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Discovering your Purpose

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Acts 13:36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.”

Every man in this world has a reason for which he was created. While molding a clay pot, a potter has in mind, the kind of clay pot he wants to produce and the purpose that pot will accomplish.

Creators do not create for mere pleasure, or leisure. They are intentional in their designs and inventions. Everything they create has a purpose which it accomplishes.

You have a purpose which God has ordained that you will fulfill. You are not in this world to add to the growing population. Your birth was not a mistake. Though, you might have been birthed out of wedlock, yet, you are not a mistake. Your parents’ act was a mistake, but your life and delivery was never a mistake.

It was foreordained in the Eternal counsels of God. Until you accept this fact and begin to seek for the Purpose for which you are here, you will either be a mediocre or an ordinary member of the society. This is because your uniqueness is in your purpose. Your joy, happiness and fulfillment is in your purpose.

Like David, you have a purpose to accomplish in your generation.

The key to understanding with clarity, that which God has made you to be is necessary to you living a life of impact. The purpose which God ordained for you is beyond being a mere clerk or member of staff. It is something greater; something which the world has never seen. Jesus described us as Salt who are to add seasoning to this world. What seasoning are you adding to the lives of people around you.

HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE

  1. Find your Passion:

Follow your passion; it will lead to your purpose

ORPRAH

Pay attention to the things you are connected to. Do not be mistaken though. Not everything that you love will turn out to be your purpose. Having a liking for a cause is different from having passion for it. Passion is deep and strong connection you feel between your soul and a cause. That which you have this connection to, is most often connected to your Purpose.

If you are having difficulty finding your Purpose, take out some time for self-reflection. Write down a list of twenty cause you love. Reduce it to the top ten you love a lot. Reduce this ten to the top three which you love a lot, until you finally have one left. That passion which is superior to every other thing in your life, follow it. It will lead you in the path of purpose.

2. Seek the Counsel of God:

Psalm 139:16: “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Every other human method of finding purpose, though most often reliable, can turn out to lead in the wrong direction. Only God can give you a clear definition of your purpose and mission on this Earth.

One of the lovely things about God is that He will not only reveal His Purpose for you to you, He will also give you perfect understanding of that purpose, and guide you in fulfilling it.

How does God reveal ones purpose?

God revealed Jeremiah’s purpose to Jeremiah through a vision (Jeremiah 1:5). God reveals our purpose to us through dreams, visions, ideas. But sometimes, God does not reveal our purpose in entirety. He expects us to walk with Him by Faith. It is in our continuous walk with Him and obedience to His instructions that our purpose become clearer to us.

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News Flash: International Christian Youth Conference coming up soon

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The International Christian Youth Conference is going to be one of the biggest cyber Christian conferences ever held on Telegram.

The theme of this year’s Conference gives us a glimpse at what God has in store for us.

Miracles. Healings. Impartations. Revelation. All in one program.

Bring the sick, the blind, the impotent, the lost and those hungry for the Lord, and they shall all be satisfied.

This is a season of revival, and we trust God, that there will be an increase in the fervor and adour of everyone who attends this Cyber conference.

To participate,

  • Ensure you have the Telegram App installed in your phone.
  • Join the Koinonia Art’s channel through this Link;

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God Bless You!

Health and Lifestyle

Where does your Friendship fall under?

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Friendship is a word that has no absolute definition. Instead, its meaning is based on how an individual views it.

However, two things are necessary concepts regarding the meaning of friendship.

They are Mutuality and Voluntariness.

By Voluntariness, I mean that friendship is not compelled. It exists between two or more persons who come together to become acquainted out of the choice made out of their own free will.

By mutuality, I mean that friendship is also reciprocal. It is an action experienced and practiced by the parties involved.

Why do people engage in friendship?

The reason for this question would give way to the types of friendships.

According to Aristotle, there are 3 types of friendships as depicted in Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics. They include:

. Friendships of Utility
. Friendships of Pleasure
. Friendships of the good

Friendships of utility are often characterized by the colloquial, ” _scratch my back and I will scratch yours.”_

This is the kind of friendship that exists between you and someone useful to you in some way. For instance, possibly you’re friends with the intelligent guy in your classroom because he helps you out in solving maths assignments, and in return, you gift him nice clothes and shoes.

This sort of friendship is usually temporary.

Friendships of Pleasure exist between persons who find fun and delight in the company of each other.

Often, friends of this type are regarded as “entertainment pals”, people with whom you do social activities like playing snooker and soccer games.

