Be Still And Know – Part 1

Be Still And Know – Part 1

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Be Still And Know – Part 1

One of the hardest things to do as a Single or married is to be still. Especially in this fast-paced life. 

It seems we just got to do ‘something’. Unfortunately, this ‘ something’ is not always the right, good, or best option. We always think and take issues into our own hands. Unfortunately, we don’t get too far.

I think every single and married person should take time to read the whole of Psalm 46. It is such a beautiful portion of the scripture that offers comfort in whatever situation we find ourselves in.

The Psalm opens by telling us in verse I

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble Ps 46:1KJV

Psalms 46:1 NLT God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.

Psalms 46:1 HCSB God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble.  

God is described as a refuge and strength.

God is both a hiding place of refuge from the storms of life and the strength to carry us through whatever the situation is. 

As singles, what is the situation you are in or facing? Is it a delay beyond your understanding? Is it a heartbreak? Is it confusion about making a decision? Is the future so bleak you feel so unsure? Is it a failed engagement with no explanations?

Whatever the situation is, God through the writer of this Psalm is introducing Himself as refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He is your refuge and strength. That strength could be in the form of wisdom

Remember the Psalm says in another translation, that He is always ready to help in times of trouble.

 The question is are you ready to receive His help? His help is not automatic. 

The police services are ready to help, but until you call or dial 911, you can’t enjoy their help.

As married couples, what is that trouble? Health, financial, Emotional, a cheating spouse, a spouse you just don’t understand?

You have to receive Him as strength and refuge. You can’t enjoy peace amid crisis until you learn to trust and call upon Him for help.

I learned something once a situation is in court, you rest about it. You allow the court to decide, if not you could be charged with contempt of court

Once you have called upon Jesus, leave it with Him. Let Him handle it. 

What most of us do is, we think we are trusting and making Him our refuge and strength, and then we start worrying and trying to handle things in our wisdom and strength.

God’s strength, method, and ways will be different from ours. 

Trust Him and leave the matter with Him.

God bless. We will continue tomorrow by God’s Grace

Positive Qualities Versus Negative Qualities

Positive Qualities Versus Negative Qualities

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Positive Qualities Versus Negative Qualities

Let me open you up to today’s devotional by quoting this scripture.

Philippians 4:8 AMPC   For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].

When we learn to obey the word of God, things happen for us in the positive.

Whether married or single, we are to intentionally find good things about our spouses to fill our minds with. Filling our minds with the good quality of our spouses keeps us kind, tender-hearted, and forgiving towards them.

As Singles, when your fiancee or fiance is trying hard to please you or your spouse is doing their best to make the marriage work, you don’t ignore their efforts. 

Don’t say, that if I appreciate their efforts now, they will relax and not continue making efforts. Don’t say, that until I see 100% improvement, I will not acknowledge the efforts made. 

This mindset is very wrong.

Celebrate and acknowledge the little efforts. What we appreciate, appreciates and what we don’t appreciate depreciates.

Appreciation also begets respect and willingness to do more. If all you see in your spouse are the errors, their faults, their shortcomings, and their weaknesses, then something is wrong.

If you are looking for faults, you will find them. Whatever you are looking for is what you find.

Even with the little errors, you can overlook and ignore, you use a magnifying lens to focus on them.

Remember, you are not perfect either. Neither are you easy to also live with. Fill your mind with the good in your spouse.

As singles, you can write out those good qualities in your partner and keep them before you so that you can appreciate them. Appreciation should be verbal, don’t internalize your appreciation.

When you start practicing these as a single, it becomes a habit that will help you in your marriage 

As a couple, I don’t believe your spouse won’t have any good qualities. I am sure you will be able to find at least one good quality in them. 

Focus on that. Begin to praise, appreciate, and celebrate that good quality and before long there will be more qualities to appreciate.

Practice these and your marriage will enjoy bliss, joy, peace, understanding, patience, and love.

You may want to ask, so what about the weaknesses? We don’t get better all at once. We get better gradually. It is one step after the other.

Our progress and improvement are gradual.

God bless you




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Anxiety – The Bliss Choker

Anxiety – The Bliss Choker

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Anxiety – The Bliss Choker

In today’s world, it is so easy to fall into the temptation of getting all worked up or worried or anxious about so many things.

Our relationships as singles are not spared from this strategy of hell to snuff joy, understanding, and bliss from them.

You will always see ladies more beautiful, more caring, more understanding, richer, and more respectful than your fiance or fiancee. Make up your mind with the help of God to stay focused on your partner.

You will always have desires, especially of material things. Don’t focus on what you don’t have and get anxious or agitated about those things

Celebrate your partner. Be intentional about seeing the best in each other.

Appreciate what you have and leave what you don’t have.

