Limitless Living

*24/01/2022*
*C.I Ezike-Dennis*
*Day 1*

*Sign Posts for Navigating the Times.*

1. *Let the Curtains Fall*

Every New Year offers us an opportunity for a new beginning. God is a God of a many chances, and no matter how the previous year had been, here is another opportunity for a fresh start.

We have all heard the story of Edison, how on the night of December 9, 1914, he lost millions of dollars as his industry was completely destroyed by fire. Though much of his life’s work went up in flames that night, Edison saw in the disaster, an opportunity to start afresh, and as the story goes, three weeks after the fire, his firm delivered the first phonograph.

Edison was able to move beyond the charred embers of his hopes and dreams, because he was willing to do one thing; he was willing to forget the past and dream again. To rise above our past disappointments, we also must learn to do the same. So, let the curtains fall on your past.

Apostle Paul shows us his secret in Philippians‬ ‭3‬, he says,‭ “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” ‭‭Philippians‬ 3:13-14.

Many people are shackled by the consciousness of their past, failure or success, but failure for most. There is a reluctance to venture again because, as they say, “once beaten, twice shy.” But you don’t have to fall for that lie of the enemy. God’s word says, “For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again” (Prov 24:16 NIV).

“I am not qualified,” you may say. But you see, with God, what disqualified you is really what qualifies you. For God chooses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. “And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭1:27-29‬.

‬‬God knows all about you and He says to you, “I got you child.”

It’s also time to lay aside the blame game for good, if that has been a fall-back for you when things don’t work out. Quit playing the victim by continuing to blame others for your situation in life. Maturity has a lot to do with taking responsibility, and you are not doing that when you keep blaming others for the way your life has turned out.

Become more alive to your responsibilities. Life will become less like a roller coaster ride, when you start to take over the reins of your own life through God’s word.

So, as you navigate this year, don’t incarcerate yourself in your past. Don’t turn it into your prison or let it hinder you from entering into what God has for you. Hear the word of the Lord to you: ““Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah‬ ‭43:18-19‬ ‭NIV

*21/01/2022*
*Lola Dabiri*
*Day 5*

Good morning Brethren!

Today we will be looking at “The Acts”

What would be your acts/ actions this year? during this phase? this season?... and regarding that choice you need to make?

On the last day of last year, I read again a verse of scripture that never stops making my heart beat really fast 😊
Phil 2 vs 20.-21. Apostle Paul spoke about Timothy. He was talking to a group of Christians. He said -
“I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare. For everyone else looks out for their own interest, not those of Jesus Christ".

What would have been said last year of you…& I?
What will be said this New beginning ….?

Let us press into things that matter to Christ!... and surely all other things will be added to us, for our Father surely knows we need them.

The book of Acts of The Apostles ended at Acts Chapter 28…hence we are taking the baton further as Acts 29 believers -

What is our script?
What is your part
in this script?

The fundamental of our act is clearly stated in the The Bible
- You are the light of the world – Matt 5 Vs 14-16
- You are the salt of the earth – Matt 5 Vs 13
- You are ambassadors for Christ – 2 Cor 5 Vs 20
So, the script is clear – we are to as individuals and collectively shine our lights and sweeten and preserve our sphere of contact as salt would do.…What does this even mean?

You know best, you know what you have in your hands, what you could do best, better than anyone, with ease, with grace, it might not be yielding money passe now but it is the light that you have been given and it will bear fruit (and supplies/money etc) if you stick to it. God has given each of us gifts/talents: uniquely and different from all others. As you seek to discover your gifts and talents (if you haven’t yet) this translates to seeking to establish the kingdom of God through you. As you shine and walk in your gift/ the light that you have been
given– it translates to the establishment of the Kingdom in your sphere of contact... And surely all other things will be added to you.

In essence Brethren, our gifts and talents have been given us not for a myopic (me and mine) purpose but for purpose greater than ourselves…Let your light so shine that men will glorify your father in heaven…

In these last days, much more than ever, our choices will be tested, our commitments will be tried, our profession of faith will be jeered at and threatened to say the least…but we have got The Power, we got the resources, we have got the stance and the grace to run well and finish strong. The whole of heaven is rooting for us, the earth is groaning for our manifestation, the time is now to shine and preserve…
God seeks for us to worship in Spirit and in truth…, with our actions, our reactions, our responses ---- Christ once said of some…they worshipped me with their mouths, but their hearts was far from me. May
this not be our portion in Jesus’ name. Amen

I pray we each chose aright every minute of every day, every day of every week, every week of every month …with every breath that we take. As we chose after the spirit and not after the flesh, therein is our forever stance and commitment – These choices are our worship…

I trust we can all safely conclude our teachings this week in an agreement that the stage is set, the odds are in our favour and the choice is ours.
What then is the real conclusion of the matter?

It is the choosing of a more excellent way of doing things and manifesting The Kingdom this year…from this new beginning…to the times ahead.

As we make our choices and birth dreams, desires and purpose… Let us remember and be guided by the truth that, Faith works by love – the more excellent way-

1 Cor 13
If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Selah!

Cheers All!

Happy birthing & Happy journeying!