Life Doesn't Smile At Anybody

Bible Text:  “In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a man from Bethlehem in Judah left the country because of a severe famine. He took his wife and two sons and went to live in the country of Moab. 2 The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. During their stay in Moab, 3 Elimelech died and Naomi was left with her two sons. 4 The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her husband or sons. Ruth 1:1-11

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, life treats everybody exactly the same way. It does not smile at one and frown at the other.  From Naomi’s biography one can see that her lot was truly bitter.  She lost Elimelech her husband.  She lost her two sons – and none of them had issues that she can console herself with! Now, she decided to let go her daughters-in-law by herself so she could go back home empty!  She considered her life ended.  She said, verse 20-21 of that chapter, “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Instead, call me Mara,* for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me. 21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me home empty.”  And she’s a bona fide, full-blooded Israelite!
When Job got to the peak of his suffering, the only thing left for him was to trust in the Lord.  He said “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth”.
But finally both Naomi and Job overcame their challenges.  I decree upon you that those challenges inside of which you are swimming  right now will soon become history in Jesus’ name.  When the Israelites eventually  exited the Red Sea inside which the King Pharaoh, his chariots and charioteers and all his warriors perished, there was a song of victory.  I decree that sooner that you ever thought it would be, you will not only compose but sing a song of victory in Jesus’ name.
The difference between the believer and the unbeliever is that the believer rejoices in adversity as he believes it  is only a passing phase but the unbeliever ends it all by himself – may commit suicide, may steal if he’s hungry, may kill others at the slightest provocation – he acts on impulse and in a detrimental way.  I have passed through many challenges in life.  Even though the pangs of pains are pepperish to feel,  even though some times, I asked God questions as Naomi did, I have always tried to remember God inside of them.  When I come . ways rejoiced inside my pains because I knew that I shall (and I have always overcome) them all and come out better.  So when adversities surround you, trust in the Lord to deliver you from the valleys.
Prayer Point:  O Lord, whenever I am overwhelmed by troubles, grant me the grace to always remember that you will deliver me out of them all in Jesus’s name.

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When All Roads Are Blocked

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Topic:  When All Roads Are Blocked
Bible Text:   As Pharaoh and his army approached, the people of Israel could see them in the distance, marching toward them. The people began to panic, and they cried out to the Lord for help. ….13 But Moses told the people, “Don’t be afraid. Just stand where you are and watch the Lord rescue you. The Egyptians that you see today will never be seen again. 14 The Lord himself will fight for you. You won’t have to lift a finger in your defense 15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving! 16 Use your shepherd’s staff—hold it out over the water, and a path will open up before you through the sea. Then all the people of Israel will walk through on dry ground. Exod. 14: 10-15
A child that is experiencing retarded growth is experienciGng his own road block. A student who has difficulty passing his examinations is experiencing a road block.  A wife who is experiencing cruelty from her husband is experiencing a road block.  A graduate who has no opportunity to pursue a career of his choice is experiencing a road block.  A Pastor whose ministers become rebels is tasting his own road block.  A man who marries a nagging wife is facing a road block.  So at every stage in our lives, we are bound to experience road blocks.  We need to pray to overcome them but more often we need to take specific action to overcome them.
When the Israelites faced the Red Sea, they decided to cry to God (prayers), they complained (rebelled) against Moses but the two methods never worked.  God reacted by saying to them “why are you crying to me” when you can take an action.  God then gave directives on what to do that would free them from the Egyptian enemies.  And the moment Moses did this, they found solution. As the Lord lives, you might have prayed or complained, today God will tell you what to do to overcome your road blocks in Jesus name.
But you must take action specific action. The great Neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson once had two road blocks in his life.  He was practically blind but not until the school was moved by the spirit to test the eyes of all their students, he never had solution. Somebody somewhere will be moved to give you solution today in Jesus name.  He was always scoring zero in his early school days but later he overcame this when his mother decided to wean him from the Television and redirect his focus to his books; he obeyed and read his books dedicatedly, he and overcame his failure. He became the best.  As the Lord lives,  you  your weaknessshall turn to strength in Jesus’ name.

Instead of praying amiss or complaining persistently to those who cannot bail you out, why not think of what you can do practically to solve your problems.  May God give you revelations in Jesus name.
Prayer point:  Deut. 29:29 says “secret things belong onto the Lord, the ones that are revealed to us belong to us…”.  Ask God to reveal the secret of your destiny to you today.

