THE WINNING ATTITUDE

Matthew 10:37 “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”

When Jesus made this statement it sounded so radical and when you look at it at first it is as if he is contradicting everything that he taught about concerning God’s Grace towards us. What he was talking about is the attitude that it takes to be victorious in this fallen world. This is the same attitude that the young Israelite captives had when faced with Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon (Dan 3:17-18). They believed that God would save them from the furnace. But they also mentioned that even if they were not delivered, they would still not waver in their belief in the living God.

When Jesus says that if you love your family more than him then you are not worthy of him, he is talking about attitude. God is the creator of marriage and of family and God is more interested in the unity of family than any of us will ever be because marriage is the expression of Christ’s love for the church (Eph 5:32). So by saying that if you love your family more than him, you are not worthy of him, Jesus is not talking about splitting up families. The scripture that helps us understand this better is 1 Cor 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” This scripture simply means that God would never let things get as bad as to mess up your relationship with your family, he loves you too much to let that happen.

But that attitude is the one that overcomes the world (1Jn 5:4). It means that you are not pursuing relationship with God because of what he can do for you but because of who he is. Interestingly this is the same thing talked about in Matt 6:33. I have had a number of temptations and situations come against me where it was evident in the natural that I had lost everything but because of this revelation, I found myself saying “even if I never see the manifestation of my victory in this situation, I will never doubt that God answered my prayer”. And as surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, not long after I had made this confession, the manifestation came through for me.

It is important to remember this, that no truth in the Bible functions independent of other truths. That is why it is important for us to read the whole bible but most importantly to ask God for reveal to us what we read in the bible. The danger with pursuing a relationship with God because of what he can do is that when it doesn’t seem to be happening, there is a huge tendency to give up because proverbs 13:12 says “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.” When you hope for something for so long and it doesn’t come, it makes your heart sick.” So if your relationship with God is based on what he can do, then the disappointments could make you lose hope. Yet God wants so much to bless us and it is not him who withholds the blessings but Satan can affect the manifestations of your blessing because they come through people (2Cor 4:4).

I encourage you to develop the attitude that even if you never see victory in this lifetime (which is so short compared to eternity), you will never doubt that in Christ you are victorious. With this attitude believe me you can never exit this life before experiencing the manifestations of that victory because of 1Cor 10:13 & Matt 6:33.

WHAT DOMINATES YOUR LIFE?

We are living in evil days. The many unnatural things happening around us are proof of this. We often wonder if things will ever change for better. The response is yes they will but you have to take the first step. We need to be dominated by God. This means that we need to put our focus on God at all times of our life because it is true that what you consider will dominate your life and what you don’t consider will cease to dominate your life. What you think about most of your time is what will dominate your life.

This doesn’t mean that you should spend all your time in church. God is everywhere you go. Begin to see everything you do and go through as how God sees it. Read your bible every free moment you have. But instead of stopping at reading, pray to God to speak to you through his word. (Matthew 6:33). Don’t be surprised at what you see happening today, it is all biblical. (1 Timothy 6:9-10, James 1:14, Proverbs 23:7). The world has so much influence that if we are to survive its influence we must be covered in God’s word all the time and we have a promise from God if we remain faithful. (1 Corinthians 10:13, Habakkuk 2:4, Matthew 24:13).

There are so many prophesies that are coming to pass in this age but the problems is that many of us (children of the light) are not preparing ourselves to receive the opportunities destined for us. It is important to know that we are the ones responsible for the manifestation of the treasure which God has already blessed us with (Eph 1:3) because this blessing is in the spiritual. Now preparation is very important because you can only experience the amount of victory or prosperity that is proportional to what you have prepared yourself to receive. How do we then prepare ourselves to receive this abundant blessing from God? Simple.

We need to realise that we are living way below our privileges as the sons of God. If that is true then it is not God who has missed it but we are the ones missing something. The only way to find out what we need to know is not to allow ourselves to be conformed to this world system. And the only way to avoid that is by being transformed by the renewal of our mind (Romans 12:2) and we do this by meditating in the word of God day and night (Josh 1:8). Brothers and sisters if we want God’s kind of results, we have to live the kind of lifestyle that God recommends.

May God bless you

Wealth Is Not Tangible - Season Finale

The things that we have learnt so far seem to point to the fact that most of the people we have always thought as wealthy probably don't even come close. Knowing what we know now, I will refer again to Hosea 4:6 “My people are DESTROYED for LACK of KNOWLEDGE, .......” Now that we know that we are immensely wealthy beyond measure, and we even know how to unlock this wealth, it is important for you to understand that you don't go from evidently poor to wealthy in one day. It takes time but more so it takes character.

