The Insights

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” 2 Timothy 4:7. In the 2006 Olympics, sprinters from different countries were stationed on the field in their respective tracks to compete for the final of the 400 meters relay race. Sadly, a particular country failed to reach the end of the track. Why? A sprinter that was coming with the baton, for unknown reason failed to hand over the baton successfully to the waiting sprinter ahead of him. As both were trying to exchange baton, the baton fell in the process, and the race could not continue. Not only were they left behind by their counterparts, they lost out of the race. This same phenomenon happens in life. As generations go and generations come, we hand over baton to one another. The point is; things get better and a purpose is served when we run well with the baton handed over to us by our predecessors. With this, I mean taking responsibility for whatever we have been given and make a better use

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.” (Mark 2:22, NKJV) Message: Are you ready for increase? Are you ready to go to the next level spiritually, physically and emotionally? In today’s verse, Jesus is basically saying that you can’t go to a new level with an old way of thinking. I’ve found that many people hear the truth that God has more in store for them, and something resonates on the inside. Their spirit comes into agreement with God. But oftentimes, their natural minds will try to talk them out it. Thoughts come like, “It’s not going to happen for you. You’re not going to have a great year. You know what the economy is like.” Or, “You’re never going to get well. You saw what the medical report said.” “You’re never going to get married. You’ve been single so long.” Friend, those are the old wineskins that you have to get rid of.

Memorise: Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:22 Read: Isaiah 45:20-25 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24 Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall b