"As you have believed, so let it be done for you" - Matt 8:13

"For everyone who asks receives" Matt 7:7-11. God doesn't show partiality; He loves you the same everyone, even those people who have received wonderful miracles. So just believe His promise. If you ask, you will receive.

It is doing the will of God that counts. Not your service or how many good things you do but are you in the will of God for your life? Let that be your guiding light - Matt 7:21-23

Every word of God is pure
He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him
- Proverbs 30:5

The fear of man brings a snare
But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe - Prov 29:25

Many seek the ruler's favour
But justice for man comes from the LORD - Prov 29:26

"There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses."
- 1 Kings 8:56

**God's promises never fail! He keeps them because that's who He is -- He is God; "not a man that He should lie not a son of man that He should repent" Num 23:19

...He who trusts in the LORD will be prospered - v25
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool - v26

He who follows righteousness and mercy
Finds life, righteousness and honor
-Proverbs 21:21

The horse is prepared for the day of battle,
But deliverance is of the LORD
- Proverbs 21:31

Solomon said it first:
A man's steps are of the LORD
How then can a man understand his own way?
-Proverbs 20:24 (NKJ)

Put even more plainly in The Message translation:
The very steps we take come from God;
   otherwise how would we know where we're going?

God is my strength and power
And He makes my way perfect - 2 Sam 22: 33
He also brought me out into a broad place - 2 Sam 22:20

**God my way perfect...through the wilderness and the fires and the storm, He is still making my way perfect

For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.
-Proverbs 23:18, Amplified Bible

He does not delight in the strength of the horse
He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man
The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him
In those who hope in His majesty
- Psalm 146:10-11

"Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

1. Passion: identify what excites you, what enthuses you. identify who suffocates your dream. identify in whose presence you lose heart.

• sounds are so important. identify the sounds you like and put them around you. birds singing? water falls?
• if you don't like complainers, decide where they'll be and decide that they won't be around you
• have you decided what you like to hear, and have you invested in putting those sounds around you. in life there is no party, you are the party, and if you are not jumping, it is because you are not playing the right music
• passion is a success necessity. passion is more important than money because if you have passion you can create any financial life you want
• if someone attacks your passion, drains your joy, they are an adversary. they might smile but they are your adversary. who is messing with your passion?
• protect your passion. don't spend time with people that drain your passion: your passion for God, your passion for life, your passion for your future. you are going to have to fight for your passion. don't let anybody mess with your passion
• if you really want something to happen decide that it will happen; whether or not they say something to discourage you like, "it'll cost you more...blah blah"
• do what you have a passion for. don't teach what you don't have a passion for.
• to protect your passion, you'll have to find your comfort zone, your comfort cirlce: someone who isn't trying to dismantle your dream. they don't create the burden of response, they are not stressful to you
• wisdom is the ability to discern difference in people. people bring different things to your life. discern those who are a comfort circle
• if someone doesn't like you, it's because they don't discern and celebrate your difference
• what are you doing about your passion?
• don't engage in conversations with people with whom when you talk to them, it feels as if they are pouring water on your dreams
• learn to encourage yourself; David learned how to encourage yourself. You decide your success. you don't need other people to encourage you
• what words do you like to hear. 
• God gave us His words so we would develop skills at talking to ourselves.
• don't mess with your passion. sculpt an environment...every home should have songs of worship going on in your homes all day long
• thoughts have a presence. assess an environment before you enter it and try to change it
• you cannot help anyone who will not listen to you
• you can't make anybody love you. they either love you or they don't. if they don't gather your honour and leave. cos there is somebody waiting for you. go where you are celebrated instead of where you are tolerated.
• don't think less of yourself simply because someone doesn't respond. don't cook the third meal when they haven't eaten the first meal. don't try to grow fruit in wrong soil, cos someone is waiting for you
• get real serious about your passion, identify why it is dying and find out who is killing it

