Marriage, friendship, parenting and living at peace with others.
Without courage, you will know the right thing but you won’t do it. Without courage, you will know you are being treated unfairly but you will continue suffering. Without courage, one person or a group of people can exploit the masses for many years. Without courage, there would never be martyrs and independence heroes. Without courage, there will never be innovations and discoveries.
There is no way you can be heaven-bound and divided. If you still have divisions among you, you are hell-bound, the journey to heaven is unattainable wishful thinking. No one gets to heaven divided and bitterly so. If you still have divisions among you it’s dangerous!
Avoid being among the irreverent. Those who casually and lightly go about the holy things of God. Those who use phones in worship to engage in entertainment and social media communication. Those who by their presence, dressing, and conduct, degrade the place of worship to a commonplace. Those who generate and share jokes about God. Such people offend God. Avoid being listed among such people!
He came out when I was lonely. He came out when I was indisposed. He came out during a road accident. He came out when I was stressed and depressed. He came out that is why I am still alive. You came out, come out again!
May God save us from living such bad lives that when terrible things happen to us, the world rejoices. We should be sensitive about how we treat people around us and under us so that our bad news is not their good news. Nineveh was so bad that its downfall was the best news to the world. Ensure that your bad news is not good news!
God disciplines with a plan to restore. The person God allows you to punish today will be restored by the same God in the near future because that is how God works. He disciplines with an intention to restore. Remember this when punishing the guilty!
Has your family betrayed you? Love again. Have any of your friends betrayed you? Love again. Are colleagues the source of your troubles and all love is lost and the place has become toxic? Love again. Are you tired of everything around here and all you feel like is quitting? Love again. Love your job again. Love your spouse again. Love your parents again. Love your children again. Love your relatives again. Show your love again!
Are you so faithful to God that a boyfriend or girlfriend is most likely to break up with you because you don’t engage in sex before marriage? Will they light a fire in advance? Is your mischievous spouse so sure you won’t cheat that they have to find other grounds to accuse you? Are your bosses and customers so sure that you will deliver on the assignment that they will not try to catch you on incompetence and will need other grounds? Will they have to act in advance since you are so faithful to God? Will they light a fire in advance?
First, a good leader is given by God…Secondly, a good leader is after God’s own heart…Thirdly, a good leader leads with knowledge.