PRETENDING

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  PRETENDING Proverbs 13:1-10 Devotional:- “There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; And one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches” (v.7) NKJV One other instrument of the devil to steal people’s joy is to fill their hearts with pretence. To pretend is to behave or talk like, or put yourself in a status, that you are not. It is to use what you don’t have to impress people who do not like you. It is to give people a false impression about you. This always results in a show of shame and sorrow. In the scripture we read today, there is the picture of a poor man who pretended to be rich. Who is he deceiving? Today you will see some people borrowing to spray at a party. Some will arrive at a beer parlour and ask everybody to be served, while at home, there is no food, and children's school fees are yet to be paid. Some are known to be very good outside to their secretaries, receptionists and the like, while at home they don’t have any credibility (Proverbs 12:9, Job 2...

IN THEN OUT

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IN THEN OUT

Matthew 12:33-37
Devotional:- "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things". (V. 35)

    If anyone want to succeed, it is important that we realize that it has to be first built inside before it can truly manifest outside. Everyone wants the external manifestation of success but most people do not want to labour to build a life of success. Until your heart is qualified to succeed, pursuit of success will always be a frustration.

Jesus says, a good man bring forth good things out of his heart. This means our heart composition is the determinant of our level of success. Someone said the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart. Until your heart is rightly structured it will be a big issue to have a sustaining success. This is so because our heart is what determines our life. (Proverbs 23:7). It is our heart that is the engine of production of what we shall have in this world. If we have what we don’t have the heart capacity for, we are bound to lose it.

Friend, stop getting frustrated trying to control what you cannot control. Identify the needed character and start to labouring to attain the positive attitude that make you capable to handle it (Matthew 12:33). Labour to attain emotional balance, start to labour to always act positively. Labour to cultivate right habits of success in life. Labour to build success mindset. Labour to build right belief system and you will start to work in the part of success. God always release us into our success but it is our attitude and mind-set that often deny us access. When these are rightly put in place then success is inevitable. Peace!

Prayer: Lord, help me to be humble to build inner character of success.

“JUMPING UP IS NOT EQUAL TO GROWING UP”

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