Jesus Managed to Find His Path in His Youth
At the age of 12 Jesus was found by his parents in the temple asking questions. He managed to find his path in his youth as he decided to be about his father’s business (Luke 2: 48-49). As He identified the path he wanted to walk.
The Power in Decisive Living: God will not make decisions for men. God will only respond to the decisions we make. We must ask: “What do I want from life?” “What do I want to achieve with the days that I have?”
As believers, we must know why we are in a place. It is a mistake to blindly follow the men who came before us without decisiveness (Hebrews 6:12). What qualifies a man to be a leader or mentor is the promises they have already obtained. “When we make the right decisions in life, the right things will begin to happen for us.” We do not follow men for how long they have been, but by how much they have been able to receive.
“Our Decisions Decide Our Life, Wealth, Peace & Joy.” Our decisions have a decision over us. As we make them, our decisions decide what we will become. The moment we decide to be hardworking, that decision determines that we will be prosperous.
Many people do not break forth in destiny because they don’t know what they want, what they want to do and who they are. Ask: “What do I want to achieve and what is the path to get there?”
“Life is a chain reaction.” It is what we put in it that we get out of it. Everything that we have read in scripture that we don’t see in our lives is not God’s fault. God is faithful (Psalm 37:25). We must come to a place to ask ourselves, “What am I not doing right?’
“Every Money Problem is a Wisdom Problem.” We must strive to find what we are not doing right by going into scriptures and discovering what we have not found. There is something in the bible, that when a man finds it, the world will know him. He will stand before Kings (Proverbs 22:29).
It is a possibility that a man can lack wisdom, but he that lack wisdom can receiveit (James 1:5).
Laws of Money:
Money will not make you rich. The lack of money will not make a man poor. Everything a man thinks he lacks is a symptom of a decision he has not made. There is still something that we are yet to find to make all men seek after us (Mark 1:37).
Wealth begins with a decision and where we are in life is by our own hands. There are people who have worse backgrounds that have emerged from that story. We can be anything we decide to be. There are no limits to what a man can be in Christ. The only limit is what a man has set in his mind.
There is power in decisive living. Jesus even asked the blind man, “What do you want?” (Mark 10:51). If we don’t address the question of what we want, we cannot maximize anything. The essence of what a man strives to attain is not in what he professes. It is in the decisions one makes. We should always be keen to check a man’s decisions.
The man at the beautiful gate did not want healing, he wanted alms. He was in a place for strategic miracles, but he wanted something else (Acts 3: 2-6). Men can be in the same place and not want the same things. Therefore, we must always ask the question, “What do you want?”
The man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5: 1-15), had been at the pool for 38 years and when asked, “Do you want to be made whole ?”, He responded, “I have no man to put me in the water.” There are some men who are not looking for Jesus, they are seeking after other things.
There was a difference between what Elisha and Gehazi sought after (2 Kings 2:2) & (2 Kings 5: 20-27). We must ask, “Would I rather have food today and die of starvation tomorrow, or would I rather sacrifice today to have tomorrow?’ Our decision decides our wealth.
We Must Decide Our Environment.
Where we stay and the people we are around matter. While our environment consists of what we see and what we hear, we must decide to make decisions on our own absent of peer pressure. Ultimately, we must decide to be our own man instead of doing what we saw other people do, being decisive enough to take control of our environments.
There should be a clear distinction in our homes and lives that makes men know we are living for Jesus. It takes audacity to set order in our lives because men will come to test our allegiance to God, and see if we are strong in our beliefs. “We cannot take over the world until we have taken over ourselves and our desires”.
It takes spiritual maturity for men to stand and be original in the mist of counterfeits. Men would rather appear to be like something then be it. As spiritual men, we must decide to pay the price, more than we desire for men to know us. don’t be afraid to stand out. We must be mature enough to stand and carry an agenda for God in a generation.
We Must Decide Our Wealth.
True wealth is not built in one man’s lifetime. It is trans-generational. Wealthy men run a certain distance and then, let their children start from where they ended. It takes men to stop wishing to be wealthy and actually deciding to do what it takes to acquire wealth. May we be careful not to eat our tomorrow today and build a legacy that we can hand over to those that will come after us. As we put our feet in the steps of giants, we will begin to take giant steps. We can decide today by doing things differently.