SELFLESS Meaning. Concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with one’s own; unselfish.
1. To say; ” Each one for himself & God for us all” is proof you are not Selfless & you are against the meek spirit of reconciliation.
2. Without the word Selfless, the word “Team” would have meant something else.
3. If you can put yourself in someone’s situation & connect with how they feel, you will forget about yourself & become Selfless.
4. A mother who allows her child to share food or toys with friends will raise a Selfless child.
5. When you understand a topic better than your friends at school be Selfless & help them to catch up as they too enrolled in order to obtain the same qualification you want so badly.
6. When you have more than you require, be kind enough to give some to those in need as something extra is not meant to be kept as decorations.
7. Selflessness is not a preserve of only those who grew up under difficult situations because they understand better, or is it for orphans because they know how it feels to lose a bread winner, or those who walked bare foot to school because they know how it feels not to own a pair of shoe or a Catholic nun because it’s a calling, etc. Selflessness must be a life everyone should live and teach another. Also learn to Clap for your friends achievement as you wait for yours. What will it profit you not to help someone you are capable of helping to be in a better position?
Matthew 25:34-40 KJV Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat……… ……….Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Romans 12:10 KJV Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
“That’s all I want, is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Give me Something that will take this selfishness away”
TITHE Meaning. A tithe is 10% of your income given specifically to your local church. The word tithe literally means tenth in Hebrew & the custom of tithing is biblical so many Christians & Jews practice it as part of their faith.
1. We can all attest to the fact that mothers get overjoyed when a child learns to count 1 up to 10 and10 is more pronounced than any other number.
2. Put your fingers together & they add up to 10 as you perform works of your hands.
3. Put your toes together & they add up to 10 as you move from place to place.
4. We were taught to receive anything from an elderly person with both hands (which include 10 fingers) to show respect.
5. When mum taught me to pray she helped me put the 10 fingers together and told me to close my eyes and then speak to God and wait for an answer to my prayer.
6. When God pronounced an assurance on Joshua He told him wherever his feet (10 toes on his feet) shall step ,that land was to be his.
7. Every 10th of your income must be given to God as taught by the Bible. If you don’t give Tithe you’re a Thief actually the right term is Robber. Is it that hard to do this when we have grown up knowing there is something significant about the number 10? Moreover there is a big blessing in Tithe. Why do we complain of “hard times” when we know the key to unlock the blessings is in giving the 10% of income to God who has challenged us to give and see. How tempting it is to chew Tithe and the debate that goes with it !Ask yourself if it is in the best interest for Satan to see you blessed and God to see you struggle.
Malachi 3:8 KJV Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:10 KJV Bring ye ALL the TITHES into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Leviticus 27:30 KJV And ALL the TITHE of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Genesis 14:19-20 KJV And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him TITHES of ALL.
“If you are members of these fine churches that’s represented here, you support your church. That’s your first duty to God. “Bring your tithe and offerings into the storehouse.” And the storehouse, you surely know what that is, it’s where you get your food. So, there’s where you get your spiritual food, and your obligation is to your church and not to an evangelist like me”
REFUSE Meaning. To refuse is to decline, deny, reject, or resist.
1. The medicine to avoid hypocrisy is to Refuse with sincerity of heart.
2. It will always show that you Refused because of pressure when the relief valve is open.
3. When you Refuse to marry him, be sure you won’t have him as a reference point when you are asked what your opinion on marriage is in the near future.
4. When you Refuse to take up a job because you think your friends will laugh at you just wait, they indeed will laugh more when they realise you Refused to work but willing to be helped with “anything”.
5. When you Refuse to eat on your first date, it becomes part of the testimony when you are asked how you met.
6. If you Refuse but don’t mean it, regret is knocking on your door.
7. The most notable Refusal is to Refuse a parcel that bears your name but has wrong content completely. It may be a trap. If the waiter brings a wrong order I Refuse to take it. If I ask for Petrol for my car and the attendant says there is only Diesel should I take it? Refuse what the devil says you are, what the devil says you will become, what the devil says is yours ( my Bp, my temper, my problem, my fear, my sugar, my my my my) , no evil belongs to you. Refuse to share it with the devil. You are a child of God who deserves the blessings so Refuse negativity and confess positivity.
Jeremiah 35:1-2, 6-8, 13-14 KJV ……..Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink…….
……But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:……
…….Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;………
……Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not.
“But the first time you testify of your sickness, it brings you right down to that realm again. You signed for it. Refuse to sign for it. Testify of what you believe”
RELIANCE Meaning. A person or thing on which someone depends.
