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Be EMBOLDENED To Say NAY – NO – When It Matters: There’s Enabling GRACE For It!

We live in a time wherein most people have indebted themselves or found themselves at crossroads because they wants to DO God, please planet earth, and make everyone happy at their inadequacies and to save face from offending and to ensure their pride in pain. Enough of that cowardice ACT of life.

Am here to let you know that it’s a high time to STOP making promises you CAN’T keep so that you can walk with your head up and shoulder high, and in your heels high, in grace and peace of mind. And it’s time to also let you know that it is not a crime or even a sin to say NO to a demand or gesture that wants you to do contrary to your FAITH in God in Christ Jesus stead; and much more to your inability to meet up with the statuesque of others demands and the prevalence in your environment. Don’t be people pleaser, be God’s pleaser towards people in order to save your breath, otherwise when you fault, you are gone.

You don’t have to put yourself in a crossroad to swear or take an oath to prove your point of inability. Be truthful to yourself in God and EMBOLDENED to say NO – NAY to any unwelcome demand, just as you can say YES – YEA, in ALL matters of DOING life also to enhance your today and tomorrow in GODLINESS – 1 Timothy 4:7-8.

Lots of people have ended up in debt in order to – save face, please others for no just cause and to fit into the demands of peers and statuesque of colleagues and friends. Beloved in Christ, we are not in a competitive world with any or yourself to make you belong. You are a child of God and of PURPOSE.

It’s more gracious to follow your God’s given PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT if you must found your true HAPPINESS and MEANINGFUL FULFILLMENT in LIFE and GODLINESS. Ensure that you LIVE and DO LIFE as per by the prompting of the Lord by His Holy Spirit in you, and through the WORD, in order to live free and be happy to help without guilt and shame at any point.

May I enjoin you to know that the Scriptures indicates that the justified in Christ Jesus shall live by their own FAITH in God through Him. So let nobody makes you through pressure to be their ANSWER and especially to their so called DESTINY HELPER, to their PRAYERS when you are not God, knowing you are unable to fit into that shoe as been pressured.

Don’t DO God or be a godfather or answer in DEBT. Endeavour to say NO without feeling guilty or ashamed in meeting someone dear needs. Live by your FAITH as led by the Holy Spirit through God’s WORD in all capacity of life matters. Live and help within your FAITH and not in any pressure to do anything and become incapacitated for others good. That’s unscriptural.

Saying NO should not be embarrassing at all just as saying YES should not be either. Don’t take a PARACETAMOL for someone else ACHES otherwise you may start aching for your inadequacy and not been emboldened to have say NAY – NO when you should have. Help where you could. Fit in where you could. Much more, LIVE AND DO LIFE BY YOUR FAITH!

Don’t REACT to pressure in anyway by any means; always RESPOND by the WORD in the Holy Spirit that’s GIVEN to you to do LIFE in GRACE. You are RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE on your life decisions. Make goodly choices.

I pray God gives you wisdom in this regards before you found yourself at life crossroads and in guilt not knowing to say NO just as to say YES.

SELAH – PAUSE and THINK!

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING:

“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the JUST shall LIVE by HIS FAITH” Habakkuk 2:4 (Emphasis Mine).

“Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your COMMUNICATION be, YEA, YEA; NAY, NAY: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil” Matthew 5:36-37 (Emphasis Mine).

“But ABOVE ALL THINGS, my brethren, SWEAR NOT, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither BY ANY OTHER OATH: but let your YEA be YEA; and your NAY, NAY; lest ye fall into condemnation” James 5:12 (Emphasis Mine).

“For the GRACE of God has appeared that OFFERS SALVATION to all people. 12 It TEACHES us to say “NO” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good” Titus 2:11-13 NIV (Emphasis Mine).

Further Scriptural Reading: Galatians 3:11; Romans 1:16-17; Hebrews 10:23-39; Romans 14:23. Romans 5:1-2.

Rev Chukie MORSI

DARE TO SAY NO – When It’s TIMELY NECESSARY And MATTERS: It Is An ATTRIBUTE Of GRACE – You Need Not Regret or Be Apologetic – BY SAYING A NO!

