Learn to Appreciate

Friday 3 June
READ: Psa. 139: 14
MORE LESSON: Psa. 139: 17

So much has been said about ingratitude and how it wrecks a man's life. An ingrate can never be great. A man that receives things from God and man and cannot say 'thank you' is like a robber. Learn to appreciate God; remember that all you have is given to you by God. As expressed in 1 Cor 4:7, For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
There is no man that doesn't owe God thanks because there is no man that has the ability to possess anything by himself; it is only in God that you have anything. A man may even not acknowledge God and declare that he got all that he has outside of God. However, it is only because God has permitted you that you have it. The rich fool in Luke 12: 16 – 21 lost his life because he thought that he got all he had by himself and he didn't appreciate God. The breath you breathe, the life you have are from God, appreciate Him
You also need to learn to appreciate people. Everyone that God has used to bless you deserves a thank you. You should appreciate the people that God has brought into your life. Husbands need to appreciate their wives, wives need to appreciate their husbands, parents need to appreciate their children and children need to appreciate their parents. If you grumble and complain about someone, the person becomes worse but when you appreciate people, they become better and better. You must learn to sincerely compliment people and praise them. When someone does well, don't hold the compliment back; give it to him/her generously.
Finally, you must learn how to appreciate yourself. How can you expect people to appreciate you when you do not appreciate yourself? Celebrate how you look, no matter how. I always insist that anybody taller than me is too tall and anybody shorter than me is too short. When you are exactly like me, then you are perfect. Many people keep complaining about not getting a marriage partner, and they are responsible by always being unhappy about the way they look and who they are. If you do not desire yourself, who then will desire you? Learn to celebrate yourself. Celebrate the job you have at hand even if you are looking for a better one. In all that your hand finds to do, rejoice. One of my pastors said, “It's only what you promote that will promote you”. I found that to be true. Many are not promoted because they are not even promoting themselves. Learn to appreciate yourself. It is wickedness and self-punishment for you to be exerting yourself at a thing, and you are not appreciating what you are doing yourself.

Prayer/Action
* Father, I ascribe all the glory to Your name for everything in my life, in Jesus’ name.
* Father, thank You for who I am today, and where You are taking me to tomorrow, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I take the shield of faith and I ward off every arrow of disaster and pain in this sixth month in the name of Jesus

Mind Your Success

Thursday 2 June
Read: Psa. 30:6-12
More Lesson: I Cor. 10:12

The time of success is a very crucial time for a man to be careful. Anyone can be humble and seek God when he is in need. It is the time when things work fine that you need to be cautious so that you will not slip away from God. When a church has few people and growth is needed, a lot of fasting and prayer goes on; the congregation seeks God, 'Oh Lord enlarge our coast, multiply us, increase us, bring more workers, bring more pastors, the devil must be silenced etc.'' Then multiplication comes and you begin to have first, second and third services with overflows. The time when the congregation gets enlarged is the time to be careful. You can buy musical instruments without fasting; you can build structures just by announcing and asking people to put money together. This is the time you must watch your message and ensure you are still holding unto the principles and truths that God delivered to you. Increase in church means greater number of good and bad people. As more people come in, the devil also sends in fornicators, Jezebels, and moneybags who want to determine what you preach to them because they can pay for everything in church. At such times, you need grace to be careful and not let pride, men and the flesh lead you astray and destroy the foundation that you have laboured to build over years.
This is the same with a business man who fasted and prayed seeking for God's help and asking God to send increase, destiny helpers, favour, and to lock the devil up. There is no problem with increase; you can be ambitious, hardworking and ask God for prosperity. But when the money reaches your hand, the god of this world tells you that making more money is more important than serving God or fellowshipping with Him. The time of success is the time to watch and pray more. Maybe you were always in church and belonged to several units when you were seeking for a life partner, now that you are married, you need to watch and pray lest you slip away from seeking God.
The psalmist, who sought God passionately, got to a place of success where he said to himself; and in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved: Psa 30:6. Then trouble struck, but for God's mercy that located him and caused the mourning that he landed in to be turned to joy again and make his glory to sing one more time. Do not get to a point where, because God has blessed you, you say to yourself, 'No shaking anymore, we have arrived’, Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall: 1 Cor 10:12.

