Your passion connects you to your portion in life. SCRIPTURE: And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. Nehemiah 1:4. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Your passion connects you to your portion in life. It has been established that your passion is key to discovering your destiny in life. Moses had a passion for the deliverance of his people from captivity in Egypt. That passion made him to kill an Egyptian. (Exodus 2:11-12). Beloved, your passion connects you to your portion in life. If you follow your passion, you can land in your portion. If you follow your passion, you can get to your possession. Now, what does passion refer to? 1. Your passion is your fire of desire to make a difference in a particular area  Your passion is your fire of desire. It is that desire on fire that will not let you rest. The passion of Nehemiah was his desire on fire to deliver his people from the ...

  Living with an investment mind-set rather than expenditure mind-set is wisdom for financial supplies. SCRIPTURE: …but wisdom is profitable to direct. Ecclesiastes 10:10. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Living with an investment mind-set rather than expenditure mind-set is wisdom for financial supplies.  Some time ago, my wife told me a story she read from a book. It is the story of a village that had a king, a wise man and two rich men. All the other people in the village were poor.  One day, all the people came together and said to the king, “Let us kill the rich people in this village. They are the reasons why we are all poor.”  The king did not know what to do because the two rich men always took care of his family needs. So, the king asked the only wise man what to do. The wise man said, “There is only one thing to do. If you want the rich men to live, let them distribute all their wealth and resources to everyone in the village.”  Then the rich people ag...

THE PATIENCE OF LOVE   Love is very patient. SCRIPTURE: Love is patient… 1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV) I knew a young man who said he had associated with bad friends and became an armed robber. According to him, every time he came home after a robbery operation, his mother would tell him, “My son, you are not a robber; you are a pastor! You can’t be a thief; you are a pastor! I didn’t give birth to you for you to end as a robber”. And she continued talking to him like that. One day, the young man said that about seven of them went to rob somewhere in the Northern part of Nigeria and a team of policemen suddenly arrived at the scene. All the armed robbers, including himself took to their heels. As he ran for his life, he said in front of him was a high fence, and behind him, the policemen. He asked himself, “What should I do?” And before he knew what was happening, he found himself on the other side of the fence. The rest of his gang members were wasted but he survived. After...

Fear is a magnet for evil just as faith is a magnet for good. SCRIPTURE: For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Job 3:25 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Fear is a magnet for evil just as faith is a magnet for good. The spirit of fear has been confirmed to be one of the deadly enemies of destiny. This includes the fear of failure, the fear of the future, the fear of the unknown, etc. Now, how is fear such a deadly enemy of destiny? What are the tragedies of living in fear? i) Fear invites disaster  Fear is a magnet for evil just as faith is a magnet for good (Job 3:25). ii) Fear frustrates mentality A frightened person is a mentally incapacitated person; and you need your mind to fulfil your destiny and arrive at the desired future (Philippians 4:8). iii) Fear paralyzes action and initiative (1 Kings 19:1-5).  Fear paralyzes action and initiative. For instance, if someone is told that he is HIV positive and he allo...

*REIGNING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS *For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ) (Romans 5:17).* Every child of God is a king in this life, and called to reign in righteousness. Righteousness gives you the ability to stand in the presence of God without condemnation; to stand in fellowship with God, having His rightness in your spirit. This is where our audacity of faith comes from.  This is the reason we’re bold to make demands in His Name, decree a thing and have it established. It’s because our righteousness is of Him, not what you did or didn’t do, but what Jesus did. God declared you righteous freely, and declared Himself to be righteous by so doing: *“To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus”* *(Romans 3:26).* Hallelujah!  Righteousness makes us masters; it gi...

   To walk in the way of wisdom is to avoid the tragedy of a wasted life.  SCRIPTURE: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Proverbs 9:10.  THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: To walk in the way of wisdom is to avoid the tragedy of a wasted life.   Wisdom is critical to the fulfilment of life and destiny. People reign when wisdom is in place. Wisdom is the secret of stardom.  On the other hand, the absence of wisdom is a major reason for failure in life. Now, why is wisdom necessary? 1. The absence of wisdom leads to the wastage of both time and life. The absence of wisdom leads to the wastage of both time and life, in this world and in the world to come. There are many people today whose lives are being wasted because of the absence of wisdom.  Psalms 90:12 says, So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.  When you know how to utilize your time well, you l...

*THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU* And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (JOHN 14:16-17).   As a little boy, growing up, I was full of fear. But everything changed when I received the Holy Spirit. All the fears in me were disabled and deleted. He began to teach me the Word of God and I became emboldened. The Holy Spirit gave me utterance, became my teacher and began to guide and instruct me. He began to show me what to do, how to understand the Scriptures, how to interpret the Scriptures. My whole life was transformed. I knew what I was and where I was headed, and how He altered my life and redirected everything. The same can happen for anybody. The Bible says He’s no respecter of persons *(Acts 10:34);* what He does for one, He’ll do for another un...