IDENTIFY YOUR CALL

IDENTIFY YOUR CALL
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

“Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house- Gideon” Judges 6:15

Perhaps by your understanding you are the least possibility of a called person. There is no index to indicate that you are destined for great things, from your background, to status, to the opinions of men, there is no indication that soon you would be the talk of the world

When you read of great men all you do is admire because it is difficult for you to place yourself in their status. Perhaps your self-esteem is at low ebb, stones don’t break your bones but tiny words crush your soul and leave you dejected, you are in a constant quest for self-confirmation

Perhaps the need for public approval has led you into certain unpleasant lifestyles. God speaks to you this morning that you were not formed by the will of you father to have sex with your mother (John 1:13) but of the will of God, that you might be a sign and a wonder in the earth

Your question may be if I am called and destined to be great what am I called to? O that is the simplest question to ask, God has been giving you the answer right from when you were born.

Like Gideon you have a strong passion against something, maybe injustice, corruption, poverty, poor education. Or perhaps you cannot stand seeing sick people; or you have a strong passion against Christianity without power… that has been God speaking to you

Every time a dissatisfaction for a particular situation, mindset, or lifestyle is very strong within you beyond the normal/ ordinary dissatisfaction it is an indication of an anointing.

Gideon was always nagging at the exploitations of the Midianites on Israel, and God said I have called you to be a deliverer, he could not believe it, he didn’t see the anointing. Moses had a strong passion against the inhuman treatment by the Egyptians on the Israelites and God said I have called you to lead the Israelites out of Egypt

This is just one way of understanding your call, through your strong passions.

SELAH: Identify your strong passions, there’s an anointing there

Good Morning. Have a great day!

MAN Jesus

MAN JESUS
Sunday, February 14, 2016

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a MAN lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13)

He was a man, yes a man died for you. He was not in a supernatural body; he was in a body subject to the same emotions, passions and feelings as yours. Everything he did, he did as a man partnering with God. He faced the temptations of the flesh…

If he was not a machine, he felt tired. Yet he walked through cities on foot, he was weak but he persevered, placing the things of God in the office of utmost priority. One day he was hungry and tired, but there was a frustrated Samaritan woman, and so he chose her over his food…

Sometimes he was really tired, we saw him sleep on the ship after a stressful day, and the faithless disciples considered it a careless attitude; with tightened face they said, “Carest not thou that we perish?” I think Jesus should be the one asking them, for he was a man subject to stress

The pain of a pin piercing some layers of the skin could lead to some horrific screams, yet Jesus without going to a gym, or pain control rehearsal went to the cross, we easily forget that he did it as a man. We don’t meditate on it, we easily forget, it was the height of pain, more than you have felt.

But the passion of Christ was not just the physical pain but also the spiritual pain, for when he carried the sins of the entire earth, and mine inclusive, the Father turned away, and the Spirit of God left him, it was the first time, and it was his greatest pain, his greatest passion.

His words reflected his greatest passion, and so he said (on the cross), for the first time he called the father God, because it felt so distant. He said; “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” Imagine you have trusted in someone all your life, and then the person leaves you with nothing but your pains.

Now if Jesus suffered all this for us as a man, what sacrifice would be too much for him, for his kingdom and for his children, both inside and outside. Why do we minimize our commitment and get easily swayed by some little stress, it is time we build sacrifice upon the altar of sacrifice.

SELAH: Be careful what you build upon Christ!

Shalom

Shabbat Shalom

JEHOVAH SHALOM
Friday, February 12, 2016

And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee, fear not: thou shalt not die, and Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord and called it Jehovah Shalom…” (Judges 6:23)

To you my friend, I partner with God to say these words to you, Peace be to you, Don’t be afraid, You shall not die! Believe it, and let these words become your obsession today. I discovered that these were Jesus’ most used words throughout his stay on earth, and he taught his disciples same

Shalom is God’s ability to impart light into darkness. Light speaks of the life in him and it includes hope, joy, peace, comfort… darkness on the flip side is fear, sorrow, depression. The entourage of God’s presence is light and peace. And once he steps in he does not have to cast out your darkness all he needs say is “Shalom!” or merely step in

The power companies of this world understand that the cure of darkness is not to cast it out but to command light into it, for darkness is only the absence of light. But we know and understand that God is Light and in him is no darkness at all. Please confess this, “My world is lightened!”

