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Hope Against Hope

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Against all odds, when it looked hopeless, Abraham believed the promise and expected God to fulfill it.

He took God at his word, and as a result he became the father of many nations. God’s declaration over him came to pass: “Your descendants will be so many that they will be impossible to count!”


The story of Abraham is one which is widely read and appraised. His story is one which has been inspiring generations.


Despite its commonness, I feel there has not been a time. In which we needed to revisit his story, as now.
God called Abraham out of his father’s house unto an unknown land. He promised Abraham descendants as numerous as the stars.

Yet, at old age, Abraham hadn’t received the Promised Child.
It looked as if the promise would never be fulfilled. His body’s strength was waning; the womb of his wife was becoming barren, like an Orchard whose flowers has been scorched into thorns by the piercing rays of the sun.

Yet, Abraham waited patiently for the fulfilment of The Promise. At hundred, Abraham was stricken in age. The pleasure of life and the desire of the bed were gone already.

In the midst of all these, The Bible tells us that Abraham never staggered in faith. Even when there was no reason to believe, he kept believing.

Even when he had every reason to quit and say, ‘I give up! I’ll never have a child!’, he chose to keep trusting in the words of an unseen God.

Beloved, the Promise may be delayed, but it will never be denied.

Like Abraham, you might be one who in your formative years in the

Christian experience received great promises from God. But till now, you have not seen the fulfilment. I want you to know that God has not forgotten you!


The economy might be hard. The world might be on Lockdown.

The nation might be in wreck because of weather and biochemical pandemics; but none of these things can stop God from fulfilling that which He has promised you.


“God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill” – Numbers 23:19.


God can never lie means that He can never speak of something He will not do. He will not give you an assurance if He will not fulfill His Promise.


The very Throne of God is founded on His Integrity and Faithfulness!


God does not change His mind, means that NOTHING can make God change His mind on blessing you.


Your mistakes will not make Him change His mind. The pandemic will not make Him change His mind. Your shortcomings will not make Him change His mind on blessing you.


So fret not. Be at peace. Serve the Lord with all fervency, because no matter how long it might take, surely, God’s Promise to you will be fulfilled.






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Fearless

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In times of tribulations will you shout?
At the day of trials how will you sream?
For as the river flows such is the way I feel,
For in pains my flesh has been peeled


Cry no more oh daughter of earth,
Break the shackles of fear and death,
For as you travail you shall give birth,


Feed your heart with no fear,
In you should lay no despair,
For God has no else to pair,
Oh daughter of earth!
Tear your garments and run to your Lord,
Be fearless and reach unto your rod.


Written by Greenhills Emmanuel

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PATIENCE

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Lots of people desire deep fellowship in their walk with God but only few have the patience needed in building such an fellowship.



Walking with God can be likened to baking a big wedding cake. It consists of steps which require patience.


When you want to bake a cake the first thing you do is to get the ingredients such as flour, eggs, sugar and so on.



Sometimes, the ingredients might not be available in a nearby store, so you have to get it in the market or a shopping mall in town.



Now after going through the stress of getting the ingredients, you don’t just sit there and watch the cake make itself. Instead, you patiently take your time to mix the ingredients together till they become fluffy.


Now mixing is not as easy as it sounds, especially when you are making a giant wedding cake. It requires strength and patience.


After mixing, you put the mixture in a baking pan and then you place it in an oven to bake. This could take minutes or hours depending on hour big the cake is.



Finally, after waiting patiently, your cake is ready but that’s not all.



Remember, you haven’t iced the cake yet and icing is another tasking process which requires perfection and to be perfect, you must be patient.


Baking a perfect cake requires lots of patience; likewise building a strong relationship with God.

The Bible says, “Seek and ye shall find”.


Seek there means patiently searching out and uncovering the things of God.
God doesn’t take short cuts in revealing things to and empowering his people. He honours and walks by processes; processes only a patient man can observe.



Your level of patience in your walk with God is directly proportional to how intimate you get with him.


You can’t expect the same quality of cake from someone who took quality time out to bake and someone who simply baked what he or she could bake.



Likewise, you can’t expect the same quality of the move of God from a man who patiently waits upon the Lord and a man who only has time for God when he or she has nothing to attend to.



There are mysteries in the kingdom. The Bible calls those mysteries “THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD”.


Those mysteries and secrets can only be uncovered by a man who has the patience to seek God’s face no matter how long it takes.


It is just like mining out Gold. You can’t find gold on the surface, you find it buried deep down the surface of the earth.