1. A mother breast feeds a child whilst introducing it to other foods and eventually the child will Rely on assorted foods to grow.
2. How mother hen protects her chicks can make you think she will never let them be on their own after teaching them how to look for food.
3. To be successful hunters, the big cats are well taught by their mother & released to Rely no more on her.
4. Those who study as a group & share all knowledge & study material usually score similar results.
5. A team that Relies only on one player to score suffer heavy losses when he / she is not available.
6. An air-conditioning unit will never help you when need to change the temperature arise should you lose the remote control it Relies upon.
7. No please! you are not God that your friend should always Rely on you when you can help empower them. Does it please you to see relatives kneel before you every month end like you are King when you can afford to empower even 1?. How can you feel good to be wiring money to people so they can “sort out a few usual issues” all the time when you can help them earn their own income? No man deserves to be a slave of another. Therefore, let us help & pray for each other & stamp out greediness & pride so many can be independent & also empower more that will empower others too. Don’t be someone’s permanent Reliance for you are not God but a channel God can use to be a blessing to others.
Acts 3:2-9 KJV And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
” Trying to make life better for somebody. That’s what we all should be doing, trying to help each other as neighbors along life’s journey”
BACKING Meaning. Support, help, or active approval.
1. The confidence that comes with assurance that you will be supported gives energy that you never realised was within you.
2. Backing from higher authority gives one no fear to face his usual fears.
3. Backing from a parent to a young man going to marry feels like he is the only groom to be in the whole world.
4. Backing from a mother can make you look into a bully’s eyes and say ” you lay a finger on me and see”
5. Backing from an expert makes you speak like you are the one who actually knows better than everyone.
6. To be sure that you’re doing the right thing and to have a clear conscience, you must get approval / backing from the powers that be.
7. To attack someone who has the backing of a superior is to attack that superior. To disobey a person with authority is to disobey the one who gave the authority. Backing is that extra strength, courage and muscle you develop when you are confronted with opposition that is too strong for you to face on your own.
Genesis 15:1 KJV After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Philippians 4:13 KJV I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Samuel 8:6-7 KJV But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
“Men are afraid to speak; they’re afraid to take a stand. They have to have something behind them to back them up, some great denomination, or organization, or some great band. What would men…God-called man needs is a Holy Spirit behind him to back him up. You stand alone”
RESTORATION Meaning. A return of something to a former, original, normal, or unimpaired condition.
1. Trees & grass wither and look like they will never be green again yet when rain season draws near they go through a Restoration which the rains only come to sustain.
2. Check how your first love for a phone whose broken screen gets replaced easily gets Restored.
3. A genuine apology gives way to the Restoration of lost trust.
4. Paying Insurance premiums doesn’t make sense until the insurance company says your damaged property shall be Restored.
5. You get to appreciate Restoration of good health the very day you feel slightly better and will show it to everyone even trying out to run a bit.
6. With a “Silence in court” sign clear and big enough, a man whose freedom gets Restored still does not keep calm.
7. Nothing catches God by surprise. Covid-19 may have robbed you of a grand opportunity in business and many other resolutions for 2020. Your mistakes may have left you feeling like an outcast, your sins derailed you whilst your friends moved on praising God like angels. Worry no more! No time is lost when God is in control. It’s not too late for you to Repent and Fix your eyes on the God who is the greatest at Restoration. He throws our sins in the sea of Forgetfulness and we thus become a new creation before Him even when men have written and stored our past in the archives. We are redeemed!!!
Joel 2:25-26, 32 KJV And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed……….. …………………And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered:
Revelation 21:5 KJV And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
“We’re living in the day of the restoration of the Powers of God, and right here see the Power of God like they did in the beginning” All we need is a sincere prayer, “Once more, Lord!”
ODDBALL Meaning. A person or thing that is atypical, bizarre, eccentric, or nonconforming, especially one having beliefs that are unusual but harmless
1. So John the baptist wearing animal skin, eating locust & honey was the one announcing the coming of the promised Messiah????
2. So Mary went to Joseph to say she was pregnant yet had not slept with any man & expected Joseph to believe her????
3. So the woman at the well a prostitute went running into her compound to tell people to “come see the man” who told her secrets and that this is the promised Messiah as tought by the forefathers???
4. So the Shunamite woman said “All is well knowing very well her son had died and journeyed miles to go see the prophet of God?????
5. So Peter unlearned and not able to write his own name expounded the word of God far better than the scribes including Gamaliel ????
6. So Jesus Christ came to His own who rejected Him & so He turned to me a gentile & loved me instead that He had to die a shameful death on the cross just to adopt me as a son???
