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*LOST AT HOME*
I have heard so many messages preached on the altar about the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) but..
My concern is that whenever the story of the prodigal son is narrated, the emphasis and focus is always centered on the prodigal son himself…
We have spent so much time analyzing the prodigal son’s errors that we have become blinded to the errors of another major character (individual) in the same story…
The elder brother to the prodigal son…
If you look at the church today, you will see a lot of Christians who fit into the description of the elder brother of the prodigal son…
They appear zealous, holy, and committed but when you take a closer look at their lives, you’ll begin to spot similar errors…
I have just four (4) questions for the elder brother of the prodigal son:
1. Where were you, when your younger brother was making the terrible decision he made?
2. How come you never made any attempt to go look for your younger brother to know how he was coping after he left the house?
3. Why were you angry and bitter that he returned and that his return was celebrated?
4. Why were you giving your father reasons why he shouldn’t have celebrated the return of your brother?
A Christianity where the errors and fall of a fellow comrade becomes an opportunity to rise is evil…
A Christianity where we try to gain favor and prove loyalty before authority by discrediting or running down a fellow brother is satanic…
A Christianity where we neglect and abandon our wounded brothers is demonic…
A Christianity where the strong does not uphold the weak is satanic…
A Christianity where the fall of a fellow brother/sister becomes a topic for gossips and discussions is evil…
A Christianity where we prefer discussing the weakness of a fellow comrade behind him/her to approaching and correcting him/her in love is evil…
A Christianity where we pray for a fellow brother/sister to err or fall so we can occupy his/her position is barbaric…
If you see Generational Impact smoking cigarettes on the street after he has preached on Facebook, will you reach out to him in love and intercede on his behalf…?
If the fall of a fellow comrade does not touch and compel you to intercede on his behalf, then you are still far from God…
Enough of the hate in church…
Enough of plotting against each other…
Enough of analyzing and amplifying each other’s weaknesses…
We will do greater exploit as a team and as a unified body…
I am not your enemy, the devil is…. My fall should not bring joy to you…
Let us uphold each other and show love to the wounded in our midst…
*mosetithomas*

I KNOW

I took my cloth to my tailor and asked him to fix the little opening near the pocket.

The man turned the cloth inside out and then began to TEAR the pocket with his hands…

Hah! I was like,

“I said you should sew, not tear”.

So I shouted,
‘You are tearing my cloth’.
But he replied “I KNOW”.

Those two words sank into me like a heavy stone sinks in water.
I couldn’t talk again.

He’s the tailor, and I’m just a customer.

Even though I couldn’t relate tearing with sewing but the Tailor says
“I KNOW”.

GOD is saying, ‘I KNOW’.

HE hears your complaints.

Father i need a job, its been long i left school…. “I KNOW”

Father, My fiancee just left me… ‘I KNOW’.

I have no money to pay for my rent… ‘I KNOW’

I was rejected & abused… ‘I KNOW’

I have no money to cater for my needs… ‘I KNOW’

I just lost my job and i have a family…. “I KNOW”

Salary has not been paid, my children are hungry.. I KNOW

I have been married for years and no child…. “I KNOW”

I just lost my baby and am so heartbroken…”I KNOW”

So many times when the LORD is fixing us,

He starts by ‘tearing’ us.

Tearing our confidence in ourselves,
Tearing all our philosophies,
Tearing our pride and fake humility,
Tearing the things we call dear and giving us the truly dear things.

The only thing necessary is wisdom.

Wisdom to know when it is the LORD and when it isn’t the LORD.

The devil tears to KILL, GOD tears to FIX.

GOD tears the OLD to give you the NEW .

GOD’s tearing fire only refines HIS own.

GOD’s tearing approaches only yields the peaceable fruit of Righteousness.

Listen..
In reality,
GOD TEARS no man,
He only MAKES .

We call it TEARING,
He calls it MAKING.

We call it BREAKING,
He calls it BUILDING.

He knows you have needs, even before you ask.

