Making the most of Life

Saturday 2 May
READ: Eccl. 9:10
MORE LESSON: John 10:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. Eccl 9:10 (NIV)

You have only one life and you have to live it with all your might by putting everything you have into it. The following are the things you need to do in order to make the best of life.
1. Live on purpose: Discover your life's purpose in God and pursue that purpose to the outermost. Do not just live by doing anything and everything; live a purpose-driven life.

2. Accept responsibility for your life: You are the one responsible for your life. Stop complaining about what someone did or didn't do for you. Your life is not about anybody, it is about you. If you think that you are where you are today because you were denied opportunities in the past by some people or situations in your life, then decide not to be stopped by the past but take responsibility for your own life and move ahead.

3. Live a sacrificial life: Do not be selfish about life. Life is too short for you to spend it all on yourself: It is those who live and die for others that live long. If you are living only for yourself, you are dying without knowing.

4. Meet people's need. When you stop meeting needs you are no more needed. Let somebody's need be met because you are alive. Those that remember others are themselves remembered. Jesus is celebrated today because he met the need of mankind. Whatever God has blessed you with don't consume it alone, create opportunities for others.

5. Don't despise the gift of redemption: The best of life comes through redemption in Christ. Redemption is being reconciled to God and laying off all activities that are against God. Jesus died for you at Calvary; the bus-stop for every curse and the starting place of every blessing of life. Surrendering at Calvary ensures that you have the good life here on earth and also in eternity. Righteousness, salvation and redemption are the tickets for making the most out of life. Isa 3: 10 -11 says, Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. For it to be well with you in life, you must embrace God and receive pardon by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.

Do not ignore salvation and redemption, if you must make the best out of your life on earth and in eternity.

Prayer/Action
* Say, “I will not live a wasted life”.
* My destiny shall be full and fulfilling, nothing lost.
* The best of life and opportunities will be my portion in destiny.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
This month, grace and anointing shall characterise my life,in the mighty name of Jesus.

Reflecting the Glory

Friday 1 May
READ: 2 Cor. 3:18
MORE LESSON: Isa. 60:1-3

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit: 2 Cor 3:18 (NIV). Scientists have been able to prove that the moon has no light of its own; that it derives its light by positioning itself in such a way that the light of the sun falls on it. So the light of the moon that we see is nothing but a reflection of the light of the sun. However, the Bible tells us that the moon has its own glory, There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory: 1 Cor 15:41-42. This is not contradictory to the scientific discovery. The Bible makes us to know that even though the moon reflects the light of the sun, it derives glory just by doing that. In other words, the Bible affirms that it is possible to derive glory by reflecting the glory of a higher person.

Man has no light outside of Jesus the Light, Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life: John 8:12. The good news is that if you position yourself in Jesus, His light will fill you and you will begin to reflect His light and glory in the world. Then will the scripture below be fulfilled in your life,

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid: Matt 5:14. You become the light by allowing the light of the Word of God and the glory of the Spirit of God to so much fill you that you become a light in this generation.
This is the time for your light to shine bright in this world of darkness because you are reflecting the glory of the Lord, which is risen upon you.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that your home will reflect the glory of the Lord.
* Pray that everyone in your household will reflect the greater glory of God wherever they go.
* Pray that as the light of the world, your glory will not be covered in your generation.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, through it all, here I am in the month of May, I thank You! I praise You!

From Poverty to Wealth

Thursday 30 April
READ: Deut. 8:18
MORE LESSON: Amos 9:13

There is a law of cause and effect that governs everything in life. Wealth doesn't just happen, it is gotten as God reveals, thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day: Deut 8: 18. Notice that this scripture doesn't say that God gives you wealth but that He gives you the power to get wealth. So you can't sit at home doing nothing and expect wealth to come. God is committed to make things happen for you when you do something.

Another principle of increase is giving. People who hate to give will be poor because God doesn't prosper a tight-fisted man. Stinginess will activate the operation of poverty in a man's life. Equally, men that do not do anything will be poor because God doesn't prosper a lazy man. Laziness reduces a man to zero, The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. Prov. 12: 24. Another harbinger of poverty is reckless spending. Some waste all the resources that God puts in their hands because they buy everything they see, whether necessary or not. The Bible says that the lazy man and the man that cannot control his spending are brothers, and their father is poverty, He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster: Prov 18:9.

However, God's covenant with you is of wealth and not poverty. So you have to work by the principles of the Kingdom, and you will see that the Lord is committed to blessing you. God wants to bless you so abundantly that you will not be able to harvest it all, The time will come," says the Lord, "when the grain and grapes will grow faster than they can be harvested: Amos 9:13 (NLT). God's intention is to increase you till you become a thousand times more than you are presently, May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you! Deut 1: 11. I want you to believe this scripture so that it can impart on you the confidence to rise above poverty into prosperity. God is not satisfied with what you are now, no matter how big you think you are. He wants to make you a thousand times more. A hundred percent increase is not all that God can give, He can give you a thousand increase.

Break away from the habits that propagate poverty and commit to the Kingdom principles of diligence, giving, saving, investment, wisdom and prayer. And God will take poverty far away from your generation of children and make you prosperous.

Prayer/Action
*Ask the Lord for the power to get wealth.
* Ask God to give you grace to follow the principles of the Scripture for prosperity.
* Ask the Lord to make you a thousand times more and bless you as He has promised.
* Ask God for wisdom to manage the prosperity He will give you for His Kingdom and glory.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I celebrate the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for not giving me over to the wishes of my enemy this far into 2015.

Garment of Glory

Wednesday 29 April
READ: Ex 28: 1-2
MORE LESSON: Num 20: 25 - 29

God instructed that holy garments be made for Aaron the high priest for glory and for beauty and on the garments were written Holiness to the Lord: Exo. 28: 36. When Aaron was to die and cease to be the high priest, God said that he should be stripped of the garment that he wore and the garment was to be given to Eleazar his son. It was only after the garment was removed from him that he died, And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount: Num 20: 28.

Aaron’s garment was for glory, beauty and also for divine immunity upon his life. In other words, God wanted to take away Aaron but He couldn't until the garment of glory that he wore was removed. Conversely, Eleazar didn't become high priest until the garment of glory was put on him. The garment of glory put upon a man is the spiritual cover of God on him for glory, favour and protection.

The enemy always tries to strip believers of the garment of glory that God puts upon them because he knows that he cannot tamper with them as long as they have that garment on their lives. This garment is a holy garment; so satan's age long strategy to remove the garment of glory from a man's destiny is to introduce sin into the man's life. I pray that the enemy will not be able to strip you of the garment of glory, in Jesus’ name. If you are in a position of glory in ministry, family, business or career, abide in the holiness of God because that is the security and sustenance of your garment of glory.

Your prayer daily should be that God should clothe you with the heavenly garment of glory that the enemy cannot take away. When God clothes you with glory, you will never see shame. This is the prayer of Paul, For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked: 2 Cor 5:2-3. Nakedness stands for shame. I pray that you will neither see shame nor be found naked. The garment of glory will be upon your destiny continually in life and eternity.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God for the garment of glory for beauty and divine immunity, protection and favour.
* Declare that your garment of glory shall never be removed.
* Pray that the power of sin that removed the garment of glory from Adam and Eve shall not be your portion.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
The Lord that answered Moses speedily at the Red sea, answer me by fire today and release my long awaited blessings to me now, in the name of Jesus.