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Cut-Off, Don’t Cut-Short

As long as the size of your dream is dwarfish, predictable or comprehensive to  everyone around, you aren’t going to have problems with anybody. Nothing gets the little minds angry like you having a dream above their heads.

The first person to criticize and get mad at David for daring to fight the giant that everyone had run from was Eliab, his brother: “…And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither?…I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.” 1 Samuel 17:28.

Rather than cutting his dream down to a manageable size that Eliab could relate with, he moved on without him.

It’s better you cut off from small minds than to cut short your laudable dreams.

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Headway

However the monstrosity of what you are up against, if you join in magnifying it, losing out is inevitable!

When David stepped out against the Philistine giant, King Saul made every attempt to talk him out of the suicide mission, by laying the emphasis on the size, strength and the invincibility of Goliath, thereby minimizing the capability of David and taking God completely out of the equation: “And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” 1 Samuel 17:33.

Had David bought into it, his destiny would have summarily ended there and then.

I don’t care about the size of your problem or the ferocity of the storms coming against you. However hellish your crisis, one thing I know is that my God is infinitely bigger, greater and stronger!

Like Saul, the problem of many believers is magnifying their troubles more than their God, and until you begin to see God as bigger, making any headway is unlikely.

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Sorry Indeed

Expressing a feeling of sorrow or regret over one’s wrongdoing, though could go a long way, but mightn’t be enough to appease  the offended party or smoothen the resulting frictions.

Feeling sorry becomes comedic and makes no iota of sense if it doesn’t make you refrain or halt you from a wrong course.

Except it’s Herod’s kind of remorse:”And the king was sorry, nevertheless…beheaded John…” Matthew 14:9-10.

He claimed to be sorry, yet went ahead thereafter and killed John the Baptist! He was sorry indeed!

If that’s how sorry you are for your wrongs; there’s no difference!

“…ye were made sorry after a godly manner…For godly sorrow worketh repentance…” 2 Corinthians 7:9-10.

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Bitter Pill

If you don’t appreciate the truth, you would be told what you love to hear instead. Even where knowing the truth would save you a lot of trouble, it’s that which thrills you that those around you would probably be telling you.

And this is a deadly disposition!

A rich young man came to the Lord asking, “…what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” Matthew 19:16.

The reply he got was, “…keep the commandments.” V. 17.

Pretending he wanted to know the truth, he probed further: “…what lack I yet?” V. 20.

“Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.” V. 21.

The man couldn’t handle this truth, so, “…he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.” V. 22.

Better still, great possession had him!

He left with the danger of eternal condemnation hanging on his neck!

Truth may be a bitter pill, but nothing makes your life better than loving and doing it.

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SetUp

It sounds atrocious, utterly heartless, if you mandate a student who wasn’t given any relevant textbooks or necessary materials, to pass a given examination. Or a business man deprived of capital, facilities or favorable conditions, and must still succeed.

However unfair it seems, the greatest favor that life might do to you is providing you with less competitive advantage and still requires you to excel.

The truth is that the strongest amongst us aren’t built by pleasure but pressure!

The Lord knew that the children of Israel would need to be strong if they must conquer the mighty and formidable nations occupying their promised land. And if He should just bring them out of Egypt unprepared for where He was taking them, it would be nothing but a disaster. So He instigated Pharaoh!

“…Pharaoh commanded…You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it…” Exodus 5:6-8.

Don’t diminish your goals, lower your performance or reduce your drive just because life hasn’t given or withdrawn from you the wherewithals.

Be strong and still go for the best the Lord has planned for you.

Don’t fall for the setup, instead, Step-up!

Author- Pastor Yomi Oyeniyi (Faith Among All Nations Ministry)

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Greener Pastures

Prospect, to a large degree, is often considered in connection with location. While seeking a greener pasture, you’d see many people, youth especially, trooping to the cities or finding a way of crossing to the west. The same reason accounts for business location. But it doesn’t always work out that way, sometimes your blessing might come from where you least expect.

