Relationships #GodFirst

The issue of relationship is what I would call "the Pivot of Life"; every other thing hinges on it.  Life is all about relationships; you relate with people everyday, everywhere and everytime. As a matter of fact, the tangibility of your relationship with people and yourself (yes your relationship with you) goes a long way in describing your personality and even goes further to say something about your future. 

Now this is something that worries me about the today's society. The society is actually a bigger picture/a refection of the quality of our relationships. There is so much going on in the society today and this is an indication that there is something wrong with how we relate with ourselves/one another. 

I know we relate/build relationships with people almost very easily but the success of these relationships has a greater determinant that we fail to recognise. 

Ps 24:1  helps us to understand that the earth belongs to the Lord, and everything in it- the world and all its people.

Yes 'The Lord God' is this greater determinant of any successful relationship yet many of us do not have a relationship with Him let alone have a good one. Do you know that success with Him is success in all?

Having a relationship with God (a progressive one) is what helps you in your relationship with His creation. How do you think a person who doesn't value the Creator will relate with the 'created'? Likewise right!

Is there any other reason that explains why people expect religious people to be the best other than this? I doubt. It is believed that since we relate well enough with Him then we ought to behave like Him and this belief is not wrong. Our relationship with other people speaks volume about our relationship with God and vice versa. 

Going forward...Because we are social beings and must relate with ourselves (remember no man is an Island), lets determine to have better relationships. Note that this goal is only achievable by having a relationship(better one) with God.

Yours Truly.

Yaaay, a new lap just started

Its been few hours since we concluded the previous lap (of our lives) and started this one. What are the things you learnt from the last lap (your race in 2016)? What challenges did you face? How did you overcome these challenges? What challenges were you not able to overcome? Can you pick out 2/3 lessons you learned that will come in handy this lap?

Gradually the euphoria of a new year is beginning to wear out and reality is dawning that life actually does continue after 'the cross-over'. So hows your 2017 going to be? For any reason at all, please be intentional about making 2017 a more fulfilling year.

Personally I have begun this year with my Creator, I intend continuing and ending the year with Him and I implore you to do the same. The Greatest Book of all time (the Bible) makes us to realise that it is those who know their God that shall be strong and shall do great exploits regardless of our geographical location; and as such in order to record great successes this year we need to be strong in our God every step of the way.

Pls do not carry on in fear/doubt, likewise do not go ahead of God strategising how to make it this year (remember that as many are led by God to them have been given the rights to be called the sons of God), let God lead you- this is the surest way to avoid being stranded.

Completely remove the idea of loafing about, inculcate the mindset of serious work and be prepared to work. Yea, work smartly this new year and watch God rewarding your efforts with great success.

                                                   HAVE A FULFILLING 2017😊

Yours Truly.

Dr Myles Munroe: The true reason for marriage

Do we really understand what marriage is all about? Do we even know the essence of marriage? Today many marriages have crumbled because of lack of knowledge (no offense intended), but forreal when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse (and even destruction) is inevitable.

Long time friendship/dating is no longer a sufficient reason to marry; there is more to marriage than what touches the heart. Please watch this video and feel free to share.
#StayBlessed

Yours Truly.

