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!

The Father's Love

THE FATHER’S LOVE
Monday, February 1, 2016

The Father’s love did not start at the cross, neither did the fullness of its expression end there, his love is eternal, it is from alpha to omega. John said something touching in 1 John 2:15, he said, if a man loves the world it is because the (revelation) of the love of the father is not in him.

Truly I struggled with many things; commitments, sacrifice, habits even as a Christian until I encountered certain levels of the love of God. The level of your sacrifice, zeal and commitment towards God is determined by your depth of the revelation of His love.

This is his love, that one day he had a thought and fell in love with a mind picture, and so he gathered himself together, he said, “let us make man in our own image and in our likeness” and so man came to the picture, the very image of God replicated, and God was madly in love.

At the cool of the day he would come down to man, not telling man to come up to him, and then he would fellowship with man. He appointed the cherubim that cover his glory to cover the geography where man stayed, yeah, God was really protective, the cherubim was his best guard.

But man, the bride that God was so obsessed about began to listen to Lucifer, a rebelled creature of God far below God in hierarchy and Lucifer led man out of the garden through lust and vain ambition. How could Lucifer steal the God’s bride? that was really insulting, and God was angry-jealous

But He began to put measures in place to recover man back to himself, so through animal sacrifice man atoned for his sin to some degree, and could come a distance close to God. But soon the Trinity for the first time had to split; Jesus came to earth, became flesh, to associate and win back his bride.

Why would God chase man when he could simply create another? Why would God chase a rebelled creature for centuries? Why didn’t he destroy man completely? Lucifer sinned once and was destroyed eternally, but man keeps sinning and God keeps pleading, what is it about this creature that God is crazy about?

And so Jesus died to bring us back to God. You can’t imagine the pleasure God derives from the life worship of man, it is of sweeter savor to him than the worship of the holy angels. God has proposed to you for eternity, when are you gonna say “Yes”, he has given everything what are holding back?

SELAH: Behold the Father’s Love

Shalom

Whats My Tomorrow?

WHAT’S MY TOMMOROW?
Sunday, January 31, 2016

“Now the just shall live by faith” (Heb 10:38)

Maybe you once sat in a lonely place and wondered where your life was heading. Sometimes you would pause and ask yourself certain ground shaking questions; “What does my tomorrow holds?” “How would I get there?” “Would I ever get there?” “How soon would I get there?”

Or perhaps you sometimes get to the edge and question your very purpose for living, “Maybe I was not called to do this” You see, our environment was not faith designed.

The News headlines are more often than not New Tragic Headlines. The publicity of causalities, tragedy, failures, chaos, crime, inter alia, have long out ran the publicity of success and achievement. The campaign of evil have camped in our minds, and we have become campaigners of same.

Family, friends and colleagues often don’t help. More people disbelieve you than believe you. Motivation is hardly found (well you have to create it). Positivity is found in deep wells; for if a man were to live by sight, the more he sees the closer he comes to his grave.

Heart attack, high blood pressures, frustrations, madness, and so on are inevitable gifts that come by seeing and hearing the realities of this realm. The media announces cancer, HIV Aids, laser fever, Ebola, malaria, and then you just come to the conviction that the world is an evil place with man as an endangered species, and of course you are that man.

God knew this and so he gave a grand formula for joy and fulfillment, he said, don’t live by sight, the just shall live by faith. Don’t live by looking into the world and its tragedies, live by looking unto Jesus. Don’t fill your mind with tragic stories, get filled with the spirit and the word

But it’s difficult to live everyday by faith. To see the natural tragic ends of things and believe you would be an exception. To see unemployment, high mortality rate, poverty and think you would be an exception when nothing in you proves you better than its daily victims…

To achieve purpose I give you a formula, First, Prepare for tomorrow with all your strength. You dream to be great, but if you are placed in that position, do you think you would fit in? Second, Wait on God, favor is when preparation meets opportunity. The just shall live (daily) by faith.

SELAH: Tomorrow may not appear rosy, today pro’ly isn’t, but Jesus is, so look to him
SELAH: When it comes to purpose, faith is preparation

Shalom!

The Virtue of Hope

THE VIRTUE OF HOPE
Friday, January 29, 2016

“But ye have need of patience that after you have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise” Heb 10:36

Perhaps you are sitting in that wheel chair, you are lying on that sick bed, you are sitting in that chair, in that couch, in that bad situation and your thoughts are all rowded up. You seem not to be able to come to the reality that God is faithful, you have done all you know to do.

I understand that this is a bad situation. Our generation have lost words of encouragement for people in distress, it is an embarrassment to faith. Oh, but there are such times that when what you believe, what you have proved to work, does not deliver your miracle in your timing.

There is a virtue in God, it is called hope. After all the mechanisms have been put in place, there is a place of sitting down and watching the magic happen. Jesus is seated in the right hand of God in unshaken Hope that his legal work would be effected by his executors, man, on earth.

For the LORD said unto my Lord, seat down on my right hand until I make your enemies your foot stool. Ps 110. Everything in the spirit has a time of life, which is a very complicated concept. Not everything happens instantly some happen gradually. It’s like the life of plants.

You need faith to hope. You must believe that your miracle has happened no mater what the devil or flesh says; that things have changed in the spirit realm and await them, in praise. It’s okay if you don’t believe they have changed, but don’t you dare give up, don’t you dare stop.

Know something about life, life comes sometimes as a bully searching for your breaking point, those in Christ have no breaking point, for all the days of their appointed time, they will wait. Job 14:14. Cast not away your confidence in God which brings a tangible reward. Heb 10:35

SELAH: It may take time, but it will surely happen. Be strong!’

Shalom!

The Mysteries of the Plough

THE MYSTERIES OF THE PLOUGH
Thursday, January 28, 2016

“…No man, having put his hands to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62)

Wait! Before you dare put your hands on that plough you need to read this caveat! Oh, it’s okay if your hands are on the plough already, just listen carefully.

You are about to embark on a very stressful journey, soon the glamor would fade out the excitement would heave up. Soon it would appear monotonous, you would get fagged out, friends would begin to mock you. Very soon it will get really sweaty and dirty; you would literally feel irritated.

Dear zealous one, when the dust of euphoria and joy settles what would keep you going? I understand that your marriage is heaven now, but what about when Hell knocks and says, “Holla, a delivery man here!” Now ministry is glamorous what happens when the dust settles…

Maybe you still don’t get what the plough is, the plough is that Purpose you said you were going to die for. Whether you like it or not, to be successful in this life your hands must be on a plough and not just any plough; the right plough; because there is a connection between purpose and prosperity. Ps 23:5

You would have to answer this question, “what would keep me going when the dust settles?” To birth anything in this world there are travails. Focus alone is enough affliction because it robs you of the full pleasure of many other things, but you have to choose and stick your neck there.

Maybe you were told that if you do something you love there would be no travails or feelings of discouragement or disappointments or even failure, educate yourself this morning, and decide what would keep you going. You have to make a commitment and covenant with destiny not to look back.

SELAH- It’s easy and tasty to get pregnant, but why not try the delivery room

Shalom!

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