Be a pillar of righteousness

And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. Acts 4: 35

Every one of us can get involved in government. How can we do this?

• You as an individual should be a pillar of righteousness
• Let your home be a pillar of righteousness
• Make sure your community is a pillar of righteousness
• Demand righteousness from your leaders

The major challenge we have towards growth and success is ignorance and lack of knowledge. We need to educate our people, let them know right from wrong and good from bad.
Today we have segregation in the world and this has also entered into the church. The church is a place for all, because rich or poor, we are the same in the sight of God.

We have to open our eyes and realize that no condition in life is permanent. We must come together to establish a righteous church and place for all, not leaving anyone out irrespective of who they are or where they are from.

One of the main roles of the church is to redistribute wealth amongst the people. They are to make sure that the wealth in and within the nation should go round with no one or family remaining poor.
A lot of people have a sense of entitlement. We believe that the world and the people around us owe us something. If people are serious and ready to work, then the church should be ready to ensure that they are empowered to succeed.

As Christians we must focus on the people and what the word says about loving our neighbour as ourselves. The love of the world and the money it holds should not be allowed to have sway in the church and among its people.

Christians must wake up to their responsibility. We must begin to rethink, we must stretch forth our hands and be united against the common enemy that wants to fight the church and the spread of the gospel.

Church should be able to identify the serious people and help them to start small and grow into greatness.

Re-programming your life

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. Exodus 3: 1 KJV

Exodus 3: 1-10; Exodus 7: 9

Moses was 80 years old when he encountered the burning bush. To all intent he would have been considered a failure; he was working for his father in-law and beholden to his wife’s family. A lot of us see ourselves in this light as well.

Why are people considered failures? Some people have their life programed in the wrong way.

• We do not have the right kind of mentors 1 Samuel 2: 22. A lot of us have failed because we do not have the right kind of mentor-ship. If this is your case, you must reprogram your life
• A lot of us did not determine at a young age how we want our future to be. A lot of us did not define for ourselves how we like to see ourselves in the future. Gen 37: 4
• We do not have a vision of how our life’s success should be. What is the idea that you saw or see in your mind of where you think your life is going?
• We fail to dream big and imagine the unimaginable and bring it to life
• A lot of us went into the wrong program because we took the wrong decision. Gen 25: 29-34. With this wrong decision, we find ourselves struggling and fighting to find our way out of the wrong decision

A lot of us has made a mistake at one time or the other in life that has changed the course of our lives. For some it was the first job, the first boyfriend/ girlfriend, the wife/husband, the decision to use drugs, the first investment we made; all this mistakes change the direction of our lives and how we succeed on that journey.

There is space for everyone to be great. There is no big conglomerate today that started big, they all started small and worked hard, with dedication and focus. What God is asking you is what do you have in your hand for Him to bless and multiply for you.

The only thing that can re-program your life and put it on the path of success and fulfillment is to invite God into your life and allow Him to direct your path. Determine in your heart and in your life that things must change! Turn around and link the right path God had ordained for you.

God’s plan for us is not one of failure; for He says that His thought for us are good to give us an expected end. Jeremiah 29: 11. Cry unto God, cry like David, Jesus, Abraham, Isaac, Jabez, the widow of Zarephat cried and they experienced a change in their lives.

God, problems and limitations pt. 2

Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2 I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Job 42:1-2 KJV

Job going through his problem and his challenges began to question God, began to ask God why he was doing this or that to him. A lot of people question God, argue that there is no God, that God is not answering him/her.

As a result of problems and not seeing a solution to these problems, some of us decide to take drastic decisions. Job concluded that God is limitless. Some of us come to the conclusion that God has let them down, we fail to appreciate all those wonderful things that we enjoy every day we are alive. No matter what we do and no matter how far we run, God will still be God.

The best thing we can do with God is to make sure we are on the same side with God. James 1:17 says, Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow. (ISV)
This means that there is no limitation, no fluctuation, no holdups, and no stopping. We know that God can do anything and everything. Within a few days, weeks, months or years al that we have lost can be replaced so long as we look to God.

What is your problem? What is your anxiety? What is your limitation? What is that thing that gives you sleepless nights? I want you to know that it is a small thing for God to do.