Friends in this category hang out because they share common pleasures and hobbies.

This friendship can easily end when the activity that brought them together no longer exists.

Friendship of the Good: This is the most perfect of all types of friendship. It takes a long time to build and is not easily broken.

Aristotle considered this type as “brotherly love.”

In this perfect level of friendship, there is no intent to gain anything from the other. Rather the focus is on how one can fulfill the other’s wishes.

These are friendships based on a mutual admiration of each other’s qualities.
People who have a handful of this type of friends in their lives are truly blessed.


How can one maintain good friendships?

Be Loyal: Loyal friends support each other in good and bad times. One doesn’t backbite and tear down the other.

Openness: Good friends don’t keep unhealthy secrets.

Acknowledge the differences in others: Bear in mind that everyone has a unique personality. It is important to understand the 4 personality traits dominant in people – Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, and Phlegmatic.

Knowing the personalities in people makes you able to accommodate them and their excesses.

Love, Trust, and Respect: These are other ingredients needed in maintaining a perfect friendship. Friends who respect each other apologize when one offends the other. Similarly, respect will make you not cross your friend’s boundary.

Love and respect your friends without an underlying intent.


Ultimately, good friends are rare gems.

A friend will tell you what you want to hear but it takes only a _good friend_ to tell you what you need to hear.


Where does your friendship fall under?

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Refreshing your Pastor

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Ephesians 4:11-12: “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up”

The secret to the success of every great organization lies in the quality of its leadership, and the response of the followers to the leader.

No organization can exist and succeed without having leaders, and without having people who submissively follow their leadership.

This is a Principle that Christ works with in The Church. The Church is an Organization in all planes of existence. The Church is a physical, social and spiritual organization. It is a Body. A Society which consists of Christians.

The Head of the Church is Christ. Yet, Christ has appointment leaders known as Ministers here on Earth, to shepherd His Church on His behalf and bring them unto the fulness of the divine nature which they’d received.

The Pastor of your Church is your leader. He is the shepherd placed in charge of you and every other person who belongs to that Christian community.

He is divinely ordained. The scripture mentioned above tells us that it is Christ who selects the Pastors, Apostles etc. None of them ever chose themselves. They were chosen by God and special anointed to carry out the tasks which the Lord assigned to them.

The duty of a Pastor is to take care of his flocks. To nourish them spiritually and mentally, and sometimes, financially. To intercede for them before the throne of mercy all day long.

But the work of pastors can become an heavy workload if their followers are not responding positively to them.

The effectiveness of the pastor depends on how well his flock responds to his leadership.

Romans 15:32: “So that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company”


2 Timothy 1:16: “May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains”

The Man of God needs refreshing. He spends hours fasting and praying, not for himself, but for you and I.

He makes several sacrifices. Goes on retreats; denies himself of even family comfort, just to see that the will of God over your life is fulfilled.

These things are laborious. I doubt if there is anything that energizes ones spirit, yet, exhausts one mentally, emotionally or physically as long term Fasting and Prayer.

Yet, our Men of God engage in these things, to ensure that we get every equipping needed to carry out God’s purpose on Earth.

If we fail to refresh them, they will get worn out, because there is only so much the Body can bear.

HOW TO REFRESH YOUR PASTOR

1. Pray for Him:

Our Pastors have needs also. They have personal challenges that they are struggling with. Some of them have family/marital problems. We must not shut our eyes to these things.

It is very important for the man of God to be prayed for with fervency by his members.

The Church at Jerusalem, prayed for Peter without ceasing when he was arrested. All over the world, pastors are facing severe persecutions. It is our duty to pray that God will strengthen their faith and give them the fortitude to bear the trials and tribulations.

2. HONOUR THEM

Thessalonians 5:12: “We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work”

When Satan wants to scatter a congregation, he starts by making them disdain their pastor. When God wants to bless a congratulation, He first creates harmony between the Pastor and the congregation.

No matter what, do not slander your pastor. Do not speak ill of him. Do not disrespect your man of God. Though, they are not perfect, but for the fact that they were chosen by God to lead, we must give them absolute honor.

They are humans. Hence, they might have temperament problems. But the anointing upon their lives, the stature of their spirits and the sacrifices they make, deserve total respect.

Men of God should be encouraged. They should feel loved and appreciated by their flocks.

