ESSENTIAL COMMODITY

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in afield. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought the field.” (Verse 44)

Men and women who know and value treasures will go the extra mile to own some while some go for loans while some will sell their possessions, while some increase their income just to own a valuable treasure. Unto some people treasure is life while to some it is wealth. If well harnessed. There is one treasure to valuable and costless to own, the kingdom of God. Usually after a period of time earthly treasures experience fall in value but there is one whose value appreciates daily, it is always available.

     Man has a need for a commodity of great and essential value to him/her and that is the kingdom of God, the bible says, “seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all others shall be added.” God’s kingdom does not experience fall in value, but appreciates daily. I will urge you to take a bold step of faith and set yourself on the path to heaven. Investors always invest their money on a flourishing organization and not on a failing one, invest today into the kingdom of heaven by selling those attitudes and practices unworthy of the kingdom of God. God is waiting for you today for your investment into eternity.

   Are you in a fix of the value of this treasure? I am telling you that this treasure is inexhaustible and it daily appreciates. There are some rules to owning this treasure which are:- Confess Jesus as your lord and savior, Believe in the lord Jesus today and know his plans for your daily living by studying his word and communing with him in prayer.

  PRAYER:- Lord God let me be qualified for this eternal treasure to spend my eternity in tour kingdom.

AT THE STREAM OF CHANGE

Then the man said, “From now on, your name will no longer be Jacob. You will be called Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won. (Verse 28) CEV

Jacob Wrestling with an Angel

Success is more than putting one’s best in a quest but not giving up even when you are weak and tired. Jacob wrestled with God from dusk till daybreak without letting go of God until he was blessed. We need to know that during confusion, isolation, dejection, rejection, depression and failure we ought to struggle with God in prayer and win. Do not allow circumstance and situation subject you to fate rather struggle by faith surely you shall overcome.

       Jacob is a good example to that situation facing you to today in the sense that, behind Jacob was Laban who is not at peace with Jacob and ahead was Esau who was coming with men of war to kill Jacob, his sides are foreign land and hostile to aliens. That was not the time to wrestle with any unknown person but despite his trouble, he knew when to dive into a worthwhile venture, though all looked hopeless and tiring, he did not give in to distraction. Jacob knew what he wanted. He wanted a way out and he got it because he recognized the opportunity to his way out. Wrestle tirelessly with your situation today by not giving up and I can assure you of victory at last.

River Jabbok

PRAYER:  Oh Lord, lead me to my place of change and grant me the wisdom to recognise my place of change. (AMEN).

WHAT IS IN YOUR HAND

EXODUS 4: 2-4

Then the LORD said to him, “what is that in your hand?” A staff”, he replied. (Verse 2)

No man can lay claim to have created creativity as it has always been part of him, all men can only lay claim to have discovered their areas of creativity – Olusesan Oshatimehin

Most people always pray that God should bless and use them for his glory, but God will not bless a vacuum. God blesses men and women with useful tools in their hands. God asked Moses what he had in his hand, and his response moved him to the next level in God’s plan for him. To be used by God, what you have in your hand goes along way. We also need to put into use that which is in our hands, we must not rest on the fact that we’ve got something that God can bless.

    Proverbs 22:29 says “do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscured men. God is ready to use you but there are some things you must do, you must have or hold what is not abominable to God, it must be identifiable with God. You must hold what God can use to his glory in your life. There something that are useful to God’s glory in your life but not in others’ life. Finally you need to inquire of God what tools you need to have in your hand.

Remember what you have in your hand will take you to where you have to be in destiny, holding the wrong tools will take you to the wrong destination in destiny. Consciously discover the right tool for your life’s journey to be stress free.

Moses Parting Red Sea

Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to identify the tools you want me to have in other to fulfill the task you have for me (Amen).

