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“Two are better than one, because they have good return for their labour” Eccl. 4:9 “Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord” Hebrews 12:14 As a development consultant with some specialty in conflict management, working in the space for over a decade now, I can confirm that indeed life is inevitable without conflicts. But how we manage the process is key. The Bible references above reminds of the benefits we get from working together and also living in peace and above all the spiritual benefits. Living in peace facilitates holy living, which in turn makes us to see the Lord, in everything we do. This article will be a form of review of Gary Chapman’s book “Everybody Wins: Guide to Solving Conflicts without Arguing” (if you can please get a copy for yourself). The goal of everyone, couples or people in relationship should be to resolve conflict without arguing. We must first establish before proceeding

Acts 10:1-8 “He and all his family were devout and God fearing, he gave generously to those in need and prayed regularly” v 2. We go a step further  in our family prayer series, before we round up it up with the next post by His grace. The suggestion in part IV is to formulate a family prayer mission statement, our praying should focus on our mission statement. Remember some couples of weeks back, we shared the issue of vision and mission statement together and through the scripture, we agreed that without a vision/mission statement people perish, people are stagnant or have no direction at all. Like said yesterday that as a family there is need to have or know the purpose and plan of God for our family. The statement could be written or not, but it gives your family direction. For Cornelius, he and his family knew they were meant to help the poor and pray fervently. They never used their position as a prominent military family to intimidate people. Their statement was

“They agreed they were in this for good, completely together in prayer, the women included. Also Jesus’ mother, and his brother” Acts 1:14 (The Message Version) Study Passage : Ephesians 4 In the body of Christ there are no graceless Christians, we all have a measure of grace given unto us by heaven. However the release of this grace has purpose, which is for the common good of everyone in the body. As long as you and I carry Gods anointing, we are debtors to the body of Christ. So any one that sits on God’s gift and fails to give generously to the body of Christ is a wicked servant and a thief.  So the question is are you a wicked servant or thief? In God’s design no one stands alone, nor operates in isolation. You are owned by two always, God himself first and the Brethren second. In a different blog post we will discuss how we can belong to the brethren and yet not become unavailable for God.  I guess that settles the question the paragraph might have arisen in your

“For God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable”. Romans 11:29 Hello friends, it is good to be back again after a long time, I hope, I will be consistent in my sharing from now, in fulfillment of the promise I made to a Blue butterfly, that flew into my life. J Today I want to share on Gifts and our response to her! Every one of us living on earth, have a gift and call, to be used in the time allotted to us while here on earth. It should be everyone’s prayer that God bring to one’s awareness one’s gift and calling. But there is a challenge to our current response to her. We are living in a generation where believers now fight God with the gift he has deposited in us. A lot of Christian has fallen into a snail of the end time, mistaking God’s gift and blessings of his approval to their misdeed. You hear people say “after all, with all my enviousness, or bitterness, exposure to drugs and alcohol, fornication, lying and character flaws; I still can prophecy, see vision, pray

Reading and Meditation 2 Samuel 2:17-23 “… Turn aside to the right or to the left, take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons” but Asahel would not stop chasing him” v 21 The passage meditated upon today is the account of the final battle that placed David finally as King over the house of Israel. It was the war between the house of David and Saul. The bible said the war that day was very fierce. Abner a great soldier and the commander of Saul’s army fled. As he was running, there was the young Asahel on David’s side, he was a good runner, but not very skilled in war, he chased him. Asahel had the zeal but no experience or protection for himself. He got killed even after several warning by Abner for him to turn back. Study the account for yourself and you might pick out one or two lessons for your life journey!  Friend zeal without knowledge and specific strategy can kill. Even in our zeal we need amours for protection [Eph. 6:10 to the end]

Reading & Meditation Joshua 24:1-15 “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” 15c We bless God for another gift of a day. We are still on the issue of the praying family. Another suggestion in helping our family pray together is the issue of aligning with God. Joshua from our today’s, passage, understood God’s purpose for himself and family, and would have probably be teaching them, practicing and obeying them with his family as instructed by God in Deuteronomy. This made him stand to the end, and at his good old age, he was still with God and could declare for his family; that they are partner with the Lord, till death. For your family to begin praying, then you must align with God’s plan and purpose. Before praying as a family, the family purpose and plans must be known by all members involved, provided they can understand issues of life. The place of your family in God’s scheme should be sought in prayer first. And over all, our goal in prayer