You Are Loaded – Too Loaded!

This morning I continue my thoughts from yesterday. If you missed that, check it here. You had better believed that statement. Look at these scriptures. It will blow your mind to think that all these refer to you.

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, than he that is in the world.” (I John 4:4)

“But WE HAVE THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)

“The kingdom of God comes not with outward observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or Lo there! for, behold, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.” (Luke 17:20-21)

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to THE POWER THAT WORKS IN US.” (Ephesians 3:20)

“But THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.” (Job 32:8)

“Therefore I remind you that you stir up THE GIFT OF GOD WHICH IS IN YOU…”
(2 Timothy 1:6)

(All scriptures are taken from the King James 2000 Version of the Bible. All emphases mine.)

You are too loaded to fail! I challenge you today: Release your potential and be a blessing to your world. Don’t die with your music still in you. You will succeed!

YOU ARE SPECIAL!

You are special. Has anyone ever told you that before?

You are special! Your life is too important and your heritage too great to ever be compromised!

You have a peculiar destiny. Your origin is divine (Genesis 1:26).

You are a creature of purpose (Romans 8:28) and of an infinite, unquantifiable value.

Your biological inheritance goes back in an unbroken line to the first man – Adam – created in the image of God (Luke 3:23-38).

You are fearfully made. You are wonderfully crafted (Psalm 139:14). You are the crown jewel of God’s creation – a unique specimen of divine glory!

You are one of a kind. There is nobody else like you. Amongst all the 7.1 billion people on the face of planet earth today, there is only one YOU! Your DNA proves this. Your thumb print confirms it.

You are original. Why die being an inferior copy of another. Even if you try, the best you’ll be is second best. Be uniquely you, for in that you’ve got no competition. And on that path, you’ll know no struggles.

Accept your destiny. All of your experiences have brought you to this grand moment in history. All of creation waits your unveiling (Romans 8:18-23). Manifest! Show forth!

Acknowledge your heritage. Celebrate yourself. Or nobody else will. YOU WILL SUCCEED!

THINKING ABOUT PRAYERLESSNESS…

Prayerlessness is the worst sin.
Prayerlessness will lead to godlessness.
Prayerlessness will result in lost vision.
Prayerless men will replace praying with playing.
Prayerlessness is a disaster. It results in selfishness.

“Men ought always to pray and not to faint,” Jesus said. (See Luke 18:1)

“Pray without ceasing,” Paul admonished. (See 1 Thessalonians 5:17)

Pray when you feel like it.

Pray also, when you don’t feel like praying, for that is even when you need it the most.

Pray even if it’s only a shout for “help!” from God. Prayer is your breath. It is the believer’s staff enabling him to walk with God in the world.

Dear friend, PRAY, PRAY, and PRAY! I think it would be okay if I wish you this: “Have a prayerful weekend.” You will succeed!

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PERFECTION IS ATTAINABLE!

Perfection is attainable! To assert its impossibility is to deny the validity of the claims of Christ’s work on the cross.

When He hung on the cross, my old self was crucified and the body of sin done away with. I can now live without sin. Perfection is attainable!

When Christ hung upon the cross, He took all my sicknesses. He carried my sorrows and by His stripes I have been healed. I will no longer be sick. Perfection is attainable!

At the cross, Jesus being rich became poor that I through His poverty might become rich. I am no longer poor! I am rich! Perfection is attainable!

Perfection is attainable. It is not open to debate. To even doubt the possibility is to assert yet its impossibility! I am on my way to perfection. Sin shall no more have dominion over me. Sickness shall not exert over me any longer. I have riches, all through the One who loved me enough to die for me. PERFECTION IS ATTAINABLE!

I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY!

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

This thought came to my mind earlier this afternoon while on the way to picking my son from school. If you’ve been following my blog here you’ll notice I haven’t made any post in about a week now. It’s not for want of something to say but of saying something that will be a blessing to my readers. I’ve always believed that you should talk only when you have something to say, not just because you have to say something!

I think in these days and with various social media platforms – facebook, twitter, myspace etc – we have to re-learn how not to talk unless there is something important or beneficial to say. We have to learn afresh to resist the urge to talk for talking sake. We should speak to bless lives. The Scriptures put it this way: “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt…. (something) good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.” [Colossians 4:6a; Ephesians 4:29b]

If you’re feeling me on this, you might also enjoy this post I wrote earlier in the year, TURN OFF THE TAP! YOU WILL SUCCEED!