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Universal Brotherhood

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Topic:   Universal Brotherhood

Bible Text:   Then God said, “Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life—the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals,* and small animals.”So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them.  Gen. 1:26-27 (NLT)


From the foundation of human existence as recorded in Gen. 1:26-27 quoted above, all human beings are one.  God created “people”.  So the nexus that binds us together as one family is the  “people”principle.  So long as you are a human being, you are a “people”.  There was no religion attached to “people”.  We are first a people before veering into our various religions which  in themselves, emerged as a result of disobedience of our father, Abraham, who as a human being, reasoning logically thought that all hope of getting a  promised Isaac was lost, agreed with his wife produce a child for them through Hagar – a child that God Almighty did not discriminate against Himself!
And the story of discrimination had begun from there and till date it continues leading to shedding blood.
If only people will see themselves as a people, there will be universal bond of brotherhood amongst us all and peace would have reigned.  If people will realise that the next door neighbour is my brother or sister, whose keeper I must be (irrespective of his religious perspective), there will be no blood shed.  If people (of all religions and even the free thinkers) will see themselves as the one that they are from the perspective of their origin and as children from the same parents, they will allow peace to reign.  Any form of discrimination is Satan’s device to actualise his purpose in human life: to kill, to steal and to destry. (John 10:10)
Yes, I am a Christian and a Pastor for that matter.  This does not exempt me from being a “people” with my brothers and sisters who may have chosen, religiously, to be what they understand to be the right path (life is a matter of choice – Deut. 30:19). They remain my brothers and sisters because we come from the same source.  Their choices of religion: Christianity, Islam, etc (or even preferring to be an animist), should not prevent me from extending a hand of fellowship to them.  It does not prevent me from being generous towards them.  After all did my Bible not tell me that I should love God and love my neighbours as myself? Any moment I deviate from this golden rule, I have forsaken God – this is the truth whether I admit it or not. And many Christians, Muslims, free thinkers have chosen to forsake God because they are discriminating.  The greatest I can do to my brother or sister out there is to invite him to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as his Lord and personal Saviour.  I am still expressing love to him or her.  But the choice is his or hers to do so or not to do so.  That they don’t become Christians by my admonition should not form the basis where I will not want to see him fulfilling his own destiny in this planet.  Religion, honestly, is all about making heaven and making heaven or not is a choice one must make him or herself.
Brethren, there will be great surprises in Heaven oh.  But let us all remember, we are a “people” before we chose our religions. There is a universal brotherhood that joins us together.  Don’t let us break it.  God bless you.

Prayer point:  Father,  open my eyes to behold the truth to see everyone as my family and treat them as such IJN.





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The Dangers of a Danger?

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Topic:    The Dangers of a  Danger?
Bible Text:   A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.  Prov. 22:3


It is not difficult for us to identify dangers.  Not at all.  We all know that such luxuries such as alcohol, prostitution, (Hosea 4:11) adultery (Prov. 6:23), all endanger our lives.  We all know that even though stolen bread is sweet,  dangers are attached to it.  We know that engaging in robbery is a very dangerous venture because one the culprit ewill not always be lucky.   We all know that moving too close to a moving vehicle, no matter how slow the speed may can terminate our lives suddenly.  Staging a coup against constituted authority,  we know,  is a deadly game.  Plotting against your leader is very dangerous for your own progress in life.  It is like toying with a dynamite. A Nigerian Head of State, Late General Abacha once said “a mere perception of a coup” is as dangerous as when it is executed!
In every venture we undertake, there are dangers that must be recognised and appropriately addressed.  The dangers of a danger that if not properly nipped in the bud is that it can completely ruin a vision.  A good example:  we farmers use chemicals a lot and the manufacturers of these chemicals expressly warn us about the dangers of ‘the dangers’ in our hands.

Pesticides,  we know,  are very toxic and must not only be stored away from children (and adults alike) but adults using them must also protect themselves when they are being used. In our family we are very conscious of this fact and we act to the letter to make sure no calamity occur.  But a day came that there was a slip in our safety process. The result?  We lost some investments as a result of this error. That’s the reality of the dangers of a danger. May God continue to protect us iJn. What happened?  Soldier ants evaded our poultry pen.  We applied appropriate pesticides to destroy them.
However in the process of doing this, we inadvertently left the remainder of the pesticide in our corridor because everything was hurriedly done.  While doing other tackling the ants, a junior member of our family went past where the chemical was kept hitting it unconsciously with his leg or so and the chemical bottle fell from its upright  position and spilled on the floor where, unfortunately, the leftover of our pets feed was neatly kept in a polybag.  One way or the other, the food was soaked by the chemical and later dried up.  Unknown to us, we picked up this ‘dry’ food and fed them with it as their supper.  The following morning, they were all stone dead! Who is to blame?  In our family and business,  we are a Team.  This is a domestic accident, nothing more. Therefore we don’t look for who to blame. Instead, we look for lessons to learn to prevent recurrence of dangers.
What we learnt from this is that chemicals of whatever nature are dangerous so they must be kept away from wherever anybody can access it easily.  Foodstuffs meant for humans and animals must never be within an accessible range of space to chemicals and must be so properly stored such that even when it slips it must not spill – all opened chemicals must be covered with a polythene and properly screwed to prevent it from spilling even if it slips.
 Above all, we learn better the lesson that there are dangers in a danger.  Chemicals are dangers.  Their effects are dangers.  So we must manage two dangers simultaneously.
Prayer Point:  Father, in all my ventures in life, help me to recognise the dangers of dangers and to successfully manage them so that my destiny be not abruptly terminated in Jesus name.

