If this month is considered as Pastors’ Appreciation month, how would you appreciate your pastor? Does your pastor deserve an appreciation, and how much of it would you offer him?

Your pastor is your church leader who watches over your soul and leads you in the way of the Lord. Pastors’ job is much more involving than it appears on the surface.

Pastors share the responsibility of their church members. They are all out there trying their best to help those in need.

If any comparison would be suitable, consider comparing your pastor to the president of a country who has an enormous burden to care for the citizens of his land.

Your pastor has a lot on his plate to deal with. Just imagine that your pastor is not only dealing with your issue; he is also dealing with the situations of other members of the congregation.

If any member has a problem, it also automatically got your pastor involved. He has to be there for such an individual. He has to stand in the gap by praying and providing other supports.

Your Pastor Is Human

Your pastor, who is often pressured to help solve other people’s problems, also has his own personal life with issues to address.

Your pastor, just like every other human being, has to care for himself and his family.

Perhaps, your pastor even has more problems to shove aside while he’s trying to solve yours!

Always remember that your pastor is a fellow human being who puts his problem aside to try to be of help to you.

Never take the kindness of your pastor for granted – Appreciate him!

Your pastor has a spiritual responsibility to watch over your soul. He watches over you in prayers. He feeds you with the word of God. He also tries his best to offer you moral support and other help whenever you need one.

Appreciate Your Pastor

Get this fact straight: your pastor is not God; you must not worship him!

You must give all glory to God, for he deserves it! However, never forget that your pastor, who represents God in your life, must be appreciated!

Hebrews 13:17 (NIV) rightly addresses this,

“Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.” – Hebrews 13:17 (NIV)

Don’t Be Insensitive About Your Pastor

Your pastor is not an angel. Most times, people get it wrong, thinking their pastors are all-sufficient ones. They are not.

Even if everything is going well with your pastor, you should always consider it important to encourage and minister to his needs.

Pastors are human, just like everyone else. They have needs, and they need some encouragement.

How Well Can A Pastor Be Appreciated?

Some pastors get paid some stipends to care for their needs while some others don’t get any payment.

Under whatever condition, you, as a church member, must understand that you have the personal responsibility to take care of your pastor!

Take it or leave it, no pastor can be well compensated for his services because the title carries enormous responsibility with ranging impact of brain drain, emotional impact, and psychological impact.

How May I Appreciate My Pastor?

As a church member, step-up to the plate and shoulder your responsibility. Do your due diligence for your pastor!

1. Pray for your pastor

• Your pastor is another human being who has needs. He needs your prayers to keep energized as he continues to serve the Lord.

2. Encourage your pastor

• Some good words can help to make a difference in the life of your pastor.
• Have some words of encouragement for your pastor whenever you get the chance.

3. provide for your pastor

• Money and materials can help.
• You may have thought that your little offering cannot make a dent; you might be wrong! Guess what? Your “widow’s mite” may worth a million to your pastor.
• (Remember that any good thing you do to your pastor is technically being done to God).

What You Must Not Do To Your Pastor

1. Don’t sabotage the efforts of your pastor.

• Don’t negatively influence his work.
• Keep your mouth shut and don’t say anything whenever you don’t have any positive word.

2. Don’t back-stab your pastor

• (Unfortunately, this has to be mentioned among the believers!)
• Understand that your wrong words and back-stabbing can affect the work of God.
• Always remember that words and actions will be rewarded on God’s day of judgment.

3. Don’t expect your pastor to always please you in speech and deeds.

• Your pastor is not just a friend; he is your mentor!
• Your pastor is not a motivational speaker; he is God’s messenger.
• Only expect your pastor to tell you the Bible-principle truth.
• Don’t expect your pastor to always say whatever you will like to hear.
• Suck your pride whenever your pastor tells you an inconvenient truth.

Obey the word of God spoken by your pastor so that you can prosper on earth and inherit God’s kingdom.

Respect your pastor, appreciate him, and remember him in prayers.

As you do all the good things discussed in this post, I believe and declare that you shall prosper in all your ways!

Shalom!

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Unexpected Jesus – What Is Your Stand!

Matthew 24

If not the day shortened, even the elect will be deceived (◄ Matthew 24:22 ►)

• When your faith is tried,
• • will you deny God?
  • Will you turn back from service God?
• When you say God where are you, what will be your next action?
• • Will you deny Jesus?

