The Lost Art of Meditation

THE LOST ART OF MEDITATION
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

“I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the works of thy hands” (Ps 143:5)

The key to your next level is not with God, it’s with you; it came with your last blessing.
Often you would find it in four places, in Thanksgiving, in deep Meditation, in Complete Obedience and in the place of Prayer.

One day I cried to God pleading with him to reveal to me the secrets of my heart, my tendencies, my idols and the things which I have not given to him, because I knew that my that the extent to which he is lord in me and through me is the extent of my submission.

And so he said, “yet this also, your mind, your powerful meditations” Life is like a puzzle meditations by the spirit puts the pieces together. The world is full of noise but the greatest and loudest noises are found in the mind, if you can still your mind and replay events…

The reason why this generation lacks strong convictions is because of the absence of meditation. When you begin to meditate, the awesomeness of God jumps to your face, you suddenly hear the language God has been speaking through diverse means…

Deep down in the deep parts of the soul touched by absolute meditation are the gates to the spirit realm. Praise is done by revelation, but thanksgiving is done by meditation. As you meditate on his past dimensions and wonders, he suddenly says “My child there is more” and then he reveals more.

The psalmist began to describe a possibility in Psalm 1, how that a man can be planted in green pastures and yielding wholesome fruits per season with a life uninterrupted by decay, but he gave a condition to enter into such realm, he said in verse 2, Delight and Meditate on God’s word.

SELAH: Take time to Meditate, and see how much has been at your door!

Shalom!

The Lord My Sabbath

THE LORD MY SABBATH
Monday, February 8, 2016

“For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his works, as God did from his” Heb 4:4 (Read entire chapter)

What is the significance of the Sabbath day in the New Testament? Again is it a day, days, a year, years, or every day. In the Old Testament God ordained that the Israelites work for six days and rested on the seventh day after the order of God’s creation in which he rested on the seventh day

The Israelites had a Sabbath day, a Sabbath year and a year of jubilee. But we see Jesus come to earth and say “I am the Lord of the Sabbath”  Math 12:8, Math 28:1, Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5 In essence the Sabbath day was an adumbration of what he would bring, rest.

Now Hebrews 4 took a lot of verses to explain that there needs not be any adumbration anymore, that if we believe in Jesus we have entered into his rest, hence, the Sabbath day in the New Testament is not Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, etc, it is every day in the New Testament.

Jesus labored on the cross, from research he spent 6hours on the cross, (From the third hour to the ninth hour Mark15:25,34, 35) signifying a new creation after the similitude of the Creation of the Old Testament, this is the root of the New Creation of a New Man.

Now because God has labored, if we believe we have come into his rest, and everyday becomes our Sabbath. Hence in this Sabbath dispensation we must cease from vain works. On a typical Sabbath day there are no works aside  the work of eating and helps.

We have all abundance in Christ, we are not praying for any more abundance because we have all things already, all we do is deploy them from our treasuries (our spirit) into the soul and physical realm. The prayers, fastings, study… are all to deploy the blessing, prepare it and help others. We deploy by a spiritual technology called faith (conviction+prayer+obedience)

SELAH: We have everything in Christ, our labor is of faith to deploy
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Shalom!

The Word

THE WORD
Sunday, February 7, 2016

“Quick…piecing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit…discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” Hebrews 4:12

The above are three major characteristics of the word. Beyond the mere descriptions they are mysteries and hence must be spiritually discerned. What does it mean by the word is quick, having the ability to recklessly divide spirit and soul; what is the mystery of its discerning ability?

The word of God is quick. Scriptures says “the entrance of your word giveth light” Ps 119:130 The word of God is as quick as the instance of light in darkness, and even quicker. A light does not conquer darkness gradually it conquers it at once. By word here I mean the rhema word released in absolute faith.

The word of God has the ability to divide the soul from the spirit. If you understand the mystery of the tripartite being you would realise that the soul and spirit is about the strongest bond (not even physical marriage), for the soul and spirit would live eternally together in heaven or hell

Ordinarily the spirit without a soul is helpless. It is the mind, intellect, will and emotion of man, and without it neither spirit nor body can survive. The soul unites the body and the spirit. In essence, the body and the spirit share the soul, one soul.