3. Financial Support.

Galatians 6:6: “One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches”

Galatians 6:6: “And those who are taught the Word must share all good things with their teacher; a sharing of wealth takes place between them.” (TPT)

Do not withhold your substance from your pastor. Support his Ministry with your finances. Give bountifully. Purchase gifts for him and his family.

God always blesses those who give to Pastors. But you must give to them out of love, and not because you want God to make you rich.

Decide today, that whether you are in abundance, or you are not financially bouyant, you will always support your man of God in whatever way you can.

God Bless You.

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The Power of Positive Self Talk

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Self Talk is the act of having a conversation with oneself. It is like having a discourse with your very being.

Self Talk is very necessary, because it allows us to explore the vast, unreached expanse of our minds.

As humans who have the talking ability, we are fond of speaking outwardly to people around us very often.

The average human talks for at least 30 seconds every minute he is awake.

Speaking to others is a good skill, but the ability to speak to ourself is a blessing.

The way we talk to others can be altered or enhanced by the way we talk to ourselves. We bless or curse others by conversing with them. But self talk is a way, of reawakening our inner awareness and enriching the quality of our minds.

Self Talk can also destroy one’s mind. It can be a person’s defeat or victory. It can be a source of faith, or a food of doubt. It either empowers you, or immobilizes you.

It all depends on how you utilize this great activity.

We all engage in self talk consciously or unconsciously.

What do you say to yourself when you made a mistake?

What do you stay to yourself when you fail in task you were assigned to do?

What do you say within you when you are assigned a task that seems too difficult?

These minute statements we make within us, actually affect our mind’s creativity even more than we can imagine.

Negative self talk is equivalent to releasing acids to kill the potentials and vast propensities in your mind.

Positive self talk is equivalent to fertilizing your mind for creative thinking and Imagination.

When you make mistakes, instead of condemning yourself and calling yourself names, gird your mind.

Say within yourself, ‘This was a mistake. Mistakes are inevitable. I’ve learnt my lesson. I’m gonna correct this and move on’.

Self-criticism will not make you better. It will only make you very rigid in your endeavors simply because you are trying to avoid a repetition of your past mistake.

But when you make a mistake, and you have recognized it, and you have repented of it, do not criticize yourself anymore.

Strengthen yourself with self talk and move on.

Do not wait until people call you special, before call yourself. Do not wait until you are praised, before you give yourself kudos.

Be the #1 fan of yourself. Be your #1 friend. Be your #1 cheerleader.

These things matter more than we can ever imagine.

A wise man once said,
“It’s not what we say out loud that really matters. It is that which we whisper to ourselves that has the greatest power”.

The way you speak to yourself, determines how much you value yourself, and how much value you place on yourself will determine how much value people will place on you.

From today, speak Positive things to yourself and to your family.

Instead of saying, ‘I am broken, scathed and weak’, say, ‘I am Healing. I am recovering. I am strong’.

Renowned Author, Edward Mbiaka, once said that,
“Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.”

I’ll wrap up with this quote from Germany Kent;

‘Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.’


God Bless You.








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A Rare Lesson from The Ants

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Proverbs 6 vs 6
“Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways and be wise”

The ant is a very special and interesting creature. Though very small in size, it has a lot of interesting and amazing characteristics.

According to science, ants can lift up to 50 times their own weight. So small yet strong and mighty. Another interesting fact about them is that they have no ears. Yes! They lack ears. All they depend on for hearing are vibrations.

These little creatures are ubiquitous. I mean they can be found anywhere and everywhere you go.

Some species of ants can actually live up to 2 hours after their heads have been ripped off their bodies.

These creatures are so amazing and unique, establishing the fact that size doesn’t matter when it comes to surviving in thus world.

Aside these amazing facts, there is also a lot to learn from them such as the lesson of hardwork and determination.

But that is not the only thing we can learn from the ants.

One evening, I was sitting under an almond tree enjoying the coolness of the shades and the evening breeze.

Then I felt something walking on my neck. I quickly threw it off my neck, and I inquisitively went to check what it was.

I discovered it was a little ant which I crushed while trying to take it off my neck.

It lay there wounded. I decided to leave it on the ground, hoping it would heal and gain enough strength to walk again.

I kept going to observe whether it would move, at intervals.

Several minutes later, I spotted another ant coming.

After a few seconds, it got to where the injured ant was and touched it with its antenna. It did this for about 30 seconds.

Then suddenly, it picked up the injured ant and started moving it away from where it was towards their little ant hole buried in the ground. Soon they got to the hole and entered.

