Seven dimensions of Waste CONT’D 5. Opportunities. A man of God said that POOR is nothing but an acronym for passing over opportunities repeatedly. Any opportunity that is wasted drags you closer and closer to poverty. Poverty leads to suffering. That is why you should not tolerate it. Any leader who distributes poverty is a dealer and not a leader, an agent of darkness at that. 6. Lives. Wasted life. Some people live for up to seventy years yet they have nothing to show for it. Anybody who has missed Christ, no matter the attainment here on earth, has lived a wasted life. Your real age is the number of…

Seven dimensions of Waste CONT’D 2. Resources (this includes money). A lot of people throw away resources daily and continue to wonder why they are not rich. Your best environment is an oxygenated environment; you need not install an air-conditioner if your house is well designed for oxygen. The reason why a lot of people in the poverty cycle find it difficult to break it is because of too much waste. The poor and the rich think differently; the rich think production, they think investment while the poor think consumption. Most African countries are plagued with mismanagement of resources through bad leadership. Pray – Lord, in any way that I…

Mark 6:41-44 says, “And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.” The disciples of Jesus picked up all the fragments in order to ensure that there was no waste. In John’s account of this incident, a little boy’s surrendered his lunch…

The various soil conditions in the parable of the sower represents different heart conditions of people who go to Church. Some go to Church with wayward heart, some with stony heart, some thorny heart and those with good heart. Every miracle starts from the heart. If you are going to have a major breakthrough in your connection with God, if you are going to make the most of your Christian effort, it must start from the garden of the heart. If you wish to make a maximum connection, it must start from the heart. The heart condition determines what you get. The heart of the matter is a matter of…