There are many principles; we shall call keys, for coming into a life that is fulfilling. Many have found that life can be frustrating, no matter their good intention or even their excellent skills. There are good people who have sincere intentions and some skills that are worth some real income, yet they are finding life very unfulfilling. No area is experiencing steady progress like they should. If you find yourself in such situations that can be described in this type of frustration, this write-up might be for any prolonged sense of unfulfilled desires can be traceable to the powers of darkness. For many people, demonic powers or other unseen forces are responsible for these frustrations in their lives. Until we take responsibilities for the things in our lives and stop giving demons undue credit, the frustrations will continue. Whatever you are experiencing today, your belief system, your actions, words and attitude to truth have somewhat contributed to your situation in life. So come along with me on this brief journey of wisdom discoveries.

There are three keys we shall study here to begin our discoveries. They are as follows: Giving as a lifestyle; the right concept of authority; and understanding Godly boundaries.

GIVING AS A LIFESTYLE: (You can order our tape/CD series of on this subject at our Online Store)
Wrong motives for giving include greed and yielding to manipulation not to God for giving. The right kind of giving is done when the giver is in a proper relationship with God and believes in the cause for which they are giving. God is the source of all good things and faith pleases God. Faith is God’s tool in our hearts to explore the vast potentials and possibilities available to us in Christ. Giving demonstrates our love for God and our reliance on Him for our future supply; your deliverance from the love of money; and the flow of God’s grace into your life. There are many things that happen to givers. They increase in every area of life. They make friends; get mentors to help; are not easily misplaced as they seek to bless others who are connected to them by God. Some believe that they have nothing to give, it is not true. Becoming a giver always precedes having something to give. God puts seed in the hands of the sower. The sower makes the decision to give (to sow) and God gives what to sow (to give). Give as a lifestyle. Many have never made a habit of positioning themselves to transmit resources to others. Giving is the key to a healthy relationship and fulfilment.

THE RIGHT CONCEPT OF AUTHORITY (Get the tapes on authority)
Those who have suffered rejection and have not been healed tend to dislike any one in authority who tries to correct them. Authority is the right to influence especially in some certain field or endeavour. Authority is God’s method for carrying out His Kingdom activities on earth. He invests His authority in those that yield to His dealings (We call it process) by His Spirit and His Word. God’s divine ability to influence people is vested in His people. We call it grace. God’s grace is His divine enablement released into people who yield to Him so that through them His grace flows to others. We are expected to give the right to be influenced spiritually to people we trust and we trust that God influences them. Real authority comes from God alone. When we let God’s Word have that right place of authority in our lives, we will experience God’s peace and power. Authority is given not taken. People have different levels of authority in their lives, depending on their yeildedness. We learn to submit to God’s authority as we submit to one another according to the Word of God.

UNDERSTANDING BOUNDARIES
Everything that is legitimate has boundaries. Beyond its boundaries everything becomes erroneous! Error can be defined as truth taken beyond Godly boundaries. The enemy of our souls want to keep us bound up in habits and destructive tendencies and he succeeds at this through deception and delusions. He uses thought-patterns that foster his deceptive strategies. It is the reality of Godly boundaries that he blinds people to and so when they think they are free of his bondage, they now roam free to do just anything, hence they come into another dimension of bondage. A functional part of the legitimacy of anything is when its correct boundaries are known. Outside Godly boundaries, a good thing becomes a curse! Within the right boundaries there lies a vast potential of the depth and width of the same thing.

The example that comes to mind is the emotional make-up of human beings. Within Godly boundaries of marriage, there is such a depth of intimacy and fulfilment that is potentially available, outside marriage this emotional make-up can be the beginning of unhealthy and binding soul-ties. In life, ministry and relationships, it helps to know the boundaries God has set for us not Satan. When Adam and Eve were told not to eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, it was to help them from knowing things that they will no power to change. It also served as a Godly boundary of obedience to stay in the place of blessings. Through the lusts of the eyes, the lusts of the flesh and pride of life, they were lured out of their boundaries and came under a curse from the same one who had blessed them. This reveals Satan’s chief operation is to bring us to a place where we are against God’s ways of doing things. He is empowered when we are out of God’s order of things. Real freedom is when we are free to obey God not free to do what we want to do. Many times what we want to do is linked up to what the flesh can use to hinder us from full obedience to God. Our will needs to become aligned with His in every area of our lives. A broken person is one who has come to the realisation that the flesh can take advantage of anything to glory in, especially when God works in and through us; only what God do through us can bring real blessings to us and people, knowing that nothing good resides in the flesh. As you see the depravity in the unregenerate man and realise that only Christ in you can please the Father, your confidence will be in Him who is at work within you. Your will need not be broken but re-aligned. “Not my will but yours be done,” as Jesus, said.

Joseph shows his understanding of Godly boundaries to bring legitimacy to what he was doing. He talked about his master giving him authority over everything except the wife. The wife of Potiphar offering herself was a temptation to step beyond his boundaries and come under the disfavour of God. God’s Word clearly defines boundaries even in the way things are meant to function here on earth. In the exercise of authority, Apostle Paul said the Corinthian church was within the measure God had given him. He knew the boundaries of his apostolic ministry. Our revelation of what Godly boundaries exist around us will greatly help to reduce casualties amongst believers who are on the path of warfare. Remember that revelation is progressive and if stay within the boundaries of what has been revealed we shall be safe. God is not trying to limit or contain you; rather He wants you to enlarge. All healthy growth is done within certain boundaries. Abnormality exists when growth has not pattern or boundaries. The purpose and focus of growth in anything is to bring about healthy increase, sustain established purpose and cause God’s will to be done in the earth. When purpose, focus and motive of any growth is out of order with God’s ways and patterns, we have an unhealthy growth that will eventually terminate the life of the thing that is growing.

What purpose are you fulfilling? What focus are you maintaining? What is your motive for doing what you are doing?

Rev. Kola Ewuosho