BLANK CHEQUE

Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you [back home] to the land of Israel. Ezek 37: 12 AMP

At creation, God’s original intent for man was to be his representative here on earth and to worship him continually. But this plan was truncated when man fell in the Garden of Eden and it had to take a priceless blood sacrifice to redeem man from the power and clutches of sin. God according to Genesis 1:26 created man in his own image and likeness to be in control of everything on earth. Hear this according to God’s original intention it is an aberration to be controlled by what you should be controlling here on earth. Man was in the perfect will of God until the forbidden fruit was eaten and man lost it all.

God in his wisdom designed a temporary way out for man’s redemption from the law of sin and death through sacrifice and priests but God’s last card was the priceless blood of his only son that is potent, effective, and efficient enough to pay the ransom for the remission of man’s sins and to restore him back to his original state. The ransom plan includes a) TO OPEN MAN’S GRAVES by granting free access and passage out of satanic and demonic prison and slavery, it also connotes liberation or freedom from the clutch of satanic agents and his cohorts.  Psalm 107: 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. b) TO COME UP OUT: This is triumphant exit from satanic and demonic slavery or prison. This can be termed as spiritual freedom of movement, where there are no constrictions to where you can or cannot go. c) TO BRING MAN BACK HOME: This is restoring man back to his original domain. Bishop Oyedepo got his mandate after he had an 18 hour vision of beaten, battered, and buffeted people wailing and crying for help, he asked God "But why Lord" God responded and said "but in the beginning it was not so. And now the hour has come to liberate man from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching the word of faith and I am sending to undertake this task”. Matthew 15:13 But he answered and said, every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.  Matthew 3:12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

God is still in the business of redeeming men and women who calls on him to be saved from the path of death and destruction. Call his toll free line to date for your salvation and he will surely save you.  

Prayer: Thank you dear blessed father for your redemptive plan for me.  (AMEN).

REDEMPTION

Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you [back home] to the land of Israel. Ezek 37: 12 AMP

At creation, God’s original intent for man was to be his representative here on earth and to worship him continually. But this plan was truncated when man fell in the Garden of Eden and it had to take a priceless blood sacrifice to redeem man from the power and clutches of sin. God according to Genesis 1:26 created man in his own image and likeness to be in control of everything on earth. Hear this according to God’s original intention it is an aberration to be controlled by what you should be controlling here on earth. Man was in the perfect will of God until the forbidden fruit was eaten and man lost it all.

God in his wisdom designed a temporary way out for man’s redemption from the law of sin and death through sacrifice and priests but God’s last card was the priceless blood of his only son that is potent, effective, and efficient enough to pay the ransom for the remission of man’s sins and to restore him back to his original state. The ransom plan includes a) TO OPEN MAN’S GRAVES by granting free access and passage out of satanic and demonic prison and slavery, it also connotes liberation or freedom from the clutch of satanic agents and his cohorts.  Psalm 107: 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. b) TO COME UP OUT: This is triumphant exit from satanic and demonic slavery or prison. This can be termed as spiritual freedom of movement, where there are no constrictions to where you can or cannot go. c) TO BRING MAN BACK HOME: This is restoring man back to his original domain. Bishop Oyedepo got his mandate after he had an 18 hour vision of beaten, battered, and buffeted people wailing and crying for help, he asked God "But why Lord" God responded and said "but in the beginning it was not so. And now the hour has come to liberate man from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching the word of faith and I am sending to undertake this task”. Matthew 15:13 But he answered and said, every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.  Matthew 3:12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

God is still in the business of redeeming men and women who calls on him to be saved from the path of death and destruction. Call his toll free line to date for your salvation and he will surely save you.  

Prayer: Thank you dear blessed father for your redemptive plan for me.  (AMEN).

YOUR TRUE VICTORY

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

There are no limitations except those you acknowledge. Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve, Napoleon Hill.
The number of times a man failed is his intangible history however the number of times he got victory is his tangible future in the making. For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief - Proverbs 24:16. Your current victory is your permanent victory because Christ DIED for MAN to LIVE and HE ROSE for MAN to REIN 1Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 4:14. Man's true Victory is guaranty in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We need to understand as Christian that; a) Failure Changes People: Failure will never leave you the same; it either leaves you flat on the ground or becomes your stepping stone to greatness.  b) Failure is an Event: Event is past or present occurrence caused by man directly or indirectly. Man has power to influence how event happen and form of its occurrence. c) Failure is an Experience: It is often said that experience is the best tutor; failure should help man learn from his/her actions. d) FAILURE is Success in Disguise: The spring board to man’s success is Failure. Isaiah 9: 10 e) Failure is Never Final Micah 7:8: Failing should never be your Full stop to life but your full start in life. ‘Successful people are Ex-losers who got tired of losing and simply shifted ground’ – Olusesan Oshat.

Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for winning the battle for me at Calvary and for granting me the enablement to bask in you divine victory for my life.  (AMEN).

Memory Verse for meditation: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief - Proverbs 24:16.

THE BLESSEDNESS OF HARD WORK

DEUTERONOMY 28: 1-2

1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

God’s blessing is always with hard working people, God works and that make him a lover of diligent worker. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper Psalm 1:3, Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men Proverbs 22:29, And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you 1 Thess 4:11

In year 2000 I volunteered to be part of the (EYC) ECWA Youth Camp official, a yearly ECWA church youth camp programme held at Eye nkorin, I was to be part of the camp security for the period of camping. On appointment I remembered that some years back I once was just a camper but that year it was my turn to be a leader and I reminded myself of how I used to call camp officials names and made fun of them though never disobeyed nor once rude to anyone of them. I started out as an ordinary camp official carrying out my assigned duties but I ended up working in most of the units and making things work, I was so thorough to the extent that I personally followed through with other officials’ assignment just to make sure there was no flaw in all those activities assigned to them. In some cases I will go to all other posts to check on the others and sometimes serve guests ministers their meal as at when due and go back to pick up the plates after meals. These two guest ministers where watching my thorough activities throughout their stay and on the last day I was summoned into their chalet and after asking me some questions I later got to know that One of the guest ministers was my immediately elders brother’s friend while in the university while the second was my eldest brother’s spiritual son. They both laid hands on and blessed me. The senior guest minister went to my with the news of how I was a blessing and he also blessed me and those blessings have being following me.

Prayer: Anoint with the grace of hard work, so I can qualify for the blessings of hard work (Amen).

Meditation: Proverbs 22:29 Show me someone who does a good job, and I will show you someone who is better than most and worthy of the company of kings. (GNT)

KNOWING THE GOD OF THE HOUSE

1 Samuel 3:1-10

1-2 Samuel served the LORD by helping Eli the priest, who was by that time almost blind. In those days, the LORD hardly ever spoke directly to people, and he did not appear to them in dreams very often. But one night, Eli was asleep in his room, 3 and Samuel was sleeping on a mat near the sacred chest in the LORD's house. They had not been asleep very long 4 when the LORD called out Samuel's name.“Here I am!” Samuel answered. 5 Then he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. What do you want?”“I didn't call you,” Eli answered. “Go back to bed.”Samuel went back.6 Again the LORD called out Samuel's name. Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said. “What do you want?”Eli told him, “Son, I didn't call you. Go back to sleep.”7 The LORD had not spoken to Samuel before, and Samuel did not recognize the voice. 8 When the LORD called out his name for the third time, Samuel went to Eli again and said, “Here I am. What do you want?”Eli finally realized that it was the LORD who was speaking to Samuel. 9 So he said, “Go back and lie down! If someone speaks to you again, answer, ‘I'm listening, LORD. What do you want me to do?’ ”Once again Samuel went back and lay down.10 The LORD then stood beside Samuel and called out as he had done before, “Samuel! Samuel!”“I'm listening,” Samuel answered. “What do you want me to do?”

Until you have a profiting relationship with God all your activities in the house of God will end up a religious ceremonious formal procedure – Olusesan Oshat.