CHANGE DOES NOT TAKE TIME!

Have you always wondered why it is that you want to do something and it does not happen right away? How is it that we wish or pray for something and it just does not manifest right away? If you do, you are not alone, we all do. I think I have an answer, follow me:

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.” (John 8:31-32, emphasis mine)

This often quoted statement of Jesus led me to conclude that CHANGE DOES NOT TAKE TIME, IT TAKES THE TRUTH. That is, the change from poor to rich, from sick to healthy, from mediocre to excellent is not really a function of time but of truth. When you know the truth; (that is, once truth is sown into your mind in seed form – as a thought) your change has begun.

Nobody really changes with time (except for physical growth), we change only when we change the information streaming into our lives! This submission places the responsibility on you for regulating, qualifying and controlling the information that comes into your mind.

For this people’s HEART is waxed gross, and their EARS are dull of HEARING, and their EYES they have closed; lest at any time they should SEE with their eyes, and HEAR with their EARS, and should UNDERSTAND with their HEART and should be CONVERTED, and I should HEAL them. (Matthew 13:15, emphasis mine)

Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:9; “But as it is written, EYE hath not SEEN, nor EAR HEARD, neither have ENTERED INTO THE HEART of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

The conclusion from these two scriptures is this:

1. Whatever you hear or see consistently over a long period of time will enter your heart. You’ll start to BELIEVE it and then begin to BEHAVE it until you BECOME it!

2. Whatever has entered your heart has entered your life. Conversely too, whatever has not entered your heart cannot enter your life.

3. What you cannot see happen, what you do not believe can happen to you will never become a reality in your life. But if you can dream it, you can do it. If it happens in your mind, it will happen in time, in your life! Whatever the mind of man can believe and conceive, his hands can achieve!

You shall know the truth and the truth, not time shall CHANGE your life! You will succeed!

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Philippians 3:8, 10 (Amplified Bible)
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…”

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What better way is there to say it? You were blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:2)

THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

Faith is holding as true, the reality of what I believe God for (knowing that He has done it for me); and holding in an atmosphere of expectancy the evidence that it is done even though I as yet cannot see it. – A personal paraphrase of Hebrews 11:1

LET GO OF WHATEVER MAKES YOU STOP!

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…” (Hebrews 12:1 NKJV)

In life, it’s inevitable that you meet with hindrances, cogs in the wheels of your progress – inhibitions that makes you stop! And I am saying today: LET GO OF WHATEVER MAKES YOU STOP!

The J. B. Phillips translation of the New Testament puts the above scripture this way: “Surrounded then as we are by these serried ranks of witnesses, let us strip off everything that hinders us, as well as the sin which dogs our feet…”

Let go of whatever makes you stop! Strip it off. Now!

Inhibitions are weights, snares, hindrances to fulfilling our divine destiny, don’t give it room! Destroy your inhibitions!

Some relationships will ground you, get out of it!

Some habit(s) will frustrate your purpose, let go of it (them)!

Hatred, resentment, unforgiveness (call it by whatever name), is a sinker. Don’t let it sink you!

Sin sinks! I repeat: Sin is a sinker! Don’t allow it. Only fools make a mockery of sin! (Proverbs 14:9) Sin sunk Samson! It sunk Gehazi. It killed Achan. Run for your life!

Procrastination is a habit which easily besets us all. You please yourself temporarily at the expense of achieving your goals. The truth is, as Christopher Parker said, “Procrastination is like a credit card, it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.” Let go of it!

Attempting to do more all in a bid to please some other people at the expense of your core purpose in life will not get you far. Stop it! I may not know the formula for success but the simplest way to be a failure is to try to please everybody!

Or you try to please people at the expense of God? Trying to fulfill the expectations of men without recourse to God’s demands over your life? Let go of that too, now! I may not know the secret of failure but one sure way is to try not to offend anybody!

Let go of whatever makes you stop!

So, what other things do you know that can hinder us that we need to let go of? Please share. YOU WILL SUCCEED!