The God who created man after His likeness, is waiting for you today. We need to be careful what see as impossible or cannot be done. What we see as impossible is just too small for God to work on and He will do it if we believe that He is limitless. 

Never ever think that your problem is impossible for God. Do not think also that some people are beyond deliverance. God can save or deliver anyone or any nation. Romans 10: 9-13.

There is nothing we are going through that God cannot bring you out of it. There is no temptation that you are going through that is common to you alone, other have passed through it. They came out of it and so you can also get out it.

Hear me today that there is nothing you are going through that God does not have an answer for. Every problem has an expiration date.

God, problems and limitations

Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2 I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.  Job 42:1-2 KJV

What we consider problems are actually opportunities that leads up the ladder of success. Problems that come into our life on its own teaches us about creativity, compassion to help people who experience your kind of problem at a later date, providing solutions and a lot more.

Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow. James 1:17 (ISV). God can do anything and everything because our God is limitless. I want to assure you that anything you can imagine or think of or God ca do it. If you can just imagine it then it can be possible. You have no hands but have a desire to swim? Yes, you can. Why? You serve a God that has no boundary, one without a beginning or end.

If you can imagine the limitless might of God, you will realize how small your problems are. You need to realize that every challenge you are facing today is because God is already working on it. Therefore, there is no need to worry over the problem but focus on the blessings you have.
You may seem you have lost everything but you have gained life.

1. God is limitless unto salvation and God is ready, waiting and about to save and redeem you this day. 
2. God is limitless in deliverance. There is no situation you are in that God cannot turn around or bring you out of. Whatever crisis you may be in; God can deliver you from them all. Mark 9: 22-23 
3. God is limitless in miracles. Like 1: 36-37. God can perform any kind of thing that you call a miracle. There was no prime minister in Egypt before Joseph. He can do all things and everything, beyond and above everything we can think or imagine
4. God is limitless in prosperity and blessings. There is always something to be grateful about. 

I want to tell you as you read this post today, you are going to laugh because your God is limitless in miracles. Talk to Jesus now, bring your problems before Him, bring your challenges to Jesus. God is limitless in salvation and He is ready to save you and give you the turnaround He has laid out for you. 

God is faithful to save

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 KJV

Let it be known, whether you believe it or not, there is nothing we can do without God. Our life can never be on track without that quotient called God. Faithful is He who will do what he says He will do. There are some areas where God insists on being faithful and one of them is in the fulfillment of His promises. He is also faithful in ensuring that we get solutions to problems as they come so long as we wait on Him and are patient in letting Him lead the way.

God’s desire is not to make things unbearable for you and He is always looking for how He can make a way out of the challenges that you are faced with. Eventually somehow or the other God will open up the door of opportunities for you. He will lead you on that path that leads to fulfillment of destinies.

When God decides to not make a way out of a situation, it is not because He does not love you but because He knows that it is not the right time or He is preventing you from one situation or another.
God is able to save. Save you from difficulty and eventually save your soul. Isaiah 59: 1-2. The only way God does not save is if there is iniquity in your life.  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 KJV

It is God’s desire that everyone of us should make it to heaven, that we all live a good, wonderful and peaceable life. Some people have foundation problems, some have committed so much sins, and some are embroiled in the snare of the enemy, but is always there ready to accept us and shower us in His love and promises of grace.

I want to tell you today; God will be faithful to you this day as you look to Him.

God is faithful to save you from trials and tribulations, from circumstances that are seemingly unbearable. I want to encourage you and reassure you that God is faithful to save you. He will bring you out of that situation that you are going through, so long as you are alive and breathing, that situation shall become history.

Let nothing frighten you, do not be afraid of whom you shouldn’t be afraid of, these gives you the peace to think and do things right.

God is faithful to establish. 2 Tess 3:3; But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 1 Pet 5:10. KJV. God takes us through a period of suffering to make us perfect. God made Joseph perfect through the suffering he went through. In these trials we get experience, strength, immovable, tolerant and powerful with a deep understanding and knowledge that you will use to fulfil your destiny. One of the great things of life is to learn the “experience of pain”. He expects that we settle into the pain, learn from it, pray our way out of it.  There are certain things that we must learn, experience and retain while we go through our hard times. Until we learn the experience of pain we will keep going back into that trial or challenge until we have learned that which we want to learn.

