Perfect Love Pt 2

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Cor. 13: 1-2 NET

Love would never fail anyone who has made the conscious choice to love. 1 Cor 13: 8, whether there be prophecies they will fail.  If you chose to love a person, that over will never fail you. If you love someone you won’t quarrel with them, you would tolerate them, you won’t try to destroy. You say you love your parents yet you have abandoned them somewhere and have refused to honour them.

Love is great and is perhaps the greatest emotion you can ever have. 1 Cor 13: 13. If you are married today, go back home and love your spouse. If you have chosen to marry a person love them. Love does not destroy and always thinks of how to offer oneself for the benefit of many. In love, we are always on the lookout for how best to meet the needs of the people around us and making the life they live better. In a nation, leadership is based on love. This leadership starts in the home and moves all the way to nationhood. If a leader, at home or in the nation, doesn’t love then his leadership is a sham.

Love is prepared to die for the object of love. Greatness comes from great love. The reason why we follow Jesus is because He loves us and He died on the cross for us. All who claim to love must be willing to die for the person they love. Nelson Mandela became one of the greatest people on earth because he was ready to die for South Africa.

Is your love a choice you have made? Is your love prepared to die for someone or a people? If you truly love you can never die because God will raise you up again, just as He did with His only begotten son Jesus Christ. Today you need to reflect on your life how selfish and how arrogant you have been. Have you loved your husband/wife, children, neighbour, parent-in-law, colleagues, boss, nation? Check yourself and make amends, chose today to truly love.

Perfect Love Pt 1

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Cor. 13: 1-2 NET

If you are a woman and you meet a man that you are not ready to submit to as you would submit to God, don’t marry him! The word is to submit to your husband as you would submit to the Lord. Love means marrying the man only if you are ready to yield to and accept his leadership; accept him as your crowning glory. If you are a man and you are not ready to die for the woman then do not marry her. This is the love Paul spoke about in his letter to the church. The confusion of marriage comes because a lot of us do not understand what marriage is about. Love for another person that would culminate in marriage should be one that is selfless and seeks to give all. Ephesians 5:21-28

He that loves his wife loves his own body. Why are we studying love? The simple reason is that love is the solution to all ills. For example, if you love your neighbor you will not covet what belongs to him. You will do everything to make him happy and be at peace with him. If you love somebody there will be no need for you and the person to quarrel and be bitter with each other.
If there is love in the heart of men, the home, the family and the community would live in peace and tolerance of one another. If there is love in our life towards the people around us we would understand them.

Love gives and gives the best always. It is possible to give without loving but we can’t love without giving. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV. If we say we love a person and are not ready to give them everything that will make them happy, we will think of them first and always put them first. Love should not be based on conditions but must be unconditional. We say we love our friend, family or spouse for so many reasons.

We need to talk about love because a lot of people have forgotten what love is about. Love is the only thing that can give peace of mind and contentment. Most of the time we do things not because of love but because of what we are expecting from the person or what the person gives us. Love gives and gives the best; if you love somebody you will be ready to give him everything and anything.

Love has character and depth….1 Cor 13:4 tells us that love suffers much. It can do anything for the object of his love. If you do not truly love a person do not go into a relationship with them. Love bears, tolerates and accepts all things. If you truly love a person you, can’t be angry with that person. Love is not something that is reactive, it is a choice that we make. We make a choice to love and live a life of love. Show your spouse extra-ordinary love.

Love supersedes all, so make that choice to love today.

Rebirth: back to the closet of the family

And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel. Joshua 6:23 KJV

Rebirth means the revival of the soul. Rehab experienced rebirth and she was saved destruction because she had a rebirth when the spies came to the land of Jericho. She had the wisdom and understanding that her life needed to be renewed and so she hid the spies and got a promise of safety for herself and her family. 

In Genesis 7: 7-9, Noah went in with his sons and their wives. The bible says they went in male and  female. They went inside of the closet (ship) in twos. Rebirth therefore, is about salvation, it is about the success of the individual and of the home. Success in the home, marriage and life of individual is educative. Rebirth is a rethink of one's life, and a renewal and the revival of the soul .

As you seek financial prosperity do not leave your soul behind because if you do when the woman comes you would struggle to enjoy the wealth. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 John 2 KJV. If your soul is prospering it will promote unity, love, affection, and growth. In the family closet the wife and husband are number one before the children and extended family. This is because the children will leave and as you get old it will be just you and your spouse. Therefore treat your spouse well and build a lasting friendship
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Rebirth means to return back the value of life, family and the home. It means to return to a flourishing situation and we need to sweep off and clean away all the filth and debris in our lives and homes that hinders revival and renewal.
It is called family closet because it is for the family, not just for the man or just for the woman.