So if God lives with you, and he said in the last verse of Mathew “I am with you ALWAYS “100 percent of the times, from the dinning to the office, to the rest room, to the party, to the church, he is always with you so you don’t have to get to church, worship for thirty minutes then feel spiritual and continue to invoke his presence, until you feel goose pimples or cold shivers

God is with you ALWAYS, even till the end of the world. And if God is with you always it means darkness is with you Zero percent of the time, hence sickness cannot linger for a day, fear cannot linger for a second, nothing of darkness can rest in you. Begin to confess this arrogantly!

Jesus said; pp. the prince of this world came to me finding nothing of himself in me. John 1:20 My friend, because God is in you and with you rise above the realm of darkness and limitation. Darkness and light cannot cohabit, they are contrary to each other. Let this be your conviction

Step out today in the name of Shalom and speak to that storm, say Shalom! Lay your hands on that sick body and say Shalom! When a bad news comes say Shalom! When people are confessing negatives and complaining of a turbulent life, simply say Shalom! Shalom always

SELAH: Arise, Shine, because your Shalom is come!

That We Might Know

That We Might Know
Thursday, February 11, 2016

“Now we have received…the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God” 1 Corinth 2:12

The names of the Holy Spirit have greatly amazed me, parakletos, helper, comforter, teacher...

I’m amazed that the Holy Spirit does not help us generate power, or manufacture the anointing, not because he is the power of God, but because all things have been given to us already, all blessings and power have been manufactured already.

To the end that all He does is to cause us to Know these things. This is a dangerous statement and it connotes that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God in absolute rest, watching the zeal of men in contending for the comprehension of his finished works; for there is their notable victory

In the New Testament we are not praying the power down, or blessing down or anointing, wealth or anything, all we do is contending to know, for they have been freely given to us already

We do not just contend to know the blessings but also the keys that open the doors. If we understand this, our journey is half split. This is the revelation that reveals God as Impartial and without favorite, the extent of your dominion on earth is the extent to which you know

 Knowing here speaks of encounters that plaster conviction to the end that in absolute faith we might partner with kingdom keys and have notable results.

SELAH: Jesus suffered to give, labor to know
Shalom!

The Law of Substitution

THE LAW OF SUBSTITUTION
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Luke 14:16-24; Math 22:1-14

The law of substitution is one of God’s operational ways. It’s a universal law and constant. I couch it thus; “Every time a great being fails God, he finds a lesser being and confers a greater power on him/it. Purposely to confound the greatness of the previous and show his omnipotence”

This has been so before the beginning of this dispensation. Lucifer was an excellent being. The artistry of his creation was after the similitude of a living musical instrument, for he was made of pipes and tumbrels.

He was full of excellent bright colors radiating from the precious stones of his artistry. He was a cherub, meaning he had wings, for he covered the Glory of God. (See Ezekiel 28:13 dwn) He was lifted in pride and so God cast him down with his angels into chains of darkness.

Next God bent down and took clay, brown dust (adam) and made a being having the spirit of God who also was made in his image and likeness, but his covering was not as excellent as Lucifer, if you would judge. Lucifer was from precious stones, man from clay.

David saw this in the spirit and had understanding to which end he did say, “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightiest still the enemy and the avenger (the devil and his host)” Ps 8:2

Now when God calls the princes and they refuse he walks to the street and invites the beggars, this is how he called me. Now Paul had understanding so he said, God calls the foolish to confound the Wise; the base to confound the Mighty; and the despised to confound the Noble. 1 Cor 1:26,27

So when God calls a man and he refuses he goes to a lesser and imparts more. God called you or is calling you not because you are better than others or the past patriarchs, but because you are weaker and he wants to manifest his glory in you and then through you.

SELAH: Pride is a symptom of a shallow revelation of how God calls and equips. Eventually we would find out that we are only doing ourselves a favor by serving God, for God does not lack men. Again our call is simply a privilege, would you join the wagon of those that failed God?
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Shalom!

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!