[12/08 22:16] Pastor Yemi Omogboyega: Daily Energiser:
Topic: Your Angels Are With You, Listen To Them
Now Nathan...
The story of the young girl whom God used to heal Naaman (2 Kings 5:1-5) is real. I can testify to this by what I experienced with one of my 'biological daughters' should read 'NON-biological' daughters... Typography error regretted pls.
[13/08 05:20] Pastor Yemi Omogboyega: Today’s Daily Energiser
Topic: It takes Time To Record Breakthrough
Bible Passage: Exodus:12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
No reasonable person wants to end up a failure. But the truth is that success demands PERSEVERANCE. It took the Israelites to 430 years of perseverance, crying to God every day, many died on the way, many suffered serious setbacks. Egyptians themselves suffered so serious casualties such that even and their Pharaoh and his chariots as well as their riders perished before the Israelites were delivered.
Travelling from Nigeria to say America by direct flight takes an average of 12 hours of being continuously airborne, patiently waiting enduring all the risks. Along the way there will be storms that sometimes will make the travellers shiver but once airborne, they have no choice than to endure. (You have no choice than to persist in the voyage of life!) On very rare occasions, planes do crash and the travellers are wasted! As the Lord lives, and as you endure in the race of life, your means of transportation to your destiny will not crash in Jesus name.
As a farmer, I know from experience that harvest takes time and sacrifices must be made by the sower. I know that unfavourable weather conditions, unpredictable market forces, competition, destructions from animals or pests etc might frustrate the expected returns. Finally all may work well but after harvest, the market may prove impossible and the farmer might lose out. I have experienced some of these and I have learnt some lessons from them all.
On more than one occasion during my 10 years of call it ‘full-time’ farming, I had lost hectares of successfully cultivated cassava tubers because I did not identify the market on time. And all those in position to help out turned down my bids. Ironically one of them in particular harvested my farms without my consent and without paying me a dime – I forgive him and may God do likewise to him too him! After eight years of losing, with persistence coupled with taking good counsel from my young, non-biological daughter whom God had sent to show me where my unlimited market is, I overcame. I had lost serious money as a Garri producer because the market determined the price. For instance we produce a congo of garri at the cost of approximately N216 but the market forced us to sell it at N100! People might even think that Garri producers are making money now when Congo (approximately 1.3kg) measure of Garri now costs between N150 and N180 whereas we are still sustaining a loss of between N36-N66 per Congo! Yet my spirit tells me, “persist” and I remain obedient to that voice believing that one day my expected breakthrough shall come. I amuse myself by considering all my losses in garri business as a “subsidy” and welfare for the buyers and that my day of reward is not immediate but on the way. Dear users of this devotional, you may be losing out in all directions now, but I strongly advise you, persist , for your day of breakthrough is near. I have discovered also that it is not particularly our hard work that takes care of us. It is God’s reward for our labours which may not even come directly from our own labours. Therefore persist as you sow in tears. Very soon you will reap in JOY.
Prayer point: Father, help me to remain persistent until my day of breakthrough comes in Jesus’ name.
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