Author: Oluboye Emmanuel

“23. And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.”

Today, we will be studying another reason for waiting period. Waiting period is a Learning Process. During waiting period, God teaches you all you need to know about where you’re going. When you remain in your comfort zone, you’ll lack a lot of knowledge to accomplish what God has for you. If you are to go through it there, you won’t see the learning process important so there’s need for God to take you out of that comfort zone to learn in a hard way.

Joseph will rule over the Egyptian some day as second in command, so to function rightly, he needed to understand the Egyptian language, he need to be fluent in hearing and speaking the language. If God had told him to learn the language in Canaan land he would be asking, why would I learn the Egypt language? What do we have in common? So, God had to take him out of his comfort zone to live in Egypt for thirteen good years inorder to understand the language. How are you learning the process? Hope you’re not being carried away about your comfort zone? God took you out of that place so you can be comfortable to learn what you lack. Be sensitive to know what God is teaching you in your present state. When you feel lost where you are, know that the Lord brought you there to learn new things, your waiting period is a time to get new knowledge.

Good Morning 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.

“31. But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;…”

This week, I will be changing our thought about wasted time in life according to the word of the Lord. As the Lord will be leading us to see things differently from others.

When things are not working for us, we term them wasted years. When we are jobless, forgotten, waiting for the fruit of the womb, for spouse and feel neglected, we called them dark period but that’s not what they are, they are time for Strenght Renewal. They are time to change some habit, change our ways and renew our focus on God. 

Apostle James said, “Count it all joy when you fall into different temptations”. Temptations are not just when you are tempted to sin but when you are tempted to quit the path of God. Those situations, as listed above, are temptations that makes us feel we are useless to God and men, forgotten by God but that’s not what God is seeing about it. Let’s take for instance, you have your beans, many may desire to cook it raw, some may desire to make Bean cake, some beans soup and others moimoi, they are all beans product but have different means to achieve them. When you peel the back of your beans to make beans cake or moimoi, you are only processing the beans to give you what you want from it not that you dislike the beans itself, that’s how God sees that situation. Somethings need to be removed from us to become the ‘who’ we are created to be. That time in your life is a renewal process not a forgotten time. Yield to God as he brings out the moimoi in you for your sweetness. Join me tomorrow for continuation. 

Good Morning 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.

“22. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

The Faithfulness of the Lord has never failed around our lives. We are not beind saved by our Faithfulness, righteousness or services but God’s compassion gave us the privilege to enjoy His love without measure. Do we really deserve to be alive, no. Do we deserved to be this great by our works, no, but by his compassion He made all these available to us, we need to be grateful to Him.

King Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 9:11,

“9. 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.”

It has been His Faithfulness at work for us till date, not by power, strength, skill, understanding or wisdom but God’s faithfulness. Are we better than those under the bridge, the childless, the aged singles, dead, orphan or disabled? No, we are singled out by God’s faithfulness not our Faithfulness. Feel relax and be grateful this weekend because it hasn’t been your effort but God’s compassion brought us His Faithfulness. Show Him your gratitude today.

Good Morning 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.

“18. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.”

The most powerful debt a living soul can owe is to deny God a grateful heart. The difference between the dead and the living is being Grateful to God no matter the condition we find ourselves. We are alive to show forth the praise of God. God said to Prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 43:21-22.

“22. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

Being alive is showing forth God praise which is being grateful for living. When Ezekiel realises that he has extra fifteen years more to live, He lifted up his voice to show His gratitude to God, He said, The living, the living, will praise you as am doing today. Those Who go down into the grave can’t hope for the faithfulness of God. If you are alive this morning, forget every other things and be grateful for life. When you appreciate God for being alive you are proving the reason for your living. The situation of the nation is not a reason to be ingrate because you are still living. Those situations are not reason to stop praising God, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, says,

“18. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

The will of God is that, all living soul should thank God no matter what. So be grateful for life this Morning.

God Morning 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.

5 I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me. 

Psalms 127:2

2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep.  

Sleeping and waking up may seems like the easiest thing to do. To wake up after some time or few hours, is another big benefit from the Lord. Do you know many can’t sleep at all? Some can’t close their eyes without the use of some form of medication? Have you imagined people sleeping and never saw the light of another day? Yes, it does happen, but to you and I it seems normal but, it’s abnormal to many out there, be grateful to God for every day.

David said, For so He gives His beloved sleep.” We are able to sleep fine because God gave us the grace to sleep not because of tiredness or we choose to but Our Father gave us sleep with easy. Some even over sleep, it’s by God’s grace not by power or tablet.

“I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me.” For we waking up, the Lord has been our sustainer. He’s been the brain behind it all not that alarm or urgency of work but God. Be grateful for sleeping and waking up, God is the reason behind it all, many slept and never woke up.

God Morning 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.

“3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies;”

How much has your health devoured of your resources? How many days, month have you been admitted in the hospital? Have you been diagnosed of an ailment without solution? If anyone is reading through this devotional this morning, faced with any of above, I decree, by the mercies of God Almighty, wholeness rest on you according to your faith in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen. When you don’t go through some situations you might not have an idea of what others are going through, be grateful for Health. Sickness, disease, pain and undescribable ailments are around the nation but you are excluded from it all, be grateful.

