YOU ARE IN HIS DIVINE PLAN

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.... Jer. 1:5 NIV

You are unique! You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are still that precious creature in His express image. Passing the gold through fire does not in any way diminish its worth, rather it beautifies and adds more value to it. Take your mind off the starting point, look beyond your present and set your eyes on your destination point. All things are yours,  

YOU WILL GET THERE IN JESUS NAME.

Remain blessed!

ABOUT GIVING UP?

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1 Peter 1:7 KJV
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory....

Trial is not meant to destroy us. It is not designed to weaken us either. It rather perfects and strengthens. It prepares one for a greater responsibility, it is an aptitude test for promotion, it offloads one of every trust in self and man and points him to His Maker as the Source. It re-directs and re-focuses.

But because we feel the pains, the heat and hunger often associated with challenges, we often feel the night is too dark and seems not to be in a hurry to give way for the day and often, we are tempted to believe the sun may never shine again.

Come to think of it, so long as we are still in this flesh and blood, life will be boring, so boring without challenges; when you have everything you ever needed, when you drink everything you thirst for, when you eat everything you have appetite for, when you can afford everything that money can buy, when you go anywhere that comes to your mind, when there is nothing to hope for— life without expectations. But then, we will also be doomed as we may seem not to have any need for God.

In Psalm 43:5, The Psalmist in the maze of this seeming uncertainty found faith in the ability of God's unfailing love and promises, 'Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him...

There are things that must keep us going in the face of the reality of passing through the 'wilderness.' Anytime I go through challenges, I use to ask myself, 'What if God has just told the Host of Heaven that He knows Emechebe, that this his present challenge will rather bring out the best in him, can I afford to disappoint God? This keeps me going.

God knows that you can stand that trial; He would not allow it if you could not. It is His love for you that makes Him want to bring out the best in you however bitter it may be at such a time. God knows our strength and ability more than we think we know. With Prayers, Thanksgiving and Supplications, keep believing Him that the 'siege' will soon be over as He will definitely bring you to your Place of Abundance.

Thanking him is not for the grief or the problems we are facing, but for the strength he is building in us during these challenging moments .

Keep Moving!

THE STONE WILL SOON BE ROLLED AWAY.

Remain Blessed!

THE VANITY OF LIFE

Psalm 90:12 KJV

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Some years ago during the public presentation of my first book, IT IS WELL, I had the opportunity to discuss some family matters with one of my brothers. I expressed my worries about some sort of contention in the family as we are of polygamous background. Along the line, I said we can salvage the situation only if we all remember that this world is not our abiding place even as most of us have spent at least half of the years that we may ever live here on earth.

At that juncture, he caught in and said, 'No, no, no. I've not! I've not! He was then in his mid forties. That's the attitude of Man when it comes to the issue of life and death. Some of us believe here is our abiding place, we never give it a thought that we can be called home at whatever stage of our life by the owner of this life and that, also, informed the reason why man has successfully prepared for every other thing except death. Lord teach us to number our days.

Little wonder evil has also continued to be on the increase just because we have so much fixed our heart here on earth since it is where we have laid our treasure and have therefore forgotten that life is, 'even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.'(James 4:14 KJV).

A woman's daughter had some misunderstanding with a member of our local church and as soon as the woman got the information while on admission in a hospital, she beat her chest and vowed she will show that brother whom she is the moment she leaves the hospital. Her sickness was so minor that she never bothered about the possibility of not surviving it. She was already looking forward to returning home and showing her might to the teenager. But lo and behold, she died in the hospital and never returned to carry out her threat. Lord teach us to number our days.

A lot of people today believe they play the pipe and therefore the ones dictating the tune of the music. Because they were privileged to attain a certain position before others, they believed they hold both the Yam and the Knife and whosoever it pleases them or rather that dances to the tune of their music, they will cut out a piece for. They are never moved by the pains of their siblings, the nakedness of their immediate and distant relations, the trauma their neighbors are passing through. Their body language speaks only of Self, Self and Self. They have soon forgotten that, 'all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away( 1Pt.1:24). Lord teach us to number our days.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 KJV
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Remain blessed!