Rising From The Rubble

In this life we are building.

Daily we build.

We build spiritually just as we build physically.

God is a Master builder and we can work with Him to get good outcomes for our lives.

We are spiritual craftsmen.

Be a skilled one.

Our lives can be likened to a building.

To build properly and effectively, the builder of the building must be intentional about his work. 

If the builder is not intentional he won't get anywhere.

In life you have to be intentional about what you want to do, achieve, pursue and how you use your time.

With every decision you make daily you are building.

With every choice you are making you are building.

Our choices and decisions can be likened to building blocks with which we are using to erect the building of our lives.

Build wisely.

Your earthly building will have a spiritual and eternal impact too, so build well and build wisely.

The builder also needs a blueprint for the building he is trying to put up.

Without a blueprint the construction will very likely go wrong.

The blueprint is the pattern the builders look to and follow for the building to turn out right.

The blueprint must be followed with intention.

Buildings that have been erected can also be brought down.

Buildings can be destroyed through wars, attacks, faulty work, poor foundations, and use of inferior materials when putting up the building.

When a building collapses for whatever reason, there may be a need to rebuild on that spot.

There will be a need to rebuild from or through the rubble on the ground.

When we are cut down by the enemy and have come crashing down, the story doesn't end there.

We can rebuild.

It's just like a tree.

If a tree has been cut down, as long as its roots are still in the ground, so long as its stomp has not been uprooted, at the scent of water, life and restoration begins for what is remaining of that tree.

The tree begins to grow, flourish and blossom again!

Out of the ashes of a dead yesterday, a glorious future can arise for you.

Out of the ashes of a dying today, a glorious destiny can begin to manifest.

Out of the rubble of wrong choices, mistakes and bad decisions, you can begin to rebuild.

You can build better, build smarter by following your blue print.

God has a prophetic blue print for your life, a divine blue print in the heavens that will make you emerge bigger, better and stronger than ever before when followed.

The rubble  reflects experience not failure.

The ashes show preparation not defeat.

The rubble shows process not tragedy.

The ashes are evidence of a journey not the end.

Ashes and rubbles show value not worthlessness.

Ashes and rubbles do not tell the end of our story, they are evidence the impossible can be made possible.

The rubbles are a catalog of experience, effort, understanding and knowledge we have under our belt with which we can rebuild and they help us rebuild with more expertise and accuracy.

Ashes and rubbles can be another chance, another opportunity when God is with us.

You are not meant to stay crying, keep lamenting, or get stuck in the ashes and rubbles of fallen aspects of your life.

Ashes and rubbles may reveal we have enemies, but they don't have to stop us. 

They should be our stepping stones to something better.

May God give us beauty for ashes!

Just has we read of Nehemiah who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, and completed and finished it with the speed of grace in 52 days, God can grace us too, to build and complete in good time!

 

Destiny & The Galloping Horse

Our life on this earth is the sum total of what we have done with the time allocated to us while we are here on earth.

Time is important to human beings.

We have a certain amount of time to operate with, we don't have all the time in the world because we don't live on earth forever.

It's popularly said that time flies. I can understand that.

I liken time to a galloping horse.

A galloping horse is a speeding horse.

As horses are associated with speed, so does time gallop away with each second, minute, and hour.

Your time on earth is time dependent, liken yourself riding on the horse of time.

The horse of time gallops with each of us on it.

From birth to old age we are visible on the horse of time, when our time is up on this earthly plane the horse of time rides off into the life hereafter with us on it and we are no longer visible on the earth.

Of course, this is a figure of speech, a simile used to convey my thoughts; not a doctrine.

Since human beings are associated with and limited to time in many respects, our destiny is time dependent.

Your destiny is what the divine, your creator, God has predetermined you should achieve on this earth.

There are beautiful things ascribed to you in this life.

Those great and predestined things assigned to your life is your destiny.

Since your destiny is time dependent you will do well to strive for it, reach for it in good time.

Your destiny is linked to your life.

If you lose your life, you've lost your destiny.

You need your life to fulfill your destiny.

On that horse of time rides your destiny too.

Your destiny rides with you.

Well, hopefully.

If you don't recognize you have a destiny you won't manifest it as you ride and journey through life.

Your destiny should be on a galloping horse along with you.

Horses are symbols of courage, strength, dignity, royalty, elegance, dominion, and speed.

