WISHING YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS

WE JOYFULLY WISH YOU ALL THE BEST OF OUR SAVIOUR'S BIRTH.

THIS SEASON IS MEMORABLE IN THAT AT SUCH A TIME THE JOURNEY TO FORGIVING OUR SINS BEGAN.

I AM CONVINCED THAT THIS PERIOD WILL BRING OUT THE BEST OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE.

HAVE A WONDERFUL CELEBRATION OF CHRIST'S BIRTH.

BEFORE OPPORTUNITY

As we journey into the New Year, it is important to learn how to work with opportunities. In doing this, I have brought you an excerpt from my book “All You Need Is Opportunity”. The nuggets hear are to help us well equipped before exploiting every opportunity at your disposal. However to have the detailed teaching on Opportunity you will do well get a copy of the book. God bless you real good.

 Be conversant with your God given purpose and potential
The first thing you need to do before searching for opportunity is the knowledge you must have about your purpose and potential, because every opportunity will place a demand on them.
You are here on planet earth for a specific reason. This is what you are to fulfil in the course of your stay on earth. Every opportunity is therefore towards the revealing of your purpose. Every opportunity that comes you way is to expose the purpose of God for your life.
Knowing your purpose is not enough; you must have the knowledge of your potential. This is essential because your purpose will always have the need of your potential to be fulfilled. The knowledge of this will ultimately help you appropriate the opportunities at your disposal, and moreso the ones you are not meant to exploit.

 Develop your skills
To be more candid with you, it is important to know that the opportunities that open to you are traceable to your several abilities or skills, which are also referred to your gifts, talents or potentialities. You have to discover them and undertake any activity that will develop them for your own benefit. I think this is one of the greatest investments you could ever make for life and for yourself.
This is necessary all opportunities will require a measure of developed skills for maximum exploitation. Get the required knowledge and skill that your gift or qualification will need for efficient utilisation of opportunities.
One thing you must know is that no how meagre or fabulous your present opportunity is; it will only require developed skills and knowledge to tap into the fortunes lying in it.

 Desire
You must also have a desire to fulfil your dreams, realize your ideas, etc. It is this desire that will prompt you for an unquenchable search for an opportunity in a bid to fulfilling your dreams.
Don’t wait for manna to fall from heaven. You have the manna within you in form of dreams, ideas, purpose, skills, etc. you only need desire to bring them to limelight via opportunity.

 Be Relational
In the previous chapter, I put forward that one of the ways to get opportunities is to have and maintain good relationships. This is crucial because you will always need someone to help you fulfil your dreams and you will also need someone to take you to the next phase of life. You what! In such relationships, just a mere “signature” might bring you to a world of fortune.
People are opportunities you will ever need to reach your pinnacle. Hence Pst. Faith Oyedepo (Mrs), said, “Where there are no people, the vision perishes.” Learn to be relational with the right people that can serve as opportunities for you knowing that you need them to accomplish your dreams and purpose, and also they need you to get theirs fulfilled.

 Understudy the opportunity
That I said, “all you need is opportunity” does not mean that you should invest in or go into the exploitation of every opportunity. This is where wisdom and discretion comes to play.
You should be able to know the opportunity to invest in and which you should not. Many people are duped today because they never understudied the opportunities that appeared to them as a great fortune. Be wise!
Above all, don’t slack when you discover the right opportunity. It will do you no good.
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PRAISE GOD WITH UNDERSTANDING

“Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.” (Psalm 47: 6 – 7).
I welcome you to this month of gratefulness. We are taking time throughout this month of December to appreciate God for all that He has done for us. I glad to bring you the message God taught us on the 5th December 2010.
It is a common knowledge that we are to appreciate every good done to us especially God who has done all things well for us (Mark 7: 37). But in appreciating or praising God we are required to do it with understanding. Until we praise God with understanding we may never do it nor will it bring us blessings from God.
The psalmist said, we should sing praises with understanding. In other words, our praises should be guided with good understanding if at all it must ascend to the throne of God and must be pleasant unto His hearing. It is the understanding that differentiates whether we are really praising Him or making noise.

