One of the things that tests how solid you are as a child of God is how you handle pain. While you are waiting for the pain to change, make sure the pain doesn't change you.
Your view of God, your passion for service, and your ministry must never be the price you pay for a difficult season. The enemy’s ultimate strategy isn't just to cause you discomfort, but to use that discomfort to distract you from your purpose.
Apostle Emmanuel Iren taught that we must be a people of "brilliant fire", balancing the place of planning with the place of praying.
To be healed, you must look away from the pain and look to Jesus. The "benefit" (the healing or the breakthrough) must never become the condition for why you seek God. Seek Him as the ultimate priority, even when the situation is counter-intuitive.
When things aren't working your way, don't withdraw. Instead, apply these four keys:
1️⃣ Agree
2️⃣ Thank God
3️⃣ Serve
4️⃣ Celebrate
Don't let the devil use your season of pain to rob you of your passion. Your service is a weapon. Stay focused, stay serving, and stay solid.
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2026 is the year you experience God as your exceeding great reward, but the results hinge on your response to the 'crisis' moments.
You need to RESPOND CORRECTLY to things that come at you. It may be tough on the flesh, but the results are unprecedented.
God has already set in motion what will or could happen. The future - God will bring it to you - the real question is whether or not you will respond to it correctly.
At the CrossOver Service, @pastorpoju shared key spiritual practices on how to navigate the tests of 2026.
1️⃣ Shift from Getting to Giving.
If you're only looking out for yourself - what can I get - you'll miss it. Anytime you are tested, there’s something you need to give, not to take. Don’t think about how people should treat you, but think of what to give and who to help in your time of test.
2️⃣ Obedience is where the power is.
The highest form of faith is in obedience to God. Being right is not being prophetic. We talk about the big principles, confessions, and praying, but we often miss it in not listening to the voice of God.
3️⃣ Be quick to hear and be slow to speak, for the anger of man never works the plan of God in your life. In fact, being vindictive can reverse the blessings of God upon your life.
In 2026, God has promised He will be your exceeding great reward. The reward is found in the obedience to the instructions that He gives you.
When there is any "stirring" around you, know that God is close. Respond well.
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2026.
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Don't let these three things gain entrance into your heart. Complacency, Entitlement, and a Competitive spirit.
Complacensy sets in when you think you have somewhat arrived. It's time to be compensated and not to grow by opening yourself to challenges that will stretch you.
Entitlement sets in when you think those who you are in a relationship with owe you something. You will usually over estimate your investment and rate yourself far above their real contribution you have made.
The third is a competitive spirit that no longer focuses on serving those you are sent to. You look at what others are doing and simply want to outdo them whether or not it is within the context of your calling.
Need to add ‘expert in catching up with trains just before departure’ to my CV at this point as this train has me ruining my street cred for the most part
God doesn't just work and bless in abstract terms. When the flood was coming and he was going to preserve Noah, he instructed him to build an ark. He didn't protect him just in emptiness. When God moves to secure you from the storms, he gives you instructions to keep.
Joseph preserved a generation from famine by keeping aside a percentage of what came in during the time of abundance. God didn't just preserve humanity in emptiness.
When he moved to preserve save and deliver the Jews from Egypt, he gave instructions on killing a lamb and applying the blood to the door posts, saying "when I see the blood, I will passover."
This is why James said faith without works is dead. When we put our trust in God for something, he, in turn, gives us the instructions to keep through which his saving grace will materialise in our lives.
Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."
The question is our you believing in abstract terms or pressing in in prayer to hear his voice on the issue.
Asked this man when he will tell us we have billions and I can stop working
Him: that’s why you haven’t seen the billions now - it’s not in God’s plan for you at this point to stop working
Me: Who said so💀