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Do Devotionals Replace the Bible?

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Bible Text:  “Study this Book of the Law continually. Meditate on it day and night so you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. Only then will you succeed.”

I started with “Our Daily Bread” as far as the ‘70k.  I later added stuffs like  “Open Heavens”,  “Daily Manner”, “Rhapsody of Reality”, “Everyday With Jesus”, plus the recent addition of my “Daily Energiser” at www.dailyenergiser.blogspot.com, Facebook,  Twitter, etc. I have found that Daily Devotionals are very useful tools.  They address specific issues related to our daily living.  I particularly remembered one of “Our Daily Bread” messages that helped me overcome the monster called unforgiveness sometimes ago.  There was this colleague of mine who once seriously embarrassed me so much that I vowed that I would never forgive her.  To actualise my confession, I lodged a formal report to the appropriate authorities for purposes of bringing her to book.  She happened to be the wife (I never knew till then) of one of my very close friends within the organisation. Coming to this realisation during the course of investigating her, honestly did not matter to me because I was very sure I was in the right and bent on revenging. I completely was ignorant of the fact that “vengeance is the Lord’s”.
A panel was set up to dispose of the matter. Having noticed that the outcome of the exercise would surely make her lose her job, some members of the panel appealed to me to forgive her and withdraw the case. I blended stubbornness with humility by politely maintaining my rigid stand not to forgive her, no matter what the outcome would be.   The matter had got to the peak and decision about to be taken.
Then one morning before their decision, I read the topic “To Err is man, To Forgive is Divine”.  The body of the message addressed all the reasons why I must forgive – indeed it was directly addressed to me.  It was then I became conscious that if I failed to forgive my erring sister, I would surely grieve the Holy Spirit.  And on getting to the office same day, I picked up my phone called up the chairman of the panel and told him I was withdrawing the case because I had forgiven her.  Without the “Our Daily Bread” which I read that morning, I would have made a silly mistake as a Christian.  This is how useful devotionals can be but are they self-sufficient for our numerous spiritual daily guidance needs?  Certainly no.  We ought to read more.  The primary source of divine inspiration and motivation is the Holy Bible and if we must succeed in life we must be garner adequate knowledge  (Hosea 4:6) that will lead to understanding and ultimately to wisdom that will make us do the right thing wherever we find ourselves – especially during temptations to sin.  Bible itself makes it clear in Josh.1:8-10 that we must devote our time to study it “day and night” if we are to record good success.
No matter how useful devotionals or other spiritual literatures for that matter may be, they never and will never replace the Bible. Those who wrote them have drawn deep knowledge from the Bible itself so, read your Bible daily to get deeper revelations (Deut.29:29) that can propel you to write devotionals for others just as I do now. It will also enable you to verify what devotional writers are saying from the source of their fountain – the Holy Bible.

Prayer Point: LORD, grant my heart the desire to want to know you more through the reading of your unchangeable manual of life – the Holy Bible - in Jesus’ name.

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SUNDAY IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR GOD, GIVE IT TO HIM

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Today’s Daily Energiser
Topic:  Sunday is Exclusively for God, Give it to Him
Bible Text:  “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days a week are set apart for your daily duties and regular work, 10 but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God.”Exod. 20:8
If it were allowed, many of us would have requested for more than a 24-hour day to accomplish the numerous goals we set for ourselves.  But alas, God has pegged it at 24 hours!  Not only that, some of us would have wanted an elongated week that will be more than 7 days.   God has fixed that too.  Many would have preferred that the calendar year be altered and made longer than 365 days but the maximum extension God permitted here is additional one day that made a 366-day leap year!  So God has fixed everything. The reasons are obvious – so we  don’t keep working till we killed ourselves so that we can recount our blessings and failures, re-strategize and have a new beginning.
The Almighty God Himself laid a good example for us on how to use our days by resting on the 7th day.  In six days we shall work and on the 7th day we have to rest and our rest should be to dedicate ourselves to worshipping God exclusively.  It took me so long a time to be on the same page with God in this matter because I was always in haste to leave the church so soon.  But when I became a worker and subsequently, a Pastor and had to attend various meetings after service, nobody taught me to adjust.  Since I resolved to leave Sunday to God, I started enjoying peace with myself.
Many of us still make the mistake to think that Sunday should be shared with God.  It should not be so.  Whether you run from Monday all through to Sunday non-stop does not make you achieve all the goals you have set for yourself.  Therefore Sunday is a day of reflection.  A day to thank God for all you have achieved.  A day to reappraise your relationship with God Almighty and adjust as appropriate.  Let’s cultivate the habit of honouring our Creator, the LORD, and our GOD on Sundays.  Today is one Sunday you must put God first.  No appointment is greater than being with God today! Go to your fellowship centre.

