THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

A person whose dreams do not go beyond the personal comfort of the present is as pathetic as a person without dreams at all.
– Kim Woo-Chong, founder, Daewoo Corporation

A PRAYER FOR MY PARTNERS

“Lord, I ask that for every soul won to Christ; for every sick body healed, in fact, for every one life touched by my ministry; let it also be credited to each of my friend’s account in your books. Let his/her seeds come up for a memorial before you.” Amen!

Partners, you may never know how much your commitment and consistent giving and prayerful support means to us in this ministry. Thanks and God bless you. You will not miss your reward! There’s yet more grounds to cover. Let’s do it! Shalom!

MINISTRY REPORT

God gave confirmation to the Word of His grace on the ministry trip to the city of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, this last weekend. In three (3) churches I preached six (6) services over four (4) days. Thank God for all the wonderful things He’s done in the life of His precious people. To Him alone be all the glory.

Thank you, dear friend and partner for making it happen together with God. We appreciate your prayerful support and financial commitment to this ministry. God bless you!

And a big shout out to our hosts and host churches:

Pastor Akinyemi Davids of Global Impact Church, Surulere, Lagos;

Pastor Samuel Oyeleke, Area Pastor, Redeemed Christian Church of God, God’s Power Area, Lagos Province XI, Ojo-Alaba, Lagos;

And Pastor Seyi Olawumi of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Throne of Grace, Surulere.

These are wonderful churches with great and anointed men of God. God bless and increase your ministries, sirs! It’s an honour to be associated with you. For more pictures from these meetings, please see my facebook profile.

God bless you!

YOU WILL GET THERE! (Part 6)

Here we are at last! The last post in this series.

Change Your Confession

You not only need to change your inner picture to so get there from here, you need to do one more thing: The words of your mouth have to line up with what you believe God for in your heart.

WHAT ARE YOU SPEAKING? You can’t talk unbelief and get faith results.

Ezekiel had to prophesy as he was commanded (Ezekiel 37:10). You are the prophet of your own life. You must keep speaking what you believe. Every man would eat ‘good’ by the fruit of his mouth (Proverbs 13:2). So keep speaking good things about your dream seed.

God created His own world by His Words. So it is with you. Create your world by your words. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.” (Hebrews 11:3) Prophesy your future into manifestation. You have sown seeds of labour, money etc. into your dream project. Now water those seeds by speaking positive words of faith over them. Call it forth. Speak ‘there’ into being. “Calling forth those things that be not as though they existed.”

Don’t you mind detractors. They will mock your ‘seeing’ and will despise your ‘talking’, but in a matter of time you will so get there from here! And you shall have the last laugh. Amen!

You will surely hear a noise and a shaking (like Ezekiel did in verse 7.) Heaven is cooking up a miracle for you. Faith does not bow to facts because faith is superior to facts. YOU WILL SO GET THERE FROM HERE!

YOU WILL SUCCEED!

For the earlier posts in this series:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

YOU WILL GET THERE! (Part 5)

Change Your Inner Picture
You will have to ‘see’ yourself there, if you will get there from here. (Proverbs 23:7) What you see is what you get. I’m talking of your inner picture-your imagination.

“And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?” (Ezekiel 37:3)
God was trying to change Ezekiel’s imagination. ‘Can these bones live?’ That is, “Can you see what I’m seeing?” God seems to be saying, “I’m seeing an exceeding great army, can you see the same thing?”

If you see yourself there, it’s a matter of time, you will get there! Change your imagination and you’ll change your life. If you can only change your inner picture, your world will change! It’s a matter of time. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so he will be.” (Proverbs 23:7 KJV)

Abraham is a classic example. For many years he couldn’t see the fulfillment of God’s promises on his life. He went to God and complained, ‘Oh God I’m going to die childless.’ But God knew his problem. He changed his inner picture. He asked Abraham to number the stars. And count the sand by the seashore – that would be the number of his descendants. And Abraham did, till he couldn’t number the stars for many and he could see his progenies. His imagination changed and it was a matter of time before his life changed.

You too can get there. You can alter the course of your life for good. See yourself ‘there’. You cannot go beyond the point where you can see yourself. How far you see is how far you will go. It is possible in the realms of your imagination – for it is not limited by space or by time neither by money. We live in a dreamer’s world, friend. Imagine yourself there, and you will so get there from here!

YOU WILL GET THERE (Part 4)

Now I continue this series of posts: YOU WILL GET THERE!

Divide and Conquer
What really is your situation? Are you in a quandary? Or you are in a valley full of dry bones? Ezekiel was. And these very dry bones were to become an exceeding great army. How possible? How will it happen?

“No problem is ever a problem,’ Dr. Robert Schuller noted. “It’s a collection of few or many problems. Separate ‘the problem’ into smaller problems. As you divide, you will conquer. That is the classic strategy of winning any battle.” A great problem is a composite of smaller ones. You will need to take them apart and solve them one by one.

Ezekiel had to first call the tendons to join bone to bone; then flesh (tissues) to cover up the bones; followed by skin to cover the muscles. And then breath entered them and the army stood on its feet.