This little act of this ant amazed me. It saw its fellow ant helplessly wounded and did not abandon it.. Instead, it helped it to safety.

Everyday, we hear stories of devout Christians falling into grievous sins such as fornication, fraud etc.

We see some at the verge of backsliding because they feel that they have fallen so deep they ca not be saved or used by God again.

Hearing this, instead of becoming a helping hand, we Christians take it as an opportunity to criticize and condemn them.

Instead of showing them love, we become mean towards them as if we are the world’s perfectionists. Instead of encouraging them, we talk them down., instead of correcting, we criticize.

Lots of Christians have commuted suicide due to this. The place from which they expected to get love, faith, strength and Correction, they got hatred, shame and criticism instead.

I want us to know that our maturity as believers is not only measured based on how fervently or how long we pray. Nor is it only measured based on on how well we get deep revelations from the Bible. It is also measured based on how we handle situations around us.

We are on a journey and this journey is a journey filled with stumbling blocks. No one is perfect but we are moving towards perfection.

Many are going to fall but it is the job of those who are already strong in those areas to bring them up, love, encourage and correct them.

Let us help each other on this journey.
Let us carry each other along.
Let us intercede for one another.
Let us fellowship with one another.

Don’t make anyone feel bad for falling. Remember it could happen to anyone and even you.

The Apostle said, “Let brotherly love continue”.

The Road to Eternity is full of thorns and trials, but if we stick to one another, we can definitely overcome.

Written by Tolu-Taiwo Victor

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The Secret to my Thrive even during The Pandemic – Nathaniel Stephen

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Nathaniel Stephen is a healing Evangelist based in the Nigeria. He is full of the power of The Holy Spirit, and is being used mightily by God to bring revival upon Nigeria and the globe.

In this interview with Koinonia Art’s Journalist, Godwin Wobo, Stephen that shares with us, his life story.

(Interviewer’s Questions in Bold Italics)



Tell us about your Background.

I am from a good family background. My Mom was an Evangelist, not necessarily by title, but she did the work of an EVANGELIST alot.

She would be sick, yet, would still go for Evangelism. Her bad health could not stop her. She was definitely a woman full of pious love and reverence for the things of God.

My Dad was not really stable, but God was helping him.

I got born again in 2014. It was a beautiful experience. But a while later, I backslid. I fell from The Faith.

I totally changed in 2016. No one preached to me. I had an Encounter with God that transformed me overnight, and made me come back to the Lord.

How was the inception stage of your ministry?

It was pretty cool. I think I would have preferred it to what I see now. I hated crowds. I love to be hidden. Then, it was just myself and twelve others that the Lord had sent to me. Eventually, things began to change. Doors of expansion began to open, and here I today, more known than I was before.

What was your greatest challenge in ministry?

I have faced several challenges in ministry. Both Physical and Spiritual challenges. But I think the greatest of these challenges is that, I was very determined to know who my wife would be, (laughs).

I was so interested in knowing God’s will for my marital status, that I began to get distracted from God’s purpose for my ministry.

Thank God for His enlightenment. I realized it was a mere distraction. When the right time comes, the right woman would come.

But it was a challenge overcoming those thoughts and obsession with who I might marry.


You have witnessed several incredible miracles of God in your life. Yet, which of these miracles would you describe as very fascinating?

For me, there is no Miracle which is greater than the miracle of salvation.


As you said, God has performed incredible miracles in my ministry. I have seen miracle alerts, HIV Positive turn Negative, deaf ears opened, Blind eyes seeing, Ulcer dissipating etc. The list is endless. God has been very faithful to us.

In spite of these, I’ll still say that the Miracle of salvation is the greatest.

There is no Miracle as great as a sinner becoming a saint; a strumpet becoming a prophet; an atheism extremist becoming a lover of the Gospel.

These are miracles we see daily. Lives transformed. Minds renewed. There is no Miracle as great as that.

Ever since its inception, your ministry has thrived. Despite the Pandemic and lockdown, it keeps growing bigger. Evangelist, what is the secret to the continuous thrive of your ministry?

Quite a lot of persons have asked me that question. And when they ask me, they probably expect a big answer.

But the secret to my success in Ministry is that I always follow the leading of The Holy Spirit. What He says I should do, I do. What He says I shouldn’t do, I do not do. The Holy Spirit is very important to success both in ministry and in every other endeavor.

I do not even see this work as my ministry. It is His Ministry. I am merely the caretaker.

