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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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…”

THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

God needs manpower
And man needs God’s power
But God works
Only when man works –
The work of praying
For, when man works,
Man works
But when man prays,
God works!

THE TOP 7 BLOG POSTS OF 2012

As I celebrate the 150th post on this blog I want to appreciate you my dear friend for hanging out with me. For those who have taken the time to do that, I have enjoyed and been blessed by your comments. It’s such a joy. The greatest fulfillment of a writer is having readers. And for that privilege I’m most grateful.

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The first quarter of 2012 is almost at a close, and at this blog I am taking stock of blog posts from the beginning of the year to find out what topics and issues ministered most to you.

So, here we go, these are the Top Seven Blog Posts of the year 2012 thus far:

1. 5 Things I Wish Every Christian Leader Be Reminded Of (1-5)
2. 25 Things I Refuse
3. 7 Keys to Maximizing 2012
4. What Will Be Your Legacy?
5. 7 Good Habits (of A Champion) You Should Cultivate
6. The Greatest General of All Time
7. If You Are Willing To Do These 5 Things Success Would Be Easy

Thank you for staying with me. You will succeed!

You can find the pictures from my recent meetings in Jaji, Kaduna, Nigeria here on my facebook profile. Thanks!

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!

WORDS TO LIVE BY

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. (Proverbs 22:1 KJV)

I WANT TO LIVE LONG. WHAT OF YOU?

I don’t know about you, but I want to live long and healthy. If Christ tarries I would like to live well into my eighties and nineties still enjoying God and my family, living life and fulfilling my destiny.

I love the testimony of John Wesley, the 18th century revivalist, evangelist and founder of Methodism who lived to be 88 years. At age 86, he still embarked on a nine (9) week preaching tour, preaching an estimated 100 sermons in 60 towns and villages. He said, “For above 86 years, I found none of the infirmities of old age; my eyes did not wax dim, neither was my natural strength abated.”

When he turned eighty-five (85), he (Wesley) attributed his good health to the following as he recorded it in his journal:

1. To my constant exercise and change of air (EXERCISE)
2. To my never having lost a night’s sleep, sick or well, at land or at sea, since I was born. (GOOD SLEEP)
3. To my having sleep at command so that, whenever I feel myself almost worn out, I call it and it comes day or night. (REST and RELAXATION at FREQUENT INTERVALS. CALLING A REGULAR “TIME-OUT” IN YOUR SCHEDULE.)
4. To my having constantly for over sixty years risen at four in the morning. (DISCIPLINE and a GREAT DEVOTIONAL LIFE.)
5. To my constant preaching at five in the morning, for above fifty years. (HARD WORK and DILIGENCE)
6. To my having had so little pain in my life, and so little sorrow or anxious care. (NO ANXIETY NOR WORRIES)

Watch your health. You might have heard it said, and it’s true: When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. But when health is lost, all is lost! Do not end up like Robert Murray McCheyne the famed Scottish missionary who on his death bed at the tender age of twenty-nine dying of exhaustion, lamented, “God gave me a message to deliver and a horse to ride. Alas, I have killed the horse, and I cannot deliver the message!”

I do not just want to shine, I want to last. Selah! YOU WILL SUCCEED!

Join me and Let Us Pray John Knox’s Last Prayer

John Knox was the great Scottish reformer who lived in the 16th century. I’ve been studying his life again lately, and how greatly I have been blessed and encouraged to stand for the truth of God’s Word in my own generation as he did for his. His heart cry was, “Lord, give me Scotland or I die!” As he neared the very end of his eventful life one of his prayers was this that I repeat below. Would you please join me and let us pray:

“Lord, grant us faithful pastors, men who will preach and teach, in season and out of season. Lord, give us men who would gladly preach their next sermon even if it meant going to the stake for it. Lord, give us men who will hate all falsehood and lies, whether in the church or out of it. Lord, grant to Your struggling church men who fear You above all.”

Can I hear your resounding “Amen!”