Is your life on the wrong trajectory? Pt. 2

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

Acts 7: 23-25 KJV

During my stay in England, I met this man who was a Nigerian. He spoke with a Nigerian Southwest accent and knew some affluent people in England. He lived in England and paid for his children’s education in one of the best schools in Lagos Nigeria. One day we found out he worked as a cleaner; we were surprised and asked him a question. Sir you dress well and speak well; and with all the people you say you know why is it that this is where you work? His response was very revealing; he told us that he had struggled in life and his life took a wrong trajectory and he found himself where he is.

What are those things that we can do to put our life on the right path again?

1. Moses realized that his life was in the wrong program. We need to know that there is only one way that is right before God. Jesus said that He is the way, truth and life. A lot of us don’t realize in good time that our life is on the wrong path. 
2. You must be determined and be desperate enough to say that your life must have a turn around. We should not be comfortable with the pain, violence, circumstances and challenges of our life. We should not be tolerant of bad things or things not working out for us.
3. You must come to the mountain of God. The bible says Moses kept the flock of his father-in-law but he went to the mountain where he saw the burning bush. What does that mean? He got born again and submitted himself to the will of God.
4. Believe in the one true God and accept the gift of life that He has given through Christ Jesus.
5. You must give your life to Jesus Christ. You must be born again; truly and wholly. 
6. Turn aside, follow a new path and seek a new direction for your life. You cannot do the same thing all the time and expect a new result. 
7. Be ready to hear God and obey Him. When God saw that Moses was ready to hear Him; that Moses was paying attention, that was when God spoke to him and showed him the things that he wants to do in Egypt.

Whatever we are going through today, I want to assure us that God will reprogram our life. Talk to the Almighty King; the only one that can re-program your life and ask him for help. What makes us look most like God is our ability to make the right choice.

God is going to move in your life this season in Jesus name. Whatsoever mistake you have made or your parents have made that has put you in the backside of life the Lord God shall cancel them today.
Ask God today to change the program of your life. That He who has created you should reprogram your life to the original purpose for which you were created and help you to fulfil that purpose in Jesus.

Whatever is wrong in your life ask the Lord to have mercy today and let my life have a turn around.
Remember that it is never too late for God to bring about a turnaround in your life. This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made thee a ruler and a judge?’ the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. Acts 7: 35 – 36 KJV. Moses was 80 years when his life had the turnaround to the original purpose for which he was born. You can also have that turnaround today.

Is your life on the wrong trajectory? Pt. 1

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

Acts 7: 23-25 KJV

I was speaking at a wedding yesterday and I spoke on “your life is not your idea”. Basically, the life you live is an idea of the one who created you; the one who created the life you live. Your life is not a mistake; before you were born he already knew you. He created you and decided into which womb you would grow.

Number one is that our life is not our idea; number two, our life has a purpose. God has a program for our life. Moses never thought, neither did he imagine it, that he would still be keeping a small flock at the age of 80 years. At the age of 40 years Moses knew he was born to do great thing; he was born to be the one to deliver his people from slavery. However, the program of his life went wrong the day he decided that he would take law into his own hands and do things his own way. He thought that the Israelis would know that he was their deliverer but when he tried to intervene in a fight between his brothers he got the shock of his life. What he had done a couple of days prior was not hidden, but the Israelis made him realize that what he thought he had done was known.

Moses who was brought up as an Egyptian became the enemy of both the Egyptians and the Israelis. He had nowhere to stand and so he had to flee and run into the desert. Like Moses a lot of us make that one mistake that changes the course of our life. We are like Moses finding ourselves in the desert and not being able to find our way out of the downhill slide our life is moving towards.

At the age of 80 years it had not ended for Moses. Therefore, it has not ended for you. Acts 7:22-36. God’s promise to Abraham was that Israel will be in Egypt 400 years but just at the time that the promise was to be fulfilled Moses made a mistake and the time was delayed another 30 years.
Although Moses saw himself and understood the times, the children of Israel his brethren did not. Therefore, they who Moses was supposed to lead out of captivity turned against him.

David did the same when he committed adultery with Bathsheba the wife of Uriah the Hitite. That one small challenge brought a problem into his family that didn’t depart from it even after his death. Therefore, some of us grow us to inherit the result of the mistakes our parents made.

Nigeria at 58 – The yearning of nation Pt. 2

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 

Exodus 1: 8 – 10 KJV

Exodus 1: 1-15

The goal of the Nigerian elitist leaders is to keep the people in the bondage of poverty so that they can rule over them. We have to refuse the paradigm and open our eyes to see the beauty and wonder of the nation called Nigeria.

After hundreds of years of the children of Israel living in the land of Egypt, there was a Pharaoh (leader) who did not know Joseph. When he came into power he decided that they must enslave the Israelis who came into their land as a free people.

In Nigeria, our current crop of leaders who are like the proverbial pharaohs that know no Joseph and they are superintending and ruling over the affairs of Nigeria. They have put task masters and officers over us.

