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Passion and pleasure God’s way

Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love. Proverbs 5:18-19(NLT) Passion and pleasure in and of themselves are wonderful because they come from God. We can revel in reckless passion and pleasure when we choose to engage in them according to God’s way which is in the established and secure borders of marriage – Proverbs 5:15 (NLT)Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife. God is the most passionate about us and takes the most pleasure in us. He has given us marriage so we may share in His utmost passion and pleasure. God is faithful to us and in that we find safety and fulfillment. Likewise, marriage which is the most intimate human relationship is meant to mirror the same. The way God focuses His love, care, desire and tenderness on His people is the same way a husband and wife are to focus exclusively on each other. The key is how you see each other. The Scripture has talked about “loving doe, graceful deer, satisfying breasts” this is all about visuals. See your spouse as a blessing from the Lord, a fountain of life and joy. Don’t look for what’s faulty or missing. Look intently and notice the good, the advantages, the strengths in each other. The Scripture has said ” the wife of your youth” Youth speaks of raw intensity where even the little insignificant things excite you and bring you pleasure. Cultivate that mindset where what seems ordinary and insignificant is a wonder all because you’re with the most important, precious and amazing person in the whole wide world.

September 3, 2026 51 Comments off

Sweet but Sour

The words of an immoral woman may be as sweet as honey and as smooth as olive oil. But all that you really get from being with her is bitter poison and pain. Proverbs 5:3-4 (CEV) The serpent in the garden convinced Eve with sweet and smooth words, she saw the fruit of the forbidden tree as good, pleasant, and desirable – Genesis 3, but eating it brought sorrow and death in the world. This is what adultery looks like. It’s bitter poison and pain. Adultery leads to death – Proverbs 5:5; You lose your honor and all you have achieved -Proverbs 5:9; Strangers consume your wealth and enjoy the fruit of your labor – Proverbs 5:10; Your body is consumed with disease Proverbs 5:11; Your life is ruined and you end up with disgrace and regret – Proverbs 5:12-14. Jesus said adultery starts in the heart – Matthew 5:28, it starts as a thought – Proverbs 23:7. Therefore guard against adultery by guarding against thoughts that suggest immorality. Don’t let your mind and eyes be idle or wander. Keep away from every form of pornography. Don’t just avoid but flee, run for your life, from situations that cause temptation to adultery – 1Corinthians 6:18. One most effective way of fleeing sexual immorality is by aggressively occupying yourself with righteousness, faith, love, and peace – 2Timothy 2:22.

September 2, 2026 50 Comments off

Yield to Wisdom

My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel. Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you’ve learned. Proverbs 5:1-2 (NLT) The number one way we acquire wisdom is through listening. The Scripture has admonished us to pay attention to God’s wisdom by listening carefully to His wise counsel. The Word of God is His counsel. We yield to God’s wisdom by paying attention to His Word, listening to it, obeying it. The number one way we act in wisdom is through speaking. The last part of our text Scripture says “Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you’ve learned” You can activate and release wisdom in what you say. When we yield our lips to God’s Word, say God’s Word or speak in line with it, we are speaking the Wisdom of God, we are yielding to God’s wisdom. Yield to God’s wisdom as you hear His Word and as you speak it.

September 1, 2026 44 Comments off

Fix Your Eyes on what’s Ahead

Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Proverbs 4:25 (NLT) What’s ahead of us isn’t something in the distant future but something right before us. Fixing our eyes on what’s ahead is focusing on what God has prepared, done, accomplished and made ready for and given us. 1 Corinthians 2:12 (NKJV) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. What’s ahead of us is the life of victory and dominion that Jesus made available to us in His death and Resurrection. What’s behind us is the fall of Adam and all its consequences of condemnation, bondage and oppression. We fix our eyes ahead by looking to Jesus and His finished work on the Cross. Hebrews 12:2a (GNT) Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. We see Jesus as our life, our worthiness, our qualification, our wisdom, our advantage in life, our security. We see ourselves in Him as able, successful. This is the best way to look ahead.

August 31, 2026 48 Comments off

Keep your mouth free from corrupt talk

Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Proverbs 4:24 (NIV) According to God’s Word perverse or corrupt talk is more than abusive or obscene language. The Hebrew words from which we get perverse and corrupt actually mean distortion, crookedness, false or deviation. They give the idea of turning aside. Perversity and corrupt talk mean speaking what’s contrary to what God says. It’s what the devil spoke to Adam and Eve. It was distorted, crooked, and false. What he spoke to them caused them to turn aside from what God had told them. It brought the distortion and crookedness that’s in the world which is sin, fear, confusion, worry, shame, condemnation, sickness, poverty, suffering, destruction and death. It’s a turning aside from what God says and gives which is Righteousness, life, peace, assurance, glory health, comfort, abundance, security and immortality. When God says you’re His beloved child, He loves and cares for you, but you say you’re a nobody, unlovely, unworthy, no one loves or cares for you that’s perversity and corrupt talk. When God says you’re righteous, blessed, and favored through His Son Jesus Christ and what He did on the Cross but you say you’re still a sinner because you still fall into sin, you’re under a curse and rejected because things are not working out, that’s perversity and corrupt talk. Let your mouth be filled with God talk.

