Eph 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Disappointment is a hard thing to live with, and sometimes we feel disappointed with God and the circumstances of our lives. The question we sometimes find ourselves asking God is “How could you let this happen to me?“

The truth however is that the real battle is NOT what happens to us, but HOW we respond to what happens to us! If we trust God in ALL circumstances He will prove that He is able to do above our expectations. Many of the greatest people who have ever lived have had the worst circumstances in their lives, it is how they chose to respond to such events that made them great!
Expectation is not just the function of the position you hold but it’s a function of your potential (Genesis 1:28). Expectation is also a function of your purpose in Life. It’s also a function of people’s perception. In life either you are below expectation, meeting expectation or exceeding expectation. You can’t just be fine as a believer, it’s an insult to the blessings of God. The Bible speaking in Romans says For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. It is God′s nature to exceed expectation Romans 8:19
We all have things that we′re believing God for, dreams to come to pass, problems to turn around. We′d be glad if they worked out our way, but sometimes what we have in mind is not God′s best.

We think ordinary, God thinks extraordinary. We think, “Let me have enough to get by,“ God thinks abundance. We think, “Let me manage this addiction,“ God thinks freedom. We′re asking for the possible when God wants to do the impossible. He specializes in exceeding our expectations, and what he has in store for you is bigger, more rewarding, more fulfilling than you can imagine.

Paul said in Ephesians God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think, and I believe this is going to be a year where God exceeds your expectations. He′s not going to do what you′re asking for, he′s going to exceed it. He′s going to open doors you never dreamed would open. He′s going to take you further than you can imagine. You′re going to look back and think, “I never dreamed I′d be this blessed, never dreamed I′d have this position, never dreamed I′d marry somebody this great“. Get ready. God is about to exceed your expectations. He′s going to make things happen that you didn′t see coming. You didn′t deserve it, you didn′t work for it. It′s just the goodness of God showing favour on your life.

This is what happened to a man in Acts chapter 3. He′d been crippled his whole life, and every day his family would carry him to the temple and set him outside by the gate. As people came in, he would ask them for money. He was 40 years old and had done this over the years, day after day. He knew the routine. People would come in, he would beg for money, and here and there they would throw some coins in his bag. This is how he survived.

One day, Peter and John came to the temple. The man went through his same speech, “Can you spare some change? Will you help me out“? Most people ignored him and kept walking, but Peter stopped and said to the man, “Look at us“. The scripture says the man looked up expecting to receive a gift. I can see him hold his bag out, thinking they were going to throw some coins in, but Peter said, “I don′t have any silver or gold for you, but I have something better. In the name of Jesus, rise and walk“
When the people in the temple saw the crippled man walking, running, thanking God, they couldn′t believe it. The scripture says they were astonished, and what God is about to do in your life is going to cause people to look at you in astonishment. They′re going to think, “How could you be so blessed? I know where you came from“. “How could you be free when so many around you are addicted“? “How could you be so strong, so healthy, so energetic? The medical report said you weren′t going to get well“. God is going to make you an example of his goodness. When he exceeds your expectations, people are going to take notice. They′re going to see the favour on your life.
You may have obstacles in your path and challenges coming against you today in your health, your finances, a relationship. You′re asking God to turn it around. Stay encouraged. God is not only going to bring you out, he′s going to have some spoils there. There is going to be some plunder. He′s going to bring you out better than you were before. He′s going to exceed your expectations.

Now, don′t talk yourself out of it. Sometimes when we′ve struggled in an area so long, we′ve gotten comfortable. Like the crippled man, we′re expecting a few coins, something to sustain us, to help us make it through the year. God is about to do a new thing. You′re asking for the possible, he′s about to do the impossible. He′s going to take you where you′ve never been. No more coins, no more dysfunction, no more being barren, no more stuck in your career. You′re about to come in to some of these exceeded expectations.

As we go to this convention, God has spoken yet again through the mouth of our Father in the Lord. In this convention, God will not just be meeting your expectations, He would be exceeding it. This is a year where God is going to do more than you′ve asked. You′ve been faithful, you′ve honored him, now God is about to show out in your life. Every morning, “Lord, I want to thank you that you′re going to exceed my expectations“. If you do this, I believe and declare God is about to visit you again. You′ve had Samuel, he′s been good to you, but you haven′t seen anything yet. New doors are about to open, increase, promotion that you didn′t see coming will come your way. Problems are turning around, health is being restored, exceeded expectations are coming your way in Jesus′ name.

