Emmanuel Afiawari's Inspiration podcast

Prayer is often considered a means to making God fix things. Good as this is, God is not as keen on fixing things as He is on fixing you. We must realise the importance of using prayer as a change agent to purge ourselves and make us fall into alignment with God's plan. When you pray objectively in this wise, you're soon open to the realisation that certain areas of your life (mindset, thought-pat...

Prayer is a tool or vehicle used in ministering to God (Acts 13: 2). To minister is to offer worship. Most times, we do not realise our primary assignment is to offer worship to God. So we get caught up in other things while laying aside that which is needful (Luke 10: 40 - 41). I always like to ask, "If God were to depend solely on you to get His 'required dosage' of Worship daily, would He be ge...

Prayer is not funfair but a very serious warfare. If you're too lazy or too relaxed to pray, you just might be ceding control over your territory to enemy forces. Prayer is a tool of resistance against everything that is fighting against you to a standstill. Resist the devil and he'll flee (James 4:7). To resist is to stand firm against him; to stand up to him; to yell a loud no to him. This is wh...

When we pray, we often draw references from Psalm 24:7-10 as we declare, "Lift up your heads of ye gates, and be lifted ye everlasting doors that the King of glory may come in." Powerful verse, especially, when we realise that you're king the same way Jesus is. For as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4: 17). When you pray, you're commanding gates to open up to you. Prayer opens you up to dim...

God still does miracles. He does wonders without numbers (Job 9:10). A few ways He wants to show you His wondrous acts are summarised in Jeremiah 30:17. I will restore health to you, and cure the incurable. In this regard, He'll restore health in the following areas: (i). Spiritual health; (ii). Physical health; (iii). Relationship health, and (iv). Financial health. His reason is, to shame those...

Divine turnarounds are miracles that surpass our expectations, and leave us in a dreamland (Ps. 126:1)! God has a fixed time for your affliction to end. At the appointed time, He will bring you back (Zeph. 3:20). What this implies is, He'd restore you. Restoration, in simple terms is, bringing you back to the state you were before things went wrong. Even so, there's another dimension to restoratio...

Sometimes, we may stay so long in a bad situation that it almost becomes normal. Your senses and faculties start to adjust to the new reality and condition you to accept what you should deal with and change. When life beats you to blend into a reality that isn't yours or meant to be, survival mode is activated just so you could get by. This is the reality of many today, with no hope in view for a...

The graciousness of God to mankind is demonstrated through His mercy. His mercy is like a covenant that cannot be broken. God's mercy cannot be counted and you don't have to do anything to qualify for it. God's mercy is rooted so deeply in His sovereignty, where He does all things according to the counsel of His will. That's why it makes no sense by all known human indices to see people we've know...

You can never understand the mercy of God until you understand His compassion. His compassion is boundless in reach and wholesome in love. Fail or fall as often as possible, it doesn't change His love towards us. Rather, He keeps chasing after us to bring us back into the fold. Does He support our sinful and unfaithful ways of living? Not at all. God is too holy to see iniquity. Whilst He frowns a...

Believers can and should always take advantage of darkness. There are several scriptures that support this, but we shall narrow today's message to focus on just two. Firstly, Moses records this of the Egyptians versus the Israeli, "They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings" (Exo.10: 23), underscores the fac...

Anyone who's a consistent and persistent night watcher or has done any outdoor business all night would know that it is darkest at night just before the breaking of a new day. Your darkness is a forerunner of your morning time; it's a sure prophecy that foretells your tomorrow that a big break is about to happen for you. It's therefore your responsibility to find out the things that are set in mot...

Anyone who's a consistent and persistent night watcher or has done any outdoor business all night would know that it is darkest at night just before the breaking of a new day. Your darkness is a forerunner of your morning time; it's a sure prophecy that foretells your tomorrow that a big break is about to happen for you. It's therefore your responsibility to find out the things that are set in mot...