He has His compass orchestrated for the leading of His Ministry. As His caretaker here on Earth, my job is to continually look at that compass and align myself with the angle it is reading.




Sir, you’re a a student, as well as a preacher. These two facets of life can be quite tasking and demanding of attention. Yet, you’re excelling in the both of them. How do you do that?

God helps me in my academics. It may seem unbelievable, but when I’m preparing for exams, I do not read the entire topics in the recommended texts.

The Holy Spirit directs me to the topics from which the exam questions will be set. I study those topics intensively, and discover on the day of the exam, that indeed, the exam was set from them.

What are some of the things you are grateful for in Ministry?

I am presently in full time ministry and am grateful for many things.

The crowds that turn up at our crusades.
The speed He granted me.
His mercies He has shown me.
The signs and wonders .
The expansion in finances, numbers etc.

I am very grateful to God for these things and I attribute them to nothing else but His Grace.

What advice would you give to ministers globally. Especially the young ones?

While you have alot of prophecies over your life, ensure to yield to divine Instructions and principles. Young ministers are particularly stubborn when it comes to following God bureaucratically.

The passions of ones youth can tempt one to serve God recklessly. But God is a God of order. And He be followed based on the Principles which He has revealed in Scriptures, and the Instructions which He gives to us through The Holy Spirit.

Never attend a meeting God wants you to attend without leaving that meeting with a decision made and an action to take.

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We hope you have been blessed by the written highlights of this phenomenal interview with Nathaniel Stephen.

Meditate wholly on these things. Imbibe the lessons into your heart, and practice them.

The Lord Bless You.

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Daily Worship: ‘WayMaker’ – Sinach

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We serve a God who makes a way even when there is no way.

He parted the red Sea for the Israelites to walk on dry land.

God always makes a way for His Saints. He is the God who makes water to flow in the wilderness.

Today, we worship God and declare His WayMaking ability.

And we believe that as you join us in worshipping God with this song, He will guide you into the wa He has marked out for your thriving.

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Poetry: Love covers All

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Life connects us to men,
Deep calls unto deep,
Wounds may never heal,
Scars might not be wiped off,
But love conquers all.

Emotions indeed have suffered,
Feeling has been trashed,
Hatred looks for whom to host,
Hearts then, have been cracked,
But love conquers all.

Souls have experience torture,
Men’s love continually wax cold,
Tales of heart break fills the air,
Tales of broken trust makes the first,
But Love conquers all.

Enough tears have been shed,
Enough time has been spent,
Why wallow in depression,
Why engage in unforgiveness,
But love conquers all.

To err is human,
To forgive is divine,
To love is our design,
To shut yourself from love,
Is to put yourself to disdain,
But love conquers all.

Take your time to heal,
Take the mandate to Love again,
Experience the love of Christ today,
Make yourself available for his love,
Dress yourself beautifully to accommodate,
His wonderful love,
Because His love conquers all..

Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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Beholding Eternity

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2 Corinthians 4:18: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal”

This world we live in, is a material world, which will surely fade away someday. If this world has a beginning in time, then certainly, it will have an end. Hence, the Apostle calls it a Temporal world.

Due to this, even while we go about our daily endeavours, our sight must be set on the things which are not seen. Our sight must be set on the realities of eternity, and not the materialism of this world.

Years ago, I asked someone for the secret to living in ardour and piousness on Earth. I did not receive a satisfactory answer. For many years, I sought for the answer to this question. It was until I came across 1 Corinthians 4:18, that I discovered this answer.

A man’s destination will be determined by his focus. If you are journeying Eastwards, yet, your eyes are set on the West, your journey will be futile. We are Pilgrims in this world, who are on a journey to Eternity and Immortality. If we will arrive at our destination, our sights must be set on it.

Now is the time, when we must look beyond the economy of the nation wherein we dwell. The Pandemic has taught us that even the economy of the nation is unreliable. We must look beyond the wearing of masks and gloves and Covid protocols (even as we give strict adherence to them), unto the Eternal and Unseen creator.

Now is the time for us to realign our sights. For many years, believers have been too engrossed in the affairs of this world, that we have almost forgotten that there is a world to come.

Colossians 3:3 “Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honour at God’s right hand”

In the aforementioned text, two things are revealed to us; a reality, and an Instruction. The first is that we have been raised to new life with Christ. This is probably the most powerful of gospel revelations.

It is the revelation that we have been raised into a new life with Christ. The Life we live now is a higher brand of life. A life which is higher than the life of the world. The Life we live now is the resurrection life; when Christ resurrected, we resurrected with Him.