When Jesus came to Bethsaida, they brought a blind man to Him, and pleaded that He would heal him.

Rather than healing him right there and then, He “…took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town…” Mark 8:23.

The man’s miracle was not in the city as they all supposed! It was outside of the city that his eyes were “…restored…” V. 25. Your blessing might not be coming from a particular place, person or thing as you expect. Therefore free your mind; don’t fix it.

Author – Pastor Yomi Oyeniyi (Faith Among All Nations Ministry)

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Connectivity

 

The stunts some have been able to perform, the exploits they have made, are so remarkable that you don’t just feel intimidated, but see their feats as something you might not be able to replicate.

However, nothing can be farther from the truth!

There’s virtually nothing anyone has accomplished that you and I can’t; not knowing what it takes is our main problem.

When Moses met with God, he himself was astounded by the things he began to do. One of them was his rod that turned serpent when the Lord asked him to throw it to the ground!

But when Moses and Aaron confronted Pharaoh, the king of  Egypt, it wasn’t the rod of Moses that turned serpent this time; it was Aaron’s: “And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.” Exodus 7:10.

What Moses could do with his rod, Aaron also did with his!

Aaron was able to achieve this just by simply connecting: “And the LORD said to Aaron, Go.. to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.” Exodus 4:27.

There’s no limit to how much you can collect when you connect by the leading of the Spirit of God.

Author- Pastor Yomi Oyeniyi (Faith Among All Nations Ministry)

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Once Dead, Twice Cautious

 

If you have ever bounced back after a particular setback or crisis, and you don’t want to suffer a recurrent, you must be on guard, especially where your rebound has become the talk of the town and is drawing traffic to the kingdom.

While still basking in the euphoria of being raised from the dead, and people trooping from everywhere to catch a view: “Much people of the Jews…came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom He had raised from the dead.” John 12:9. At that same time, “…the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus to death.” (V. 10). Again!

They wanted the guy dead for the second time!

You don’t get carried away by the testimonies of God’s doing in your life that you let down the guards. That would be perilous! “Consultation” to rid you of “it” again could have been perfected.

And for your Lazarus not to die prematurely again, he must be twice cautious!

Author- Pastor Yomi Oyeniyi (Faith Among All Nations)

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The Awesome and Awful You

 

There are two things you might not have discovered about yourself, and until you do, the probability of either feeling frustrated and unfulfilled or becoming haughty and disdainful is inescapable.

To maintain a balance, you have to find out what your maximum potentials are, so you could rise to your peak. And the other is knowing the propensity for evil that is hidden within you, so you could learn to be modest however your achievements.

The Lord wanted Moses to realize the staggering things he was capable of doing when He asked him to throw the rod in his hand to the ground, and it became a serpent! (Exodus 4:2-3).

And in order to keep him levelheaded, the Lord also shocked him by showing him the bad hidden within him: “And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.” Exodus 4:6.

Leprosy? Right within Moses bosom?  Nothing could be more shocking!

The man never knew the extent of the strength and weakness he had within him up until that encounter.

Feeling unfulfilled? It only means you haven’t realized the magnitude of the strength lying within you!

And if it’s your achievements that has gotten into your head; it implies you haven’t understood the measure of your fallibility yet.

Author – Pst Yomi Oyeniyi ( Faith Among All Nations Ministry)

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Stop Dreaming

STOP DREAMING!

There is a common denominator you’d find with all the great people; they are not dreamers!

Keep dreaming and you will never accomplish anything worthwhile!

Great people are rather doers.

“…behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream…Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him…” Matthew 1:20, 24.

Joseph chose not to continue to dream but got up and did.

You have dreamt enough, it’s high time you got up and do something.

That’s the only reason Joseph is still relevant today.

To dream is cheap. Any Tom, Dick and Harry could do that. To do is what makes the difference.

Author: Pastor Yomi Oyeniyi (Faith Among All Nations Ministry)