Let me share this amazing truth with you now. You are a product of your thoughts and not your environment, as we have been so wrongly told all this time (Prov 23:7). Whatever dominates your thoughts is what you will become. You are the only person who is responsible for your character. Words lead to thoughts, thoughts lead to emotions, emotions lead to actions, if you act a certain way repeatedly that becomes your character because actions lead to character, character then leads to destiny. This means that if you speak encouragingly and positively unto other people (Prov 18:21), then you will have life giving thoughts or positive thoughts. By the way this is where giving also begins from. And it will lead to positive emotions which will lead to positive actions, leading to a positive character, which will inevitably lead to a positive destiny.

You cannot go to a place physically where you haven't been in your mind. If you see yourself as poor then that is who you are going to be. In order to see a physical manifestation of your wealth, you have to start thinking like a wealthy person so that you can develop the character of a wealthy person and then when your wealth manifests it won't kill you or mark the beginning of your end. If you have not developed the character to manage 1 million Uganda Shillings, then you are in no position to possess 1 million US dollars. And so if you feel like you are struggling with poverty allow me to say that it is an act of mercy towards you otherwise the wealth you want to have could kill you.

Question is how can you think like a wealthy person when everything around you points to the fact or is always reminding you of how poor you are? Simple! You do this by faith (Heb 11:6). Your wealth is in a place that you cannot perceive with your 5 senses. So just like God, whom none of us has seen because he is spirit, you have to believe that your wealth is indeed there (Gal 3:7-8). Please note that Faith is not believing something so that it can become true (Heb 11:1-3). Therefore giving, even when you are in need yourself, is an act of faith (James 2:14). Let us take Joseph as an example, he got his first dreams about becoming a very important person when he was 17 years old (Gen 37:2). He saw his first indicator that this was indeed going to happen when he was 30 years old when Pharaoh made him his second in command (Gen 41:40,46). But his brothers bowed to him, like the dream had indicated when he was 37 years old (Gen 42:6). that is a total of 20 years. Do you know that at age 30, Joseph could have enforced his dream? All he had to do was grab a number of chariots and Egyptian soldiers, ride down to Israel and force his brothers to bow before him. But he had developed character to handle the success he was now positioned to enjoy because he knew his source, God who always fulfils his promises. The character that can handle the kind of wealth that is greater than anything the world has seen is that of an individual who won't do something wrong even if he can get away with it (Gen 39:9).

Remember the Bible says that if you can be trusted in the little things then you can be trusted in the greater things as well and if you can't be trusted in the little things then you can't be trusted in the greater things also (Luke 16:11). So you hold the key to your wealth and nobody but you is responsible for unlocking it. Let me tell you that this really works and I am living a very prosperous life since this was revealed to me because I have put it into practice. As a matter of fact I always feel happy, peaceful and like I have been fed every time I give. It has become a part of who I am that I don't have to set targets about how many people to bless in a given period of time because there is no shortage of people to give to in this life (Matt 9:37).

If these lessons have blessed you like they have blessed me then think about them and let us bring heaven down earth because it is the will of our Father (Matt 6:10).

Wealth is not tangible: Part IV

Whoooo! This is getting deeper and hotter! I don’t know about you but I am excited about these revelations. You know Hosea saw this. That is why he said in the 6^th verse of his 4^th Chapter that “My people are DESTROYED for LACK of KNOWLEDGE, because you have REJECTED KNOWLEDGE .......” The only thing standing between where you are and where God intended you to be is how much you know. And how much you know or don’t know or how wrong what you know is, that is the only thing that Satan has against you (2Cor 4:4, Eph 6:11).

Whatever you are struggling with in life is a result of a knowledge problem in that area of your life. The key to unlocking your wealth is kept within the very principle by which the world exists. When God created this world in Genesis chapter 1, he created only once and is not creating the same way again after those six days. Every living thing God created (spoke into existence), he also created it with the ability to reproduce itself. This is why creation took 6 days and on the seventh day God rested. Life, as we know it operates on the principle of “seed and fruit”. This is why Jesus told his disciples in Mark 4:13 that if they did not understand the parable of the sower, then they would not understand all parables or indeed what the Kingdom of God is about. Gal 6:7 simply reminds us of the fact that you reap what you sow. This means that every action has consequences and there is not short cut about that because it is a law on nature and a law of faith.

Friends the key to unlock your wealth is in Luke 6:38. This scripture is so easy to just read and move on without meditating on it. Your wealth was never intended as reason for you to just live a good and very comfortable life on earth. Your wealth exists for the sole reason that you bring to the world what God wants the world to receive. The reason is because God is spirit (Jn 4:24) and in the beginning he gave power of the physical earth to physical man (Gen 1:26). It is God’s will for his children to be healthy, happy, contented, prosperous, wealthy, etc. and it is not God’s will that any one perish (2 Peter 3:9). Since God cannot take back what he said, his will on earth can only be fulfilled through you and I because today we exist in a physical form. All we need is to renew our minds to how much God loves us and loving others will be the result because it is impossible for anyone to love unconditionally unless you have understood how much God loves you. You cannot give away what you don’t have. Back to Luke 6:38, so many people who have found this scripture have tried to apply it and they don’t see results. The most profound explanation for me is 2Cor 9:6-7. The mystery here is that this law doesn’t work as a transaction ie. that you give so that God can give you more back. This is because doing it that way is not sustainable and sooner or later you get frustrated and you will draw the line somewhere. The way this ties into your wealth is that you have so much more than you are even aware of so there is no reason not to give.

We have been misled to think that giving is always equivalent to money.  The bible tells us that money is the least of the things you can give (Luke 16:10-11). It is more blessed to give of yourself than to give money. (1Cor 13:3). There are so many ways in which you can give to others. Let me challenge you today to seek God and ask him to reveal to you which ways yourself, in particular, can give and I know that I know that I know that he will reveal this to you (Deut 4:29, Jer 29:13). It all begins with that decision you make to accept and receive God’s love and to give it to others. This is the reason why God tells us to seek him first and all these things we want, he will add to us (Matt 6:33). Did you know that God did not create you to be able to live without him (Jer 10:23)? yet most people, probably including you yourself until now, do not know this. That is why many people struggle with things they shouldn’t just because they lack knowledge. And all of this is because true love cannot be forced (1Cor 13:5) and so God will not force his love on you. God will be to you the God you believe he is.

In our final part we shall find out why your journey to wealth and prosperity does not happen in one night. We shall find out what it takes for your true wealth to be manifested and seen in this world. Watch out for Part V ……….

Wealth is not tangible: Part III

In the second part of our series, we looked at biblical examples of wealthy people. But we left off having found out that we are ultimately wealthier beyond measure, even more than King Solomon of the Old Testament. This is really very simple. Let us not forget Genesis 1:26-27. Connect that with John 1:3 and then John 4:24 and you will realise that everything you can perceive first existed in the spiritual form. Therefore the parent force is the spiritual. Your wealth and my wealth exist first of all, in the spiritual realm. It gets better because this wealth is in form of a blessing which is clearly laid out in Deuteronomy 28:2-13.

The reason why your wealth is beyond the wealth the King Solomon and the people in his time ever saw is the reason for which your wealth exists. Do you remember Gen 12:3 and Gen 13:14-17? All these are talking about the reason why Abram needed to understand that he was wealthy. That is so that he could be a blessing to all nations. The same goes for all his descendants. News flash! Being a blessing means having the ability to meet other people’s needs. Can you meet the needs of others when you are in need yourself? I didn’t think so. Now if I know this don’t you think the Almighty God and Creator knew this in the beginning?

Now you can talk of Abraham’s descendants as being the Jews but ask yourself. Are the Jews in the world as many as the dust or the stars in the sky? Look carefully at Galatians 3:8-9. This scripture is revealing the reason why you and I have the opportunity to be wealthier than anyone ever know in the world’s history. This is the revelation of the mystery that was hidden for ages. All you need to do is believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that is it. The gospel of Matthew in Chapter 25:35-40 practically tells you why you have all that wealth stored and promised to you. Your wealth is far greater than King Solomon’s wealth because the world today has more people in need than it did during Solomon’s days.

The 10 billion dollar question is “why have we not seen this kind of wealth yet”?

Now dear friend, your wealth was promised to you by God and therefore he will not withdraw it (Psalms 89:34). Satan cannot touch it because it is in a format that is out of his reach, he can only try to deceive you that he can mess with your wealth (2Cor 4:4, Eph 6:11, Col 2:8). This leaves only you in the equation. You are the only one who can determine how much of your wealth will ever be physically manifested. You carry inside of you the knowledge to manage this wealth and the key to unlock it. Watch out for Part IV and learn how to unlock your wealth…………

Wealth is not tangible: Part II

In Part I, we looked at the fact that wealth is not tangible and that it is a mentality. Let us try to develop this further by looking at examples of truly wealthy people. The best examples are in the Bible.