Qualities your destiny should also reflect.

Don't be ignorant of your destiny.

You have to make decisions that will make that destiny manifest.

The earlier the better.

Don't let that destiny be severed from you.

Don't let that destiny crawl on the ground.

It leads to slowness, delay and denials.

"There is an evil I have seen under the sun,
As an error proceeding from the ruler:
6 Folly is set in great dignity,
While the rich sit in a lowly place.
7 I have seen servants on horses,
While princes walk on the ground like servants"

May your destiny ride in grand style on a speeding horse!

 

 

Evil Under The Sun

Long before the notable Author Agatha Cristine wrote her book "Evil Under The Sun" the Bible had informed us about evil that happens under the sun.

Evil Under The Sun much like many of Agatha Christie's books was a best seller.

The Bible passage from Ecclesiastes 6 verses 1, 2 inspired her book title.

Agatha Christie is widely considered the best selling novelist in history.

Without a doubt a lot of successful people have drawn inspiration from the Bible and the Bible has inspired a lot of successful people.

King Solomon is believed to be the author of the book of Ecclesiastes in scripture.

King Solomon is also believed to be the wisest man who ever lived, outside of Jesus Christ of course.

King Solomon said "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:  A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction."

It is a tragedy for an individual God has blessed not to enjoy what has been allocated to him.

That is what the Bible passage is telling us.

It is called an evil under the sun.

It is not God's will that a foreigner should consume what is yours, that another should enjoy what you have labored for, it is an evil under the sun.

In Ecclesiastes 10 verses 5-7 king Solomon talks about an evil reversal that can happen in the lives of men which is common under then sun

It is tragic to know that many people are not manifesting what God has put in their lives.

Such people have experienced an evil reversal of their fortunes and destiny.

"There is an evil I have seen under the sun,
As an error proceeding from the ruler:
6 Folly is set in great dignity,
While the rich sit in a lowly place.
7 I have seen servants on horses,
While princes walk on the ground like servants"

It is not everything happening under the sun that is God's will.

God's will is something that you must pray for and be intentional about it doesn't always happen automatically. 

God's will has to be enforced and fought for.

God's will is good, God wills good things for us.

When a prince is walking and a servant is riding on horses, something has gone wrong.

King Solomon called it an error.

An error God didn't make, arrange or intend; but in this imperfect world things can go wrong.

Things go wrong because we have imperfect people who live in an imperfect world all around us and that affects us too, in some way or the other.

We also have evil spirits at work in the earth and they use people, unfortunately.

As people journey though this world things can go wrong, it can start in the womb, at birth, or at a certain or various stages of our lives.

There are people destined to live as kings and princes who are living like slaves or paupers.

This is not right.

The will of God is that our original destiny manifests!

We also have people who are living in and enjoying what God has not given to them.

They are spiritual manipulators who sabotage the good in other people's lives because they are not happy with their own lives.

Such people never end up fulfilled.

There is injustice in this world, its this injustice king Solomon calls an error and an evil under the sun.

God is the one One who avenges injustice and corrects error.

He can and will take care of the evil that has happened to us under the sun.

We should hand them over to Him.

God can fix it.

That is our encouragement.

In the presence of God error is corrected.

In the presence of God what has gone wrong begins to go right.

In the presence of God what has been tampered with can be repaired and restored.

You're A Winner

 You can emerge a winner in this life and in the world to come.

There is an anointing to win, and God would have you win.

A winner is someone who wins, to win is to emerge ahead, over, or above others.

It is to beat other contestants to the reward or prize that they contested with you for.

To win is to achieve the goal, hit the mark, or get to a certain destination before others.

Sports is an area of life where winners are often seen- the trophy, the cup or medal which is often golden is the reward winners get.

Life rewards winners.

The good Book encourages us to "run that we may win".

"Run in such a way that you obtain the prize"

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it"

God's will is that you obtain success, victory, and sit on the winners seat.

Ours is a destiny of winning.

We win over enemies, over sin, over Satan, over our personal failings and flaws.

We win spiritually and we win in the physical affairs of life.

The Apostle Paul likens the spiritual life of a believer to a race, a race with a reward attached to it, a spiritual reward.

We have to "run" to receive the reward, we run to win, we run to get the prize, we don't run for nothing.

Are you running to win, are you running to receive the reward, are you running to get the prize?

