So I’m guessing when the stern-faced coaches say this in the cool movies, they actually mean Take A Break! maybe for at least 5 minutes.

Having said that I’m going to make quite a wild suggestion.

At every point in our life we all individually and most consciously need to take 5

Note: I ain’t just talking about taking a breather. I mean sitting down and resting (I don’t mean sleeping) having shut off all external communication and just muse.

You know we all get our fair share of twenty-four hours and yes we do try consciously or otherwise to choke it up and use the most of it but unfortunately, we forget the simple law of diminishing returns still applies to our bodies too. Its funny but this is just one of many reasons why you should make taking 5 a ritual. You may assume you’re doing fine and you can still do more. Even though I agree with you and I admire your enthusiasm and hardwork please heed this little piece of advice because you just might have a breakdown that’ll force you to take 5 or worse you would work hard, get meager results and wonder why. Continue reading →

Christmas… What is Christmas?

This question may sound funny to most of us. Some of us may even ask what sort of question is that, who doesn’t know what Christmas is? But I would like you to take out time to answer this question. Well, the general consensus, most likely will be “Christmas is the celebration of the birth of CHRIST.” Well, that is very correct but I will also love to add a little something to that, do kindly read on… Continue reading →

While chatting with somebody yesterday, who said a lecturer was telling a student to use what they have to get what they want, I found myself replying with this, ‘Jesus is what you have to get what you want.’

Then while praying this morning, Holy Spirit made it better. Jesus is ALL we have to get ALL we want. I believed right there in my spirit, that God wants us to make this our consciousness. That boldly we will declare every time, that Jesus is all we have to get we all we want. Something good takes place in the spirit realm, when we declare, like and mean it. It’s just a matter of time for the materialization.

I also find myself praying that God should make my generation a Bible generation. I was wondering as I continued praying it. Then I understood by the Spirit of God. Our generation has been a generation based on church doctrines of all kinds. The reason for the division so far. People believe their pastors more than the very Bible, our true Constitution.

So brethren, let’s make it part of our prayer, that God should come and make our generation another Bible generation. There have been other Bible generations in the past, when people served God with all sincerity of heart and mind. We should experience another in a greater measure, ‘cos the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord is hosts.

O God, I pray and we pray, make this our generation another Bible generation, in Jesus’ Name.

Amen.

Grace
Adebayo Funmi
08060172855

So here’s a pretty simple riddle:
How many small letter “a”(s) would you need to get a capital letter “A”?

If you were typing a document with a computer system you might as well hit on the “a” key a million times and you still will not get a capital letter “A” up until you turn on the CAPS lock button!

Here in lies the greatest and most recurrent trick the devil ever played on us all. SUBSTITUTES.

When one is really thirsty, no matter the amount of liquids at the disposal of that individual, he would still need water to quench his thirst. Now it doesn’t matter that all these other liquids actually contain water, he’ll still need just water to feel really refreshed but if there is none in sight he’ll have to keep on trying these “substitutes” and no matter how many tries he’ll only get real satisfaction when he gets the real deal: CLEAN WATER.

Just like thirst we all possess needs and it is these needs that in most cases drive our actions and decisions all to one primary goal: SATISFACTION.

Now this did not spring up out of the blues and note this, we were not created this way, it was the sin of the first Adam and Eve that set us all for an infinite search for fulfillment and satisfaction. However, just like thirst the moment we lost sight of the “original” no amount of substitutes would get us the satisfaction we so crave.

But Our Father in heaven was and is so loving, He would provide a saving grace for us all(with our consent of course). In His Son Jesus Christ, He provided a gateway back to Himself cos truth be told all we ever needed was and is in Him. It is no mystery really, after all He made us but this truth in all its simplicity is presently Devil’s most kept secret!

You see he(devil) wants to keep you away from the original so he’ll keep providing you with unending suggestions to keep you lusting and ultimately under his control cos he knows if you don’t get the original or he convinces you into believing the original is way too “boring” you’ll always be coming for more cos you’ll never be satisfied.

This is the underlying concept that fuels addictions. In a bid to attain a certain “high” we allow intake of elements that we know are harmful to us because every time and again we feel this “high” will do it for us. Sadly when we encounter this much desired ecstasy, to our dismay, it doesn’t last forever and sooner than we expected we are back and we have sunk even lower so much so we are again out and about looking for the next substitute to get us that short glimpse of “heaven” and that one ultimate desire; SATISFACTION.

Unfortunately, we would never be satisfied cos the devil who willingly provides us with all these substitutes does not have true satisfaction. He may have thousands of really good look-a-likes but he ain’t got the original because that has been patented to God Almighty and Him alone. Now the devil knows this and it is what puts him(devil) on edge because if you ever encounter true satisfaction you would have no need for his substitutes a.k.a sins and then he has lost out on taking you to hell along with him.

Know this, he(devil) will never stop providing substitutes by the millions and proof to that is the wealth and growth of the tobacco and pornography industries amongst a host of many others so its no wonder that the older generation will always refer back to the good old days.

