As a business man or woman, You need people who have the ears of the great and mighty in our midst.

People who are strategically positioned to put in a word or two on your behalf

It's time to pray for such people to come into our lives and business.

#Shouldn't you rather thank God first, than start with Prayer Points?

God frowns at ingratitude.

Make no mistakes, no one makes progress with ingratitude

The passage below is proof that God frowns at it👇🏼

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Luke 17:16 MSG
He kneeled at Jesus' feet, so grateful. He couldn't thank him enough - and he was a Samaritan.
Luke 17:17 Jesus said, "Were not 10 healed? Where are d 9?

V17 is the PUNCHLINE.
Yes, to many, d New Year is just like any other day & to others, it's a special time.

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Be that as it may, it would be a great deed to start with Thanksgiving and then follow-up with directions for the year.

*Let me tell you what I do daily.

When I wake up each morning, I am deliberate about Thanksgiving. I thank God for at least One Hour without interrupting

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the session with Prayer Points. After the One Hour Thanksgiving Session, I can then switch to prayer points etc.

God has never stopped being good, we've just stopped being grateful.

Thanksgiving never cease because, blessings never cease

You must realize that Ingratitude

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stinks and It is easily noticed & conspicuous. It makes the one who is behind your smile to withdraw.

It's been God through the years and Apostle Paul wrote in
Acts 26v22a GNB
But to this very day I have been helped by God.

Really don't know how to describe this foolish text from an online loan merchant.?.

They sent me this annoying text just now.?

"Debtor with name xxxxxxxx 08162126479 who used you as a referee to get a loan, has been acting fraudulent with a repayment and is hereby wanted by

the company's taskforce. please do inform him that failure to make payment of the loan will result in arrest, and a litigation will be filed against him."

The fellow USED ME as a REFEREE and I am unaware of being USED..

The debtor, I don't even know, probably a random Facebook

friend. I struck out his name, but deliberately left his number for him to see.

This is what you get when you decide to operate with foolishness as one of your core values.

Why I should be involved in loan recovery is what I find extremely difficult to comprehend.

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*Ezekiel 16:9 MSG*
I gave you a good bath, washing off all that old blood, and anointed you with aromatic oils.
Ezekiel 16:11 I adorned you with jewelry: I placed bracelets on your wrists, fitted you out with a necklace,

Ezekiel 16:13 You were provided with everything precious and beautiful: with exquisite clothes and elegant food, garnished with honey and oil. You were absolutely stunning. You were a queen!👇🏼

It's your time for a major change. A major shift. A new appearance.

👉🏼God will adorn you with extravagant wealth, garment, honour, blessings and Favour💃🏼

👉🏼You will no longer be looked down on.
👉🏼You will no longer be overlooked.
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Kings will come to the brightness of your rising.

👉🏼From now on, all men will seek you to do you good.

A SHORT EXHORTATION.

This scripture.

Ephesians 3:3 MSG
I got the inside story on this from God himself...

This scripture 👆🏽took me back in time as I was indulging myself in my morning Bible study this morning. It reminded me how God can give d inside story of what is about to

happen and make it plain before His children.

Can't remember the year now, but, I went for this Bank job interview and it turned out it was not an interview but a fun thing.

The night before the interview, I prayed with this scripture and as I fell asleep some minutes later,

I dreamt there wasn't going to be any interview...like seriously?

At first, I dint understand d dream, but, I still went shaa.

I was the 3rd applicant for my prearranged 11am interview.

As I stepped into the room, there were 3 men and a lady, all facing the door. We exchanged

pleasantries and I sat down expecting the panel to kick start the session.

While waiting, the only lady on the panel just startled me by saying, "so, you are an ARSENAL fan..." You can imagine how lost I looked. They all noticed how shocked I was and then one of the men helped

out by gazing at the lapel on my suit. Apparently, I forgot to take it off the ARSENAL LAPEL the night before. I made to remove it and apologized for wearing such to a formal interview, and all the 3 men just echoed in unison, "GUNNERS FOR LIFE" and I responded in like manner and

@renoomokri Still on OWO Sunday Massacre.

The bible is always on point.

Let's take a look at these scriptures and how they resonate.

Excuses don't make things happen.
There is a moral to this drama in the bible..

Our excuses keep these tyrants in power

Judges 8:20 MSG...

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Then he spoke to Jether, his firstborn: "Get up and kill them." But he couldn't do it, couldn't draw his sword. He was afraid - he was still just a boy.

We could conclude that afterall, he was just a youth, agreed...

David had his chance against Goliath, he took it &

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the rest they say is history.

When God reached out to David to use him to save Israel from Goliath, it was up to David to arise.

When God reached out to Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob to use him to preserve the children of Israel, it was up to Joseph to arise.

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2 Chronicles 26:1-5 KJV (Uzziah was only 16 when he began to rule)
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. (Hear some of the great things he did)

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[2] He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
[3] Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. [4] And he did that which was

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*Acts 9:40 MSG*
Peter put the widows all out of the room. He knelt and prayed. Then he spoke directly to the body: "Tabitha, get up."
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It's an entirely different ballgame when you speak directly to a situation.
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There is tremendous power backing up the

Word of God when spoken directly at Anything tangible or intangible .