We need to clean the closet by doing the following:

• Start by telling yourself the truth. After telling yourself trash all the lies
• Look for and enrich yourself with the wisdom to settle differences in the home (do not give room for quarrel)
• Imagine for yourself what you do to others outside your home.  If you do not like it, then trash it
• After trashing the unwanted things in your closet, then fill it up with those things you want there
• Invite into your home the God who created the home and marriage
• Make your home and life spicy and interesting 

Happy celebration of love!

Rebirth: Beauty from ashes

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.  Exodus 2 : 1-2 KJV

If you are an incomplete single lady you will meet an incomplete man, get married and have an incomplete home. Therefore, you should have and live a complete life. Why? Because marriage does not complete a person, we are born complete from our birth. There are four things we should understand about being a complete man or woman.

1. We are someone’s child (son/daughter) and we must be profitable in all our ways. Being profitable is in two ways, the biological and spiritual son-ship. In the biological we must be a fruitful child to our parents, honouring them and ensuring that they live a life that blesses us in every way. We must never get to a level when we do not give honour to our parents. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12 KJV.  We must never be rude to our parents irrespective of what they do, because life is governed by the principles set out by God. For your life to have beauty, you must take care of your parents and the parents of your spouse. How are your parents back at home? Are they hungry? Are they shedding tears? Be a profitable son; be a profitable daughter. Procure your future by being kind to your parents. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison. And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. Gen 27: 2-3 KJV. We must also honour our spiritual parents. As children of God we must ensure that the man of God in our life partakes in our sweat. Let them be a blessing to us. It is important in our lives. We must have that person in our life that is a spiritual parent who will stand in the gap for us. These spiritual parents we must honour so we can be fruitful spiritually which will manifest in the physical. By honouring who we should honour, we would not see dishonor. 
2. We must be an extraordinary man or woman. Do not live for yourself alone, let your life bless all the people that you come in contact with. The poor are looking at you, let them benefit from your life. An extraordinary life comes from being a giver, making people happy and putting a smile in the hearts of the people around you and in your life. 
3. You must be an award-winning wife or husband. Your life partner must be able to say that you deserve the award of the best spouse. Make up your life to make your marriage work. Except physical abuse or your life is at stake; do all you can to be an award-winning wife or husband. If as a woman your financial life is totally dependent on your husband then your life is incomplete. If as a wife you cannot celebrate your spouse with the money you have earned with your own hard work, then you need to have a rethink of your life. Every man wants an asset and not a liability. They want to have a wife who would not be a burden in the home.   She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land Proverbs 31: 14-15, 23 KJV
4. Women/husband need to be validated by their spouse. As a man and husband, we must make time for our spouse. Do not be too spiritual that you do not have time for your partner. As a woman let your husband feel good, as a man let your wife feel good. Bring romance back to your marriages. Do not use spirituality as an excuse to against your spouse’s needs.

May God give us understanding and may He do us good. Our end will be better than our handing!

The forces that limit progress Pt1

Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him. 3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. 

Mark 11: 2-3 KJV

The bible tells us that there is a Colt somewhere tied down. Somebody somewhere had determined to limit the progress of that Colt. Every human being is created and designed to grow and make progress except there is a force that is limiting that progress. If you want to soar there is sometimes a force that is designed to pull us down. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 John 1 KJV. 

The minute a baby is born s/he begins to grow. If you observe there is no growth in the baby you begin to have concerned. At the creation the bible says that God blessed man. The original design of every man is to progress and grow. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen 1:28 KJV

But as we go through life we tend to find that there are some limiting factors that prevents us from growing. As time goes for most people, we tend to get used to this limitation and just stop trying. There are many forces that come against the normal progression in the life of man.

There was a research of insects put in a container. They initially try to fly, just as it is their nature to do. The container limits their flight. As this continues the flies stopped trying to fly and stayed down. Even after the glass container was removed they still refused to fly because they still felt the ceiling (limiting factors). This is the same for a lot of us. We are affected by the invisible bible ceiling that our mind, life, circumstances, has put over us.

Evidences that our progress is limited:

1. You just do not seem able to move. 
2. Working with nothing to show for the labour
3. The feeling that there is something missing in your life
4. Exerting too much effort in life struggles
5. Inability to finish and to finish well
6. Consistent failure at the edge of breakthrough

What are the things that limits progress?

1. Being tied down by the activities of men Mark 11: 1
2. Some limitations are generational Matt. 21: 2 Passed down from parent to children

There is a need to break free from any form of limitation.