Run Away from Strife and Contention

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Contentions start with words, snowball into the strife of tongues and escalate to fisticuffs and who knows what next – sorcery as in the case of Moab, murder as in the case Cain and Abel, Joseph and his brothers, Daniel and the satraps, Haman and Mordecai.

Strife and contention are akin to thorns and weeds in a farm that pierce the plants, compete for nourishment and space for growth. Strife and contention is the same as thorns piercing the plants – daily strife and contention can erode confidence, faith and determination as well as courage, the same function thorns perform to choke out life from plants. Strife and contention can wear out your resolve to excel which explains why the best solution to strife and contention is to always walk away from the strife and contention. Like weeds, they also contend for space in your mental processes - introducing bile such as anger, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness that if not wisely and instantly thrown out can block out productive, fruitful, spiritually, physically, mentally and financially rewarding mental processes. So rather than pay attention to your field, you expend energies fighting battles you should not be fighting because you are paying attention to strife and contention.

Isaac avoided contentions. Rather than contend with the Philistines who closed up the wells dug by his father, he dug new wells and when the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen over the new wells, Isaac and his herdsmen dug other wells and when there was no more contention over the new well, Isaac named the new well ‘Rehoboth’ meaning God has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Dare to Succeed

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Break barriers, leapfrog limitations, rein in your thoughts and emotions, refuse to be overwhelmed and overburdened by situations that appear to be challenging and intimidating by controlling your thoughts and emotions and focusing on your God given goal to succeed in His plans and purposes for your life. Please see Joshua Chapter 1 verse 8, Deuteronomy Chapter 28 verses 12 to 13.

Ignore catcalls and sniggers, whispers, deliberate provocations from people and situations determined to stop you from making progress. Instead, pay attention to your goal. Nehemiah ignored all the contrivances of Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem and their other cohorts. The gates of Jerusalem were rebuilt and repaired. Please see the book of Nehemiah. Ezra and his fellow workmen under the leadership of Zerubabbel, Governor of Judah completed the task of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem despite the stiff opposition to the task. They chose to and dared to succeed. Please read the entire book of Ezra for great insight into this amazing story of a people’s determination and courage to succeed in spite of all odds.

Give Up Limitations

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Limitations are obstacles and barriers designed to keep a person, people, families, communities, businesses and nations from moving to their God ordained heights in life. Limitations vary – they can be man-made, self made or satanically engineered.  Permit me to say that satanically engineered limitations are easier to dislodge if a person is in Christ Jesus and living right. But self made limitations are especially difficult to dislodge as they are strongholds in a person’s mental processes that only the truth of the Word of God can dislodge. For this to happen, a person has to believe and accept the truth of God’s Word as final so that the self made limitations can be dislodged.

That is why I dare to say that what you hold on to, to an extent is an evidence of the height you have purposed to remain in and that to a large extent determines how far you want to get to in life.

Holding on to something you consider very dear or important can constitute a major limitation to your progress and increase. That is why giving up limitations is the fastest way to increase and progress. Giving up limitations is also a way of stretching your faith, trusting God to take you to a higher altitude in life. Do away with limitations by giving up that thing which God wants you to give up. Otherwise it becomes a stronghold which barricades your progress. Significantly, such things may not necessarily be money, talents, skills, expertise, time and material resources for the work of God.

Move to the Next Level

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Every process of life designed by God was designed to be progressive. That is why it is said that the only thing constant in life is change. God never designed life to be static which explains why about everything in life is centered on processes that move people forward from point A to B and as many other points that people want to get to in life. The will of God for you is to move forward from one positive level of life to another positive but higher level of life. Unfortunately, this is usually not the case for a great majority of people as people generally tend to be complacent. They achieve a little success and spend years celebrating that little success rather

than use the little success as leverage to move on to the next level.

Steps to Move to the Next Level

Reject complacency by moving out of whatever appears to be your comfort zone so you can move forward.

Move up the ladder of life by taking on new challenges. Consciously choose to be filled with new dreams, visions and goals which you make conscious and determined efforts to actualize. Great good days of abundance, joy and blessings are in front and are impatiently waiting for you to be part of them. Go for those days even if you have to do a sprint. God will help you and give you the grace and know how to get there speedily in Jesus mighty name.

God Wants You to Make Progress

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. Psalm 102 verse 13 NKJV

It is the God’s will and agenda for you to continuously make progress that is expressed in continuous motion, advancement and progress so that you are ever increasing, expanding and yielding results and progress. Please see Proverbs Chapter 4 verse 18.

You are wired to make progress and God wants you to make progress. That explains why God does not His children to remain stagnant in one spot for too long. No child of God is permitted to remain in one spot for too long as God wants every child of His to keep moving forward, advancing and making progress. He always instructs them to turn and make forward movements. God’s will is to create turns for every believer as they embark in the journey of life.

Turns are points where you change positions and levels to make progress while progress is positive change in position that makes your today better than your yesterday. Your today becomes better than your yesterday when God moves you to where you ought to be and this happens when you take advantage of the turns God brings your way to make progress. A number of people are at a standstill because they do not recognize the turning points to make progress and even when they do, they do not take advantage of such seasons to make progress.