Now this story touched me, I hope it touches you too

Good evening. This will bless you

IF THERE IS ANYONE I WANT TO SEE AGAIN, IT IS THAT YOUNG MAN OF GOD WHO MADE ME LOSE THE GIRLFRIEND I LOVED SO MUCH.
She loved me to the point that she was ready to be disowned by her parents when they wanted her to marry a rich politicians son. The love was simply so much...She visited me for a weekend and I took her to a program in church where I was invited... The two guest speakers for the 1st and 2nd days were wonderful...We laughed and shouted Fire and even sowed seeds of greatness... And I took my girlfriend back to my house... But the guest speaker that came on the last day was the one that caused the whole program for me... He did not wear any big shoe or expensive suit... His hair cut was even scattered... Unlike other guests, he did not have any escort or security But I noticed that the moment he climbed the pulpit, the atmosphere changed...
He started singing this song: # "Something more than gold... Something more than silver...
The Word of God in the heart of a believer, it's something more than gold"...# And within 5 minutes, I began to see something like mist, like thick cloud inside that auditorium... And it was as if, millions of voices were singing that song at the same time. It was not long, I began to hear cries of men and women, boys and girls...: and yet, he has not opened the Bible... The church hall was tensed... You will wonder if this is the same church we have been coming to for the past 2days...
"Lord, help me"...
"Forgive me Jesus... "
" Don't leave me this way"
"Jesus, I need You back... "
" Holy spirit, break me... And use me... "
These and more were the deep cries I was hearing from people around where I was sitting...
The choristers who were backing up the songs were slain...
Some of them did not know when they began to shout, through the microphone:" Lord, show me your mercy... "Some were shouting:" I need your revival Lord... Will you leave me this way". I was afraid to open my eyes... The glory inside that house was too much... When i managed to open my eyes, I didn't not see anybody standing... I was the only one on feet... The pastor that hosted the program was on the floor, in front of the church, with his wife... The assistant pastors were with him in front of the church, crying,... The Preacher was lying flat, crying on the alter... Nobody could know who was the Preacher and who was the speaker...As a Preachers kid, born inside the church, I have seen revivals... I have seen the move of God's power... But, never in my life have I seem such manifest Presence of God...And for more than 1:45 minutes, people were rolling on the floor, crying their hearts out... Yet, the guest minister did not open the Bible... I was still standing, looking around for my girlfriend... But I did not see her again... When I went outside... I saw her, lying on the floor, flat, crying... As I tried to pull her up, thinking that something might have hurt her... I saw her blouses soaked with tears... Her voice was already cracked... She had cried her heart out...I did not care to wait for the service to close ... I managed to guide her back to my house... And throughout that short journey, on the road, she was weeping like children... When we go home and she managed to sleep, right from her sleep, at short intervals, she began to sob, crying out from sleep... And before long, the pillow were already soaked...The encounter she had in the church followed her home... And it continued like that for 3 days... She was unable to eat anything... One of those nights, as she was praying and crying, she began to burst into tongues... She was crying and was blasting tongues, for more than 4 hours... How can I forget? The morning of the 3rd day, she told me: "Iyke, when that young pastor was singing that song... My eyes was opened and I saw Jesus for the first time in my life... I saw the kind of splendor I cannot explain... I saw His wounds... I saw Him on the Cross... I saw Him calling me to surrender my life to Him... Iyke, something has happened to me... And I am no more that same person again". The more I tried to cuddle her, the more she was running from my arms... She asked me: "Iyke, did you not feel what I felt? Did you not see what I saw? What I saw is worth more than the whole world. I saw a Crown that I cannot lose... Iyke, I have to surrender to Jesus... I have to pack my things now..." Before 30 minutes, she had picked her few things and about to go... As she was leaving, we both were in tears... She told me: "Iyke, I know I love you and you love me too.... But I have to let you go. This moment, I have surrendered to Jesus.... It will better to lose you than to lose that Crown that I saw. .." Tears had dried on our bodies and fresh ones were coming. I could not even stop her... The girl I knew before had changed... Her face was radiant... It dawned on me that that young man of God has made me lose the girlfriend I loved so much...
