Commanding the Blessings through Wisdom

In Christ we drink of the fountain of wisdom, for in Him is hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. So when we come to Christ, we have come to meet with the source of wisdom which make life profitable. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -Colossians 2:3 It takes the hidden treasures of wisdom in Christ to live in and enjoy the blessings God. But to search the hidden treasures of wisdom in Christ we must be willing to learn from Him. It takes learning to gain access to the wisdom of Christ. This is why Jesus personally invited us to learn of Him. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.  -Matthew 11:29 It takes learning to gain wisdom, and applying our hearts to the gained wisdom helps us maximizing the blessings of God. This why David prayed God to teach him His ways. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. -Psalms 90:12 Until we are ready to be taught, we are not ready to for wisdom. This because wisdom deals with knowledge and understanding. Knowledge and understanding comes through learning. This means the treasures of wisdom are revealed through learning. What is Wisdom? Before we look out how to command the blessing through wisdom, let's see what wisdom really is. 1. Wisdom is knowing what to do in order to get what you want according to the will of God.  And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. -John 6:6 2. Wisdom is applying the knowledge of God's word in order to experience the blessings of God. 3. Wisdom is knowing HOW to do things in order to achieve a desired result. The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. -Ecclesiastes 10:15 4. Wisdom is applying the revelation of God's word in handling the issues of life. 5. Wisdom is following the leading of the Holy Spirit. So you see, wisdom has to do with knowing WHAT, HOW, of doing things. You are regarded as a wise man when you know what to do to solve the issues of life. Now, WHAT are we to do to command the blessings of God in our lives? Some persons have asked me how did get so blessed within a short time in ministry. These are my answers to them. Wisdom 1. Honor the Lord with your substance joyfully. Proverbs 3:9-10 9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. We stand qualified for the plenty and bursting out blessings of the Lord by simply honor Him with our substance. God said, he that honors Him, He will honor.  Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. -1 Samuel 2:30 You cannot honor the Lord with your substance and first fruit and He deny you His blessings. Your honor of Him with you first fruit is the wisdom path to commanding His blessings. A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? -Malachi 1:6 Until we are ready to please Him by honoring Him, we are not ready to be satisfied with His blessings. Everyone around me knows that nothing I have is too big to be given to the Lord. I have been privileged to give my first N1.8million to God and never have a feeling for. Wisdom 2. Honor Your Biological Parents Ephesians 6:2-3 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. Whether you know it or not, your biological parents are instrument of God's blessings upon your life. God honors their pronouncement over your life. To command the blessings of God, wisdom demands that you honor your biological parents. They don't need to be rich and beautiful before you honor them. Do don't even need to be good before you do that. Just honor them according to the word of the Lord, and they will pronounce blessings upon you. With this pronouncement, God will see to it that you are truly blessed. Oh, what a blessed day when my biological father, blessed my life. It was on February 12, 2002. He said, my son, you shall be great. He said this more than seven times. And I tell you the truth, it is coming to pass. Isaac to Esau, get me some venison which love and my soul shall bless thee before I die. You must get your parents some venisons to provoke the blessing God has kept in your soul for you. The parental blessings of Jacob upon Joseph is still standing till this date. Don't be too civilized to forget honoring your parents. Wisdom 3. Honor the priest Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. -Ephesians 6:1 We are to honor God, and our parents. And also the priest of God. There is an extent parental blessings will go. But that of the priest can be go extra mile. Why should we honor the priest, God answered it Himself. And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. -Ezekiel 44:30 The priest has a commandment to cause the blessings of God to rest in your house. The Macedonian church had this understanding and the blessed Paul. And Paul said, my God shall supply all your needs. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:19 Whenever you sow into the life of God's servant, they pronounce blessings upon you. And God will watch to confirm the words of His servants. Boy, men of God has spoken to my life. And their blessings are really. These are wisdom path to command the blessings.