2. Reactions

• wisdom can be picked up, assessed through reactions. that's how we know someone has wisdom, based on their reactions
• what is your reaction to greatness? if you go into a restaurant and a world class achiever is in that restaurant. do you pick up the tab? do you leave them a note? do you acknowledge their greatness?
• if you were to meet a great person what questions do you ask? how did you do it? how did you accomplish it? Do you try to extract wisdom from them? do you allow them to be your mentor?
• how do you react to the presence of God. when you are dating somebody, ask yourself, what is their reaction to God's presence. if you get someone in God's presence, they can change but if they wouldn't even get in God's presence, they can't change; that's the best they'll ever be
• if we don't continually go into God's presence, we have the capacity to deterioriate.
• what is your reaction to correction? if you open the door for correction, you remove all the pain from correction. 
• correction is different from criticism; criticism diminishes your influence. whomever you criticize will stop listening to you. make gentle corrections: "that's good. and here's another thought...."
• people who really love you want you to succeed and will go to any length to help you succeed
• what is your reaction to correction? what is your reaction to a mistake? the diff between success and failure is correction. 
• how do you open the door for correction: "I have this idea, if it's not a good idea shoot it down". 
• Don't be afraid to be corrected, it is part of the price of becoming. 
• your wisdom will depend on your ability to receive correction
• it is dangerous if the people who love you stop correcting you.
• you don't teach people who need you, you teach people who heed you; invest where you see change
• Invest where you see change
• put as little money as possible in a bank; try to change it into value: gold bars etc
• How do you react to a loss? Hold loosely to the things of this world. Let other people have the gifts they take, you still have the Giver. and as long as you have the Giver, every good and perfect gift comes from the Lord.
• May you never have anything God didn't give you; You don't want anything God didn't give you. if God doesn't give you something, it's cos it'll be a tragedy for your future. But don't let satan take away anything God gave you. Fight to keep what God has given you.
• Even evil people, like a delilah put a value on a samson. may you never have anything God didn't give you
• even if satan took it, the same God who gave you your life can give you what you need to live this life.
• the same God who gave you one idea, can give you many more ideas
• those assigned to stay in your life cannot leave. those who hate your passions, ministry cannot wait to leave. but there are people who cannot stay away from you because they know your value, they know your difference
• Read Mike Murdock's book: The Law of Recognition: there is something you're not seeing, and it is costing you.
• you haven't seen or known 1% of 1% of 1% of what God has in store for you...eye hath not seen nor ear heard.
• God hides beauty under ugly so that persistence will be rewarded; nothing is ever as it first appears
• if you feel like u r a push over take that ugliness off and realise that God put graciousness in you; if you feel like u have an anger problem, take off that ugliness and realise that God put passion in you. 
• Single people: satan will introduce a counterfeit to you, a decoy. you don't want anybody God didn't bring to you. you don't want people who bring themselves to you either. don't you let anybody else tell you whom God has chosen for you. Let the spirit of God confirm it to you. 
• Let the man do the choosing. You don't want a man so stupid he can't hear God's voice.
• You want someone who know the voice of the Spirit, who can talk to God for you; who can communicate
• Avoid guys who are deceptive, liars. You want one in which what he says with his mouth is what he feels in his heart. You want someone who excels in honour; someone who knows how to talk to you, talk to others.
• Every future has a price
  

• God's presence is not like a highway, it's like a garden. His presence is to be savored not rushed. His presence is the only place fear can die
• The purpose of wisdom is to know what decisions should I make. My decisions decide my stress, my joy, my strength. The Bible is a book about decisions
• I cannot change your life until I change who you trust. When I know the voice that you trust, I can predict the quality of your decisions.
• Your words are powerful. Every morning when you wake up, prophesy to your day. Tell your day how it will serve you
• Words are so important. God runs His world with His words. 
• Silence can easily be misinterpreted. not misquoted, misinterpreted. One of the key subjects of proverbs is words.
• Every single heart ache can be traced to words. You need to prophesy to your mouth to speak good words, God's Words.
• Girls, always look at how a guy treats his mother. You want to know because your mother is the one that teaches you how to treat women.
• It is not God's decision to make you successful, it is your decision. Joshua 1:7-8: God says you would make your way successful: it is your decision to not look to the right or to the left but decide what is worthy of your total energy
• Develop a purposeful life. decide what is worthy of your total energy. 
• Success is the obtaining of a worthy goal.
• Every conversation creates a product. conversations decide the quality of your life. conversations decide your future. conversations contain hidden secrets. In Deuteronomy 4:36: God says I created you to hear my voice, for conversation
• Prosperity is having enough provision to complete your divine assignment and it is connected to obedience: ( provision is more than a money word. it includes energy, money, favour, courage, faith)
• Everything created solves a problem -- your assignment
• whatever you've used your heart for is a picture of what you've used your life for
• The Bible is not a book about destiny alone. it is a book about the quality of your decisions. who have you chosen to ignore? cos there are some people who you should ignore. are you listening to the wrong people
• you are listening to the wrong people if you lose your joy, lose your energy after listening to them

