Life Interactivity

Why are you doing what you are doing? Is it for the financial reward or for the love of it? Reward is the opium or energy that propels us to desire or go for or engage in any activity. What are you doing? What is your expected reward? Is it instant reward you are after or time tested reward? For every endeavour, there is a fundamental reward we are all after with a subset of broken down or auxiliary reward. Whatever the reward that drives us in all our endeavours, it is known throughtout the ages that fleeting or instant reward is fraught with high risk and certainly not lasting. However, a time-tested reward outlook is or will be borne out of patience which is a product of proven series of experience. This type of reward is surely more lasting and could actually last across generations. When it comes to spirituality, at most and with a long stretch of improved medicine and imagination, we spend 100 years. After that eternity will be spent where? It is good common sense to seek r

What have we that we were not given? What have you that you were not given? 1 Cor 4:7 - "For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive?... " This is really a true saying. Do you have any part to play in your existence? Did you have any part to play at deciding your gender - male or female? Job 2:10 says "For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being." (NLT) Since non of us have, why do we still behave as if we own and control everything including our own very lives. We ought to fully internalise this and realise this and allow the Lord to guide and direct our lives, our likes and dislikes, our emotions, our temperament, our hopes and aspirations and how we go about achieving these hopes and aspirations. We all have these aspirations in life but let the God that put these aspirations there guide and direct its actualisation. For, for His pleasure alone should we exist and live.

Temple – Whose are you? Do you have any idea how you came about apart from the fact that you are a product of a man and a woman’s seed? Why are you a man or woman? You simply just know you are you. As a result, what gives you the power to now decide you are not fit for this or that? What gives you power to decide that you weren’t supposed to be you but another’s? We know that as long as it was not your decision to manufacture a product, you have no part to play in what to use it for or how to use the product. You simply use it for its purpose and follow its manual on how to use it. The product will only serve you well when you use it according to its manual. Same with man. For no other foundation can any man lay except that has been laid already which is Christ Jesus. Man, whether you know it or not, whether you agree or not, God made you – Gen 1:27 – “ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them ”. The creator of heav

Do you know or realise that nothing you have can add any real and eternal value to you? Do you even know everything you claim to have does not really belong to you? John 3:27 - " A person can receive only what God gives him from heaven".  Indeed, cars, houses, jewels, and various conveniences of this life are good but that is as far as they do not constitute an impediment to the end goal of your life. As a business man, it is certainly a bad business to sacrifice eternal life of joy and riches unimaginable for a mere 100 years in this life. No matter how wonderful that 100 years might be, it does not sound good and business like to trade that for eternal suffering. Isaiah 2:19 shows and depicts to us how at the end of time, people will use their same hands to discard all that they have laboured, killed and lied to acquire when faced with eternal judgement. This emphasizes the worthlessness and uselessness of these worldly acquisitions and values. The Lord gave us an exa

As fallen men, even redeemed fallen men, we will never be entirely content in this life. Our hearts are too prone to wander, far too apt to flirt with idolatry, for us to be completely content in Christ. As Calvin famously put it, the human heart manufactures idols day and night every day. Still, we pray for contentment and, like Paul in Philippians 4:11, we seek to learn the secret to contentment in Christ. If we are content in Christ, what shape will our lives begin to take? What is the contented heart drawn to? When my contentment is in Christ, then four things ought to be true of me. I will exhibit a deeper love for God’s Word . Because my contentment is in Him, I will want to know Him more. We know Him more through His Word. Contentment is a plant that must be tended daily, as Spurgeon said in his inimitable style: “Now, contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated. It will not grow in us by nature; it is the new nature alone t