THANKS BUT “NO” THANKS – Is that too hard to say or make sometimes? Yeah – in majority of times especially in sentimental cases when you are UNPRINCIPLE in matters of LIFE and GODLY LIVING. Meaning, falling for anything and everything for not having a set PRINCIPLED based on the WORD of God that keeps you RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE for self-worth in Christ Jesus stead.

James 1:2-8, makes it known and understandable – that to be tempted or tested or tried is not a sin, but to let sentiments cause you to give in to that which you are being tempted or tested about or with, will make you to have or make a sin and become a PREY and VICTIM instead of a VICTOR. And that is of your own making in not saying emphatically a “NO” – knowing that God does not tempt any man to sin – to break His WORD – James 1:13-15; 1 Corinthians 10:13.

As a child of God, if you must be strong and fortified in life and faith and stay steadfast in Christ Jesus stead, you must know and understand when to say “NO” boldly; and to mean it when your right of ensuring God’s WORD in your life is been violated by any person, irrespective of the life stands. More and especially, in commitments that makes you small or smaller than what God has done in you in Christ Jesus; matters that subtract you or from you; matters that divides you, decreases you and limits you; and in matters that will not add, multiply and increase you in everyway in life and godly living.

There are cohorts of Satan outwork and out there in our place of doing life – home, Church, shopping centres, market places, work places, business and governmental places, political arena, contract signing places and such likes that you must put guard and guide against, otherwise you be PARTAKER of their intent and VICTIM of regret for not saying the “NO” but instead of the “YES” you gave by word or actioned in kind. An emboldened PRINCIPLE for responsibility and accountability must be upheld in our day to day life in this world, otherwise you will live a life of fear, intimidation, guilt, shame, inferiority and regret, in not saying “NO” to the divers lustful temptations that appears before you now and then – James 1:13-15; 4:1-3.

Just know again and again, that there’s an enabling grace within you to say “NO” – no matter the circumstances and situations that befalls you in cause of doing life and godly living.

Being EMBOLDENED to say “NO” when it MATTERS, it’s an attributes of God’s grace in you. It saves from troubles and then heals, delivers, secures, directs, strengthens, equips, empowers; and does many more such likes attributes in one’s LIFE and GODLY LIVING.

It’s time not to fall traps of sentiments that the ENEMY and COHORTS in crafty act will use to lure you out of FAITH through FEARS into things you know, you will not normally say “YES” to which deserves a big fat “NO” answer.

DARE TO SAY NO WHEN IT’S TIMELY NECESSARY AND MATTERS – IT’S AN ATTRIBUTE OF GRACE – YOU NEED NOT REGRET – SAYING A NO!

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS:

“For THE GRACE OF GOD HAS APPEARED THAT OFFERS SALVATION TO ALL PEOPLE. 12 It TEACHES us to say “NO” to UNGODLINESS and WORLDLY PASSIONS, and to LIVE SELF-CONTROLLED, UPRIGHT and GODLY LIVES IN THIS PRESENT AGE, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 15 These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.” Titus 2:11-15 (NIV).

“But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. 37 But let your ‘YES’ BE ‘YES,’ AND YOUR ‘NO,’ ‘NO.’ For whatever is more than these is from the EVIL ONE” Matthew 5:34-37 (NKJV)

“But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your “YES” BE “YES,” AND YOUR “NO,” “NO,” lest you fall into judgment” James 5:12 (NKJV).

“For God did not give us a spirit of TIMIDITY or COWARDICE or FEAR, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal DISCIPLINE [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control]” 2 Timothy 1:7 (Amplified).

“For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—WAS NOT YES AND NO, BUT IN HIM WAS YES. 20 FOR ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIM ARE YES, AND IN HIM AMEN, to the glory of God through us. 21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, 22 who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee” 2 Corinthians 1:19-22 (NKJV).

“No temptation has OVERTAKEN you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE ABLE, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV).

Rev Chukie MORSI