YOU ARE COMPLETE

Scripture: We are complete in Christ who is head of all principalities and power (Col2vs10)

Our completeness is found in no else but in Christ. Our self definition and satisfaction comes from God.

Do you know waiting for someone to fill you up or complete you is working in direct contradiction to what scriptures says? As a matter of truth, a man can not satisfy another man. The place of the satisfaction of the soul is only for God.

If you keep looking and waiting for someone else to satisfy you, you will really keep looking and nothing else will happen except bundles of disappointment. The only reason we have to live with people is simply because we know God loves us and them. With this understanding, we approach life and people with love and this love helps us get over hurt and heal easily.

When we say nobody can love us like God, we mean it, this understanding will help us in our relationships with people.

CENTRAL POINT: No one else can and will ever complete you, only God will and can complete and satisfy you.

PRAYER:

Father, today I choose to see myself complete in you. I embrace all that you have blessed me with in Jesus Name.

Gift Chika
Content Writer - Daily Dealings

Valuable Lessons From My Notes

Today I'd be sharing directly from my notes. The notes were written from Matthew 4 on the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. But the Scriptures below are from Luke 4 still on the temptations of Jesus.

Jesus was confronted three times. These confrontational conversations formed the temptations.

"If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
 
If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:

And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."

-Luke 4

What Lessons are here to learn?

1. The devil always seeks to shift the focus of the believer from His Identity in Christ to actions. He makes you believe that it is what you do that confers divine status on you, or confirms that you really are who God says you are. Many times these actions will not glorify God, rather they glorify the flesh. No matter what you do, it cannot add up to what Jesus has already accomplished for you in His death, burial and resurrection.

2. In the second temptation the devil asked Jesus to bow to him, in exchange for THINGS. The devil often seeks to make the believer concentrate on the THINGS of the world as against loving God and our fellow men. Jesus didn't fall for this. We shouldn't either. Apostle John, further buttresses this when he said "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15

3. The devil often seeks to make people use God's resources for the gratification of fleshy/personal desires. That's what leads some leaders to divert funds in their care to meet personal needs at the expense of the organization they lead. Jesus didn't fall for the temptation to use His position and power to command angels to meet his needs. He rather avoided the temptation and was victorious.

Have you gained from this? Are you in any of these situations?

Kindly share and comment.

Meditate on the scriptures and find strength today.

Oluwatobi Adesanya
For Daily Dealings

IN LOVE

Bible verse: Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth hath fulfilled the law.
Romans .13vs8

I had an experience two days ago, in the school where I teach. A free training is ongoing and every child is given an opportunity to learn. Being a high grade school, where you see children from rich homes, they are popularly referred to as kids who are 'tush'. It is strange to find a child who does doesn't not belong to this description in the school. But, there was a girl of about a year old, not well dressed and not looking as good as the others, I felt an irritation and it became obvious through my facial expressions - it showed. Instantly, the Holy Spirit asked me why and told me to look at the child properly and I did, then I corrected my mind and smiled at her. I realized that, my mind had decided to accommodate only 'the tush' children because that was what I was exposed to.

There is no loving without giving and giving involves sharing. You can't sincerely and in truth define love, without mentioning giving and sharing. The movie and entertainment industry has succeeded in making us beleive that love involves receiving, especially as a lady. There is, this notion that as long as a person meets certain criteria and suits our expectations, they can be loved by us.

But, today let's remember our exercise on love , where we replaced love with ur name in 1 Cor.13, with all the character of love ,which we trust that we are allowing the Holy spirit birth to manifestation in us. What criteria do we think a person or people must meet before they are allowed into our lives? And before we can share with them?

The bible says we should owe no one nothing, except love. That means that we are to pour our love to everyone that comes our way. No personal preference should interface in the place of our loving people. If we are ambassadors of Christ, which means that, we are to carry the message of Christ to everyone. Let's also know that we preach in love and not in anger to people.

We must get to the point where nothing stops us from talking to people about the love of God because that love is our lifestyle. The only criteria Christ has ever set for man is love, He loved us and died for us, while we had not even thought of His love, He gave and opened a way to Himself waiting for us to come.

As people who are hungry and thirsty for God, we must allow His work so much in us to produce the fruit of Love which allows us to Open ourselves up to people and share our resources with them with the aim of blessing God's kingdom. Your personality or whatever, should not be an hinderance to the expression of God's love through you to someone, either in the family of faith or outside the family of faith.

You can only know that God is producing the fruit of love in you when you accept and open your heart to love people without setting standards that must be met in order to satisfy your self, your flesh.

CENTRAL TRUTH: Allowing God to produce the fruit of love in us by accommodating people.

PRAYER:

Lord, I release my mind to you, do your work in me and help me to see people the way you see them.

THINK ON THIS: Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ROM.13vs1

Gift Chika
Content Writer - Daily Dealings

BE FULL OF JOY

Bible verse: Being enriched in all thing to the bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 2Cor10vs11

Carrying a long face does not mean you are more righteous or more spiritual. Being spiritual is obeying the commandment of Jesus and not the wearing of an outward look that chases people away. As a Christian, your face should draw people to God. Your smile and disposition should be so contagious that people will want to have your kind of face and attitude.