This is more than an article you are reading. This is your deliverance. God is standing by with so much love he is just waiting to share and all He is waiting for, is your consent. So again I ask:

How many substitutes would you need to get an original?

STOP SETTLING FOR LESS

GET GOD AND GET THE BEST

In Matthew 16:18, Jesus says I (all by Himself) will build my church and the gates of hell shan’t prevail against it. Psalm 127:1 says, Except the Lord build the house, they labor but in vain that build, and if He doesn’t watch over the city, the watchman keeps vigil in vain.

So, I say to you this day, let Jesus build that house of victory over whatsoever addiction and all kinds of challenges, then the gates of hell shan’t ever prevail against it.

Remember that each of us represent church. So, Jesus is referring to you and me, and everything that is connected to us. We are His building the Bible makes us understand.

Until you let Him be a sole Builder of whatever aspect of your life you desire a glorious change and manifestation, which should include all about you anyways, the gates of hell shall always prevail somehow.

Receive and respond to this revelation today and see things changing gloriously always.

You just say, “Lord Jesus come build this ‘so and so’ aspect of my life according to Your Word, that the gates of hell may not prevail against it.” And say further, “I am built up of You, my Lord Jesus and I am established forever. Now the gates of hell shan’t ever prevail against me. Glory!
Amen.

God bless us all.

Adebayo Funmi
08060172855

(Photography by: tomassobekphotography.co.nz)

As I write this, I have a conviction I am speaking not just to you but to the gift that’s lying within you crying out for expression.
I was just sitting out on the balcony strumming my guitar while enjoying some leisure thinking when a thought breezed through my mind…

“The creatures earnestly wait for the manifestation of the sons of God”

For a long while in my life I thought I got the whole point in this scripture but as I sang on, this same words came to mean even more as this scripture opened up right before me just like an onion bulb (testimony to the endless nature of God’s word).

Now, needless to say, many Christians would agree with me that we all were created for a purpose and underlying this purpose is the one great commission:
This is universally and unquestionably true but in our pursuit to fulfill this God given assignment, most people have innocently or in most cases religiously thwarted the purpose of God for their lives leading to frustration, dissatisfaction, struggling and in some cases, total relapse into old and sinful habit or even collapse of faith all of which are not what God promises in His word!

“…For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

Nonetheless, the major cause of this issue is usually written off to discovery of purpose which is in most cases correct but in more complicated cases where purpose is known and frustration alongside its vices still occur, a underlying problem of location. Put in simple words, not every Christian is called to be a Pastor (by this I mean a minister of the word, heading a church) but permit to insist that every Christian has a pulpit. In other words not every Christian can affect their world or carry out the great commission from a church stage but every Christian should definitely and most certainly preach the message of Christ.

This should sound absurd or outlandish to a few but on a lighter note, just what if it were so and somehow a whole country came to the knowledge of Christ, accepted Him and surrendered to His love with a burning zeal to achieve the great commission?
I’m all too sure the economic meltdown in that country would hit a record breaking all time low. This would evidently be because everybody was out building some church maybe in another country and it ain’t gonna be pretty.*just saying*

In contemporary times, a normal church setting would have the chairs for the congregation to sit, the instruments and then the stage where the pulpit may or may not stand. It is from this point of leadership and authority that anointing and control should flow to the church. It is also from this point that the minister (in word,song or otherwise) ministers from. I can hence conclude; The pulpit is to the minister as the throne is to the king. Having made this clear I’d like to restate my bordering claim

Not every Christian is called to be a pastor but all Christians have a pulpit

This understanding I got does not counter the truth of the great commission but it points out a fundamental problem in the Christian community. (let me explain!)
Yes we may have discovered our talents and yes we know we are to use them to glorify God’s name and preach the gospel and transform our world but all too quickly we run to Church and start working earnestly assuming it most definitely is our place of assignment.
This is not a bad decision but in too many cases it is not the right decision so listen up believers!

I love your zeal for the Lord’s work and I just want to let you know that at the point you met Christ, a process began in you, more like a fire from your insides and that fire has a hilltop where it should burn and light the world even brighter. For a fact, That fire in you has a pulpit.

So you have a pulpit, a place of assignment! The instructions in the great commission are quite the same for every born again Christian but the location does differ.
Your location is your hilltop, it is where you shine the brightest and it is where you’ll get the greatest satisfaction, your hilltop is your pulpit. Please note that when I say location I am not just referring to a geographical location but your pulpit can be anywhere, anything or even any means from which you operate your natural gifting for maximum impact and God’s glory. So your pulpit might just be a pen and some sheets or a perfectly tuned 6-stringed instrument. Your pulpit may be a science laboratory, the backsides of a camera, the congress hall of politics or even a sports field. Your pulpit could also be your amazing vocals or a simple paintbrush, a palette of colors and a canvas: the complete trio. Your pulpit could be anywhere and it could be in a church.

No more stereotypes Christians

It is very important to find your calling yet it is as well necessary to find the place of your manifestation (your pulpit) cos you know what?
The creatures-the pens, the microphones, the landscapes, the clay, the musical instruments, the chemical elements, the computer programmes, the economy, the earth- are waiting for your manifestation.

Shalom!