God doesn't want any gods before -- literally, above -- Him (Exodus 20:3) or even with Him.  Many times, we put God first in our lives, but not God alone.

Where are you looking today? Where you look determines what you see.

Abraham was about to kill Isaac because there was no lamb for the sacrifice

Every time God sees -- sees the affliction, the lack, the need -- in the lives of His people, He provides. And God always sees:


In the story of Abraham and Isaac, the Lord said to Abraham, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you" (Genesis 22:2). As they went Isaac inquired about the lamb for the sacrifice; Abraham responded:

God, why do some people seem to not receive answers to their prayers? How can I have faith to believe for my own answers to prayers if they did not receive answers to their prayers?

If someone tells you to go to a bright pink neon building (in other words, you can't miss the building) because there is treasure in there waiting for you, do you stop driving before you reach the building? You don't stop short, you keep driving until you reach the building.

It is the same way with faith. You keep driving and driving, no matter even if you think you should have arrived at the pink neon building by now. No matter how long or how far, you keep driving until you get to the building. The same way with faith because faith ALWAYS delivers in the end. "The Scriptures cannot be broken" --John 10:35

Simply because other people said that they were driving to the pink neon building doesn't mean you will have the same results that they did. You don't know if they gave up because they thought the pink neon building doesn't exist and turned back; perhaps they stopped for fuel on the way, or maybe they turned back because they had given up and then later changed their minds and kept driving towards the pink neon building. 

You just keep driving towards the pink neon building, just keep believing and holding on to God's promise because:

Rest from worry, from striving -- rest from anything and everything that troubles us, comes from the Presence of God. It comes from knowing God. Not just from hearing about Him or reading about Him but from really and truly knowing God.

Many times we are worried about stuff in our lives because we have trouble believing God's Word concerning our situations. And this is because we don't know God. It's a lot easier to trust somebody when you know them. The better you know them, the easier it is for you to trust them.

We need to know God. The more we know God, the more we will trust Him, and His promises to us.


You can't know God and not trust Him. You can't know God and not love Him. You can't know God and not serve Him -- Bishop David Oyedepo

Don't you want to see the miracles of the Bible manifest undeniably in your own life?!

Let Him now break forth in miracle and holy gifts,
let it be seen that He is still the living God
in the midst of His dead people,
and they will be quickened to a resurrection by sight.
Now they see that God can do something still, and has His liberty.
He can hear prayers
He can help them triumph in dark hours
their bosom sins He can help them master,
all His promises in the Scripture He can fulfill,
and they go to Him with great expectations.
They see, in these gifts, that the Scripture stands
that the graces and works, and holy fruits of the apostolic ages
are also for them.
It is as if they had now a proof experimental of the resources embodied in the Christian plan.
The living God, immediately revealed, and not historically only
begets a feeling of present life and power
and religion is no more a tradition, a second-hand light
but a grace of God unto salvation, operative now
                                             -- Horace Bushnell

They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed. 
 -- Psalm 34:5

I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
  -- Psalm 121:1-2

My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.
  -- Psalm 62:5

Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, 
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not inhabited.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. 
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
  -- Jeremiah 17:5-8

Whatever You can't do [God], let it remain undone
Whatever You can't give, let my hands never touch
Wherever You can't take me, may I never get there
                                          -- Bishop David Oyedepo

These are the blessings you can expect from God when you give to the poor

You will be exalted with honor and the desire of the wicked about you will perish: Psalm 112:8-10
You will have joy, happiness: Proverbs 14:21
The LORD now owes you, He will pay you back: Proverbs 19:17
When you cry out to God, God will hear you: Proverbs 21:13
You will be blessed: Proverbs 22:9
You will not lack: Proverbs 28:27
God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to: Deuteronomy 15:10-11