Prayer point:  Father, grant me the grace to accept the reality that I must give my Sundays exclusively to you and bless me as I do so from now on in Jesus’ name.

It Takes Time to Record Breakthrough

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[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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Your Angels Are With You, Listen to Them

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Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy … “ 2 Kings 5:1-3

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 recently.  The greatest challenge I had with my years of labour as a Cassava farmer was locating the market.  As a result of lack of knowledge (Hos. 4:6), in this direction, I have had to abandon two ( altogether 8 hectres) farms thereby losing the huge sums of money invested in them.   I was so worried about the third farm that I shared my experience with my young daughter who worked with me on the project and she simply said, “Daddy, I know where you can easily sell your tubers no matter how plenty they may be”.  Like a typical adult I never got convinced so I never acted upon it.  Instead, I decided to opt for processing the tubers into garri. I said to myself, “Now you got it right!”.

But I discovered to my surprise that the size of the farm that was ready for processing was far too much for our installed production capacity. It is therefore imminent that I was going to lose the better part of the investment again!   My daughter again said to me, “Daddy, I have told you several times to let us try this market that I mentioned to you. If you can’t go, hire a vehicle for me I will go.“ This time around, I humbled myself and agreed with her. The first trip she made was a huge success. She returned with the full money for everything she took down to the market before 9 a.m. the following day.  It was like a dream to me but I was motivated to send her again the second time.  The same thing happened.  Suddenly we discovered the vehicle we were using was too small.  Then she said, “Daddy, let me do two trips a day” I allowed her.  Before 9 a.m. the following day again, she had completed the two runs and returned home with the full money!  Within one month, all our tubers had turned to cash!  We sold so much that we now struggle to have something left for garri production!  Now through my daughter, I discovered I have unlimited market for my present and future products just because I listened to a good counsel from her.

Dear user of this devotional please note that that little child (biological or non-biological) beside you may be your angel and solution provider for all your years of labour.  Your wife, your friend whose advice you have always jettisoned because of overfamiliarity may be the person to lead you to your breakthrough.  Why not come down from your ivory tower, treat them well, draw him or her closer, tell them your challenges and listen to, consider and act on their counsel no matter how childish they may be.

Prayer point:  Father, from now onwards give me a humble heart to treat everyone around me well to provoke my own breakthrough in Jesus name. 

It’s Time To Grow Up Bible Text: Rom. 7:14-25

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It’s Time To Grow Up 

Bible Text: Rom. 7:14-25

“If there’s this sin in one’s life that keeps on recurring and one keeps asking for forgiveness all the time yet it still continues to recur, what can one do?”

First I congratulate you because there’s the consciousness in you not to sin.  It is an evidence of the fact that you are not a lackadaisical Christian.  All serious-minded, born again Christians face the same challenge no matter their level in Christianity.   This writer is not excluded himself! Before we become born again, our patterns of life did not matter to us.  We could freely abuse people, steal, gossip, commit sexual immorality or decide not to forgive those who offended us.  We could falsify records anywhere we found ourselves. Some of us could even steal church money and do all those things Gal. 5:19-20 asked us not to do.  We would never be bothered at all that we did all these things! Indeed we would encourage others to do it.

However, once we become born again and we now partner with God in fellowshipping, bible study and trying to do what God told us to do, we begin to mirror our lives with the provisions of the Bible.  Most often, we would discover that there are still some elements of the old sins we are struggling with.     Hear what Paul said in Rom. 7:18-19 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do…”    

The way out of this quagmire is to partner with God the more by studying the word of God, (Josh. 1:8) and endeavouring to do what it says, pray for deliverance Matt: 7:7, and identify the cause of the temptations and stay away from them.  The more of the word of God we know, the more we will be strengthened by them.  The more we ask God to help us the more the consciousness not to sin will come and the more we pray to God, closer will we draw to overcoming the challenges.  In other words, the more we are busy with God, the less our attention will focus on sins.

Prayer Point:  Oh Lord, I have no strength of my own, let your spirit control my life so I can abstain from these (name them) recurring sins in my life in Jesus’ name.  

Are You Heaven Bound?

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Our primary goals should be to make heaven, not to be worldly inclined. Yes, we need to eat, drink cloth, shelter and have some luxuries of life but the greatest goal for a believer   heaven. 

The path to heaven is very narrow.  It consists of thorns.  It requires sacrifices.  It requires endurance. It requires doing things that ordinarily won’t make sense logically.  The most important requirement to make heaven is be a saint according to Psa. 1:1-3, "... the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with scoffers. But they delight in doing everything the Lord wants;day and night they think about his law.They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season without fail.Their leaves never wither,

and in all they do, they prosper.”.  Saints will succeed here on earth and make heaven in the end.  Let your ways please the Lord.    

