The secret of living in Contentment

THE SECRET OF LIVING IN CONTENTMENT

LUKE 12:13-31

Lots of people lose their health trying to become wealthy and later lose their wealth trying to get their health, as a child of God, you must avoid this demonic trap. Heaven is today trying to draw your attention to the power and secret of contentment. Life is an eternal struggle. It is good to have money and the things money can buy, but it is better to regularly make sure that you do not lose the things money cannot buy.
Money is a universal provider of everything except happiness. Be reminded again that money can buy mansion but not peace and security. Money can buy a bed but not sleep. It can also buy delicious foods but not appetite- there are thousands of rich people who are in hospitals but cannot eat. Money can buy medicine but not healing, remember doctors die too.

Pursue contentment at all levels. Learn never to pursue money to the detriment of your daily quiet time, your weekly local church fellowships or your Christian integrity. Luke 12:15 says that “take heed and beware for a man’s life does not consist the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Did you get that? Contentment is when your earning power equals your yearning power. When you can think of your yesterday without regrets and tomorrow without fear or anxiety, then you are near real contentment. Enjoy what you have and refuse to worry about what you don’t have.

John ray did say, “diseases are the prices we pay on uncontrolled pleasures.” This shouldn’t be your portion this year in the name of Jesus, Amen. Dwell in contentment for as long as there is life, there is hope. Godliness with contentment is a secret of successful people. Seek it every day of your life.

Do not forget to look up to Jesus, for the fulfilment of our daily desires

PRAYER
Thank God for your glorious future. Paralyse all demonic forces working against your career.  

Faith clinic - Digging through that roof

FAITH CLINIC
DIG THROUGH THAT ROOF


MARK 2:1-12

When the great William Grace, founder of the Grace shipping line and ex-mayor of New York was asked the secret of his outstanding success, he quickly said, “the secret of success is stick-to-it-iveness, industry and strict attention to the main object at hand.”

When General Grant, who fought at the battles of Fort and Shiloh, USA, was asked to comment on how his troops won, he said, “I thought I was going to fail, but I kept right on.” What a lesson. It is this keep right on that wins the battles of life. I remember that it has been written that there is nothing new under the sun-Eccl 1:9. What this means is that someone has conquered whatever you are passing through or will pass through in this life at one time or the other before. No problem can paralyse you except you give up so soon. Every problem in your life has been given an expiry date by your God- The God that can expire all things without expiring.
That battle confronting you has been instructed in the spirit world on how long it must stay. It is definitely not forever and you won’t expire with it. The slow penny in God’s will is surer than the quick dollar in man. The slow trotter will out travel the fleet racer. It is the grace of God.

The scripture reference above renders that when they could not come close to him (Jesus), the opened the roof. The amplified version says they dug through the roof.
They dug through. Digging is tough. Waiting is tough. But listen child of God. The way is always through. Yes. There is always a way out of every battle. Find it. Refuse to give up. Assuming these men saw the crowd and gave up, satan would have rejoiced. But they knew that,

yes, the crowd of problems may temporarily block the face of the master, but stubborn determination and persistence will open the roof for the shower of manifestation. Yes, every obstacle has an opportunity, and every opportunity has an obstacle, but never forget that for every crowd of delay or disappointment, there is a roof of appointment. Patience will show you that roof.
All the men who the world called geniuses like Isaac Newton, owe all their greatness to abnormal and aggressive patience, stubborn determination and faith in God. Hold on, the last battle could mean your victory. Dig through that roof because this could be your year of great open doors. Amen.

Boast only in Christ and shore up your faith

PRAYER

Lord, grant me the grace to hold on and wait for you when necessary, Amen.

GOD IS NEVER WRONG

GOD IS NEVER WRONG


ROMANS 8:28
PSALMS 46:1-11

If the time comes that all hell is let loose against you and you are thrown into your burning furnace, just know that God will never take anything away from you without giving you something better. The battle he allows is to mould you into the kind of person you should be. Jeremiah 29:11 says “for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

God will never ask you to become a wrong kind of person to do the right kind of things. God can never be wrong, his ways are perfect and farther than your brain can imagine. Just believe that when the best things are going wrong, God will always be there to make you strong. As you journey through life, have faith in God.


