Do you want God to direct your paths?

Wednesday 31 May 2017

Do you want God to direct your paths?

In all your ways acknowledge Hi

And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:6

We all want to know that we are walking in our purpose and in the correct path that God has mapped out for us. So what can you do for God to direct your path?

1. Acknowledge God

First and foremost we are told that we should acknowledge God if we want Him to direct our paths. The way we do this is to present everything we are doing to the Lord and ask Him to direct our steps:

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:6

2. Ask for His direction

Like the Psalmist, we too must ask God to show us the path that we should take and which road we should follow:

Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow.

Psalm 25:4

 

3. Commit all your ways to God

When we commit all our ways to the Lord, He will direct our steps and bring whatever we have committed to Him to pass:

Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you

Psalm 37:5

In summary, for God to direct our paths, we must acknowledge Him, ask for His direction and commit all our ways to Him.

 

Prayer

Dear Lord, I commit everything I do to You therefore please lead me in the path of righteousness in Jesus name.

 

Resources

Living Life on Purpose Coaching

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Events

5 K Fundraising Walk

Goal Setting Workshop for Children

Breakthrough to Your Purpose Retreat 2017

 

New Books for 2017

How Jesus Healed

How to Discover Your Life in 30 Days Workbook

 

God bless,

Blessing Theophilus-Israel

Spiritual Life Coach

 

 

 

You can’t out give God

 

Thursday 4^th May 2017

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

Matthew 19:29

1, Give to God and you will have more

In order to receive you have to be willing to give. God promise us in Matthew 19:29 that He is the supreme provider whether we acknowledge Him or not. Everything belongs to God whether we accept it or not. God promises that when we are willing to surrender everything to Him, including our family and possessions e.g land, He will acknowledge this and blesses us with more. He promises us eternal life and material blessings in return for us making ourselves completely available to Him.

But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:6-8

2, God provides for all our needs

God knows our needs from our wants. He knows we need friends and family however God also reminds us that at times we may need to leave friends and family for His sake. In doing so God promises to bless us 100 fold and give us eternal life. God will compensate us for the lack.

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?

Luke 12:24 

Summary

It is worth putting God before all our wants and needs since He is more than able to supply all of our needs. When we truly surrender to God and place Him first, God promises to bless us abundantly and make provision for us to occupy an eternal place in His Kingdom. There is certainly no loss when we put God’s need first since He promises to bless us for doing so.

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Blessing’s up and coming workshops and events:

Financial Literacy Workshop, 13 May 2017

Millionaire Tour to London, 21-25 August 2017

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Annette Galloway
Blessing Spiritual Life Coaching
 

 

 

 

Being discreet can preserve you

Wednesday 5th April 2017

 Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you

Proverbs 2:11 (NLT)

Today’s verse tells us that discretion can preserve you. To be discreet is to have prudence or good sense. The question today then is, how can being discreet or prudent preserve you?

1, It helps you to focus on your own business

When you are discreet or prudent it helps you to focus on your own business because you realise that you only have one life and it makes good sense to use the time you have left to focus on your God-given assignment:

That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 (NKJV)

2, It helps you stay out of people’s business

When you are discreet it helps you to stay out of other people’s business. We are encouraged to work and not to meddle in other people’s business, in other words, not be busy bodies:

Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business. We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living

1 Thessalonians 3:11-12 (NLT)

In summary, when you are discreet and focus on your own business and not meddle in other people’s affairs, it helps to preserve you because you avoid any unnecessary trouble that doesn’t concern us.

Prayer

Dear Lord, please help me to be discreet in minding my own business and not to meddle in other people’s business in Jesus name.

Fundraising for Ghana Water Closet Toilet Project

Please help me to raise £8000 towards a Water Closet Toilet Project in a rural village in Ghana to help reduce cholera and diarrhea.

Resources

Interview about Coaching, Purpose and Faith

How to Set Goals for 2017

How to Discover Your Purpose in 2017

 

Blessing Tours

Business and Cultural Immersion Tour to Ghana

 

Blessing’s Upcoming Workshops

Please sign up for the following workshops:

Breakthrough to Your Purpose Retreat 2017

 

New Books for 2017

How Jesus Healed

How to Discover Your Life in 30 Days Workbook

God bless,

Blessing Theophilus-Israel

Spiritual Life Coach

 

Where Does Wisdom Come From?