As people who are hungry for God, we live joyfully at all times knowing that our Father is at work at everything that concerns us.
There is therefore no reason for us to wear long faces. But from our heart, we wear smiles because, OUR Father is faithful and true.

For some of us, wearing long faces might not be as a result of being worried, but our default look. That's not an excuse to let our face remain that way. The Holy spirit is not a dormant person, He's always active, He has a personality, if God was to walk on the earth as a man, trust me, He will be smiling with a beautiful disposition.

As we hunger and thirst after God, He shows forth Himself through us and in us and He is not a sad looking God, neither is He ugly. His glory radiates and it is captivating. That's why our beauty is not outward, but spreads right from our inside.

CENTRAL POINT: Let your beauty be seen through your attitude and your smile.

PRAYER:

Father help me to rediate your glory in truth and at all times.

THINK ON THIS: Rejoice in the Lord, alway: and again I say , Rejoice. Philip. 4vs4

Gift Chika
Content Writer - Daily Dealings

GET IT RIGHT

Sam Adeyemi once said "The Proof of Desire is Pursuit". What you chase after in the confines of your mind and in life reveals where your Heart really is and what it is after.

The Proverbs says - As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man (Proverbs 27:19). Your life is a Reflection of your most Dominant Pursuit.

The Second Most difficult thing we would have to deal with in life, the first being Identity Crisis, is Balance in Life. We must not be like THE RICH FOOL who succeeded in 'Getting his name into the Forbes List of the Rich' and neglected God. Neither must we be like LAZARUS who died as a Saint but lived a Poor Life despite the Prosperity he had access to in God.

Today, the Charge is to Live a Life that Puts God at the Center, the center which holds all things. The Word says God upholds all things by the Word of His Power (Hebrews 1:3). Let God be the Centre of ALL your pursuits in life.

Job was a Perfect Example of this. Read the First three (3) verses of the Book of Job. It shows us something Profound. Job's stand with God was First described when the Word says 'He was Perfect and Upright and Eschewed Evil' , then the Writer proceeded to describing his Family and then his wealth. Read Job 1:1-3

This shows a Powerful Principle we must follow. Put God First and Every other thing will find Proper Alignment.

When Job lost all he didn't loose his Faith in God. That Faith RESTORED ALL he lost in DOUBLE FOLD.

Guard Your Heart. Seek For Balance. Let God be the Center.

Central Truth: A Life of Balance is Important. Let God be the Center that holds all things.

FOCUS SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 1:3

Prayer:

Lord, be the Centre of my Life.

Oluwatobi Adesanya
For Daily Dealings

ENDURE

Bible verse:

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life , which the Lord has promised to them that love him James 1vs12.

At a time, this song 'I give myself away ' by Mali music was really making wave. I was still on campus then and no fellowship day ends with without this song being sung in almost all fellowship venues.

After singing this song on Sunday, on Monday and other days of the week,the lifestyle we see seem very contrary to the true meaning of the song. We see brethren who have 'given themselves away: still having their way and blaspheming the Church of Christ.

Giving up self of course, is not a Day's Job, it is a result of the continual workings of the Holy Spirit in us. However, we must make sure when we desire the workings of the Holy Spirit, we are truly sincere and are willing to accept who we are in Christ.

The truth is, we will continually encounter situations and people that are intentionally set on our path to bring to manifestation our ''Real Self'' in Christ.

One other thing we should always ask God for is the Patience to Learn and Mature through the Circumstances and People He has intentionally positioned in our lives. Our trial of Faith works out Patience and Patience works out Experience and experience works out hope.(Roms. 5vs 3-4).

So,  before you pray for God to take you out of a situation or remove certain people from your life, make sure you have prayed enough for patience to allow the work of God through that situation or person.

Sincerely, this is not easy, I  mean who likes to stay in the heat when you can just jump out to receive fresh air?  But sometimes, staying in the heat for the approved time is neccesary for you to appreciate the fresh air when you get out.

Let's not forget, that we are ambassadors of Christ, as an ambassador, you can't dictate your conduct, by the reason of the appointment of an ambassador, he/she assumes certain responsibilities and code of conduct. Our Father has called us and we resemble Him in all things. Let's not forget that Jesus endured the suffering of the cross, He did not jump and pass the suffering to get the glory. And God in the self same way is begetting us unto Himself.

If we are truly Thirsty for Him, then we must understand and accept that we are dead, crucified with Him and alive unto Him.

CENTRAL POINT: We are to stay patiently in order to allow the trial of our faith to achieve its full work in us.

PRAYER:

Father, help me to wait Patiently so to allow your Dealings take its full course in my life in Jesus Name.

THINK ON THIS:

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that he may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James1vs4-5.

Gift Chika
Content Writer - Daily Dealings