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Giving provokes Lifting..

Proverbs 18:16 KJV

A MAN'S GIFT MAKETH ROOM FOR HIM AND BRINGETH HIM BEFORE GREAT MEN..

Brethren, the candidate for breakthrough is one who is hardworking & a great giver.. If you desire a breakthrough in any area of your life, yet you are lazy & stingy, you are wasting your time, you are not yet tired of that negative situation..

ABRAHAM WAS NOT STINGY.. HE WAS A GREAT GIVER. HE DID NOT WITHHOLD ANYTHING HE HAD FROM GOD: NOT EVEN ISAAC, HIS ONLY SON.. NO WONDER TODAY HE'S THE FATHER OF ALL BELIEVERS..

The widow of Zarephath gave her last meal to Elijah to provoke her breakthrough.. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings.. Paul gave up his PhD & all past achievements to Jesus..(Phil.3:7,8)

HANNAH RETURNED HER ONLY SON TO GOD THE GIVER & HAD FIVE MORE CHILDREN.. IF SHE HAD KEPT SAMUEL TO HERSELF, SHE WOULD HAVE HAD JUST ONE SON.. SHE GAVE HER ONLY SON & FINALY HAD SIX..

Are you sure you want a breakthrough? What have you given that could really provoke your blessing?

IT IS HOW YOU TREAT GOD THAT WILL DETERMINE HOW HE WILL TREAT YOU.. IF YOU REFUSE TO GIVE TO HIM, YOU BLOCK HIM FROM RELEASING BLESSINGS TO YOU..

You have to choose either to provoke your breakthrough sacrificially or maintain your status quo.. There's a kind of giving that can turn your life around.. Ask God to show you the way..

IT'S A SPIRITUAL THING..

Have a rewarding time in His Presence today..

SHALOM!

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God's solutions sometimes don't make sense.

1 John 5:3 KJV

FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS & HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS..

Brethren, when Naaman, came to Elisha, to be healed of his leprosy, what he was asked to do didn't make any sense to him. Therefore, he left in a rage..

MOST TIMES, GOD'S SOLUTIONS DO NOT MAKE SENSE..

The way to your breakthrough may not make any meaning to a rational man, yet that is God's choice.. This also accounts for why some people miss their blessings..

Dipping into a river seven times to cure a l***r has no scientific basis.. Going round the City walls seven times & shouting does not make sense to war experts.. Throwing a fishing net at a time when fishes should have dispersed makes no meaning to a fisherman..

God's solution does not have to make sense for it to work.. God is very simple & therefore solves problems in simple ways..

FOR INSTANCE, WHAT YOU WILL LIVE ON COULD BE A TALENT HE HAS ALREADY GIVEN YOU.. IT COULD BE A BOTTLE OF OIL YOU ALREADY HAVE.. HE DIDN'T ASK NAAMAN TO DO A HARD THING OR PAY A COSTLY PRICE.

Anything God requires from you is what you can afford to do or give.. He won't make impossible demands from you..

Are you like Naaman? What simple instruction have you failed to obey? Arise, go & obey that instruction now..

IT'S A SPIRITUAL THING.

Have a blessed week ahead..

SHALOM!

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What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?

Genesis 2:8 KJV

AND THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN EAST-WARD IN EDEN; AND THERE HE PUT THE MAN WHOM HE HAD FORMED...

Brethren, HE that made man, took care to make him happy.. His residence was a Garden, not an Ivory House nor a Palace overlaid with Gold, but a GARDEN, furnished & adorned by nature, not by art..

WHAT LITTLE REASON HAVE MEN, TO BE PROUD OF STATELY AND MAGNIFICIENT BUILDINGS, WHEN IT WAS THE HAPPINESS OF MAN IN INNOCENCY THAT HE NEEDED NONE..

As clothes came in with sin, so did houses..

THE HEAVEN WAS THE ROOF OF ADAM'S HOUSE, AND NEVER WAS ANY ROOF SO CURIOUSLY CEILED & PAINTED..

The Earth was his floor, and never was any floor so richly inlaid..

THE SHADOW OF THE TREES WAS HIS RETIREMENT.. UNDER THEM WERE HIS DINING-ROOMS, HIS LODGING ROOMS, AND NEVER WERE ANY ROOMS SO FINELY HUNG AS THESE: SOLOMON'S, IN ALL THEIR GLORY, WERE NOT ARRAYED LIKE THEM..