Expressing Faith Through Praise

God is always looking at our faith before He could intervene in our affairs. Wherever there is lack of faith, God is handicapped in our situation. This because God needs our faith to intervene in our affairs. It is important to know that God is not moved by our tears or our complains but our faith in Him. Because faith counts on the ability of God. And one way to express our faith in the ability of God is to render praise to God. Praise is the joyful and confident expression of our faith in the person and ability of God. Each time you render praise to God irrespective of your condition, you are simply saying, God has power to change your condition and you are restingon that ability of God. 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. When you give into complaining and murmuring, it means you are weak in faith and can't trust the ability of God to do what He has said and promised.  Numbers 11: 1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. -Numbers 11:1 Each time we complain, we simply tell God that He can't help or solve our problems. Complaining deprives us from enjoying the ability of God. But whenever we stand in praise and glorify God even in the midst of our challenges we simply say, God you are bigger than our problems. Complaining means you have giving up on the ability of God. Abraham did not give up on God and hence he was called the man of faith. He did not look at his challenge but on the promise and the ability of God. Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God, -Romans 4:20 (BBC) Sarah could conceive irrespective of her condition because she rested on the ability of God by through faith. Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. -Hebrews 11:11 Today as we praise expect God to manifest His power in your life. 2 Chronicles 20: 21-22 21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. The enemy is not an issue when engage the power of God. And one way to engage the power of God is through the expression of our faith in God through praise. Conclusively, we are told the result of faith expressed through praise in psalms 67. Psalm 67:5-7 5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. 7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. With this, you should know that whenever you express your faith through faith, there is bound to be a turnaround. God bless you.

Overcoming the Challenges of Life through Wisdom

 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE THROUGH WISDOM We are living in a world of equality. Equal challenge, equal temptations, equal opportunities, equal education, equal grace, equal time, etc. Everything is equal to everyone under the sun. But what you get in the world is determined by your level of wisdom. Ecclesiastes 9:2-3,11 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. God is so kind that He has decided to release everything to us equally but it then depends on us to determine the result we get out of life. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. -Ecclesiastes 5:9 The profit of the earth is for everyone, but whether you will enjoy the profit it all depends on you. It takes wisdom to partake of the benefit that is both in the kingdom and the earth. Jesus established this fact that we all (saved and unsaved) do face the same challenge but to the believers, we have an advantage because we have access to the wisdom to turn everything to our favor. Matthew 7:24-27 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:  25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.  26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:  27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.  To stand strong, and withstand the floods of life, the winds, rains and frustration in the word, we must rely on the wisdom of God. This one reason Jesus promised us wisdom in order to stand victorious in this world. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.  -Luke 21:15 Until you go for wisdom, you are going to be flooded out by the challenges of life. The challenges of life do not have respect of persons. It either you overcome them or they beat you down. HOW DO WE OVERCOME CHALLENGES THROUGH WISDOM? 1. Take heed to the word of God. Luke 7:24-27 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:  25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.  26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:  27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.  It takes the sayings of Christ to gain wisdom. And through this wisdom, you can overcome the challenges of live. God's word is our wisdom. Ignoring the word is ignoring His wisdom for us. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. -Deuteronomy 4:6 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. -2 Timothy 3:15 You cannot get the wisdom of God by ignoring His word. And it would take heeding to a His word to overcome the challenges of life. 2. Think before you act. Luke 14:28-30 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?  29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,  30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.  Wisdom has to do with thinking. To act before you think makes you foolish. To overcome the challenges of life you must sit down to think first before you act. Someone said, look before you leap. Do not rush into doing things. 3. Learn to project into the future. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. -Proverbs 22:3 To project means to see into the future or to have a foresight. Don't wait until challenges come before you take step. Learn to foresee them and plan your escape. Every wise person will live having the future in mind. 4. Live a planned life. The reason so many people are victims of challenges is as a result of lack of planning or inadequate planning. Proverbs 24:3-4 3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: 4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Until you plan, you will always lie a frustrating life. Progress is a product of a planned life. You cannot make progress without planning. 5. Stay connect to Christ Our victory is hidden in Christ.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? -1 John 5:5 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.  -John 16:33 There is no challenge Christ has not overcome. To stay connect to Christ is to stay victorious. You cannot ignore Christ and win the race of life with His wisdom. To those who are in Christ all things including challenges work together for their good. Wisdom therefore demands that you stay connect to Him because He will guide you on the way to profit.