The Principal of the Path

Proverbs 7: 6-27-For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner: and he went the way to her house (6-8)

Just as every road like every road is linked to a specific destination place so also every path leads to a destination.

A path is a way or track that is built and it leads to a particular destination.

The path we take in life has no regards for the way we feel, it will lead us to where it leads irrespective of whether it is what we anticipate or not

In our text in Proverbs 7: Solomon the writer of the book of proverb gave us first- hand insight regarding the principle of the path.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: While there are a lot of paths you need just one path to take you to your desired and God ordained destination. Shalom

Throwing God a Party Instead of Quitting

The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life' worries, riches, and pleasures and they do not mature. Luke 5:14
God' word to us is as valid as a cheque already cashed when we hold onto it with everything we’ve got.

The scripture made it clear that His promises are yes, and they are amen (certain).
The devil is fully aware of this that is why he would stop at nothing until he gets you to quit holding on to God' promises for your life.
We must realize that challenges are part of the Christian walk.


They are there not because we’re too weak, or because of what we have failed to do, but simply because of the fact that the devil is afraid of us.
Our presence reminds him of his defeat and his future in hell.


This is why he is trying to stop us by bringing into our space so many distractions.
Instead of quitting on your big dreams with God because someone is afraid of you, why not call a party and celebrate it.

He did it with Adam at the Garden of Eden and succeeded in dislodging him of his inheritance in God.

Until he showed up at the garden, Adam had no worries about being as wise as God. 

Eve never had to stress about where their next meal is coming from. The couple was so busy enjoying God's presence that they had no need for anything.

They were living in the fulfillment of God's promises until they allowed the ideas of the devil to choke the very word spoken to them by God.

Although the devil is out to get us, he will never be able to unless we let down our security system (God's word to us).

Oh! How I love the scripture in Proverb 18:10.
The name of the LORD is a strong tower ... .

The devil cannot get a child of God unless he first get him / her out of God's presence.
As long as we remain in His presence it doesn’t matter how low we may be feeling we will never know failure.

Refuse to be moved, and keep pressing into His presence by reminding yourself of His word concerning you.

Come to think of it, the devil is not as persistent as most people think he is. If he is,  he could have tempted Jesus for the fourth time.

Unlike Jesus, Adam was only tempted once, and down he went.
If you want to know how impatient the devil is, try and remind him of his future at least three times every time he tries to distract you with thoughts and challenges that are capable of choking God's word to you.

Dear friends, in this race Jesus emptied our lives of every possible excuses we had.
We no longer have reasons to quit on Him, His call and plans for our lives.
I think this is a good time to get the party started. Sing unto Him a new song. Show Him your new dancing step.

He is worthy of all our praise

Making God's Word your Life

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the things whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11

Every single thing made and created by God has an expiry date. This includes the unregenerate man. Outside the provision of God's salvation

Nothing outside the will and word of God has the ability to fulfill itself.

For our lives to have any meaning; any significance we need to make His every word its foundation.
When His word becomes our lives, our lives become His every word that never return void unto Him.

Just as the word of God cannot fail so also is a life that is based on the word.

Friends there' only one way to preserve anything;  be it a dream, ambition, business, career and even relationship. And that is to make it the word of God.

Let's desire above anything else the need to make His word our life and we will never have to worry about how to live a fulfilled life.

Any life that is made of the word of God cannot return void to Him, just as His every word concerning  anything cannot return to Him without accomplishing the purpose for which it has been sent.

As a child of God your life is His word and you are returning to Him fully accomplished in all He has called you to do.

Delight Yourself in the Lord

Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Psalm 119: 97

Have you ever thought of how possible it is to have the right desire? A desire that gives God no other option than to cause it to come to pass?

Coming across the text in Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things ....  Does not make the situation any easier for most of us to believe it is possible for a human to have a desire that God would have no option but to cause it to come to pass.

This train of thought is not any different from the thought of Nathaniel ,the brother of Philip; when he was told by his brother that they have found the Messiah  from  Nazareth, whom Moses the  prophet of God spoke about. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Said Nathaniel.

Like Nathaniel many of us do not believe that a good desire can proceed from the heart of a man. I have met Christians who still have this belief. I have heard preachers preach such sermons. If this is true, why will God ever promise to grant the desire of a man's heart?
Has He forgotten that this is man we are talking about?

Friends God is too God for a thought to skip His mind. He has never made a promise He cannot fulfill.

This truth should cause us to pay attention to the text in Psalm 37:4.  Delight yourself in the LORD, and He shall give you the desire of your heart.

The reason most of our desires are not coming to pass is because we have in our own ways reverse the lines in this text.

We have often times gone to develop a desire from something, someone outside His will and come to Him to cause it to come to pass.

To delight yourself in the LORD is to take pleasure in God's will and word. It is to make His word a priority in everything we wish for. When this becomes our habits we unknowingly begin to desire the very thing He desires. And when this is the case, having the desire of our heart become possible at all time, in every aspect of our lives.


Prayer; LORD teach me to delight in You, always in all aspect of my life. Amen

The Scripture- God’s Directives

Psalms 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Psalm 32:8

There are so many believers who do not have confidence in God. And this can be said to be true by the way they perceive and treat the very word of God.

We live in a society where people confuse the word for laws and as such finds it very difficult to live by its principles.

One of the greatest challenges of most present day believers is that they see the word of God as more of a restriction than it is a liberty and directives from Him on how to walk with Him.
This truth can be said to be responsible for the lack of influence most of us as believers have over our immediate family members and fellow neighbors.

Somehow, we have been  able to convince ourselves that by classifying the very word of God as a law, by selecting which part of it to believe and which not to believe we would become relevant to the people around us who are of different faith and to the world at large.
Again this sounds to me as a contradiction. We have become a hindrance to the very purpose for which we’ve been called, separated by God.

According 1 Peter 2:9, the believer is called out... to show forth His light....
By implication this simply means we cannot be of value and relevance to the world we live in as believers if we do not regard the word as God's directives.
We cannot be a light to a world full of darkness unless we are committed to remain the light we have be called to be.

As believers, an attempt to remove our saltiness in order to become relevant to a tasteless society is to make ourselves useless just like the tasteless society before God.

The ability of any believer to effect change and add value to his/her society is linked to his /her readiness to accept the word as God's directives on how to walk with Him.

Like the Psalmist put it in Psalm 119:105; Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. A path taken outside the directives of God is a path traded in darkness.

Friends none of us has within us the ability to lead a life void of darkness outside the perimeters of God's directives.

God's word is more of a directive on how to walk with Him than it would ever be a law book that we must obey in order to please Him.