2016: KEYS FOR SURVIVAL

1. Make sure you start everyday with God via bible reading, prayer, meditation, confession on Psalm 91
2. Possess a deep love for God
3. Consistently value personal integrity
4. Pursue personal and corporate holiness
5. Have an effective regular prayer life
6. Ensure that godly character through the fruit of the spirit is manifested in your life
7. Practice genuine humility and gentility
8. Follow the principle of perseverance; do not give up without a fight
9. Cultivate a habit of being punctual to the house of God (those who come early to the house of God get blessed by the early angel)
10. Be teachable
11. Live by faith and not by sight
12. Practice brokeness
13. Be generous and don't be part of those who treat God as a begger (the children of the generous will never suffer)
14. Work hard
15. Be a good steward of time (be time conscious)
16. Have confidence in the Lord like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
17. Practice loyalty
18. Be disciplined (discipline your mouth, temperament, appetite and life, so you can move forward)
19. Be self-controlled
20. Practice honesty
21. Whenever anything comes before you, always ask, "what will Jesus do?" before taking action
22. Live within your means (don't engage in evil comparisons)
23. Be a tither and a giver to God because it will help you so much this year
24. Stop all forms of spiritual procrastination (i.e. saying things like, "after sometime I will read the whole bible" and "after sometime I will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost")
25. Always live with eternity in view (know that our time is short and limited, but eternity is endless)
26. Make the Holy Spirit your senior partner
27. Identify your weakness and deal with them
28. Seek and ask God's wisdom in everything you are doing
29. Imbibe the spirit of patience
30. Be quick to apologize when you are wrong, so that in this year, you will be able to key into the breakthrough power within it