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 When people hurt you, God will heal you. When you people humiliate you, God will magnify you. When people judge you, God will justify you. Have faith in God because he is never wrong. Life is like a camera. Focus on what is important, capture the good times. Develop from the negatives, and if things delay and don’t work out, take another shot and you will know at last that God is never wrong. Resist fear for everything you want in life is on the other side of fear (Jack Canfield)

Don’t allow depression, self-pity, inferiority complex, self-comparison, suicide thoughts etc. to master your mind. In your battle front, be still and know that he is God. Drown in your tears if you may, but you are swimming out at last if you wait on him because God is never wrong. Something great is in the making for you.
PRAYER
Lord, through the many zig-zags and twists of life, lead me to that expected end of my destiny in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen

Child of God,trust in God and his son Jesus, and you will see that he is never wrong.

When your pilot dies-learn to trust in God

WHEN YOUR PILOT DIES—LEARNING TO TRUST IN GOD
The news was explosive in the world-wide media when it was reported that a pilot dies mid-flight and the co-pilot landed the plane. On examination, the autopsy revealed he had a heart attack and the wife confirmed that her husband underwent a heart surgery in the past and he was told he would likely die of a heart attack. There were 147 passengers in the plane and five crew members when it too off from the airport. When your pilot dies mid-air, then only God can make sure you see land again.

The holy Ghost is saying to you in this sermon “for I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.” Psalm 44:6. Refuse to trust in your bow, anything or any person around your life and family. Refuse to look at the things that gives you confidence, including your job, career, spouse, helpers etc. psalm 118:9 says, “it is better to trust in the lord than to put confidence in princes.”

Lynn Barber said, “I learned not to trust people, I learned not to believe what they say, but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people, even when you think you know them very well, are ultimately unknowable.”


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Did you get that? The lord is warning you that your bow- your wife/husband, your pilot, your pastor, your best friend- can fail you at one point or the other.
Love people, but never have absolute trust in any man or woman. Give that trust to God alone. Look back and thank God. Look up and trust God. He alone closes doors that no man can open and he opens doors that no man can close.
Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, if I ever trust in any man or woman on this earth, let him or her disappoint me.

Faith is an Action Word

The oxford English dictionary defines faith as a noun which means a complete trust or confidence in someone or something. A second definition renders it as a strong belief in the doctrines of a religion based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.

Trying not to disproof the above definitions, I see faith as a verb, an action word which needs to be carried out or experienced, for the bible made it clear that faith without works is dead. Therefore, faith goes beyond a spiritual conviction which must play out in our everyday lives. If a Christian does not live and work in faith, then he cannot have a live experience of the things of God. God expects us to pursue our goals in live with faith knowing that we will win so long as we trust in him.

To buttress this point, I will use the story of pastor Suleiman of Omega mimistries, (a moslem who converted to Christianity in Kaduna, you can browse that for more information), who had a fight with the central government when some moslems were killing Christians in the northern part of Nigeria. Because he hit hard on the government’s islamization agenda, the government decided to castigate him and discredit his reputation.

The said girl, Stephanie Otobor, a prostitute living in Kaduna, was paid to be the hangman. She held a press conference alleging that Pastor Suleiman has been having sex with him and has refused to meet up with his manly responsibilities of taking care of him and a whole lot of other accusations.
Pastor Suleiman, not deterred by her accusations, came to church and the first thing he did was to kneel down before his congregation and said, “in seven days, those accusing me shall also come out to say I have nothing to do with this. The will confess else I cease to be a pastor.”


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Not long from when he said that, exactly five days later, the lady involved with her mother held another press conference and told the world that she was paid to do it by the government of kaduna in alliance with a famous lawyer. The mother asked for forgiveness from pastor Suleiman and addressed the daughter as a desperate woman who can do anything for money.

To me, that is faith in action. We must always endeavour to work out our faith gradually to the point where when we kneel to pray, the devil gets afraid and when we declare anything, it comes to pass.

Apostle Paul said that we must always fight the fight of faith, always proving ourselves before the father so that we can be worthy to be called the sons of God. When we have proven ourselves before our heavenly father, then we can be rest assured that we can have all that we need depending on the level of faith that we have attained.

Challenges would always come, but when they do, just know that we have powers within us to always win. We should always remember that whatever the temptation, we have an inherent capacity to fight it off and win over the devil anytime and even if you fail at first, you can always stand again and fight for you shall surely win in the end.

Do not let the fight swallow you, swallow the fight and move on to a higher level of life that you have been called.

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