GET READY FOR RESTORATION

"And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife" (Genesis 20:14). 

In every place where restoration occurred in the Bible, it is usually associated with additional provisions that will enhance the value of the item restored. It is like an interest added to the principal to compensate for the loss or denials you have suffered. But the beautiful thing is that in the economy of God, the added interest typically exceeds the value of the principal.

KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT 3: THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT

KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT 3: THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT

TEXT: MATTHEW 25:14-30

The kingdom work to every believer should not be treated with kids glove, the message today should make us have a very deep thoughts enroute genuine kingdom exploits.

The three servants were given the same seed for the same mission but one of them thought otherwise.

He was sad because the seed is small, the scope of his work is small, the master is unfair.

The master is partial, He is greedy, how can He expects him to do what others are doing with little.

The servant wants to dictate to the master how He should do His bidding.

HONOUR YOUR VOWS

"When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed" (Ecclesiastes 5:4).

According to the above Bible verse, a typical attitude of a fool is that he makes vows and delays or neglects to pay. Making a vow is like entering into a covenant. It is binding on you to fulfill your vow. A vow is an expression of who you are, what you believe in, and what you want. Thus, when you back out of a vow, you are denying who you are, what you believe in, and what you want. But a fool does not understand that to defer a vow is to deny himself.

LAYING FOUNDATION FOR A BLESSED GENERATION

"The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham" (Matthew 1:1).

Our God is a God of generations. This is why He refers to Himself as "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (Exodus 3:6). In a very major sense, God deals with people according to their generations because all generations are forever alive to Him (Matthew 22:32). Generations are important to God because without generational applications, covenants lose a huge chunk of their meaning and relevance. 

CRUSHING THE PUNCHES OF EXPERIENCE

The beautiful thing about our world is that, it is one which have phases; no wonder, the wisest man in history spoke about time in Ecclesiastes 3:1-10. The phases are the past, present and the future, this week edition of winning ways shall be sharing with you the accurate tools to overcome the problems your experience of life might have planted in your destiny.

TRIUMPHANT LIFESTYLE - Revd Muyiwa Okusehinde

"Then the Lord spoke again. 'Do not be afraid. Do not think that you are weak', he said to Joshua. 'Take the whole army with you and go to attack Ai. I will give the king and all his people and the city and its land to you" (Joshua 8:1, Easy English Version).

Life is full of battles. Indeed, the entire process we call life and living is one long stretch of war. While it is true that you will win some battles and lose some, it is important that you don't lose the war called life. It is also important that you progressively minimize the proportion of battles in which you are vanquished by the enemy, ultimately getting to a point that you don't lose battles anymore. From the words that God spoke to Joshua in our Bible verse for today, we can learn a number of lessons on how to be consistently triumphant in life.

BE STILL

"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth" (Psalms 46:10).

Many have been put into serious problems just because they will not keep their tongue in its right place. I once read of a physician who could no longer endure his talkative patient. After a while, he came up with an idea, telling his fair patient to put out her tongue as though he was going to examine the chattering instrument. Then the doctor continued writing out the prescription without even as much as glancing at the woman. When he had finished, he turned to her and said: “There, that will do, take it to the pharmacy”. “But, doctor,” protested the lady, “you never even looked at my tongue”. And the doctor replied: “It wasn’t necessary. I just wanted you to keep quiet while I wrote the prescription”.

Sometimes, we also need to keep quiet so as to allow God sort out the issues of our lives. The quietness I am talking about goes beyond refraining from making speeches. I am talking of a calmness of the total being - mind and body. That, I believe is what God is demanding from us when He ordered, "Be still, and know that I am God". God is saying, "I work best for you, in you and through you when you are quiet and calm". I believe that it will be of a great benefit to your whole life if in the next couple of days, you would make time to spend some real quiet moments before the Lord.