LUKE 19:1-9 Your security in God cannot be debated. I’m very sure that if you are saved you are insured.
Revelation 1:2-17, What John beloved saw
John 1:29, What John the Baptist saw
The lamb died for you, the Lion is preserving you.
V16 – He had seven stars in His right hand
V17 – He laid 7 stars on Him
Where are the seven stars: in the hollow of his hand
Hidden out of sight of powers / principalities.
The hole made on the cross was still there.
Life does not give you what you deserve, it gives you what you demand.
Everyone wishing to prosper / succeed but few are ready to pay the price.
There is the story of this young lawyer who wants to know from an elderly man, the secret of success. He told him, lets go for a walk… (you must go all out for it).
V.3. BURNING DESIRE
Successful life does not answer to live and let’s live. You must pant after success and never be satisfied with mediocrity.
Your father is the Most High, you can’t be the most low.
OVERCOME TEMPORARY FAILURE
The difference between average people and achievers is their response
to failure.
Zacchaeus did not start crying and turn back. Have you started anything, don’t turn back! John 12:24 / Mark 8:35
The seed must die, decay, and disappear.
To be crying when the seed is no more is foolishness.
Failure is the first step into success.
The man who manufactured the first car, stopped schooling at 14 years.
His first car had no reverse gear!
David failed in Bathsheba, but the same Bathsheba gave birth to Solomon – whose honour and dignity cannot be measured!
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Top Ten Lessons from the Life of Adam
Becoming A Community-Conscious Church
OVERCOME YOUR HANDICAP
You are not handicapped until you think you are…
Zacchaeus could have given excuses and turn back.
- No excuse is good enough for failure.
- Too much people
- No Education
- No connection
- Body Disability
- Please know that Plato had Hunchback, Julius Caesar was Epileptic and Moses stammered; yet they were all achievers.
- WORK
- V.4: He ran and climbed. The running of Zaccheaus as meaning work could be interpreted.
- CORRECT LOCATION. Psalm 32:8
- Zacchaeus Climbed Up
- There is a way you should go, your location is what makes heaven to
- locate you.
- God said – “Adam where art thou”. He was not where God expected
- him to be!
- Not that God could not see him.
- In destiny if you are not rightly located, you will be dislocated.
- Where to be, is the mother of whom to be.
- Outside Egypt, Joseph can’t be a Prime Minister
- You have to pray before you relocate. Your relocation can be your dislocation. Psalm 37:23
- Are you into business? You don’t sell coffin in industrial estate.
- You sell near a Hospital.
- “If I see opportunity to travel, anything I’m doing I will leave!”
- Help is from above, not abroad.
- DIVINE HELP
- He climbed a sycamore tree
- Nehemiah 2: 7 – 9
- That tree helped Zacchaeus. God can put people on your path, the shoulder of whom will carry you up.
- IMAGINATION
- The thinking man is the manager, the talking man is the messenger.
- God left us with an unfinished world but he declare it finished because he has given us finished mind to complete the work!
- Life is too short to think small
- A lot of people are not thinking. When you don’t think, you stink!
- Investment comes out of thinking.
- No good thing comes by chance.
- Things are made to happen. Zacchaeus did all he did after some time of thinking for a way out.
- TIME CONSCIOUSNESS V.6.
- JOYFULNESS v7
- Then it was the turn of Zacchaeus. Now it’s your turn. Abundant life must go in into your house!
- “People will envy you” in Jesus wonderful name.