Sometimes, life can be so overwhelming and filled with despair, even for believers. Its aim is to build doubt and make us think God is not as kind to us as we used to believe. At other times, it is a trial of our faith, a passing phase or about the dawn of our morning. In some extreme cases, it is a pointer that we're not getting some fundamental principles right. Whatever the true case may be, ou...

There's something about the wisdom of God that confounds men always, something about it that shames our limitations, especially, to those who're pompous and boastful of their successes. To such persons, events often orchestrate themselves to bring us to our wit's end, where our knowledge, skills or connections cannot solve the problem. Our limits and patience may be stressed and stretched to its e...

It is not uncommon today to see people complain of going through a lot. But what we don't often see or hear are same people who are grateful for the many things they survived. Survivals, oftentimes appear to be the least grateful for how far God has helped them, for the trauma and ordeals they survived. Their scars mean less to them than it does to people who stood by and watched them go through s...

Sometimes, we try to be smart with our thinking only to find out we're just being clever by half. In the long haul, we're disappointed, disoriented and maybe depressed. If the things we think about doesn't bear any semblance of truth, chances are we're headed in the wrong path. Once you're consumed by dishonest thoughts, paramount on your priorities would be to cheat or you're just about to cheate...

Many of us would rather worry than think. The bible cautions us against worrying but counsels us to think. Whilst the former is negative and draining, the latter empowers us and opens us to great ideas and possibilities. Thinking challenges us to device solutions either from within us or redirects us to where the solutions we need can be found. Thinking weighs the options before us and helps us to...

Proverbs 23: 7 tells us a man is exactly what he thinks. Everyone is a split reflection of their thought-process. You attract exactly whatever you think about. So to help us escape the danger of attracting the wrong things, Paul guides us on what to focus our thoughts on. Truth is, you can never go wrong with thinking on the things Paul suggested. That template has a permanent guarantee that cures...

There's an incredible rise in demand for men with capacity to take on the challenges of life. Let's narrow this to literally refer to the male gender. A lot of men have failed in their upbringing and it's affecting their social standing in life. We need men who can control their libido and manage great enterprises. Irresponsible men can't treat their women right or raise their children with the ri...

Proverbs 13: 20 says, "Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm." That all men seek you doesn't mean all men are welcome into your space. Choose your circle of associates wisely. Resist the urge to keep unwise people around you who've nothing to contribute to your betterment; resist people whose association hurt you. Yes! There're people whose presence demean you,...

Mark presents a very vivid description of how people related to Jesus that mirrors societal values of all ages. The people you attract are direct reflection of the value you're offering them. Nobody would have sought after him if they didn't have needs he could meet. It suggests to us that we're created as answers to other people's questions. May we not lose grip of this consciousness and fail to...

Jesus comes into this city, heals Peter's mother-inlaw and did several miracles and more people came looking for him. The underlying reason he was sought after was so they could benefit from His grace. Everyone is looking for value, and would gravitate towards the right values. In Jesus's encounter with these people, their reason for seeking Him was neither for salvation from sin, nor was it for d...

Never was it said that God ran out of options. Nothing ever took Him unawares; nothing ever stretched His limits, or caught Him unprepared. He was always ahead, pulling the strings, beating the devil to his own games. Each time Satan tried to undo God, God pulled out another card that confuses the devil and makes his effort pale into insignificance. These are God's credentials, which has now been...

Man has an identity and history that pre-dates his fall in the garden of Eden, that has been restored to him by the death of Jesus Christ. Thus, he's back to his place of dominion with the ability to execute duties that are seemingly difficult or impossible to accomplish. God's wisdom is imputed on us to navigate tough choices, make informed decisions and discern the right strategies for every end...

Man has never fully come to terms with the vast array of possibilities that he has since after the fall of Adam. Before the fall, man was dynamic, creative, resourceful and tireless. He could tend and dress the garden of Eden all by himself; he could name all the animals without leaving out any detail. He was so resourceful, he was in-charge of God's own estate; he was so dependable, he could depu...