Many believe this: HEAVEN HELP THOSE THAT HELP THEMSELVES.
But how true is it?
Heaven aid man in equal measure to the degree, which man aid himself.
Therefore, a certain level of human effort is demanded and necessary for man to enjoy God's support individually and collectively.
How can man help himself?
Human beings do this by putting to work all the resident abilities they possess in solving problems or improving their human conditions.
Man must use his mental/thinking/analytical faculty. He should apply reason and reasoning, discernment and observation, planning and understanding from his own errors, improvements and learning.
His inquiring mind and ability to discern a pattern and grasp new ways and knowledge of things is an invaluable wealth.
These he must back up with the necessary actions, to put to work new understanding and continually refine them.
When the will to succeed and grow in knowledge in whatever field is driven by earnest volition, the Divinity impulse in the form of inspiration, intuition and transcendental enlightenment naturally and seamlessly flows in because it has found a fertile receptacle. Then man becomes a willing channel for Light to dispel darkness and ignorance. Human beings must play their human roles first before soliciting for heavenly aid.
Learn from the bleeding woman Mark 5:21-43,
The paralytic at Capernaum Matthew (9:1–8),
Isaac, Genesis 26:1-3,
"And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;"
Genesis 26:12-14 KJV
"Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him."
He, Isaac didn't fold his hands and expect the prophesy to materialized...He sow and God blessing the work of his hands.
Hence, man must first make himself a worthy vessel for Divine assistance and aid before imploring such help.
The Heavens give in direct proportion to our effort in utilising the immense faculties already reposed in human beings which is often in dormant mode in the generality of people, waiting to be activated and fanned into prominence by each person.
We are already bundles of God's blessings albeit in abeyance.
Apostle Julius Ikhide-Iyke Etaifo
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