• Wisdom is the ability to discern difference. diff in people, diff in a countenance, diff in function, diff in a moment. If you unwrap moments and discern the divine deposit that makes that moment distinctively different, that moment will smile on you.
• Wisdom is the ability to discern your diff from others. God doesn't make two of anything. market that  difference because your success is in your difference from others. What do you love to talk about? what do you love to learn about? shat do you love to think about? what are your dominant skills? what are you able to endure that others can't endure? Are you celebrating the difference in others around you
• Honour is the ability to celebrate the difference in others around you
• your difference will be what brings streams of honour to you. you may not have been able to identify your diff because you've become obsessed with your weakness. what you focus on becomes bigger. what ever gets your attention becomes bigger. God gave you a mouth to downsize your experience
• the purpose of wisdom is to know whom to honour.
• Your future will be decided by who you have chosen to honour
• tone talks, countenance speaks.
• God speaks more than anyone you've met
• Joy is the reward for identifying the distinctive deposit that God placed in a moment; wisdom is the ability to discern moments

Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning
For in You do I trust
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk
For I lift up my soul to You - psalm 143:8

Hear my prayer, O LORD
Give ear to my supplications
In Your faithfulness answer me - Psalm 143:1

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me
Then You knew my path (the path that I should take) - Psalm 142:3

Psalm 145

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him
To all who call upon Him in truth - v18

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him (who fix their eyes on Him, not the storm)
He also will hear their cry and save them - v19

The eyes of all look expectantly to You
And You give them their food in due season
You open your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing - v15,16

Blessed be the LORD my rock
who trains my hands for war
and my fingers for battle --
My lovingkindness and my fortress
My high tower  and my deliverer
My shield and the One in whom I take refuge
-Psalm 144:1-2

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger
And his glory is to overlook a transgression
- Prov 19:11

There are many plans in a man's heart
Nevertheless the LORD's counsel -- that will stand - Prov 19:21

The fear of the LORD leads to life
And he who has it will abide in satisfaction; he will not be visited with evil
- Prov 19:23

To be wise in your future days:

Listen to counsel and receive instruction that you may be wise in your latter days - Prov 19:20

Cease listening to instruction my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge - Prov 19:27

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will find good

**It is important to continually pursue knowledge and wisdom; consistency is the key

• Desire is not love; finding someone desirable is not loving them
• the greatest most important quality of the Christian is the ability to love; love is more than sweet words.
• desire, someone's attractiveness to us is not love
• if you have to explain love, it is not love; love is something so phenomenal that you can't explain it
• there's is different kinds of love: eros - sexual love. etc.
• the feeling of being loved is not love; enjoying someone's presence, humour is not love.

John 13:34-35: 

• God's love for us is not nearly as important as our love for God. The purpose of His love for us is to enable us to love Him back; and that's where the rewards begin. Jesus loves the 2 theives on the cross, but only one went to heaven. God's love for us gives us access, but does not create change. It is our love for God that births change.
• it will take God to start the river of love flowing in you, and to keep it going
• Everything that looks like love isn't love
• 1 John 2:3, 5: love is not hugging or kissing or stroking; our love is not because we carry a Bible or lift up hands; we love God is we keep His commandments

1 John 3:14-18; 24; 1 John 4:7, 10-12:

• love is not attractiveness, it is a decision to place great value on the needs of another

Proofs of Love

1.The willingness to listen; listen with interest. anytime anyone talks to you, bring all of you into that moment.