Have your consolation in God

• In this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheers I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)

What will Satan make you think?

• God has deserted you
• Fact: Even our Lord Jesus has is moment of trials, tribulations, and persecutions.

What should you do?

• Don’t believe your feelings
• • that is the main focus of the devil, and don’t give him that!
• Keep telling yourself, “This too shall pass.”
• Christ has stated, “In this world you will have tribulation but I have overcome the world – (John 16:33).”
• Keep reading the word of God (It transpires inner strength even when you are out of physical strength)
• • Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path – (Psalm 119:105)
• Keep praying and ask your friends to be praying for you.
• • Those who wait on the Lord shall be strong and do exploits – (Daniel 11:32)

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You need an adjustment of status; let’s get to it!

You may not be a king but you can be yourself.

• Are you yourself?
• Why are you not yourself?
• Now, can you be yourself?

Let God Who Has Strong Capability help you

You must be able to say “I am fearfully and wonderfully made”

“Before you were formed in the womb of your mother, I have known thee… (Jeremiah 1:5)”

“They look unto him, their faces are radiant, and they are not ashamed… (Psalm 34:5)

To properly readjust your status, you must remove those cobwebs. Get rid of them to move forward. (God of strong capability can help you).

Why the need to remove the clumps?

• Brightness and sharpness of mind
• Family to feel like family
• Joy to fill your home
• Your relationship with God to take a new dive
• Your ministry to have a new experience

Know the thoughts of God for your life:

• Egyptians that you see today you shall see them no more (Exodus 14:13)
• Once he spoke twice I heard that powers belong to God (Psalm 62:11)

Anything that double-cross your progress must be removed, by the power in the name of Jesus Christ!

Participate in the sermon prayers and personalize all the blessings proclaimed to your life.

God bless you!

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Prayer Can Change Any Situation!

Paul asked his Christian friends to support him in prayer so that he could have more opportunity to minister the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Paul had done so much for the kingdom of God but still believed the Creator deserves more; therefore, he was determined to dedicate his complete life to propagate the gospel.) Paul needed spiritual help to fulfill his mission. He asked the Colossians,

“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak” (Colossians 4:2-4).

Prayer Is Effective For Both Spiritual And Physical Exploits

Children of God must cultivate the habit of praying always. Prayer cannot be too much; we all need it to prosper for the kingdom of God.

Every Christian needs prayer! We need prayer in form of intercession to support one another. Through prayers, we can have the strength needed to effectively preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and prosper for God’s kingdom.

Prayers will help a believer valiantly prosper for the kingdom of God! Anyone who desires to prosper in all ramifications of life should explore the benefits of prayer!

Prayer Is Needed For Physical Success

Christians ought to explore the benefits of prayer to receive the miracles of God in our lives. We have the right, as Christians, to request for God God’s blessing. God will surely grant the request of his own children. However, despite Christians entitlement to receive God’s blessings through prayer, we must ensure not to centralize our requests on material wealth only. Our primary goal is to make heaven and bring as many people as possible along; therefore, we should consider it important to pray for the empowerment of the Holy Spirit so that we can effectively preach the gospel and prosper for the kingdom of God.

A Christian should daily ask God to give him (or her) the strength to effectively communicate the word of God with unbelievers and lead them into receiving the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our continuous praying exercise will incapacitate Satan and diffuse his influence in unbelievers’ lives. Our prayers will ignite God’s fire in unbelievers’ minds to be receptive of the gospel and take the step to surrender their lives to Jesus. In other words, the more a Christian prays for spiritual strength, the more opportunity he (or she) will have to lead others into Christ’s salvation. In a simple language, our effective prayers will aid evangelistic efforts to bear some good fruits for God’s kingdom.

Ask God To Make You A Prayerful Person

Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I ask you to please make me a prayerful person! Do not let me be a selfish person; let my efforts lead to the salvation of others. Please, help me to pray (intercede) on behalf of my fellow Christians so that they can be successful in their evangelistic efforts.

I am using this medium to pray for myself and my fellow Christians throughout the world that you please anoint and empower us by the Holy Spirit to effectively preach the gospel! Help us to prosper for your kingdom as we endeavor to spread your good news throughout the world.

Also, please enlighten the unbelievers’ minds to overcome their limitations; repent of their sins, and surrender their lives to Jesus Christ. For I have made this prayer request through faith in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!