Wednesday 8 March 2017

For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 2:6

People may look in all sorts of places for wisdom however this verse tells us that wisdom comes from God. Therefore if you believe in God and have a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ, then you can take the following steps if you need wisdom:

1. Pray and ask

We are told that if we need wisdom, we should ask our generous God and He will give it to us:

If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.

James 1:5 (NLT)

2. We must ask God in faith

When we ask God for wisdom, we must ask in faith believing that He will answer us:

But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.

James 1:6 (NLT)

3. We must learn to listen to the Voice of God

God still speaks however we must be still to hear Him speak. When we have prayed and asked God in faith for wisdom, believing Him to answer us, we must quieten our spirits and wait patiently for Him to answer:

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46:10

Prayer

Dear Lord, I thank You that wisdom comes from You. Please give me wisdom in every area of my life in Jesus name, amen.

 

Fundraising for Ghana Water Closet Toilet Project  

Please help me to raise £8000 towards a Water Closet Toilet Project in a rural village in Ghana to help reduce cholera and diarrhea.

 

Resources

Interview about Coaching, Purpose and Faith

How to Set Goals for 2017

How to Discover Your Purpose in 2017

 

Blessing Tours

Business and Cultural Immersion Tour to Ghana

 

Blessing’s Upcoming Workshops

Please sign up for the following workshops:

How to Find Your Purpose Workshop, 16 February 2017

Breakthrough to Your Purpose Retreat 2017

 

New Books for 2017

How Jesus Healed

How to Discover Your Life in 30 Days Workbook

God bless,

Blessing Theophilus-Israel

Spiritual Life Coach

 

God desires to give good gifts, we must only ask

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Matthew 7:11 

1, God is alive and active

God is alive and active and desires to give fine things to those who ask. We serve a mighty God that desires only good for our life, including meeting all our financial needs.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11 

The key thing we must remember is that we must ask. Provided we ask in line with God’s will, God will grant us His promise to give good things to us. 

2, God desires to give us good gifts beyond what any man could give us

God reminded us in (Matthew 7:11), that if man being evil at times can give good gifts then provided we ask, He can grant us much more. We are reminded that God operates from heaven. God is loaded with sovereign power and abundance. It is God’s will that we ask and expect to receive financial provision by faith, for when we do, God supplies all our financial needs (James 1:6).

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 7:7-8 

3, Faith is required in order to receive from God

We are told in the word of God the bible that God is the provider of every good gift (James 1:17). The key issue is that we must ask God to meet our need with faith. Provided we ask in line with God’s will, and with faith, God will meet our financial need. God warns us that it is faith that allows Him to meet our needs.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Hebrews 11:6

Summary

God desires only good for us and supplies us with faith as a gift, as seen in (Ephesians 2:8-9) to receive all that God has promised us. We are all by God’s grace, given the faith required to get what we know we need financially, provided we are righteous before God and ask with faith, in line with His will. The measure of faith we need is small, as small as a mustard seed. All we need is a mustard seed of faith in order to receive what God has promised (Matthew 17:20).

Please check out and sign up to our amazing, inspiring, active, insightful events. Mingle, learn and network with like minded people in a relaxed environment.

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How to Become a Millionaire Workshop
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Annette Galloway
Blessing Spiritual Life Coaching

 

How can we stay free from the greed for money?

Wednesday 15th February 2017

 

Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.

Proverbs 1:15-19

In the above Scripture we are told that greed for money robs the owners of their lives. So the question is, how can we stay free from greed for money?

1. Recognise that you are blessed to be a blessing to others

Greed for money will make you do things that you would otherwise not do, however when you recognise that God has blessed you with finances so that you can be a blessing to others it totally frees you from the desire to hoard money without sharing:

The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 12:1-2 (NLT)

2. Make the Kingdom of God your priority

When you find a cause bigger than yourself, it frees you from the greed or love of money because you will recognise that the money is not only meant for you, but it can be used as a tool to bless your family, community, Church, etc.

For example if you make the Kingdom of God your priority, you will want to spend your money on things that will bring glory to God, such as supporting missions, just like the women who supported Jesus and His disciples:

Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s business manager; Susanna; and many others who were contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and His disciples.