👉🏼Peter had nothing to offer the man by the beautiful game... He only had the Word and that made all the difference to the crippled beggar..

👉🏼 Ezekiel spoke to very dry bones & the bones were restored &

eventually became an exceeding great army. ( *Just think about it for a second* )

👉🏼With Elijah's word, the impossible happened. The sunk iron axe-head floated from the bottom of the river, while the wooden handle sank.

👉🏼By the spoken Word of Jesus, a gold coin was found in

the mouth of a fish to pay tax

👉🏼By His spoken Word directly to Lazarus, He commanded him to come forth, and, he who had been dead for four days came back to life.
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Here's the catch...God has exalted His Word even above His name & He backs it up with His integrity.💪🏻

*Speak directly to;*
👉🏼Your business
👉🏼Your marriage
👉🏼Your health
👉🏼Your FINANCES
👉🏼Your Womb
👉🏼Speak to every dead, dying, crawling or confusing. You can even call forth those things that be not as if they were.
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Today, as you speak directly, you will see a tangible

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*Ezekiel 16:9 MSG*
I gave you a good bath, washing off all that old blood, and anointed you with aromatic oils.
Ezekiel 16:11 I adorned you with jewelry: I placed bracelets on your wrists, fitted you out with a necklace,

Ezekiel 16:13 You were provided with everything precious and beautiful: with exquisite clothes and elegant food, garnished with honey and oil. You were absolutely stunning. You were a queen!👇🏼

It's your time for a major change. A major shift. A new appearance.

👉🏼God will adorn you with extravagant wealth, garment, honour, blessings and Favour💃🏼

👉🏼You will no longer be looked down on.
👉🏼You will no longer be overlooked.
👇🏼
Kings will come to the brightness of your rising.

👉🏼From now on, all men will seek you to do you good.

This scripture is not only deep, but, also very profound.

Ephesians 2:6 KJV
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 2:6 MSG
Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

1. "He hath Raised us up..." KJV
"HE picked us up. MSG

2. "...and made us sit together" KJV
"...and set us down" MSG

3. "sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" KJV
"set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah." MSG

Truly, He raised us up. Truly, He picked us up.
Truly, He made us sit 2geda in heavenly places with Christ.
Truly, He set us down in highest heaven with Jesus

These quests. thus arise.

Are we still seated?
Or
Have we walked away because, our ways are at cross-purposes with His

If we are truly seated, we will always carry His fire everywhere we go.
1. Worship wouldn't be a burden.
2. Praise wouldn't be a burden.
3. Gratitude wouldn't be a burden.
4. A lot of stuffs wouldn't throw us under the bus and make us look helpless.

Now, when was the last time we had a daily, weekly or monthly review of where we are?

When was the last time we brought out out "Monitor Guage?"

Have you noticed or observed that, We monitor almost everything in life;
From the petrol in our car to that in our generators.

Whispering Enemies, the Bible calls them in Hebs 1v13b TPT

"Take your seat next to me at my right hand until I force your whispering enemies to be a rug under your feet.”

These are some of d most potentially hurtful people.

They whisper everytime you record any accomplishment.

They make a mockery of everything God does for you and try to water it down.

They believe, it shouldn't have been you.
They believe, it should have been them.

They abound in the workplace, Family circle, neighbourhood. Infact, they are everywhere.

They are not bold enough to

congratulate you when others are doing so. They are mortally pained and wounded because, God chose you above them
(Hebrew 1v 9 TPT -
For this reason, God, your God, has anointed you and poured out the oil of bliss on you
more than on any of your friends.”)

They are in the same "zip code" with Envy and jealousy

BUT;

They forgot one thing. God does not need their input when He wants to bless you and neither does He take into consideration their appraisal, approval or disapproval of you.

God says to tell you this morning;
"I will

JUDAS -Part 1

Mark 14:10-11
Our text today deals with a man named Judas Iscariot.

He is, without a doubt, d most notorious & most vilified of all d disciples.

His name appears last in every list of d disciples, except in Acts 1, where his name does not appear at all.

2. Every time he is mentioned in the Bible, the Word of God reminds us that he betrayed Jesus .

Judas was a failure as a disciple, and this why...
- He was exposed to the same teaching d others heard.
- He saw d same miracles & was involved in the same ministries.

3. Yet, Judas never came to saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Judas spent 3 years with d Jesus & he died lost.
- The others were converted during their time with d Lord; Judas only became spiritually hard, calloused & hateful.

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1. The other eleven disciples were used of God in amazing ways.
2. Their lives demonstrate the truth that common, ordinary people can be used of the Lord in extraordinary ways.
3. Judas, on the other hand, stands as a stark warning about the dangers of wasted opportunities,

5. hardness of heart, wicked lusts, and spiritual carelessness.
While Judas could be considered a failure as a disciple, he was the most successful hypocrite of all time.
1. He played his part so well that no one but Jesus Himself knew that Judas was a fraud and a pretender.