Most Christians today are simply carrying out religious rites (A rite can be described as an established, “ceremonious” religious act). When our Practices and services are not in consonance with divine instructions whatever is done can simply be regarded as carrying out courteous religious activities. Though Samuel was living in God’s house and serving in the sanctuary, and even grew up in the house of God yet he does not have a profiting in-depth knowledge of who God is, and how awesome he is. Christianity is not a sect, rather it is a personal walk with God the creator.

One of the greatest tragedies that can befall a man is for such person not to know where he is headed for, and how to get there. The rate of church attendees that does not know what it means to be a Christian is and what is expected of a Christian on earth becoming alarming. There need to constantly a) Thirst for God: Continually and committedly search to know the God Psalm 42:1, Phil 3:10.  b) Hear from God: Deut 5:27   c) Obey God’s directives Joshua 24:24 d) Have spiritual Father: 2 Kings 2;12

    Jesus Is Lord.

Prayer: Lord, release unto me the spirit that thirst for you daily (Amen).

COUPLES LOVE YOURSELVES

Eph. 5:25

Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.

Loving one’s partner goes beyond sex, figure, seize, intelligence, ability, romance, and or brilliance of your partner, it involves revolving of care, understanding, loving and responsibility between the two parties involved. Most marriages and homes around the world had and is undergoing endurance not enjoyment as it should be and many will still face the same challenge if the core value of marriage is not pursue.

 It takes a failed husband to raise a failed home or family. A failed home is first a reflection of the leadership in such homes before the help mate is considered as a failure. Husbands it is high time we started living up to our name (Humble Unabated Standard of Building an Abode for Nurturing Dependable Saints). God did not create destructive men, he created constructive men. Hear this, your job, career, passion and or vision is not of additional importance than your home. Most men will do anything to become public heroes, sure they end up becoming public heroes but they are failure in their own homes at the same time.

We must first build our homes before the master builder can build us up, any home not built on the standard of unity can never stand the test of time (Matt 12:25). One of the major roles of the husbands is to Nurture their home and until that is done such home cannot become mature and without maturity good fruition should not be expected. Success is not only measured by the achievements a man has attained in public, rather true success is the positive impact made within their home. Be a pillar not a caterpillar. Women you are also not exempted. Jesus Is Lord.

Prayer: Dear Lord, give me the grace to totally love my home and work to build a home to your glory (Amen).

CONNECTING ANCESTRAL BLESSINGS

Genesis 12:1-3

“Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed (Verse 1-3)

God’s blessings are always with obedient children (Isaiah 1:19: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land), God’s standard is sure and will never change for he will never bless the disobedient at the expense of the obedient. To access God’s blessings in any area of our life, we must be willing to pay the price of carrying out his set instructions to letter. Been blessed of the Lord requires knowing God’s principles for blessing mankind.

WHAT ARE ANCESTRAL BLESSINGS

1.     Ancestral Blessings are inherited divine help for a man’s destiny that will bring about surprise to others around him passed from one generation to another (What You did not work for)

2.     They are blessings that release divine approval to beautify your destiny and generations to come.

3.     It is heaven sanctioned protection on a man and his family passed down from one generation to another.

4.     It is reaping dividend of the good works our spiritual or biological parents have stocked up for us.

HOW TO CONNECT ANCESTRAL BLESSINGS

It is worthy of note that to receive the blessings of Abraham, we must be willing to have the faith of Abraham and also pay the price he paid.

1.     Have a Relationship with God (Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you). No man can contest to be included in another man’s will when he is not part of the family, the same goes for unbelievers will not have access to partake of the blessings of salvation. Until you have a relationship with God you cannot enjoy the benefit of redemption.

2.     Hearing God’s Instructions (Isaiah 30: 21 And thine ear shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, Walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Joshua 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.)

