Jacob Matiba

1st Timothy 1:5 (NKJV) - "Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith"

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory pretty much proves that the long game is not a strategy most people can execute at all. That's because it tends to require a negative short-term position in exchange for a real advantage later. Most people cannot commit to this because their threat-detection system reads current loss as an existential failure. And that's vicious short-sightedness. It leads them to optimize for visible progress and sacrifice their real position. The people who constantly win rarely have better information. Instead, they accept that losing now will pay off later. Never quit a game before it starts.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

One of the clearest signs that prosperity teaching has begun to shape our thinking is that we no longer know what to do with faithful Christians who suffer.

A theology that works only when the body is healthy, the bills are paid, the family is safe, and prayers receive the answer we wanted is too small for the Bible. Scripture gives us godly people who became sick, were beaten, imprisoned, betrayed, persecuted, and killed while walking faithfully with God. Paul himself carried a thorn that God refused to remove, even after repeated prayer. The answer was not that Paul lacked faith, but, “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Jesus never promised His disciples immunity from suffering. He told them plainly, “In the world you have tribulation” (John 16:33). Paul went even further: “Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). Philippians 1:29 even says that suffering for Christ has been “granted” to believers alongside faith.

The gospel does not promise that Christians will avoid cancer, grief, persecution, poverty, betrayal, or death. Christianity is not a contract in which sufficient faith purchases a comfortable life.

What Christ promises is far greater. He will never leave His people. Nothing can separate us from His love (Romans 8:35–39). He will preserve us through suffering, conform us to the image of His Son, and one day raise these dying bodies in glory.

That is why a biblical theology of suffering is not optional. Eventually every shallow theology meets a hospital room, a graveside, an unanswered prayer, or a wound it cannot explain.

The prosperity gospel tells us that strong faith should keep suffering away.

Scripture teaches us something far stronger: faith clings to God when suffering remains.

Our promise is not immunity from the fire. It is that Christ will not abandon us in it.

[Big Lanta @Lantatv01]

Tough seasons can reveal how strong you really are. Sometimes, you don’t even know your own strength until life gets tough. 👀

[Chibuikem Uchenna @BuiltByBuike]

Whatever you do, pray for the ability to see your own sins, your own hypocrisy, and your own shortcomings. Never get so carried away pointing fingers that you forget you, too, fall short.

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

I think the healthiest form of ambition is simply curiosity about your own potential.

How good could I get at this? How far could I take it? What would happen if I gave this everything I had for five years?

A lot of people kill that curiosity before they ever get an answer. They decide what's realistic based on their environment, their age, their circumstances, or what other people have managed to accomplish.

Ambition is just refusing to decide your limits before you've actually reached them.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Never accept pressure without authority. If people expect you to carry the consequence but deny you the right to shape the decision, they are not honoring your responsibility, they are renting your obedience. Responsibility without control is just exploitation.

[Brian Houston @BrianCHouston]

There’s a beautiful freedom and extravagance in the realm of the generous. A freedom that mean-spirited and envy-filled people will never know!

[Dr.Busisa Moyo @BusisaMoyo]

You discover your TRUE friends in the crucibles of lack, tragedy and pain rarely in the expanse of abundance, pleasure and fun.

[EsDeeKid @esdeekidd]

are you climbing this mountain for the world to see you or to see the world

[Rachael Akidi @rakidi]

You don’t earn positive press by shutting down media houses- this achieves the opposite.A country’s reputation isn’t built by demanding praise or silencing criticism, but by respecting institutions & allowing scrutiny.Credibility is earned thru actions not enforced through fear.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Learn to delay your reaction. Anger, fear, and impulse will try to make you move fast. There's power in pausing. In the pause, you see clearly, you respond wisely, and you avoid decisions you'll regret. Slow down to speed up.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major life cheat code: Don’t romanticize potential. Measure yourself by what you consistently do, not by what you believe you could do one day.

[Schneider Shayne @kloudCoder]

Zimbabwe has a lot of unreported news. Politics is the only thing that gets airwaves. And it's depressing mostly.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

It's interesting watching people underestimate you until they realise you were being humble, not incapable.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentences by Van Gogh hits hard:

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

You cannot teach consideration

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

You become what you do. Not what you plan. Not what you admire. Not what you talk about.

[Jacob Matiba @JacobMatiba]

@FNBSA @PicknPay @FNBSA I was served by Yanga from FNB Rosebank this morning. He was very helpful and made the service smooth. Just a shout out to him.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code in life: Understanding you can reinvent yourself at any time. New habits, new standards, new friend group, new career, etc. There's no rule that says you have to stay the person you've always been. You're allowed to decide, "I'm done being this version of me."