are going through famine God is not please. He is forced to give instructions that will change situation but most times we are not ready to listen. Elijah declared famine and instantly God spoke to him, “And the word of the Lord came into him”, what is the Lord saying? God gave him a specific direction. Until we listen to His word during famine we will be wasting in Famine. May I ask you this morning, what is God saying to you in famine?

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

1 Kings 19:19-21.

“19. So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

20. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

21. And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.”

As we round up our study for this week, we shall be considering Prophet Elisha who yielded it all to follow Prophet Elijah. He gave it all and ran after Him to pour water in His hand. Total yielding to God is what makes us greater in the purpose of God for our lives. Going further than others will go. When the mantle of Leadership rested on Elisha, he begged Elijah to wait for him as He closes up His Business and followed Elijah to be the next world prophet.

Mind you, not everyone will be called to this type of yielding, some will be called to yield them selves to Him totally while they retain their personal jobs. Apostle Paul was called to yield it all also but He was still a tent maker who cared for himself and those with him. Elisha fully yielded to Elijah till death separated him. All we need to know is this, Is God calling me to yield it all by following Him? We’ve seen mathematicians, Medical Doctors, Architects, Engineers and other fields who yielded it all. Which area is God asking you to yield it all? Time to search out and do the needful like Elisha. Yielding it all brings the highest fulfillment in life.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“1. Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

2. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

3. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.”

Yielding to the will of God is another aspect we’ll need to check. Nobody is left out of this area, either a minister or a believer, young or old, this yielding is paramount to us all. From our case study for today, we saw how a Prophet of God decided to yield to His will rather than the will of God. He was appointed to go to Nineveh to deliver a message of repentance to the city but he went to Tarshish instead, why? Not because he was afraid or fearful but he wanted the destructions of the city because of their attitude and behavior.

How often do we find reasons not to go the way of the Lord, carrying out His Will because we have a hurt against a fellow. In anger, envy, jealousy we disobeyed God’s instructions to be of help to others, to be a solution to many and this has put us in the belly of a Whale like Jonah. How often do we try to teach God what to do than to do His Will? Yielding to His will for our lives is paramount than our ambitions. Are we sure we’re not in this situation we found ourselves because we decided to go our own way against His Will? We can always go back to God as Jonah did and seek for His Mercy to fulfill His Will for our lives. Yielding to God’s Will is what we should strive to do.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

By Yielding our mind to God it places us under the control of the Holy Spirit, it makes our mind reason in the way of the Lord but this will not mean our bodies are delivered from the world. When our mind is yielded to God our body also need to yield to God. That was why Jesus said in Matthew 26:41,

“41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 

The Mind is ready for God’s instructions, but the body is weak because it’s hasn’t yield to God. When you feel like fasting, the body gives reasons not to fast, that’s the body yet to yield to God. When you feel like praying, the body shows you the bed, that’s a body yet to be controlled by God.

Apostle Paul said, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, which is your reasonable service.” Meaning, yield that body to God in order to carry out the things of God. Surrender your body to God totally, then you can overcome the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and pride of life, 1 John 2:16.

A Body yielded to God won’t yield to sexual temptation, robbing or cheating others. Let’s Yield our body to the Lord, so He can use it for His purpose and that is what He wants from us. Father help us yield our body to you in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Yielding to either God or devil has it’s origin in the mind. The mind is the foundation of every occurrences we see happening around us today. What goes on in the mind determines what happens in the physical. Who and what you yield your heart to determines who and what controls it.

Apostle Paul said we should not be conformed to this world, you may want to ask, but we are in the world? Yes, we are, but we are not to think like them. A referee is on the pitch of play with other footballers but with a different mindset. What the players considers fair play is different from what he sees as fair play. He is on the pitch but thinks differently from them. That is how it is when a mind is yielded to God. We are to separate our minds from the ways of the world. Our mind must be guided by the things of God and not of the world. Yielding our minds to God makes us walk and live like the god we are created to be. When we think the way the world thinks, we become what the world becomes; evil, heartless, wicked, selfless and selfish. To yield your mind to God you need to guide your sight, ears and heart because those are the entrance to your mind. Guide them jealously.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“17. And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

18. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

Humans are made by God no matter How we are. We are all created, sent to the mother earth to fulfill a predestined purpose. Yielding to God is what makes those purpose establish. Little did we know that we can’t secure our lives without the help of the Almighty. So, no matter who we are, we are made to be by God. 

God was speaking to the Israelites, reminding them not to forget all He did to make them great. He declared that, “He is the reason for them making wealth and becoming great”, so it will be too foolish for them to say, “The power of their hands has made them great”. Likewise, no matter our levels in life we are to yield our resources to God who made them available because we are who we are by the grace of God upon our lives. All those wealth are given by God to fulfil His purpose over our lives. We’re to use our resources to better the world no matter how great or small our resources are. We’re to surrender to God not to withhold from Him the resources He bestow on us. Using our resources to make lives better is yielding to God our maker because He made us who we are and blesses us with what we have.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“16. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17. But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.”

Beloved, it’s a wonderful week for us all in Jesus Mighty, Amen. This week, our focus will be, “Yielding To God”. Who do you belong to? Whose Will do you run after? What guides your decisions or what you say, who do you submit to? This and more will be handled this week, may God give us an entrance to His word in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.

We can only yield to the power and authority. We can’t be in between, it’s either we are for God or devil and this can be identify by who we obey, listen to and try to please. Jesus speaking in the Matthew 6:24, said,

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

I like us to search ourselves this day, who do you love and who do you hate, God or the devil? Being in the church doesn’t implies who you yield to, it can only be determine by what you do. My question to us today is, Who are you yielding to?

Good Day and God Bless you.

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

“19. And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

20. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

21. And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

As we round up our study on the topic, “Risk Takers”, we are considering the life of Apostle Paul, who spread the Gospel even more than the Apostles who walked with Jesus why? Because He took more risk than any of the Apostles during and after His days. Paul was speaking in 2 Corinthians 4:8-10,

“8. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

9. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

He was a man who risk His life for the Gospel and we can see his exploit in the world today. Is it possible to preach or teach the Gospel without referencing his writings? It’s very hard. How far can we take risk for the Gospel? Are we not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ with our ways of life? What risk are we taking for the Gospel? How often do we preach about Jesus? This is the greatest risk we should take daily in our lives. We should let it be part of our lives by making people know we belong to Jesus wherever we are. Be a risk taker for the Gospel of Christ.

Good Day and God Bless you.

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