Author: Oluboye Emmanuel

“17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

18. Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.”

It’s unfortunate that many develop others, contribute in other’s growth but never made any attempt to develop themself. Some believe they are too old to learn new things, acquire new knowledge or change their trade, it’s time to start developing yourself. It’s time to stretch yourself beyond your present ability. Start up and increase your capability. Learn things about your area of specification and more.

David was a Shepherd boy in the bush, he chose to develop himself in other areas. Right in the bush he learnt playing harps, (instrument), to use sling, boldness in facing challenges and increased in wisdom, these qualities made Him a better person to stand before King Saul, to defeat Goliath and to reign over Israel. Your new found skills is what will present you before the great not just that usual talent. What people see in you that’s different is what will make them look for you. May be your present situation look like that of David who was kept in the bush while others enjoyed at home, it’s an avenue to increase yourself not a ‘sorry/pity case’. Develop yourself with everything around you in that bush, in that condition and you will be preferred to others. You need to increase your intake so your output can be increased. Look around yourself, what do you need to develop, your marriage, your carrier, your ministry, your spiritual life, your academics or your life generally? Thank God it’s the end of the year, list out areas you need to work on yourself, stretch yourself beyond your limit, and see how far you will expand this coming year. Stop seeing reasons why it’s not possible, just determine to increase your capability and you will find yourself flying high, start developing yourself.

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.

“7. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”

Being the second day of our discussion on “How Do You Treat Yourself?”, you need to celebrate yourself, Yes, Celebrate your achievement and your accomplishments, don’t always be down when things go the other way, learn to celebrate yourself. Give yourself some break and make Merry. No matter how many times you’ve failed or fallen, find time and celebrate yourself because you are not a failure, you only discovered how things won’t work. 

We all read about King Solomon of Israel, with all His discoveries, He said vanity upon vanity is vanity but that doesn’t stop you from giving your self a treat once in a while. You don’t need to be rich like Solomon before celebrating, you don’t need a thousands of million Naira, Dollar or pounds sterling before celebrating, all you need is to give yourself some break from all the struggles, find a place and relax all your muscles, veins, and body system, get a lunch and a drink (Non alcoholic) to give yourself a treat. Rejoice as if nothing is troubling you, like a new baby who care not for how the next suckling will be provided. This will elongate your life the more and ease your body system. Stop the saying in Yoruba adage “Ojo ‘iku lojo isinmi” meaning “Until You’re Laid To Rest Till You get yourself a Rest” No, rest come when you decide to take it. Give yourself a break and celebrate yourself not until you achieved all you desires. Find time to celebrate yourself this season, you’ve been celebrating others; sending gifts and messages for their birthday and anniversary: no one will do it better for you except you do. Come on, let’s start celebrating ourselves in our little way.

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. And the second is like, namely this, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF. There is none other commandment greater than these.”

Our Lord Jesus revealed secrets that we need to know. One of the greatest things Jesus did was to give us two commandment while He was on earth which we, as Christians, hardly obey the two completely. Jesus said, in Mark 12:29-31  

“29. And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

31. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.”

We are to love three sets of People while on earth, we are to Love God First, secondly we are to love ourselves, and thirdly, we’re to love our neighbors. It’ll be very hard for us to completely obey the three, especially when we do the first, and leave out the second, hoping to do the third. We prove to love the Lord our God and then try to love our neighbours without loving ourselves First.

“THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.

You must first love yourself, i’m not talking about being Selfish, but what you desire for yourself should be what you desire for others. When you take good care of yourself that’s when you can do same to others. 

How do love yourself? If you love yourself you wouldn’t take what’s dangerous to health, you will stick to God’s commandment and instructions since they are for you. To love yourself is too avoid anything that will be detrimental to your life. Jesus said, …”Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself… If you don’t love yourself you can’t love your neighbour, you are just a pretender. Love yourself first before you can love others. It’s time we start loving ourselves before loving or showing love to others. Love Yourself.

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.

41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees,

43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, and said, “ There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”

44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”

Christians often pray and fast for positive prophecies to come to be but are we really sensitiveness to the timing and God’s move? Is your spiritual antenna active? Are we sensitive to know how He’s going to bring those prophecies to pass or we are praying and fasting without watching? Do you care to listen to His instructions? Are you acting on them, and is your response to his order complete or partial?

Elijah, received the prophecy, declared it to the King by faith and went on to pray about it fulfillment, and still, He was very sensitive as He was praying.

The sensitivity of Abraham was the reason he invited the angels of God home and fed them, How sensitive are we? Many of us due to lack of sensitivity has fought with our angels, burnt the bridge crossing to prophecies. If you are sensitive and consistent with God, there will be flow of relationship at every point. You will be in tune with the timing to the fulfilment of His promised. Sensitivity opens your eyes to opportunities, and makes you see obstacle as opportunity.

Be sensitive. Be on the look out. Don’t relegate anyone because anyone can be an instrument In the hand of God for the fulfillment of those Prophecies. Be sensitive to eradicate delay in prophecies in you life.

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.

41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 

43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, and said, “ There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.” 

44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”

45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

When God speaks, He meant every word He pronounced. 