Acts 13:3 tells us of how Christians ought to arrange their steps prior to setting out on any assignments, projects, businesses, work or callings even by God Himself. We see how the Christians fasted and prayed before setting out. This is because they recognised that without The Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit empowerment, victory and success in their endeavour will certainly not be achieved. Our Lord Jesus emphasised this in John 15:5 that without Him, we can do nothing. Absolutely nothing. But the Lord promised us in John 16:13-15 that the Holy Spirit will be sent to guide us in  all  truth. This is truth of not the spiritual only, but of the entire activities of man in this world.  All truth.  From experience, we all know that setting out on anything on our own is fraught with so many uncertainties and dangers. But when we learn to depend and trust in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we escape these dangers and uncertainties thus leading to fruitful effort with ease.  Yes, wit

A man married a beautiful girl. He loved her very much. One day she developed a skin disease. Slowly she started to lose her beauty. It so happened that one day her husband left for a tour. While returning he met with an accident and lost his eyesight. However their married life continued as usual. But as days passed she lost her beauty gradually. Blind husband did not know this and there was not any difference in their married life. He continued to love her and she also loved him very much. One day she died. Her death brought him great sorrow. He finished all her last rites and wanted to leave that town. A man from behind called and said, now how will you be able to walk all alone? All these days your wife used to help you. He replied, I am not blind. I was acting, because if she knew l could see her ugliness it would have pained her more than her disease. So I pretended to be blind. She was a very good wife. I only wanted to keep her happy. MORAL :- *Some times it is go

Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. 1 Samuel 19:1 David was minding his own business one day, tending sheep, when God called him to be a king. Talk about a God moment. He didn’t ask to be king, but God said he was the one. He turned out to be a great king. Imagine that? God made a good pick! David had a heart modeled after God’s, according to the Bible. So, since God had chosen to bless David in such a way, why do we later find Saul trying to kill David? In fact, for some time Saul chased David. David hid out, all alone, which is the setting we find him in during the writings of many of the Psalms. David was God’s choice for king and yet he was placed in incredible adversity. What does this tell us? I think it says to me that sometimes God’s will for us will find us in the middle of trials in life. That’s right. His will for our lives. More importantly, I am learning that I cannot determine whether I am in God’s will based on whether or

Are your enemies plotting against you? Are your enemies using your relationship with God to attack or plotting your downfall? Are people using your love for God against your interest? Are people using your work God to deny you of your entitlement? Why are you angry, downcast, unhappy, or even complaining to God or unhappy at God? To cap it, you have gone to God in anger and promised and also threatened, that if He does not do one thing or the other or destroy your enemies or change the situation within a time limit, you will stop serving Him, you will go the way of the world or you will seek solution some where else. You have certainly forgotten that for God to mightily promote you, destroy or shame the enemies and glorify His name publicly, their efforts need to be well pronounced. Ask Daniel (Daniel 6:1-28). As long as sin is not in your life (Daniel 6:5 Then these men said, "We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of h

How much praying do you engage in? How regularly do you pray? This is the only activity in the whole world that Satan and his cohorts or agents can not engage in. Praying is our medium of conversing with the Lord God Almighty. Prayerlessness is a major challenge facing contemporary believers. Many have refused to pray as they ought to because they have become overconfident and proud. The more you pray to God, the less dependent on yourself you become. As such, the more prayer you engage in with God, the more power you are endured with. The less prayer you are engaged in, the less you depend on God and His support, and consequently, the more you depend on yourself and your effort. And this is a certain and sure way to ruin. Are you praying less after God has elevated you spiritually or physically? Are you praying less because of God blessings and successes? If your answer is yes, you need to check yourself. Pride has come in to your life. You will discover that you now have m

The enemy thought and planned to kill you. But you are alive and you will not die but live to fulfil your purpose in life. Though you walked through the valley of death, you will not die but live to come through to see the light of the day. Thou you are currently passing through various types of abuse, trials, temptations, failures, losses, sicknesses and every type of daunting situations of life. I want to assure you that irrespective of how unfavourable the situations look like right now, the Lord who created you, did not create you for that purpose. He did not create you to die in that situation. He created you for victory, success and fruitfulness. That situation could have come about as result of circumstances beyond your control; it could have been caused by you; it could have been as a result of your decisions in the past or present. The Lord Jesus said Matthew 11:28 without any condition attached that " Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I wi