Prayer/Action
* Father, in the name of Jesus, my God-given success will not lead me away from Christ.
* Deliver me Lord from every success that is a bait to lead me astray.
* My success in life will strengthen my faith, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Because the Bible says that the days are evil, therefore, I redeem my month of June from all evil in the name of Jesus

The God of Help

Tuesday 31 May
READ: Isa. 41: 10 – 16
MORE LESSON: Psa. 121: 1 – 6

One vital determinant of the quality of help a man obtains in destiny is the issue of who is giving the help. This is why I want to introduce you to the God of help. He is the God who put the universe together in six days. If He can create the entire universe in six days, then helping you cannot be too difficult for Him. Consider His promise to you, So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand: Isa 41:10 (NIV). Your help is bigger than man; it has its root in the Creator of Heaven and earth. This is the reason you should not look unto men but unto the Omnipotent God who, when He helps you, causes men to help you. Psa. 121: 1 says: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
He promised that He will not suffer your foot to be moved. . When the God of help stands by you, your feet are steady and your steps do not stagger in the race of life (Psa. 18: 36). This means that no one can remove you when He has planted you. The enemy might even set ambush for you but divine help makes you outwit them as you operate above natural faculties. God's help in dealing with your enemies is expressed in Isa 41: 11(NIV): All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. I declare that God will help you to the point that your enemy will be confounded and all that are waiting for your steps to stagger will wait in vain.
The God of your help neither slumbers nor sleeps. When you are asleep and the enemies are shooting their arrows, there is One who is awake 24 hours a day throughout eternity watching over you. So you have a Helper that doesn't sleep and is working while you sleep. The enemy specialises in attacking while men sleep (Matt 13: 25) but the enemy is inconsequential even when you are asleep because your Helper doesn't sleep. This is the reason the sun will not smite you by the day or the moon by night (Psa. 121: 6-7). You also do not need to be afraid of the terror by night; nor the arrow that flies by day (Psa. 91: 6). Day or night, your Helper doesn't fail.
There shall be no accident, misfortune, violence or plague around you this year. The God who has been our help in ages past will continue to be your portion in the land of the living. Stay with this God, and don’t seek or follow another god, Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips: Psa. 16:4.

Prayer/Action
* I receive help from Your sanctuary, in Jesus’ name.
* Lord, I set my face on You as a flint, let my help not fail, in Jesus’ name.
* I position myself for God’s help today, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, thank you for the covenant of long life by which you have kept and sustained me since the beginning of this year, I declare, it shall not be stolen in the name of Jesus!

God in the Midst of You

Monday 30 May
READ: Psa. 46: 1 – 5
MORE LESSON: Zeph. 3: 17

Many times in life we tell ourselves that God's help is not coming when we expect it to come. I want to let you know today that if it is God, He is never late. The Scripture says, There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early: Psa. 46: 4-5.
God is in the midst of her to help her right early but when you consider this river that the Lord is in the midst of to help, you would notice in verse 3 that the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof: Psa. 46:3. So the fact that your situation is raging and it looks like everything is in an uproar doesn't mean that God is not with you. Many times we don't see God in our troubles, but the Bible says He is in our midst, The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing: Zeph 3:17.
The reason Nigeria is still intact today, despite the machinations of the enemy, is because God is in her midst; though there were shakings, we were not removed. When God is in the midst of your home, it will not scatter. When God is in the midst of your business, it will not close down. When God is in the midst of your circumstances, it doesn't matter the troubles, shakings and the turmoil happening, you cannot be removed. All the prediction of the enemy concerning your life this year will be turned to naught. I pray for you that whatever has said you will be removed is made a liar, in Jesus’ name.
God is not just in the midst of her to see that she is not removed but He is there to help her. He helps her right early; God is not limited by the timing on the face of the earth. When He is done with His work in the spirit, time must respond to birthing the end product of that work. He makes all things beautiful in His time. If that thing you are expecting is from God, then wait for the time God has earmarked for it and it will show up. Age or status, be it educational, economic or marital can never be a limitation to God. Trust God and wait for Him for He that will come will surely come. God is never late; He will help you right early and you will not be moved.

Prayer/Action
* Today, and for the rest of my life, I receive early help from Christ.
* Father, You promised to be with me in trouble, water and in fire, so let it be concerning me, in Jesus’ mighty name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, as this month closes, I decree that every calendar of evil prepared by satanic kingdoms against my future be destroyed now, in the name of Jesus.