2. The passion to pleasure another person: different from lust - lust is the desire to extract pleasure from another person; love is a passion to pleasure another person. what does this person love, what do they enjoy.

• Who have you decided to host on the earth? whose comfort has become your passion?
• your discomfort is a conversation; and if someone loves you, they discern your discomfort. they don't only pick it up but they desire to pleasure you.
• How do you know if someone love you: their passion to provide you something you need

3. Your ability to adapt: when you love someone, there is a remarkable skill to adapt to changes, unexpected requests.

• the willingness to adapt, the capability to adapt to an immediate need

4. A relentless desire to protect:

5: The proof of love is the investment of time: you will spend time with people we love the most

6: The willingness to define your expectations:

• love creates expectations because you've invested yourself, your emotions in that person
• you have to create expectations when you're dating; even God's love has expectations otherwise there will be no hell

7. The willingness to give the gift of correction:

• correction is a gift; 
• correcting someone when they are making a mistake diminishes a painful experience
• stopping their pain should be more important than them feeling you love them; if you love someone you won't allow someone to continue to destroy their lives
• don't date someone to change them; you can't fall in love with the wrong person, with someone who is going to destroy your life. 

8. The proof of love is in the swiftness to forgive:

• we should be swift to forgive because it will require a lot of mercy
• it should be hard to be someone's friend, because it should require qualification. Being friendly is not the same as being friendly
• God's mercy is proportional to the mercy we extend. we forgive, because we will require forgiveness. it took Mike Murdock a quarter of a century to realise this. 
• when we forgive others, we are able to accept the forgiveness of God.  
• Forgiving someone doesn't mean you trust them. trust is something you build up. you don't have to qualify to being forgiven; trust is something you qualify for

Psalm 141

But my eyes are upon You O God the Lord
In You I take refuge
Do not leave my soul destitute - v8

God will: "keep me from the snares they have laid for me
And from the traps of the workers of iniquity
Let the wicked fall into their own nets
While I escape safely - v9

Psalm 143
Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies;
In You I take shelter - v9
In Your mercy cut off my enemies
And destroy all those who afflict my soul
For I am Your servant (I belong to You) - v12

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth
Keep watch over the door of my lips
- Psalm 141:3

LORD, I cry out to You
Make hase to me
Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You
Let my prayer be set before You as incense
The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice
- Psalm 141:1-2

Relationship between getting into God's presence and the tabernacle of Moses

1. Enter with praise : the gates of the tabernacle
2. Confess your sins, present yourself as a living sacrifice: the altar of the tabernacle
3. Read the Word of God: the word of God washes us at the laver
4. The Word of God becomes Spirit and Life at the table of show bread and the lamp stand: the scripture becomes reality; all thoughts become subject to the Word of God; His mind becomes our mind
5. The minute the Word of God becomes life, intercession hits your spirit, without you even asking for it. At the laver, the Word of God washes you, but at the lamp stand, it becomes prayer

• When you look at the bible you see three words: wisdom, decisions, rewards: Proverbs 4:7; Deut 5:28,29

1. You must protect your passion

• Identify sources of inspiration: what inspires you? what inspires you may not inspire another. so what? you find what inspires you and stay in the center of your passion
• what energizes you? who energizes you? see yourself like a bank...some people make only withdrawals

2. Reactions

• what is your reaction to honor? to correction? to an opportunity? to an invitation?
• reactions reveal what is inside your character

3. Relationships

• You find the snakes you kill them. Relationships are built, they are not created, they are built; love is something you build
• relationships are growable if there is integrity, discernment and you distinguish the divine purpose of a relationship
• there are friendships that you can go only one storey; there are others you can go two storeys with; others you can build a skyscraper with

4. Faith

• It is confidence in God; it is a muscle, you build it, you nurture it; make it part of your daily buffet. work with a scripture, just one that stirs you , stirs your faith
• it is confidence created by the Word of God: faith cometh by hearing
• what you hear controls your confidence
• you must make a decision to grow your own faith
• you need people who can build your faith, work with your faith, nurture your faith
• faith is the creator of all the miracles in your life
• build your faith in God, faith in the Word of God

