The Insights

ANCHOR TEXT: “They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory” Mark 10:37. An ambition that does not take others into consideration is selfish. A selfish ambition is a product of the flesh. It is out to gain fame, respect, renown, or importance so that it can exercise power over others. This type of ambition violates the principles of respect for the value and worth of all people. The danger of misguided, and unchecked ambition manifested itself in a classic case over two thousand years ago during an exchange between Jesus and two of His disciples recorded in Mark 10:35-37. Brothers James and John requested of Jesus: ‘let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory’. They coveted a position of leadership and power for themselves rather than for the purpose of serving others. Why this request? Why at this time? Are they the only disciples? What about others? Why couldn’t they allow Jesus to handle that? QUOTE OF ...

Memorise: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Psalms 50:15 Read: 1 Samuel 1:9-13, 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of theLord. 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto theLord, and wept sore. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, OLordof hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto theLordall the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. 12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before theLord, that Eli marked her mouth. 13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. MESSAGE There is one thing that a child of God needs to know and do when he or she nee...

“Then David asked the Lord, “Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?” And the Lord told him, “Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you!”  1 Sam.30:8 God is taking us on a journey. I believe that for some of us reading today’s devotional [I pray for all of us], God is moving you from relegation to promotion. God’s Word for you is victory and to secure victory, we need to deploy proven principles of war. In deploying these principles of war, victory is assured. The Principle of the Offensive is: advance and attack the opposition, grab and exploit the opportunities. After you have set a clear objective, the next thing is to advance. Begin to move forward, begin to attack, begin to grab, begin to seize, and begin to exploit opportunities. Sadly, a lot of us are passive. We are just sitting and waiting for a miracle. Waiting for heaven to do stuff. But God is saying, you advance, you attack, you seize and grab the oppor...

ANCHOR TEXT: “Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties” 1 Kings 3:7. Unless you are willing to give up your struggles and turn them over to God, you will always make poor results of them. Unless you are ready to cooperate and join forces with God you will always feel the void of inadequacy. You are just not strong, or wise enough to confront life challenges all alone. One with God is truly the majority. Detach yourself from God and you will be helplessly and hopelessly lost in the jungle of life. Why must you join forces with God? First, you don’t know enough. Second, you are facing gigantic forces over which you have no control and against which you have no weapon. QUOTE OF THE DAY:“YOU AND GOD ARE UNBEATABLE TEAM

“If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves” Prov. 29:18 Clarity is one thing but certainty is another. In fact, uncertainty is a permanent part of life. Many of us hate uncertainty but some of us have learned to grow very comfortable in an uncertain situation. Uncertain situations do not bother me rather I strive for clarity. Uncertainty never goes away. While we can afford to be uncertain, we cannot afford to be unclear. You need clarity of thought. The only thing you can be one hundred percent certain about is the past. I know theology crusaders say faith, we can be certain of God's Word. “God said it, I believe it, that settles it”. Didn’t the Bible say that faith is the substance [the certainty] of things hoped for? I am aware about all that but I have also discovered that God's Word only brings clarity to “what”, in most cases “how” always remains uncertain. Faith is the substance of the things hoped for. There is clarity about “wha...

Memorise:  I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. Isaiah 43:21 Read: Daniel 5:20-21, 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. MESSAGE After king Nebuchadnezzar was deposed from his kingly throne, his glory was taken away from him and he was disgraced to the point of eating grass like oxen, he came back to his senses to realise that the Most High God is the ultimate ruler in the kingdom of men. The problem with the king was that he got carried away with his achievements, thinking that they were the bye-products of his wisdom and phys...

ANCHOR TEXT: “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will” Romans 12:2. The essence of mankind is not competition; it is creativeness. Throughout the universe, there is not another you, nor has there ever been another you. If this is the case, is it not ridiculous to attempt to mould yourself into a likeness of your fellow; or to attempt to undo the work that God has done? The universe has wired no other person like you, so, only you can be you. Running the rat race simply means competing with others or trying to be like others on the basis of what they have that you do not have. It means forcing yourself to do what you are not wired to do. Competition attempts to be like but creativeness attempts to be unlike. Competition casts all humanity into the same mold, but creativeness makes of each man an individual counterpart...