Bigger than Brexit

 So I woke up this morning to the news that Britain had voted to leave the EU. My Facebook timeline is full of disappointed people and people that are scared about what this now means for their life. The News is full of fear with reports of the pound being it's lowest since 1985 - talks of job losses, price increases, travel restrictions etc. There is fear everywhere. 

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 For young people (Who voted with a majority of 75% to remain in the EU) there is talk of how their future has been decided by the generation that will not be around to suffer the consequences. Everywhere you look there are negative reports. However, I have made up my mind to look at this situation through the eyes of the Word of God. 

"When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up" Job 22:29

I cannot think like an ordinary person because I have not been called to live an ordinary life. I may be in this world but I am not of this World. I may be in Britain but I am not of Britain. I am a citizen of Heaven. I am from above and therefore I play by a different set of rules. 

Let's look at the Story of Noah, trouble was coming, but God told Noah to build an ark and even as the flood came and destroyed that world, the same waters held up Noah's ark. The more the floods grew the higher the ark rose up. (Genesis 5). In this flood of economic downfall, Jesus is our Ark, the same floods that were sent to destroy will only cause you to rise higher in Christ. However, to experience this you need to do what Noah did and walk with God. 

To walk with God means to live by His principals, to follow His way. You cannot live by the principals of the natural man and expect to see supernatural results in your life. If you handle your finances like a citizen of Britain, you will surely experience the economic downfall that the citizens of Britain are subject to. If you think like a British Citizen, if you talk fear and downfall like everyone else that will be your experience. However, if you think, talk and act like the Citizen of Heaven that you are, you will continually experience a life of prosperity irrespective of the economic status of the land that you live in. 

Keys things to remember for the one that is #BiggerThanBrexit 

1. Meditate on the Word of God, Study the Word, think on the Word, speak the Word concerning your life, with the media attempting to fill your heart with fear and expectations of lack and distress, you must make a deliberate effort to fill your heart with God's truth, you must continually remind yourself of who you are and what you have. Take Psalms 23 for example - "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want" let the Word eclipse every other source of information that will be coming to you at this time. 

2.  Sow your seed - " While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Gen 8:22. The power of the pound or whatever currency you use may drop but the power of your seed cannot be reduced. Keep sowing, keep giving, your harvest is sure, your seed will cause you to soar above the financial constraints of this Land. No matter how circumstances may be, don't let it stop you from giving, even when there is trouble all around in that place you will still receive a multiplied harvest "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him." (Genesis 26) The land that he sowed in was the land that was in famine. "But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the power to make wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today"  Deut 8:18 That power is seed Power - not the power of the pound - SEED POWER.  

3. Pay your tithe and your first fruit - Take them seriously, they are keys Gods financial principals, they are your financial security, don't compromise them for anything. With these the devourer is rebuked for your sake, your money is sanctified. Choose to follow the Word - it is for your benefit. 

You are indeed Bigger than Brexit instead of joining in social media fear frenzy use the hashtag #BiggerThanBrexit to proclaim who you are in Christ and what you have. 

You are different. Fear Not, We are not subject to this world and its systems.  

I love you 

Esther Miracle xxx





This Post was inspired by the teaching of my man of God Rev Dr Chris Oyakhilome in the message - Gods last Word on your finances - I highly recommend you check it out by clicking the link above.

Love and Relationships - Playing by 'The rules'

What am I getting out of this? How do you treat me? How much attention do you give me? How do you make me feel? How do you feel about me? 

For most relationships today are a perpetual cycle of trying to decipher the interest or commitment level of the other person and attempting to match it or come in slightly below it to be in a position of advantage.

No one wants to be in the position where they appear to give more of themselves than the other person, they don't want to be seen to care more, to be more interested, to love more; Why? Because this with logical reason has been painted as a position of vulnerability and no one wants to be vulnerable. 

So to avoid vulnerability people start playing games with one another. There are countless quotes, self help books, memes etc. that advocate "Playing hard to get" and treating people the way they treat you, masking the extent of your interest in the hope of having the upper hand. Protecting yourself so you don't get hurt. Playing by "the rules" that the world has laid out.   

"I won't be the one to text first... again!" 

"She wouldn't do it for me so why should I?"

"Why should I be the one to make all the effort?"

"If you don't call me I won't call you."

These apparent defense mechanisms seem to be wise but in reality they are the mindset of the world. As children of God we play by a different set of rules. We cannot interact with one another the way the people of the world do and then expect to have God results in our relationships - it will NOT work. 

The truth is, we have been called to walk in love with one another and this does not change because you are romantically interested in someone - God still has the same expectation of you. 

This is 'the rule' that God has given us for successful relationships of any nature - Walk in Love. 

 

Walking in love means that you don't stop to calculate and consider your own interests before acting in love towards them. It is loving without expectation, it is loving without selfish concern, it is to act without condition and keep on loving irrespective of what they may or may not do in response. 

  

"No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us" 1 John 4:12 AMP 

But loving without expectation or consideration of how they feel about me - isn't that a sure way of getting hurt? 

No, not if you are walking in Love - real love, God's kind of love - Agape. Why? Because that love had a foundation beyond your own benefit. If your love is based on what you stand to gain - the love that you will get in return, the relationship that will blossom, the big house and 3 kids that you've already envisaged in your head lol, if it happens to not turn out that way you will feel disappointed, you will feel as if your investment was unappreciated or wasted on someone that didn't return it. You will surely be hurt. However, if you were walking in love, you will not feel that same sense of loss. you will be at peace knowing that you were acting because of who you are and someone elses actions or inaction has no bearing on that. 

 

But should I keep loving someone that doesn't reciprocate?

 

"We love, because He first loved us" 1 John 4:19 if you take a look at this scripture in context you will see that your love for another is reciprocation of God's love for you. The love you demonstrate to your brother or sister has already gone full circle. It is not waiting for reciprocation it is the reciprocation of love that has already been given.

When you make the decision to walk in love with everyone (No exceptions) it will put you at liberty to do anything for anyone, to extend love, care, attention, assistance without the burden of expectation of it being  reciprocated. You will experience so much more liberty and joy in your relationships. You will be in a position to love extravagantly and unabandonly, without holding back - just like the father.  

 When you are trying to calculate someone’s response before acting, this act of self preservation is a product of fear and not of love and love and fear cannot coexist. You cannot be trying to protect your own interests and love at the same time. Love is not self seeking.

Friendly Disclaimer :)

Now I am not advocating continuing to pursue someone who has made it clear to you that they are not interested, but if that does happen, don't be bitter about it, don't feel like you wasted your time or your efforts. You never lose by loving, any expression of genuine love to another is always enriching for your own Spirit and testifies of your oneness with the father, it is an outward expression of that which the Holy Ghost has deposited in you. What you need to do is move on gracefully.

Move on gracefully - what does that mean? 

 

Take the next step in your life moving without contempt, with a genuine and heartfelt desire for the person's progress and well being - this is love. Pray for them that they walk in God's perfect will for their life - whatever that may be, whether it includes you or not.  

In all what I am saying is, in all your relationships whatever their nature may be, love selflessly and unconditionally. Don't allow the world to tell you how to maintain your relationships, don't play games, be guided by God's example - He loved and gave His best for people who not only didn't appreciate His love but did the very things that he despised. Love without fear - love without bounds, love because you are a product of the worlds greatest love.   

I Love you! 

Esther Miracle 

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails 1 Corinthians 13 4-7