The moment boils broke out on Job's body, the first aid he applied was a broken piece of pottery. There's a profound lesson here, no matter how brutal the breaker is, as long as the mortal is still in the hands of the Potter, He's the Maker, not of the fatal, but of the better.
To believe that wealth is vanity and poverty is not, is to be pegged where the Kingdom is in our heart, but our hands are too weak to push it. That believe system is handicapped, the scripture actually says 'all is vanity.' Poverty too is vanity, so let's choose our vanity wisely
The Lord told Abram, as far as you can see. So there is a dimension of the blessing that depends on sight. However, there is a higher dimension, because the first level implies that there is no possession for the blind. But in this next level, even blindness becomes an advantage.
There is a time to follow, there is a time to overtake. To compete or attempt to overtake when one should follow, is to become an experiment. The Israelites eventually overtook the priests in the middle of Jordan, but there was a time they had to follow them from a safe distance.
The same challenge during Nebuchadnezzar's reign resurfaced under Belshazzar, and became an opportunity for transgenerational relevance. What if Daniel was only a God user and didn't maintain his relationship with God? A God user is available and devoted only when (s)he needs God
Jesus never served any bread He didn't first break, and He never broke any bread that wasn't handed over to Him. It's the secret of divine multiplication, we can't escape being broken, we can only choose who/what breaks us, either Jesus unto multiplication or others unto division
If only the lost son knew that the thoughts of his father towards him were of good, the pigs' pods wouldn't have looked good to him. And that's the goal of condemnation, to alienate us from the Lord's thoughts toward us, to the point where the despicable starts looking delectable
The two storms faced by the disciples started either when Jesus was not in the boat, or when He was asleep. While the former storm is avoidable by getting Jesus into our boat, the latter is avoidable by keeping Him awake. So we shouldn't just have Christ, we must keep Him engaged
So Jesus prayed all night and then chose 12 disciples, what we'd tag today as praying through, but Jesus yet again prayed for Peter when satan desired to sift him, then the whole of John 17 too. That means it is an error to believe we're through with prayers after praying through
Making a riddle out of a broken consecration doesn't excuse the consequence, it only reinforces it. In fact, the devil hasn't succeeded over a man he wants to destroy, until he gives him a riddle/doctrine that pacifies his guilty conscience, rids him of sight, then ridicules him.
Consecration helps keep concentration intact, it's hard to consistently distract a man who isn't breaking his consecration. The honey in the lion's carcass wasn't for Samson's refreshment, it was after his consecration. So are the pleasures of sin, they are after our consecration
Caring so much about what people who don't care about us think, and adjusting our lives to a point where what others think becomes the compass for doing what we think we should do, is one of the most careless ways to live. Deliverance from the opinions of men is a big deliverance
There is a site to get sight, when God wanted to show Moses the promised land, He took him to a particular site, same as when the devil wanted to show Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. We must therefore labour to get our site right lest our sight suffers myopia
To stay uncovered is to be susceptible to contamination, an alternative is to stay perpetually on fire, flies don't perch on smoky or covered food. If we'll escape the decadence of our generation, we must either be on fire perpetually or submit under a genuine spiritual covering.
As we contend for revival on the landscape, it's imperative to also contend for an enlarged heart, because there's no guarantee that those labouring for revival will be directly featured in it, and if their hearts are not large, then they'll be unwilling in the days of His power.