5. Health

• You are responsible for your health
• The key to health is the movement of health through the body: your colon and the way food is digest impacts your health; including dehydration
• It takes 30mins to 2 hours for fruit to digest; but pork stays undigested in your system for 14 days
• Never put in front of you what doesn't belong in you

6. Opportunities

• You only owe opportunities to others. Opportunities for relationships, opportunities for change. You owe them nothing else

7. Focus

• Don't look to the right or to the left (Joshua); focus
• what gets your focus; what keeps your interest
• it is important for you to discover what keeps your divine focus
• why do you keep doing what you do when others don't care? it's because of what you know (the Bible's principles; we know the power of the gospel; the power of the Word of God; the capability of God to change)
• Don't you ever underestimate the integrity or might of the God you work for.
• The only reason people fail is broken focus; keep your focus. What has the ability to keep your focus. Stay focused on your assignment
• The only reason you will fail is if something breaks your focus
• Keep pictures of your future focused in front of you

8. Decisions

• Who have you decided to ignore? who have you decided to listen to? who have you decided to learn from? who have you decided not to learn from?
• what decisions have created your losses?
• what have you decided to learn with your time
• what would you do if you knew you had one day left? who would you teach?
• Every mother and father should make a decision to be the dominant voice in their kids life
• what have you decided to stop doing? what will you do differently
• The reason God's expectation is so high of you is because He knows what He puts in you. He stored hidden gifts in you. What God put in you, you haven't even begun to discover
• You've spent your whole life staring at your weakness, instead of your difference
• if you will invest time to look at your difference from others, not resent it, not explain it to everybody, but build your future based on your difference
• it is you weakness that births compassion, willingness to change to be taught. but it is your difference that God wants to magnify.
• what have you decided to change
• who have you decided to help succeed

9. Integrity

• are you trustworthy. the number one financial quality is trustworthy, integrity. It must be perceived. it must be believed. You must look trustworthy. Keep your words accurate
• Can you discern who the deceivers are?
• truth, integrity have their own reward: self-confidence
• build your future on integrity; be able to look anybody in the eye

10. Seed power

• Something you've been given will create anything you've been promised
• words are the seeds for feelings
• honor is the seed for access
• knowledge is the seed for change
• listening is the seed for learning
• battle is the seed for territory
• everything in your future is connected to something in your present
• You are four people away from anybody on the earth: you are four people away from anybody on the earth
• Find the things in you, the qualities, God has stored. Each thing he has put is a seed; each thing is part of a success equation for your future. There is a part of you vital to somebody's future

Leadership: Is a person that takes responsibility for what happens.

• Learn success
• my decisions are deciding my joy
• my decisions are deciding my financial wealth
• my decisions are deciding my success
• Satan's number one weapon is ignorance: my people perish for lack of knowledge
• accept the responsibility for your decisions, for your lifestyle: whose voice will you obey? whose will you ignore? what will you change this year? what will you decide to do? what will you decide to stop doing? 
• where you are is a photograph of your decisions
• when you accept that your lifestyle is based on your decisions, something will change
• learn to do well 

1. Your decision to set specific, measurable goals:

• what are your goals? put them in pictures. put them in front of you
• put your future in pictures
• goals decide your conduct; they affect your behaviour
• if you put your goals in pictures infront of you, you will increase your chances of attaining your goal by 90%; God talks in pictures
• your picture of you will affect your self-esteem; your self-picture can be more important than your image of God. 10 of the 12 spies said we were like grasshoppers in their eyes.
• the purpose of your goals is to correct your self image, the way you see you. you will always act like the picture of you; the way you see yourself
• your picture decides what comes out of you
• the first thing satan will do when he wants to destroy you is change your self picture. the first thing God will do when He wants to use you is change your self-picture. He called Gideon a mighty man of battle
• Have a picture of your goals, pictures of people who inspire you, pictures of your heroes.
• The only thing that can stop you is you when you stop. Your failure starts when you stop and what does it take to stop you?

