When a woman's belly is protruded, we know its a baby/babies. the belly of a man might be big or flat, but inside that belly are great blessings.
When a man blesses a child or his wife from his belly, the answer is unhindered. Isaac was a very good example for both. ...
God of Elijah send down fire! God of Elijah send down fire!
God of Elijah send down fire! God of Elijah send down fire!
Whenever, we are going through some challenges and we know that some demons are messing up with us, this song is always on our lips.
There is an event recorded in 1 Kings 18, with which the song above inaugurated from. Elijah had challenged the god of Baal as against the Almighty God. Elijah told the Israelites to stop hypocrisy and follow the right God, whether its Baal or God of Israel. So he challenged that they are representative of Baal and he is a representative of God, and the God that answers by fire is God and the one everyone will serve. They called on Baal and call but no fire came, Elijah filled the altar with water and when he called on God, fire descended to consume the sacrifice, water even the stones. And the people believed God. When Jezebel(King Ahab’s wife) heard, she sworn to kill Elijah, do you know that the same Elijah that prayed
Despite Jacob got the blessing from his father, did he walk in the blessing?
I think the first question we should treat is, if his mother had not tricked, would he had gotten the blessing?
Now to answer the latter, I will posit a clearer picture with a question; the blessing he got, didn’t he needed the blessing of the angel to fully walk in it? Whatever you get through unholy means; deceit, tipping, bribery cannot take you to the promised land, instead it will slow you down.
Jacob’s presence in Panddan-aram was not by accident, but he was not supposed to spend such a long time there. Because of Jacob’s deceit, he found himself in the wrong location, in a strange land. Hence, the blessing was in disguise not working optimally for him. It took the intervention of the blessing of the angel for him to walk in the reality of his blessing.
A statement was alleged to Abraham Lincoln, the American 16th President, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.” He believed that America is a freedom nation and the freedom cannot be taken away by a stranger except the Americans themselves.
Lincoln’s ideology is similar to what Jesus said in Matthew 12:25; …“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand
Its the end of May, everyone is ensuring to restock the house. Markets, malls, stores are all filled...
A young man watched a beautiful scenario ahead of him; “A man drove with his wife to a mall. As they were parking, he noticed the tyre has been punctured by a sharp object. He quickly decided to change the tyre. The wife joined the procedure. He told her not to soil her hand, and she said, but I know how to sit in it when the tyres were perfectly working.
Everyman has the tendency of making impact in this world, although not all eventually do. A covenant was upon Isaac, which was passed to Jacob and Jacob needed to pass it to one of his children, it then landed on Joseph. Why Joseph? Why not Reuben, Levi, Simeon or any other child? The other children were able to make impact through their generation, not directly through them. Only Joseph made himself available to carry the baton, which the generation of the other tribes later enjoyed. Genesis 49.
The discussion about Zelophehad's daughters have been an interesting one in the last two series. In this series, we want to extract the life lessons in their life.
The following pictures are extracts from the burial of Pastor Dare Adeboye: Thank you for stopping by, click the home link for more articles.
My sermon on Sunday 9th of May was recorded before the incident, and if you listen to it, I said, For every examination, there is a promotion. The tougher the exam, the bigger the promotion. This exam was tough but we have passed. Let's move forward, Win more souls, plant more churches, let's drive the devil crazy! Let's show him the stuff we are made of. Our strength is not small, our strength is not weak because greater is He that is in us. Join me my beloved children, let's march on. Get ready for miracles you have never seen before in your life and in the body of Christ...
This is on record now, I want to say this, like never before, I'm going to show greater interest in the youths and young Adults ministry of our mission.
“Show me a child, and I will tell you who his parents are and how well he/she has been taught.” Whenever a child act or display a show of honour or shame, we simply check his track-record of where he/she is coming from. Parents have significant role to play in the life of a child. That is why God made some people (father and mother) with higher experience in life their custodian; to provide, nurture, train, teach, encourage, be there and take responsibility for them. "I work 4 shifts because of my children", if you are busy making money without training them, they will eventually waste the money you have made all your life. As much as you want to make money, create time to train them. You can reduce 4 to 3 or 2 shifts so as to have time for them. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). How do we pay the bills? Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your path. Proverbs 3:5-6. God can never go against Himself nor His Word, if you want to train your children and God sees your heart as such, He will make a way for you.
