Sunday, 30 July 2017
20:54:00
Monday, 3 April 2017
Often, as observed, the reason most relationships fails is not because of a difference of opinions, or the desire for different things. Many relationships fail because of the lack of understanding. The Merriam Webster dictionary puts understanding as "a willingness to understand people's behavior and forgive them".
Monday, 23 January 2017
18:26:00
Emmanuel Chimezie
Family, Relationships, Understanding
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A true saying has it that "the family that prays together, stays together. Here is another true saying: the family that eats together and communicates, raises well-adjusted children." The Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center studied five hundred teenagers and here's what they discovered: Children who's parents ate dinner with them five times a week or more were more the least likely to be on drugs, to be depressed, or to be in trouble with the law. They were also more likely to do well in school, and be surrounded by a supportive circle of friends. Even when families met together at a fast-food restaurant they got about the same results. By contrast, the more poorly adjusted teens ate with their parents only three times a week or less. So what's our findings?
2) When you give your children things or gifts, you give them a short term pleasure and excitement, but when you give them time, you give them self worth. This may call for working fewer hours or eliminating some certain activities, but it is an investment you'll never regret. Business and money chase ain't enough excuse to be some much away. Even Job, one of the wealthiest men in his generation, yet he was close to his children, being aware of their feasting. Yet he sort to always consecrate them continually. (Job 1:4,5). After tragedy struck and he lost all 10 of his children in a single day, he looked back and wrote " 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; (Job 29:5).
For more tips to teach your family read these:.
Ephesians 6:1-9; Colossians 3:20-21,
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 31:15 She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls.
Psalm 127:3-5 Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Proverbs 23:24 The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh
Proverbs 5:18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 19:14 Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 20:7 The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.
Ephesians 5:33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Psalm 115:13-14 He will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great. May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
God Bless you.
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Getting to know God on a personal basis should be the desire of any Christian. The process of getting closer to God could be a lot more easier if these 'Four common' habits could be eradicated. I call them common because of its level of prevalence in the emotional makeup of our society today.
Anger
If there is anger that you can’t seem to rid yourself of, you are preventing your growing closer to God, but also from growing closer to those around you. It seems today that patience doesn’t go very far before many people just spill out their anger and frustration. Jesus warned about anger, saying “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire” (Matt 5:22). Anger ruins our Christian witness and it tells God that we’re not contented at all with life.
Worry
Jesus asked His disciples “which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life” (Matt 6:27), and “if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith” (Matt 6:30), “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” (Matt 6:34). Worry is the opposite of trust. It says to God, “God, I am worried you won’t take care of me,” and that is not pleasing to God and it will stunt your growth in trying to grow closer to God.
Famine of the Word
What I mean by a “famine of the word” is starving oneself from the Word of God. When we avoid abiding in the vine, we are not getting the nourishment from the Word of God that we need on a daily basis (Matt 6:11). If you want to grow closer to God, then you’ll want to be in His Word on a daily basis. You can’t grow close to God by avoiding the words of God. God speaks to us through His written Word, but if you’re not in the Word, God cannot speak to you and you will be starving due to a lack of the Bread of Life (John 6:35).
Isolation
I cannot find even one Christian who was going it alone in their Christian faith in the New Testament church. We were called into a community of believers and fellowship with the saints, but if we isolate ourselves, we lack the accountability of other brothers and sisters in the church, but we’re also cut off from the sheepfold, and outside of the household of faith, Satan roams around like a lion, seeking whom he might devour (1st Pet 5:8), and he will look for stragglers who are separated from the herd. Christianity is not like being a lone ranger because even the Lone Ranger had Tonto.
Conclusion
I have counseled dozens of people in my life who felt they were growing further away from God, so then I asked about their prayer life: not much of one. Then I asked, “What about your Bible reading?” They don’t read it anymore, so now you see their problem. If you truly want to grow closer to God, try to avoid anger eruptions; try to not worry so much; stay in the Word of God on a daily basis, and don’t isolate yourself because we need one another, and it’s safer together than being out there alone.
May God richly bless you,
By Pastor Jack Wellman
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