2. Your decision to pour excellence into your immediate assignment:

• you are creating a reputation every moment of your life
• excel where you are; be good where you are; become the best where you are
• become so good, that the future begs for you to enter it
• before you get to the center of your assignment, there is a qualification process
• if you were ready for your future, you'd be there. it's because you are not ready for your future; become good where you are
• get the spirit of a finisher
• become so good that you are the first person your boss thinks of when he wants a job done

3. Your decision to embrace every divine opportunity:

• embrace the opportunity to learn, to serve, to solve a problem 
• problems are glorious things: without a problem there is no reward.
• you cannot change your future until you change the problems you are willing to solve
• God will give you opportunities to explode, to train, to learn, to solve problems, to settle battle and quarrels, opportunity to love

4. Your decision to relentlessly ask questions

• questions host answers on the earth
• a question shows your passion, shows your interest
• don't ever look for answers look for questions, the questions will lead you to the answer
• if you are in a tough position, ask questions. what will Abraham do if he were right here?
• access the mind set of others through questions. everybody knows something you don't know. what are the latest questions you've asked
• continually ask yourself questions; if i was an enemy how would i destroy me? who would i want next to me if i was dying? whose presence leaves me energized
• if you create a list of questions continually, your life will change radically in 24 hours

5. Your decision to continually build your faith

• faith is confidence in God
• faith is a muscle, you can build it, you can lose it
• faith is so important because it is the only thing God responds to favorably. God does not respond to my tears or fear or need or pain or loses or sickness and disease. He only responds to my faith.
• all miracles are reaction to faith
• If you can build your faith, you can create any future you desire. faith is the only thing that creates change
• it is your responsibility to build your own faith

6. Your decision to stay militant towards excellence

• you will have to fight to keep order and excellence all around you, in your environment: in your bedroom, in your car etc.
• if you don't battle for excellence, you will suffocate with mediocrity

7. Your decisions to master the law of honour 

• An experience with God is not enough to succeed, that is why He created His laws on the earth
• there are 72 laws of life. some are: there is the law of adaptation, law of protocol (Every environment has a standard of entering and remaining in it), law of two, law of relationship
• every law has a different reward, different fruit
• master sowing it, honour. lavish it on people in your life
• the difference in seasons is based on whom you have chosen to honour
• if you succeed it will be because of someone you have chosen to honour; if you don't succeed it will because of someone you have chosen to dishonour
• one of the proofs of honour is the willingness to listen
• adapting to someone's need is proof of honour
• focus on lavishing honour into your environment
• you change the value of something by changing the presentation; you communicate value by changing the presentation
• who have you chosen to dishonour and why?
• what effort have you made to show honour
• when someone shows you dishonour, you can get as low as they are based on your reaction
• let your words be precise, can people depend on the accuracy of your words, will you do what you say you will do
• never get so much in a rush, that you can't talk honourably to others
• show honour to God. Those who honour God, God will honour; and it will be supernatural
• speak with honour to people; require honour from those underneath you

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers
- 3 John 2

**Soul prosperity comes first, and then all other things, including our health will prosper

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him
That if we ask anything according to His will He hears us.
And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask,
we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him
- 1 John 5:14

You have magnified Your word above all Your name.
In the day when I cried out, You answered me
And made me bold with strength in my soul. - Psalm 138v2-3

**God will give you rest in your soul

Even if we "make our bed in hell" or "dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea", even there God's hand shall lead us and His right hand shall hold us - Psalm 139 v8-10

The darkness can not hide us from God, bu the night will be as bright as day - Psalm 139v12, paraphrased
For there is nothing that could ever separate us from the love of God

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! - Psalm 139v17

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me
Your mercy O LORD endures forever
Do not forsake the works of Your hands

Psalm 140

Deliver me, O LORD from evil men
Preserve me from violent men
Who plan evil things in their hearts
They continually gather together for war - v1

Keep me form the hands of the wicked
Preserve me from violent men
who have purposed to make my steps stumble - v4

Psalm 138

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me
You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies
and Your right hand will save me - v7

...You are my God
Hear the voice of my supplications, o LORD
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation
You have covered my head in the day of battle
Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked
- Psalm 140:6-8

God is "Him who alone does great wonders" - Psalm 136:4

The only thing God does is speak; so His Words are seeds for change

Something I've been given can create everything else I've been promised

The proof of God is a change on the inside

Whatever you present to God (prayer request), wrap with expectation

Everything can be bought. Not with money, but with something God has given you and exchange it for something you have promised.

