God is in heaven and we are on earth , how do you think the view is from way up there ? .
From up there we are all materially tiny !! , just by looking you can hardly tell if someone owns a jeep or not or owns several houses or not , has money in his account and all other things that humans tend to be drawn to .
No matter how much material things you have , you must not get carried away , because from way up there it dosent matter one bit .
God's Jugdgement is fair and simple , he mets out deserving judgement regardless of social standing , professional and financial status .
Let him that thinks he stand take heed lest he fall . (1Corinthians 10:12)
The bible also says the feet of the wicked shall slide in due time . (Deuteronomy 32:35 )
God's Blessings !
Friday, October 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
GOD'S LIFE ACADEMY
There are two kinds of enrollment into Gods Academy . One is the regular while the other is fast track .
Students of the regular life academy are thought lessons of life in a more structured manner governed by a timetable . Students who have regular enrollment are usually identified by regular prayer time , regular bible study time and regular worship periods.
Another good thing about students with regualr enrollement is that they pay less fees for lessons learned.
In contrast , students in fast track institution usually have no time to pray , study the word , worship etc , members of this class tends to pay more for lessons learned. The lessons are also harder than the students of regular enrollment.
Students of the regular life academy are thought lessons of life in a more structured manner governed by a timetable . Students who have regular enrollment are usually identified by regular prayer time , regular bible study time and regular worship periods.
Another good thing about students with regualr enrollement is that they pay less fees for lessons learned.
In contrast , students in fast track institution usually have no time to pray , study the word , worship etc , members of this class tends to pay more for lessons learned. The lessons are also harder than the students of regular enrollment.
Friday, February 25, 2011
THE CIRCLE OF FOCUS FORMULA
The circle of focus is a formula i created to keep me focused in life , the precision of the circle can increase or decrease with time . Precision is measured by the amount of points in that circle , so the more points you have the more precise the circle is and vice versa.
The way it works is simple , i currently have four things or points that make up the circle
1) God , 2) Family , 3) Career 4) a couple of friends
The more time i spend within this circle the more focused i am , so the amount of time i spend within the circle serves as my yardstick for focus .
Outside this circle are all kinds of distractions that we face in the world today , so the more time i spend outside the circle the more distracted i become .
Because focus is very key in life and because i believe so much in formulas :) , this formula was created to help me maintain focus in life , this formula can be freely applied or you can devise a formula that works for you .
It is high time we set our faces like flints
Isaiah 50:7 , For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
The way it works is simple , i currently have four things or points that make up the circle
1) God , 2) Family , 3) Career 4) a couple of friends
The more time i spend within this circle the more focused i am , so the amount of time i spend within the circle serves as my yardstick for focus .
Outside this circle are all kinds of distractions that we face in the world today , so the more time i spend outside the circle the more distracted i become .
Because focus is very key in life and because i believe so much in formulas :) , this formula was created to help me maintain focus in life , this formula can be freely applied or you can devise a formula that works for you .
It is high time we set our faces like flints
Isaiah 50:7 , For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
TEST BEFORE TESTIMONY
I feel led to tell everyone today that God is about to turn every sorrow we may be going through to testimonies , pain to gain , beauty for ashes , gladness for morning , peace for despair(Isa 61:3) as long as we look to him alone as the source of our strength.
Like David said in Psalm 121:1 , i will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help . If we completely and truly look unto God there is no way that we can simultaneously look to man for help as well , God hates double standards , thats why he said we cant serve God and mammon. It is either him or no deal .
When you look to God , he can make the forces of nature men and women inclusive to be positioned to meet your need . Most breakthroughs i have encountered in life have not come by believing in any man for anything because i have realized man frailty and weakness and i have recognized superior strength of the only wise God.
My prayer today is that God uses this month as transit into greater opportunities and blessings for us all . Amen
Like David said in Psalm 121:1 , i will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help . If we completely and truly look unto God there is no way that we can simultaneously look to man for help as well , God hates double standards , thats why he said we cant serve God and mammon. It is either him or no deal .
