TOPIC: PROOF OF PROFESSED SUBJECTION UNTO THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST

2 COR. 9:13-15,  1 Tim 6:12, Cor. 8:24, 2 Cor 3:1-3, 2 Cor 2:9, 2 Tim 4:5, 1Tim 3:10, Phil. 4:17, 1 Tim.4:5b.

There must be evidence of ones professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ. One of such is when you are liberal unto the fellow brethren and, unto all men. There must be evidence of exceeding grace of God in you. Holiness is evidence. Liberal distribution is an unspeakable gift of God. Righteousness is an evidence.  Others include:

YOUR WIFE IS THE OBJECT OF YOUR LOVE AND YOUR HUSBAND IS THE OBJECT OF YOUR REVERENCE (EPH. 5:33)

The wife is expected to reverence the husband.  She is to respect and honour him as the church reverence and honour Christ.  She is not to insult the husband; she is not to speak against the husband.  She is not to complain about the husband to anyone.  Rather she is to be in subjection to the husband, 1Pet. 3:1-6.   She is to adorn herself with the meek and quiet spirit of the hidden man of the heart.  She may adorn herself moderately with outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold and putting on of apparel.  She is to be chaste in conversation.  She is to fear the husband.

ACCEPT YOURSELF AS YOU SEE AND ACCEPT OTHERS AS YOU SEE THEM.

David said, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made”. Learn to accept yourself as you see and accept others as you see them. It is difficult to create things and difficult to make things happen. Do not worry concerning how you see yourself and others. Change what you can and what you cannot change leave. If you are handsome or beautiful good but if you are ugly still good. Both of you are fearfully and wonderfully made. If you can improve your situation good. Dressing well is good. It is to improve one’s status. Fixing of attachment and make – up is good. It is to improve one’s look.  Song of Solomon 8:8. However, let everything be done with moderation.

TOPIC: RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST FROM BEING A SHEEP TO A SHERPHED

Christ came to bring righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Christ came to bring meaning to your life from you becoming a shepherd after being a sheep. Becoming a giver after being a receiver.

You must necessarily give something to others if your life must have a meaning. You can give food, money, wisdom, knowledge, house, clothes and laughter to others. You can give healing, prayer and words of advice to others as a reasonable and complete human being. You can give Bible, song book and school text books to others. You can even give scholarship to others. Giving is not only limited to the poor and needy. You can equally give to the rich. After all everyone both rich and poor have need.

TOPIC: VALUE WHAT YOU HAVE (1 TIM. 6:6-9)

Be contented and satisfied with what you have at present.  Value it less it be taken away from you.   Seek the Lord while He may yet be found, call upon His name while He is near.  Value that time for it may be taken from you.  Show gratitude with what you have.  Appreciate what is done for you and more will come.  Do not despise the days of small things.  Value your wife, husband, teacher, student, pastor, member, preacher, mother, father, brother, sister, aunty, uncle etc.  if you do not love what you see already how can you love what you have not seen.  Be contented with people and situation.  Don’t feel frustrated.

TOPIC: PRINCIPLE OF FORGIVENESS. (MATT 18:15-35)

Forgiveness is not gained or to be done anyhow or unconditionally.  Before God forgives you, you must humble yourself and confess your sins and then ask for forgiveness.  God by then will not fail to forgive  you.  By then it shows your submissiveness and subjection to God.  Also another condition for God to forgive you is that you must forgive others their sins without which God cannot forgive you even if you ask.

TOPIC: SPIRITUAL UNDERTONES FOR YOUR RENEWAL: THE APPOINTED TIME HAS COME

God can always do it again. He is God of repetition. He did it for Daniel, Moses, Jesus, Lazarus, Shedrach, Meshach, Abednego, Hannah, Elizabeth, the virgin Mary, Zachariah, Manoah, Gideon, Sampson, John, David, Samuel, Elijah, Joseph, Elisha, Naaman, Hezekiah, Jehoshaphat, Mary Magdalene and Peter. God did it also for Jeremiah, Adam and Eve, Paul, Silas, Abel, Abraham, Sarah, Lot, Noah, Hagar, Ishmael, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah, Rachel, Pharaoh’s Cupbearer, Aaron, Joshua, Jael, Miriam, Israelites in the wilderness, etc, etc.

God always repeat events as he likes. God has appointed time for everything in your life. He has time table for you. God told the troubled prophet Habakkuk, “The vision is for an appointed time” – Hab. 2:1-4. The appointed time does not always fail to come. Know that there are lots of events lined up to take pace in your life. For some of them, the appointed time came and you were glad. Yet still for others, the appointed time could be today, tomorrow, next week, next year or two years to come.