That’s why when we complain…
He responds thus:
‘I KNOW’.

JEREMIAH 29 vs 11 ‘For I KNOW the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end’.

GOD knows all.
Be blessed.
SHALOM!!!

THERE IS TOMORROW

Whenever you are dealing with people, you must always remember that there is tomorrow and you might néed them tomorrow. You may end up needing help from the people who are asking for your help today, so help as much as you can.

Life is like a moving wheel, sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down. Sometimes we destroy the bridges that we might need to help us cross back tomorrow. Sometimes we treat people as though there is never going to be tomorrow. We sometimes act as though we will never need help from anyone. Remember there’s tomorrow.

Joseph helped the cupbearer in prison and later the cupbearer connected Joseph with Pharaoh. Imagine how Portiphar’s wife felt when she heard that Joseph was now the Governor of Egypt, after she had falsely accused him. The brother who sold Joseph away ended up being fed by him. Don’t ever think of going to the extreme with your offenders, they might be rescuers tomorrow. Always remember that there is tomorrow and it will surely come.

The little help you give to people today, will profit you tomorrow.
May the good Lord touch your heart to live your life knowing that there is tomorrow.

IN EVERYTHING YOU DO, ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT, THERE IS TOMORROW.

Thomasmosetiogeto

A River flows across many obstacles. When it meets Rocks, it never negotiates with them, it creates it’s own way and flows on. It finds trees, thorns, it flows on without negotiations. It is so Powerful that people build Bridges to cross it. When it floods, it carries those who underestimate it mercilessly.
As a believer of the most high be like a River… Don’t negotiate with your obstacles. By faith create your way and flow on and Almighty God will give you strength and courage…
Stay Blessed.!
MOTIVATION
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Your mind is a magnet, If you think of blessings, you attract blessings; and if you think of problems, you attract problems. Always cultivate good thoughts and always remain positive and optimistic.
Train your mind to see the good in everything. Positivity is a choice.
Continue to flow despite of obstacles

GOLDEN THOUGHTS

Successful people have two things on their lips, “smile and silence”. A smile can solve problems while Silence can avoid problems.
Sugar and salt may be mixed together but ants reject the salt and carry away only the sugar. Select the right people in life and make your life better and sweeter.
If you fail to achieve your dreams, change your ways not your God.
Remember, trees change their leaves and not their roots.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones to every dog that barks.
Haters will see you walking on water and say its because you can’t swim.
Even if you dance on water, your enemies will accuse you of raising dust.
Make it your ambition to live a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your own hands.
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

1) Prayer is not a “spare wheel” that you pull out when in trouble. It is a “steering wheel” that directs us in the right path throughout life.

2) Do you know why a car’s windshield is so large and the rear view mirror is so small? Because our past is not as important as our future. So, look ahead and move on.

3) Friendship is like a book. It takes few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write.

4) All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it; it may not last forever. If going wrong, don’t worry; it may not last long either.

5) Old friends are like gold! New friends are diamonds! If you get a diamond, don’t forget the gold! Because to hold a diamond, you always need a base of gold!

6) Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, God smiles and says, “Relax, it’s just a bend, not the end!”

7) When God solves your problems, you have faith in His abilities; when God doesn’t solve your problems, He has faith in your abilities.

8) A blind person asked: “Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?” The response: “Yes, losing your vision.”

9) When you pray for others, God listens to you and may bless them; and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.

10) Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.