Now because of the law of sin and death, and because the flesh lusts after temporal things, the flesh has the first hold on the soul until the spirit receives strength from Jesus’ finished works. Now scriptures is saying that the word has the ability to expunge a flesh infested soul and release a spirit controlled soul.

So the fleshly soul is taken away, and the spirit is empowered. This is what it means to walk in the spirit, and it is a function of the word of God. So it actually divides the flesh from the spirit. Now the last part is the ability of the word to discern the intents of the heart.

 There is no place in the universe deeper than the word. The word is the foundation/base of everything. If the word can descend to the bottomless pit of hell and make an open show of ALL the demons therein there is no situation so deep rooted that the word cannot dig out…

SELAH: Engage the word today by meditation that leads to conviction, prayer that inspires strategies and obedience that releases the power.

Shalom!

GRACE: The City of Refuge!

GRACE: THE CITY OF REFUGE
Friday, February 5, 2016
Deuteronomy 19:1-9

“He shall flee to one of those cities, and live, lest the avenger of the blood… take him…” 5,6

In Israel there were cities of refuge designed to be situated close enough to the people so that peradventure a person kills another by accident or in circumstances beyond his control he may run to one of those cities before a blood avenger finds him and kills him in the heat of passion.

In the New Testament that city of refuge is Jesus Christ. For “the name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth into it, and is safe” Proverbs 18:10 The name Lord refers to the office Jesus assumed after destroying death and hell, for he is now Lord over all.

Dear Christian, I know you make some mistakes, sometimes you get out of control, anger, masturbation, habits, name them, get the larger part of you. You don’t have to live in condemnation, Jesus does not condemn you, let me show you why you fall…

“If thou faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small” Prov 24:10 The reason why you fail is not because you don’t believe/love Jesus, in fact your faith in Jesus is what makes you feel bad thereafter, it is a sign that a greater power overrides your will, your strength is small.

I know pastors have condemned you that “the soul that sins shall die” yes the soul that sins shall die, but there is room for substitution, you don’t have to die for your sins, no matter how bad it is, someone has died already, believing in him is your safe refuge.

There are certain battles you cannot win, you cannot win arguing with the devil after you have sinned or putting yourself in a psychological therapy that all is well, agree with you adversary, but confess your sin to your advocate, tell the devil you are not perfect in yourself, Jesus is your righteousness, he is your substitute

Jesus can keep you from condemnation; he said he would keep you secretly in his pavilion from the strife of tongues Psalm 31:10. But friend, its time you engage the power of salvation, its time you contend for a deeper revelation of God’s love and grace, by looking on him you become stronger. You could also make a decision to follow Jesus today if you haven’t. Jesus loves you

SELAH: God has not condemned you my friend, come to the city of refuge.

Shalom!

The Spirit of the Antichrist

THESPIRIT OF THE ANTICHRIST

Thursday, February 4, 2016

“And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of the antichrist…” 1John 4:3

Perhaps the greatest tragedy that has happened to Christianity is that the miraculous has been carefully edited out of her. Ye are gods, all of you the children of the most high Ps 82:6, but not this generation, certain men of God are gods flowing in the anointing and amassing followers rather than leaders.

The spirit of the antiChrist is clearly defined, it is any spirit that says Jesus is not come in the flesh. What does that mean, what is the character of that statement, because if we don’t understand the antichrist would preach in our churches and we would nod and follow ignorantly

That crux of the reference is that the antichrist is opposed to man believing that all the signs, wonders and miracles that Jesus did he did them as a man. So they say Jesus was a God and everything he did he did as God, and so no man can do what he did.

But scriptures say Jesus came in the flesh John 1, and dwelt in the midst of flesh. He was tempted like every man and it took relying on God’s grace for victory. His victory and lifestyle was only a foreshadow of the lifestyle we should live, and so he said greater things we would do.

But many in the body of Christ are not seeing the “works” not to even mention the “greater works”. The supernatural is for ALL believers. Christianity is not a powerless religion, Christianity without power is religion 2 Tim 3:5 We must yank off every satanic coldness

The gospel is not in word but in power 1 Cor 4:20, if ours is just in words then we must edit that Christianity to God’s standard. The word Christ is from a word kristos meaning anointed/ smered with oil. Antichrist connotes anti-anointing, opposed to the power.

