Words In Season:
God is not only interested in our success, He is also interested in our mastering the art of living.
Reverend Paul Jinadu
Bearing:
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small"
✝ Proverbs 24:10
Bottomline:
You have always hear it commonly said "stay out of trouble"
In a world that a Reggae musician described with a song as "so much trouble in..." how do we then stay out of trouble or rather have far less of it?
Two men of God blessed my soul for life and eternity. One is Reverend Paul Jinadu and the second is Bishop David Abioye. Reverend Paul Jinadu said, the more we know how to live our lives the less problems we will have.
I hate problems. I don't know of others. And the less of it in my life, the better I enjoy life. So am willing to learn how to live my life to have less of problems. I gave up smoking long before I confessed Christ as Lord. So I can have less of health problems! Not even on account of my faith.
The second man of God, Bishop Abioye said in a teaching in Shiloh 2005 that "problems can be avoided" He supported himself from the book Proverbs that said "a prudent man foresees evil and hides himself" Just by being simply discreet and proactive.
And another of Bishop Abioye's teaching over a decade later, he posited that our daily lifestyles determines what brings curses or blessings into our lives. 365 days in a normal year. Imagine 365 cummulative blessings if you live right and well and the cummulative opposite if you live vice versa! That day I trembled at God's holy word!
The second way you can master adversity and gain mastery of life is by feeding your soul with knowledge. The book of Proverbs said "for the soul to be without knowledge, it is not good" In other words, what food is to the stomach is what knowledge is to the soul. Of course for the stomach to be without food it is not good. So goes for the soul without knowledge.
Now what happens when the soul is robust with knowledge just as a stomach is rotund with with food? As the food gives strength to the body, so knowledge gives strenght both to the soul and spirit man and make them strong. So the stronger a man's spirit, the better he is to face and master adversity and be the boss over issues of life. Proverbs said "a wise man is strong, a man of knowledge increaseth strenght"
III John equated your prosperity, as proportional the the prosperity of your soul.
