20/05/2026
Words of wisdom and admonishment such as we received at The FaithCom Church earlier this week.
~ Cooperating with God’s Word.
The Word of God is powerful, but it does not automatically manifest or express itself in a person's life. You must actively cooperate with God for His Word to work in you. If you do not study and align your actions with Scripture, you limit what God can do through you.
~ Preserving the Privacy of Your Personal Life.
Social media has created a culture where people put everything online, but some things are meant to be kept sacred and private.
If you share sensitive(private information) on social media in the hope of healing, you are probably wasting your time. It can only end up as "cruise' and you will be giving random people the ammunition to mock you. There must be real people you're accountable to or ways you can seek help without making a public spectacle of yourself. By posting your private matters, you accidentally make yourself accountable to strangers who have no business in your life in the first place. This is why you constantly find yourself over-explaining your actions to people who don't matter.
Learn to keep what is private, private.
~ Guarding the Motives of Your Devotion.
Spiritual disciplines lose their power the moment they are done for human applause.
Turning on and adjusting your camera during personal morning devotion for example, defeats the purpose of intimacy with God. Prayer is a private affair. Unless you are actively leading a public corporate prayer session to help others, broadcasting your personal quiet time is simply seeking validation from strangers. Devotion is a commitment between you and God alone.
Your prayer life should be a hidden, valued treasure, not a badge of honor to boast about on pulpits or public platforms.
~ Honorable vs. Dishonorable Giving.
Giving should preserve the dignity of the person receiving it. When giving on a personal basis, leave your camera at home. Except of course for Organizational documentation. It is perfectly fine for humanitarian organizations to take photos or document projects to show accountability, evidence of work, or proof of how funds were spent. But any giving outside that and done 'all for the gram" is hypocritical. For example, there is no need making an elderly woman pose with a single piece of yam or indomie just to show millions of strangers online. It is completely wrong. There is no honor in that. Any giving that shames, devalues, or degrades the receiver is dishonorable and God has no pleasure in such.
~ The True Evidence of Prayer is Character and Humility.
The ultimate test of a robust prayer life is not the clock; it is your conduct.
It is a tragedy to engage in marathon or long-hour prayers only to come out proud, looking down on those who pray less, or lacking basic manners, like refusing to greet people or keeping malice.
Spending time with the Holy Ghost must produce a cultural shift in your character. You cannot have spent time with the Holy Ghost and not have a character culture. True prayer breaks pride and produces deep humility. If prayer doesn't transform your behavior, it has been reduced to mere show-off and content, losing its power to edify.
~ About Church Assignments and Service.
Every activity or department in the house of God must serve a spiritual purpose. If a service or assignment does not lead to spiritual growth and edification, it is a waste of time.
To Media Teams, it is common to find media personnel (and others who handle technical tasks)often so busy "doing the Lord's work" that they completely miss out on the actual move of God during the service.
A point must come during the service where media teams leave their equipment, stop pacing around, focus on the word, and partake in what God is doing so they are not left spiritually empty by the very assignment they are handling.
Ultimately, this message is a call to move away from performing spiritual activities for public validation and applause. True spirituality, prayer, giving, and church service should transform our character and edify our souls, rather than being reduced to mere online content.
Hopefully, this blesses your mind.
Join us for WordUp Service today (Bible Study) for more (details are on the flyer). Time is 5PM.
