I present a few nuggets from Illuminare in 2019. Enjoy!
1. Faith is not unintelligent. Jesus didn’t die for robots. #Illuminare
2. The starting point of successful marriage is the right choice of partner. #Illuminare
3. Your spouse must be your friend, your best friend. Friendship occupies a large swath of space in marriage. #Illuminare
4. The Holy Spirit is your mentor. A critical function of that mentorship program is supply of intelligence. #Illuminare
5. The ability of God to dwell in the past, present and future simultaneously is what the Bible technically refers to as “immortality.” #Illuminare
6. Morality is a human society regulatory protocol. It’s not the basis of salvation. Imputed righteousness is. We are donees of grace – unmerited favour. Ephesians 2:8-9. #Illuminare
7. Marriage processes you. It has deterministic capacity. It is one of the great institutions. So much so God adopted the principles embedded in it to fuse Christ and the Church. #Illuminare
8. An unreasoning, unquestioning and un-examining generation of Christians is a danger to the faith and a danger to their nation. #Illuminare
9. Branding makes people pay habitual obedience to a set of stimuli. #Illuminare
10. Emotional constipation is not the definition of manhood. #Illuminare
11. The dimension of the gifts of the Spirit you exhibit is determined by the calling and grace upon your life. Daniel never prayed for rain, Elijah did. Daniel prayed for insight and intelligence. #Illuminare
12. You don’t have to be a pastor to have a profound understanding of scriptures, or to operate in the gifts of the Spirit. Every Christian is supposed to operate in the gifts of the Spirit. #Illuminare
13. An empowered congregational mass will spread the gospel faster than a lone ecclesiastical actor. Pastors must empower the people to do the work of the ministry. It’s not about the pastor it’s about Christ. #Illuminare
14. In material pursuit we so easily miss the things that really matter in life - things like friends and family, like charity and kindness, like joy and harmony, like love and contentment. Our primary pursuit ought to be God. Every other thing is an addendum. #Illuminare
15. You don’t have to have huge resources to accomplish great things. Your number one resource is faith – that confident belief things will happen as envisaged. #Illuminare
16. Believe in yourself. Stop censoring yourself, let the market determine your fate. Put your ideas out in the open. #Illuminare
17. Have a discerning spirit. Don’t put yourself under a spiritual controller. If you can’t take a step without consulting your pastor you’re probably in bondage. #Illuminare
18. If you have a dream you don’t like, reject it. The Bible says to cast down imagination and to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5. #Illuminare
19. Kids don’t think of anything in particular, neither do they do anything in particular. Kids don’t have a care. It’s how Jesus wants us to be. #Illuminare
20. God’s grace overwrites your shortcomings. #Illuminare
21. There’s a difference between the personage of the Antichrist and the spirit of the Antichrist. The Antichrist will eventually emerge but his franchise is already in the world. #Illuminare
22. The primary affliction in an unhappy marriage is depression. #Illuminare
23. The man who can be honest with God will experience God’s mercy. #Illuminare
24. Get to know the person you want to marry before you make a commitment. That is wisdom. Don’t marry a stranger. That is gambling. #Illuminare
25. Salvation is founded on God’s sovereignty. #Illuminare
26. Jesus is the humanity, Christ is the divinity. Jesus Christ is a hypostatic union of humanity and divinity – 100% man, 100% God. #Illuminare
27. Truth is not subjective it is the PERCEPTION of truth that is subjective. Perception may vary from individual to individual but truth is constant. #Illuminare
28. A very thin line separates genius from insanity. #Illuminare
29. Intellect should not detract from faith, intellect synthesises with faith. #Illuminare
30. In God’s conception the pastor is a human resource development executive. He’s supposed to train the people to do the work of the ministry. #Illuminare
31. A calling is not always ecclesiastical. A calling can be in government. #Illuminare
32. Science can’t be opposed to God. God created science. #Illuminare
33. Human goodness cannot be the standard for righteousness. There’s no constancy. #Illuminare
34. Faith only works when you see what you can’t see. It requires you ignore the evidence in front of you. You must switch the picture to the vision you desire. #Illuminare
35. Marriage is not a Christian thing, it’s a humanity thing. Marriage was not instituted after Jesus rose from the dead it was instituted in the Garden of Eden. #Illuminare
36. You can increase your creative and reasoning capacity. If you want to expand your analytical and creative capabilities you need to read, and you have to read wide. #Illuminare
37. The more successful you are the more discipline you need. When you’re rich enough to finance sin you become your own temptation. #Illuminare
38. Structure is expensive but it is needful if you want to grow in business. If you’re in business and you want to multiply you have to build structure. #Illuminare
39. You cannot afford to marry a stranger - someone you hardly know. Marriage is too intimate for that kind of thing. Know the person you want to marry before saying yes. Unless of course you like surprises. #Illuminare
40. There’s a societal factor to the deceitfulness of riches. Mark 4:19. When you’re doing well in life the world will applaud you. Success has a chorus band. You won’t be short of praise singers. Psalm 49:18. #Illuminare
41. When wealth becomes a god in your life spiritual affection will be transferred. You can’t love God and Mammon in equal measure. Matthew 6:24. And a poor man can love Mammon as much as the rich man. #Illuminare
42. Analytical reasoning follows logical discipline. You need to train yourself to think logically. You won’t succeed with the kind of reasoning sometimes exhibited on social media. #Illuminare
43. Love is meaningless without sacrifice. #Illuminare
44. It is futile to run away from God when we sin. Not going to church will not solve the problem. The Bible says that if we sin we should simply ask for God’s forgiveness and He will forgive. 1 John 1:9. #Illuminare
45. Righteousness cannot exalt a nation when the righteous won’t participate in governance. #Illuminare
46. When the Bereans did a cross-analysis of the claims made by Paul the Bible called it nobility. Acts 17:11. Intelligent faith is noble. #Illuminare
47. The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of what wasn’t there. Jesus said the Holy Spirit will “remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:26. The data must be existent. The Spirit works with available data. #Illuminare
48. The apostles were human beings. We sometimes forget that. Paul was so human he famously scaled a city wall – in a basket! 2 Corinthians 11:33. #Illuminare
49. Every Christian is supposed to preach the gospel. Every Christian can lay hands on the sick and the sick will recover. Every Christian can cast out demons. Every Christian can baptise in the Holy Spirit. Mark 16:17-18. #Illuminare
50. This is my last #Illuminare for 2019. I’m going on hols. I hope you have a memorable holiday. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance!
