Opuwari Manuel Quotes

Don't let the light shinning on you be brighter than the light shinning inside you. More light on the inside would keep you from walking in the dark.

The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.

The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd.

Abuse is the weakest expression of strength. It is weakness to destroy what you ought to protect, build and make better.

What you think about a person is different from understanding a person.

God's love is like the sun, constant and unchanging, you'll wake up one morning and realize that nothing can take that away.

The temptation to worry is also the invitation to pray. You must choose the later if God is your Master.

I may not be able to fill someone else but I have a responsibility to empty myself with the hope that it fills someone else. I may not be able to light up someone's lamp but I also have the responsibility of shinning my light with the hope that it lights someone else.

Technology is activated by touch but it can stop us from touching others.

The reason some people do not become great is because the met great people but asked the wrong questions. The problem here is not the absence of access, it is bad sense.

The purpose of salt is to change the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Attracting attention to yourself in the Kingdom of God is like seducing the bride because you are the best man of the groom.

The major fear of man is the fear of death. Death is not the end of existence, death is separation. A man doesn’t stop existing because he died physically. He must exist somewhere else in another realm where he would be held accountable.

The bible is not progressive because it is perfect. It doesn't change with time because it is eternal. Never remove the autonomy of the Bible, not even in your mind, otherwise, men will begin to edit the truth, adjust ancient landmarks and broaden the narrow way.

Learn a lesson from the branch. Although it has brought fruit for thirty years, the branch is well aware that the years of experience in bearing fruit is not a reason to be independent. The goal of God’s training is never to develop you to stand alone without Him.

Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.

Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!

The devil doesn't need an invitation to where there is spiritual stagnancy, He would assume he is welcome for obvious reasons. Stagnant water would attract unwanted pests.

There's a dimension of pride that is unbelievable. When people become proud of their humility or brokenness.

Growth happens in secret but exploits happen in public. Seek God in secret and He will reward you in the open.

Prayer is like breathing....how long can you hold your breath?

The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble

Grace is all that God is free to do for you, in you, with you and through you only because of the finished work of Jesus Christ.

If your soul isn't prospering, every other form of prosperity becomes meaningless.

The purpose of prayer is fellowship, and the product of prayer is alignment with the plans and timing of God.

Illegitimate freedom is only a different shade of bondage

A broken system will not fix a broken people.

The Christian Journey is not just to a place "Heaven", it is also to a person "Jesus". Ephesians 4:13 says "Till we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

If Jesus finished His work for us then be confident that He will finish His work in us. He is a FINISHER!

Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.

Every gift of God is empowered by LOVE and expressed by FAITH.

The most important part of prayer is not the result it produces, but the intimacy it creates.

As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions.

Prayer is either a discipline or a delight. If you focus on the act of prayer it is a discipline, when you focus on a person (GOD) it becomes a delight. Prayer as a delight is centered on GOD.

God is able to do the impossible, exceedingly, abundantly far above all you can ever think or imagine but HE doesn’t want to do that outside of a relationship with you. Biblical prayer is not communication without a relationship.

The manifestation of miracles without the maturity of saints through the teaching of God's word is a sign of deception but where there is the constant teaching of the truth of God's word the move of God's Spirit will never be lacking.

Dear Princess, One day you will stand in the mirror to see the woman that you have become, your beauty would drown your scars, your victories would be more than your battles, you will finally see yourself through the eyes of the father. Pay attention to the process, God's process is as good as the outcome HE pursues.

Don't give people the hate that they deserve, give them the love that you have. The love of God is shared abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit. It must not be a bible verse, it must be real in your life. The more you love, the more capacity to love you will experience. The true test of real love is loving the unlovable. Everyone deserves to be loved in a way that they don't deserve.

Everything that comes from God must go back to God. They become dysfunctional when they remain with man. Blessings must turn to praise and praise is not just giving thanks for what God gave, it is giving back to Him what He gave. Don't give thanks to God for things that He gave and deny Him access to them for His use. Whatever blessing you don't return back to God in praise turns to pride.

Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.

God is the source of all your legitimate needs and He must be the One to satisfy them.

It is pride to be proud of your own humility.

Add to total surrender consecration and add to consecration brokenness. The bread didn't multiply when the boy gave it, or when Jesus gave thanks for it, it multiplied when He broke it.

Every Christian must be a Noah and every church must be an Ark.

If you don't encounter the life in scriptures through the Holy Spirit you will not be empowered to live the LIFE of scriptures.

Satan profits from the prayerlessness of the saints

I will preach the GOSPEL, the WHOLE Gospel and nothing but the GOSPEL. So help me GOD.

The inability to love and receive love is a sign that a disease has broken out in the human soul.

The measure of my love for you is my life. Signed: JESUS CHRIST

Temptation thrives powerfully all the time in a heart where communion is distant or absent.

10,000 sunsets, 10,000 sunrises, 10,000 rainbows yet none is more beautiful than JESUS CHRIST. 10,000 buddhas, 10,000muhammads, and 10,000 other gods piled up will never come near to the SAVING POWER OF JESUS CHRIST. To compare CHRIST to other gods is to compare the brightness of the sun to candlelight.

There is the light that shines as darkness, there is a peace that brings anxiety, there is a joy that ends in sorrow and there is the freedom that only becomes bondage. The paradox of the world!

Spiritual formation without the circumcision of the heart is simply behaviour modification and no real transformation really happens.

God gives Himself to us through the things that He gives to us. Never separate the giver from the gifts. The giver is in the gift and the gift is in the giver.

