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Bible Passage Proverbs.15: 13, 15
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Keep Smiling

  • Ikeakhe Victor
Date preached April 30, 2022

Remember to keep smiling during the day, you have to remain positive in life.  If you can do the following, trust me, you will be happy most of the time :

Bad and good times are two phases of life… both go hand in hand so always forget the bad times & move ahead for a better future is waiting for you… keep smiling in every phase of life.

Scriptures teach that A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken.

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. (Proverbs.15: 13, 15) KJV.

(A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart, the spirit is broken. The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge and inquires after and craves it, but the mouth of the [self-confident] fool feeds on folly.

All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]). Amp

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)

KJV.

(A happy heart is a good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones). Amp

➡️2 Corinthians 9

8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth forever.

10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

11 Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

(And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation]

And [God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity].

Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way so that you can be generous, and [your generosity as it is] administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving to God). Amp

➡️Philippians 4

19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

(And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.) Amp

➡️Elijah fed by Raven

1Kings 17:1-7

1 Kings 17

1And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

2And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

3Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

5So he went and did according to unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

➡️widow of Zaraphet

1 Kings 17

8And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

9Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

11And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

12And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

13And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

14For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.

15And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house did eat many days.

16And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

☀️Do not worry

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