(Joshua 21:43-45)
43. And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
44. And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.
45. There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto. the house of Israel; all came to pass.

2 Peter 3:9 says The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
This verse speaks of Christ’s second coming, however, God also promises here that he is a promise keeping God. There is going to be a divine fulfillment of every promises of God.

Fulfillment means accomplishment, perfecting, completing, performance or consummation of a promise already made by someone. The God of Hope is both the promise Maker and Keeper and He is more than able to bring every promise to pass. God is never a liar.
Numbers 23:19 says God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Our God is an on-time God. Situations that surround us and consume us may seem contrary, but God’s WORD will never fail.
Psalm 119:140 says Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Isaiah 55:11 So is my word be that goes out from my mouth: it will not return unto me empty, but will accomplish which I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Some of the promises that God gave to you may seem to have delayed but God wants me to tell you that “HE is NOT slow”. This is your season for divine fulfillment. Expect to see divine fulfillment of the dreams that God gave you. The promises may be five, ten or twenty years old. It may even be more. But never forget, God is dependable, He is trustworthy, He is reliable and this is your own season.

You may say, “Things have gone from bad to worse; I have lost my job, I have a lot of debt, relationship is getting bad.” I have good news for you. Isaiah 45:2 I will go before you, and level the mountains: I will break own the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. Every hindrance to your promises being fulfilled will be utterly destroyed. Every rough schemes of the enemy on your path to the God promised place will be totally crushed in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen.

Proverbs 23:18 There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. Expect divine fulfillment of God’s promises in your life.
Psalms 30:5 For his anger lasts only a moment but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Your morning season has arrived. Your dark season is ended. Your promises are divinely being fulfilled.

I do not know what God has spoken to you either individually, or as a family, but one thing I know is that God is faithful. This is your season for divine fulfillment of that which He promised you.
When Joseph was thrown in the pit by his brothers, his dream never died. When he was sold to the Midianites, his dream never died. When Potiphar′s wife lied against him and he was imprisoned , he never let his dreams die. Do not let your dream die. This is your season for divine fulfillment of those dreams, visions, and prophetic declarations over your life. God is going to bring people you have never met your way to be a blessing to you. God has you on His mind and this is your season. Friend, God makes all things beautiful in His time.

When God declares a season, it is upon us to agree with Him and position ourselves for that which He has promised. I would like you to take time and bring God to remembrance the promises He has given you. Isaiah 43:26 Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case of your innocence.

One thing I know is that He who says “Call unto me and I will answer” never fails to answer and this is the season for the open heaven for divine fulfillment of His promises towards us. But do not be casual. Fulfillment is mostly born on the back of intense spiritual battles. God has declared this season the season of fulfillment and this is the very time to engage Him on the altar of prayers and bring Him to remembrance of the promises He made to you.

As you do that this season, God will remember you. He will fulfill His promises concerning you. Your tears will be wiped and your sun will shine again.

And so I declare, let there be divine fulfillment of all of God’s promises in your life in Jesus name

Happy New Month.

I came from Kogi State to attend my son’s introduction. I bless God for successful ceremony and for journey mercy. Also, I am thanking God for His faithfulness in this Christian race. -Mummy Rebecah Alonge

I bless God for His faithfulness and for another year of my birthday. -Timothy Olaniyan

I thank God on behalf of my Mum. God kept her to see another year of her birthday. -Inioluwa Yahaya

REST - Don′t kill yourself with stress.
Stress is a slow killer. It kills slowly without someone noticing it. Please don′t die before your time - REST!

Rest is very good for your health. Consistent resting is very good for your total well-being.
If you don′t rest enough, you won′t live long enough because stress will be destroying your cells,& your well-being will be declining gradually.

Some sudden deaths are the result of accumulated stress.

Three types of stress you should avoid are:
1. Physical stress
2. Mental stress
3. Emotional stress.

Physical stress is caused by working too hard or too much without eating well & without resting well.

Mental & Emotional stress are caused by too much thinking, worries,& anxieties. When some people claim to be resting, they′re still working themself up mentally & emotionally.

When you rest, take worries & anxieties away from your mind.
Free your mind! Enjoy some moments of inner peace.