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things & the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride & luxury, the nearer our approach to a state of innocency..

NATURE IS CONTENT WITH A LITTLE & THAT WHICH IS MOST NATURAL, GRACE WITH LESS, BUT LUST WITH NOTHING..

It's a spiritual thing..

SHALOM!

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Dump the Law, Grab the Grace..

Matt. 5:39 KJV

BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT YE RESIST NOT EVIL: BUT WHOSOEVER SHALL SMITE THEE ON THY RIGHT CHEEK, TURN TO HIM THE OTHER ALSO..

Brethren, the GRACE called Latter House is far more superior in Glory than the LAW which is called the Former House..

GRACE IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN THE LAW EVEN THOUGH MANY CHRISTIANS THINK OTHERWISE..

For instance, during the law, although it is commanded that you shall not commit adultery, as long as you're not caught, you're home & dry.. Invariably, some can become experts at committing the sin without being caught..

SUCH PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES SMART.. BUT THE DAY THEY'RE CAUGHT, THEY WILL BE STONED TO DEATH..

However, the provisons of Grace according to Matthew 5:27,28 say that you do not need to sleep with your sin partner to commit the sin.. No earthly witnesses are required because Heaven is watching closely..

NO EARTHLY COURT WILL CONVICT AN ACCUSED WITHOUT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.. BUT GRACE SAYS THE EVIDENCE OF LUST IN YOUR HEART IS SUFFICIENT..

Love and forgivenes are far superior to anger and vengeance..

WHAT KIND OF LIFE ARE YOU LIVING?
ARE YOU LIVING IN ANGER, BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT? THAT IS FAR INFERIOR TO THE GRACE OF LOVE, FORGIVENESS & HUMILITY THAT JESUS HAS BROUGHT..

Dump the law, grab & live by the Grace of Jesus Christ today.. That makes you truly superior..

IT'S A SPIRITUAL THING..

Shalom..!

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Don't dump gold for bronze..

Gen. 3:7 KJV

AND THE EYES OF THEM BOTH WERE OPENED & THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE NAKED; AND THEY SEWED FIG LEAVES TOGETHER & MADE THEMSELVES APRONS..

Brethren, as you enter the new month, whatever the Lord lays in your heart to do, do it speedily.. Never delay your obedience..

SIMILARLY, DO NOT DUMP GOLD FOR BRONZE.. AFTER ADAM AND EVE SINNED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THEY LOST THEIR HEAVENLY GARMENTS..

The Glory of God which covered them disappeared.. They found themselves naked.. Rather than cry to God for restoration, they patched leaves together and used their rag-like alternatives as clothes.. They dumped Gold for Bronze..

TODAY, SEVERAL ORIGINAL BLESSINGS, GIFTS & GRACES HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH POOR SUBSTITUTES..

Many have dumped their genuine salvation for fake.. Satan does not mind your receiving any spiritual, material or intellectual blessing.. What bothers him is that you must not have original..

REJECT ALL BRASS SUBSTITUTES & ASK FOR GOLD.. ASK GOD FOR THE RESTORATION OF YOUR LOST GOLD, EVEN AS YOU GO INTO THE MONTH..

It's a spiritual thing..

Have a blessed weekend ahead..

SHALOM!

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A true child of God never struggles with sin..

1 John 3:9 KJV...

WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD..

Brethren, if the SEED of GOD is in you, you will NOT be able to sin..

A cat sorrounded by grass will die of hunger.. Cat does not eat grass.. However a sheep sorrounded with grass will grow fat.. A sheep sorrounded with meat will die of starvation.The seed of a sheep does not allow it to eat meat..

There is something called THE SEED OF GOD.. When you're genuinely born again,this seed will be in you.. You now belong to a new culture..

A culture of love because God is Love.. A culture of unity, prayer & joy.. In the presence of God there's fullness of joy..

There is also in a truly born-again person a culture of FAITH.. By faith you are saved.. Then there is a culture of power. & greatness..

IF POWER BELONGS TO GOD & THE SEED OF GOD IS IN YOU, THEN POWER BELONGS TO YOU.. THE BIBLE SAYS GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD..

It's a spiritual thing..

HAPPY WEEKEND.

Shalom!