Prosperity Gospel

“…Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you....” Job 22:21 NIV [italics & emphasis mine]

Prosperity gospel is flourishing in the media today than any other time; sadly it is focused more on the product (creation) than the producer (creator). I am all for prosperity, besides I serve the God who says, “Silver and God is mine” Hagai 2:8, and, “He gives me power to get wealth” Deut 8:18. The question is on the focus, wealth and riches should come as effect from the cause—which is to know and submit to God’s will and purpose…let Him instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go, Psalms 32:8.

Other translation of Job 22:21 says, acquaint thyself to God; the Swahili version says “Mjue sana Mungu” which means know your God intimately…as a result (the effect) prosperity will come to you. Why, because He is a God of abundance, where He goes…abundance follows naturally. Yet to others God has become simply a means to an end, they want what He can offer but not Him; they want His presents but not His presence!

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Pride Vs Humility

“…Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble...” I Peter 5:5 NIV [italics & emphasis mine]

Humility (n), [Humble (v)] is a rare attribute even amongst Christians today. Everyone wants to be seen doing something “important” in the body of Christ. Pride is the opposite of humility, if you are not humble, you are proud-there is no middle ground…there is a difference between being proud (arrogant, pompous, snobbish, pretentious) and being happy (pleased, joyful, cheerful) for oneself-what you and God have achieved.

Humility is seeing and conducting oneself the way God sees and urge one to-no more (leading to pride) and no less (leading to false humility-which is also pride). James says God resists the proud; He actually comes down and WORKS AGAINST WHAT YOU DO. Like Lucifer, every-time we become proud, our downfall is not far [Prov 18:12]. We know we are proud if, ■we know everything, no one can tell us anything; ■every time there is a problem, its someone else’s fault, ■take credit to achievements (pass none to the group or to the Lord for provision of wisdom and strength).

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“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” Ps 119:105 KJVfor archived light to my path visit http://www.light2mypath.blogspot.com/

Tongue of the wise

“…Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.See how great a forest a little fire kindles! ...” James 3:4-5 NKJV [italics & emphasis mine]

I wish we could all understand the significance of what James is saying in the above text; he is comparing ‘our tongue’ with the rudder—the devise attached at the rear bottom of the ship next to the propeller (inset B) that turns a ship (inset A) from one direction to another as Captain wishes. See how big the ship is and how small the rudder is, the destination of the ship is guided by it.

James is teaching us that WE CONTROL OUR DESTINY BY OUR TONGUE, we speak our future into existence just like God-He spoke the word to create the world. David said, ‘life and death are in the power of tongue’ Prov 18:21a and Peter (quoting Ps 34:12,13) said if we want to see good life we should guard our tongue from evil, 1 Pet 3:10. No wonder in the day of Pentecost we were given NEW TONGUES, so that we may SPEAK into existence the NEW DESTINY. If you want to know your destination in life, listen to yourself!

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“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” Ps 119:105 KJV

Evil Report?

“…and Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel...” Numb 13:30-32a NKJV [italics & emphasis mine]

The scripture above says that, the ten spies who were against Joshua and Caleb conclusion of the report, had brought up EVIL REPORT. The question is, how can it be evil if it contained facts? Fact was the men in Canaan were giants. But the truth was God had already given Israel the land regardless of the facts. Therefore the report was evil because it concluded with negative ‘opinion’ against God’s words (promise).

When scriptures says the just shall live by faith (Hebr 10:38), it does not mean that we should deny facts but rather we acknowledge the truth-God’s words (John 17:17). When I am sick, I do not dwell in my sickness instead I proclaim the truth ‘by his stripes I WAS healed’1; when poverty strike, I do not dwell in it instead I proclaim ‘He gives me power to get wealth’2; when death lurks in, I do not stare at the grave instead we proclaim ‘He will satisfy me with long life’3 and ‘life and death are in the power of my tongue’4

1. Isa 53:5b/1 Pet 2:24b 2. Deut 8:18a 3. Psa 91:16 4. Prov 18:21
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