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Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You. Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. Psalm 67:5-7 When praises go up blessings come down! When praises go up God opens doors for blessings. When you bless the Lord with your praises, He blesses you with increase. You can only live in the overflow when you live in the praises of God. God is a good God and He wants to bless you, but God does not bless complainers and negative people. God blesses people who praise Him! Learn to live thanksgiving and praise mode. It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night. Psalm 92:1-2 When you praise God, He fights your battles. When you praise God, you come closer to God and when you draw near to Him He draws near to you. If you are stagnant and you beg...

Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd. And it was told Him by some, who said, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.” But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.” Luke 8:19-21 When you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you come into the family of God. You and Jesus have one Heavenly Father, you are in the household of faith and Jesus is not ashamed to call you His brother. Jesus calls those who hear the Word of God and do it His mother, brothers and sisters. He calls those who do the will God His mother, brothers and sisters. That is because a real Christian does the will of God. For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother. Mark 3:35 When you are born again, you are in the family of God and Jesus is your brother. Jesus is your Lord and Savior and you have one Father. You are royalty, you are a roy...

For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still please men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. Galatians 1:10 You can make others happy. You can make your family, friends and colleagues happy but what if what makes your family, friends and colleagues happy makes God unhappy. You have to learn to live to please God. When you make God happy everything will fall into place. When you make God happy you will be happy and you will have peace in your heart. All is well when you are living to please the Lord. Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Isaiah 3:10 Keep God first place and make Him happy, live to please God.   However, you cannot please God and please all men at the same time; you cannot make God happy and make everybody else happy at the same time. Living to please God is a life of sacrifice, you might have to suffer or be rejected by others for Christ. Nevertheless, you...

For You are my lamp, O LORD, the LORD shall enlighten my darkness. 2 Samuel 22:29 Jesus is my Light and since He came in my life He has brought light in my life and that light came in the form of knowledge. The knowledge of God gives us light. When you have the light of the knowledge of God you can longer walk in darkness, you are made free. You can name your problem. All you need is light concerning that problem and your situation will change. You will be delivered through knowledge. Knowledge of the truth will set you free! And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32 God’s Word will give you direction for your life. It will show you who you are and what you possess. It will show you what to be, what to do, and where to go. The Word of God gives you knowledge so that you do not walk in darkness. It changes your perspective in life and it gives you God’s thoughts. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 The...

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Galatians 6:7 You will be rewarded for the good that you do, in a similar fashion, you will be rewarded for the wrong that you do. You reap what you sow! Therefore, you need to choose life, and choose to sow the right seeds for your life. You choose the kind of life you want to live by choosing the kind of seeds you sow. You have to sow love in order to reap love. You have to make others happy in order to be happy. You have to teach others how to be successful in order to be successful. You have to be generous in order to live in abundance. You simply reap what you sow. Knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Ephesians 6:8 This law also works in the negative effect. If you constantly sow the wrong seed you will reap a bad harvest. If you sow hatred you will reap hatred. If you make others unhappy you will be unhappy. ...

Let us hear the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. Ecclesiastes 12:13 Man’s all is to fear the Lord and to live according to His Word. Man’s all is to keep God’s Word first place. Adam failed at this but Jesus succeeded. When you are in Christ, you can keep God’s Word. You can live by the Word. You have to learn to yield to the Word and the Spirit every day and live by the Word. There is no other way but to trust and obey. God in His infinite wisdom created the universe and He tells you through His Word how to get things done. He lets you know how to achieve the right results. All you have to do is just yield to Him and you will live a glorious and victorious life. Many people are unhappy, sick and poor because they don’t live by the Word. However, if you live by the Word you will be happy, healthy and rich. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:19 If you live by the Word you will ...

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For Himself said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” God is with you everywhere you go! He lives in you. You could find yourself where God doesn’t want you to be, however, that does not mean He has left you. He is always with you. God is everywhere but His manifested presence is not everywhere. Although God is with you everywhere you go, that doesn’t mean He wants to go everywhere. You should learn to be led by His Spirit. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. Romans 8:14 You can be at the right place at the right time. When you are at the right place at the right time you are in God’s perfect will and you will be able to see His manifested presence. God will never leave you nor forsake you. You can call on Him anytime, anywhere and He will hear you. He will hear you when you call on Him. God is there for you whenever you need Him. He will never leave ...

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6 Some people are destroyed because of lack of knowledge of the Word of God. They walk in ignorance to God’s Word. They do not know what God has said in His Word and they are still in darkness. They are destroyed by poverty, sicknesses and the like. They are living in defeat and hopelessness. Nevertheless, God has given us His Word and victory is in His Word. He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:20 God sent His Word as an instruction manual to instruct us in godly living. He sent the Word to heal our broken bodies and to deliver us from destructive lives. Now we can live in peace, joy, prosperity, health and wholeness. When you have knowledge of the Scriptures that will put you at an advantageous position...

Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted the ark, and it rose high above the earth. Genesis 7:17 When the Lord destroyed the earth with the flood, there was a flood for forty days and forty nights, Noah and his family where in the ark, as the water rose, the ark rose above the waters. As a child of God, figuratively, you live in the ark. The world around you may be going through trouble but you are safe in the ark. You are in the world but you are not of the world. When the world is going through trouble you just go upward and forward. You are resting in God’s grace and love. You have peace on the inside, you are untouched by trouble. There could be pestilence and famine going on around you but it will not come to you. A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. Psalm 91:7 Live in the secret place of the Most High, “in the ark,” in His presence and His glory. There no weapon for...

For if by one man’s offence death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17 When we believe in Jesus, we receive the gift of righteousness, righteousness is imputed to us and the when we spend time with Him, we receive grace to help in time of need. The more we spend time with Him the more we receive grace until we have abundance of grace and reign in life through Him. And of His fullness we have received, and grace for grace. John 1:16 Jesus has been given all authority and the authority that Adam lost He has restored back to us. We now have authority and dominion on the earth in His name. Whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven and whatever we lose on earth is loosed in heaven. Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matthew 18:18 It is time that ...

Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. Luke 6:47-48 The Word of God lives and abides forever and it never fails. When you build your life on the Word, you build your life on the solid rock and your life will endure the tests of life. Many people build their lives on sand and at the end they are put to shame. However, those who build their lives on the Word build it on the solid rock and they will never be put to shame, that’s because the Word works. As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust Him. Psalm 18:30 The Word of God lets us know that nothing is new under the sun, what is happening now has happened before in some way or form. However, in the midst of all ...

The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14 There are secrets of the kingdom of God; keys that will cause you to flourish when you apply them. However, this time David shows us that there is the main secret, and he calls it the secret of the LORD. He uses a definite article “the secret” not “a secret,” furthermore, “the secret” is in the singular form not plural. What is the secret of the LORD? He let us know in the verse that follows. My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for He shall pluck my feet out of the net. Psalm 25:15 David says here that he will fix his eyes or focus on God and God will pluck his feet out of the net that the enemy has laid out for him. In other words, David is saying here that he will seek God and God will deliver him out of every trouble. The secret of the Lord is seeking God, spending time with Him and focusing on Him. The secret of the Lord is intimacy with God. Some people want the principle...

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Isaiah 10:27 (KJV)                                                                                              Beloved, it is all in the anointing. The anointing is the presence and the power of God upon a believer that enables him or her to accomplish God’s work. The yoke of sickness, poverty, stagnation, etc. can be destroyed by the anointing...

This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 Today is a new day and you can rejoice and be glad in it. As a child of God, you can rejoice every day because you are forgiven, you are the healed, you are rich and you are blessed. No matter what your life looks like right now, you can rejoice. Do not let temporary circumstances still your joy, choose to rejoice.   You could be saying, “I have pain in my body or I’ve been diagnosed with an illness.” You see that is a fact and facts can change. What is the truth? By Jesus’ stripes you are healed. Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 You could be saying, “I’m in debt and things are not looking good financially.” That is only a fact and facts can change. What is the truth? Jesus became poor that you may be rich and you are a joint-heir with Christ Jesus. For you kno...

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 There are good works that God wants you to walk in. God wants you to be fruitful and productive. We are God’s workmanship and the sheep of His pasture. When we follow Him, He leads us to bear good fruit and produce good works. When we follow Him, we bear the fruit of the Spirit and produce good works. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 We are created to produce good works that advance the kingdom of God. There are good works that we need to get involved in like giving to the poor, serving in the local church, planting churches, winning souls and leading many to righteousness. You also produce good works when you pursue your purpose. We have to engage in advancing the kingdom of God by bearing good frui...

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is a gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 We are saved by grace and not by our good works. You cannot earn your salvation, no matter how many good deeds you get involved in. Salvation is a free gift of God that you receive by faith in the Lord Jesus. If salvation is a free gift of God, then why are so many people not born again? That’s because the devil has blinded them. They need our prayers so that God can move on their behalf. God does not intervene unless we ask Him to do it. We need to pray for the lost; we need to pray for souls. You can start by praying for people close to you like family members, relatives, friends, neighbours, colleagues, etc. When you have adequately prayed for others then you can share the gospel with them. If not at least invite them to church. Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? Isaiah 53:1 ...

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14  When Jesus takes away sins, He also takes away the consequences of sins. Jesus takes away the curse which came as a result of man’s sin. When He takes away the curse, the blessing of Abraham comes upon us. Every child of God is blessed with the blessings of Abraham. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 When Adam sinned the curse came into the world. When you are under the law the curse works effectually in your life, but praise the Lord! We are not under the law but under grace. When you receive Jesus, He takes away the curse and He gives you the blessing. He makes...

Go to the ant you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. Proverbs 6:6-8 When God created Adam, He gave him work. You are created to work. You have to be responsible enough to come to place where you work without oversight. Work weather you are being watched or not, work weather you have a supervisor or not. That is the wisdom that God gave the ants, they work without any supervision. Nobody has to tell you to wake up and pursue your purpose. You have to be responsible enough to do what you are supposed to do and that is maturity. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who is in need. Ephesians 4:28 You have to discover your purpose and work. You have to engage in making a difference and moving humanity forward. If there are no jobs available in your country, y...

See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. 1 Corinthians 5:15 Pursue your purpose. Your purpose is both good for you and for all. Your purpose fulfills you and meets others’ needs. Your purpose makes you happy and solves people’s problems. Your purpose is what you do best. It entails your gifts and passion. Your purpose is necessary. Your purpose is what you were born to do. You do not have to be anyone else you can be yourself and fulfill your purpose in life. Run your own race. 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 You cannot achieve success at the highest height without the pursuit of your purpose. The pursuit of your purpose will distinguish you as a success in life. If you want to be successful, discover and pursue ...

For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 1 Corinthians 15:225 Jesus is Lord and He reigns in heaven and on earth. He is in heaven and here on earth He is in us the church. In heaven He reigns by Himself and here on earth He reigns through us. Here on earth we are the ones carrying out His will and setting things in order. Here on earth we are reigning with Jesus, we reign through Him. He has given us authority and put all things under our feet. He is the One directing us on what to do and how to do it and where to go. He is the head of the church. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have preeminence. Colossians 1:18 Others are reigning with Him in Christian television, others are reigning with Him in politics, others are reigning with Him in education, others are reigning with Him in music, others are reigning with Him in business, etc. You must find your place where yo...

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:12 Victory and breakthrough do not come easy for the Christian. You have to have violent faith, persistent faith to lay hold of your possession. You have to fight the good fight of faith; you cannot afford to take things lying down. The enemy does not want you to win but the good news is that you have already won. Victory belongs to Jesus and victory belongs to you. It yours for the taking but you have to fight and you fight from the position of victory. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 2 Timothy 6:12 You have to pray, study the Word, read books, listen to sermons and listen to praise and worship. You have to renew your mind, upgrade your mind because the battle is in your mind. You have to do spiritual exercises and ...

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?” Nehemiah 6:3 When you serve as a minister, an elder, a worshipper, an intercessor, an usher, a counselor, in the media, in the maintenance or in the ministry of helps, whatever you do in the house of God, know that you are doing a great work. It is a great thing to serve the Lord! If you knew that you were doing a great work, you would be faithful. You would show up for duty and do it with excellence. When you are faithful with what you have been given to do, God will promote you. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor form the west, nor the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. Psalm 75:6-7 If you are faithful in what is little you are faithful also in what is much. If you are faithful with little, God will give you greater responsibilities. Be faithful with what you have been ...

Let all that you do be done with love. 1 Corinthians 16:14 The reasons why you do all that you do matter. Why do you do ministry? Why are you in that business? Why are you working that job? Why are you in that relationship? Your reason for doing all that you do should be because you love God and you love people. Life is all about relationships. Life is all about loving God and loving people. Your order should be God first, people second and you third. That will make you happy. That will give you JOY: Jesus, others, you. Jesus said to him, “’You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40 If you put God first then you should spend time with Him and you will have a healthy relationship with Him. If you put people second then you should sp...

“Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD “And like the hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” Jeremiah 23:29 The word of God will purify you and break your stony heart. The word of God will make you holy and soften your heart. If you will give yourself to the word it will change you. Jesus said, “Sanctify them by Your truth, Your word is truth.” Sanctify them by Your truth, Your word is truth. John 17:17 The word is powerful nothing compares to the word. It will transform you and reshape your destiny. The word will make your life beautiful. If you will stick to the word it will make you an absolute success. So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. Acts 20:32 The Bible says that you are born of the word and that makes you an absolute victor in life. You can never be defeated, you can never be disadvantaged in life; you can live your life in perpet...

So that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My eyes. Isaiah 65:16 God is the blesser and possesser of the heaven and the earth. If you want to be blessed then bless yourself in the Lord. That means for you to actually walk in the blessing you have to spend time with God. You have to make spending time with God a priority. Everything you need is in God and for you to access it you have to spend time with Him. You have to pursue God. The Bible says that from His fullness we have received grace upon grace. You spend time with God you get grace, you spend more time with God you get more grace. You spend time with God every day. You get more grace every day. And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. John 1:16 As you spend time with God you get blessings upon blessings, as you spen...

Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. Matthew 10:27 People need to hear the gospel so preach the gospel in your sphere of contact. You can preach the gospel to your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, on social media, etc. Be selfless when it comes to the gospel. People around you need to hear the message, people that know you can receive the gospel from you because they know you and they know your manner of life. You witness with your life before you witness with your words. Paul was selfless when it came to the gospel. How I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:20-21 This is what made Paul great. If you would be selfless when it comes to the gospel God would make you great because selflessness is the key to gre...

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 Sin separates man from God. This is precisely what happened to Adam. When Adam sinned, he became estranged from God. He no longer had a healthy and living relationship with God, where God and Adam would fellowship together. He became separated from God, all because of sin. He was driven out of the Garden. Adam first died spiritually and then physically. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 Jesus came to restore the relationship that was lost between God and man. He came to give us life eternal life, life as God has it. When you receive Jesus and confess Him as your Lord and Saviour, you receive eternal life and you are reconciled and restored to a relationship with God. That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has ...

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 Beloved, you might find that you are not where you want to be or your life did not quite turn out the way you thought it would. Maybe, you are not as swift, strong or wise as you would like to be. There is hope for you and Jesus is your hope. God has good thoughts concerning you. Taking it from our opening Scripture, God has thoughts of peace toward you; however, these thoughts are in His Word clothed in vocabulary. What you need do is to delve into the Word, because all His exceedingly great and precious promises are not on the surface. You must dig deep to take possession of them. You need to exchange your thoughts about yourself with God’s thoughts concerning you. Whatever God says about you in His Word, let it dominate your thinking. Let the Word saturate your mind. Renew your mind with the Word of God. And do not be conformed ...

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Matthew 12:33 Did you ever know that a person can make him or herself good or bad? It is entirely up to you as a child of God to make yourself good or bad, and there are ways in which you make yourself good or bad. You make yourself good by choosing good influence, which entails the things you watch, read, and listen to, the places you go to and the people you spend most of your time with. All these influence you to be a good person if they are good influence. He who walks with wise men will be wise, but a companion of fools will be destroyed. Proverbs 13:20 Conversely, you make yourself bad when you are influenced by bad influence such as the things you watch, read, and listen to, the places you go to and the people you spend most of your time with. All these influence you to be a bad person if it is bad influence. Do not be deceived: “Evil company...

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 We are living in stressful times and many people are battling to cope with daily demands. You could be struggling with depressing thoughts or some seemingly insurmountable challenge that is causing you stress, worry and anxiety. There is a way out. You can find rest when you come to Jesus. You find rest by coming to Jesus and spending time with Him. He will ease your mind and give you rest; He will restore your soul. Sadly, too many people are busy about many things and they neglect fellowship with the Lord. If you will make time for the Lord and make spending time with Him a priority, then stress, worry and anxiety will melt like wax in His presence. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. For My yoke is easy and burden is light. Matthew 11:30 If you want to travel light, I encourage you to make spending time with God a priority. God wants you to rest inwardly, so that you can be...

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things. Philippians 4:8 Excellent thoughts bring about joy and peace in one’s life; excellent thoughts attract blessings. If you want to have a beautiful life, think excellent thoughts; thoughts that are consistent with the Word. You have the mind of Christ; you have a sound, excellent and creative mind. Refrain from thinking discouraging and self-defeating thoughts, refuse to dwell on the negative and think positive thoughts. Train your mind to think constructive and excellent thoughts; thoughts that encourage and build you up. You are the only one who can choose what you think about. Just because something crossed your mind it does not mean that you should dwell on it. The Bible admonishes us to guard our hearts...