And I was angry... As I roll from one part of the bed to the other, alone, inside my room, from morning till night... I began to blame myself for taking her along to that program... Don't blame me... I was not born again then...Where else was I going to see another girl who will love me like her? I was furious... Yes, but deep down my heart, I knew that she has met God... I knew that this was exactly how it used to be in 1980s and 90s... On my own, I began to tel God: "If I will ever become a Preacher someday, this is the type I want to be... I will love people to come to my program and lose their girlfriends to You..." And thank God, in the fullness of time, when it pleases Him to intercept me from speedy journey to hell, I understood what happened those days to my ex girlfriend...Severally, I have seen that same thing she saw that made her lose me and not care about it.
Friend, if you see what she saw, you will never be afraid to lose any man.... Paul said that when he fell and stood up on his way to Damascus, 'I saw no man'... Why are you afraid for us that we will starve if we continue with this 'criticizing' ministry? Why are you complaining that nobody will host us in his big auditorium and give us big honorarium Thanks for your concern brother man... But we can tell the whole world that 'We too, like Apostle Paul, saw no man'... We did not see honorarium before we left all and embarked on this journey.. We saw a Crown that we must not lose on the last day...Many are already wearing their own crowns here... They have forgotten the encounters God used to give them when they first met Jesus... Lord, anybody can go... I don't want to lose the glory you showed me! ...We don't need too many friends...We don't need those who wants to show everyone that they are succeeding in ministry, even when, they are not known in hell... Our lives are better with fewer people whose eyes are still on that Crown...With the help of God, in our weaknesses and fewness, if it please God, we might be able to stop the mouth of lions...That was how that young man made me to lose my girlfriend.. My friends told me to give her some time that she will run back to me when memories of our sinful past will begin to hunt her...I waited for months and years, up till now, she did not come back... Together, with her husband, they are running a revival ministry in my country Nigeria... And she too is reading this post now as you are reading it... Halleluya!
Man of God, I don't know the last time people listened to you and they went back and move their things out from their boyfriends house and that was their last days in sin? When was the last time you preached and boys called their girlfriends on the phone and told them: "It is over... I have met with Jesus.... And am gone",? Your last crusade, you came back with car keys... Laptops, iphones and landed documents... But there was no tears for repentance... Sinners came as Sinners, sowed their seeds as Sinners and left as Sinners....When again are we going to see you preach and men will start falling over another, even without altar call, asking God for repentance for their adultery? Your choristers are already singing with sneered hearts... When are we going to hear somebody say about you, that: "This is that man of God that I heard and I left my sins and did not go back to them again? Sister, I don't know what they are telling you in your church every Sunday... I know you want to shun your evil ways, but the church you submitted to seem not to have problem with your sinful lifestyle... From year to year, they don't preach against sin.... Only giving you 100 ways to make wealth, even when you are sinking miserably in sin and addictions... The abuse of the gospel of miracle visa, miracle marriage, miracle contracts, and fighting of enemies is what brought this demonic wind upon us... Jacob had all those things and yet, he was crying to God for an encounter... And when He had it, that's why we are still talking about him till now... Lock your self up this weekend and cry to God for that same encounter... If He has not shown up, don't give up... If my ex girlfriend made up her mind to walk out from our relationship, there must be something she saw that's worth more than me... Today, she is happily married with wonderful children... That God she saw that night has not failed her...
That thing she saw has kept her all these years... I know you are afraid of what will become of you when you cut some ties... Sister, stop playing church while you are feasting on your vomits...
It's time to cry for an encounter... How long will you keep falling and rising and falling again?
It's time to cry for just one touch of Fire,... Am sure heaven will not shun your wet eyes and torn lips.