Many want these secrets but only few are ready to pay the price of patiently waiting on God.


Many want these powers but only few are patient enough to seek them.


You won’t always get revelations from the Bible every time you study but God says “Continue studying for the light is coming”.


We must learn to be patient enough if we really desire intimacy with God.


The question now is “ARE YOU PATIENT ENOUGH? ”



Written by Tolu-Taiwo Victor

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The Power of Imagination

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Imaginations are pointers to realities.



Imagination is seeing through the eyes of your mind to produce the reality you want to live in.


What we see and hear influences our imagination. Your subconscious mind is responsible for your imagination. It is what is stored in your subconscious mind that will be determine the quality of your foresight.


The bible admonishes us to guard our hearts because therein are the issues of existence. The mind is full of imaginations. One must choose what type of imagination one wants to conceive in your mind.


Until the spirit broods on the imagination which has been conceived in your mind, such imagination will never come to reality.


God imagined what He wanted to create on the Earth. It was conceived in His mind, then the Spirit brooded on His imagination and when He spoke, what He imagined became reality.


This is a season in which different imaginations, especially negative ones, are taking hold of people’s minds.


If your imagination is not conformed to the Knowledge of Christ, it is meant to be cast down. Our imaginations should be inspired by The Holy Spirit. Your Imagination is a reflection of who you really are.



Every great invention and fascinating innovation, was first conceived in The Imagination.


ENHANCING YOUR IMAGINATION


Meditate on God’s Word

In order to enhance your imagination, align your thinking with The Word of God.

The Word of God gives you so much imagination when you begin to think about them. His Word enriches our mind and expands our creativity.

Meditating on God’s Word creates vivid images of the operation of the supernatural, in the mind. When The Holy Spirit broods upon these images and one executes them, supernatural results are produced.

Insights From The Holy Spirit


Genesis 13:14-15: “After Lot was gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction. For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity forever.”


When God promised Abram that Abram’s blessings would be as far as he could see, God was not referring to physical sight. God was connoting the use of the imagination to visualize the extent of greatness that Abraham desires.


Having a limited imagination of greatness is like going to fetch water from an ocean with a tea cup.


Our small imaginations water down what God wants us to deliver through us. They can make God’s promises to us look too difficult to be accomplished.


Expand the extent of your Imagination. If God is calling you to the helps ministry imagine yourself feeding the whole of Africa. Do limit what God can do with your tea-cup imagination, widen your imagination today.


Develop The God-Mind

The kind of mind you have is very important in having an enhanced and workable imagination.

Develop the God kind of Mind. God gave you a mind, so you could think like Him, and operate in a capacity that can only be likened to His.


Adam’s mind was so enhanced that he could name the thousands of creatures that were assigned to his rulership.


Until you develop the God Kind of Mind, you will never be able to imagine what is in God’s heart.


Prayer and Imaginations

We cast down negative imaginations through our prayers. Prayer and godly imaginations must to hand-in-hand.


If you are praying for healing, picture your healing in your mind even as you pray for it. Do not pray for healing and imagine sickness.


If you are praying for wealth, picture it in your mind while you pray. Do not pray for wealth and imagine poverty.


Our forefathers in the kingdom, after imagining, would go to the place of Prayer pray with those Images they received. This created convictions in them that eventually birthed realities.


Enhance your Imagination today!


God bless you!



Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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DISOBEDIENCE

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Disobedience as common as it sounds, has contributed greatly to the fall of mankind. It has led to many unfulfilled destines.


The main purpose of God for man was to live a life of constant fellowship with him in the garden of Eden, but that purpose was cut short because of the sin of disobedience.


God gave instructions but they were disobeyed and till today, we still suffer from the consequences of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.


Disobedience to even the simplest and smallest of instructions could lead to a lasting problem or negative consequence.


How powerful the sin of disobedience could be, so powerful that it made the mighty fall (2nd Samuel 1:19).


In 1st Samuel chapter 15, God gave Saul an instruction to destroy the Amalekites with everything they possessed but he disobeyed and followed his own idea. God immediately rejected him (2 Samuel 1:18)


Sometimes, all we need to move to the next stage of our lives is obedience to an instruction from God.


The instruction might look simple or unrealistic, yet, it carries in it, the power to change your life for good, if obeyed, and to cause severe negative happenings, if disregarded.


We have become fond of negotiating with God just as Saul did.



We want our ideas to prevail over God’s ideas thinking ours is the best.


We want to do God’s will our own way but remember, it’s God’s will so you must do it God’s way and not your way.