Is. 55:10-11,says, 

“10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 

11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”

Whatever God has declared is what God is about to do.

You may want to ask, why then did Jesus said, We should ask? To ask is to keep reminding God what He has declared about us. It’s to let Him know we have trust in His word. To ask means to commune with him about His prophecies.

Elijah heard God clearly, 1 Kings 18:1, that He is about to send the rain after three years of drought. When Elijah finished with the prophet of Baal, He went to the mountain to pray about what God promised. I wondered what his prayer points were, just like,

“Father, do not put me to shame. I have declared as you’ve promised, Lord, bring it to pass.” “Establish your prophecies concerning the rain.”

God’s Prophecies doesn’t give us the mind of relaxation that all is well, We need to pray it to fulfillment. Elijah prayed with instant expectation and it became real.

We need to pray as if we are yet to receive the fulfillment of God’s Prophecies. He prayed by putting his head between his knee despite being a prophet of God. Are you praying those prophecies to pass? Are you relaxed, doing nothing about the fulfilment of God’s Prophecies and wet your pillow with tears? That won’t bring it to pass, you need to start praying to remind God of those prophecies about you until they are fulfilled.

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.

1 And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.

As Christian, when we study our Bible we need the Holy Spirit to reveal deeper than what is written in the Pages of the Holy Book. The Scripture is a folded book (mysteries) that need to be unfolded in other to get the necessary details, 

Ps. 119:130 says, The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. NIV

How did Sarah conceived? At old age, did she went for IVF? No. Despite their age, Ninety Nine years father Abraham needed to carry out his duty with Eighty Nine years mother Sarah for God’s prophecies to be fulfilled. They both would have allowed God to bring Isaac without taking the needed actions as Husband and wife. 

Zacharias, a priest, despite his unbeliever, still had to carryout his responsibility as a Husband before the promise was fulfilled.

Luke 1:23-25

“23 So it was, as soon as the days of his service were completed, that he departed to his own house.

24 Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, 

The promises wasn’t fulfilled while he was still on duty, No. He finished his duty and went home, “Now after many days …..,”, When he performed His duty to his wife, The promises of God was fulfilled.

What is that action you need to take? Who is that person you need to meet regardless of the obstacles? God’s promises is always wrapped in action. God’s promises never neglect our action, contributions and steps. Many sons and daughters need to reconcile with their parents for God’s promises to be fulfilled. Some spouses need to be humble regardless of their age or income before God bring His promises to past. Which action do you need to take? Who do you need to forgive? Which secret do you need to expose for things to get better? Start thinking about it. Take the action. Everything remain at rest until a force is applied, that force is the action to turn things around.

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.

“6. So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.”

7 And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

8 So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; And He Stood By Them Under The Tree As They Ate.”

At Ninety-nine years, Abraham wouldn’t have been able to perform any magic on Sarah to be pregnant at Eighty-Nine years. The promises of God was still standing even after Ismael was born to Abraham. One of the things that helped Abraham was the ability to Be In Expectation of God’s Prophecies.

From Genesis 18, Abraham’s expectation made him invite the Angels of God, in human form, to his house. His expectation made him served, and stood with them as they were eating, in order to hear what God will say again.

8 So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; And He Stood By Them Under The Tree As They Ate.

Expectation is as important as the promises of God. Expectation involves blessing people who has in them what you are expecting, It involves, liking and loving those thing you are expecting, and going closer to God daily. It also involves researching about the promises.

Acts 3:4-6

4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.” 

5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

Expectation involves your full attention on the one who made the promise. Many are expecting a job but sit at home without being on the look out. God is not a magician that will make a promise, still run around to establish the promise without our contributions, No. Study the word of God about His promises to you. Be expectant regardless of the years it takes. Committed Expectation Hastens His promises to come to pass.

I pray with you today, that promise of God will begin to manifest in Jesus Mighty Name. Your expectations will not be defeated in Jesus Mighty Name.

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.

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“1. Now, Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

3. And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.”

When we try things our own ways against God’s given instructions we seems to bring delayed to His Prophecies in our lives. God told Abraham many times that his wife, Sarah, will birth him a child which is the mind of God. But Abraham listened to Sarah’s idea as an alternative way of having a child. Abraham would have reminded Sarah what God said, that, she will still have a child of her own, or better still, Abraham would have seek the face of God on the matter but No, He took the alternative route given by His wife which led to the birth of Ismail but God rejected Him. After the birth of Ismail, there wasn’t any record of God speaking to Abraham until fourteen years later, Gen. 16:16 – Gen 17:1.

There was a great silence until God came looking for Abraham again in Genesis chapter 17:1, when Ismail was thirteen years of age. This was one reason why Abraham had Isaac at One Hundred years of age.

When we wait on God for his Prophecies, we need to exercise patience to receive the Prophecies. Don’t try the other way since God never gave you the instructions to do. Stay with God. Listen to Him for the next step. Don’t try short cut to God promises. His ways can only be His way, no other. Keep waiting for His Prophecies to be establish upon your life. Alternative means simply mean, I can’t wait for you. Don’t cause the reasons for your delay. May the Lord Strengthened us all to always wait for His Prophecies over our lives in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.

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.