Sleep like a baby; .Eat like a king, I love & need you

(Rom 13:11) And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

The story of the five foolish virgins who missed the feast with the Bridegroom was very pathetic. It would not have been if they had not bothered to wait. Can you imagine that you prepare so hard, leave your home and wait several hours to meet a guest only to be told that the meeting held while you were waiting outside? However, the marriage feast of the lamb was a lot more than a meeting. It was Jesus illustrating how the story of rapture would be.

In my opinion, the biggest error of the foolish virgins was their lukewarmness. (Matt 25: 1-13) And you really couldn’t blame them. They had got to the venue. They had been admitted in. They had oil in their lamps. Notwithstanding of these, they still lost the big opportunity for which they waited. They lost because they thought they were already around. They felt someone would at least beckon on them when the bridegroom arrives. How wrong were they!

The biggest misses on the day of rapture would be by people who thought that they are too close to God to miss heaven. The easiest way to miss heaven today is “being so used to church in a religious way” that you take the injunctions of heaven with familiarity.
Dear friend, one thing is for sure in the race of life: You cannot prepare too much. In fact, the only way to win is to prepare more than is required.

What does it really mean to be awake?
Awake is a call to come out of every slumber. Once in a while in life, we may get cold. We may lose some steam because we are often beset with the cares of life. Were it not so, Prophet Isaiah would not have admonished thus “Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength”(Isa 40:31). As you may know, one compelling advantage of the eagle is in its ability for seasonal self renewal. Every once in a while the eagle ascends to the hills and sheds its old feathers to grow newer ones.

That brings me to my second point.
Waking up means shedding unnecessary weight. The Bible, speaking in 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” No man can run with a weight on his head. As Christians, every weight of sin is an impediment to growth. If you seek revival you must let go of the weight.

Lastly, I must say that no one can be awake who has not first found Jesus. The Bible tells us that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him.

Happy New month.

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel

Dear Reader,
The most expensive transactions of life is conducted in the spirit realm. In the realm of the spirit, voices speak for or on behalf of men and voices speak against men. For instance, when Job was to be tested, a voice of affirmation spoke in honor of the loyalty of Job to his king and Lord while a voice of condemnation spoke in opposition of that affirmation. When the body of Moses was being contended for by satan there was an argument between satan and Michael. Moses was by then just a log of wood because his earthly body is in a rotting state already. There was no way he could speak for himself and even if he could, that conversation was taking place in the spiritual realms. In his defense, Michael spoke a word of rebuke to the devil saying “the Lord rebuke thee”- Jude 1:9 .

Men and Brethren, who is speaking on your behalf? In rooms that you cannot enter who is speaking on your behalf? In the nights when you sleep as a log of wood who is advocating your case in the realms of the spirit? Who is actively conducting the spiritual transactions of the night and negotiating in your favour? In faculties and places where your matter is being discussed who is pleading your cause?

Secondly, who is speaking over your life as a shepherd and watchman? I remember the story shared by Nigeria’s Vice President Prof Yemi Oshinbajo when he had a plane crash. He had been called by his spiritual father that morning. Daddy Adeboye had shared with him what the Lord showed him of the evil that was to happen later in the day and then he spoke a word of prayer on his life. He reassured him the Lord had averted all evils. Later that evening on the campaign trail there was a plane crash that almost took his life. But, just as the Lord had spoken all evils were averted- nothing lost, nothing missing. Fathers are coverings. When the Lord gifts you a fatherly watch it is often another layer of cover.

Dear Reader, blood represents the very essence of life. The Bible speaking in Lev 17: 11 says the life of the flesh is in the blood. When medical practitioners want to examine diseases they take a sample of the blood. The gene types of a human being are defined by the blood. When a man loses a lot of blood, he dies. Blood represents the life of a man.

We need to understand the various effects that a blood can have in the spiritual dimension. There is a blood of vengeance. When a man, a people or a nation spill blood of innocent men the blood of such an innocent man may call for vengeance. This was the case with Abel. (Gen 4) His brother Cain had killed him out of jealousy. When Abel was killed and his blood spilled, his blood cried for revenge. Today, in a nation like Nigeria the blood of many innocent people is crying for vengeance. Many people have died extra-judicially and innocently and their blood is asking for vengeance. May God heal our country in Jesus’ name.

There is a blood of redemption and mercy. The bible taught of the principle of substitutionary sacrifice.

Apostle John speaking in (1 John 2:1-2) says “…If any man sin. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.” The blood of men may speak vengeance and rebuke but please note dear reader that the blood of Jesus is always seeking mercy for us his children.

