Text: Galatians 5:22-23 KJV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, [23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Notes
Right Attitude is everything in life.
Why? Because, it has a direct impact on how we communicate and collaborate with others.
Right attitude impact how we contribute to the activities of your work & spiritual environment.
The truth is, you can’t use prayer and fasting to substitute right attitude.
You must be ready to build character If you want to experience Next Level in 2025
Jesus promised to judge us by our characters – Matt. 7: 15-23.
The truth of the matter is that, you can get any position by skill but it will take Character to sustain it.
That is why you must understand that *YOU CANNOT GET BY PRAYER WHAT YOU SHOULD GET BY CHARACTER *
President Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (US), said: “Nothing can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal; and nothing on earth can help the man with the *wrong attitude from attaining Greatness.”
I have watched pitiably how people self-sabotage themselves by seeking spiritual solutions to character-deficit issues.
These type of people look around at everybody as suspects for their predicaments when their greatest demons is their bad characters.
What we often call our destiny is truly our character, and since that character can change, then destiny can be altered. Character is destiny .
Please understand that prayer is not EVERYTHING, this is so because
Many people believe, we can pray ourselves to success and get away with virtually anything if we become a stickler to some prayer routines.
But I need to let you know that there is no amount of prayer that can substitute for positive character.
That is why I believe that Sometimes, you need character, not prayer.
A British writer and politician, Thomas Macaulay, said: “ The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”
For must of us going places, we must continually have character adjustment and continuously work on ourselves, because what would ultimately destroy a man going to high places in life is not really the enemies that are waiting for him there, but the negative character that followed him there.
I want to emphatically underline the fact that this write-up is not meant to trivialise prayers in any way. I have observed that many people take character for granted, while overzealously tuning on into their spiritual mode.
We have become so spiritually in tune through prayers that we neglect the place of positive character and our relationship with people.
Many are actually ‘heavenly’ bound, but with no earthly relevance.
You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public and maintain a holy appearance, but it is your behavior and character that will actually trigger the manifestation of all that God has in stock for you.
Above all, You must learn to treat people with respect and love .
The Shunammite woman must have been praying for a child all her life. However, just by being hospitable to a man of God, she eventually got her much-awaited miracle.
Her prayer brought the man of God her way, but it was her characters she used to sustain her relationship with the man of God..
Assuming she wasn’t hospitable, to the man of God, she would have missed a critical miracle forever.
Little wonder the scripture says in Hebrews 13:2 ESV. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Many times, we pray, fast and bind demons that don’t exist when our real demons are just our greatly flawed character.
Many have insulted people that were divinely placed and orchestrated to help them fulfil their destiny.
Some people are keeping malice with their destiny helpers.
Treat people with respect.
Treat strangers with courtesy.
Never look down on anybody.
Because God can use anyone to change your story for better.
Abigail Van Buren said: “The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
The way we treat people we think can’t help or hurt us, like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries, tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important.
Therefore How do you treat people?
Peter Schutz, the former chief executive officer of Porsche said: “ HIRE CHARACTER; TRAIN SKILLS .
Let Us Pray:
- Thank you Lord for your valuable words for the month of February 2025.
- Thank you Lord, for UPWARD PROGRESS in the February 2025.
- Thank you Lord for today’s teaching on Mordecai’s right attitude.
- O Lord help me to improve my attitudes
- By your mercy O Lord, I received Supernatural Grace to be a better person
- O Lord, help me to always show compassion to others
- O Lord, O Lord help me to always walk in wisdom towards others.
- O Lord, restore back to me by your mercy, the valuable relationship I have lost to bad attitude.
- Like Mordecai, I receive Supernatural ability for right attitude.
- Thank you Jesus
- Apostle Adesegun Adenekan is of the Value Adding Christian Centre, Maya, Ikorodu, Lagos. He can be reached via +234 809 823 5777
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