Contend Not with Your Destiny

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 “Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty0three when they spoke to Pharaoh”.  Exod. 7:17

Contend not with your destiny.   If you do, you will surely fail.  Note that when God wants to choose a leader, He chooses whom He wills.  David was too junior to be reckoned with by his people, yet God chose him to be their leader.  Esther was too junior to Mordecai.  She was of no repute but God chose this young girl to save Israel. Naaman and his family were far too big over the little girl that God used to heal the leprous Naaman. Miriam and Aaron were older than Moses but God chose Moses, a stammerer to lead Israelites out of Egypt.  Esau was older than Jacob but God preferred Jacob to Esau. 

No matter your calendar age, God may have chosen your younger brother or sister as a spiritual or temporal leader over you. Calendar year has no relevance when it gets to God using one to accomplish a particular purpose.  We all must have humble hearts and deep understanding to accept whoever the Lord has chosen to lead us in the church, in our offices,at home, in our churches or wherever we find ourselves.  When you envy your younger brother or sister because of you are older than him or her by calendar age, you may be destroying yourself.  Miriam and Aaron did it.  Aaron was repentant, Miriam showed no remorse and God forgave Aaron but punished Miriam.  That’s just it. When God has appointed somebody over us all we need is to cooperate with that person to achieve God’s purpose for his life. Such a person will be a blessing rather than a curse to us.  Aaron reigned with Moses throughout. So he succeeded just as Moses, the leader did. That’s what it takes to be humble.   Joseph’s father and all his brethren bowed down to the former because God has ordained it to be so.  After all, Joseph’s father once asked, “Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?” At long last, they all did bow down to Joseph one after the other!

Stop courting trouble by being proud.  Instead, lay aside your pride. Recognised whoever God has placed in authority over you. Assist and cooperate with them. Their stars will shine. Yours will shine along.  Whoever that person may be (your child, your wife, your boss in the office, your parents, your sibling, your very junior Pastor, ) as the Lord lives may He grant you the humble spirit to submit to whoever is in authority over you in Jesus name.  May the destiny of your leader not destroy God’s purpose for your life in Jesus name. 

When God is Ready, He is Unstoppable

“Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will free you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with mighty power and great acts of judgment. I will make you my own special people, and I will be your God. And you will know that I am the Lord your God who has rescued you from your slavery in Egypt.  I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It will be your very own property. I am the Lord!” So Moses told the people what the Lord had said, but they wouldn’t listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the increasing burden of their slavery.  Exod. 6:6-9

When God is ready to do something, He is unstoppable. In our pursuits of success in whatever endeavours we choose, we often meet with brick walls.  These often lead us to discouragement and most often, as Christians, we tend to unbelief.  God was the one who promised Abraham a child but was not ready to give him that child when it was logical to do so.  So Abraham tarried till his patience was exhausted and he and his wife were sure it would not happen.  Abraham’s was old and his libido had expired.  He made sure that Sarah had reached menopause so logically, there was no hope for her.  But when God was ready for the couple He personally visited them  (Gen. 18:1-14), in spite of their unbelief and logical conviction that they would never have a biological child of their own. 

One of the greatest miracles of my life as far as becoming a University Graduate is concerned is that, logically speaking, I never would have accomplished that goal. All those who would have sponsored me were there, attempted to do so, but God never permitted them to do so.    When His appointed time came, he led me by Himself, he made me to sponsor myself from Primary six till I graduated at the age of 46 years and one year later, I was called to the Nigerian Bar!  Along the line whenever I lacked support, because His appointed time was come, he appointed external helpers to support me. (I was consistently angry with all the helpers I had hoped would help me) until, when after graduation I asked God why did You not allow these people to help me? His reply was “I did so because I did not wantto share my glory with anybody!”. Some events happened later that I took a decision about my life that went contrary to the expectation of those I expected to help me.  Then God reminded me of what He had said.  So if He had permitted those people, they would have not claim the glory for sponsoring me but would have considered me an ingrate! I pray for the reader of this devotional that at His appointed time, God will visit your situation in Jesus name. 

When God is ready, it does not matter whether one has been discouraged or no longer believes in Him.  Indeed God does not open the way until “all other roads are closed”.  Then will just arise and proceed and do what He wants to do in His own miraculous way.  He will also remove all obstacles.  Are you discouraged or have lost faith?  Your discouragement or unbelief will not stop or prevent God from answering your prayers when His appointed time has come in Jesus’ name. All your frustrations shall turn to miraculous breakthroughs that will be too big to hide in Jesus name. 

When God is ready, He guides our behaviour.  Abraham could have seen but not attended to Trinity.  But God guided him and he did because his appointed time to be blessed had come.  Sarah (laughed in unbelief), yet she cooperated with Abraham to cook and entertain Trinity. So the duo PROVOKED God’s miracle for their lives.  When your appointed time has come, you will not make any mistake.  Instead, your response shall provoke your miracles in Jesus’ name. 

