Why is it important to eat fruit?

Eating fruit provides the following health benefits;

It reduces the risk of some chronic diseases.

Fruits provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of body.

It reduces the risk of heart disease, including heart attack and stroke

Protect against cancers

Reduces obesity and type 2 diabetes

Reduces the risk of developing kidney stones and helps to decrease bone loss

It helps to lower calorie intake.

28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

The Book of Ecclesisates talks about times and seasons. It was said as regards the sons of Issachar that they understood the times and the seasons. In Israel, there is a time when Kings go to war. That particular season David was wining away in his palace and that idleness led him to the laps of the wife of Uriah. (2 Sam 11) You see, you can enter into error just by being idle in the time of work.

Let us take a moment to look at what it takes to fly. As you may already know, flight represents the highest level of speed, the lowest level of speed being crawling. Progress actually begins from crawling.

Permit me to mention thought that a lot of people are actually in retrogressive mode while some are stagnated. In retrogression man goes from good or fair to bad or terrible. May that not be your portion in Jesus’ name.

The second level of speed is walking. People who are walking can be described as those who are desirous of progress but are not in a hurry for it. Then we can talk of running. If you are at this level you are desirous of change, ready to do what it takes but trying to win by strength. The Bible say “…By strength shall no man prevail”( 1 Sam 2:9). A car can run for 12hours on the way from Lagos to Maiduguri and in just 45Mins a plane would get there ahead of him.

The third and superior level of speed is flight- this is the level where you are aided by God in the course of destiny. While men struggle by strength you are aided by grace. This is that level where the accomplishment of destiny becomes effortless. For everyone reading this piece today it is my prayer that you would enter into the realm of effortless flight in Jesus’ name.

What are the Requirements for Flying?

First requirement for flight is lightness. In building an airplane there is an intentional design of a large surface area to volume ratio to ensure that the mass can float in air. Heb 12:1 Says “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” See, the most potent power in disabling your flight is not the devil. It is your flesh. The reason many are still held down is their fleshly desires and lust. Sin is a weight. Sin makes you heavy and prevents you from flying. If you want your life to take a leap going into 2021 the first thing you must deal with; and decisively too is sin.

The Second Requirement is Discipline. To become a pilot you will invest a lot of hours in studying and practical sessions. As a pilot you will be required to keep very stringent rules throughout your career. Pilots are necessarily much disciplined people. The reason is simple: if we would entrust the lives of many in your care you must be diligent enough about keeping yours. People who fly high carry others in the journey of destiny. High flyers always have an army of people looking to them for inspiration and direction. To be sure they are not misled, discipline would be required first of you.

The third Requirement is Training. Paul speaking to Timothy in 2 Tim 2: 15 says “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” I doubt if there is anything anyone can do in this life without first getting adequately trained for it. Many of us believe that the grace of God is sufficient to help us in life and that’s true but mastery is very often a requirement to even activate grace and make grace to come to full effect.

I pray as you prepare for the new year God will empower you with the wisdom for “flightly behavior” in Jesus name.

You are welcome to December, the last month in this challenging Year 2020. A Year of “Battles and Victories “ A Year of “New Normal“ that has affected people in different areas including career, business, church, family and social. Many people, families and organizations have learned to do things differently with various major decisions taken for survival.

The time has now come to arise from wherever we have found ourselves due to the challenges of the past months, mount on wings like the Eagles and begin to fly.

Considering the experiences of many people this year, if we must fly and be part of the group of “High Flyers“ in our world today, it is very important to learn some lessons from the life of the Eagle.

The Eagle is a symbol used many times in Scripture. Eagles have a wingspan of 2 meters and are around 90 cm. tall. The eagle mates for life and use the same nest for life. This nest is built in a safe place, often on the ledge of a sharp cliff. It is built to last and the largest nest reported is 9 ½ feet wide and 20 feet deep.

When the babies are born, both parents assume responsibility for their care. They are gentle parents, sitting on the eggs for one month. The parents bring food up to the nest and feed them small pieces of meat. Within 45 days they can weigh nearly 40 times their birth weight. At three months they get special feathers for flying and a new learning experience begins. The mother eagle flies into the nest and begins to thrash around causing a great commotion. Eventually one of the babies will fall out of the nest and begin heading for the earth below. Never having used his wings before, he′s not really sure what to do, but does do lots of flapping while heading straight down! Just before the baby hits the ground, the mother eagle flies underneath in order to ′catch′ the baby on her powerful wings and she flies him safely back to the nest. This continues on day after day until all the babies learn to fly.

There are two verses in scripture that actually mention this routine of the eagle.
In Deuteronomy 32:10-11 Moses reminded the children of Israel how God cared for them and guarded them just “like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.“ Again in Exodus 19:4 God says “He will carry the children of Israel on eagles′ wings“.

We can get very comfortable in our ′nest′. Perhaps that could be our way of doing things, our way of thinking, our opinions, and our way of living our lives. Then when God comes and ′stirs up our nest′ we get upset. We don′t always identify this as a growing experience. Sometimes if we were really honest, we really don′t have great vision to grow. We get very complacent and satisfied with where we are and any interruptions are viewed as negative. But God wants us to fly - to become all that He intends us to become. He never stirs up our nest without good reason!