Abraham was a very wealthy man. Incidentally he was also referred to as a friend of God. The thing that made Abraham wealthy was a promise that God made to him in Genesis chapter 12. In verse 3 of this chapter, we see God telling Abram (not yet Abraham) that in him all nations will be blessed. Do you realise that by Abram meditating (dominantly thinking) on that promise is what made him eventually so wealthy. He was no longer able to live harmoniously with his nephew lot, who had also become so wealthy (by family association). When Abram gave Lot a choice of where to go, Lot chose the valley and Abram had not problem taking the desert. It is after this separation that God re-affirmed (ratified) his promise to Abram in Genesis 13:14-17. The summary of it is that even the land which Lot occupied was to belong to Abram. Now only a truly wealthy person would have chosen to take the desert instead of the valley, but Abram knew that his source of wealth was not man and that it was God. This is consistent with the fact that you are a product of your thought and not your environment, as we have been told for so long. (Prov 23:7).

Another example of a wealthy man is Joseph. The bible says in Genesis 39:2 that the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man. Now remember he had just been sold and re-sold in Egypt. If he was feeling sorry for himself and letting himself be dominated by thoughts of his brother’s cruelty towards him, which he did not deserve, do you think Potiphar would have noticed that God was with Joseph and put him in charge of his household?

At this point I want to submit to you that MOST people we think are wealthy because of what they have acquired indeed are typical examples of people with a poverty mentality. You can observe this by the way they are obsessed by protecting their wealth through all natural means possible. A poor man will always think that he is responsible for his wealth and therefore doesn’t believe that if it is forcefully taken, he can get it back (Deut 8:17-18).

Do you know that you are wealthy beyond even the documented wealth of King Solomon? We shall find out more about this fact in Part III……

The 'Born Again' Experience

Jesus is the only human being recorded in history who was born “born again”. Now if I have got your attention, the bible says “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Peter 1:23). This is true about Jesus because he was just spoken into existence and the only natural part of his physical coming into the world was his birth. We all know his was the only virgin birth recorded in history.

Now Jesus, when he walked the earth told Nicodemus that unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). I used to think that being born again was a very difficult thing. This is because first of all it required me to embarrass myself in front of so many people when a preacher calls for those who want to give their life to Christ to start by praying a certain prayer, then raise my hand if I had prayed the prayer, then go to the front of the church so the whole congregation could see me. And I am reminded that if I deny Jesus by staying in my seat, he will deny me before his Father. The most interesting part seemed to be the fact that whatever I do, I should never forget that day, ‘engrave it in fresh cement, if I have to, but never forget it’. I resisted ‘salvation’ not only because of these many conditions, but by the fact that ‘savedees’ were always struggling with life sometimes even worse than non-believers.

I still sought God because I knew I should not part from his ways until I came to learn that my sin was not an issue with God. Let me share this amazing truth. 1 Thess. 5:23 is one of the scriptures that proves that we are made of three parts namely the spirit, soul and body. God’s anger towards us was appeased by Jesus Christ when he died on our behalf. Our part now is just to believe in Jesus’ death and receive salvation. The part of you that is immediately changed when you accept Jesus Christ is your spirit and you cannot perceive your spirit with your five senses. Your soul is the part that controls all the other two because it contains your mind. Eph 2:8 says we are saved by Grace through faith. So you believe in your mind that salvation is a free gift and even if you cannot see it, you accept it and receive it. And according to the bible those who are in Christ are one spirit with the Lord and our spirit knows all things (1 Cor 6:17). Because as Christ is so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). But this is the part most people struggle with. You cannot feel born again. Let me repeat that “you cannot feel born again”. So you will ask, how can one know what his spirit looks like or knows? You have never seen your face, you only know what you look like because you see your image in the mirror. In the same way you can only know what your spirit is and knows by looking into the word of God as in a mirror. What it says about you is what you are. Then as your mind is renewed so will your soul and body (Rom 12:2).

Understanding just these basic truths has transformed my life and enabled me to be a blessing to other people in so many ways, some of which I never knew even existed. And yet I am only scratching the surface. I live everyday looking forward to all the other things that God is going to reveal to me all through the rest of my long natural life and that is an experience I truly wish for everyone reading this.

God bless you all.