God’s appointed time for you to be attended to concerning that sorrowful aspect of your life which gives you concern is nearer than you ever think it can be, It is true you are discouraged and don’t even believe God can do it again, but  I assure you that you will neither die nor make a mistake when He comes.  You will surely laugh last because your delayed Isaac will come.  Your deferred graduation, marriage, career opportunities will come in Jesus name.  God bless you in Jesus’ name.  

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DONALD TRUM v. JUSTICE

The word “corrupt” has been defined Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th edition to mean, 1.  “(of people) willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage  2. ( of behaviour ) dishonest or immoral.”.

A critical appraisal of these two definitions shows that corruption whether in formal or informal settings people engaging in dishonest or illegal in return for money or to get an advantage.  To be corrupt means to be immoral.  The foundation of morality is ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’.

Morality is not necessarily legal because what is legal may be moral anyway. After all, gay marriage is legal in Americas but it does not agree with the tennets of morality.

 In law, plea bargaining is legal in America but it is not moral.  It is simply encouraging the thief to steal more and give back what he feels like giving after much (unnecessary) persuasion.  Statute-baring a creditor from collecting money owed him is legal but it does not appeal to good conscience which equity represents and it is at variance with morality.  Let whoever owes pay unless the creditor forgives the loan!  No wonder, when the technicalities of the law started breeding injustice, equity was born to appeal to people’s sense of morality in justice reflecting  fairness,  recognising what is good or bad.

As student of Law at the University, I became angry with the Law when I saw the human-invented  ‘technicalities’ of the law which tended to provoke injustice instead of justice but when I was introduced to equity, I was at appeased.   That’s why to me, justice that does not appeal to the good conscience (equity) or has no toga of moral content is not a true justice.

Colonisation in whatever form is, to me criminal.  It is immoral.  It is injustice.  Two wrongs, they say, cannot make a right.  This points me to the review of the utterances (and intentions) of American’s Presidential hopefuls – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  Donal Trump is (rightly) angry with corruption  but his planned strategy to fight it by singling out Africans, particularly Nigerians for “Re-colonisation”.  A concept which in itself is obsolete, absurd, illegal and immoral such that a mere thought of it might portray him as corrupt.

There’s nothing wrong with being angry with ‘wrong doing’ like corruption.  But the means by which it is addressed must never be worse than what is being addressed.  It will amount to two wrongs that will never produce a ‘right’.  No matter how you add them up, immorality or illegality with immorality or illegality cannot amount to morality or legality.  No rational human being should ever give a flash of thought to re-colonisation no matter how angry he may be.  Re-colonisation is like drawing back the hands of the clock.  A negative thought of this nature should not be coming from America, an enlightened American of Donald’s stature.

The America that I know is a country known for justice.  It is therefore not from America we should have somebody preaching injustice.  America has been regarded as a home to everybody and when I visited there a few times, I confirmed the warmness of Americans.

America is a united world that should have no room for discrimination.  If the entire world collapses and America is spared, the world would re-emerge perfectly through her.  Men have dominated the Presidency of America.  It is morality, equity and justice that influenced the Democrats to want to correct the balance the male-female dichotomy by featuring Hillary Clinton so we can for once have a Woman President.  It is an attempt to nail corruption in the bud that made the Democrats to produce Obama (a mixed-blood) as President of America  thereby making the black and white to melt together as one which in itself is legal and moral.   This same process will one day surely produce full-blooded black men or women as the President of America if only people like Donald will do a rethink.  If he or people of like-mind as Donald should rule America, America will surely lose her glory!

Hillary Clinton is known to be even headed, humble,with no iota of discrimination.  People like Hillary will not only move America forward but will bring about a new world order that will promote America as a complete world where there is no discrimination.  My prayer is that God Almighty will guide America and Americans such that they will not make the mistake that will end up reversing all the advancements America has achieved.  If All Africans are evicted from America, some who have forgotten their origins may suffer some setbacks but in the final analysis, they will settle down.  The wise majority will have no problems returning home at all because sweet as America may be, they never forgot their origins.  I am a Nigerian but I love America as I love Nigeria.  Let all Americans (black, white, etc) unite to ensure America remains a home for all by voting for the right candidate.   If Donald Trum must lead America, he must reconsider his thoughts on the black race and change his strategy by embracing every human being.  As far as am concerned, America has gone beyond his present thinking and postulations.   Long live America, Long live Americans, long live Nigerians, long live the black  and all races all over the world.  Black or white, we are all from Adam and Eve and should remain together till eternity!