The eagle can see a rabbit two miles away. It can soar up to two miles above the ground and can fly at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. They have a separate eyelid, which slides across the eye sideways in order to keep the eye clean and free from dust as they fly. Their bones are hollow and therefore light of frame. Their frame has cross ribs like steel bars in skyscrapers. The eagle has 7000 feathers. The back feathers are as long as the head feathers. Their beak is black until age of 3 years and then turns golden.

When eagles are about 60 years old they go through a renewal process. They find a secret place high in the mountains and begin to claw at their face and tear out the feathers that have been damaged over the years. As a result, it bleeds badly. But this is necessary for the eagle in order to renew its strength. If it did not do this it would not be able to live to its normal 120 years of age.

Psalms 103:5 says “who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.“ A time of renewal is necessary for every child of God. A time when we get rid of what is weighing us down, holding us back, aging us spiritually. A time to give up the sinful habits, to give in to the Holy Spirit in whatever way He is convicting us. We need to do this even to the point of renewal with pain! Some things we hold on to so tightly that to let go, actually causes us pain. But in order to have the long, powerful, useful spiritual life that God plans for us, we need to let go. It will renew our spiritual youthfulness.

When the eagle is free to soar in God′s creation, they are the cleanest of birds. They were created to be free and to soar to great heights. They were not meant to remain close to the earth in the lowlands. They were created to soar. When eagles are held in captivity, they become one of the dirtiest birds.

God has created us to remain pure and holy and conformed to his image. Don′t compromise the freedom we have in him, by spending too much time in worldly thinking, activities, and mindsets. Remain clean!

Eagles do not fly like other birds; they don′t flap their wings but rather soar. Flapping their wings would use incredible amounts of their own strength and endurance and they would require so much more food as fuel if they didn′t soar. Instead they sit on a high ledge and wait for the right wind currents to come. When the time is right, they take off and soar upward effortlessly, because they have waited for the right time. There is a special ′up going′ wind, that they ride as it circles higher and higher toward the sky.

What a lesson for God′s children to learn. How often do we waste strength by jumping out too soon and ′flapping our wings′, instead of waiting for God′s timing? Waiting is not a popular concept in these days of instant everything! But when we wait on the Lord - wait for His timing - wait for His answers - wait for His direction, then we can soar to new heights and fly to new places.

“Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles: they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.“

It′s time to fly. Please join the flight. It′s our season to soar higher with greater glory.

Happy New month.

Merry Christmas and happy new year in advance.

Stay safe and stay blessed.

1. Improves Immunity
2. Full of Iron
3. Helps Wounds Heal Faster
4. Promotes a Healthy Heart
5. Balances Body Fluids
7. Full of Antioxidants
8. Helps to Control Arthritis
9. Keeps Your Teeth and Gums Healthy
10. Great for Digestive Health

As Parents, you should help your child to develop his God given gifts right from cradle, so that he/she can live his/her full and true potential in life.

The guidelines below will assist you:

Spend time with your child: you’ll need to come down to his/her level, spend time with him/her, and show interest in what he’s/she′s interested in.

Appreciate your child ability: be on the lookout for things to praise in him/her for.

Encourage a wide range of interest: by all means, encourage your child to develop interest in different aspects, also, encourage his/her creativity by doing creative activities with him/her and by sharing ideas.

Never ridicule your child: you should never make fun of him/her just because he’s/she′s different from others, either in his behavior or interest.

Acknowledge your child ability: this will help your child to grow in confidence and be more prepared to tackle other things that he/she might not be good at.

Encourage your child to set target for himself/herself; this will help him/her to develop an “aim higher” attitude to life.

Make learning fun.

Faith in God is essential in our walk with Him. In fact, it is the basis of our relationship with God because without faith in Christ’s finished work of redemption, no one can be saved. Even, after we get born again, we cannot please God without faith.

Faith is the key that grants us access to the divine treasury in times of need. With faith, Christian can go through life’s challenges triumphantly. Faith is absolute trust and total dependence on God in all aspects and situation of life.
As Christian Parents, it is therefore your responsibility and duty to build your children’s faith in God. This is the way to build their confidence in God and prepare them to face life’s challenges with courage.

As Parents, you need to help your children have a personal relationship with God. Make them understand that we are saved by grace through faith. (Eph. 2:8). Let them know that the same faith in God by which they were saved is what they need to overcome any challenges in their lives.

Teach them to pray always, depending totally on God’s promises at all times instead of seeking help from ungodly sources or resorting to self help. Tell them about bible characters who trusted God in difficult situations and how He delivered them. Show them how to study and listen to the word of God and teach them to obey it because it is the source of faith.

Above all, reinforce your teaching with your exemplary life. Let your children see that you put your trust in God. Practically demonstrate total dependence on God when you are faced with unpleasant circumstances. This will enable them to demonstrate unwavering faith in God and receive divine help in all circumstances.

I bless God for His faithfulness and for bringing me to another year of my birthday.
- Mummy Ajadi

I bless God for His mercy and goodness in my life and family. This month is my birthday, my daughter′s birthday and my wedding anniversary.
- Bro. Opeyemi Arowojobe

During this lockdown, I received a pleasant surprise from God. Halleluyah!
- Bro. Ambrose Okoh

Around July, I had an attack from the hoodlums which make me to run into an oncoming vehicle. God saved and healed me.
- Bro. Bay Adeyanju

I′m celebrating my salvation since 30yrs ago. May God′s name be praised.
- Dcn. Tunde Oduniyi