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Olive is the fruit of an olive tree but for you to get the oil from it it must first be squashed and squeezed that is to say you must apply pressure, this is so with us that for evil challenge God let's us face he has equipped us for it,what the situation does is just to force the oil out we can see this in the life of Joseph, you know Joseph would not have understood if God was yo tell him I will take you to Egypt as a slave,  it didn't look like whom the Lord annoited it didn't look pouch or something but this was God letting Joseph go through the Process, taking Him into the prison and occastrating a situation where him alone would have answer and then bringing him out we can see that while Joseph was with his brothers he was a dreamer but the challenges after his brothers sold him forced another dimension he never knew existed interpretation, he started interpreting dream.  You see you are tailor made for the challenge you gave today you just need to find th...

“If only we could sleep through the days when we feel overwhelmed and only have to wake up on the days when we are bubbling with joy.” These were the thoughts I had the morning after my quiet time. Then the Spirit of the Lord said, “How would we know the strength of the Lord? How would we get to experience God’s goodness? How would we get to sit at His feet each day and simply soak in His presence? Because if we stray, we might end up broken and lying on the streets.” “Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.” These are the lines of the famous hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness. To know and experience God only when we are walking on silk cloth is a good thing. But to choose to walk with Him even when the road is blood-stained—that is a journey through which we cultivate strength in the secret place. How has it been in the past few days, weeks, months, or years? Are you currently walking on a silk path? Or maybe, just maybe, you have never really known what it means to w...

St. Luke 13:18–19(NIV) “Then Jesus asked, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree and the birds perched in its branches.’” When we read the question Jesus asked, we may wonder: Why did He ask this question if He already knew the answer? Jesus was not asking because He lacked the answer. Rather, He was teaching us and inviting us to understand the nature of God's kingdom.  Jesus came to reveal the Father, reconcile humanity back to God, and bring us into the reality of what God had promised throughout the Old Testament through the New Covenant established in Him. A mustard seed is small and seemingly insignificant. It can easily be overlooked, yet when planted, it has the potential to grow into something much greater. In the same way, the Kingdom of God may begin in a way that appears small, weak, or insignificant, but once it is planted, it has t...

When I first had the desire to build a children’s channel suitable enough to inculcate godly morals, I never thought my judgment would be shaped so much by the algorithm—its constant analysis and its attempt to curate a certain kind of content. Most times, it leaves me in a loop asking myself, “Am I able to create value out of this?” But as I read through God’s Word in Romans, I am reminded that when God gives us an instruction, Romans 12:2 tells us that to know His good and perfect will, we must present our bodies to God. In doing so, we come into the knowledge of His good and perfect will. Then Romans 12:3 says: «NLT: “As God’s messenger, I give each of you this warning: Be honest in your estimate of yourselves, measuring your value by how much faith God has given you.”» God is not asking us to judge our value by the world’s standards. Rather, He is asking us to measure ourselves by “how much faith God has given us.” I am not asking that you go through this milestone on your own. But...

James 1:26 (ESV) “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.” Recently, I have found myself getting angry when things do not go the way I want. Then I began to use curse words: words I normally would not use. On one occasion, I was prompted to be mindful of my speech. Even as I tried to express myself, I raised my voice and eventually realized that I needed to stop talking. There is need for constraints in the way we speak. As Christians, we are called to represent Christ not only in how we interact with people, but also in how we respond to the world around us. The fact is, people and situations will sometimes make us angry. Things will not always go the way we want. But even in those moments, we must learn to bridle our tongues. Persistent and consistent use of swear words can condition our minds and influence us to think and behave in ways that are contrary to the character of Christ. W...

Very often, God speaks to us, but the amount of chattering occurring in our minds makes it impossible for us to perceive what the Lord is saying at any given time. We often hear voices of doubt, voices of confusion and voices of conviction, so we find it hard to recognize which of these voices is truly the voice of God. There is a need to know that this chattering occurring in your heart is not new to the human mind, and it is normal. However, what makes you stand out in decision-making is the ability to discern which voice is the voice of the Lord because, at the recognition of His voice, the other voices become silent. To be able to discern the voice of God, you must grow in your relationship with the Holy Ghost. Intimacy is built in a place of continuous communion. There are times we claim not to hear the voice of the Lord, but the thing is, we do not really know what He sounds like, so when He speaks, we are unable to recognize that it is He who is speaking. John 16:13 “But when He...

Today, I saw the Upper Room experience in a different light. The disciples had received an instruction: wait. So they waited. They gathered in the Upper Room, praising and worshipping God. But they didn't know that their sound was birthing something. They didn't know that the Upper Room would become a place of forging—a womb of fire where they would be transformed. And then the fire came. Everything about them changed. Their sound, expressions, the way they spoke, their convictions, the yes and the no they made , the way they presented their arguments, their boldness with which they stood for what they believed. That one encounter. That one flame that rested upon them. That one experience became the fire that transformed their lives. It is easy to speak in unknown tongues during a moment and sometimes exclaim in "tongues" during conversations. But have you encountered the new fire? The fire that burns on us and in us—not merely to destroy, but to purify. The fire that...