Growth Series

  Growth Series: Lesson 9 GODS LOVE AND MANS RESPONSE 🤍 In this series, we will be considering the Love of God. Jeremiah 31:3:The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 🫲🫲 Proverbs 8:17: I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. John 3:16:For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.🫂🫂 From God's end, it’s always Love. How close the relationship gets is and has always been a function of our decisions from the freewill we have. 🤔🤔 I have learnt that one major thing adulthood came with, is the respect for our choices. God is love and being like him is a lot, that means it has to always be love from our end, and then the  relationship we have with Him will thrive based on decisions taken by us. In God's love equation, His input is constantly infinitesimal,...

   PRAYER  🔥 🔥🔥 I'm hoping this will stir you up to pray. “A great while before dawn, Jesus separated himself to pray”  Jesus separated himself unto God through prayers.🧎🏼🧎🏼🧎🏼 No wonder, He became a wonder to the world. This is because He separated himself to prayer to align his heart and mind. He knew prayer would have his undivided attention.✍🏻 There’s an express instruction from the Bible to “pray without ceasing”(1 Thessalonians 5:17), but you must realize that there are times you must segregate yourself to spend time praying, this time every gaze and focus being him throughout that moment. {You look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith} Prayer is an art that will help you continually host the presence of God. That is the presence that demons tremble before,(James 2:19). Can you remember the story of the Sons of sceva, they faced demons without knowledge of Jesus. That was why they were embarrassed, no wonder the demons said “Jesus I know, P...

  GROWTH SERIES🪜🪜🪜 Lesson 7: Vulnerability with God Vulnerability with God means being open before him, not hiding any details, because he’s your creator and has all your details.🤳🏻 The system of  God is one  that can blot out and delete the track record of our wrongs if we repent and turn to God.(Psalm 32:1) The human system still keeps traces of our wrongdoings most times. That is why we are we careful and restrict access even when we have forgiven someone. God's system is not like ours. His ways are not our ways, He is God with or without our input and his principles are his mode of operational dealings based on the person.🔥 Every role man is functioning in was designed by God as He pleases and as His will designs it to be. so everything we know we do that touches God, it’s because God permitted it. Our Choices touch God😘😘  We can touch him with our praises. (Psalms 22:3) and We can make him sad with our wrong choices. because the template for our creation...

 FOUNDATIONAL WISDOM🧠✍🏻 Have you read the story about  two builders in the Bible?(Matthew 7:24-27) The bible gauged their wisdom based on where they built.  The wise man decided he would build upon a solid foundation. The foolish one did otherwise. You must know that in the journey to growth, *the first wisdom indicator is your foundation*. The foolish man built his house upon the sand, and this is worth meditating on, for a little while. 🤔 I can boldly assure you that there is nothing done on a faulty foundation that won’t come crumbling down. “Psalms 11:3, *If the foundation be destroyed…*✍🏻” The bible tells us that Jesus is the wisdom (and power) of God and this is why He is the perfect foundation to build upon. *1 Corinthians 3:11:* For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.🙏 Have you seen this scripture that says *"through wisdom is a house built”?*  Connecting the dots, What this means is that, the wisdom behind ...

Every man’s first step in Christianity is being born again by belief in Jesus Christ and Comfession to forsake a former way of Life to embrace this new Life. Old things are passed away and all things become new, including the revelation of your identity as a son and a new member of Christs fold.  Every man must take a step further into the knowledge of what we’d like to call the God Chase.  Follow us from these two perspectives 1: Chased after by God This is the perspective shared with you to let you know you weren’t just lost and not sought after, the Bible says the shepherd leaves 99 sheep in the fold to search for 1 lost sheep, goes further to tell us that heaven rejoices over one soul that repents than the 99 that have no need of repentance. Whilst we were yet sinners, christ died for us and he has loved us with an everlasting love, a translation buttresses the point by saying expect Love, Love and More Love meaning we could never exhaust it and it only gets better from he...

 Good day family. lesson 4 is here 😊🤗 Let's get into it✍🏻✍🏻✍🏻 Other accrued tenses are - born, bore, birthed, birthing. Referential words in scripture include begat, bear, delivered(contextual) etc.  Some others which may show the process include conceived, bare etc. WHAT IS BIRTH? Birth is simply the process of child bearing Birth is the descriptive name used around the scenario of offsprings emerging from all living things. Animals give birth, even plants bear fruits. Birth signifies many things, like a mark, or a sign to something they are indicators of so many things depending on the scenario behind it.🤌🏻 📌The first pointer the scripture shows us is fruitfulness, multiplication and replenishment of the earth.  📌 Second pointer is that birth is an agenda to create similar offsprings of like mind and capabilities, much similar, like a carbon copy of the entity birthing. Let's look at the scripture. John 3:6: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that wh...

 This lesson was inspired by a question. Question : Ephesians 4:11-13 talks about how about how God blessed the church with the ministry gifts. If the fivefold ministry talks about the (Apostles, Teachers, Evangelists, Pastors and Preachers),where can we place minstrels?   Answer : That the ministry of minstrels wasn’t listed among the fivefold ministry doesn’t make it unimportant as a ministry to God. INTRODUCTION The validity of a ministry in the body comes from whatever the scriptures say and the scripture refer many times to minstrels both in the old and New Testament. The five fold ministry was given attention because of doctrinal upbringing and leadership in the body. This also places the five fold ministry on a higher pedestal hierarchically. These ministries are interdependent and inter functional 🤝 You can be in any of these ministries or every one of them but usually people notice major strengths in one or two and begin to build, but minstrels must build also. While...

  The Bible is a convergence of HISTORY, POETRY and PROPHECY in the Old Testament and the Synopsis of Jesus and The Epistles in the New Testament. Gods Word is scripted for all in this book also referred to as scripture and the central purpose to the reader is and should be edification from this all encompassing conjunction of different writings. 2 Timothy 3:16 says all scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for Growth, for Doctrine, For Instruction and for Correction in righteousness.  Steady study of the Bible is pivotal for growth. Reading through like a novel is great. Learning God given inspired points and thought projections from the Bible is even much better and can aid growth much faster especially if regimented.  The growth and increase in capacity of a Christian is tied to this as more about one’s identity as a believer is revealed.  I think if people read the Bible more, they’d be worried less, because there are timely encouragements and helpful wr...

GROWTH IN ITSELF it is recorded in Luke that Jesus GREW,in wisdom, in stature, and in Favour with God and Man. Paul the Apostle said in one of his epistles, that Childhood brought the acting and thinking pattern of a child, but Adulthood is characterized by the putting away of childish things.  Everything stated about growth shows how much it’s greatest effects are on you and how much of a personal thing it is. So Whilst you can be schooled and adviced, the onos lies on you to GROW UP.  growth in context here refers to spiritual growth but it affects all other corners as we see in Jesus.  Proverbs tells us that Wisdom is the principal and most important item on the “get” list among all our gettings. All of wisdom cannot be attained at once, Hence we are emulate Jesus Christ, by GROWING in it, letting it influence you daily till you begin to see the kind of changes you want to see.  Growth in stature comes up after, stature first and secondly means a man’s PHYSICAL HE...