Our prayer is that God brings us out of the trials better, stronger and after it all, that He will settle us.

What is your part in destiny?

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8: 22 KJV

I want to assure you that God will always play His part. However, you also have a part to play in the fulfillment of your destiny. Your problems and that challenges will not just disappear like magic; you have to get involved in making the turning that problem to a success story. God has given you freewill so that you can participate in how your life turns out. In John 11: 39, Jesus told the people to “roll away the stone” so that He can raise Lazarus from the dead.

Sometimes, things don’t move forward because we have refused to play our part. God is waiting for you to play your part because He has already played His part and fulfilled it. The day you decide to play your part, things will start moving forward and everything else will work out like magic.

You may not have to do something and there are some things that you cannot do alone. What are those things we need to do so that God can do what He alone can do? When Joseph’s brothers put him in the it, he begged them not to do so, but he did not beg Pharaoh to make him Governor over all of Egypt. Joseph did not stop moving forward wherever he found himself, whether as a slave in the house of Potiphar or in the prison. Being able to do his part made it possible for him to be promoted to the palace where a new position was created just for him.

What are those things you must do to begin to play your part?

1. You must be born again. Give your life to God 100%, God needs you to accept His gift of salvation
2. You must believe. All things are possible to them who believe
3. Have faith in God. It is one thing to believe that God can do it, but another thing to have faith that God will do it. So we must have faith so that we would move mountains.
4. Confess your what you believe with your mouth and act on your faith in God

Who is the faithful and limitless God? pt 2

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8: 22 KJV

The word faithful means to be steadfast in giving affection or allegiance. It is to be firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty. We therefore say our God is Faithful, firm in adherence to His promises that He made to mankind and in observance of His duty.  It is God that has promised and He will fulfill that which he has promised. He is faithful in covenant keeping. Gen 8: 21-22. Therefore, the place that God’s covenant has put you, no one can take you away from that place; not even you can move yourself from there. Covenant is an agreement; God has an agreement with man and the agreement is sealed with His name and the blood of Jesus Christ.

There are certain things we do not pray for in this earth. You do not need to pray to sow seed or to harvest because there will always be seed time and as long as you able to plant a seed you will always reap the harvest. Once you plant a seed you will doubles reap it, and it will come without fail that harvest will come. If you sow a bad seed the harvest will come.

God is faithful in making a way. A lot of times, certain things overwhelms a lot of us. There are times we think our prayers will not be answered or that God will not fulfill His promises to us. In 1 Corinthian 10:13, God assures us through His words that no matter how hard the temptation and life trials may be, He will make a way out of it for us. All the tension and anxiety, pain and wonder whether we would make it or not. God would always make a way. Whatever it is we are going through, God is faithful who will not make a way of escape for us when we go through temptation and life challenges. I assure you that God will make a way, no matter how bad the situation may seem. As long as you are alive, there is hope for you in the name of Jesus.

We are pressed on all sides, for some it if because we fail to take the right decision at the right time, for some because we missed the way at a point in life, for some it is as a result of external factors, while for others it is as a result of our carelessness. That test that does not kill you will make you stronger.

Who is the faithful and limitless God?

But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 KJV

What does it mean to be faithful? To be steadfast in affection. Our God is faithful. The theme of our celebration this year is the faithful and limitless God. The covenant keeping God. Deuteronomy 7:9 God does not break His covenant.

God made a covenant with Noah and till date this covenant has not ceased. While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22 KJV. He made a covenant with David and till date that covenant still stands firm through Christ who is called the son of David, He who rules over the whole universe.
All the crisis on earth, all the incidents in every region of the world; there is one King over all that can keep us through it all. His name is Jesus.

Our God is faithful in making a way for His people. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinth 10:13. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which we can bear but He will make a way of escape for you.

God is faithful to establish you, in life, in your business, in your health, in your future. He alone can fill up that which is missing in your life. A lot of us are empty inside and we seek that thing or person that can fill us up. We are held down by fear, anxiety, pain, failure, lack; if we are experiencing any of these know this that God is faithful to make a way of escape for you and to establish you.

So many times we seek to end it all; people look at you and think that you are living the life they desire, but let us know that God is faithful and He is ready to save you from it all. Why? Our God is faithful to save.

In like manner, never for one day will God shut His doors to you. His doors are always open and He is ready to welcome you. There is never and will never be a day that God will not be faithful to mankind.

Our God is limitless. He is without boundary, without limit, with nothing and no one to hold him down. Our God is limitless in salvation. He is ready to save everyone and anyone who comes to Him for help and salvation. With God all things are possible Matthew 19: 26 KJV.

God gives hope to those who are without hope. He restores life, homes, businesses.
God is limitless in miracles. God will work out a miracle for everyone that seeks Him.
God is limitless in prosperity and blessing.

To experience God's faithfulness and limitless power, He wants something from us. What does God want us to do?

1. Give our life to Him
2. Trust him
3. Believe Him 
4. God is waiting for you to surrender to Him

If you are reading this today and there is a limitation in your life or you feel that God has not been faithful in your life, business, family, home; Be encouraged. Talk to God today; open the door of your heart to Him, to Jesus; let God, the faithful and limitless God, enter in and cause a turnaround in your life.

Where do youths stand in leadership? Pt 2 (Youth Anniversary)

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 

Acts 2:17 KJV

So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 

Numbers 1:45 KJV

A politician is a merchant of hope. That is basically who a politician should be. For every youth that wants to go into politics, you need to make yourself an authority in your immediate environment. You must know how things work and why it works that way. You must be visible to your community and the people in your community. Money is important for everything and people can raise money for you. You will be surprised how people will rally around you when they know who you are and what you can deliver.

Begin to make the change right from where you are. Become an influence that is the start of change that you want to see.

It is high time we have a change of mindset and do things differently. Things can’t move or change unless we take the lead and make it happen. What we need to do is to step things forward and change the understanding currently in vogue among the youth. The first thing that empowers people is education and not economics. If we can provide the right education at an affordable rate, we can begin to see that change. The right education is not primarily the formal educational institutions but more of technical and vocational schools that would empower and build leaders of commerce in various industries.

We should begin to think of a system that encourages the youths to be creative and to live creatively. Leadership does matter without the people and the ability to lead right. We must be ready to ask questions from the current crop of leaders. If we ask questions from the current crop of leaders, they will come prepared to answer questions the next time.

Be ready to play your own part by being that person we want Nigeria (our country) to be. Clean your house, live right and be more involved in your community.

Where do youths stand in leadership? Pt 1 (Youth Anniversary)

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 

Acts 2:17 KJV

So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 

Numbers 1:45 KJV

The youth have a place in leadership, there is space in the nation and rule. Our youth doesn’t simply qualify us for the role of leadership. What we want the the young people with character who can show that they are different from the old form of leadership. The realities of leadership today are very different from what is obtainable in the past. We have to lead by example.
There is no way we can advocate for youth leadership without fixing the system from the ground up.

There are 2 categories of youths

1. Those who are educated and have the right back ground
2. The uneducated used and influenced by the corrupt

We must not seat on the fence and expect things to be right. Also, we must not just wake up one day to be a leader. We have to build a flow that takes us to the top where we can become influencers and leaders.
We cannot continue to ascribe our leadership to God, Pastors, Imams and Babalawos. We need to take the lead. Be the vanguard for your course, be ready to sanction and censor things that are not right to ensure that a way for youth leadership can open up.

For the youth to take leadership, they have to be ready and must demonstrate what is right without compromising on it. The youth must learn not to join them when they are doing the wrong thing. Most times leadership becomes a burden to the youth because they have no understanding of the responsibilities attached to it, hence, they become worse than the leaders they complain about.

As a youth going into leadership, ask yourself this question;

• What do I want to achieve as a leader?
• Why do I want to be a leader?
• What do I have to offer to the people I will lead?

The revolution that will change the country will start in the church because it is a place where values and morals are taught.