BEFORE YOU SAY YES!

Each time I give counsel to youths about waiting on God for a life partner, i hear replies like; "I don't really believe in this waiting on God stuff", "God told me he/she's my life partner but there's no positive response from him/her", "he's very caring and i know his family too well, he definitely is the one", "I'm too old to start waiting on God for a life partner, I'll take any good one that comes my way" etc....

What I have come to discover is that many youths are in a serious dilemma when it comes to the issue of relationships, some end up making the wrong choice of marriage and later discover they married a beast. So I'll just make it easy for as many as are concerned with this issue of utmost importance. 

I'll give you steps to knowing if your partner is the right one for you and perhaps if you don't have one, these will help you.

1. Know your Purpose: before you even think of getting a life partner, you should at the very first know why God has created you and the purpose he meant for you to fulfill: "where the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable". If you have no idea where you are headed in life, everywhere may look like it and every guy or lady may look like the right person. Most times your true life partner usually has a connection with your purpose or vision. You can't marry someone who totally opposes your Vision or purpose.

2. Wait on God: I believe this is where many get confused because they always expect to hear a thunderous baritonic voice from heaven while some complain of getting no answer from God. You don’t always have to hear a voice although could be one of the ways He answers you , could be in dreams, visions, human witnesses but you also need to be careful to know the source of these. This is the reason building a relationship with God is very important, some folks have never even developed acquaintance with Him not to talk of a relationship with Him yet when issues come up they run to Him like they’ve been with Him all the while. Build a relationship with God and get to know how He communicates with you but most of all reach Him in prayers for your future partner. One secret to getting answers concerning your future partner from the prayer altar is by going to God neutral, with an unbiased mind. Don’t  have your mind already made up about a person and then go to God to ask if he/she is the right one, you’ll probably hear yourself not God. Some already get involved romantically (very wrong) with the person and expect to get direction from God, you'll most probably hear your flesh. When asking God for the right person, go to Him plain, neutral and unbiased, God does not commune with an arrogant spirit.

3. Check for Peace: check within you if there is supernatural peace in your spirit each time you are with the person or praying about the person because whatever comes from God must be accompanied with peace of mind and ease. If you are feeling anxious, unrest about that person, you should watch, God might be telling you something.

4. Vision Alignment: be sure to check if your visions align with each other. Believe me when I say this is very important, it’s your major security for future peace. Marrying someone who opposes your vision is fatal, Amos 3:3 says "Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?  Take time to know your vision, your spouse is just on your way to fulfilling that vision.

5. Make yourself Approachable: hmmmmm, my dear brethren in the Lord there is a huge difference between Spirituality and Physical appearance. The fact that you are Holy Ghost filled, tongue blasting, bible loaded, Fire brand Christian does not mean you should dress in an awkward manner. You are addressed the way you dress. Make yourself presentable, pay attention to the various areas in your body, clean up yourself, and watch the odour that comes out of you. Just picture a man with a stench mouth odour walking up to a well dressed sister telling her “God told me you are my wife”, well her reply would be simple if she were me, “God told me I’m not”. No matter how spiritual you are, your appearance matters.

6. Character: Be conscious of your character, anointing is different from character and cannot replace it. Anointing gets him/her for you, character makes him/her stay.

Try your best to put all these in place and you are on your way to building a successful marriage. But if you’ve still got questions, you can send an email.

A SHOUT OF RESTORATION!!

Woe to the Pastors and Shepherds who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool but you do not feed the flock. Thus saith the Lord: "Behold I am against the I am against the shepherds!"

For how long, when will true worship be restored to the church of Christ, all we hear now are tailored sermons to please the crowd. Eloquent sermons without fire are all we hear. The Gospel has been turned to a seed sowing spree, the church has become a den of thieves, anointing that was got free is now for sale. Woe unto you if the Gospel is for your own illicit gain, thus saith the Lord!. For the time is come when Shepherds shall be judged and the true army of the Lord shall be raised.

The time is come soon when the whole world will resound with the praises of our God and Savior. In all nations and in every language, the day is almost here when every tongue will confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father"

Behold He comes soon and He has placed His hunger in the heart of many souls, this is my conviction, The Glory of the House of the Lord shall be RESTORED!! HALLELUJAH!!!

Be glad children of zion, The Lord has heard your cry of restoration and is calling unto you raise a people prepared for the Lord. Let that revival start from YOU!

TAKE YOUR TIME OUT

I'll give you a secret to accessing blessings from the Lord. It has been underestimated by a lot of Christians and has therefore lost potency in their lives.

One major secret of accessing blessings of God is putting the needs of others first. Christ showed us this example through out His life and ministry. When you pray for others genuinely from your heart, God has no choice than to settle your own needs, because its a seed you have sown and is bound to germinate. Most of the things we pray for are already settled in heaven but God wants us to give Him a reason to release them on us, and the only reason we can give Him is by showing Him how much we care about His other creations(fellow humans). Each time you show concern to a fellow human, you remind God of how He sent His son for the sake of humanity and therefore provoke a blessing on yourself because you act like His son did.

Most of my prayer life are centered on praying for people genuinely and seeing that they get to their place of relevance, little wonder He keeps settling me.

So will you take time out each day to pray for someone?

LET IT ALL OUT!!

I was waiting on the Lord on a night asking for fresh oil and refilling of my spirit. And the Lord spoke to me expressly saying "Take a look at the lantern used for generating light, before u can use it to generate light, u have to fill it with oil(Kerosene). Now the oil will never go down unless it is lighted up with fire to generate light and the more the oil goes down, the more the need to refill. But as long as it is not struck with fire the oil will remain the way it is and with time will remain stagnant. Son, many ask for Me to refill their oil but they have not used up the one I put in them due to greed and selfishness. My word says LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE THAT ALL MEN MAY SEE but many have kept the gifts, the virtues, the anointing, the revelations I gave them to themselves and are now stagnant thereby causing flies to perch on them because my word says FLIES CAUSE THE OIL OF THE APOTHECARY TO STINK. Son, water that does not flow will remain stagnant and breed all manner of dirt. How can I refill a vessel that is full?"

Vessels of Honor, you heard what the Lord said and I must admit it is true, whatever GIFTS, VIRTUES, REVELATIONS, ANOINTING the Lord put in you, please let it out by using it to bless others which is all for the perfection of the body of Christ. Don't die a STAGNANT VESSEL. Little wonder a wise man said the richest place on earth is the graveyard due to the number of dead people who never actualized what God put in them.
I dare you to LET IT ALL OUT!!

JUST SPEAK!!!

God does not do anything here on earth without using a Man. Before He commands a Miracle He soughts for a man He'd use as a vessel. He could have spoken to the dry bones Himself in the book of Ezekiel but He instructed Ezekiel to do it. He could have decided to bless the widow of Zarepta Himself still He sent Elijah to her as a source of Her blessing. The last time He did it Himself was when He created Man but after He breathed into man His Spirit, He gave us the Power to be like Him and Jesus further demonstrated it telling us greater works than He did we shall do. In other words we are partners with God, He is the Spirit and we are His flesh. All He is waiting for is for you to speak the word and He'll confirm it!

He created the world and everything in it, He set the laws and protocols guiding it, He could choose to come down and break them Himself rather he chooses to use a man who has been confined within those protocols to break them just to show us how much power He gave us!

Friend, until you speak to that situation it may never turn around, stop waiting on God to come down and perform a miracle for you, just SPEAK to it and He'll confirm it.

I await your testimonies..

SHALOM!!!