Tag: humility

Your Yes Carries Weight!

“A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.” 

Proverbs 18:16

We all have great gifts. God has created all of creation with distinct gifts that is to bless the world, a gift that is to reflect the glory of God.

Did you know that your gift too is an expression of the One who created you in His image?

We live in a society where one’s gift is often used to gain fame or money or is used to negotiate personal pleasures and enjoyment. But could it be that your gift is supposed to do so much more?

Could it be that your gift is supposed to bring life in this world?

Could it be that your gift is supposed to ignite a shift in this world?

Could it be that your gift is supposed to kindle a fire within souls?

Could it be, that your gift, is so much more than its function?

Perhaps that is why we cannot give our yes so freely and without intuition. Be reminded today that your yes carries weight!

Because you have the power of the living God on the inside of you, because your lungs carry the breath of an Almighty God, the Creator of heaven and earth, your yes carries weight!

What have you said Yes to lately? And Why?

Friend,  I dare you to ponder on your most recent agreements. I dare you to question the Yes that you have given everything that has so easily enticed you for pleasure sake.

If your Yes to God, stirred up Satan and his demons to wage war at you from all sides, if your Yes to God broke generational chains and disrupted hell’s plans, if your Yes alerted heaven that another warrior has heed the call for the kingdom, how can your Yes to anything else not carry so much weight?!

Friend, allow me to remind you today that your agreement means everything to God! Especially when it comes to your gifts.

There is a mission assigned to the gifts you carry. There is a place and time, a perfect place and time that is to reveal your gift for the glory of God and God only and I must tell you, that nothing else will do.

No matter how good it feels, if you have said yes with your gift to something or someone that is not glorifying the Gift-giver who has pre-ordained the gift to be brought inf front of great men, the Spirit of God is speaking to you.

It says look again before saying Yes.

I pray for you as I pray for me too on today. May the God of our gifts, realign our senses along with our hearts to bring our gifts before God so that He may bring us before great men for His glory in Jesus name. Amen.

 

 

There Can Only Be One Master

 

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“…Choose today whom you will serve…”

Joshua 24:15

In a recent heated conversation with a friend who I found fault with, I passionately (with a stern and aggressive voice) asked, “who do you want to be?!!!”

This person’s presence, whether in spirit or physically, has been prevalent in my life for almost a decade so I can say confidently that I am keen to the patterns, attitudes, behaviors, and good heart of this person.

However, the momentary discord that took place made me wonder, if my friend knew that they have grown an unhealthy and dishonoring habit of shifting from one character to another.

On one end, they would display a distinct vulnerability in the way they confessed not knowing how to relate with most people or knowing what love feels should feel like, or that they do not trust anyone in this world.

On the other hand, my friend would abruptly become nonchalant and indifferent with an air of arrogance, glorifying their own worth, and then acting as though nothing really bothered them, often appearing almost heartless sometimes.

So this time, I proclaimed my rebuke.

But also in that moment, I realized that I was not just asking my friend to choose wisdom in their becoming. Truly I was asking my friend to choose whom they will serve.

Did my friend want to serve himself? the world? or God?

As the Spirit of God would have it, our dispute was quickly settled and harmony was restored. But my questions lingered…

Friend, have you yet chosen whom you will serve? Or are you still weighing the power of God to the might of everything else?

How many masters do you serve daily?

Has your job, partner, or friendship become your master without your own knowledge?

Have you been serving these instead of the Lord your God alone?

Do you know that there can only be One master whom you ought to give all praise, honor, glory, and adoration to?

Do you know that you ought to bow down to only One master?

Do you also know that there is only One master that has the power to condemn and rebuke you?

Often times, we settle for blaming our serving of other ‘gods’ and things of this world, on the ills of society we dwell in, or the past that won’t let us go. But the Word tells me and you, that we hold the power to choose whom you will serve.

Why else would the Word ask us to choose if we did not have a choice?…

I wonder if you have allowed others to choose for you whom you will serve.

May the wisdom of God fall upon us today as we come to ourselves, the true self that we were divinely created to be, and may we seek God first in our discovery. May we once again fall to our knees and re-proclaim that God is Lord above all in Jesus name. Amen.