My Personal Experience in Solving Problems 1

At a certain point in my life, things got so bad that I was totally confused. At that time, everything I was doing seems to be going wrong. There were problems at home, my business was falling, valuable relationships began to develop problems and on every side, I was faced with failure.

I had lost a lot of money in some business deals (more than 3.5 million Naira), one land which I purchased long time ago and I was developing; the plot came up under serious litigation. The people who sold the land were part owners of the land, but not the only ones who have right on the land. The other co-owners took the matter to court and won, meaning that I had lost the right of ownership, though they (the winners) pitied me, yet they took over the land.

It was not my fault, I was a victim of the covetous sellers of land who refused to pay back my money; all the money expended in buying blocks, gravel and building to window level, and to develop the plot of land went down the drain. Everything was happening fast and one would have thought that God was partial and uncaring.

One day a friend of mine invited me to see a prophet who would pray for me and tell me the secrets of my problem and what I could do to get out of the mess. When we got to the prophet, he told me some deep things most of which were actual facts of my life, I was moved, and I wept. The solution was spiritual, he would do certain rituals which he explained and that he would do it on my behalf, but I must pay him the sum of twenty five thousand Naira.

For God’s sake, I was broke – very broke. Ordinarily, that amount of money was not a big deal, but at that particular point in time, it was to me a very big Herculean task. Borrowing money to do such ritual was unthinkable for I hardly go for any type of loan. I went back to my house.

In the morning of the seventh day, which was the deadline or else according to the prophet, my enemies will pull the last trigger. I was troubled and disturbed; I paced back and forth in my office thinking. Without money, the prophet wouldn’t commence the ritual (I call it ritual, but they call it prophetic work). As I was walking from one end of my office to another, I got to where my bible was placed.

To be continued tomorrow

Doing God's Work With His Word

Faith believes that what you said is already done; it is different from hope. While hope believes that God will do it, faith believes that He has done it and you act accordingly. Faith believes the truth and ignores the facts.

Truth is the testimony and affirmation of the word of God; Jesus said, “I am the way, the TRUTH and the life”. Whatever is written in the word of God is the truth. Although we have two types of truth: - absolute truth and relative truth. These are the definitions of truth according to the gospel of philosophers. I am giving you the definition of truth according to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the TRUTH; the word of God is the TRUTH. Praise God I believe it.

Fact is the evidence of the present reality; it is something that has really happened. But here, I assert that truth is different from fact. It may be the actual fact that as you read this book, you have no penny in your pocket, but the truth is that God’s word said, “I have never seen the righteous forsaken or…. begging bread”. You are rich, that’s the truth. You are broke, that’s the fact. You must stay on the truth until the facts of the matter changes. You must insist on the truth, until the truth prevails over the fact. This is important because the fact is not real, it is virtual, truth is real.
If you are sick in the body, the Bible says, “By the stripes of Jesus you were healed”. You were healed, you are not going to be healed but you were healed – that is the truth. But the facts of pain is disturbing to your body. What do you do? The best option is the way of faith “which calleth those things that be not as though they were”. You stand on the truth, I am healed, you tell your body, I am healed, you tell the pain, you are not real, you are temporal; and the temporal must give way to the real.

If that is your stand, victory is sure. This book you are reading is in fact an actual book, yes it is a fact that it is a book. You put this book inside a burning fire and in the next two or three minutes you no longer have a book. Facts changes but truths can never change no matter what. Nothing we see is permanent, physical things are not the truth, God’s word is the truth. Physical things do change, fade away or get out of date and useless. You have to understand this, it very important
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Not until your faith is deep-rooted, it will not work. Remember the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? The king of Babylon happened to be the maximum ruler of their time, i.e. he was the most influential (and the most powerful) leader in the world at that time. He made a decree that every one everywhere should bow down to an image he made when trumpet was blown.

Everyone in the province bowed down each time the trumpet blew. With time, these three Hebrew were noticed that they never bowed down to the image of Nebuchadnezzar, the king. After the report was made, the king commanded the fiery furnace of fire that was prepared for any defaulter, to be thrown in: to be heated seven times hotter than the usual. He then gave them the last opportunity to bow or to burn.

Read their response in Daniel 3:17,18
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will DELIVER us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, o king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou has set up.
That was the posture of “if I perish, I perish”. They knew God would deliver them from the fire that was faith. It was more than just to believe, faith goes a step further than believe and that is, if God does not do it, yet I believe His word. It is a big problem for the devil whenever anyone stands on the word and declares it by faith.

Heaven is brought in to the scene whenever you declare what the word says concerning your situation. Anytime you show that the fact of the matter not withstanding, you hold on to the word of God, you always win, fact changes but the truth remains. Do you understand this? May the Lord open your eyes of understanding to perceive this revelation?

Power to Get Wealth

Fountain of Wealth (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Deuteronomy 8:18 says, "But thou shall remember The Lord thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth..." Wealth acquisition is not an easy thing, many have tried to learn the art but are still struggling to be rich. According to the bible, only God can give you the power to get wealth. The power to get wealth that the bible talked about is the ability and skill to acquire wealth without struggles or fraud. It is true that some people get their wealth through fraud, but when God gives you the power to get wealth it is never through making anybody sorrowful. There is no doubt that those who are defrauded are thrown into sorrow and anguish of soul, in fact, I have heard of some of them committing suicide. Do you want somebody to commit suicide because you want to be rich?

When your plan to get wealth includes making someone sad or stealing from someone then you are embarking on a dangerous adventure that backfires most of the time. You have to remember that those people you are trying to defraud got their money by sweating it out. Anyone who engages in fraudulent activities in other to acquire wealth is a week person in the real sense of the word. Most of the fraudsters think they are smart and they brag on their achievement, do not be deceived, their end is bitter and I do not want you to walk in that path. The truth I want you to see in this write-up is this, the same strength and intelligence you put into fraudulent activities can be expended on worthy projects to get more money the right way.

God gives the power to get wealth the right way. You can ask for that power. Bible says, "Ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you" Mathew 7:7. If you desire wealth, its not a bad thing, the starting point in your quest for wealth should be to ask God for the power to get wealth. It is not by your own power or by your own might but by the spirit of God who gives power or ability to get wealth. When you ask or pray for the power to get wealth, God will not deny you, He will surely give you. When God answers the prayer, it will be manifested in your life through divine ideas. These ideas will come through your thought, you then need to believe and start working it out.

It is important for you to know that God will give you the ideas, but you will need to work it out, many times you need to do it with the cooperation of other people. So, you need divine wisdom to be able to enlist the trust of other people who will help you to realise your dream. Many get divine ideas but did not proceed to work it out, the art of working it out is called risk. You need to go ahead and take that risk because according to the popular saying, "nothing ventured, nothing gained". Be blessed and remain blessed.