God is very clear about disobedience. He says it is rebellion and that rebellion is like witchcraft


1 Samuel 15:23: “Rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols.”



Whenever God gives an instruction and you stubbornly ignore it, God sees such stubbornness as equivalent to idolatry.


How? Because you are idolizing your own ideas above God’s command.


It is ironical for us to expect God to speak to us, when we are living in stubbornness.



“Keep my commandments and live ” – Proverbs 7:2



The Life-Line of every believer is in his obedience to God’s commands.

The key to experiencing the fullness of God’s divine life is in obedience to His commands.

If keeping God’s commandments is the key to our living, then disobeying his commandments would lead to the opposite.

It would lead to spiritual death. It would lead to spiritual retardation.

God loves nothing less than complete obedience to His Word.


The instructions of God might seem too burdensome, but with His commands, comes Grace for obedience.




Written by Tolu-Taiwo Victor

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Walking Bibles

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John 6 vs 56:
“He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”


Anytime we hear the phrase “THE WORD OF GOD ”, what our minds travel to instantly is the BIBLE.

Why? Because the Bible is an ancient book in which lies the Word of God. But, the actual Word of God is not the letters.



The actual word of God is JESUS CHRIST THE SON.


As Christians, we must study our Bibles at all times but what about the unbelievers? What would they read?


Many of them do not have access to the Bible and even those who have access to the Bible see the Bible as a big boring book filled with historical events.


The moment they hear the word ”JESUS” or anything that has to do with God, they lose interest immediately.


So what do they study? They study us!

John 6 vs 56 says that Jesus (THE WORD OF GOD) dwells in you In other words, you are a walking Word of God.


We are being read and studied by the unbelievers around us.

There’s a life in The Word which our lives as Christians must manifest. It is the God-kind of life.


Sometimes, a simple good deed could change a notorious sinner into a devout Christian.



The Bible says that we are a city set on a high hill that can never be hidden.


It means no matter how hard you try to hide yourself, you will surely be seen and closely watched by the people around you.


Whatsoever you do will affect the kingdom of God and the lives of those watching you either positively or negatively.



St. Matthew 5:13: “Ye are the salt of the earth”


Salt brings sweetness to food. Our lives must be sweetness to the unbelievers. Our words and actions should make their lives better.


The unbeliever beside you does not care about the church you attend. All he cares about is the kind of life you live.


The unbelievers you have as neighbours do not care about the number of gospel songs you have in your phone. All they see is the Light of God that you release into their own lives.



That unbelieving colleague at your work place cares little about the Bible you carry around, all she wants to see is Christ in you.


You are a walking Bible.
You are a Bible to those around you. You are a carrier of God’s words and the life it brings. So let your light shine bright.


Do not hide your identity in Christ.
Be known for who you truly are; a Christian and a walking Bible.
You are an ambassador to the kingdom of God.


Be careful in all you do, you are being watched.


About The Author Tolu-Taiwo Victor is a young African writer.whose works have been published on several Internet platforms.

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A Charge To The Believers in the Marketplace

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God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing that will aid our growth.


Everything God has given us is to our advantage, for our life to be in alignment with the intentions of God.


If you are not manifesting the Kingdom of God in whatever business you do, then you’re not living by the government of God.


Jesus Christ is an example of how a man should operate under God design.


Several believers are not working under the design of Christ, rather, they have chosen to work under the design of their denomination.


Until we manifest the kingdom of heaven as Christ did, we are living below God’s intention.


“Your lives are like salt among ppeople But if you, like salt, become bland, how can your ‘saltiness’ be restored? Flavourless salt is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled on by others.“Your lives light up the world. Let others see your light from a distance, for how can you hide a city that stands on a hilltop? And who would light a lamp and then hide it in an obscure place? Instead, it’s placed where everyone in the house can benefit from its light. So don’t hide your light! Let it shine brightly before others so that the commendable things you do will shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:13-15.


God’s design is for us to be salt to season the earth and to light up the world. Adam’s fall made the world to lose its illumination and seasoning.


Believers as the salt of the Earth means we are to better the lives of people.

It means we are to bring healing to the sick, hope to depressed and freedom to the oppressed and light to the dark-hearted. We are add value to our society. This is the purpose of the Church!



Isaiah 60:1: “Arise, shine… “


The Gentiles will not come to us if we remain in a slumbering state.


There is so much darkness on the face of Africa because of the absence of illumination.


To become light is to break people out of the bondage of religion and culture and bring them to experience the excellent knowledge of Christ.