1. There are some kings that do not know Joseph over Nigeria. Whether we believe it or not our colonial masters did not design Nigeria to succeed. They made sure it was almost impossible for Nigeria to survive and its citizens to thrive. 
2. We have task masters and officers. The task masters were Egyptians and the officers are Israelis. The same is happening in Nigeria today. Our leaders are our task masters and the average man are the officers
3. The people who do not mind suffering and smiling. The people have become like the ostrich thinking that things will get better by themselves. Each individual must rise up to say that ‘thus far we go and no more’ and work at the change we want to see in our nation. 
4. We must get for ourselves a visionary leader. Those who are concerned and filled with love and patriotism for Nigeria. We need someone who is learned in all the ways of Nigeria with a vision for Nigeria that will take Nigeria to that promised land. The person must be knowledgeable, well behaved, available for the people of Nigeria, ready to die for this nation, intelligent, filled with wisdom, capable and responsible, must be a nationalist.
5. We must get into a place of knowledge. Without knowledge and education, it is going to be a tough fight to move forward in this nation. 

The trend of rule and leadership over Nigeria makes it difficult for Nigeria to reach its full potential. It is time for us to cry to out and take a stand and say enough is enough.

Nigeria at 58 – The yearning of nation Pt. 1

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 

Exodus 1: 8 – 10 KJV

Exodus 1: 1-15

Nigeria is a blessed country; it is an extremely blessed country. There is no part of Nigeria that is not blessed. The bible said that Joseph died and all his generation died, and a ruler came in Egypt who knew not Joseph. During this time the children of Israel grew and they were much and great.
Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa and has the highest number of black population in the world. It is the 4th largest population in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, we are blessed with about 36 mineral resources with much potential than the oil that the country has focused on as a means of revenue generation. Nigeria has extreme resource.
Some Nigerians are some of the most intelligent, most efficient, most knowledgeable and capable people in all parts of the world where they are found; whatever the field or profession.
There is extreme illiteracy even in this nation; about 70% of this great country are poor to the extreme.

Nigerians are known to serve with rigor and hardship under the burden of enslavement to poverty and the rule of bad leadership.

What are the problems of the nation Nigeria?

1. The people enjoy the suffering; they are suffering and smiling and have refused to set their pharaohs aside
2. We don’t know a leader when we see one and we don’t know the kind of leader we want. That is why when anybody shows we accept just anybody
3. We have an entitlement mentality; always thinking only of things that benefit ourselves
4. Nobody wants to give something; everybody wants to receive everything 
5. Not taking responsibility - The problem of Nigeria has to do with the individual citizen of Nigeria; no one wants to take responsibility but would rather put the blame at someone else’s doorstep. 

What can we do to make Nigeria great?

1. Be involved in the life of people at the grassroots level
2. We need to have a working template that is the fundamental things that must run irrespective of who is in position of leadership
3. There is need for individual change, every Nigerian must become a reflection of the kind of leader they need
4. We need to start believing in the nation and speak positively about the nation Nigeria. 
5. Refuse to vote in the leaders that are not competent to be in power. 

God called unto him out of the midst

And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. Exodus 3: 3-4 KJV

A lot of us find ourselves in a position or place that we are not meant to be. Where we are and the situation we are in are not what we expected or anticipated. What we have, where we are and what is happening in our life is nowhere near what we had dreamed about. Our marriage, job or career choice, relationships haven’t turned out like we had planned it. So we find ourselves in a position where we are stuck; not able to go forward or backward.

Why are we stuck? Most of us at one point or the other made a life changing mistake or make some choices that changed the course of our life. The choices we make growing up can change entirely the course of our life and God’s program for our life.

Know this day that God is ready to fight for you and to cause a change in your life. The solution is not to belabor the past and our mistakes but to look forward and seek to reprogram our life to the right path.

I tell you today that you are not going to take the wrong turn. This is why as parents we are to be attentive to our children and the changes in their life. We need to pay attention to our children, we need to be observant to the changes in their life.

He suddenly realized that his life is on the wrong program. The challenge in life is that some people do not know they are in the wrong program. They believe and accept the place where they find themselves. They accept the wrong program for their life and conclude that that is the best they can do and can be. 

A lack of knowledge. Illiteracy in high and low places. People are not able to stand on their own and hold people around them and in position of leadership accountable. They fail to know that where they are is not where they are supposed to be. Hosea 4: 6.

We must be determined and desperate to change where we are. We must not allow our life to go into mediocrity.  As long as we accept the situation of our life as it is we will remain there. God needs our co-operation; He needs our participation to change our life.

We must put our foot down and work towards a change in our life, in where we are. In Genesis 40: 12-15, we read of Joseph working to reprogram his life. As we look to God for a change in our life, God will put us in remembrance of the person who will be used to transform our life.

The good news is that God is able and willing to reprogram your life to be on the right track, on the right path. He will enter into your life (if you allow him and ask Him) and make a U-turn that will put you on the path that allows your life to be filled with goodness, joy and success.

Like Moses we need to turn aside and see why things are the way they are. It is after Moses decided to turn aside that He called him out of the program that his life was in and into the program his life was created to be.

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.