Whatever condemnation you may have from men, whatever charge is against you, don’t ever forget that Jesus paid it in full. He went to the cross because he intended to be your substitution. Don’t carry the burdens of your life all by yourself. Don’t carry the weight of your sin all by yourself. Your problem is not the biggest. Your sin is not the worst. He has given murderers and men who had hit the rock bottom a new beginning. He changed their lives. He can do same for you. Suicide can NEVER be the solution. It would lead you to hell. Self pity and native doctors can never be the solution. They would put you in a deeper hole. Jesus is the only solution. He is your very efficacious substitution. Come to him today if you do labour and are heavy laden and he would give you rest.

Happy new month

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

In John 5: 1-15 the Bible talks about the man by the pool of Bethsaida. He was an impotent man and he had now been there thirty eight years. He had been thirty eight years in the same position with the same condition. On that fateful day when Jesus came by intending to do for him his most desired miracle Jesus asked “would thou be made whole?” Interestingly, this impotent man replied “I have no man”. What a pity! I don’t know what has brought the man to this conclusion. I don’t know why he had become so despondent that he now saw his problems more clearly than he would see his miracle. The best of men was right before him ready to cure him of his troubles of thirty eight years and all he could muster was negativity. Many of us are like that man thinking more highly of our problems than of our God.
But his predicament was not an easy one to be honest. This man must have been serially disappointed by men for him to come to such painful conclusion. He must have concluded; like the Bible says that “Vain is the help of man” Ps 60:11. It is my estimation that the man would likely have siblings. He probably had parents, uncles and aunts. He probably had neighbors and may be even fellow brethren in church. He must have concluded based on his experiences of repeated disappointments that the men around him lacked enough humanity in them to be called men at all. He must have concluded that their humanity was dead based on their numbness to his predicament. You see, people don’t really care so much about others. Even when they show some sympathy at an instance, it is for a moment. After a while they move on with their lives.
Interestingly, when Jesus showed up on that scene, on that day that impotent man needed no one else. He stopped needing men. It is my prayer for you today dear reader that in any aspect of your life where you have been waiting for men to show up God Himself will show up for you in their stead.
In spite of the wrongful answer of this man Jesus was not going to leave him in his dejection. He spoke straight to his situation. He said “Rise, take up your bed and walk” (John 5: 😎. He rose up at once and walked.

Jesus speaking in Matthew 11:23 says “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest”. Jesus is yearning to give succor to them that are broken hearted. Jesus is eager to provide help to men who have suffered losses in the journey of destiny. Jesus wants to give you a hope and a future. He said in the book of John… That is his ministry. That is his life assignment.
While he is ever-ready to bear your burdens I should state though that Jesus is not a lay about looking for any available loads to carry. Jesus is not a jobless “wheel barrow. He certainly provides help based on set criteria. Whatever promise that the Bible makes there are always conditions for fulfilling it.

So what are the conditions for deserving to be helped by Heaven? What are the conditions to receive the help of the burden bearer?
Number one. You must submit to his Lordship. Jesus only bears the burden of those who submit to him. He only offers help to men who hand over the reins of their lives to him. Jesus only carries the loads of his children. He is not a meddlesome interloper “jumping” into matters that do not concern him. If you want him to lighten your burden you first must make him your Lord.

Secondly, Jesus does not carry “loads of sin”. The Bible says his eyes cannot behold iniquity- neither can his hands “be-hold” a load of sin. If you want Jesus to be involved in the affairs of your life you must “travel light”. You can’t be encumbered with sin and iniquities and expect the Lord of righteousness to bear the burden of sin in your stead. He already did that on Calvary. If you want him to be your burden bearer you must consistently walk in righteousness. And as you do that I see the Lord turning around your story and changing your lives for good permanently.

Happy new month

Hello Children!
Hope we remember to thank our Mummies and Daddies for taking care of us? Daddies thank you Sirs. Mummies thank you Mas. God bless you for us, but Parents how are we handling our Children?

Some Parents will tell you that I can’t beat my Child/Children because he/she might fall sick, some Parents will say I waited for years before the Lord gave me so I can’t scold my baby. Some over pamper their Children to the extent of giving him or her so much privileges to do what they like. E.g. a Child of 6yrs old takes more than N100 to school.

Parents, please let′s be careful so that we will not receive blame from God. Let’s handle our children in a Godly manner because if we spare the rod, we will spoil the child.

Till I come your next month, stays bless!