Some Christians may only realize there was nothing to fear in death after they have died. They missed the breaking news of the resurrection morning: "ONE DAY DEATH TASTED LIFE AND DIED FOREVER

God invites us to a river to drink, it's a pause, a break from the busyness that drains us of grace. You cannot drink from a river while on the go or on the run. Dryness is so common because people fail to stop, bend and drink. If you are too busy to stop, bend and drink, it will be too easy for you to burn out.

Abasing is a vital infrastructure for abundance.

The natural man is self-centered, selfishness promotes self, protects self and provides for self. Your recognition of God will not go unchallenged by the natural man. The natural man fights for recognition and you should give what it fights for. However, the only recognition you should give to the natural man is its worthlessness in comparison to the NEW MAN in CHRIST JESUS!

Here's a rule for married people: Don't stop repenting, Don't stop forgiving, Don't start counting, Don't stop giving.

Anxiety is giving the attention that God deserves to something far more inferior than Him.

Soul winning is not an event, it is a process. Soul winning is winning the soul.

It is not an unrighteous thing to suffer for doing the right thing. If you have the friends of Job you surely do not need enemies.

When what you have looks like nothing remember God gives you your future first!

Praying for greatness without looking out for opportunities is like waiting for an aircraft at a seaport.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and He doesn't need a makeover!

Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.

At the core of the heart of an atheist is a heart that doesn't deny the existence, sovereignty and power of God but it chooses deliberately not to believe it for a long while.

Knowledge without Truth is information without illumination and its all like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making you sick.

The enemy is not as powerful as your attitude towards GOD.

It is not the blessings of God that takes His place in your life, it is carnality. Whatever God gives is good and for good.

Territories carry possibilities. Man carries strategy, wisdom and endorsement. Be sensitive to who walks into your life while you're expecting an answer from God.

The ONE who is CALLED FAITHFUL and TRUTH cannot lie. Don't negotiate or lose your peace.

It is a great honour to have a copy of the HOLY BIBLE.

If you don't die to the flesh, you will die because of it.

The devil is not after your money or properties, he is after your joy, your faith, your love for other people, your peace. To think that satan comes to steal your money or car is like assuming armed robbers would break into your house to steal old newspapers.

Never forget that people need what you need and people need what you have.

Excellence in doctrine, duty, and discipline without first love is like a well-organized wedding without a groom.

Every information you allow into your mind is molding you into something and making you into something. No information is innocent. A regenerated spirit needs a healthy mind to thrive.

Pastors, Apostles, Prophets, Teachers and Evangelist, the five fold ministry is simply the ministry of JESUS CHRIST in five expressions.

The sad truth today is that people who haven't received the love of God in their hearts are trying to love Him with all their hearts.

Concerning spiritual things, many have adopted the language of it and neglected its reality. There's more talk going on about it and less experience of its beauty, its reality, and its effectual power.

Every time you think you have lost love, God breaks through the clouds of your despair and pain and lets you know that He is love and He is never lost and that there's enough of Him to go around.

What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says "Forgive us our trespasses" and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

Don't just cry over your 10 or 20 member church. Sometimes, God gives you your future first. The ones you call little carry in them every possibility you desire of the future. God would send you leaders but they may come as weak men and women first. Don't be so 'gift' conscious that you fail to realize that certain things are results of growth.

Don't envy results, seek to know the process. Don't want a man's glory till you hear his story. Sometimes what you see is not even the destination, it's just the current location but the result of a long journey. God sometimes would bring you to a point where it is much more than the gift...He captures your heart. My friend, not everything in the kingdom is a gift, somethings are rewards.

All men are equal but their graces and abilities separates them and makes certain things possible for them than for others.

A disciple of Jesus Christ is a visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ at the expense of the ones and things that they hold dear. It's that serious.

The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.

Materialism is not having things, it is letting things have you.

The absence of brokenness is the biggest sponsor of rebellion against God.

In a world full of hatred and violence, I still believe LOVE is enough. The prodigal Son was Lost Jesus said I am the WAY. The prodigal Son was Ignorant Jesus said I am the TRUTH. The prodigal Son was Dead Jesus said I am the LIFE. Love is always enough.

God's love is unconditional. He loved me before I even believed Him.

Every time you decide how you are going to feel or think about a person based on a principle or standard that is unbiblical you have gone against God's code of love. Take this rule from me: You have never and will never look into the eyes of a person who God doesn't love as much as He loves you.

The challenge with running from God is that you will always run into HIM.

Our hearts are broken with pain at the senseless deaths caused by violence. Families mourn, children live in fear, and some now respond by arming themselves with more guns with greater capacity to end life. Our disconnection and alienation has caused some to turn to guns for protection and safety. More than ever we need love to flood our hearts and heal our brokenness, and turn us away from violence toward peace. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

I have a definition of faith that is not an exact quote but it's based on scripture. When Jesus wanted to encourage faith in His disciples, He used the example of a Father providing for His children... "If your child asks you for bread you wont give him a stone and If he asks for fish you won't give him a snake. So if you as evil as you are know how to give good gifts to your children...How MUCH MORE will your father in heaven give". Based on that expression...I've learnt that faith is to believe that God is more eager to give me what He has promised than I am more eager to receive it.

The principle of pursuit is simple, don't be afraid of failing instead be afraid of succeeding at the things that do not count or matter.

Be a Boss, Run a company, Own a movement but never let your heartbeat be anywhere else but home!

People do not lose the love of God, they only lose sight of it.