 

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Temptation, the Mother of All Sins (2)

Temptations , the Mother of All Sins (2)
“Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.  God observed all this corruption in the world, for EVERYONE ON EARTH (emphasis mine) was corrupt. “ Gen. 6:12.
As far as corruption is concerned, everyone is involved in it. Rom. 3:23 confirms this when it says “For ALL have sinned and have come short of the glory of God”.  It is the nature and magnitude of corruption that differs.  A man who cheats on his wife, a man or woman who falsifies records in his office, a business what side-tracks tax laws, a generator seller who will not want to see uninterrupted power supply successfully implemented, a child who lies, a lazy student who relies of “expo” to succeed in his examinations, a lecturer or a boss who demands sex for success in examination or promotion to higher levels, a pastor who steals church money or says “the Lord sayeth” when the Lord has actually not spoken,  the latest of it all, the Dansuki Gate,  Padding the budget, or a young man or girl who takes to political thuggery as a way to survive  and so on, are all corrupt.
 When a man is corrupt, 2 Pet 1:4 makes it clear that it is the desire of his heart that causes it  “… the word’s corruption caused by human desires”.  Every corruption is preceded by temptation to manipulate a situation to suit us whether it is God’s will for us or not.  When our desires comes, it takes over everything.  We don’t want to know what God says or wants us to do.  I once approached a man on a Sunday morning to minister to him.  He welcomed me well.  After our exchange, he held his cup of beer and  said “Pastor, pray for me.  The only problem I have is my desire for alcohol.  I just found it rather difficult to drop this cup.  I know I am a prophet  by nature but this object (alcohol) is my problem.”  I did tell him, why not join drop this cup now and let’s go to church? He said, it is difficult to do.  I said drop it now, go to church and pray.  There’s no point praying for you in this beer parlour because you won’t be able to drop the cup.  He would follow me. Amazingly, the while I was returning from the church on a New Year’s eve, I came across him and he gave me a prophesy with a specific date of its happening – 15th of February.  And on that day the prophesy came to pass!
Even though we are all prophets, the negative desires of our hearts made it impossible for us all to “drop our cups” so we fall most times.  I, preaching to you am not exempted from this vile just as Paul confessed “what I don’t like to do, I do” and Jesus said (in his fleshy state) “if it were possible, remove this cup from me”.  He rejected death which is God’s will for him.  It was God who helped him accomplish his goal of salvation for us all.  The desire to live made Abraham lie to the King.
The antidote to temptation remains that we should live and walk with God and be in spirit always. It is the spirit of the Lord that will create the fear of the Lord (Prov. 1:7) in our hearts like Joseph who said “why must I commit this sin against my God?”.  I know it is tough to face temptations and resist it when our hearts desires want it. But with God (Luke 1:37) all things are possible.  Stay with God today and overcome temptations! God bless you in Jesus name.  Prayer Point: Father, grant me the grace to walk with you from today in Jesus name.

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Temptation, the Mother of All Sins

According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, to “tempt”, means, “to attract somebody or make somebody want to do or have something, even if they know it is wrong.”

Temptations started from the heavens! “Morning Star” (now Satan) was tempted to overthrow God Almighty because he wanted to promote himself above his leader – the Almighty God.  He fell.  He was thrown into planet earth.  Adam and Eve were tempted (Gen.3:1-6) to eat the forbidden fruit.  And they fell.  Moses was tempted by the stiff-necked people to be angry to the point that Satan could dare struggle to have his soul for possession. Jesus Christ our Lord was tempted by Satan to bow down for him so he could be king over all the earth.  He overcame Satan.

We all know that alcohol, sexual immorality, corruption of any kind is bad but the spirit of temptations blurs our understanding because of the pleasure we want to derive from our misdeed.  For one to be tempted, there is an expectation behind it.  The goal of Satan was to overthrow the Almighty God.  The goal of Adam and Eve was to be wiser than God had permitted them.  The goal of Satan was to prevent Jesus from accomplishing his predestined goal of salvation for mankind.  

One thing is sure, there’s no sin that is not preceded by ‘temptation’; therefore temptation is gives birth to all sins.  And nobody is exempted from being tempted.  However, our response to every temptation is what determines its outcome we obtain.  When faced with temptations, two options are constantly open to us: to reject the urge or obey it, each having its own consequences.  

No wonder the Bible commands us to ‘flee from all appearances of sin”.  To flee from it is the best option but there are invisible forces that makes it a serious burden to flee instead most often, we fall.  The constant consequence of falling into sins is regret and sorrow.  We know that what we are about to do is wrong albeit we are lured into doing it then facing the negative consequences. 

Yes, James 4:7 admonishes us to resist the devil for him to flee from us, but the truth is that no man can resist the devil by his own power but by the Spirit of the Lord.  That’s why to avoid temptation we must be constantly operating in the spirit so that we can identify sins and nip them in the bud as they arise.  Move closer to God today and overcome the tempter and his temptations! I pray for you that God will make it easy for you to be closer and closer to Him so you can overcome all temptations in Jesus’ name. 

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Righteousness, the Path to HOLINESS

Righteousness,  the Path to holiness.

