Emmanuel Afiawari's Inspiration podcast

God has every resource at his disposal to use to whatsoever end that pleases Him. Never has it been heard or said that He was stranded for lack of  alternatives. When manna wouldn't satisfy Israel, He gave them quail; when King Saul couldn't follow through on obedience, a David was raised in his stead; as the brook from where Elijah was sustained begun to dry up, God commanded a widow to feed him....

When things fall apart, worries set in. Unbeknownst to us, God is ahead of us and fixes the issues before they got to us. Hence, He prepared and commanded the widow of Zeraphath to feed Elijah as soon as the brook dried up. You don't know how many persons have received command instructions to sort you out; you don't know you're on God's payroll and his budget covers all your needs. You don't know...

What does it feel like to have a promise, a blessing or an opening shut in your face? How do you deal with disappointments that put you on the spotlight or make people question who you are or your relationship with God. Behold, the almighty Elijah, having to face a reality of lack and even the source God promised to use also dried up. How was he to face the nation and defend his relationship with...

A warrior will deploy every intelligence gathering tool available to him meticulously, in search of the weakness of his enemy so he can exploit it favourably. In warfare, all is fair, provided the victory is won. Thus, the exploitation of the enemy's weakness is a valid strategy. David saw that metal protection covered every part of Goliath's body except his forehead, and aimed at that spot! Don't...

A warrior is not trained to run from his battles but to run towards the battlefront. He is trained to fight, and the more fights he wins, the increase he gets in rank. Rather than scare him, battles are catalysts that activate his abilities. Be very sensitive to your battles, especially, to what they seek to trigger or quench in you. A warrior posseses the swift agility of a leopard; they respond...

In the old testament days, wars were either won or lost, not so much from strategy but on precision strikes. The ability to hit at target and cause colossal damage was prized more than anything. Hence, warriors practiced more on hitting targets with their first effort. Well, they knew the danger of firing amiss because their opponents might seize the moment to inflict real damage. Hence, we see Da...

One very striking blessing that comes with divine leading is that you can never be misdirected. If you're getting misled, it's either the directive is not divine or you didn't hear correctly due to distraction or information insufficiency. God's leading is peaceable, encouraging, comforting, and soul-lifting. It will take you places where you can find pasture (John 10: 9; Psalm 23: 2). Unfortunate...

A songwriter sang, "Count your blessings, name them one by one, and it would surprise you what the Lord has done." One very significant blessing we so often ignore, is the blessing of divine leading, that we sometimes consider or attribute to us being too self-aware, too calculating or our ability to pay attention to details. In all such instances, we fail to realise that others with similar attri...

There's something about paradigm shift that changes our outcome. It challenges us to a better way of thinking and acting that helps us to do better for ourselves by all standards. The moment the prodigal son had a shift in perspective, a new found freedom and authority was born in him. Then he arose! You cannot desire or focus on a 'city' that lies ahead and not rise for the journey. The prodigal...

One recalls two distinct ocassions where life became so hard and overwhelming for Abraham and God showed up with the lessons he needed to pick. In Genesis 13: 8-17, Lot chooses the well watered plain of Jordan, leaving Abraham. But God tells Abraham to lift up his eyes and look because he'd give him as far as he could see. Secondly, when he complained to God about his childless situation, God take...

Sometimes, life can be so overwhelming and incomprehensible that one is forced to fit into brackets that isn't what they should have. Fitting into some stereotypes can be so debasing to imagine but many have remained in this state of helplessness for years, forcing them to think that's all they would ever amount to. Some people have now so personalised those conditions that it has replaced their n...

When God says become, He's basically saying to you to have a true identity of yourself; daring you to have an elevated thinking of yourself, and to come up higher in your thoughts, operations and output. He's practically making you see what you're capable of that you may not have taken note of. It is His way to activate every grace and potential He's put into you for a glorious manifestation. To b...

