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Six Things That Would Make You Miss Heaven (1-4)
5. Daily Response To Others
This week and past week, I've been really offended by many things that had made me reply rather harshly. My spirit has always pricked me when I reflect my day's activities (Do you see why the first point is very vital?))
On the other hand, I had felt peace immediately I said the right things. On a WhatsApp group lately, I posted something and some people kicked against it and I was offended. At first I dragged the issue, and as I clicked the Exit button on my WhatsApp, I waited anxiously to see the next reply so I could 'fire back' again.
I totally thought beyond doubt that I was outrightly right, (And I was, for I later confirmed it), but after sometime, a voice softly told me to apologise and let the matter be. Brethren as easy as it was, it was not easy for me, but I eventually did and Oh my God, the peace I felt within was so soothing, I was just grinning from ear to ear.
That's what you get when you learn to talk and respond to others with nice words, not shouting and getting angry and worked up.
6. Careless And Careful Thought.
Careless thoughts might be thoughts you didn't pre-meditate on. They just come in like flashes. While those thoughts at first cannot make one miss heaven, dwelling on them could polute your mind and defile you. It's not hard to view porne these days.
All the street and even right in the church pornography, both direct and indirect ones are staring at you. The sizes or shape of a lady's bursts for instance are enough to pollute your mind as a male if you give it a second thought. It's not easy anyway to stop it if you've not mastered the way out (To read my PDF on how to get rid of stubborn thoughts titled: Thoughts, Mind And Imaginations, request me for it).
The other is careful thoughts. Not all thoughts are careless. Some are carefully palnned and orchestrated. While I might not be able to speak much about this here, I urge every believer to get rid as quick as possible of any thought you know will lead to ungodliness.
I cannot say these are the only things that would make one miss heaven (for I can't even type all the points I have on my note) there are many of them, but let us as in the day WATCH our Words, Attitude, Thoughts, Character and Habits. Amen.
See you in heaven.
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Actually this is one of the gravest posts that I've ever written, and as I write I can imagine my hands quaving and my heart thumping.
They may not seem striking to you, perhaps I couldn't pick my wordings well enough to carry the 'feeling' it had and still has on me.
I'll not dwell much on any of the points. Let the Holy Spirit shed more light on any issue as you read. Don't read this post with divided attention and please don't ever think "well, this is not for me", for that's the mindset that almost every believer has. When God's word comes forth, we always think its meant for the person next to us, but we are quick on the other hand to claim blessings, while we push over instructions. It's a pity what the church has become.
These are the points the Holy Spirit gave me as I observed my daily retrospection.
The following things will make you miss heaven:
1. When You Don't Observe Sincere Retrospections
When you don't occassionally ask yourself this same question: "What would make me miss heaven?"
Actually this is the title for my retrospection today. Yes, when you don't occassionally sit and ask yourself "what could make me miss heaven", you deny the Holy Spirit the time He would have used to point out hidden sins you've committed during the day.
If you're waiting for your quiet time the next morning before you "examine yourself", what if the trumpet sounds before you wake up?
2. When You Think You've Overgrown Saying "Lord, I'm Sorry".
You see, this attitude is predominantly found among pastors. They almost never see any reason why they should confess sins. They spend too much time preparing for sermons and programmes and they have no time to think about themselves.
They just look at themselves and smile, having without doubt to themselves that all is well, when all might just be unwell. It will take a very sincer and 'childlike' pastor to fall on his knees and say "Lord I'm sorry". Please pastors constantly say this prayer, it doesn't make you less spiritual, rather it makes you more dearer to God and hence more spiritual.
3. When You Stop (Or Don't) Judging Yourself
You see friends, this is one of the most vital part of sonship in the Kingdom. This scene comes to mind as I write.
I and a friend were once caught in this web of unfaithfulness to God. We would go to service late. We seldom share God's word, and infact our zeal for dropped.
On a faithful night on our way to a Bible Study, we were late this time also, and Oh, we felt so bad.
We remembered where the Bible talked about judging oneself and we actually did just that from our very hearts. We confessed that we have not done well. We compared our zeal for God back at home to now in school, how we've degenerated to be 'strolling' to service when we were quite very late.
We dismissed all supposed excuses no matter how viable they seemed, and like babies we verbally promised God that we would change. We judged our actions, lives, zeal for God.