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People ought to be thankful for every blessing they receive from God. In as much everyone will agree with this fact, most people still find it difficult sometimes to give God their heartfelt praises. We drag our feet and wait for the happy moment to come so that we can express our gratitude to God. Meanwhile, the practice of giving God conditional praises is insufficient to satisfy God. In fact, the practice of offering God conditional praises shows how much ungrateful we are to God who blesses us with undeserving benefits.

This post will not only scold the readers, but it will also teach us how to retrain our minds to do the due diligence – Offering God an unconditional appreciation!

Indeed, God deserves our praises. He has done so many things for us that deserve us honoring him at all times. Everyone ought to give God his or her best thanksgiving to God at all times. That is, we must consider it a matter of importance to give our unconditional quality praises to God whether we are in the mood to do so or not.

Everyone (myself inclusive) has the tendency to drag our feet when things don’t go our way. Meanwhile, over time, I have learned to settle with a simple slogan crafted for myself, “If you can think, you can thank!”

My slogan: “If you can think, you can thank!” can also be rephrased as “Someone who can reflect on his past will be motivated to thank God.”

There are so many benefits to derive from cultivating the attitude of specially thanking God.

Thanksgiving Is Vertically Effective

Thanksgiving is a service rendered to God. It is an exercise that put us in a position to offer something to God – which is rare!

Prayer positions us to request something from God, while thanksgiving positions us to offer something to God. What a remarkable opportunity!

Thanksgiving exercise brings pleasure to God. It also brings a blessing to us. That is, God sends down his blessing to us to compensate our efforts. (Meanwhile, we should not praise God with the aim to manipulate and receive his blessing; we should praise God for who he is.)

You Must Overcome Discouragement To Truly Thank God

Thanksgiving, as much as it pleases God and leads to our blessings, requires a significant effort from us. A person must be ready for it before it can be effectively done. Satan will attempt to interrupt the process.

To overcome any odd and bring God some dedicated worships, note the following factors:

1. Don’t allow your problem to consume you. Shift your mind from your problem and focus on God. (You can’t centralize your mind on a problem and still expects to have enough motivation to praise God .)
2. Don’t wait till the feeling of thanksgiving comes; take a personal approach and set some times aside to praise God!
3. Make it a point of duty to reflect on your past success; let your discovery motivate you into praising God.
4. Don’t be condemned of the past; don’t be anxious about tomorrow; praise God for today!
5. Don’t compare yourself with anyone – simply thank God for who you are!

Thanksgiving Requires Thoughtfulness

Life sometimes throws a curve ball at people, but don’t allow anything in this life to steal your joy! Don’t let any stressful situation take away your right to praise God.

Don’t dwell on your emotion to tell you when to praise God. Be proactive to create the moment yourself. Understand there is no rule requires; just start to think positively about God and count his blessings in your life.

To create an atmosphere of praises, ask yourself the following three questions:

1. Has God added anything positive to my life between then and now?
2. Has God protected me from any danger in the past?
3. Has God done anything for my family deserving of saying “Thank you God”?

If your responses to those questions are affirmative, then you are all set to begin sending God your heartfelt praises.

Verbalize your appreciations to God. Say it out loud, “Thank you God!”

You Are Very Important To God!

Last But Not The Least: You’re a VIP!

• Understand that your life worths more than a sparrow. God owns your life; he is able to care for you more so that you can have more reasons to praise him.
• Understand that you are a Very Important Personality (VIP) of God. Raise your head high and walk tall – with full assurance that all shall be well!
• If you can make thanksgiving your routine practice, God’s angels will soon deliver some new packages of blessing to your life. Be assured that God will compensate your appreciative efforts!

I hope you can take a deep breath now and say, “Thank you Lord!”

Rejoice evermore!

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Consider Bible Application Lessons and Prayers as one of your Bible study tools and a Bible study guide as it daily teaches on godliness, morality, and steadfastness.

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Indeed, everyone wants to succeed but obviously, some people have hit the mark while the majority of the success admirers are scrambling for the secret of success.

Unfortunately, success so desired by many people may not be achieved after all. Why? Success does not crash a party and neither does it fall for the lure of an unserious admirer.

Many people could not meet their goal expectations and achieve success simply because the right attitudes are not explored to woo it out of the closet.

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