A winner is someone who must have overcome distractions to win.

A winner is someone who must have set his eyes on the goal without looking back.

Winners can't afford to get distracted.

For us, distractions are temporary, we overcome them and get back in the race.

When we fall, we get back up and keep going. There is a goal and finish line in view.

"And I discipline myself like an athlete..."

We are likened to athletes in the spiritual race of life.

Athletes discipline their bodies to stay in the best physical form.

Discipline is needed to win the race.

"But the one who endures to the end will be saved"

To win you have to make it to the end, if you don't make it to the end you can't claim to have won.

To make it to the end, endurance is needed.

Learn to persevere.

Those who give up don't win, those who win don't give up.

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win"

"Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him"

The crown of life is the winners reward.

It is the reward of those who persevered and didn't give up.

Endurance/perseverance is a requirement to win.

"I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one takes your crown"

Make sure no one takes your crown.

Running to win is a way of ensuring no one beats you to the crown that is yours.

There is a winners crown for you in life and in eternity.

The grace to win is available.

Thank you Jesus!

Supernatural Survival

 People God is with survive things others can't survive.

Those God is with are more than human, they are more than conquerors!

Stick with God and you will survive what you're going through.

God in His faithfulness supernaturally preserves His own, His people.

If you know the Lord and have a relationship with Him, what takes others down will not take you down. Well it shouldn't take you down.

If you keep your eyes on God; even on Master Jesus, what sank others will not sink you.

The winds may blow and the storms may rage, but you will weather the storm and still be standing when others are sinking; for a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you.

It doesn't matter the hell and highwater you are going through, you can supernaturally survive it by the grace of God and get to your mountain top.

The Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego Bible story comes to mind.

They survived the fiery furnace.

Let their story be an encouragement and empowerment to you today!

It is a true life account that we can draw lessons from and it has parallels to our present day situations, even the happenings of our present time.

The three Hebrew boy were blessed by God, they lived and served during the administration of King Nebuchadenezzer of old, they were spiritually and academically profound.

They had served the king faithfully and done nothing wrong, yet they found themselves threatened, confronted with death, and eventually thrown into a fiery furnace.

Perhaps you're being threatened like those Hebrew boys were by king Nebuchadenezzer, perhaps you are being confronted with death like they were, perhaps you have found yourself in a difficult situation like those Hebrew boys were for standing your ground, doing what is right and pleasing God.

Nebuchadenezzer is symbolic of Satan in that story.

Those three Hebrew boys represent the righteous, those who stand for righteousness in a corrupt world.

It's not every challenge of life that comes to you because you made wrong choices, did something wrong or sinned like many sometimes erroneously think.

Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego didn't do anything out of order yet they found themselves in a very tricky situation.

Some challenges may come to you as a result of Satan manipulating the physical realm and an imperfect world against you because of what you stand for.

Your enemy is an ancient spirit, a master of the physical realm.

Babylon which is the society those boys lived in represents an imperfect world, our world, a system under the enemy's control.

You may be in a situation where everything seems to be going against you.

You can survive it and come out on top of it.

With the grace of God you can, with God's presence you can.

God's grace was with Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego.

Grace is the God factor in a human life.

Grace is something enemies don't factor or put into consideration when they think they have us all figured out, cornered, or destroyed.

When Nebuchadenezzer thought he would see the end of those Hebrew boys grace showed up, preserved them and catapulted them to their next level!

That can be your testimony too, don't give up.

If Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego survived every attempt to destroy them you can too, since they made it in an evil and ungodly environment as righteous young men you can make it too in this dark world, since they survived the fiery flames of Nebuchadenezzer which represents the heat the evil one and life may bring against us, then you can and will survive every onslaught of the wicked ones against you, since they survived and came out of the fiery furnace literally untouched by the flames you can survive everything meant to consume you.

They survived Nebuchadenezzer, you will survive the evil one too.

God is faithful.

You can overcome that setback, you can be preserved.

May grace abound to you and may God show up for you in a marvelous way.

Your Unending Stream Of Supply

Your source determines your supply

God is our source and in Him there is no lack!

He is the eternal source from whom we draw by faith!

"Every good and every perfect gift comes from Him, the Father of lights"

God gives gifts that keeping on giving.

He is a Giver and He wants to give to you supplies more than you want to receive from Him.

He is the well whose waters never dry up, even the water of our breakthrough and miracles.