God is clear on His expectations from us on all subjects.  On Holiness and Righteousness, He did not mince words. In 1 Thess. 4:7 Bible tells us clearly that “God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.  Heb.2:4 says, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord while Matt. 5:48 admonishes us, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father  which is in heaven is perfect.
The general belief is that it is not possible to be perfect.  But the truth is that, though tough as it may be in the world of temptations we live in, perfectness is achievable.  It simply means we need to know the right from the wrong. That is why righteousness is the way to holiness and we ought to “yield our members servants to righteousness unto holiness”.  Perfection is God’s standard we must all set as goals to achieve.  It is a gradual thing.  So if you are not yet there, be conscious of wanting to be and therefore use God’s word as your guide to attaining righteousness.  Do the right thing at home, in your offices, in your family, in the church of God.  Holiness is total obedience to God’s set standards.  For instance, to be on the righteous way to holiness, start with your family.  Husbands, love your wives as Christ loves the church. Treat them as God what God wants you to treat them. Train your child the way of the Lord (Prov. 22.6), give them both formal and informal education. Wives, submit to your husbands.  Don’t wrestle authority with them.  Children obey your parents so that you won’t make mistakes that will cut your days short.  Care for them all the time till they go to their final resting place. Pay your tithes, offerings, and support your church projects and your Pastors as well.  In your office, do not falsify records. Don’t be lazy at work.  Pray for your organisation as you pray for yourself.  As business person, never cheat your employees.   Some sins are committed against ourselves: sexual immorality, anger, drinking alcohol, telling lies, etc. Read your Bible always to know God’s mind concerning holiness and righteousness and do whatever He tells you for “blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scournful.  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  And he shall be like a tree lanted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whtsoever he doeth shall prosper”.
Always be conscious of this: the best route to holiness is righteousness.  Do right and you are on your way to holiness. May God Almighty make the impossible possible for you in Jesus name.




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Do Good to God and to Man

I love this piece from page 56 of Richard Templar’s book “The Rules of Life”:  Every action you take, every decision you make, everything you do causes an immediate effect on those around you –  and on you.  And this is the important bit.  There’s such a thing as instant karma.  It is your bed and you are going to have to lie on it.  Your actions will dictaste whether  in general your life is going to run happily or badly, smoothly or as if the wheels have fallen off.  If you are selfish and manipulative, it will rebound on you .  If you are generally loving and thoughtful, you will get your just rewards – and not in heaven (0r the next life or whatever you believe) but right here, right now.  Trust me.  Whatever you  do and how you do it will come back to you in spades.  This isn’t a threat, merely an observation.  Those wo do good, get good.  Those who do bad get bad.”
From my  personal experiences in life, I have come to agree with Temple's postulation that what you sow is surely what you will reap.  Work hard, you will stand before kings and not before mean men.  Be lazy you will tend to poverty.  Be kind to people, people will be kind to you.  People will always not only remember what you do to them, they will pay you back in your coins. It is a reality of life.  I have tasted it.  It works. I gave love to people in diverse ways: cash and kind, counsel and inspiration plus motivation, they returned love to me in greater measure.  Remarkably, once upon a time, for eight  consecutive years, the ship of my life drifted in the mid-ocean heading towards a wreck! Miraculously, God raised people to rescue me.  These people remembered my good deeds and felt the ship of my life must never sink.  They willingly (without even solicitation) allowed themselves to be used by God (thanks to members of my helpers forum in WhatsApp l)  to rescue me. However, whenever I related my experiences to people on how I have been blessed by people, such people always reminded me thus, “you deserve what you are getting because you’ve done so much for people”  Whereas I honestly thought and believed I hadn’t done enough!  I thank God, in my little way, I did what I knew best to do – good -  (And I have resolved that for the rest of my life I shall engage my total being in doing good for my generation and the generations yet unborn. I am going to leave a legacy of doing good for my descendants from generation to generation.)  I thank God and people for returning my good-for-good. Brethren, let me admonish you with this golden piece from Phil. 4:8-9,  “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do…” There’s a great reward for doing good or bad. I urge you DO GOOD to God and to Man.

WAIT FOR YOUR TIME

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Why You Must earn MORE Money.

There is no doubt that majority of the world's population are poor. The most fundamental principle that underlies poverty is the fact that when our needs, I mean, our must-dos (not our desires, not wishes which are resource wasters and which can be curtailed through prudent spending) are more than our income, then the direct result is POVERTY.

Let us cite an example: In Nigeria, a man with a wife and two children must spend at least N60,000 per term (or N180,000 a year) on school fees, must spend average of N300 to feed each family member on daily basis i.e. N439,200 a year and attend to several other needs of life too numerous to list let us say this will be in the region of another N600,000 per annum. Assuming the man's total net spendable income is N700,000 per annum, such a man must borrow N519,200 to maintain his family. This amount is the level of his poverty. If he repeats this over many many years then nobody in his family will enjoy peace. He will hand over his poverty LEGACY to his children frome generation to generation. This is the major cause of poverty.

Until a man earns enough profit (this is attainable) from business or enough spendable income from paid employment (which may not be) he will never get out of poverty. Therefore let everyone budget what he needs to spend and invest everything he has towards making the very amount. This will take a great sacrifice. And that sacrifice is the price to pay to get out of poverty! God bless you.


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