Quit Begging Bread

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

God gives bread and you can ask God directly. Please see Psalm 111 verses 4 to 6, 107 verses 8 to 9, 31 to 37, 105 verses 40 to 42, 104 verses 10 to 15, 81 verses 13 to 16. Why then should you subject yourself to the servitude of men and in the process sin against God because of bread when in reality God is the One Who gives bread?

Secondly, man does not live by bread alone. Please see Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verse 3, Matthew Chapter 4 verse 4, and Luke Chapter 4 verse 4. Therefore, do not allow hunger and the quest for food make you sin against God no matter how severe it is. By the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit at work in you; you should be able to exercise self control over hunger and the quest for food. Please see Galatians Chapter 5 verses 22 to 23.

It was hunger and the quest for food that made the unnamed foolish woman of 2^nd Kings Chapter 6 verses 25 to 30 give her son to be eaten up. She did not consider the consequences of cannibalism how much more that of eating up her son and sinning against God by despising the blessing of God to her, disobeying God and committing murder. It was only after the woman who deceived her refused to give up her son that the foolish woman realized the consequences of what she had done – ingratitude to God for the gift of a child, despising that gift, disobeying God to commit the other sins of murder and cannibalism. Perhaps, she also realized the consequences of the loss of her child.

Keep Your Gates Open

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, and their kings in procession. Isaiah Chapter 60 verse 11.

There is a correlation between open gates and wealth, abundance, prestige, honor, favor.

Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel. Isaiah Chapter 45 verses 1 to 3.

Open gates symbolize progress while shut gates symbolize lack of progress, stagnation and retrogression. The people of Jericho probably understood this which explains why they shut the gates of the city of Jericho against the children of Israel enroute to Canaan. The closure of the gates in order not to allow the children of Israel passage meant that the children of Israel would wait endlessly and ultimately die of hunger and thirst without ever getting to Canaan. But God intervened in their situation and they made progress to Canaan.

When the enemy shuts out certain gates against you, it is for the purpose of frustrating you, bringing you to  appoint of doubt and sometimes unbelief and when you stagnate in doubt and unbelief, you retrogress into what the devil and his cohorts wants; which is absolute mistrust of God and His word so that you walk in the ways of the devil and become an enemy of God.  The ultimate purpose of this is destruction.

The Consequences of Ignorance

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The consequences of ignorance are better not imagined. While education is said to be expensive, ignorance is even more expensive considering the unpleasant consequences of ignorance. Some of them are:

Captivity which occurs because an ignorant person or persons lack direction and lack of direction leads to captivity as in the case of the Israelites described in Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 13. They had no idea where to go and even if they had an idea of where to go, they had absolutely no idea how to get there and they ended up in captivity.

Hunger – even the honorable men amongst them who ideally should have had abundance suffered hunger because there was no food for them. Beloved, can you imagine what the commoners would suffer if their honorable men suffered hunger? Famine! This is to say that famine can be occasioned by ignorance.