Growth is essential to life. In creation, man was endowed with the ability to make progress. Stagnation is strange to mankind. Our mentality, opinion and response determine our speed and acceleration in life. Several circumstances could bring about human limitations and stagnation.
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Stagnation can be defined as a condition of slow or flat growth in an economy. It often involves substantial unemployment and under-employment, as well as an economy, generally performing below its potential.

Periods of stagnation can be short-lived or long-lasting, resulting in various economic and social effects.
Never Give Up In Life

Life is a race. The beginning of a thing is as important as the end. In life, certain ingredients are important:
• Grace: Eccl. 9:11
• Preparation – Luke 14:28-32
• Sit down
• Count the cost
• Have a plan
• It is God’s will that you finish and finish well – John 5:36.
• Faith is a weapon – Heb. 11:34.
• Be willing to pay the price – 1 Tim. 6:12.
• Run with certainty – 1 Cor. 9:26.
The Journey Of Life
In the journey of life you must observe the following:
• Every road has a pot hole.
• There are road signs; observe them.
• Watch who you asks for direction – the person you asked can determine if you reach your destination or you get lost.
• There could be traffic jam; learn to be patient.
• Tolerate others.
• Someone can stop you.
• Someone could distract you.
• Someone can assist you to ascertain your direction.
• Someone can help you reach your destination on time.
• Someone can create unnecessary delay to you reaching your desired destination.
• Watch your stopovers and your rest period least you are buried at the place of rest.
• See obstacles with the eye of beauty.
• Redeem the time: Eph. 5:16 – watch what you give your time to.
Requirement To Finish Well
• Be purposeful
• Be diligent – not slothful
• Be divinely connected – divinity is your source.
• Avoid excess luggage.
• Keep good company – Prov. 27:17, 13:20.
• To go far don’t grow fat, it takes a little weight to soar.
• No man who backs off a race gets to the finishing line.
• To finish well always refuse to settle – Phil. 3:13 (See Gen. 11:1).
The moment you settle for anything you are considered by nature to have been settled. Some are considered by nature to been settled when there is yet room to gain and grow.
• Hunger is the magnetic pull to satisfaction, what you don’t hunger for, you cannot anger for.
Breaking Limits Every limit in a man’s life can be limited by the power of God’s glory and grace. What Are Limits?
They are points or level beyond, which something does not or might extend or pass.
A restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible.
A point or value that a sequence, function, or sum of a series can be made to approach progressively, until it is as close to the point or value as desired.
In The Face Of Limits
• Limits can make you step backward rather than stepping forward.
• Limits can make you become a shame in the place of fame
• Limits can be instigated by fear; fear makes obstacles bigger than their actual size
• Limits will tell you to do great things and be settled when God has destined you to do the impossible.
• Limits rejoice in complacencies (Self-satisfaction).
• Limits allow you to peacefully settle with average when you can do better.
• Limits tell you do not stretch you will break when you can actually become elastic.
• Limits help you to celebrate failure.
• Limit is a weakness, a restriction, lack of capacity, inability or handicap.

The Deadly ‘Ds’ That Limits And Encourages
• Discouragement
• Deception
• Doubt
• Dilution – this is a story belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.

How Limits Are Built
• By Sin – Isaiah 59:1; Gen. 3:17-19
• By Strong power – Lamentation 3:5-9
• God’s wrath
• Satanic powers
• Strange spirits – Isaiah 44:13.
• Strange teachings – corrupting the mind – 2 Pet. 1:3-5
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How To Break Limits
• Commitment in the reading and study of the Holy Scripture – 2 Pet. 1:3; 2 Tim. 2:15.
• Reading great books – Eccl. 12:9-11, Prov. 23:12.
• Listening to great servants of God – Prov. 27:17, Prov. 23:12.
• Surrounding oneself with successful people – Prov. 27:17.
• Be connected permanently with Christ – Phil. 4:13, Eph. 3:16.
• Allow the Holy Ghost to reign in your life – Mark. 10:27; Rom. 8:37; 1 John 4:4.
• It takes glory for limits to be broken – Isaiah 40:3-5; 2 Peter 1:3-5.
I pray for you today, may you be connected to God’s endless grace and ceaseless power in Jesus name.
Hear This! Because we live in dangerous time, you must understand that all time is not for fun; there should be time for seriousness and business (Zephaniah 1:14-18).
The happenings of our time strongly suggest that we live in the days that require more prayer than more praise. The art of prayer is not the act of play. Every time in life should not be for celebration, but for positive reflection. A time should come in our life when we can decide our eternal destiny and destination. A time when we can remind ourselves of God’s eminent judgment. A time we should close our ears totally to what the environment is saying and what God is saying to us, as a Father.

When God rebukes us, it is not to condemn us or to show us how sinful we are, but for us to be true to ourselves and ‘amend our ways and doings’ – Jer. 7:3. “Let us search out ourselves, examine our ways and turn back to the Lord – Lamentation 3:40. Read Jer. 35:15.

I hear Isaiah speak to us – Isaiah 55:9. “For as the heavens is higher than earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” The choice is ours. Let us ask ourselves: (1.) How near is God’s wrath? Rom. 1:18; 2 Tim 3:1-5; Matt. 24:3-20.
(2.) How prepared are you? 1 Thess. 5:1-6.
A – Beware of the little leaven – Gal. 5:9
B – Beware of that which corrupts the mind – Ephesians 4:22-32.
C – Remember the wife of Lot – Luke 17:26-37.
After Now, What Next? 1 Thess. 1:8-11. Rom. 8:37, 26; 1 Thess. 4:3-4.

Here me!
• Don’t set your eyes on your past, focus on the future.
• Don’t let your today hold you down, remember that tomorrow is always better.
• Don’t negotiate your future for temporal satisfaction, remember every future carries hidden treasures; beneath the unknown lies greatness unseen.
• Venerable Stephen Wolemonwu is the Rector Ibru Ecumenical Centre, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State (08035413812)

• Don’t eat for now, reserve for morrow,
• Don’t say it all now, there will always be another day.
• Be positive, crave for better ways of getting it right.
• Newness is the beauty of your presentation.
• Venerable Stephen Wolemonwu is the Rector Ibru Ecumenical Centre, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State (08035413812)
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