3.     Observing And Diligently Carrying Out God’s Instructions: We often are not observant to instructions from the throne of grace and that is the major reason many fail, when we obey God’s instruction it delivers us from destruction. (Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe)

EFFECT OF ANCESTRAL BLESSINGS

1.     WEALTH IS INEVITABLE Deuteronomy 8:18: God will direct wealth and riches towards you with peace to enjoy them

2.     You Are Blessed In Every Area of Life Genesis 24:1: God will bless you with all that is required to make life worth living for you and he will make you a new definition of blessing.

3.     God’s Blessings and Favour is Transfer to Your Generation: Abraham’s blessings was transfer to Isaac is sons Genesis 26:13 & Jacob Enjoyed the dividends of Abraham and Isaac’s labour of faith Genesis 30:43. Your generation shall never want blessings in whatever form.

4.     It Averts Curses From You Numbers 23:23: Ancestral blessings wade off curses (generational and or territorial) from you and your generation.

5.     Divine Protection Becomes Your Heritage Isaiah 57:14: God’s blessings comes with the protection of the most high to keep you from harm and danger Psalm 91:2-14

POWER AS OF OLD

Joshua 10:1

Now it came to pass, when Adoni–zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;

I cannot but wonder at the level of faithlessness and spiritual laziness of this generation, Joshua was so confident of his God that he commanded the Sun and the Moon to stand still and today it is reflected in our lunar system (Calendar year and Leap year). Power of at work in the time of old is same as today but the difference is our level of rugged faith in God this generation is not the same as our fathers in faith. God has made available to us that same power, all we need is to access it, Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa accessed this same power and he stopped the World witches from meeting in Benin City, Nigeria. In response to the representative of the world witches on a Television programme he said Jesus does not need to be here to halt the meeting that is why I am here as his representative.

When Bukola was pregnant with Olufemi, a pastor friend told me that there was a spiritual conspiracy for both of them to die but I engage the spiritual weapon of prayer and praise and to If they used the power you can also use it today. Shalom

Prayer: Lord Use me for your glorious agenda

BECOMING A BETTER MINISTER

Joshua 1:1-3

1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, 2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

Joshua was referred to in this verse as the "MINISTER" of Moses, as a minister his work includes but not limited to the following; to give service, care, or aid; attend, as to wants or necessities.: to minister to the needs of Moses God's servant. 

Being a servant is not a convenient work, there are so many time he will want to do things he is convinced that are God's will but will not be authorized to do such by his master, but this verse record God called Joshua after the death of his master Moses. You may have been under a master or situations and circumstance that seem your skills, wisdom, abilities and anointing is subdued, friends I have good news for you your time to bring forth is here now Psalm 105:19-22. 

When you are serving a master it is a time to understudy such leader and to develop, increase and learn how to use your potentials, serving is the best and fastest way to leadership. Shalom 

Moral: Always Look, Listen and Learn when you are to minister under authority

Prayer: Lord, make me an instrument in your hand

SELF DISCOVERY AND SELF COMMUNICATION

Luke 15:17-18(The Message Bible)
17 "That brought him to his senses. He said, 'All those farm hands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death. 18 I’m going back to my father. I'll say to him, Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you;

Discovering where you are at the moment against where you ought to be now is the first step to Self Discovery; however you need to communicate your discovery and strategies to your tripartite being (Spirit, Soul and Body) for a true turnaround from your current status. I love to say no man was created a failure; however man became a failure by the virtue of success/failure mentality he is carrying.

Self communication is stronger than self discovery itself. When self communication is done in right order such individual is able to self counsel him/herself out of any negative situation. Self communication allows you to empower yourself in making informed decisions. What you communicate to yourself determines what your destiny will be, wrong communication corrupt your heart and ultimately condemn your destiny.

This is a new day, don't just sit there making excuses for failing or praising yourself for that localized success, remember do not localize your dream but globalize it . Shalom

    
  PRAYER:  Lord, empower me with the grace to search out my purpose in live and run with it, with all zeal (AMEN).

