Word of the week
2 Kings 5:1 NLT
“The king of Aram had great admiration for Naaman, the commander of his army, because through him the Lord had given Aram great victories. But though Naaman was a mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy.”
Naaman a valiant man was a leper.
What is that ‘but’ in your life?
That but is a limiting factor.
What is the limiting factor in your life?
For example, you are a kind hearted man but you are also hot tempered.
You are very diligent in your place of work but you have envy and competition in your heart
You are a very diligent church worker, very much on top of your duties in church but you are a gossip
You are a faithful wife or husband. You love your family but you are lazy
So, you see a bad attribute is constantly trying to cancel out a good attribute.
This is a problem for everyone that is still in this flesh.
For Naaman, his limiting factor was that he liked to be recognised. He was therefore very upset when the prophet Elisha refused to recognise him and his position and instead sent a servant to him to give him instructions on what to do to reconfirm his leprosy.
So, talking about limiting factor, where do we go from here?
What is the way out?
To conquer the limiting factor, one needs humility, prayer and a daily watch.
Naaman had to consciously humble himself to receive Elisha’s instructions after he thought Elisha had slighted him.
Humility makes you to search yourself.
After you have searched yourself, the next step is to ask God for help in the place of prayer.
Also, you have to work on the limiting factor daily because you don’t know when it will show its face.
When you pray and ask God for help, He will remove the limiting factor in your life militating against your greatness and He will take you to a height you never imagined in life. So shall it be for you in Jesus Name
Message of the week
Galatians 6:2,5 NLT
Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. For we are each responsible for our own conduct.
In our first series on choices, I spoke about how I was fortunate that my parents gave me the opportunity to make many choices about my life.
In the second series I talked about how you must let people make their own choices, no matter how injurious their choice may be.
Today I want to talk about those that were not so fortunate; those that had other people make poor choices for them.
Before I continue, I want to give a caveat.
Can I please say that I believe in the sanctity of marriage. Malachi 2:16 GNT says, ‘I hate divorce’.
If you perhaps made a wrong choice of who to marry or maybe the choice was made for you, this broadcast is not encouraging you to divorce.
I would always encourage people to stay in their marriages unless there’s physical abuse which is a threat to life.
So, having said this, I will tell you a true life story of my friend, Sarah.
Sarah is not her real name and she’s probably watching me right now.
My friend, Sarah studied Linguistics in the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Thereafter, she got married and became the owner of a bookshop.
One day, Sarah realised that studying Linguistics was not her first choice of study. When she was about to fill the university entrance form then, she told her older sister she wanted to choose Law.
Sarah’s sister told her she didn’t have the capability to study Law. She then advised her sister to study Linguistics.
So, Sarah decided to go back to the university to study Law as that was what she really wanted to do in the first place.
Sarah went back to the university to study Law after having 3 children. She finished her law degree, went to Law School, she did her Masters degree in Law and is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Law.
In addition, she and a friend both run a law firm.
The moral of this story is that no matter who had made poor choices for you in the past, a time will come when the ability to correct that poor choice or those poor choices will be made available to you.
You have to seize the opportunity when it presents itself to you.
Otherwise, you will forever be blaming other people about your life.
Meanwhile, your life is under your control. I don’t even think your life is under God’s control because He has give you free will. God even said in Joshua 1:8 that YOU will make YOUR way prosperous if you fulfil some conditions.
If you want to do something, God will make a way for you to do it.
So, seize the moment. Correct anything that needs to be corrected in your life. Fine tune those things in your life that are going on well.
And keep being watchful of your present and future choices, in order to avoid making poor and substandard choices.
All will be well with us in Jesus Name
