December 31, 2010
Your New Year Resolution!
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The Question Is: "What sort of New Year’s Resolution should a Christian make?"
Answer: The practice of making New Year’s resolutions goes back over 3000 years to the ancient Babylonians. There is just something about the start of a New Year that gives us the feeling of a fresh start and a new beginning. In reality, there is no difference between December 31st and January 1st. Nothing mystical occurs at midnight on December 31st. The Bible does not speak for or against the concept of New Year’s resolutions. However, if a Christian determines to make a New Year’s resolution, what kind of resolution should he or she make?
Common New Year’s resolutions are: to quit smoking, to stop drinking, to manage money better, and spend more time with family. By far the most common New Year’s resolution is to lose weight, in conjunction with exercising more and eating healthier. These are all good goals to set. However, 1 Timothy 4:8 instructs us to keep exercise in perspective: “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” The vast majority of New Year’s resolutions, even among Christians, are in relation to physical things. This should not be.
Many Christians make New Year’s resolutions to pray more, to read the Bible every day, and to attend church more regularly. These are fantastic goals. However, these New Year’s resolutions fail just as often as the non-spiritual resolutions, because there is no power in a New Year’s resolution. Resolving to start or stop doing a certain activity has no value unless you have the proper motivation for stopping or starting that activity. For example, why do you want to read the Bible every day? Is it to honor God and grow spiritually, or is it because you have just heard that it is a good thing to do? Why do you want to lose weight? Is it to honor God with your body, or is it for vanity, to honor yourself?
Philippians 4:13 tells us, “I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.” John 15:5 declares, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” If God is the center of your New Year’s resolution, it has chance for success, depending on your commitment to it. If it is God’s will for something to be fulfilled, He will enable you to fulfill it. If a resolution is not God honoring and/or is not in agreement in God’s Word, we will not receive God’s help in fulfilling the resolution.
So, what sort of New Year’s resolution should a Christian make? Here are some suggestions: (1) Pray to the Lord for wisdom (James 1:5) in regards to what resolutions, if any, He would have you make; (2) Pray for wisdom as to how to fulfill the goals God gives you; (3) Rely on God’s strength to help you; (4) Find an accountability partner who will help you and encourage you; (5) Don’t become discouraged with occasional failures; instead allow them to motivate you further; (6) Don’t become proud or vain, but give God the glory. Psalm 37:5-6, “Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.”
Culled from FULL GOSPEL EVANGELISM facebook group and written by Pastor McKivett
The Question Is: "What sort of New Year’s Resolution should a Christian make?"Answer: The practice of making New Year’s resolutions goes back over 3000 years to the ancient Babylonians. There is just something about the start of a New Year that gives us the feeling of a fresh start and a new beginning. In reality, there is no difference between December 31st and January 1st. Nothing mystical occurs at midnight on December 31st. The Bible does not speak for or against the concept of New Year’s resolutions. However, if a Christian determines to make a New Year’s resolution, what kind of resolution should he or she make?
Common New Year’s resolutions are: to quit smoking, to stop drinking, to manage money better, and spend more time with family. By far the most common New Year’s resolution is to lose weight, in conjunction with exercising more and eating healthier. These are all good goals to set. However, 1 Timothy 4:8 instructs us to keep exercise in perspective: “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.” The vast majority of New Year’s resolutions, even among Christians, are in relation to physical things. This should not be.
Many Christians make New Year’s resolutions to pray more, to read the Bible every day, and to attend church more regularly. These are fantastic goals. However, these New Year’s resolutions fail just as often as the non-spiritual resolutions, because there is no power in a New Year’s resolution. Resolving to start or stop doing a certain activity has no value unless you have the proper motivation for stopping or starting that activity. For example, why do you want to read the Bible every day? Is it to honor God and grow spiritually, or is it because you have just heard that it is a good thing to do? Why do you want to lose weight? Is it to honor God with your body, or is it for vanity, to honor yourself?
Philippians 4:13 tells us, “I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.” John 15:5 declares, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” If God is the center of your New Year’s resolution, it has chance for success, depending on your commitment to it. If it is God’s will for something to be fulfilled, He will enable you to fulfill it. If a resolution is not God honoring and/or is not in agreement in God’s Word, we will not receive God’s help in fulfilling the resolution.So, what sort of New Year’s resolution should a Christian make? Here are some suggestions: (1) Pray to the Lord for wisdom (James 1:5) in regards to what resolutions, if any, He would have you make; (2) Pray for wisdom as to how to fulfill the goals God gives you; (3) Rely on God’s strength to help you; (4) Find an accountability partner who will help you and encourage you; (5) Don’t become discouraged with occasional failures; instead allow them to motivate you further; (6) Don’t become proud or vain, but give God the glory. Psalm 37:5-6, “Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.”
Culled from FULL GOSPEL EVANGELISM facebook group and written by Pastor McKivett
December 28, 2010
Who am I? Find Out!
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SELF-ACTUALIZATION is one of those words you have equally heard and you've never really given a thought. I stumbled on some points and decided to share...If you really want to achieve self-actualization and live a happy and fulfilled life, then follow these simple steps...  A glance at the Chart! •Be willing to change •Take responsibility •Enjoy being you •Realize your dreams •Accept that you are not perfect •Learn from good times •Be an active member of your community •Look for good in others •Assess your progress •Keep learning These points are very important... You can share this amongst people you really want to reach. |
December 26, 2010
How Sound is your Financial IQ?
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One of the greatest problems that is plaguing our nation is the fact that we are very wasteful. We do not know how to conserve resources. We are a generation of spenders, we have always learnt how to earn money, and spend it as fast as it comes.
Believe you me, if you want to be rich, you must be ready to learn and unlearn. You must be
willing to learn new things, while at the same time you have to discard those things that you learned while at school that is now obsolete, and that is no longer working. Here are some of those things you need to learn as fast as you could:
willing to learn new things, while at the same time you have to discard those things that you learned while at school that is now obsolete, and that is no longer working. Here are some of those things you need to learn as fast as you could:
- How to make more and more money?
- How to spend less and less?
- How to avoid wasteful spending?
In order to gauge your Financial Intelligent Quotient, I want you to provide answers to these thought-provoking questions.
- Why do most banks choose to hire cars and vehicles through leasing instead of
buying their own outrightly? - Some block-making industries won’t buy their own trucks outrightly but instead
they hire trucks to convey their products only when they get orders for their products. What have you got to say about their decision? - If you were to choose between a thousand naira that is appreciating with a compounding daily of 50% daily for a year and the option of having one million naira now, which one will you choose?
Please feel free to send your reply to my questions.
I remain yours truly,
Caleb B.Adewole.
100% Responsibility!
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This is a sure way to live a successful and happy life
The first step to taking full responsibility is to be responsible for your own personal life. Like discipline, responsibility is one of those words that you may have heard and you’ve developed a bit of allergy to it. But the truth remains, ‘you are totally responsible for your life’. This is the foundation principle you must embrace if you really want to succeed in life and be happy.
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. We are responsible for everything that we experience, the decisions we make, our achievements, the results we get, our income, our feelings and generally everything that happens around us.
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