CRAZY ASSIGNMENT

Genesis 22:1-3

And he said, Take  now  thy son, thy only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (Verse 2)

We seldom qualify people who cannot give a convincing or reasonable account of what they are doing as mad or crazy. God told Abraham in Gen 12:1 to leave his home town to a place he will be shown. The implication of this is Guy leave your comfort zone to a place I want you to go (you will have to work hard before it becomes your home/comfort zone) isn’t that wired? Whenever God wants to establish his supremacy, the human mind and brain calls or thinks it’s crazy. God commanded Noah to build and ark, in his days had never been rain yet he foolishly obeyed, God also told him to select all animals male and female crazy it sound isn’t it or you may call it NOAH’S NAT GEO WILD PROJECT but Noah completely obeyed God’s instructions (Gen 6:9-22).

Crazy it looks when God commanded Hosea to go marry a prostitute; this was done in other to drive home a practical point to Israelites of their unfaithfulness to God Hosea 1:1-11. Crazy it was for Joseph to take marry as his wife, whose pregnancy is not for him, but by crazy faith he did obeyed Matthew 1:18-25. Moses received instruction to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt to the land of Canaan, how can a single man face a nation, with a revolutionary message to the minority. God told Abraham to leave a land where he is comfort to a land he will be shown, though it seems crazy but the end of his obedience

  
    PRAYER:  I need the grace to obey all your instructions dear Lord (AMEN).

BLACKBERRY VERSUS BIBLE

Psalm 16:4

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

We live in a generation where we have substituted God with our Information communication Technology gadgets, automobiles, Yachts, Jewelleries, fashion to mention a few. But all these really does not bring true joy to man, true joy comes from Yahweh.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if we treated our Bible just like we treat our BlackBerry?

What if we carried it around in our purse or pocket?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we turned back to get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text? (Psalm 1: 2-3)
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it? (Psalm 119:103, 105)
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it when we travelled?
What if we used it in case of an emergency?
This is something to make you go...hmm...where's my Bible Instead of where is my BB (BlackBerry)?
And unlike our Blackberry, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus Christ had already paid the bill.
93% OF THE PEOPLE READING THIS WRITE UP WON'T THINK ON IT.
So are you among the 7% that will

PRAYER:  Dear Lord, empower me to take things of your kingdom with all seriousness.

Treasures in the Word of God

Psalm 2:1-6

“But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Verse 2-3)

To be informed is to be reformed but a man not informed will be deformed in the scheme of success/ life. We most times get information on how to use any electronics, automobile, tools or equipments we purchase from its manual, the manual serves as the guide to effective utilisation of these equipments. Myles Munroe once said “When purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable”. We live as the day goes by with little trial by error success, believing we have arrived. To be successful we have to be wise, to be wise we need to apply knowledge and to apply knowledge we need information and to get informed we must research or gather raw facts. For journey of life to become stress free the word of God is the compass required to getting to the shore of peace. The word of God delivers to us his plan, purpose and intentions for us in destiny and we can only take delivery of these by digging deep into the word of God regularly.

The treasures embedded in the word can NEVER be fully harnessed in a one off flip through.

Treasures are hidden in sure and least expected places and it takes searching and researching to find them, pirates make use of information and maps to find old hidden treasures, in their quest to finding the treasures pirates are highly sensitive and take to consideration anything on the way very seriously as they could be a lead. To access the treasures in the Word of God we have to be highly sensitive to the Rhema and the Logos in our search quest as God mostly commune with us through these mediums, and we have to always Read the word Isa 34:16, Study the word 2Tim 2:15, Meditate on the word Psla1:2 and Declare the word Psalm 2:7. By doing this we find Wisdom Psalm 119:99, Divine Direction Pro 3:6 (CEV) Authority Gen 1:28, Matt 18:18, Revelation Daniel 10:1 and Prosperity Joshua 1:8

     
PRAYER:  Thank you Lord for the Treasures you have in stock for me (AMEN).