David said, “who healeth all thy diseases”. You May have fallen sick and get well, that’s God in action. Some just take tablets; paracetamol and pain reliever and get well, return the praise to God not the drugs, many used it but never felt better. Check the hospital and see human who have been their for months, money wasted, unbearable pain and still find time to give God praise for being alive. What are your complains? You can walk around without an assistant, you are not a visiting patient to the hospital, just lift your voice and show God gratitude this week, it has been God all along, He deserve your gratitude today.

God Morning 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.

“10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; For With My Staff I Passed Over This Jordan; And Now I Am Become Two Bands.”

One of our hymns says, 

“Count your blessings name them one by one, count your blessings see what God has done,

Count your blessings,

Name them one by one,

And it will surprise you what the Lord has done”

We are ungrateful because we refuse to remember how and where we were before now. We focus on what we desire to get and have not gotten. We seek to be somewhere and forgot where He brought us from. Some of us never deserved the promotions we’ve enjoyed in time past but God, in His mercy, changed our stories still, we are held back by what He hasn’t done for us. A quick thought, do you remember how you came to where you are? Do you remember what you had then? Can you count those things you have as properties now and compare with what you had then?

Jacob knew he was the best cheater until he met Laban who dealt with him, but he realizes how He crossed the Jordan with just a staff and just himself but now, He had Eleven children, four wives and thousands of flocks to his credit, then he turned to heaven and said,

“… for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.”

Until you get to a point where you see the works of God in your life, what he’s done from your past till date, you might remain ungrateful to Him. Just remember the nicknames given to you in the past, are they still active compare to what God has done for you?

Please be a grateful child of God by being thankful this week. Tell Him what he’s done around you, count your blessings and see what He’s done for you.

God Morning 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.

“5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

Matthew 6:11.

“11. Give us this day our daily bread.”

When Jesus taught us how to pray, He included this verse in our pattern of prayer. We are told to ask for our daily bread from God, but I can boldly ask, how often do we do this in our generation? In a generation where food timetable has been drafted long enough without including God’s provision but nevertheless, all needs are being met without asking Him, we need to be grateful to God for our Daily Bread.

Our Bible reading said, “Psalms 103:5.

“5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

God satisfies us with what sustains us daily, though it might not be what we desire sometimes but uses it to renew our strength on a daily basis. Even when you don’t have what you desire you get what sustains you till date, Show Him gratitude for the provision all these years, be grateful to God. 

Matthew 6:31-32  

“31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32. (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.”

God has always made provision. Not that you don’t have at all but may be it’s not enough, always remember man’s want can’t be satisfied but God will always provide what we need for survival. Be Grateful for what sustained you.

God Morning 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.

“19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”

Good morning Fellow believers, welcome to this week Devotional. Our focus will be “Be Grateful” and we will be digging out those areas to let us know we have reasons to be grateful. Today, our sub-topic is to be grateful for Daily benefits. What are these benefits, you may want to ask? First above all, is the oxygen you never negotiated for that you’ve exhausted since you came to life. When you get angry and aggressive, you consume more oxygen, and that’s a waste of benefit but God never for once charged us for it or make a deduction from what we have left. Your sight functions, your brain still reason, your nose is still sensitive, walking around and doing things yourself hasn’t been a trouble, these are part of the benefits to thank God for. Have you considered that, many has the resources you lack but lack the peace of mind you enjoy? We enjoyed many things we never worked for and then call them Grace and Mercy of God, why not others enjoying it? Benefits of God is the reason you’ve not being in the grave.

Our Bible reading says, Daily Benefits, yesterday benefit expires and new benefits start again today. Multiplying your years with 365 day, then 24hours, this gives you the loads of benefits you’ve received from God. Remember who you were some years back and who you are now, where you were then and where you are now, it’s as a result of the Lord’s benefits. This week, please let’s be grateful for what we can see and forget what we can’t see which are distracting us from giving God our best, because, He daily Loads us with His Benefits. Refuse to be down, get up and show gratitude for His Daily Benefits in your life.

God Morning 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. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.”

Today, being the last day of our Topic, “What Did God Said About You?”, God is saying, you are alive to show forth His Praise. We are not on earth for other purposes than to give God praise in everything we do. God intentionally keeps us alive for that purpose. When what we do doesn’t give God praise we are not worth living, that’s the truth. We are created for His Praise, to worship Him and bring glory to Him. 

When we are faced with life threatening situation, this should be our declaration because God honours His word. Let that sickness know that you are not meant for bedridden, you are meant to bring praises to God. Let this govern your decisions daily, “will this bring praises to God?” “Am I a source of praise to God with the way I’m living?” Our lives is meant to be a testimony of God, declaring He’s works in our lives. This is what God is saying about you, “I’m preserving you to declare my Praise”, let your life bring Praise to God daily.

God Morning 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.

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