When you look to God , he can make the forces of nature men and women inclusive to be positioned to meet your need . Most breakthroughs i have encountered in life have not come by believing in any man for anything because i have realized man frailty and weakness and i have recognized superior strength of the only wise God.
My prayer today is that God uses this month as transit into greater opportunities and blessings for us all . Amen
Monday, February 7, 2011
RIGHT PLACE , RIGHT TIME WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Psalm 37:23 - the steps of the righteous man are ordered by God.
If we want to be where God wants us to be as Christians , we must learn to allow God order our steps . God has been teaching me this lesson over the past few years and i feel it is necessary to share this secrets with you.
We can walk by hard-work , run by principles but we can only soar and fly by direction from the almighty.
Every thing i have done on my own leading has always led to failure but anything i do that is approved by God always ends up well.
In Ecclesiastes 9:11 , God revealed to me the importance of being at the right place at the right time .
It is very important that we understand this mystery so that we position ourselves for the great things that God has set in store for us this year , because God said we should remember not the former things , neither should we consider the things of old , because he will do a new thing.
In today's world , excellence is no longer a function of skill alone but it is also a function of being at the right place at the right time (time and chance factor) .
One may look at that scripture and say that it contradicts principles like hard-work , determination , perseverance etc , honestly this was my first reaction as well , but what this scripture is saying is apart from skill , understanding and pace that you have , you also need Gods divine positioning to be at the right place and right time .
Mant CEOs , top business executives and other top individuals understand this principle and they are thriving in it , many of the aforementioned people are not better then you in terms of skill and wit , but they have been divinely positioned .
Prayer : Oh God , help me to be at the right place at the right time and meeting the right people . (Pray this with so much passion )
If we want to be where God wants us to be as Christians , we must learn to allow God order our steps . God has been teaching me this lesson over the past few years and i feel it is necessary to share this secrets with you.
We can walk by hard-work , run by principles but we can only soar and fly by direction from the almighty.
Every thing i have done on my own leading has always led to failure but anything i do that is approved by God always ends up well.
In Ecclesiastes 9:11 , God revealed to me the importance of being at the right place at the right time .
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 is very important that we understand this mystery so that we position ourselves for the great things that God has set in store for us this year , because God said we should remember not the former things , neither should we consider the things of old , because he will do a new thing.
In today's world , excellence is no longer a function of skill alone but it is also a function of being at the right place at the right time (time and chance factor) .
One may look at that scripture and say that it contradicts principles like hard-work , determination , perseverance etc , honestly this was my first reaction as well , but what this scripture is saying is apart from skill , understanding and pace that you have , you also need Gods divine positioning to be at the right place and right time .
Mant CEOs , top business executives and other top individuals understand this principle and they are thriving in it , many of the aforementioned people are not better then you in terms of skill and wit , but they have been divinely positioned .
Prayer : Oh God , help me to be at the right place at the right time and meeting the right people . (Pray this with so much passion )
Friday, January 28, 2011
TRIALS BEFORE TRIUMPH
Text : Genesis 37,39-40
Life is full of challenges and trials , you cant run away from it even if you decide to live as an island or a even of you are a saint , challenges will surely come , people will gang up against you .
Whether you like it or not people will always want to bring you down whether you are the number one saint in the world , so it is high time that we understood this and prepare effectively for battle.
Taking the story of Joseph for example , he was always ganged up against because he had a glorious destiny ahead of him .
His brothers sold him into slavery at a very young age , this was the beginning of the trials and betrayals that will eventually lead to him taking his throne as a king.
In potiphars house he was wrongfully accused of rape , and was sent to prison for three years .
He was betrayed by the butler in the prison and the story goes on and on.
He was later released from prison and assumed his role as second in command after potiphar.
No matter what has been said about you wrongly , God will eventually use your life for his glory and to the shame of the devil if you continue to trust in him.
There are two approaches to handle this kind of situation:
1) Pray for you enemies , show love to them .
2) Pray the prayer of David in Psalm 109
You use option 2 when your enemies have refused to repent . Take time to read Psalm 109.
God bless you.