You are like a tree.A tree does not look the same through all seasons.It may look bad in winter and lose its leaves but when summer comes it looks green.You cannot evaluate or judge a tree by one season.Dont let anyone judge you by one season you may be passing through neither can you judge another person by one season for their breakthrough season may be fast approaching.It is is not easy to evaluate a human being and classify him as nothing or something because you never know the season they are in perhaps their breakthrough season may be fast approaching.The bible says tears may flow during the night but joy comes in the morning.A night may be your season where tears are flowing but the morning is another season where joy shall come.You are just about to step into a new season of breakthrough Jesus loves you so much.peace be with you

The caterpillar cannot emerge into a beautiful butterfly without sacrifice. It must spend time in the sun to slip into a cocoon. Weeks later it emerges into sunlight as a beautiful butterfly. Like the butterfly, our lives gain momentum in stages; your beautiful parts emerge after a worthy act of self denial. Your life is a sum total of all your choices. The degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your comfort is the same degree to which you will receive positive returns and viceversa

Before you can truly know the magnitude of your strengths, talents and abilities, there must be self sacrifice. Take important steps today towards the direction you must into your future. You will agonise to watch your peers move by the fast lane of life to great heights of professional and career development while you stagnate as a result of inertia.

Many young people imagine they will attain success in one clean sweep. That cannot happen. Life is in stages. Success, too, is in stages. One step at a time friends. Some of the stages call for willingness to lend your gifts and abilities without expecting much in return. There must be a willingness to begin life from the lowest rungs of the ladder. That is where all great women and men of this world began.

Self sacrifice and hard working must go together in order to bear worthy fruit. The two are inseparable; one is reinforced with the other.

#lifelessons

“THINGS YOU WILL REGRET WHEN YOU’RE 50 YEARS OLD:

When younger we make various choices without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they’re 50 years:-

1. “Marrying the wrong person”

When you’re young, check your motives for marrying. Don’t marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure. Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life. Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one. Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.

2. “The opportunities you did not seize”

When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet when younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself. Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you’re older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.

3. “The bridges you burned”

When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost. Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain. But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead, then you will realize how empty life is without love and friends, when you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.

4. “The child you aborted”

You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby. When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn’t mean you can’t make it in life or you can’t find a man in future.

5. “The child you rejected”

Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she’s pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran away. But years later when you’re 50 something, you will wish you were responsible back then, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child. You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice

6. “The marriage you destroyed”

So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful. Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.

7. “The God you disowned”

When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don’t wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God. Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don’t be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.

8. “The body you messed”

You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you’re consuming; all that will destroy you slowly. When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.

9. “The time you wasted”

The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.

10. “The dreams and talents you shelved”

Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them? Nurture those talents, exploit them, don’t give up even if you encounter set backs, don’t give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you’re older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to self, “That could have been me”… Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don’t waste years of your life in a field that doesn’t fulfill you.

11. “The name you defamed”

When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation, what are you leaving behind? Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.

12. “The wealth you threw away”

Are you riding on good money during your productive years? Earning good money?… Don’t throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say “I wish I knew better”

13. “The good love that got away”

Is there that great person in your life loving you good? Don’t push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of “What if I was still with that person?”

14. “The parents you despised”

When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent’s know? They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style. Don’t let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value of love and relationships”THINGS YOU WILL REGRET WHEN YOU’RE 50 YEARS OLD:

When younger we make various choices without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they’re 50 years:-

1. “Marrying the wrong person”

2. “The opportunities you did not seize”

3. “The bridges you burned”

4. “The child you aborted”

5. “The child you rejected”

6. “The marriage you destroyed”

7. “The God you disowned”

8. “The body you messed”

9. “The time you wasted”

The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.

10. “The dreams and talents you shelved”

11. “The name you defamed”

12. “The wealth you threw away”

13. “The good love that got away”

14. “The parents you despised”

It’s never too late to do and be better.”

“THINGS YOU WILL REGRET WHEN YOU’RE 50 YEARS OLD:

When younger we make various choices without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they’re 50 years:-

1. “Marrying the wrong person”

2. “The opportunities you did not seize”

3. “The bridges you burned”

4. “The child you aborted”

5. “The child you rejected”

6. “The marriage you destroyed”

7. “The God you disowned”

8. “The body you messed”

9. “The time you wasted”

The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.

10. “The dreams and talents you shelved”

11. “The name you defamed”

12. “The wealth you threw away”

13. “The good love that got away”

14. “The parents you despised”

It’s never too late to do and be better.”