We have been raised above sin, carnality, misery, sickness, shame, pain and reproach, unto a new kind of life. The Apostle called it ‘new life’, because this kind of life has never been in existence in the world.

It came into existence after Jesus resurrected from the grave. It is God’s kind of life. This is the life that we have, and that we live. It is a life of faith in the eternal realities of God.

The Instruction:  set your sights on the realities of heaven.

There are realities of heaven. Immortality, divine health, prosperity, divine wisdom etc. these are heavenly realities. Our gaze must be on them.

Though one might not be able to see them physically, yet, with one’s heart, one can continuously gaze on them and picture oneself living in them.

As you walk on the face of the Earth, let there be a picture of eternity in your heart.

Even when things seem to be tough, with your heart, look beyond the physical. The pain, the pandemic, the lockdown, no matter how long these things might seem to be, they will surely pass away.

 But one thing that will never pass away, is the Eternal Word of God. His Word abides forever. So why fret yourself over the visible but temporal things. Open your heart and look in anticipation of the salvation of your Redeemer.

Set your gaze on the realities of God found in His Word.

Fix your thoughts on His Promises to you and your family, both here and in Heaven. See them happening in your life.

Do not let your vision be blurred by circumstance! Instead, let it be guided by your faith in God’s word.

God bless you!

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As far as You can See

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Abraham’s staff had a quarrel with Lot’s staff over grazing land for their cattle. This led to Abraham and Lot agreeing to separate.

Lot was given to option to choose between the breathtaking city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the less attractive land which they dwelt in at that moment. Lot chose the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, and he left Abraham with the less attractive site.

Probably Abraham stood after Lot had left, gazing at the beautiful sight of Sodom and Gomorrah, and wishing he had the opportunity to rear his cattle in such a plain.

But the Lord appeared unto Abraham.

Genesis 13:14-17: “After Lot had gone, the LORD said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession. And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted! Go and walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you.” (NLT)

God came to change Abraham’s sight, from beholding the dainties of Sodom and Gomorrah to beholding the far greater wealth he had in store for Abraham. He said to Abraham, “I am giving you all this land, as far as you can see….”

The kind of seeing that God was talking about here, isn’t the seeing done with the physical eyes. It is that which is done with the inner sight. It is the seeing done with the Imagination.

God told Abraham to look Northwards and Southwards and Eastwards and Westwards. There was certainly no way Abraham would have been able to the entirety of these four cardinal points with his physical sight. But God expects the child of God to see by faith and not by what his physical eyes show him.

The question a believer must ask himself is, “What am I seeing?”

One of the facts which psychology has proven to be true, is that every human who walks and works in this Earth, has a mental picture of himself and his future which guides his decisions and actions.

Even those who claim to see nothing are actually seeing despair, emptiness and a future void of greatness.

In the midst of this pandemic, what is that which you are seeing with your inner eyes? There might have been a lockdown on your business, but there can never be a lockdown on your imagination!

Do you have a mental picture of a great future in mind? Or have you conceded to the picture of gloominess and darkness in your future.

The reason God gave us a lot of promises and ensured they were all penned down is so that in the time of challenges, we may look at those promises, and see them manifesting in our lives. Using your mind to picture the promises of God towards you and your family is not a way of escaping or trying to deny reality. Rather, it is the way to elevating your whole being to living in a higher reality.

Things to see happening in your life

1) Your children becoming great: You might have children who right now, are stubborn and might even be ungodly, yet, do not let your vision be limited to who they seem to be at present. Rather, see them as the kind of children that the Bible has promised for those who fear the Lord.

Psalm 112:2: “(the man who fears the Lord) His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.” (KJV)

See your children becoming great businessmen, politicians, leaders, ministers in the society. Let this be your vision for their lives, and let it drive you to give them the best guidance needed to attain this dream.

2) See yourself having a prosperous home: What makes a home prosperous is not money alone. Love, care, peace and the thriving of your family members can make your home prosperous.

Envision the kind of family you want to have. Envision the kind of spouse you want to be, and start making decisive steps to becoming that spouse now!

3) See yourself living in good health and long life until you leave this world:

Psalm 91:10: “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” (KJV)

No matter how contagious the pandemic might be, God has promised that it will not come best your dwelling.

Peradventure it came, see yourself getting healed of it.

See yourself alive, even in old age, spending the holidays with thriving children and grandchildren and even your great-grandf