Life is full of challenges and trials , you cant run away from it even if you decide to live as an island or a even of you are a saint , challenges will surely come , people will gang up against you .
Whether you like it or not people will always want to bring you down whether you are the number one saint in the world , so it is high time that we understood this and prepare effectively for battle.
Taking the story of Joseph for example , he was always ganged up against because he had a glorious destiny ahead of him .
His brothers sold him into slavery at a very young age , this was the beginning of the trials and betrayals that will eventually lead to him taking his throne as a king.
In potiphars house he was wrongfully accused of rape , and was sent to prison for three years .
He was betrayed by the butler in the prison and the story goes on and on.
He was later released from prison and assumed his role as second in command after potiphar.
No matter what has been said about you wrongly , God will eventually use your life for his glory and to the shame of the devil if you continue to trust in him.
There are two approaches to handle this kind of situation:
1) Pray for you enemies , show love to them .
2) Pray the prayer of David in Psalm 109
You use option 2 when your enemies have refused to repent . Take time to read Psalm 109.
God bless you.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
PICTURE OF A PROPHET
I came across this message and i thought i share it everyone , from this message being a prophet is not as as rosy at it seems these days , its almost like we have no prophets !
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, “No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected.” The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his “brand name.”
The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him “Man of the year” when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan!
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, “has almost always been that of recovery.”
The prophet is God’s detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him.
He has no price tags.
He is totally “otherworldly.”
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
He marches to another drummer!
He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
He is a “seer” who comes to lead the blind.
He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a “thus saith
the Lord.”
He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of
impending judgment.
He lives in “splendid isolation.”
He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
His message is “repent, be reconciled to God or else…!”
His prophecies are parried.
His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with
epitaphs when dead.
He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few “make the grade” in his class.
He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint
by posterity.
He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of
Life to those who listen.
He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
He talks to men about God.
He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in
the marketplace.
He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
He is ordained of God but disdained by men.
Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet!
I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the “seven years of plenty” are over for us. The “seven years of famine” are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11).
Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. “Come-outers” have “come out” and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation. BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality?
GOD’S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH. They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history.
There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.
Let him be as plain as John the Baptist.
Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and
stagnant “churchianity.”
Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle.
Let him, too, say and live, “This ONE thing I do.”
Let him reject ecclesiastical favors.
Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous,
nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting.
Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move
men to God.
Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has
received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the
clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.
Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision
no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the
wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where
enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.
God have mercy! Send us PROPHETS!
Copyright (C) 1994 by Leonard Ravenhill, Lindale Texas – http://www.ravenhill.org/
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, “No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected.” The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his “brand name.”
The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him “Man of the year” when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan!
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality. In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, “has almost always been that of recovery.”
The prophet is God’s detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him.
He has no price tags.
He is totally “otherworldly.”
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.
He marches to another drummer!
He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration.
He is a “seer” who comes to lead the blind.
He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a “thus saith
the Lord.”
He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of
impending judgment.
He lives in “splendid isolation.”
He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright.
His message is “repent, be reconciled to God or else…!”
His prophecies are parried.
His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void.
He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.
He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead!
He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with
epitaphs when dead.
He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few “make the grade” in his class.
He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint
by posterity.
He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of
Life to those who listen.
He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years.
He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation.
He announces, pronounces, and denounces!
He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire.
He talks to men about God.
He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men.
He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing.
He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in
the marketplace.
He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity.
He is ordained of God but disdained by men.
Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet!
I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the “seven years of plenty” are over for us. The “seven years of famine” are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11).
Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. “Come-outers” have “come out” and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation. BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality?
GOD’S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH. They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history.
There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.
Let him be as plain as John the Baptist.
Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and
stagnant “churchianity.”
Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle.
Let him, too, say and live, “This ONE thing I do.”
Let him reject ecclesiastical favors.
Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous,
nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting.
Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move
men to God.
Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has
received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the
clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism.
Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision
no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the
wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where
enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.
God have mercy! Send us PROPHETS!
Copyright (C) 1994 by Leonard Ravenhill, Lindale Texas – http://www.ravenhill.org/
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