Luke 8:3 (NLT)

3. Recognise that when you give to the poor you are lending to the Lord

When you give to the poor, we are told that you are lending to the Lord and He will pay you back. This should help us to avoid hoarding all our financial blessings to ourselves because we know that there will always be poor people around us to bless with our money:

If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD–and He will repay you!

Proverbs 19:17 (NLT)

Prayer

Dear Lord, please bless me so that I can be a blessing to others in Jesus name.

 

Resources

Interview about Breakthrough to Your Purpose Retreat 2017

Interview about Coaching, Purpose and Faith

How to Set Goals for 2017

How to Discover Your Purpose in 2017 

 

Blessing Tours

Business and Cultural Immersion Tour to Ghana

 

Blessing’s Upcoming Workshops

Please sign up for the following workshops:

How to Find Your Purpose Workshop, 16 February 2017 

Breakthrough to Your Purpose Retreat 2017

 

New Books for 2017

How Jesus Healed

How to Discover Your Life in 30 Days Workbook

 

God bless,

Blessing Theophilus-Israel

Spiritual Life Coach

 

Be careful where you store your treasures

Be careful where you store your treasures

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6: 19-21

The Bible is a useful resource for counselling on matters pertaining to money. The Bible reveals to us that it’s God will for us to have money. We are counselled however to have an appropriate relationship with money. The scripture in Matthew 6:19-21 cautions us to be careful of where we store our treasures.

1, God wants us to be kingdom minded first

God wants us to be kingdom minded first. In Matthew God warns us to seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Matthew 6:33

 God’s desire is that we inherit the kingdom of God first. He reminds us that once we seek God’s kingdom, God will then go on to meet all our other needs including our financial needs.

2, Don’t make money an idol

God’s word the Bible reminds us that we are blessed when we have money. God’s desire is that we live a life of abundance. John 10:10. God’s caution with money is to not put money above and beyond our relationship with Him.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Timothy 6:10

God cautions us to have a responsible relationship with our possessions including money. His ultimate goal is for us to live a life of abundance by first seeking for his kingdom and righteousness from which all further blessings will come.

3, God’s treasure is blessed and beyond destruction

God warns us in Matthew 6: 19-21 that by seeking the treasures of heaven over and above the treasures of earth, that we will inevitably make it clear to God what our priority is. God’s desire is that we put God and His kingdom above everything else. He wants to remain the main focus of our worship and life.

Summary

In Summary God wants us to put Him in first and in doing so he will provide for all our needs including financial needs.

Resources

Interview about Coaching, Purpose and Faith

 How to Set Goals for 2017

How to Discover Your Purpose in 2017 

 

Blessing’s Upcoming Workshops

Please sign up for the following workshops:

How to Find Your Purpose Workshop, 16 February 2017

Breakthrough to Your Purpose Retreat 2017

 

 Blessing Tours

Business and Cultural Immersion Tour to Ghana

 

New Books for 2017

 How Jesus Healed

How to Discover Your Life in 30 Days Workbook

 

God Bless

Annette Galloway

Blessing Spiritual Life Coaching

How do we get joy?

We began by looking at what is joy, and then the effects of joy. None of this will be useful unless we know how we can get joy. Here are some suggestions according to the Word of God:

1. Surrender our lives completely to Jesus. We do this by repenting or turning back on our sins. When we do this even God and His Angels rejoice:

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:7, 10

2. Obey the commandments of the Lord

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full

John 15:10-11

3. Ask God to anoint you with the oil of gladness

Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

John 16:24

4. Be filled with the Holy Spirit

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

 5. Become born again into the Kingdom of God

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:17

6. Make a choice to be joyful. Offering sacrifices of joy – Psalm 27:6; sing praises unto the Lord, offer shouts of joy (Psalm 35:27); play instruments (1 Samuel 18:6); jump or leap (Luke 6:23).

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice

Philippians 4:4

7. Come into the presence of God – get alone and be quiet before Him.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Acts 2:28

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalm 16:11

How do we get Joy:

1. Repent of our sins and surrender our lives to Jesus
2. Obey the commandments of the Lord
3. Ask God to anoint you with the oil of gladness
4. Be filled with the Holy Spirit
5. Become born again into the Kingdom of God
6. Make a choice to be joyful by offering sacrifices of joy
7. Come into His presence

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