7. Brethren there be many things that have happened & surely can puzzle us. God’s ways are past finding out. Just because it looks strange does not mean it is not right. Just because Jesus was born in a manger does not make Him less of God. I can be the worst sinner today but I have an equal chance of sitting next to Thomas in Heaven tomorrow morning. The change God brings in us makes us strangers to this world but we remain harmless.
2 Corinthians 6:8-10 KJV By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
1 Corinthians 1:18, 26-27 KJV For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God…….. …………For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
“Well, that’s a whole lot to think about, when a man is satisfied in what he’s doing is right. Though he be an oddball to somebody else, if he is satisfied that what he’s doing is right, then let him stay with it”
BRIDGE Meaning. A structure constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross.
1. No matter how dangerous a Bridge can be, what matters is to cross to the other side where you get your supplies.
2. Some Bridges are scary that you need a friend to give you encouragement to cross.
3. Other Bridges require only one person crossing at a time whilst others stand and just watch.
4. There is always excitement on the other side of the Bridge when one manages to cross under difficult circumstances.
5. It is a matter of life and death if the only Bridge connecting two or more places breaks down affecting lives negatively.
6. A damaged Bridge will be repaired no matter the cost if it creates a separation between the supplier and the consumer.
7. God is our Bridge to eternal life and there is no other. His Word spells to us clearly how to maintain the connection and keep oueselves nourished with the blessings to sustain is daily. To destroy this Bridge is to cut ourselves from the giver of eternal life. Where only the Bridge is the connection, there is no other option to take. If you can’t feel God now, you are probably on the wrong Bridge and the connection is all wrong. Seek the right one and walk to Him right where you left Him. Iniquity is a destroyer of the Bridge that keeps the supplies from Heaven coming to you. Do some introspection and repent so you can see His hand again through the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 KJV Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
“He died at Calvary to Bridge the way for sinful men and women to meet their Redeemer and their Maker. And none other is this Bridge but Almighty God Himself. His Word is Him, Himself. And He laid His own Life down that we could walk over Him into glory. One end of the Bridge was nothing else but Emmanuel, “God with us.” At the other end of the Bridge is the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ Who stands in the power and glory of the Father. Amen. The connection is right: His Word”
Meaning. A building where a large number of interesting and valuable objects, such as works of art or historical items, are kept, studied, and displayed to the public.
1. How nice it feels to be shown evidence of the way of life & events of a time before your grand parents where born.
2. Tourists visit the museums just to see well preserved items such as clothes that some great man wore hundreds of years back but they can’t wear them because they are out of fashion.
3. Schools make trips to go to Museums just to educate students about the past whose present influence is just knowledge.
4. Anything in a Museum that lived does not have the power it possessed in its prime time because it’s history can’t be current.
5. A museum has valuable items that won’t change your current situation in most cases but leaves you amazed at what was & wishing history could be rewritten somehow
6. If you worship a god that doesn’t answer prayer, be sure to find his image in one of the Museums physically or virtually.
7. There is one great being that has NO PLACE in a Museum yet very historical. He offers everything He did in the past for free to learn, to read or to be part of. He is the “Great IAM” He is Jesus Christ the same yesterday today & forever. Elisha screamed “Where is the God of Elijah” and God came and parted the river for him to cross just like He did to Elijah. He said to Joshua ” as I was with Moses so shall I be with You”. Dagon & other god’s have their permanent valuable place in a Museum ……hahaha … no answer to the present. The examples and testimonies are too numerous for My seven Points to contain. I will just ask you to call on God the Almighty out of History & watch Him become present with the same old power you have read or heard about . OUR GOD IS NOT A MUSEUM neither is HE IN A MUSEUM. What He has done for others He’ll do for You.
1 Kings 18:26-29, 37-38 KJV And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded…………
(Elijah then prays) Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
“He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Just call on a historical God, and watch Him become a present God, raised up out of history, to shine just as He did then. He’ll act the same. He’ll do the same. He’ll forgive the same. He’ll heal the same. His compassions is the same. His willingness is the same. And His Power is the same”
Meaning. The quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.
1. Whatever God says comes to pass, whatever He promises He delivers at the right time: He never misses His Word. He is not man that He should lie or a sniper that sometimes misses his target.
2. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light”
3. “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so”
4. “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so”
5. ” And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so”
6. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end”
7. “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.”
Isaiah 55:11 KJV So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”
Deuteronomy 18:22 KJV When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
“That same God that’s always showed me these things, and they’ve come to pass, exactly to the letter. Never have they failed one time. Now I’m bragging on Him”
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