Learn To "Connect The Dots" by Dr. Strive Masiyiwa.

If you climb onto the roof of a building and jump down, you will not be exempted from the consequences, simply because you had never heard of Sir Isaac Newton, and the Law of Gravity.
There are a lot of people who blissfully go through life, being victims of things they could have avoided, by just acquiring better understanding about the issue.

I remember one day visiting a friend in East Africa, who was a senior government official. As we sat there, discussing current affairs, he became quite jovial about the travails on the international stock markets:

Emeralds and Gunfire... by Dr. Strive Masiyiwa.

When I was a little boy, living on the Copperbelt, in Zambia, during my family's exile, in that beautiful country. Emeralds, were discovered in an area, not far from our home. It was just amazing to see people from all over the country, and as far a field as Senegal, and Mali, (from West Africa, 3000 KM, away); pouring in to dig for the stones. Some of neighbours, who were well respected professionals, even working in banks, quit their jobs, removed their suits, and headed to dig for emeralds.

The "More Excellent" Glory

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth (2 Corinthians 3:9-10).

Exodus 34 tells us how Moses had been in the presence of God for forty days and forty nights, receiving the "Ten Commandments." The commandments were few sentences that ordinarily, shouldn’t require a whole day to pen down. So, why did Moses stay forty days and forty nights to receive them? It was because, to Moses, they weren’t mere "Commandments"; they were life.

Facts For Now!

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new(2 Corinthians 5:17).

There’re certain truths about the new creation which, as Christians, we must be conscious of and live by. These are not promises but established truths in God’s Word—present hour realities. One of such is our opening verse above. When you received Christ into your life, you became a new creation. "If any man be in Christ, he ‘is’ a new creation." "Is" is a "now" word—a present-hour reality! You’re not going to be a new creation when you get to heaven; you’re a new creation now! Your new life started the day you made Jesus Lord of Your life.

Confessions

I am an active participator in the divine experience. Divinity is at work in me – I’ve got the very life of God in Me. I produce the righteousness of God, even in my body. Much more than enforcing the life and righteousness of God in my body, I bring to bear the Word of God in all my endeavours and in my environment.

Everything that concerns me conforms to the superiority of God’s infallible Word.

My body and all in my world respond to the Word of God, which is the sword of the Spirit.

I know who I am. I am seated together with Christ, far above all principalities and power, and far above every disease and calamity plaguing the world and its system.

Just like the Cedar of Lebanon, I declare that I am deeply rooted in the Word; I am strong, healthy and continually making progress. I am an embodiment of God’s grace and my daily experience is that of the miraculous and God’s infinite love.

Yes! By His stripes I was healed. Yet greater than being healed, I am a new creation, old things of the world have passed away; lack, failure, diseases and death have all passed away. I am an offspring of God, recreated in Christ Jesus. I do not get sick, for I belong to the God-class; because as He is, so I am in this world. Hallelujah!

Emulate Him!

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children(Ephesians 5:1).

The word "followers" is translated from the Greek "mimētēs" which means "imitators." It’s suggestive of following someone as a pattern, model or an example. It’s akin to going after somebody, following how he does what he does. So, in actual context, it can be rendered, "Be ye therefore imitators of God." It means copy Him, act and talk like Him, because you’re like Him. Someone might ask, "Isn’t that going too far, to say we’re like God?"

What Can You See?

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever (Genesis 13:14-15).

When the Lord told Abraham to lift up his eyes and look, in the scripture above, He wasn’t referring to the man’s physical eyes, but to the eyes of his spirit. God told him all the land he could “see” was his; it was now up to Abraham to decide how far he wanted to see.

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The Fellowship Of Prayer

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen (2 Corinthians 13:14).

Anyone who wants to have a good standard for praying ought to emulate Jesus. Studying His prayer life, I observed what He did that the religious people of his day didn’t do, for which reason He had such outstanding results in prayer: He separated the labour of prayer

The Month of August is the Month of Praise.

This is what the spirit of God is saying to us; If you are to read the words of the master Jesus from the book of Matthew chapter 21:15-16

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? (Matthew 21:15-16 KJV)