To lighten up the Earth is to fill the earth with the knowledge of the Glory of God.


For believers to take over the marketplace we must be ready to as Light and Salt unto the world.


Do not stay idle in the Church! Go into the world and become a Kingdom advocate today!


Engage the Kingdom today. God bless you!



Written by Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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Dealing with Procrastination

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Many destinies today, have become a mirage because of procrastination.


Several people would have reached the peak of their skills if they hadn’t fallen into the trap of complacency and laziness.



A lazy man is one who procrastinates.


Greatness comes by decisive and deliberate action to do what is important and needful for your success in Life. Complacency is the enemy of Growth.


Nothing will grow in our lives if we continue to live a life of missed opportunities as a result being lazy.


How to deal with Procrastination


1. Discipline:

Discipline is the bridge between planning and accomplishment.

Achievers are people who have the ability to compel their will and channel their energies in achieving a specific goal.

There is no key to achieving success other than discipline. Discipline yourself to work now! Discipline yourself to study now! Discipline yourself to face your fears! Just do it!

Do not shift to tomorrow, what you can do today! Grab your pen and write that story! Make that phone call!


2. Scheduling your time;


There are 24 hours in a day, each hour comes with its opportunities.



To schedule your time is to arrange your activities and fix them at their respective hours.


Several people schedule their time for insignificant things.


This is wrong as time is not renewable. Any hour spent without a deliberate schedule will lead to wasted opportunities.


Friends who will not help you to schedule your time should never be around you. Distance yourself from friends who will not respect your daily schedule. Your day is very precious to you. Many people are on the same level today because of the lack of a definite schedule. Give yourself to schedule.


3. Choose Sensible friends:


Friends are pointers to destiny, Loving your neighbour is a commandment, having a friend is your choice.


Any friend you have that will always make you use your time to talk, party and do other things that will not bring benefit to you and help you to get grow should not be your friend.


You must get rid of friends who are time wasters.


Never give yourself to friends who love to gossip. Friendship is either value-adding or value-depreciating.


Surround yourself with friends who will add value to your destiny and will always tell you what to do when you are confused.


4. Develop A Responsible Mind-set:

Ignorance is the greatest obstacles of a man, Bad mind-set is an enemy of progress.


If you want to grow, take responsibility! you are not like other persons. Our responsibilities are unique. So don’t just sit down, engage your responsibility!



God bless you!


Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

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Launch Into The Deep

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Before Jesus came to them, Peter, James and John were fishing, yet they never knew that there was something deeper than fishing.

At times we are too focused on our endeavour that we fail to see the deeper calling of destiny that has been attached to our lives.

Peter, James and John were Fishermen, yet, there was a calling for them to become great Apostles that would set the pattern for the preaching of The Gospel.


“And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.” Luke 5: 1-11. KJV



This is a very important message to learn from. Scriptures tell us that they toiled all night, yet, they could catch nothing.


Like Peter, a lot of believers have been toiling fruitlessly to earn substantial living. This lesson is for you.


Jesus wanted to teach the crowd he had no platform to preach from, he decided to use Peter boat.


Peter’s boat was his investment. It was his tool for working. It was his source of income. He gave the boat to Jesus. At the end, we are aware of the multiplication that ensued.



1. God’s Kingdom must be established in our Business. Wherever we find ourselves, we must live with the consciousness that we are children of God, representing God there. A believer must be guided by Christian principles in his business engagements. Let the Throne of God be exalted in your hearts.


2. We must ready to launch our nets into the deep if we are going to receive a big catch. To launch into the deep means to think beyond our present circumstances. It means to dream big. It means to invest big. It means to give your all to Kingdom work.


Peter was initially reluctant to launch into the deep because his thinking was shallow. Jesus was seeing a draught for Peter. But Peter’s thoughts were settled on the fruitless toil he had the previous night.


Many of us are still holding on to our past lives. God is calling us into abundance, but we are afraid to expect such, because of the memories of the fruitless toils we made yesterday.



I know of believers who are reluctant in giving life their best shot, because the last they did such, it did not yield the expected results.


But Jesus is saying this evening, launch your net into the deep. To launch into the deep, means one has to leave the realm of surface and mediocre living, and go after the deep realities of The Kingdom.


When Peter obeyed, he received a net-breaking miracle of multiplication.


What are you doing with your boat? Do you want to launch into the deep? Come and embrace the kingdom.


Written by Greenhills Emmanuel Amarayahweh

About The Author Greenhills Emmanuel is a Nigeria-based preacher and writer. He has written numerous articles which has been published across several Internet platforms.