Vision or Ambition?

Vision is not the same as ambition. Although, ambition can make you a multi-millionaire just as vision can, there are added benefits you tend to enjoy as a visionaire instead of an ambitionaire?
Firstly, in the realm of vision, your safety is guaranteed as well as your success. If you’re working as a visionaire and still going through tough times, it is because, “A great door and effectual is open unto me, but there are many adversaries”{1 Corinthians 16:9}. Your enemies will only try to stop you after perceiving your glorious future but since you’re waking according to God’s purpose for your life, they will never succeed because stopping you, is the same as stopping God.
For every creation, there is a purpose for it and this is only made known in the realm of vision. This is the major reason for failure in life as people resort to their earthly and fleshly ambitions instead of walking according to God’s purpose for them and you know when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable.
God once gave Jonah a vision to go into the land of Nineveh to preach but he ran away from it for the satisfaction of his own personal ambitions. This almost led to his death and the death of other innocent travellers because ignoring vision doesn’t only puts you at risks, it also make you a risk. But at the end of the day when he had repented, he was ushered into the realm of sweatless success as he did in one day what could have taken him three days to do. Jonah’s ministry remains one of the most successful because an entire city fasted alongside all the beast in the land due to his ministry.

Don’t you ever underestimate the power of divine agenda because those who hold fast to it are never forsaken.

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What is Vision?

Whenever we hear the word vision anywhere near the church, we are always inclined to thinking of a situation where an anointed individual is sensing or seeing something very unusual but vision is much more than that. In this post, I’m going to be broadening your view about this subject of vision.
So, what is vision?

It is the discovery of God’s plan and purpose.

In my previous post I talked about purpose not being something you decide but something to be discovered and here, we see that there is a huge relationship between purpose and vision because vision is the process of discovering it. Note that there are so many ways of discovering it which I shall be discussing later on. This was the kind of vision that opened up Christ’s ministry here on earth.

It is an attraction getting event

After Christ got the vision of God’s purpose for Him, the bible recorded, ‘…the eyes of everyone in the synagogue was fastened upon Him'{Luke 4:20}. Also when Moses got the vision of the burning bush, he said, ‘I must look to see this great sight for the bush burneth without being consumed'{Exodus 3:2} It becomes very difficult for you to be seen, favoured, remembered if you’re yet to see God’s plan and purpose for you.

It is your thinking

‘For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he…'{Proverbs 23:7}. Visions, dreams, and imaginations are some of the most powerful forces on the earth ‘…because it will surely come to pass, it will not tarry{Habakkuk 2:3}. Although Joseph’s vision was delayed for years, it came to pass. Although Caleb and Joshua’s vision of conquest delayed for over 40 years, it still came to pass likewise that of the other 10 spies who envisioned defeat and death.

It is as far as your eyes can see

‘God said unto Abram, lift up thine eyes northward, southward, westward and eastward. For all the land which thou seest shall I give to you and your seeds'{Genesis 13:14-15}. Similarly, God is saying, look from Genesis to Malachi, from Matthew to Revelation and all the boldness, godliness, grace, power, prosperity etc will be yours.

I hope I’ve been able to help you understand the word vision? All your comments, contributions, question and feedback are welcomed. Please also remember to share with your friends. God bless you.

The Truth About Giving To Humanity

There is no other thing God loves more than man and that is why He demonstrated how true love should be expressed “for God so love the world that He gave…”[John 3:16] Therefore, we should so love His people that we give unto them whenever we are opportuned to. No matter how poor you are, there is always something you can give to help. Just as you expect someone richer to give you a car, a poorer being is also looking up to you for that one dollar that would sustain him to the next day. No wonder the scriptures said, “if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who will give you your own?”[Luke 16:12] Mr Job had this secret inside Of him and it worked for him- “I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless and him that had none to help…I caused thie widows heart to sing…I was eye to the blind and feet to the lame…”[Job 29:12-17] And just because he did all of this, he was rewarded greatly-” I shall not die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. My root shall spread out by the waters…my glory was fresh in me and my bow was renewed in my hand. Unto me men gave ear, waited and kept silence at my counsel. After my words, they spake not again…”[Job 29:18-25]

The scriptures also went on to say, “he that giveth unto the poor shall not lack”[Proverbs 28:27].

If you’re just here to consume, you might end ur being consumed
Bishop David O Oyedepo

The best way of expressing love is giving. “If a man say I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar”[1 John 4:20]. Until you start seeing yourself as a channel of blessing to others, God is not committed to blessing you hence the scriptures said,” he that hath pity on the poor, lendeth unto God, and that which he hath given will He repay him again”[Proverbs 19:17].

God bless you as you.

6 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD FORGIVE

We all know what it means to forgive as this is not the first time you are coming across this word. In the bible, forgiveness means to have mercy on someone. There are so many things that happen when you forgive and this post contains only 6 of them. When you forgive,

GOD FORGIVES YOU: God would never forgive you your trespasses when you fail to forgive others. Jesus mentioned this when He was teaching His disciples how to pray- ‘But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses'[Matthew 6:15] and also ‘Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy'[Matthew 5:7].

GOD HEARS YOU: God either hears you when you pray or when you praise and for Him to hear you, you need to forgive everyone that has offended you. The bible says ‘Grudge not against one another brethren, kept ye be condemned, behold the judge standeth at the door'[James 5:9] and also, ‘Leave thy gifts at the altar and go thy way first and be reconciled with your brother and then come and offer your gift'[Matthew 5: 24]. Gift here also means praising and thanking God.

YOU GET DIVINE HEALING: When Jesus was reproved by the scribes He said unto them, ‘whether is it easier to say to the sick…your sins are forgiven thee; or to say, arise and take up thy bed and walk?'[Mark 2:9]. This means that for you to get healed your sins have to be forgiven and for your sins to be forgiven, you have to forgive others.There are also many instances in the bible where the sick asked for mercy in order to get healed.

YOU ARE FORGIVEN BY OTHERS: ‘Therefore all things whatsoever ye would have men do to you, do ye even unto them…'[Matthew 7:12]. You never can tell how many people you have offended because you can never please everyone. So, if you want to be forgiven, start by forgiving others.

YOU DELIVER YOURSELF: Vengeance is of the lord and the best thing to do always, is to forgive your enemies and by so doing ‘thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head'[Romans 12:20]. Just try to imagine what would happen when your enemies forgive you but you fail to forgive them.

YOU FIND JOY: Whenever you forgive, you become joyful and free from devil’s oppression because each time you see an enemy, you tend to loose your joy. If you want to be more joyful in life, forgive more and keep less enemies