NO SHORTCUT TO LIFE

NO SHORTCUT TO LIFE

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1.

Life runs through a process; step by step, there is no shortcut to it. Any shortcut you are tempted to take delays your arrival at destiny. Every stage of life’s process is expected to add or take something from you. Whoever fails or dodges the normal process of life will either end up half-baked or not made. There are fundamental principles of life established by God. According to verse 2 of today’s text, “there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant.” This is the moment that you set off on the race of life, the period you start setting goals that you intend to achieve in your life time. This is the period you start paying the price of greatness because for every worthwhile and laudable achievement, there is a price to pay.

In life, there is a time to endure hardship and there is a time also to enjoy the harvest. If you really desire to be successful or thoroughly backed in the school called life, there is no way you can dodge passing through the phases of life. Adam and Eve fell gallantly because they lack the normal experience of life; they never went through the developmental phases of life within which they can be thoroughly processed and fortified.

Adam became a well-grown man the same day he was created. Eve was a day old when she became a well matured woman, ripped for child bearing. Thus, they were both inexperienced in the matter of life. You must pay the price. Therefore, be patient and get prepared to pass through the process of life. After you have gone through, you will come out shining, glowing, useful and attractive.

The peace of God shall reign in your life. From today, your pressures are over. Experience peace. I love you!

Prophetic Prayers

Shortcut is a way of destruction, I refuse to walk therein today in Jesus’ name.

I receive grace to wait for my time of manifestation in Jesus’ name.

You divine angels, guide and protect me today, direct me to the path of peace.

The Greatness of God

When you think of God, what comes to mind? Often, people view Him in the way that best fits their particular need or situation. For example, a person who struggles with guilt might focus on the Lord’s forgiveness or holiness. Isaiah 40:12-26

And someone with a thirst for justice might dwell on the Almighty’s righteousness.

The truth is, His character encompasses far more than we could ever comprehend or try to explain. I would never attempt to summarize such an awesome God in this devotion. At the same time, however, it is important to look at Scripture in order to gain an accurate a picture of the One we worship.

Today we will focus on one attribute: His greatness. Our passage tells us that God is greater than creation (v. 12), for it was by His hands that everything we see came into being. He is higher than the nations or any idol fashioned by the finest craftsman (vv. 18-20). In fact, He is above the world and all mankind (vv. 22-23), surpassing even the heavens and all galaxies.

Our Father’s thoughts and ways are far grander than our own (Is. 55:9)-and lofty compared with what we can understand. Psalm 93:1 states, “The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; the LORD has clothed and girded Himself with strength.”

Consider the awesome God we serve. He truly is worthy of our praise. As we grasp even a fraction of His greatness, our response should be one of humble worship. After all, who are we that a God like this would desire our friendship-so much so that He sent His Son to die for our sins?

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Our consolation

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31

What a great hope for believers who solely depend on the mercies of God!
God has promised to be for those who trust in him at all times and assured them of divine peace no matter the situation they are into.
Apostle Paul, while admonishing the
Christian believers in Roman, to depend in God, though trial and temptation must come on their way but in all these things, when God is with us there is no man or woman or personality that will ever be against us in any way of our lives.

In as much as Paul said that if God be for us, no man can be against us, there are people who God cannot be for; these are those who are walking against the rule that Christ has set-up for us to follow.
These are the liars, the thieves, the murderers, adulterers, fornicators, the disobedience and whosoever that is not walking against the will of God.
God is always against those that are against Him. In fact, Christ clarified those who he will not be for in Luke 9:26 that “…whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed…”
Some people have made themselves enemies of God and He has turn against them.
We must retrace back to God and ask for mercy so that we can be beneficiaries of the blessings and the presence of His glory within and around us.

If you are with God and like Paul the Apostle that “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ…” (Romans 1:16), then, you need not fear the threat of the devil and his demons because god’s presence is always with you at all time.