August 17 Fight
for Life (2) ©C DIEGO 2015
Nehemiah 4:17 AMP Those
who built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves so that
everyone worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other hand
Israel with only 7.1
million people, no natural resource and bordered by enemy-nations on every side has been
fighting wars none stop since its nationhood- 1948. That’s 67 years! Israel has managed to turn out some awesome
feats: with over 50% of the land area as desert & only 20% naturally arable
and only 3.7% of its population involved in agriculture, it produces 95% of its
food and agriculture accounts for 2.5% GDP. Next to America, it’s the largest
technology hub. Jews make up 45% of the top 40 of Forbes 400 (America’s richest);25% of all
American Nobel Prize winners; 20% of professors at leading universities…
Why have I reeled all these statistics? To tell you that life is for living! Don’t be so
engrossed in fighting for life that you forget to LIVE LIFE!! Statistically,
Israel in more unsafe than Nigeria, yet annually more and more people elect to
go to Israel! Don’t be deceived, the reason Nigeria is more backward than
Israel is not so much because of terrorism as because of an absence of a will
to thrive! Whatever front we may be
fighting our war of life, please lets determine the following ahead: 1. You will win or 2. Die trying!
It’s amazing how
if we’re not careful, we can elect to live a less than par life,
not quite what we dreamed, but at least we are alive? Really? Stop accepting
the unacceptable! We want more people in God's kingdom? A spouse? Child?Job?House? Etc. Please lets stop pretending we don’t want what we do! Check the spiritual and physical dimensions.
Conduct honest reviews and ACT! We must stop waiting for life to happen to us! Lets go happen to life!
Lord, thank you for
grace to fight hard&live well
August 18 Fight
for Life (3) ©C DIEGO 2014
Jeremiah 6:16...Stand
by the roads and look...ask for the eternal paths...then walk in it, and you
will find rest for your souls...
In fighting for
life: Be a student of history and LIFE.
My mum got married at 18, left her family and all that was familiar and went
all the way to Kano by road with a young Air force officer, 28 whom she had met working as a receptionist in
a Hotel and dated for about 6 months (he did not live in Lagos). She had never been to Kano, knew
no soul there. Yet, when he & his 6 relatives came to ask for her hand in
marriage, she parked up all her worldly goods in a taxi (he had no car) and
went.
Apart from showing off
my family history which I’m currently writing, I told you that story to show the
simplicity of life 43 years ago. Today, everything is complex- the guy must be
a graduate, at least 30, drive a car (s), have a nice house, the church must
inspect the house (dad lived in the mess at this time by the way-this is like a
hotel for military personnel). The woman must be a graduate, slim, tall, rich, etc.
They must date at least one year and have a wedding that gulps a fortune (how else
can they and their families prove their wealth and ‘levels’?)
These creates problems:
1. People marry older 2. older women are less PHYSICALLY attractive to men,
older men are more attractive to women (in general), men therefore, fish in a wider
pond 3. Infertility rises with age! This is a NATURAL problem! Other dimensions
like serial dating,sexual exposure and demons can make this complex but at the
surface, the reason more people are unmarried/ infertile is because of the
complexity introduced into the marriage equation. Even when people marry ‘young’ by today’s standards,
they are still significantly older than God’s original design.
Before you go demon
chasing and pulling heaven down, do you understand the natural dimensions of
your issues?
Lord, teach me to pray with understanding