August 30, 2026 50 Comments off

Guard Your Heart

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) Here we see how the Wisdom of God far surpasses the wisdom of men. People spend all their time, money, and energy guarding their life, possessions and achievements but still fail. On the other hand, God says you guard only one thing, one area, and everything else will be taken care of. God says guard the source, and the outflowing will be secure. The heart is where life flows from and it’s where it’s sustained from. Everything physical, seen, and tangible is birthed from the unseen, which is the thoughts, ideas, beliefs and convictions in your heart. When your heart is filled with life, peace, assurance, safety, contentment, rest, and certainty that’s what is going to flow out of you, that’s what will mark everything you touch, do, and have. But if your heart is filled with fear, worry, confusion, failure, insecurity, and lack that’s what will come out of you, that’s what will mark whatever you touch, do, and have. Therefore, focus on your heart and the rest will fall in line. That’s why Holy Spirit led prayer is that the eyes of our hearts are enlightened that we may know…what God has called us to, given us and is doing in us – Ephesians 1:18,19; that Christ dwell in our hearts through faith – Ephesians 3:17. This doesn’t mean Christ is not in us so we call Him to come in, it means we fill our hearts with the knowledge that Christ is in us.

August 29, 2026 54 Comments off

Keys to Life and Health

20My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. 21Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. Proverbs 4:20-22(NIV) The saying that out of sight out of mind has a point. We can even say out of sight, out of mind, out of body. But let’s look at it another way – In sight, in mind, in body. What’s in sight, stays in your mind, heart, and body. You can have and enjoy life and health by simply effortlessly seeing them constantly. The Scripture has said that when we do not let the Word of God out of our sight but keep seeing it, guarding it in our hearts, we find it and then it’s life and health to us. The Word of God is life – John 6:63 (NKJV), and it’s living – Hebrews 4:12 (NKJV). The Word of God is also health – Proverbs 4:22. When you keep looking into the Word you see life and health. You see the God who desires you living healthy and prosperous. This gets rid of the mindset of degeneration and death that’s in the world. You begin to agree with God and see yourself living and healthy. This is how we find the Word. Then the Word you’ve given access and authority into your life starts transforming your body from within to line up with the truth of God which is life and health. This is the faith life. This is seeing the things that are not seen. This is seeing yourself in God’s Word which is living and health. This is how you can see yourself to life and health.

August 28, 2026 53 Comments off

Hearing God’s Voice

20My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart Proverbs 4:20-21(NKJV) Success in everything comes from hearing God’s voice and doing what He says. But most believers are struggling hearing and discerning God’s voice. The first step in hearing God’s voice is attending to His written Word. The Scripture has said “give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.” Attending to God’s written Word is how you incline your ear to His sayings. When you pay attention to God’s written Word, get acquainted with it then it’s very easy to recognize God speaking. Because God always speaks in line with His written Word. God and His Word are one. Actually, the Word is God speaking to us. When we attend to God’s written Word, hearing it, studying it, meditating on it, acting on it, we will hear God’s specific instructions or directives in life concerning any issue. This is the same thing God told Joshua, that when he pays attention to the written Word by meditating in all that’s written in the book of the law, then he would do according to what’s written there, then he would make his way prosperous and successful – Joshua 1:8. The meditation in what’s written would help him hear and recognize God’s voice or sayings, he would act on that and that’s where prosperity and success dwells. Give yourself to God’s written Word and hear God’s voice clearly.

August 27, 2026 49 Comments off

The Path of the Righteous

The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. Proverbs 4:18 (NIV) There’s a consistent gradual increase in the light and heat of the sun on earth as the day unfolds, and the peak is at noon day when the light and heat of the sun is at its highest. The path or life of the righteous is compared to the shining of the sun. It gets brighter, clearer and stronger. Always remember the righteous is everyone who is born again through faith in Jesus Christ – Romans 3:22. Knowledge is light. Jesus is the Sun of Righteousness – Malachi 4:2. The more we know Jesus, the more light shines in our life. The more life becomes brighter, clearer, and stronger. At midday when it’s brightest and hottest the sun is closest to earth. The knowledge of God is close intimate relationship with Him. Now we are already as closest to the Lord as we could ever be, because we are joined with Him – John 15:5. But there’s a getting closer to Him where His thoughts are our thoughts and His ways our ways. When you choose to renew your mind, letting it be filled and influenced with God’s Word you’re on the path of knowing Jesus, you’re on the path of the righteous. Life will become brighter, clearer and stronger. If you’ve just began it will at first look like dawn, where it’s not yet clear, but keep on walking, keep on renewing your mind with the knowledge of Christ for in this is midday which is clarity and strength of life.

August 26, 2026 50 Comments off

Where the Mind goes the Man follows.

14Don’t do as the wicked do, and don’t follow the path of evildoers. 15Don’t even think about it; don’t go that way. Turn away and keep moving. Proverbs 4:14-15 (NLT) If you’re trying to change the course of your life by changing your actions or behavior you’re having it backwards. That’s frustrating and it won’t work out. It’s like stopping a tree from growing by cutting off the branches. New ones will grow back up again. You have to pull up the tree from the roots. What you think, you follow, you do. Therefore, to change what you do, first change what you think. Before you do something, you first think about it, you follow it with intention, and then you end up doing it. That’s the pattern of behavior. Our theme Scripture has commanded us saying “don’t do what the wicked do, don’t follow it, don’t even think about” If this was a tree, the doing is the fruit, the following are the branches and the thinking are the roots. To stop the fruit, you deal with the roots. In order to stop doing what the wicked do, stop thinking what the wicked think. Start thinking what God thinks because He is righteous and does righteousness. You can download God’s righteous thinking from His Word which is known as the Word of Righteousness – Hebrews 5:13 (NKJV) Let God’s Word shape your thinking and it will shape your actions and behavior.

August 25, 2026 55 Comments off