Babies cry to their mothers when they are hungry. In Christ, that implies you must not casually expect to be fed by the labour of your pastor or ministers. Instead, you must pursue knowing God by yourself by becoming more deterministic in consuming sound doctrine in the Word.
God instructs us through Peter that we must be holy in all we do (1 Peter 1:14-16). But how? By refusing to conform to the evil desires we had when we didn’t know God. And checking our actions to ensure each one carries an element of godliness.
Everything earthly is temporary. Use what God has blessed you with to do good works. In that way, your treasures in heaven will increase since God records your good works in heaven as Christians.
Until the Word enters you, you’ll not have the light of life to live like Jesus. It’s not enough to know the Word; you have to understand it. So that you’ll not live as a simple (foolish) person but as wise.
David kept his feet from evil people only to stay true to God’s Word. In today’s world, it’s just like consciously deciding to disassociate yourself from bad people to preserve the prophecies upon your life.
The Israelites in Nazareth didn’t know Jesus could have performed more miracles than He did when the despised Him. Dishonour makes you lose precious gifts you could have received. Sometimes, you’ll not know it. Learn to view people as how God sees them, not how they appear before you.
God knows every single detail about your life. Before you got saved, He vowed to be faithful to you.
So God is too concerned about Your life that He made provisions to help you before you even got into any trouble.
Until you’ve gone through a season of pain, scarcity and temporary abandonment by people, you’ll not truly understand what it means to declare, “The Lord is my shepherd.” Why? Because others will provide for you, and you’ll not have any reason to come before God for your needs. God is your source, not your job, parents, guardians or investments.
God made the world and saw that everything He has done was good. But He still created and appointed man to have dominion over His creation.
Although what God created wasn’t problematic, He needed man to manage and supervise the growth of the work done. Today, it’s like building an organisation and hiring others to manage your systems for you. It’s not new; it’s a principle of scripture.
One of my favourite Bible verses is Proverbs 24:27. In that verse, Solomon teaches that you should put your outdoor work together before building a house. In other words, he was saying, “Ensure your work and vision are well established before building a home.”
Dear leader, don’t watch your vision go down the drain by ignoring the study of how things work. It’s not good to adjust your work to do what others are doing. However, you can learn from people, get ideas, pray for God to screen them and do the ones He wants you to add to your organisation.
When Apostle Paul said this to the Ephesian church, he was speaking from a spiritual-fatherly perspective. He told them to obey their shepherds in the Lord. But when it came to the biological parents, he said they should honour them (Ephesians 6:2). Why? Because Paul knew not all biological parents are also spiritual parents to their children.
