What Does He Want?

What Does He Want?
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Pharaoh to Israel- “…for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God” Exodus 5:8

What does he want? I mean what does the devil wants? Because until we know what he wants we cannot really defend ourselves neither can we fight. You know, scriptures speak of the weapons of our warfare, what do they protect, why do we wrestle, why do we bind the devil.

If like the football game we understand that the end of all the devil’s dribbling is to put a goal into the net, then our greatest security must be around the goal post.

You know what? God is the same yesterday, today and forever, only that his ways of doing things are diverse. But the devil is also the same yesterday, today and forever, what he wants yesterday from Adam is what he wants today from you, the same with God.

In Christian battle, we defend by not letting the devil get his goal achieved, and we score goals by giving to God what he deserves.

Now the Devil wants just one thing, that you be separated from God. He doesn’t care the means of achieving it, whether by business, or multiplied church activities, or poverty, or wealth, or heath or sickness, whatever the state; so far it in fact separates you from deep intimacy with God.

Know this today, the devil does not care whether you are poor or rich, healthy or not, successful or not, all he cares about is your separation from God’s presence. God’s presence is a place of Personal communion, ministering to God and waiting for feedbacks/ response.

The Israelites forgot God for so many years. So far they forgot God, they lived in plenty. But the moment they decided to follow God, affliction came. This is a word to someone, don’t give up, if we hold on to God, soon, we will get to Canaan Land. Never lose your intimacy with God, never lose your praise!

SELAH- The best way to frustrate the devil is to stay in God’s presence no matter what.

Shalom!


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Save Our Soul!

SAVE OUR SOUL!
Friday, 15th January, 2016

“But thou, O LORD, art a Shield for me; my Glory, and the Lifter of mine head” (Ps 3:3)

Frustration in spirituals is calculated thus- distance from God multiplied by time. A fish separated from water is death on the go. Man’s habitat is the glory, it has been so from creation.

David saw God as his Sun (glory), Shield (defender) and Uplifter, characteristics that showed David’s helplessness. Man is helpless without the creator. He was created in the image of God, meaning he can only find himself in God, he does not know himself unless he knows God.

Everything created can only survive in the glory, once taken away from the glory it dies. It doesn’t appear to die immediately because of absorbed glory, but with time it fades. This is the number one cause of decrease in mortality age/ diminished life span.

Earth is a dying place. Nature has been diminishing in quality from the fall of man. It fact it has become unbearable that some plants and animals have gone extinct, some species are endangered, in response there are all kinds of laws, interbreeding, preservation, among others.

Animals will still go extinct until glory comes. The sun is bleeding, dying very fast. The order of creation keeps collapsing. Animals once submitted to man because of the Glory of God around man, when they saw man, they saw God. Until they see that glory, they won’t submit. (But by Jesus, we are changed if we believe)

The entire creation mourns the absence of the glory. It is high time we understood that man is only an apple plucked from God. Moses understood this and he sought the glory with his life, crying to God for his presence and glory.

The ripple effect of this is seen in Deut 34:7, Moses attained a realm called immortality. Immortality in one sense is a degree of absorbed glory. This is an apostolic call to the place of intimacy with God, until he revives us again.

SELAH: You never came to life until God breathe into you, how dare you think you can survive without his breath (His Spirit, His Life)?

Shalom!

The New Covenant

THE NEW COVENANT
Hebrews 8:9-11
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

“…For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest” (11)

Oh how easily we get carried away by “new waves” of the Spirit and soon we forget the real essence of the new covenant, the real WHY, Jesus died.

Here is the response of an average believer in the 21st century
Why did Jesus die? “To save us from sin” Why did he save us from sin? Two answers
First, “So we can go to heaven” Why heaven and not earth? ….
Second, “So that we can be like him” Why? ….

In other for man to live effectively he must understand where he is coming from and where he is going to. Man must also understand precisely what he lost or better put what he had; who he once was, his initial purpose, inter alia, otherwise he would only be in a hot chase for shadows.

Scriptures was very precise from our reference that God’s desire in the new covenant is that we know him (his personality) and his words (thinking pattern, ways). And so the word became flesh so that we might know him, he died so that we might have access forever, to the end of knowing him.

One of the prophesies that went ahead of Christ was that he would be “the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in”. We often cry, “show us the ancient paths”, the ancient path is simply Intimacy and the things the ancient did under the influence of intimacy with God.

There will be a lot of surprises in heaven as men would meet a different God from whom they were taught. In the New Testament, God’s ultimate priority is to be known. This is His dire target in the last time, not even signs and miracles. When you know Him everything falls in line.

Now the Psalmist said, “You are worthy O Lord, for you have created all things for your pleasure” Have you ever tried to demystify the operation by which God derives pleasure from man? God derives ultimate pleasure from man when same knows him, just like when a man knows his woman.

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