He is the inexhaustible well that doesn't disappoint, even the well of our salvation we draw from with our buckets of joy.

"Of the increase of His kingdom there is no end"

God is an increase specialist.

Let the God connection be very important to you.

A reason many people struggle with lack is because they have left the One who blesses, the One who is true to chase shadows. They have forsaken the true source.

Just like the flood of Noah's day which took over the known world of that time, God can flood your life with His goodness and make you enjoy His unending streams of supply!

God can bless you through people and He will, but don't look to people as your source.

When you look to man as your source you have limited yourself.

When you look to man as your source, you have a limited source.

When you look to man as your source you will be disappointed in due time.

When you look to man as your source, you have put yourself at the mercy of man.

When you put a man in the position of God as your source, you might have to give away that which is precious to you to keep the favor going.

You are not created to look to man as your source, you are not created to depend on human beings as your source in life.

Your destiny and purpose cannot be financed by the budget men will allocate to you.

Human beings did not plan your life or create you, so you should never look to human beings as your source.

When your faith is in man for provision, a faith you should put in God; you will be stuck if the person you see as your source refuses to favor you.

What would you do if the individual you see as your source becomes incapable of helping you?

If you depend on a person as your source and that person dies, what becomes of your hopes and dreams?

What will happen to you if the job you see as your source suddenly develops issues or you lose it?

You are not created to be at the mercy of human beings in that kind of way.

God would have us get trained so as not to see this world system as our source.

It may be a tough training but you will get there.

The things and people we look to, disappoint us because God is trying to realign us with our true source.

It is His way of getting you to slow down and check yourself, check who or what you see as your source.

When human plans fail and a source we depend on dries up, it may be God's way and opportunity to get our attention.

God is your unending eternal source.

He is the one who meets your needs, supplies you with resources and opens doors of breakthrough and blessing for you.

It is God who gives you what is real, true and tangible.

Man may have a budget for you on the earth, but what about in eternity?

No human being can support or finance you through eternity.

God is the one who blesses you in the here and now, in this life and through eternity.

Those who look to man made carved wooden idols are not smart.

Those who bow to images carved by sculptors are misguided.

Those who turns to fallen angels and demonic spirits as their source will be miserable if they don't retrace their steps to the true God.

Everything evil spirits give you is not truly yours, they belongs to the evil spirits, and the evil spirits will cheat you at some point when it will hurt most after making you sacrifice so much and putting you through horrors.

God, your God is your unending stream of supply who meets all your needs according to His riches in glory!

Thank you Jesus!

Heavenly Transportation

 There is spiritual locomotion.

There's heavenly transportation.

There is speed in the spirit realm and different types of transportation.

Spirit transportation is way faster than earthly transportation.

Portals are a form of transportation from one realm to the other, from one spirit dimension to the other.

Doors are another and windows too.

Wings are a form of spiritual transportation.

Running is another form of spiritual movement.

We have chariots, we have horses,  and teleporting.

Teleporting is one of the ways spirits operate most, very much like disappearing from one place to the other across space, distance and time.

Angels can also be a form of transportation in the heavenly realm.

Ophanims are a class of angels associated with movement/locomotion in the heavenly realms.

They are creatures of the angelic order who look like wheels.

The are wheel like, rounded, almost like rings.

Ophanims act as the wheels of God's throne, they can attach themselves to the throne of God and move in any direction! They are are responsible for movement, direction and they are all seeing.

These various spirits and creatures are all heavenly and divine ways of moving from one season to another, one realm to another, one phase to another, one level to another, and one chapter to the other both in the spirit realm and the physical realm.

The spirit realm influences the natural realm.

Every means of transportation in the spirit and heavenly realm are living and they are creatures.

Spiritual realities are real, spiritual creatures are real.

You can gain speed through spiritual transportation and begin to gain speed in matters that concern you here on earth.

The inspiration for the transportation we use on earth is inspired from spirit ideas.

Spirit horses are real.

Jesus rides on His Spirit horse when He choses that as a means of transportation.

He rides on the clouds, the wind and the praises of His people, His saints.

When Jesus comes back for the rapture of His church, He will be coming back on His white spirit horse with a multitude of angels as King of kings and Lord of Lord, these angels will most likely be riding on spirit horses too.

Heaven, paradise, the kingdom of God is a very exciting place!