Becoming takes a process that requires your active participation in learning, unlearning and relearning. It is neither accidental nor magical. You can either become better or worse, depending on how and what you apply yourself to. To become a lawyer, a surgeon or an engineer, for instance, takes a process of disciplined learning, except you want to end up a quack! Well, a quack would often cause m...

One of the tools subtly but strategically deployed in this generation is to make us passively become what we're not wired for (Judg. 16: 17). The internet, social media, and other digital outlets have been heavily weaponised to achieve this. Their soft appeal appears like nothing until you get completely addicted or destroyed. They play on your mind and give you a false form of sensuous pleasure w...

Drawing back casts either a shadow of doubt or fear for a journey. Life is meant to be progressively forward moving by design, and Jesus counsels us to first sit down to count the cost of any venture before we start (Luke 14: 28-32). It is therefore unwise to disembark a journey midway. Drawing back as used in this context is not virtuous but a weakness. It portrays you as incapable of sound judge...

The harsh realities of our everyday life tends to support reasons why anyone should look back. Uncertainties and unpleasantness abound, leaving the hearts of men weary and their shoulders fallen. Man is faced with choices and dilemmas like Lot's wife, whether to go forward or beat a retreat backwards. She chose the latter and her once glorious life ended as a monument in history for bad choices. H...

The Psalmist makes a strong comparison of children to arrows, "‭As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; So are children of the youth" (Psalm 127:4). Arrows do not determine their own trajectory; the hunter in whose hands they are does. Since he does, he must never fire blanks. His hands must be steady, his gaze intact and his shots precise. You've stayed long enough in that state of toiling and...

Faith is not abstract but substantial and evidential. A faith that produces no result is like a tree that has never been fruitful. Life is seriously too business-minded for you to keep drawing blanks, just as it is a criminal offence to issue bank cheques that bounces! Imagine how disappointing and depressing it'd be for a trying to conceive couple to keep shooting blank every month or for your ha...

God is our source. Our nature and characteristics derive from Him. Catch the spirit and revelation that Your DNA is traceable to God, meaning His creative nature, dominion power, ability for genuine love, etc, resides within you. You're a God-factor in your world, and you should exert the same authority as His. This should provoke some deep thinking within you. If I'm like God, why am I not creati...

When God's light shines on you, it provides your own light in an unquenchable form. Thereafter, you can't hide anymore but will continue to make steady progress and successful in-roads where otters have failed. When they get cast down, you'll keep getting lifted up!

Everything owes their nature and characteristics to their source; a bird to its wings and air, a fish to its gill and fin, etc. If made to function outside their natural habitat, they struggle and die. To believe the lie of your existence is to trade off the characteristics that define your nature and functionality. Paul argues about God that, "For by him were all things created, that are in heave...

One thing we take for granted the most is the gift of life. We must realise that God's breath is both the source and sustainer of life (Gen. 2: 7; Col. 2:19 TPT‬). Failure to acknowledge Him as your source is pride and sinful. How would you ascribe the relative peace you enjoy? Self-acquired or God-given (John 14: 27)? You can have security personnel and very sophisticated security gadgets, but sa...

Lamentations 3: 22 tells us that, ‭"It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." Anyone who does not recognise the Lord’s mercies live in arrogant denial. Such persons attribute all their results to self-effort. What a travesty and dangerous way to live. It remids me of the follish rich farmer, who boasted of all he would do with his great harvest. That...

● Glorify the Lord for leading and helping you thus far in 2024. Thank Him for wonders without numbers that you've witnessed and for those yet to be revealed (Job 9: 10; Psalm 40: 5; 1 Corinthians 2:9) ● Command the remaining months of the year to continuously yield testimonies that would make your head swim (Job 38: 12 KJV; Amos 9: 13 MSG) ● Activate grace for sustainable prosperity this year and...

Jacob indicts us with a challenging perspective to how we relate to God and handle sacred things. Many a time, we would rather complain about the things that are not working than appreciate Him for all that's working, failing to realise that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord (Rom. 8:28). Like Jacob, you don't know how blessed you are because it looked so ordinary. You ta...