You see if you never judge yourself, you will never see the ill in what you're doing and that ill might just be what would block your ears from hearing the trumpet blast.
4. Besetting Sins
I really did have to struggle with that at certain times. Yes I did, and I'm not ashamed to say it, because I've overcomed it, how would I be ashamed to testify my victory over evil?
Ministers, pastors, old believers, young, old, rich and poor, besetting sins cuts across all levels. You don't have to be a pastor inorder not to be overcomed with besetting sins, and that you fall to your besetting sin doesn't mean you're doomed excpet of course if the rapture catch up with you while you're at it.
I don't want to go into how to stop besetting sins, but I'll say something the Holy Spirit ministered to me. While I struggled with mine, again and again I saw how flat I fell. I was sad, very sad. I prayed, I fasted, I wept within, I took several decisions, yet ...
Until as I sat one day meditating, the Holy Spirit said: "What can you really do by your strength?". For once I realised that all the decisions, determination, and resolutions I've been making towards this monster was not with the consciousness that I had to hand over to God. I thought besetting sins was what I would fight with my strength and by myself. Since I handed it over to God, I've been having victory.
Could that be your problem too? Of course you now know what to do.
Greatness and wisdom are outrightly two different things. Never you associate greatness with wisdom. The great can be great and lack understanding, just like the foolish man in the Bible that depended on his goods only and found in his eyes no place for God.
"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? " (Luke 12:19-20).
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"The fool has said in his heart: there's no God."
That fool could be a leper, a poverty stricken fellow or a very stickenly rich man or politician!
As long as he has said in his heart "There's no God", he is a fool.
(JOB 32:9)
Do not always associate age with wisdom, because the FOOL hath said "There's no God", and that FOOL could well be an aged man.
As a believer, when you think of the GUILT, SHAME and REPENTANCE with weepings that you have to go through; you wouldn't want to fall into that BESETTING SIN of yours again.
But in case you d; please say:
"I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore, that which I see not teach thou me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." (JOB 32:31-32)
In our world today, we have quotes on almost every and anything.
In this article however, we want to look at how spiritual christianly quotes are birthed.
JOB 32:8 - "But there's a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding."
Elihu the younger of Job's friends was speaking here. Analysing that verse, we see that there is a connection between man's spirit and inspiration and understanding.
* Spirit
* Inspiration
* Understanding
This tells us that understanding is the result of the inspiration of God. This is one of Biblical's definition of the word "understanding".
Meaning,
when God's inspiration lights on the spirit of man, the result or outcome is a deep wealth of understanding.
This is how powerful Christian quotes are birthed.
It's easy to have tons of Christian quotes when you have an inspiration from God. Any quote that lacks understanding is thus, because there was no inspiration from the Almighty.
Do not go for quotes, rather go for inspiration. To get understanding, seek the inspiration of the Almighty.
God inspire, men reads it from earth's realm as an 'understanding'.
How much understanding you have about God is directly proportional to how much inspiration you recieve from the Almighty through your spirit.
The spirit of man is the birthplace of the inspiration of God, and understanding is it's rewards.
You do not struggle or labour to get understanding. Understanding is a reward, it's like a salary or a wage. You toil during the days, and at the end of the month you're paid your salary: so it is! You toil and work to get inspiration from God (not in the physical sense of struggling per say) and your salary afterwards is understanding.
The toil you put in, is growing your fellowship with God in prayers and visible study of God's word. Thereafter you plunge deep to fetch from the wells of the inspiration of the Almighty. Then you relax as your pay of understanding flows through the same channel: your spirit.
Many believers are too lazy to work and wait for their pay, instead they go about 'stealing' from the sweat of others.
The same applies here. What we call Rhema today that someone gets and everyone is quoting and running after is actually someone's pay for the toil and work he had done.
Do not be a 'thief' in the kingdom. Do not look for Rhema outside, look for Rhema within. Do not wait to feed on people's inspiration and understanding to feed from. Dig your own well and feed from your own inspiration. Inspire yourself!
One of the best ways to become great is to inspire yourself! Get your own inspirations and let the world pay you to read them, rather than paying others to read theirs!
You can! Except you don't have a spirit, hence you're not a man, and shouldn't be reading this.