WHAT TO UNDERSTAND
If we are required to praise God with understanding, it is therefore important to know what God wants us to base our praising Him upon. This understanding will guide us in bringing quality praise to God anytime and anywhere.

1. Know That God Is Your Creator
The Scripture said “Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.” (Psalm 100: 2 – 3).
The first understanding that must guide your praise is the fact that God is your creator. We are to praise Him first and foremost for creating us. This understanding helps you to recognize your source of existence, knowing that you are not a product of evolution but a masterpiece of God the creator. He took time to create and fashion you just the way you in revealing His glory.

2. Know That God Is Holy
“Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.” (Psalm 99: 9).
The second sacred truth in praising God is that God is holy. This understanding should create in us the sense of repentance and holy conscious in approaching before God. That we are required to praise God does not mean we should praise Him in sin. Although God loves sinners, He does not anyway tolerate sin. For this reason we are admonished to “worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.” (Psalm 96: 9).
Until our praise is in the beauty of His holiness, it will not become a sweet smelling savour. Let you praise be guided with that understanding that God is holy and you are to praise Him in the beauty of holiness not with a heart of sin.

3. Know That You Are Made From Dust
God’s Word said “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2: 7).
Beloved, God carefully made us from the dust of the ground. This should also guide us in praising Him knowing the fact that it is His breath that is keeping us alive. Outside His breathe we are but mere dead people.

This knowledge should create in us the sense of humility in our worship of God knowing fully well that He knows our frame. David said “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” (Psalm 103: 14).

Most times, pride has made us forget how we were made. No matter what we have or look today, we are the product of dust and breathe of God. This should humble us in giving praise to God. For this reason the Scripture says “Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.” (Psalm 150: 6)

4. Know That God Has Not Dealt With You According To Your Sin
This is very important to understand in giving quality praise to God. Most times the way we jump and shout in church make us forget that we have not wrong God in any sort. But hidden beneath those jumping and shouting are lies, fornications, covetousness and many other sins.
But praise God for His mercies! He has not dealt with us according to what our sins deserve. If He has done, it will be very clear that nearly none of us would survive His judgment.
The Scripture say “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.” (Psalm 103: 10). We must praise God with the understanding that He has not deal with us according to our sins but through His forgiveness.
The only reason we have boldness to approach God is because He has cleansed us from all unrighteousness. If not out jumping, shouting and singing will remain irritating odour before His nostrils.
Praise God with the understanding that His mercies have covered your sins, weaknesses and shortcomings.

5. Know That God Is Watching Over You
With this understanding we should praise God knowing that He is watching over us to protect and keep us away from the plans of the enemies. If it had not been the Lord on our side, the enemy would have swallowed us up quick.
“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.” (Psalm 121: 4 – 5)
Beloved, you are alive because God is keeping you. You may have taken some drug to enable you sleep; there is no drug to wake you up. That you woke up means God has preserved you. The Scripture say “I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.” (Psalm 3: 5).

6. Know That God Is The Source Of Your Resource
It is important to know that we brought nothing into this world neither are we going to take anything from it. Naked we came and so we shall depart. This means all that we have came to us. And God is the source of all that we have.
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? (1 Corinthians 4: 7).
We must approach God in praise knowing that God is the source of all that we have. This should create an attitude of humility in us owing to the fact that God has provided for all we have today.
“A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” (John 3: 27).
If you have received anything, it is because God approved and brought it your way. Praise God in this understanding.

7. Know That God Has Fully Paid For Your Redemption
If you are not redeemed, all jumping, singing and shouting in the name of praising God are all in vain. Your praise will only be truly meaningful in the light of the redemption of your soul. And graciously God has paid for your redemption.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3: 16)
Jesus is our redemption. And if you have received Christ, hallelujah, praise God with the understanding that you are saved and that you have a place in eternity.
God bless you. Please make out time this month to praise God with this understanding.
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Wisdom Emamuzo Peter
Senior Pastor:
Path Founder’s Ministry
Abuja