WHEN ONE’S LEVEL OF GLORY DROPS, DOES HIS OR HER LEVEL OF FAVOR DROP AS WELL?
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“DON’T WAIT FOR YOUR GLORY LEVEL TO DROP”
When a man habitually and repeatedly keeps relying for simple help from people outside of his own marital cistern is clear indication that the same man is said to be swiftly falling short of his glory as a man being the head!~
Application:
“..outside of his own marital cistern is clear indication that the same man is said to be swiftly falling short of his glory as a man being the head!~”
When the husband starts to repeatedly rely for simple advice on how to treat his own wife from his parents, or from his neighbors, or even from his colleagues, other than from his own wife, this stage is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory.
Your duty as the woman of the house is to pray for your husband and seek to win his trust back.
Be a great wife who supports her husband instead of watching her husband while he swiftly drifts to the other side of the “marriage bed.”
When a man starts to repeatedly rely for borrowed money from his parents, or his neighbors or so from his colleagues other than from his wife to provide for his wife’s needs and his own children, this stage of his life is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory.
Your duty as the woman of the house is not only to pray for your husband’s financial dream, or to pray for increase of his income sources!
Be a great wife who manages and supports well the readily available income and provisions that her husband is currently earning and bringing home and always live with the expectation of producing more financial folds from what you are presently given by your husband. Women are producers by default!
“…Women are producers by default!”
When a man starts to repeatedly rely for outside help from his parents, or from his neighbors or so from his colleagues other than from his wife in performing simple house chores like changing his car tyres, or assembling a newly bought T.V or Radio, or even so simple chores like changing diapers, this stage of his life is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory. Men are providers by default!
“..Men are providers by default!”
Your duty as the woman of the house is not only to pray for your husband to learn basic skills or to pray for your husband to learn how to be a responsible father figure to his children!
Be a great wife who supports her husband with encouragement and expectations of positive changes even when her husband appears to initially lack the basic skills that old cultures engrave!
Be a great mother who takes great care of her own children and who is responsible enough to change those diapers by herself!
To be honest I don’t know about you beloved reader, but for me prayer has always worked out in my life. Whenever I engage in prayer, I have the assurance of God’s Faithfulness! Either it’s a yes, or a no or a wait depending on the circumstance but prayer for me is no try and error but tried and true!
When God blessed me with the international job, my faith shifted from one level of glory to a higher level of glory. Not necessarily because of God answering my prayer, but in the process I learnt I can always depend upon the love of God from any deepness and from all angles!
However, the grievous mistake many children of God make after receiving answer to their prayers is to have an ungrateful heart. Yes I know. By now you are probably saying this in your mind, “no I always remember to say Thank You Jesus for the healing, or Thank You Father for your provision” and etcetera etcetera! But this is one mistake that we tend to so easily forget. “An overstayed comfort-zone digs a pit for ingratitude”
An Ungrateful heart can come in so many shades of color that unless one has the spirit of discernment, it is not easy to know you are being ungrateful as a believer!
Take for instance, there was this day years into my international job when I found myself asking out this question. “After the miracle, then what next?” The reason that prompted me to ask myself the above question is what I’d like to share with you in a moment.
“THINGS OF GOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED BY GOD”
That particular day started out well and was so promising as usual until the spoiler came! I was busy minding my own, and by my own I mean meditating upon the Word of God while reading one of my favorite Newspapers, #TheStandard #KenyaNewspaper . It was tea break.
Then, out of nowhere, a colleague came up to my desk. Initially I didn’t give it a thought. Our office is a large hall partitioned in a way where one floor has like 12 office desks, so it’s the main con of this setup is there’s very minimum privacy, that’s why it was normal for a colleague to just come over to your desk whenever they wanted. However, being an introvert, I hardly encourage chitchat during office hours but like they say “In every marketplace there’s always a mentally challenged character walking around” and this particular colleague of mine was not an exception!
He came over, sat with all nerve at the end of my desk, leaned towards me with his charming smile like he was initiating some flirting, then out of the very blue instead of a kiss on my cheek, He slapped my ears with a very painful statement!
“Tit-tok! When are we going to celebrate your wedding Ms Christine. You are the only one who’s never carried a child in this office.” What! dude, are you now a walking alarm? I was not expecting it to say the truth.
And he said it a such a way no one heard what he told me but when I briefly looked over his shoulder, I saw 10 pairs of eyes all looking my way with deep anticipation as if telling each other, “let’s wait and see, any minute from now she’s going to burst out with anger!” I say ten pairs of eyes without counting the two of us and several eye glasses used in the office leave alone the security cameras! Every single person in the office was for a minute paying attention most probably to have a live catch at my reaction!
That’s the moment when I realized that there was some foul tongue of gossip that was circulating within the office floor.
*…And every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD. And their righteousness is from Me.” says the LORD.* With no physical evidence, my spirit just whispered in me that there was some very bad wind of gossip that was blowing around the office without my prior knowledge. My new international job had apparently stirred up different jealousy levels at my new work environment while I was busy enjoying the blessing of job promotion, a spiritual challenge which I had overlooked out of clear ignorance!
*For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high…
…thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.*
My miracle of the international job had apparently come with it’s share of “spring challenges” which are usually meant to keep us awake as God’s children. See, it is very easy for a child of God to start worshipping the gifts of God without knowing, instead of worshipping The Giver. It’s easy for any believer full of patches from past wounds to start worshipping the creation instead of worshipping The Creator! It’s very easy!-just like that!~
Years into my new job, I was drifting into zones of ungratefulness without knowing. A job that I had birthed in tears, a prayer moment with body fluids flow-out running out of my body in ounces to the tiled floor of my then bedsitter. This very new job was now swiftly and firmly receiving all my praise and attention more than The Giver of that job. “THINGS OF GOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED BY GOD”
My reader what I mean by saying body liquids flow-out, I am politely referring to tears running down my eyes and there was some from my nose also but very little. So let’s be at peace knowing that the body fluids flow-out being referred to here is tears only, because as you are aware humans have several types of body fluids flow-out and the women have an additional body fluids flow-out for that matter!
Again, my reader, I am in no way suggesting that focusing on your job is sin, no. The problem caves in when you fail to understand what happens next after the miracle! When God answers your prayer, praise Him to the magnitude where you will hear your inner man echoing and being confident of this very thing, that He Who begun the good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. The Creator of the ends of the Earth neither faints not Is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases their strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. The level of strength which I used to birth my job miracle through prayer should have been equally proportionate to the level of strength I needed to “maintain” my miracle. Applying this simple spiritual principle in your life, it doesn’t matter which Formula you use to solve the riddle in here, “After the miracle, what next? the answer is = Depend on God.
After getting my international job through prayer, I was comfortable with the casual “Oh Thank You Jesus for the job!” kind of prayers and I considered it as coming from a grateful heart. See, our Father doesn’t just require us to thank Him and give Him Praise for all He has done with us, all He has done within us, and all that He does through us. God LOVES when we Depend on Him! The time I wasted reciting reprogrammed prayers to God after receiving the international job as the answer to my prayer, was enough time for the devil to stir up jealousy levels within my work environment!
Let’s look at it this way; No country will receive you with a visa entry bearing the name of a different nation other than the name of the host nation. For example, if you are traveling to Kenya, you require a Kenyan visa in order to be allowed into the country. You can never present a Bahrain visa at the Kenyan airport and expect entry.
One fundamental Truth states “The Things of God must be maintained by God Himself.”
The statement that my colleague whispered in me that day was so piercing that I felt the urge to talk to God about it. That day I waited till evening and when I arrived at home, I immediately went to my prayer closet and poured my heart to God. I remember crying heavily that evening not because of the judgemental words of my colleague, but at some point I knew it was time for a “spiritual combat” with my Father. I needed God to make me understand why I was being attacked! In other words, I was experiencing the “why me, where did I go wrong, and when did I refuse” momentous pullback.
Funny enough the my minute I became aware of The Immense Presence of God in my prayer closet that particular evening and that’s when The Holy Spirit begun to pour understanding in me;
” Evil words or negative words spoken to you from the MOUTH of the ungodly people may pierce you like fiery darts of the enemy or be as painful as the intramuscular syringe injection, but they can never be more powerful than The Word spoken to you by the MOUTH of God HIMSELF.” For The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Of course after that incident at the office and after applying the wise counsel of The Holy Spirit, as we speak, that particular colleague of mine though he later apologized for his careless mediocre remarks that day, the damage was already done according to his wife. Days later after everyone else had forgotten about it, his wife is said to have woken up one morning after hearing their teenage daughter screaming in her bedroom.
When the mother went to check out her daughter and when she realized she couldn’t pin why their daughter was screaming frantically, she decided to rush her to their family doctor who after several repeated examinations on the child ruled it as aneurysms of the brain as the problem!
It’s a pity that the damage was already done according to my colleague’s wife, but on my hand that a close reminder after receiving the miracle, then I depend on God all the way! One thing I strongly believe is that I don’t have to wait until God “sends” me to His drawing board when I can freely agree to stay on board with Him to begin with.
“..NEGATIVE WORDS SPOKEN TO YOU FROM THE MOUTH OF THE UNGODLY..CAN NEVER BE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WORD SPOKEN TO YOU FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD HIMSELF”
And if by chance you happen to have wondered away from His presence, can you run to God by faith through prayer after receiving the blessing in this post? And when you receive your miracle..depend on God all the way!
” AFTER RECEIVING THE MIRACLE, THEN I DEPEND ON GOD ALL THE WAY”
– 2. Always remember to shower properly and to groom your body well then dress fresh preferably on freshly pressed clothes. It’s healthy and it’s always a sign of🛀🛀🛀🛀🛀🚿🛀🛀🛀🛀🛀
good hygiene to put on clean clothes after shower and to dress correctly and appropriately before starting off your day. Wash off your sweat in the morning.(Instead of waiting until the evening time when you are about to go to bed to take a shower, learn to have a good bath in the morning also!) Give your body enough room in the morning to create more new strength for the new day by cleaning away all the sweat from the bed!
–3. Remember to take a good healthy breakfast. Make it your lifestyle to take your breakfast without forgetting to drink water in the morning. Learn to feed your body well in the morning and your brain will ensure that you have a productive day!
– 4. Always remember to pray. Have a grateful heart by creating some quiet time alone before you start off your day. Having a good grateful heart creates hope which is important to anchor your soul. Life has its own share of throws, some will go up others will go down, but with a grateful heart, you build true hope in your life that gives you the thrift everyone needs in life to press up towards a specific mark in life for a better tomorrow! Rome was not built in one day, but it was built eventually. Billionaires don’t just magically wake up into riches in one day but you can become a Billionaire if you run towards your dream fearlessly and courageously!
–5. Always ensure that you have time to read. (Join me in whatsapp link below for #Readingbibleinayear ). Read The Bible at least few verses every day, research and read books that have great knowledge about financial achievements, watch programs that have to do with financial discipline. Phone games, sudoku, watching T.V Series or reading Newspaper, or over-eating and then over-sleeping all these are not bad activities but if that’s all you tend to feed your brain every morning then that’s what you will reap in the long run. Life is not a game, don’t gamble with your life. No one is a know-it all. Always be ready to learn good things about wealth increase from others who have seemingly made it instead of walking in pride. Pride will take you to places with wrong information about wealth increase and all that information will be from wrong sources that will just corrupt your mind in how you view money and wealth. Again, Life is not a game! It’s only God Almighty Who Is ALL KNOWING. With this in mind, never allow your ego to rule you. Ego is good but childish ego will always push you to seek attention whereas the true nature and purpose of mature Ego will always remind you the ancient truth that ….
no human being is an island!
We need one another in life! Hence the need for one to seek knowledge on how to achieve financial goals by reading Man up your own ego. Be consistent with these few morninghabits in order to reach your valid financial dream of becoming billionaire which is not in vain because you will become who you want to be!
In 1Kings 17:9 the bible shows, God commanded the widow of Zarephath to provide for Elijah, an implication that there was some “communication” that took place between God and the widow of Zarephath.
We are not told what she prayed about but for God to command her to provide for Elijah is clear indication she had been talking to God previously! Maybe if we deduce with today’s time;
1. Maybe she was telling God about how she was facing difficulty raising her son as a single parent(owing to the fact she was a widow).
2. Maybe she was telling God about the drought that was going on in Sidon, and she had no source of income to cater for basic needs(owing to the fact she was gathering sticks for firewood, another indication she had ran out of basic house items like fuel).
3. Maybe she was telling God about her loneliness.
4. Maybe she was telling God about her bakery business that had seemingly collapsed (owing to the fact that God trusted her to cook for His prophet and owing to the fact that she kept oil in jars, and flour in bins, clear indication she used to cook cakes or bread or confectionery for selling. If she only lived with her son, storing flour in big containers and oil in big containers was not necessary.
4. Maybe she was telling God about her tenants who seemingly seemed not to be paying their rents to her since there was drought and there seemed to be no means of the tenants to find food leave alone rent. (If she had a spare room upstairs fully furnished with spare bed ready for Elijah, the widow was somehow into a business in the city that involved property. Also after the miracle of oil and flour having taken place, the bible says she and Elijah and her household had enough to eat for many days.
5. Maybe she was telling God about her sickness, since we are not told what actually killed her husband, but at the time of Elijah’s arrival, the widow was hopeless to the point of death(maybe she was expecting the same sickness that killed her husband tragically to eventually kill her and her son as well). 6. Maybe she was under God’s judgment, for not obeying God’s counsel in her marriage.
7. Maybe her husband cheated on her with another woman, remember she lived in Zarephath and Zarephath is in Sidon, a city that King Ahab had influenced into sinning against God. So, when this woman found out about her husband’s affair she unwittingly decided to avenge it by her getting even with her husband by sleeping with another man. Unfortunately maybe her husband caught her in the real act (getting caught in the real act was usual in those days, they was little discreet).
However, maybe the two men engaged in a physical fight over the issue only for it to end tragically killing her matrimonial husband! And now she was left with a child born from an affair which may have made her to seek God’s mercies.
Beloved, whatever the reason this widow had to talk to God about we may not fully know, but we read she received a prophet of God sent by God meaning God answered her prayer!!!
You and I can do the same today and ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF HEAVEN by faith!! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
We communicate with God through prayer, through reading His Word etc..
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“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you”
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3. Handle your earnings with discipline. You didn’t clock for all that 6-hour extra overtime only to blow it away at Liszt Pizzeria Inn! Discipline when handling your hard earned wealth is paramount if you are planning to remain sound Wealthy!
❌🙋BE disciplined🙅❌
4. Your paychecks should pay-a-cheque tomorrow! They say nobody becomes rich on a paid salary! With this in mind, decide you will remain in employment for a certain period of time until your investment is able to create employment or pay-a-cheque !
5. Invest in yourself wisely! Study to acquire good knowledge, read books that offer the relevant knowledge you need and maintain the habit of investing greatly in your life.!
No. 2. WHO IS STEALING YOUR EARNINGS! Not every dollar that gets into your bank account should necessarily send you running to the dollar store or Amazon!😅
With every income increase learn to read signs of the economy and increase in your savings rather than in your spending.
Focus on spending on the right time and for the right reason.
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