Nobody really has a money problem or marital problem or career problem; it’s always a wisdom problem. And when wisdom will be delivered to you by God, it will be communicated via an idea. And how do you generate an idea:

One, you can pray in ideas. “Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened… How much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (Matthew 7:7-8,11b KJ2000)

James 1:5-6 goes further to say, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.”

Take delivery of ideas in the place of prayer. Pray in wisdom. And if you ask me how to pray that kind of prayer, I’ll tell you: Hold the picture in your mind and pray in the spirit. Whatever ideas come into your mind after you’ve sincerely prayed is God’s solution to your predicament, follow it.

Two, you can sit for ideas. Call it brainstorming. Thomas Edison advised setting apart a time daily to think. Sit down and think through. Meditate the Word – turn it over in your mind. As you do, inspiration comes showing you the way out of your impasse.

“But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying…” (Matthew 1:20)

Stop worrying. Start thinking the Word and the solution will come. David said, “My heart was hot within me, while I was meditating the fire burned (the inspiration came; an idea was delivered): then spoke I with my tongue.” [Psalm 39:3, parentheses mine]

Three, cultivate quietness and serenity. Thomas Carlyle said, “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.” You may not get the voice of God until you’re quiet in your soul. Remember Elijah. [1 Kings 19:11-12] Get that idea, it’s all you need. (To Be Continued)

Other posts in this series:
Part One; Part Two; Part Three.

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege – the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, of perceiving and recognizing and understanding him more fully and clearly. For his sake I lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ, the Anointed One.

(For my determined purpose is) that I may know Him – that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding (the wonders of His person) more strongly and more clearly. And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection (which it exerts over believers); and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed (in spirit into his likeness even) to his death…”

(Philippians 3:8, 10 Amplified)

YOU WILL GET THERE! (Part 3)

There are seven things I want to suggest you can possibly do to your mountains:

1. Cast It Into The Sea.
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” (Mark 11:23)

Remove your mountain completely, if it can be done. If it’s a financial debacle, can a gift or a loan remove it? Raise the money. Plus, you can move mountains (of whatever kind) by the power of faith through prayer, and fasting if need be.

2. Level It Into A Plain
“Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubabbel thou shalt become a plain…” (Zechariah 4:7) For “every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.” (Isaiah 40:4)

You can reduce the effect your predicament has on you. Choose to be better not bitter, allowing your mountain to make not mar you. For instance, positive association can minimize the negative affect (limitation) of lack of education. He that walks with wise men shall be wise. (Proverbs 13:20)

3. Find A Way Up Your Mountain
You can climb over your mountain. It may be tortuous or arduous but it is possible.

4. Find A Way Around It
There is a way your mountain could be bypassed or avoided. It may be longer but it sure is a solution.

5. Burrow A Tunnel Through It!
The way out is going through! Endure it till you come out triumphantly. Don’t back off your dream because of a supposed mountain. DON’T SURRENDER LEADERSHIP TO YOUR MOUNTAIN. The shoe doesn’t tell the foot how big it should grow! You are tougher than your tough times.

6. Stay Put and Dig It Into A Mine!
If you will explore it, I believe there is a possibility hidden away in your problem. There is a message in your mess! You can market your disadvantages. If it’s a disability, discover the ABILITY in it.

That’s what Helen Keller did. Though blind, deaf and dumb from 19 months old, she yet impacted her generation. There are albinos who despite negative societal perceptions became successful in their different chosen careers? And there are dwarves who that’s their unique advantage in the film industry. You can mine your problems. And if all these fails,

7. Fence Your Mountain and Turn It Into A Tourist Attraction
You might make money from it. When life throws you a lemon, make lemonade out of it.

To read the earlier posts in this series, see the 1st here and the 2nd here. You will succeed!

YOU WILL GET THERE! (Part 2)

Let me continue from where I stopped yesterday. (If you want to read the earlier post in this series, check here.)

Are You Faced With A Mountain?

Let me admit that facing a mountain or whatever looks like one is never a funny experience. But I’m yet to see a mountain that grows bigger in size except your view of it. Your mountain can’t grow bigger but you can! I challenge you today, therefore, to outgrow your problems. You are tougher than your tough times, so hold your ground.

Face up to your mountain.

Don’t give in to INTIMIDATION. Say to yourself, ‘I am more than this’. ‘With God on my side I can handle this.’

ESCAPE is no solution. Don’t play the ostrich. Wishing the problem away will not make it go away. Alcoholism is only a temporary escape from a permanent problem. And suicide won’t help you, because it is a permanent solution to a temporary predicament. Pain passes. Mountains do shift. Barriers do become bridges. But it’s only one who is tougher than his/her tough times that lives to tell the story.

RESIGNATION is neither the answer. Fate is a cemetery of great dreams stalled by despair and hopelessness. Don’t give up on God for He isn’t quitting on you. Don’t resign to fate. Things can be better than they are and they will surely be. I say to you in the name of Jesus, YOU WILL GET THERE!

WORDS TO LIVE BY

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job 32:8 KJV

Receive that inspiration of the Almighty NOW!