30/11/2014
Ladies and gentle men, I want to begin this message by making known the mystery behind the topic to us. Where you are today has been proved to be the harvest of what you did yesterday. And where you are going to be tomorrow, which is future can be determine by what you are doing today.
Beloved, I do not need any prophet to inform me what the end of a thief, 419 experts, harlot, lazy man or woman, proud person, insincere, unfaithful or let call it a sinner will be without repentance.
The scripture was right when it said in Mathew 7:20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
(KJV)
But permit me to add this. I also understood in these days of increased knowledge though as speculated by the same scripture,
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
(KJV)
I discovered that it does me better to know them by their tree. If one can identify a mango tree by it physical look, you do not need any man to tell you that even if the mango fruit are not there, that very soon or in its season they will appear.
There are actions we take in life, and we think we can get away with it. Life they say is like a boomerang. Garbage in garbage out. Your input equals your output. In physics we say that actions and reactions are equal and opposite to each other. Check for me,what are you given to life now? That, it will surely give back to you.
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(KJV)
God indeed, cannot be mocked. Stop looking for whom to blame. One of the greatest enemies of greatness is blaming others for your failure or misfortune. The truth is this your today is the seed of your yesterday. Check very well. Truth makes free. If indeed, you did what you supposed to do yesterday, you will be where you ought to be today. now if you have proved it to be true that your input yesterday was the output of your life today, then it will be helpful for me in passing across this message. I am not here to let you know, you are the cause of your failure. No, what I want us to look at in this edition is what tomorrow holds for you.
If you have been following, you will by now have agreed with me that what we are doing now or today, determines what we expect tomorrow.
Please, do not be deceived by any man or woman any longer. Mango tree cannot bear orange fruit. Stop waiting to see the fruit only; you can identify the tree without the fruit.
We shall look at one tree today which we all knows the fruit it bears. Like we observed every tree has its own fruit. Waiting till it season to identify it may be devastating.
Character: another word for character is personality, nature, quality, temperament, etc. some ones character, good or bad will help to determine the fruit one expect tomorrow. Ones inability to place his or her character on the good side tantamount to total failure in life. I hear people say “I do not need any man in life, just only God” that sounds like the truth but not the truth. Whenever God is pleased with a man he sends another man to bless him. He will always use a man. The character you display around will help determine people’s willingness to give you what God has promised you. Look at this:
Heb 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
The word entertains here also means hospitality. They were used to hospitality and as a result showed same to angels and their life story changed. Every day of your life you come across helpers in destiny. Some of them do not look like one, but they are. David on his pursuit to recover from the philistines what they took away from him in ziklag meet young man that was sick and began to attend to him. Little did he know that the very man was his divine helper? I know you pray very well and even sow seeds. But your character is your hand to receive.
We want to look at two product of wrong character.
Pride: – The fruit that pride or a proud person bears is fall. The bible said “pride goes before a fall” when you see a proud person do not wait to know what is his future going to look like. Though they may be in the place of affluence or power today, but surely their future is failure. They may be married, have a good job, very wealthy, but as long as they are proud, they are already failures. The bible added this:
1Pe 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
This is to say that God is behind the troubles and the stagnation of a proud person. He resisted the proud.
Characteristic of a proud person
Isaiah14:12-15.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
(a) A person always in want to control. They do not always want to be followers but leaders. When they are not the one doing it,who ever is doing it, is practicing rubbish.
(b) A proud person is always unreachable. They believe they know it, and therefore have no reason to learn more
(c) They are power drunken
(d) They have a haughty look and actions and see what the bible said about such people, 2 Samuel 22:28
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. The Hebrew meaning of the word afflicted is humble
(e) The proud person hardly takes correction.
Anger: – The inability to control yourself when you think you are provoked is a pointer to the seed you will surely bear in future. Those who lacks the self control has always landed themselves into trouble at different times. Genesis 49:7.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
When a man or woman lacks control over his anger or is possessed with the spirit of anger. Then the following happen:
(a) They will never have consistent progress in life.
(b) They scatter what they have built in a moment
(c) They do not always have respect for any person when it comes up. (d) It is always a weapon in the hand of the enemy to dry anointing
(e) Makes one take action that he will regret all the days of his or her life.
it is almost impossible for a man or woman that lacks control of his or her anger to attain on sustain greatness. The major contributor or instigator of anger in life is pride, impatience and lack of genuine fruits of the Holy Spirit. Galatia 5:21-22.
Now do not forget, we are looking at the trees that their fruit will surely be evil or against us. Do you have these fruits in you? Pride, anger and so on. They are all enemies of greatness. This year, you do not need any go slow. Please identify and remove all the trees that will bear evil fruit for you this year. Then walk in the perfect plans of God for your life. This is our year of total recovery. Until I come your way next time. I am God’s Apprentice Onuzulike Godsown Odilichukwu
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