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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I though as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 The Greek word for child here is “nepios” which means an infant, a babe, one who cannot speak, a simple minded person and an immature Christian. The Greek word for man here is “aner” which means a man of mature understanding. God wants you to put away childish things and become mature in your understanding. There are two stages in Christianity which are a babyhood stage and maturity stage; carnal and spiritual. It goes without saying that you start out as a baby who is carnal, however you need to mature and be spiritual. You need to grow from being simple minded and become wise. As new born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 1 Peter 2:2-3 You grow by going for the Word; the Word of God is spiritual food. You also need to pray; prayer...

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 John 5:14 If you are going to have answered prayers you will have to ask according to God’s will and that means in line with His Word. God’s Word reveals God’s will for your life, therefore, if it’s in the Word, you can ask for it. When I was in high school a certain prophet from the U.S. came to our school and prophesied to me and after that meeting one of my teachers said to other students, “If the prophet did not prophecy to you and you want what he prophesied to someone else, you can say, ‘God, I want the same thing.’” That couldn’t be further from the truth, because that would be covetousness. Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 You cannot ask God for something that belongs to someone that would be covetousness, that is not God’s will. ...

For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Isaiah 51:3 You may be faced with a number of challenges at this point in your life. Perhaps you are diagnoses will a horrible illness or you are in debt, it could be anything. It does not matter because God will turn it around! You are going through it but you are not remaining in it. This too will pass. It will not always be like this, things will turn around in your favor. God will rescue and deliver you. God will not leave you there. When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.” The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad. Psalm 126:1-3 God is the God of th...

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Romans 8:14 We are no longer under the law but we are under grace and we are in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. We should yield to the Holy Spirit and be led by the Spirit. When you are born again, you can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and follow His leading. You just need to know how to be sensitive to His voice. You become sensitive to His voice by praying in the Spirit and meditating on the Word. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not...

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Joel 3:14 The best decision you could ever make in life is to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Other than that, you have to make numerous decisions every day of your life. When you constantly make right decisions they eventually lead to your success in life. Success simply put is a series of right decisions that you make. However, you need wisdom to make right decisions all the time. The Bible clearly states that if you need wisdom, you should ask for it. Solomon asked for wisdom when he was presented with an opportunity to ask and God was pleased with his request. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 Making right decisions every day is of outmost importance. The good that you do today will benefit you tomorrow. The good that you do right now will put you in an ad...

And again, Isaiah says: “There shall be a root of Jesse; and He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in Him the Gentiles shall hope.” Romans 15:12 When you are not Jewish according to the flesh you are a Gentile. Although God had originally called the Jews to be His people, this time He has also called the Gentiles to be His people. Glory to God! Now, Jesus the King of kings reigns over us as the Gentiles, we are His people. Although the Jews are originally His people, God has had mercy on us and made us His people. We are grafted in to the family of God. We are now God’s people because we believe in Jesus Christ. As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.” “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they shall be called sons of the living God.” Romans 9:25-26 We have come to an everlasting kingdom, a kingdom that knows no end. Now we reign thr...

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 We are in this world but we are not of this world, we are passer byes, we are strangers in the earth. We are the citizens of heaven, heaven is our home! The Bible clearly states that we are already seated with Christ in heavenly places. We are in Christ. When He was crucified, we were crucified with Him, when He was buried we were buried with Him, when He rose from the dead we were raised with Him to a newness of life. Christ is our life! But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-6 As heavenly citizens we should be heavenly minded, in other words we should get our vision from heaven and in effect bring heaven on ...