A tree branch with many leaves doesn’t realise it needs pruning to become more fruitful until the owner does it. In the same way, God prunes His children, including you and me, in Christ so we can become more productive in our lives.
One time, Jesus heard that John the Baptist got beheaded in prison. He couldn’t say anything but depart through a ship to a solitary place. It was a private time for mourning the death of His beloved cousin. But people were looking for him so much that they followed him on foot out of the cities. Even though Jesus had compassion on them, healed the sick and fed them (over five thousand people), His grief was still inside there. He was in pain, yet ministering. Are you so focused on receiving from your preacher without giving him some time of privacy?
Many people celebrate Christmas without discerning the reasons why Jesus came into the world. He didn’t come to be celebrated on Christmas holidays. He came with a mission – which is to revolutionalise this world to conform to the patterns of God.
God is the giver of vision, and where divine vision is clear, it gives meaning to life. In other words, when you know where God is taking you, you can begin to plan your life in that direction. Learn how to do systematic life planning today.
I want to encourage you that it pays to make a lot of sacrifices in order to live on purpose. You might not see the immediate benefits of your good work today. But it’s compounding to a great tomorrow that you’ll be shocked if God reveals it to you.
If you’re a leader, note that there’ll be times at least one of your team members will tell you that he disagrees with your ways of doing things. Sometimes, it’s good to listen, probably because you don’t know everything. Other times, you have to explain your actions in order to teach them the vision behind what you are doing.
There are several kinds of faithfulness because life is diversified. In terms of work, there’s faithful service. In terms of marriage, it’s called marital fidelity. All these are important. However, Jesus spoke about three kinds of faithfulness in Luke 16:10-12, one in each verse. And in this article, I’ll be going deeper into each of them. Let’s dive in.
In order to be Christ-like in all your ways, you’ve got to humble yourself before God to be trained. That includes spending time fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit. That also includes submitting to spiritual mentorship in Christ and being consistently present in the gathering of the saints.
If you want to have a glorious future, you must start investing in yourself today. Do this, and you’ll get so filled with the wisdom of God that you’ll hardly run into trouble without readily getting a solution.
God-inspired vision is so powerful that everyone connected to it experiences a change in one’s life. You may not be a person who knows your divine mandate. But you may have found yourself in a place whereby you’re serving under another man’s vision. Learn why you need to follow that leader well as long as they lead you to Christ and provides a means to help fulfil a divine purpose.
God knows all that you have. He knows what you can do with what you have now that you may never believe it, even if He tells you. Don’t belittle yourself. Don’t stay relaxed with your past successes, as little or enormous as they are. They are gone and are in your life archives. It’s time to forget what’s behind you and reach forward to what’s ahead of you.
Do you have the privilege of having children, whether spiritually or physically? Then start disciplining them in the ways of the Lord. Forget about their reactions when you do it because they don’t know the effect of their misbehaviour on their future.