For as long as you're a man, the Bible says:
"There's a spirit in man!
Spirit is all you need to connect to the Almighty for an inspiration. He does not work with flesh. He has no business with the flesh. He inspires men's spirit.
Be inspired!
What life really mean?
As simple as this question is, it's one of my deepest thoughts that always intrigue me whenever I give time to meditate on it.
So let's look at the SIMPLE life of a man. Shall we?
First, he's born. Then he grows. Gets education (at least in our contemporary system). After school. Gets a job. Then gets married. Have kidsss...and what next? He dies!
Haa! Just like that? That's all there is to a man?
It thrills me how life seems so simple when viewd from an elevated plane.
Benny Hinn said something about what another man said: "Man is like a speck of dust when viewd from the moon."
Imagine that!
A speck of dust?
......
"That's not fair!", you'ld say.
But, what's really fair in this life?
Is it the job you applied for and you were turned down because you refused to go to bed with the boss, or you refused to give bribe?
Tell me, what's fair?
At least for us in Nigeria here, we know almost everything in this country is not fair, starting from even the very free 'Good morning' you get from even children alone, you'll know that life isn't fair, because the sound of the greeting would be so twisted to something like:
"Goomonyii"
and for others its
"Guumorr", you would think they were abusing you.
Not to talk of mentioning the dead undue 'unfairness' from noisy politrickians, (permit me please..) lying lawyers (shysters if you like), fake pastors at every bend, bad government, bad economy, even out-of-gauge life-snuffling sunlight...
So you see everything is unfair in life.
Man (as I was saying), is like a speck of dust really.
All the university, church, Job, marriage, sex, kids, and the rest of them, will just end on a fateful day.
On that day, man wil actualy know his real destiny.
A man gives or leaves an alibi to stand as a disguise so that you (that is if you're not a smart lawyer enough) would never know he committed a crime!
Yes! That's it! Our earthly destiny is like an alibi.
It helps us cover our real tracks!
And whilst all we see aound us is our destiny, we forget that our destiny is just an alibi. We'll get caught soon, 'cos one day the great jugde from whom no truth is withholden will stand and ask from you the truth, and life can no longer have a grip on you, and what happens!!!?
You're cold. You're moved to an
ambulance. Next, mother earth welcomes you, and the light of planet earth cease to shine on you for heavy thudding sounds rents the air as earths itself seal your tomb, and you're consumed in darkness. Still and stiff.
And, were is the youthful lifestyle then?
Were are the times when a bottle of Fayrouz would mean an insult on you. If you're not done with half a crate, you're going no where!
Were are the times when you moaned as you locked yourself under those thick sheets with a flesh that is not yours, deep in emotions and deathly passion?
Knock on those graves, and let the dead hear.
Wake up from your death she waits for you under the sheets, naked and bare. The heat is terribly on, ravish yourself just one more time.
Ho..! One more bottle and the day's gone...arise, the barman offers three bottles for the pay of one.
The rains has beat hard upon the crates. The sun has turned its contents to grey!
Yet! You refuse to break loose the cords of death and have just one more seep!
Whereas, your alibi stands on the shores that divides earth and eternity.
The chains of an unseen hand bounds it up, and never again will it stand to fool the world.
Now you're immortal, and you face the Immortal.
Your rags fouls the air. The scent is too clean to harbour your filth.
The Judge rises to give His last judgement, and you're defenceless.
Your alibi wouldn't even dare break loose to shield you.
You judged. Sentenced to death. An immortal death.
You die a billion times, yet you never die at all.
Immortality is your nature.
Earthly death was only the vehicle that ushered you to your REAL destiny.
A destiny you choose by yourself, with your hands, with your brains intact.
No one ever imposed it on you. You enjoyed it, and to ward off offending charges, you simply put there an alibi to cover your tracks.
Won't it be unfair to serve you what you never asked for?
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The rat race of life lies in an eleven letter word: "competition".
The absence of competition gives out the real you.
The presence of competition gives out a shadow of you.
Always ensure you are not hidden behind your real self.
Be good, if you are.
Be bad, if you are.
Be righteous if you are.
Be profane if you are.
The difference between you and your shadow is Reality.
There is room for adjustments though, as much as there is also room for maladjustment.