The same goes for us Couples. Other ladies and men will not suddenly become ugly. There will still be countless good men out there. Don’t compare the qualities of other women and men to your spouse.

Accept and love your spouse the way they are. 

We are all a work in progress. The human tendency is to complain about what God has given you. The more you complain the more you will have reasons to complain. The more you appreciate your spouse the more grateful you are for them.

Don’t become anxious, especially about the good things of life, you don’t have YET. A pregnant woman does not envy the woman carrying her baby. They both carry something, it’s just a matter of time and the pregnant one will also carry her baby.

These things are not bad in themself but when you have your mind focused on them, they tend to choke the bliss out of your marriage.

Philippians 4:6 NIV   
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 

Enjoy your spouse. Thank God for the spouse God has given you. What you lack now, will become plenty only if you have the right attitude of thanksgiving. 

Material prosperity will come. Let us learn to enjoy ourselves on the way to our destination.

God does not want us to be worried and get preoccupied with things we don’t have.

He expects us to make our request known to our maker through prayers.

Enjoy your spouse. Enjoy your children. Enjoy where you are and what you have in the present.

God bless you!




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God, the Present Help in your Relationship and Marriage

God, the Present Help in your Relationship and Marriage

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God the Present Help in your Relationship and Marriage

God’s word is powerful enough to be trusted. The word from His mouth will never go back to Him void but will accomplish what it says it would.

If you are a child of God, take refuge in His word and promises.

Whatever the issue or challenge is with your relationship trust God. He is the very present help in times of trouble. You will testify to His faithfulness. ( So far as the perfect will of God is known)

Maybe you are having issues with parental consent. Maybe it is the finances for the wedding that is the issue. Maybe it’s a misunderstanding that has been lingering for long. Maybe it’s peer pressure or listening to the wrong advice. 

I want to encourage you this morning. Take hold of God’s word. 

If you can have it in the word, you can have it in your world. 

That marriage will not end in separation or divorce. The dry bones of that marriage will rise again. Finances will flow again. You will enjoy marital bliss once again. Or if you do not know what it is to enjoy bliss, God’s word will manufacture it.

Isaiah 41:18 GNT 
I will make rivers flow among barren hills and springs of water run in the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water and the dry land into flowing springs.  

God’s word promises restoration.  God promises to make rivers flow among barren hills. He will turn the desert into pools of water and dry lands flowing springs.

What a wonderful promise to hold on to.

Whatever looks like dryness in your relationship and marriage, in your finances, or business, God promises to turn it around. 

The issues you face in your relationship and marriage are not meant to break you. They are there to make you stronger.

Jesus told Peter, when thou art converted strengthen your brothers.

Whatever you are dealing with right now is only for an appointed time.  Its season will soon come to pass. Then you will be furnished to strengthen your brethren.

Fight the good fight of faith. After it all, we are still standing.

God’s word is a sure foundation to stand upon.

Don’t give up, believe His word and it will happen for you in your relationship and marriage.

God bless you




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The Man’s Helper

The Man’s Helper

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The Man’s Helper

I will write to couples first and then singles.

God was the one who created Adam in His likeness and image.

Looking at the Godhead, we will know that God created man to be like Him. That is why we have God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They are in perfect harmony, yet different in personality and functionality.

Genesis 2:18 CEV   
[18] The Lord God said, “It isn’t good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” 

Genesis 2:21-22 CEV   
[21] So the Lord God made him fall into a deep sleep, and he took out one of the man’s ribs. Then after closing the man’s side, [22] the Lord made a woman out of the rib. The Lord God brought her to the man, 

God knew perfectly what He had created and knew how best it would function. He knew the man would not be optimally efficient, so He made the woman solely for this purpose. To complement and complete the man.

The woman was custom-made for the man. She is the help needed, fit, suitable, adaptable, meet, right for him, sufficient, complementary, perfect, complement to him, companion he needs, one just right for him, one who balances him, a counterpart who is suitable and complementary to him,  companion suitable for helping him, a suitable companion he needs…

All these qualities are what describe the help God provided for Adam.

Can you trust God in all His Almightiness that the helper He has given you, is the best for you?

Can the helper trust God enough to believe she possesses all these qualities? And that God packaged her, with all her gifts to help the man?

Husbands and wives, can you trust God enough that you are fulfilled and complete with each other? That all you will ever need is packaged in your wife. 

She may not look like it. He may not look worthy of your companionship.

Your wife was never meant to be exactly like you. Rice and stew are complementary but very different. 

Enjoy your wife, she is God’s best for you.

Wives, be satisfied with your husband, that is the one you were sent to.

Let’s begin to trust God afresh.

Dear single guys, every lady around you is to be protected and not violated! An understanding of this will start preparing you to become that man that God wants and can trust!

God bless you




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