You Have All He Needs

Matthew 15:29-39

“How many loaves do you have? “  Jesus asked “Seven” They replied, “and a few small fish”. (Verse 34)

We most times give ourselves heartache and dissolution ourselves with what we think we do not have to make through life’s journey, but have not taken time to think of things we have that God can use. Most times we bug our heart with, “What to do”, “How to do it”, and “When to do it” to be successful in life, not reminding ourselves of what we have and how God will multiply it.

Some times in 2011 someone sent these words to me “Imagine a person who has never known any modern technology (for example someone living in the heart of a dense jungle). One day this person is given a radio tuned in to a very precise radio station and he finds it suddenly extraordinary to be able to listen to music through what is essentially a small box. He is told that to listen to this music he need only press the 'on' button without having to do anything else to listen to this music. This person thinks this radio is a wonderful invention and then spends a number of years listening to this radio and to the same program as the radio stays on the same station all of the time. And then one day someone else comes along and shows him that there are a multitude of other stations and frequencies to listen to with many other programs that can be as interesting as the first.... You are in the position of this person Oluwasesan and your potential can be compared to this radio. Your potential is not yet fully exploited and you are not yet aware of certain of your hidden talents. I find myself in the place of the person who's duty is to show you exactly how you can tune in to these new frequencies. This is a metaphorical example but it demonstrates clearly the situation in which you find yourself at this time”.

We all have all we need to make it through in life’s journey but have to make extra effort in discovering our unique qualities (potential) God wants to use.

PRAYER:  I know I have all you need for my situation, please dear Lord reveal to me all I need to know to make it through (AMEN).

TRADE BY BARTER

John 3:14-18

“For God so love the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. (Verse 16)

I created a story of about a man name Adio and his uncle Aremo who lived a reckless live from his early days and at mid age he could not live up to expectation and had to join a group of gang stars who lived on extortion, but as time went by their extortion could not sustain their life style of riotous living, so they went into stealing from stealing to robbery but while Adio was involved in all these his uncle kept encouraging him how he can make something meaningful out of his live but he would not listen to advice. One afternoon Aremo called Adio and told him he will give him half of his estate but they must go into contract, Adio jumped at the offer but was disappointed at the terms of his uncle which was “drop your riotous life and be like me”. Adio left in anger but kept pondering on the wealth he walked out on. Three days later he walked up to his uncle Aremo and told him he was ready to abide by the terms with the aim of conning his uncle, but his uncle took him through series of tests and training that changed his life and three years later his uncle gave him the whole estate when he sincerely dropped his bad habit. But to his greatest surprise his uncle told him the wealth belongs to Adio while he is only a care taker of the wealth.

       At creation God’s plan for man was to live and praise God and ultimately rein for eternity, but sin caused man’s eternity to be to be limited years (Job 14:1a), and without  the shedding of blood there can’t be remission of sin. From the third chapter of Genesis God’s plan and purpose for man was altered by sin, so man had to shed blood of animals for his sins. The law of sin states “the soul that sin shall die” but a meeting was held in heaven to nullify this law and the only way to achieve this is to pay the price of man’s sin by a sacrificial ransom and the son of God volunteered himself for the pain no mortal and heavenly being was willing to pay.

    The death of Jesus Christ paid all the debt owed due to sin, thereby setting aside the law of sin and its rein on man. The most precious blood was shed as an atonement for mans to be at peace with God, for man to be free from sin there must be an exchange with something of greater value which was the death of Jesus as the ransom for man’s soul and freedom. Friends no matter how deep you have gotten yourself into sin, thinking there is no way out, I have good news for you according to the 17th verse of our text “For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him”.

Call the Lord today and confess your sins ask him to forgive you your entire misdeed and renounce any cultism you might have been involved in. He is a true father that loves the return of his children

PRAYER:  Thank you Lord for giving your only son for my ransom, I appreciate your gift of salvation (AMEN).