You can decide to adjust to be a better you, and that should not be coerced by "competition"
Anything done out of competition is fake.
It's like pretending to be fit for a 100meter race when under your pants is hidden, covered away, a huge sore that aches terribly at the slightest movement of your legs.
You say it's braveness, or being strong, I say it's the result of the molten magma called "Inferiority complex" that has errupted out from it's shadows to dwell among men on earth.
You say it's a nice shot at self improvement, I say it's a blind shot at self worth and ego.
You say it's a platform that kills shame and offers a sense of belonging on a platter, I say it's a platform that seems beautiful on the outside, but within is a platter of debris and staleness.
You say:
"Now what!?
How am I going to improve my looks, character, attitude, behaviour, words and
appearance without taking clues from others."
Wait, who ever said you shouldn't take clues?
Whoever said you shouldn't learn from others.
Of course you should.
The drive of competition does not give you the chance and time to LEARN or TAKE CLUES, rather it makes you want to beat down the owner of the clues inorder to place you 'above' the fallen: that's cometition.
You can never learn when you compete in life.
You will have to miss dozens of clues when you fix your eyes on how to outsmart your opponent in a bid to makeup for your ego.
IPhone 7 is out.
You want to buy.
Some ladies would sell their precious virginity for a metal:
They did it before when 'Blackburial' was the craze of the day.
So, why do you want to own that indomitable metal, iPhone7?
Are you going for it because of what the phone has to offer, or you're going for the it just to feel that you belong? You see that?
So, some people that barely know how to use 20% of what the phone can offer, struggles to have it in their purses and handbags, and the slightest opportunity they have, they flaunt it for the world to see.
It's not their fault anyway, it's how far the molten magma of competition has dried and become stuck to their mentality, clouding their reasoning process.
You need to break loose from the spirit of competition.
You need to be yourself. You need to embrace self management.
Cherish your worth.
Take your eyes off the crowd, you don't belong there. Look up to men and women of virtue. Sit and listen when they speak. LEARN from their words, don't gloss over them. Don't fall prey to the waves of competition.
Be real. Don't pretend. Pretenders are loosers, they lost the time they began wearing the face of some else.
Be true to your character. If you find it faulty, make a sincere change. If you find no reason to change, then please don't change, no matter how foul you might be.
We will get to the top.
Be real, be natural, be you, and be HAPPY!
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Catalogue of Quotes
- Don't always use uncommon vocabularies all the time, it
shor-circuits communication and makes others get borred at your words.
- Don't ever try to fake God's presence, if you don't have it, you
don't have it!
- Don't tell us what God can do, tell us what he has done.
- Don't let people hear your voice in prayers only when you're out of
cash. Pray in and out of season.
- Do not fake tears in God's presence. After the rapture, some people
would still be on stage vrying out their hearts to God in worship.
- Do not condenm any Pastor, no matter his doctrine. If you think you
have a better message, go and open your own church!
- Do not trivialise Tithing, don't think it's your will to do it or
not, else you become a 'nice christian', but a THIEF!
- Don't fear the devil but don't think he's a fool, one that has been
in existence before the inception of the world cannot be a fool.
- Learn to be a diary-freak. Always pen down a brainchild.
- Develope the habit of keeping diaries, personal, private diaries, it
becomes your sucor at times of depression.
- Mostof man's problems would have been few, if men do take advice
from their spouse.
- 95% of Christians today wouldn't have been christians if they had no
problems. Why are you a christian?
- Your first sexual partner always occupies a soft spot in you, and
this can destroy your marital life after so many years.
- A negligent moment of 'sexcapade' can usher you to an infinite
escapades of negligence.
- If your problems has never moved you to tears, you've never got a problem yet.
- Being simple is not a sign of humility. Being humble is not an
excuse to being a simpleton.
- Know a little about everything rather than knowing everything about
a little (Author Unknown).
- Many men became great when they came to the end of the road in their
lives. Always watch out for the end of the road in your life and
enlist yourself among the 'many men'.
- Don't ever think that Christianity is synonymous to poverty. Christ
was not made poor that we might be poor.
- Don't ever force a visitor to the dinning, and don't be too quick to
accept their refusal, else he/she takes your initial invitation as
pretense.
#SundryVirtues