#copied

Food for thought

                                                                                

                                                                       

I dunno how many people have realized that there is no middle ground, but really there isn’t any!

 It is either you are for the Lord or you’re for the devil, and while we can choose to be for the Lord, we do not choose to be for the devil. It is something automatic; since you’ve not chosen to be for the Lord, then you’ve settled for the other option. It’s not something negotiable, neither is it something debatable, you are either here or there.

While we think it is until we have picked up guns to shoot somebody else that we are being instruments of the devil, we need to know that there are less & lesser ways to be instrumental to the devil, hence it is so easy to be for his use (broad and wide is the way that leads to destruction). Lying comes naturally for majority of us; as a matter of fact, lying is a lifestyle for a lot of us (even if it is all these small lies) and yet according to us, it is others that need to repent not us.

Fornication is a normal thing in this age; we fornicate and commit adultery at ease, yet we still claim to lift up holy hands. We don’t even remember that we were sent to the world, we think we evolved from one thing or the other, and so we are in charge of our lives, forgetting that there is no middle ground, it is only either of the two(the Lord or devil) that can be in charge of our lives. We are all about getting money, showing off that we have arrived and getting ‘just more money’ like anybody would send you to the earth primarily to come and make money, yet we still say ‘my life is in your hands’.

Well, one thing I know is that God can use anybody for His glory because we are all His creation. With God there are vessels of clay, silver & gold; there are also vessels unto honor and dishonor. No doubt, the Lord knows them that are genuinely His, and will not use them unto dishonor but will make them carriers of His glory everywhere on earth; we are the ones to decide whether to shine as a light for His glory which can never be hidden or to shine for ourselves.

So while we have decided to take charge of our lives, rewrite the commandments and take laws into our hands, please let us also remember that there is no midpoint, you are either here or there and the only person you will deceive that you are where you are not is yourself.

#stayblessed

Yours Truly.

These things...

(Matt 4:8-9 KJV)- “Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, ‘all these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me”.

If we are not going to fall down and worship him just to have these things, then we must know that we are not sufficient in/by ourselves, rather, our sufficiency is in Christ Jesus. It is saddening to note that the devil is able to imitate all that God has promised His elect, making it very difficult not to fall for his deceit while we are waiting for manifestation of Promises. It is more saddening to realize that many of us are already claiming/enjoying these pseudo-blessings or even thanking  God for them before realizing that they are not from God; So again “Let he that thinketh that he stands, take heed lest he falls”.

There are temptations fitting for every stature; while he may tempt me to do money rituals and its likes under the guise of financial prosperity, yours may be something as simple as he telling you to take a job of 1m-per-month because you’re a fresh first-class graduate and so you are most-deserving of it.  A 1m-per-month job that only looks like a blessing in the beginning but will no longer be sufficient for you in the nearest future, that will later draw you away from the kingdom of God, and will make you lose your identity in the long-run. For some others, it may just be something as simple as saying yes to a seemingly harmless offer only to regret it in future.

Since the devil is not losing focus “which is to get us to be condemned to eternal damnation with him” but only adopting new strategies to this effect, we also must not lose our focus which is “reigning in eternal life with Christ” but live in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy ghost at all times. Let’s always remember to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto us.

p.s - just in case you also want to adopt new strategies, pls remember that we have been given a manual, that we wrestle not against flesh & blood and that our weapons of warfare are not carnal……. and I guess you should be fine with this :D.

Stay Blessed!

Yours Truly.

Am I the Only Person that thinks Val's day is Overrated??

So I saw this image on a friend's dp and it got me thinking at first; if valentine's day is still within context or not, then much later; if Valentine should even be celebrated at all.

What is even the origin of this valentine that we have all decided to be celebrating annually? Some say it is a day of romance having its origin in the Roman holiday lupercalia (a fertility celebration that used to observed annually bt February 13-15). In medieval France and England it was believed that birds mated on February 14. Hence, Chaucer used the image of birds as the symbol of lovers in poems dedicated to the day. Others say it is a day to commemorate the death of a certain Mr. Valentine that was executed on Feb. 14. Whatever the story, I just don't buy what it's selling.

Personally, I don't need the world to give me a particular day when I can publicly show my love to my spouse and I doubt anybody needs such a day, Ordinarily, I should always show/treat/tell/prove to my bff that he is God's best gift to me and I believe that should apply to every other person.
Since this day is not needed, is just overrated, has no meaning in the real sense of it, and even has Pagan origins, then it shouldn't be celebrated.

#stayblessed

Yours truly.