There are many religious, popular and convincing doctrines that put Christians in a posture of powerlessness, we must run from such. For through the greatness of God’s power shall his enemies submit themselves to him Ps 66:3 We must contend for the performance of the word

SELAH: Repent from powerless Christianity and begin to seek God pasisonately

Shalom!

An Excellent Trophy

AN EXCELLENT TROPHY
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

“Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which are upon the face of the earth” (Num 12:3)

I’m sure there were men more composed and self-enduring than Moses among the Israelites and other parts of the world at that time/ dispensation. By looks and character Moses perhaps may not pass as the meekest man. But was Moses the meekest man? Absolutely yes

In the secular world the fastest man is not necessarily the fastest man but the man who for instance ran and won in the Olympics, amidst a world class challenging atmosphere. In the world, the Olympics is perhaps the most competitive platform. So whoever performs best in such platform is crowned.

The worth of a trophy is the challenge that surrounds it.

Now Moses was leading a heterogeneous crowd who by many standards were frustrating on a world class level. They were about 2million persons. By number they were frustrating. Imagine leading these ones with their excesses and idiosyncrasies through a complex geographical space

By composition they were frustrating. The Israelites were a group of 13 tribes (Manasseh and Ephraim replacing Joseph) multi-charactered in nature, further complicated with some Egyptians, and other breed. Numbers 11:4 gives a perfect instance of the commotion index of mixed multitudes

By character the Israelites were frustrating. They saw the power of God raw severally and yet they still panicked and challenged Moses at the mere instance of unfriendly situations. Miram, Aaron, Korah, Datan, Abihu, some levites, etc, challenged Moses’ leadership some with the intent to usurp him.

But in all these Moses still prayed for them, stood in the gap for them, and kept his cool many times. This man must be the meekest man on the earth. His virtue of meekness had been tried in an uncommon fire, he had gone through hell unchanged. How many humans have led such crowd and kept such character.

Trophies in life are not consequences of ability but the consequence of manifestations. Until your virtue has been tested it is only a probable potential. Until your character has been driven through caves of fire, you have no experience to boast in them.

This is the mindset of great achievers and influential persons, they see challenges as opportunities to win excellent trophies, for the hotter the challenge the more excellent the trophy. Stop weeping over life threating situations, find a way out and be celebrated a HERO

SELAH: The worth of a trophy is the challenge that surrounds it.

Shalom!

Conviction

CONVICTION
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

“…If therefore your eye be single, your whole body will be full of light” (Math 6:22)

The secret to the supernatural life is a transformed mind. The alignment of your mind completely to the reality of God’s word produces constant and tremendous results. The crux of unanswered prayers, powerlessness, limitation, inter alia, is an untransformed mind.

You receive blessings from God not to the extent to which you believe but to the extent to which you are convinced. The character of faith portrayed in the bible is conviction, but what most persons do is hope. To alter realities in the spiritual realm and effect same in this realm it takes conviction.

I understand you believe God’s word but are you convinced? Conviction happens when series of encounters or one encounter or a vision or experience endorse’s a reality far beyond the realm of doubting. One thing you are convinced about is your gender, no excellency of words can make you believe otherwise.

Now you say “I believe that I shall not die but live to fulfill God’s purpose for my life” and then there is a sudden jerk in your aircraft or the vehicle or bus you are in, ironically you are the first to scream “Jesus!” with agitations like a drowning chicken, hey, scrutinize that faith!

The litmus test of conviction is Peace. So like Jesus you sleep in a waging storm, or like Jehoshaphat you just worship and praise. When you are convinced about something even when you pray you are so sure of answers that you forget to doubt, you just know it would work.

But God relates to us based on our faith. If you don’t have the faith to sleep in a waging storm or to praise under attack, get up my friend and pray, do whatever activates your faith even if it is calling the name of Jesus a million times.

However, it is God’s desire that we come into the conviction of the spoken word for our lives. To step into conviction is a work of the Holy Spirit and we must engage him. This is why Paul prayed for the Ephesians in 4:14-20 that they be rooted and grounded in love, faith and in Christ

SELAH: Step beyond the realm of believing, be convinced!

Shalom!