Dr. Paul Enenche said... "In our church, people rarely introduce me. I just carry my Bible and walk to the altar. What is the introduction for? I would not even allow them to carry my Bible. If they carry my Bible, will they carry my mouth? Will they carry my message? "I remember going to a church to preach sometime ago and someone stood on the altar to speak. He wanted to introduce the host pastor who would, in turn, introduce me. He said, "I want to tell you about someone; someone that has changed my life..." As he began to say more things, I thought he was talking about God. Frankly speaking, the way he spoke about the man, I thought it was God He was talking about. But when he finished, he said, "Can we receive my papa, my daddy in the Lord..." I sank in my chair. I said in my heart, 'People are talking about you like this and you accept it?' "That was what Herod did and God sent an angel to slap him. He was consumed by worms on the

We all face temptations of many kinds. God wants us to beat them. We don’t have to sin, as powerful as temptations feel. Here are 8 ways to gain the victory. 1.  Pray before you are tempted Jesus instructed his disciples to ask God, “Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil.” And as he told us to pray, “Give us THIS DAY” our daily bread,” it’s good to ask God to deliver us from temptation and evil THIS DAY. 2. Flee. A good run is better than a bad fall. Stay as far away from sin as you can. Don’t think you won’t fall. If you hired someone to transport your most valuable possessions, you wouldn’t tell them to see how close to the edge of a cliff they could drive. In Proverbs 7 a “young man lacking sense” wanders near the house of an woman at twilight, and just “happens” to run into her. She’s dressed sensually. She says her husband’s gone and describes her perfumed bed. Eventually he follows her like an ox going to slaughter. Eve got into trouble by engaging with

The blood still speaks - ask Cain in Genesis 4:10. The blood cannot be silenced. There is nothing that cannot be cleaned by the blood of Jesus. The blood still cries or for mercy, reception, forgiveness, etc.   I was dead but now is alive for evermore - Rev 1:18. The blood brought your problems to nut  (nothing). The blood has cancelled your sin, your deficiency . Let the blood speaks for your mercy. Let the blood vindicate you. The blood has cancelled all negativity in you.   The enemies tremble before the blood - Rev 12:11 Plead the blood over all your concern, strongholds, bondages, etc. Make the Jesus the Lord of your life today. Ask God to come into your life today and cleanse you with the blood. Ask God to turn you around now for Him in Jesus name.

  Has God made promises to you? Have you been told of potentials you have? Do you have dreams, desires, visions and aspirations you want to fulfil in your life? However, you are facing numerous challenges to these dreams, desires, visions and aspirations. Time is going and you seem to be nowhere near them. The promises God made to you seem unrealisable. Mark 10:46-52 tells us the story of a man named Bartimaeus, in a similar situation. Bartimaeus had desires and hopes in life but these looked totally impossible in the light of physical limitation beyond his control. He was blind. But when he attempted to escape his limitations and launch out, other challenges surfaced. He was shouted down (possible destiny truncators). Who are you where others are speaking You are a nobody. You lack the pedigree. You are not qualified. You are disadvantaged; and so on. What were his reactions? Take note that in life, it is your reactions to events and circumstances that determine the power o

How have you been living? Do you hate how you are living? Are you satisfied or happy or you are really not fulfilled with the way your life seems to be heading? Are you successful in your career or business but knows or feels that there is a void somewhere? A man once lamented on his sick bed of his loneliness because of the way he had lived his life and thought he was beyond redemption. How wrong he was? I also knew of a lady that was hiding alcoholic wine in her bag just to enjoy the best of both world. How wrong she was, yet... The Lord said in Isaiah 66:2B - "“The people I value are not proud. They are sorry for the wrong things they have done. They have great respect for what I say." That is, irrespective of our past or present actions or inactions, of our sin or mistakes, of our history, the Lord has never once stopped loving us. Never once. It is the lack of following three things that has prevented us from taking corrective actions: Pride - This exist in nu