• Take an inventory. You might have a gift for endurance, etc

Jesus' resurrection: anything dead, can be brought back to life. anything broken can be fixed

In order to memorize scripture and meditate on the Word of God, link everything around you with the Word of God: e.g. when you comb your hair - the hair on your head is counted; when you are washing your face - remember eye hath not seen nor ear heard what God has in store for those who love Him

Always sow a seed equal to your need; a seed that reflects your trust

Have quality, meaningful conversations: conversations that have thought, purposeful, accurate, substance, essence.

• There should be a price for your relationships; don't just allow anyone in your life
• Speak clearly; stop other people when you don't understand them
• Look at people when you have conversations with them
• How do guys talk to you? Is he full of himself? Do you trust his words? Does he ask questions about you

Have trustworthy conversations:

• Don't just say what you think the other person wants to hear; talk from your heart
• You can't keep slippery, untrustworthy, deceitful people out of your circle, but you better identify them
• Be direct and honest in your speech; make your words trustworthy
• The most important monetary quality on the earth in the next two years will be trustworthiness, integrity

Embrace the Word of God as the authority for conduct on the earth

• If you don't embrace the Word of God, I have no room for the relationship
• Don't believe in missionary dating - dating an unbeliever in the hopes he'll change

Embrace honour

• Who do you honour? Who have you chosen to dishonour
• Let honour be qualifier for access
• Who has brought you this far? Who unlocked the greatness in you? Don't dishonour them.
• If you succeed, it can be traced to a person you have chosen to honour; if you don't succeed, it can be traced to a person you have chosen to dishonour

Be a person who cares

• Don't let people in your world suffer; be a person who cares but put the same standard for other people in your circle. Don't be the only one caring in your circle
• You cannot build a quality relationship with someone who doesn't care. You can be friendly, but you'll be a fool to try to build with a heart with someone that doesn't care

Your words should matter

• Your bosses instructions matter. Follow them.
• But don't tell me how important your words are, if you haven't invested yourself to put your words on the consciences of people
• Your words should be trustworthy, accurate

What are you willing to live without? What are you unwilling to live without?

• Don't live a mediocre life
• Attempt what others are unwilling to attempt?
• What kind of lifestyle are you willing to settle for? Are you willing just to exist?
• Have friends who don't talk you out of your dreams

• Everything created solves a problem: everything created is a solution to a problem. Something in me can not be found in another. God is a creator.
• Your success is geographical; Jesus didn't do well in certain places, that's why He had to leave Nazareth
• Somebody cannot succeed until you enter their life; you are a walking reward system for someone. 
• You must find out what is your difference from another.
• No assignment is insignificant; no human life is unimportant

1. The tithe is documentation of trust: it is proof I believe in a harvest.

•  God's only pain is to be disbelieved; His only pleasure is to be trusted: Numbers 23:19

2. Tithe births a covenant; it is a financial covenant: it returns to God the holy part of our finances. It is like circumcision of our finances; God cleanses the rest of our finances and multiplies it

3. The tithe is a key to unlocking divine favour

4. The tithe It is a key to divine protection: Malachi 3:10

5. The tithe immediately makes expectation of divine favour possible:

• Matt 11:28: God promises to give us rest
• Heb 11:4: God is a rewarder of those who deligently seek Him
• Heb 11:6: Without faith it is impossible to please God

It is not possible to receive or expect when you have placed no seed in the ground. The tithe is a seed.

When I let go of what is in my hand, God will let go of what is in His hand.

