7 Wisdom Keys

"Wisdom is the principal thing- Proverbs 4:7"


Everything we are pursuing is a product of wisdom



1.What you can tolerate you cannot change- you must hate the present to qualify for the future.

2.What you respect you will attract- to have respect for something is to value that thing. The things you don’t respect will move away from you.

3.What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you. - Bless someone and go to God for the harvest. if you pay someone back because of what they’ve done for you then you’re limited by their ability and timing but Gods blessing has no limit.

4.The secret if your future is hidden in your daily routine. - if you succeed, it will be because of a habit.

5.Your rewards in life are decided by the kind of problems you are willing to solve for others. You will only be remembered in life for two things, the problems you create and the ones you solve.

6.If you insist on taking something God did not give you, he will take something he gave you. If you take back the tithe (10%), he will take back the 90%. Returning the tithe is acknowledging you have a debt because you owe everything to God and cannot repay the debt.

7.An uncommon seed will create an uncommon harvest. A seed is anything that has value; that can create more. Time, love, mercy-these are all seeds. Sow a seed today!

~Dr Mike Murdock

The Lord is good all the time!

Shape up! ..The teacup tells its story

I wasn't always like this. let me tell you my story:

I used to be a hard,cold lump of clay when one day the potter picked me up and said " i could do something with this". He started to gradually put pressure on me and change my shape.

Out of shock, i asked "what are you doing? That hurts. Stop!!" but he said "not yet" then he put me on a wheel and began to spin me around until I shouted, "let me off". Again he replied "Not yet". Then he shaped me into a cup and put me into a hot oven. I cried so hard "let me out of here!" but again he replied calmly "Not yet".

When he took me out, i thought surely his work must be done now but you wouldn't belive what happened next. He painted me and put me back in the oven!
I struggled and cried saying "I can't stand this, pelase let me out!" But he said "not yet".

Finally he took me out of the oven and set me on a shelf where i thought he had forgoten me.
Oh here comes the best part; One day he took me off the shelf and held me up before a mirror. I just couldn't believe my eyes. I had become a beautiful teacup that everyone wanted to buy.


And guess what...I AM still that teacup that everyone wants to buy!!

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There are things going on in your life that you don't understand.The pain, the pressure, the hardship, sometimes you just wonder what exactly they are there for. When you finally get to the place that God wants you to be, you'll realse that He has been making you into a vesssel He can use, bless and use to bless others. So Allow God to mould you..Get into shape!

"...We are the clay and you our Potter..." - Isaiah 64:8

The Lord is good all the time!

Embracing the moment

We all have moments..some of them we love and some we absolutely hate.


Moments add up and over time they build a picture of our life.The ups and downs become a cycle in life - today you might be in your 'up' phase, tomorrow might be different.


Some moments are just just difficult to embrace and get your arms around.With others we fail to realise the moment because we are so caught up in our own thing, trying to figure out how to calm our stress.


But you don't have to figure out each moment of life on your own. When you come to a dark time, you can out your hands in Jesus hands and walk through it together.


HIS goodness is ever there for you because HE has given you the light you need for whatever step you're on.



~Don't be scared to go through 'life'


~Don't be afraid of the darkness in front of you


~Don't be afraid of what you might find at the other end of the tunnel



JESUS + YOU = VICTORY

"In the day when i cried out, you answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul- Psalm 138:3"



The Lord is good all the time!

Speak Life and Praise God

Elisse sat there is the dark corner of her room, hands folded and head buried in her lap.

Hot tears rolled down her cheeks and hit her grey trousers like bullets.her eyes were blood-shot red. Her final exams were coming up soon and she was buried up to her neck in piles of work.

Recently she'd been working in vain.She had been so busy that she hardly had time for herself or for her God. The day would begin with a "thank you lord for waking up this morning, please give me favour as I go out" and would end with a snore rather than a prayer.

And it began to seem like all her opened doors were gradually closing.

She was losing strength and there just wasn't enough hours in the day to accomplish all she would have wanted to.

3 months ago, she was knocked down by her results and that's when this 'workaholic spiral' started.She'd worked hard for months just trying to make sure that history does not repeat itself during her final exams.What will happen if the world collapsed on her again?

through her sadness, she heard a voice. "Praise me Elisse, speak life to your situation so I can act on it". in the midst of her tears, she saw hope!

why Have you left me till now?" she asked God

"My child, i have never left you nor forsaken you....let my name be praised.Remember it's not by your strength"

I hope my words and thoughts please you.Lord you are my rock, The one who saves me- Psalm 19:14

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I don't know if there's someone out there who just feels like life is a burden right now. You feel as though the moment you solve on problem another one is next in line waiting to blow up at you doorstep. but there's hope!

you might feel too depressed to Praise God but actually that's the only way you get out of that depression. Speak life to your circumstances.

you might have been applying for a job for the past 6months and still there's no vacancy..continue to Praise God and thank him for already giving you that job (and continue applying of course).

you might be buried in school work like Elisse but make that time to Pray and seek God for his guidance. You'd be surprised how you'd suddenly discover you have reservoirs of strength and your time management is just too 'hot'!

wipe those tears from your eyes, speak life and Praise God!

The Lord is good all the time!

Getting Past your past

When God determines your future, he doesn’t consult your past. Actually, he has already determined your future and according to Jeremiah 29:11, he has good plans for you; to give you a future and a hope.
You might think to yourself that right now your life is ‘hell on earth’, it’s a dead-end BUT God has said that your future has hope…
God knew what your life would be like even before you were formed in the womb but he still promised you a bright future.

So your past doesn’t matter one bit!!

Peter was a fisherman with a temper and some anti-social tendencies however, God filled him with so much spiritual power that when he preached, multitudes came to Christ.
Look at someone who you might relate to better: Abraham Lincoln
He lost several elections before finally becoming one of America’s greatest presidents.

You can’t seize your future while you’re obsessing over your past.
Learn from it and let it go.
Nobody starts out being good everything…if that were the case you would never learn anything.

“..Do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing” (Isaiah 43:18-19)

The Lord is good all the time!

Wash Day

Monday Wash Day

Lord,help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity,

so I may serve youwith perfect humility through the week ahead.

Tuesday Ironing Day

Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles

of prejudice I have collected through the years

so that I may see the beauty in others.

Wednesday Mending Day

O God, help me mend my ways

so I will not set a bad example for others.

Thursday Cleaning Day

Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults

I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart.

Friday Shopping Day

O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal

happiness for myself and all others in need of love.

Saturday Cooking Day

Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it

with clean, sweet bread of human kindness.

Sunday The Lord's Day

O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please come into my heart so I

may spend the day and the rest of my life in your presence

.'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind ofbattle.' have a blessed day!

The Lord is good all the time!

GOSSIP- trend or treachery, fashion or vice?

There's always that itch to talk about what Sally did today or what's going on in Ian's home; but did you ever stop to think that maybe if you talk to that person rather than about them, you just might be able to help.... you know, the perfect solution to the problem?

There is a saying "the deepest wounds in life come not from swords but words". If you don't believe it, look at the wounded walking; they're all around you!

Are you yourself still struggling with the hurtful words of an insensitive parent, a school teacher, a friend or a boss?

Proverbs 18:21 'The tongue has the power of life and death'....what you say can make a life changing difference.Your words can heal or they can be that knife that digs deep into the heart, cutting open a fresh wound.

Words when spoken are like feathers dispersed in the wind, they cannot be retrieved. You CAN'T take them back! your thoughts do not necessarily have to be uttered all the time. if you have to speak, speak only the positive- don't destroy a great friendship because that's exactly what GOSSIP would do!

Remember: Proverbs 12:18 "Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing".

Are you a gossip? Mend your ways!

The Lord is good all the time!

JUST FOR TODAY

I was listening to a song by India Arie the other day and the words ministered to me.

the song goes: 'just for today, i will not worry

what tomorrow will bring'.

In Matthew 6:25-34, it says "do not worry about your life......Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?....do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow wil worry about itself".

As christians we live a life of faith. we move through life blind-folded and when we come to the edge of a cliff, it's either God gives us the wings to fly or there's something down there for us to land on- Now that's faith!

you know what; you don't know tomorrow but God does!

He not only knows tomorrow but he knows the day after and the weeks and months following that too.

so when you find yourself wondering praise Him. praise is an expression of your faith!

further into India Arie's song, it says:

'.....i just do my best,

put one foot in front of theother

keep on miving forward

let God do the rest.'

we all have a purpose beut one thing is for certain- if you don't move, you won't know what that purpise is and definitely won't get it fulfilled. you've got to put God in control, listen to that small still voice and you'll be led day by day, a step at a time.

life is a mystery, embrace it, enjoy it and take your directions from God!.

The Lord is good all the time!

PROTECT YOUR FOUNDATION

Acts 20:31 " Be on your guard"

When the foundation crumbles even the most expensive house will fall. Thank God for our spiritual foundations.

Today there’s a lot of flaky stuff being pedaled in the name of truth. But when you examine it closely it’s a teaspoon of truth in an ocean of error. Anytime you take the scripture out of context, you end up with a pretext (a reason for doing as you please!). So, What are you supposed to do?” Do what the Bereans did. “They received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true” (Acts 17:11). the teachings the Bereans put under the searchlight of Scripture were Paul’s!

No leader, regardless of the size of their following is beyond such scrutiny. Indeed, godly leaders welcome it. Anytime someone claims special revelation from God that does not line up with Scripture – run in the opposite direction. This may sounds a little harsh. So is surgery but it ‘ll save your life.

Does God have more to say to us? Absolutely. When you take your last breath you still won’t know it all. And does God have better strategies for reaching others with His Word? Yes. And we must embrace them if we’re to reap the final harvest before the Lord of the harvest returns, but never at the cost of God’s eternal, unchanging Word. And that’s the message Paul
was proclaiming: “From your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard!
…Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up” (Acts 20:30-32).

The Lord is good all the time!