6. Tithing silences satanic accusations
7. Tithing unleashes self-confidence to approach God
8. Tithing demoralizes the demons assigned to stop you

- By Mike Murdock

Proverbs 18:20-21

A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth
From the produce of his lips he shall be filled

Death and life are in the power of the tongue
And those who love it will eat its fruit

**Your harvest is influenced by what you say

Echoed by Jesus in Mark 11:23

How to avoid quarrels:

He who answers a matter before he hears it
It is folly and shame to him- Proverbs 18:13

**So in relationships, don't assume you have all the facts about a situation, an offense and make up your mind before hearing all of it, from the horse's mouth

The name of the LORD is a strong tower
The righteous run to it and are safe

Psalm 135

Praise the Lord, for the LORD is good - v3

For I know that the LORD is great
And our Lord is above all gods
What ever the LORD pleases He does,
In heaven and in earth
In the seas and in all deep places - v6

When I walk through the fire
When I walk through the flames
I won't be afraid
In the midst of the storm
When I'm weak and I'm worn
Your peace remains my song

I will praise you, I will sing
My whole life is yours my King
Have your way, rule and reign in me

I find my peace in You alone
Your Word never fails
Anchor my soul, in Christ alone
Your peace remains my song

I will praise you, I will sing
My whole life is yours my King
Have your way, rule and reign in me

Your grace is more than enough
Your love is more than enough, Jesus

 (A song by Kim-Maree Roberts, City Bible Church; a link of a cover of the song is attached so you can get a hang of the tune)

The beginning of strife is like releasing water;
Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts
- Proverbs 17:14

He who has knowledge spares his words,
And a man of understanding is of a calm spirit
-Proverbs 17:27

In the midst of the storm, when the wind howls loudly and your boats fills with water it seems you could sink any moment, let the words of Psalm 130:5 and Psalm 131:2-3 comfort you:

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
And in His word I do hope.
My soul waits for the Lord
More than those who watch for the morning--
Yes more that those who watch for the morning

Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother
Like a weaned child is my soul within me
O Isreal, hope in the LORD
From this time forth and forever

Wait. God will deliver you. He will not let you sink

Though they have afflicted you from your youth, they have not prevailed against you.
Though the plowers plowed on your back and made their furrows long, the LORD in His righteousness cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
- Psalm 129:1-4, paraphrased

For those nights you can't sleep because of worry or sadness remember:
"it is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows;
for so He gives His beloved sleep" Psalm 127:1

When you are tempted to worry remember the Word of the LORD to you:
'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty.
"What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground.
- Zechariah 4:6-7

For: "unless the LORD builds the house, they labour in vain who build it; unless the LORD guards a city, the watchman stays awake in vain" Psalm 127:1

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He who continually goes forth weeping,bearing seed for sowing
shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him
- Psalm 126:5-6

So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten...You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied...and My people shall never be put to shame
- Joel 2:25-26

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God, and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
- 1 John 3:21-22

**It turns out receiving from God is really easy. We just need to keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight by the grace He has given us, not in our own strength, and whatever we ask, we receive

1 John 1:9 - "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse from all unrighteousness...
...If we do sin, we have an Advocate ( a lawyer who defends us in heaven) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, He himself is the propitiation (appeasement) for our sins" - 1 John 2:1-2

And if the devil tries to make us feel guilty remember 1 John 3:20 "if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things"

And now, O Lord God, You are God, and Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant - 2 Samuel 7:28

** God's Words are true; they can always be depended upon so never fear

(New Living Translation)
You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem
      and now is the time to pity her,
      now is the time you promised to help.

(NIV)
  You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
       for it is time to show favor to her;
       the appointed time has come.

(Young's literal translation)
For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!

^(NIV)
 For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous;
       you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Mark 9:23-24 (Amplified Version)

²³And Jesus said, [You say to Me], If You can do anything? [Why,] all things can be (are possible) to him who believes!
²⁴At once the father of the boy gave [an eager, piercing, inarticulate] cry with tears, and he said, Lord, I believe! [Constantly] help my weakness of faith!
***
The dad here, like me, is saying,' God I have this need; God can you help me?' and God responds: 'Can I help you? With man it might be impossible, but with God, all things are possible. The question is: do you believe? For all things are possible to him who believes'

But even if our faith is lacking, God know that we are but clay and has mercy on us. We just need faith like a mustard seed. And like the dad here, we can cry out in response to God's question of "Do you believe" - "Yes, I believe...but help my unbelief". God answered the dad's prayer, despite the weakness of his faith; God will answer yours too. Just cry out "God I believe...but help me overcome my unbelief"

^{(Amplified Version)
22}And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly].