Be our guest as we celebrate GRACE with the THEME:
AGAINST ALL ODDS!
God has been indeed faithful.
Your presence at the event will not only add colour to it but YOU too will contact an UNCOMMON GRACE to move any mountain as PAPA ministers with an uncommon age-long anointing AS OF OLD!!!
Hymn:
There shall be showers of blessing:
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Savior above.
Refrain:
Showers of blessing,
Showers of blessing we need:
Mercy-drops round us are falling,
But for the showers we plead.
There shall be showers of blessing,
Precious reviving again;
Over the hills and the valleys,
Sound of abundance of rain.
There shall be showers of blessing;
Send them upon us, O Lord;
Grant to us now a refreshing,
Come, and now honor Thy Word.
There shall be showers of blessing:
Oh, that today they might fall,
Now as to God we’re confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call!
There shall be showers of blessing,
If we but trust and obey;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
If we let God have His way.
ANNOUNCEMENT
THIS YEAR, GOD ASKED US TO END EVERY MONTH WITH 3 days of fasting for two purposes….thank Him for the month that ends and pray towards the new month. So, no first day of the month early morning prayers.
So, if you miss the 3 days prayer and fasting every month you miss a lot.
I expect to see every single member of this ministry this evening at 5pm as we round up the fasting with anointing.
Matthew 16:5-12 – MSG
Your God is able to supply all your needs for super-sustenance. Philippians 4:19 – MSG, Deuteronomy 8:7-17 – MSG, Psalm 23: 5,6 – MSG
Matthew 6:24-end – MSG
My lovely brethren, sustenance is never the problem of a child of God. Just like it is not the problem of a child in the family.
It becomes your problem when you cease to see yourself as a CHILD in the hands of your father God.
That’s when you worry over every thing.
And that’s the devil for you, putting anxiety in your life.
Pushing you to face a direction that cannot pay you but that will keep you worried and take your gaze away from your God.
Reject it!!!
God is saying that He has more important things to tell you and open your eyes to. Not the mundane things of what to eat or what to wear or the matter of shelter.
See Matthew 6:30-33 – MSG again.
When you ought to be teachers but you remain a babe that has need of milk and not strong bones….then, there is a serious problem.
We are enjoined to grow out of babyhood to adulthood and maturity.
Ephesians 4:14-20.
Are you consumed with the work of the kingdom to deserve a promotion in your life?
Luke 16:12
David said in Psalm 69:9 that zeal of the house of God has eaten me up. Psalm 137:5-6.
As I close hear this sobering statement of God to Abraham
Genesis 18:17 – KJV, MSG – 17-19.
Pray for yourself that God will see you as spiritually matured to be deserving of His secrets.
I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”
Chorus:
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Canaan’s tableland;
A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground”
Texts –
– Deuteronomy 2:3
– Hosea 10:12
– Psalm 23:6
– Proverbs 4:18
If you look at the miracles of our Lord Jesus, you will agree with me that they have a common thread….which is: LEAVE YOUR HORRIBLE PAST….THE BEST IS ALWAYS AHEAD.
JESUS HATED STAGNATION WITH PASSION.
Let us recall his miracles.
His miracles are progressive.
God too in all we have seen of Him hates stagnation and retrogression. Once He sees people in bondage or captivity, He wants to set them free.
Apart from that, all the people God uses greatly to work His works on earth, are people who are ready to explore unfamiliar grounds:
– Abram (Abraham)
– Moses
– David
– Esther
– Joseph
– Daniel
– Jacob
– Paul
– Peter
These guys all had funny and unremarkable pasts. But they were all willing to break their fallow grounds.
That’s why a number of stories and scriptures point to a better tomorrow. A future full of hope. Jer 29:11.
If that be the case then, why are we afraid to leave the familiar and break our fallow grounds for the golds?
Why can’t we launch out to new ventures?
Why are we so attached to the familiar?
Why are we so afraid to take steps of faith?
In doing this, you go into the unfamiliar territories following a familiar leading.
You don’t just jump into the lions den without a sure familiar voice leading you.
What is God telling you?
What is that gentle inner voice telling you?
Those who have made it in life have made it by VENTURING.
Let us wrap up with the story of Elisha.
1 Kings 19:19-20 – nkjv
God told the prophet Elijah to anoint Elisha to succeed him as prophet.
Elisha Had a secure future in the family business that would be turned over to him one day.
But when Elijah put his mantle around Elisha, something came alive in Elisha’s spirit.
Today, is your moment too as I place this mantle upon you.
Immediately the mantle touched him and his spirit arose, he knew that he was supposed to leave the FAMILIAR to the UNKNOWN.
But hear me…..IT WAS SCARY!!!
I know treading into the unknown can be really scary. But if God is the one leading you…..no shaking!!!!
THOUGH I WALK THRU HE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH….I WILL FEAR NO EVIL…..FOR THOU ART WITH ME, THY ROD AND THY STAFF…..TNEY COMFORT ME…..
ALLELUIA!!!!!
It was a scary moment in Elisha’s life. Leaving pleasure for uncertainty…..but inspite of that fear something down in his spirit said :
“THIS IS YOUR DESTINY MOMENT. STEP OUT IN FAITH”
So, he did!
And the rest is history.
Les Brown, the world acclaimed leading motivational speaker toed this path too to stardom.
Hear me as I close,
Some opportunities don’t come a second time.
Life is too short to settle for things that you know are less than what is in you.
The image of what God is showing you in your glorious future may be too big that it scares you, but if you take that step of faith towards that dream, that imagination, that vision, that aspiration…..
YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT GOD SCARED YOU INTO GREATNESS!!!
He scared you into BREAKING NEW GROUNDS, NEW HORIZONS, NEW LEVELS, NEW RECORDS THAT NO ONE IN YOUR FAMILY EVER ATTAINED….
What are you waiting for????
Take that step now….
Make that move…..
Esau sought for the opportunity of a blessing from his father even with hot tears, but the only thing he got was if you can be restless…….then this yoke upon you will break….
Go restless,
move ahead,
Step into your Red Sea…
Push down the mountains….
I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”
Chorus:
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Canaan’s tableland;
A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground”
Let me give you the vision of what the ideal 2021 will be so that it will be the picture of what to expect no matter what the enemy tries.
Deuteronomy 11:10-16
Deuteronomy 8:7-18
Deuteronomy 14:1,2
Definition of “Sevenfold”
The word “sevenfold” carries the number 7. The number 7 appears very frequently in the Bible and the word “sevenfold” appears 6 times in the Bible.
The word “sevenfold” like the number 7 represents FULL, COMPLETE, PERFECT.
So when the Bible talks about “sevenfold payback”, it is referring to a FULL, COMPLETE AND PERFECT PAYBACK/COMPENSATION.
Joel 2:25
All the years…..up to 7 years back……God says He will give to us the last 7 years misses, near-successes, disappointments, losses, demotions, health challenges, failures, financial challenges and debts etc…..as 7-fold recoveries and restoration.
How did He point this out to me?
Proverbs 6:30, 31
There are many things that are stolen from us as believers in Jesus Christ, many times without us even knowing it. The Bible tells us that the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy but Jesus has come that we might receive life and more abundantly (John 10:10).
Sometimes the thief comes to steal our joy, peace, health, finances, relationships and so forth. Sometimes, you may have dreams of losing things and it manifests in the natural realm. The question then is, how do we get those things back?
It is by DEMAND and DECREES.
Thou shall DECREE a thing and IT SHALL be established – Job 22:28
Year 2020 stole from us.
Stole our freedom, stole lives, stole blessings, stole jobs, stole peace, stole marriages, stole businesses and careers, academics, stole cars and houses…..all that ought to come to us in 2020 but which were denied us were stolen by 2020,
So, 2020 is a thief that was caught and it must repay 7-fold to each of us what it has stolen.
Begin to demand now from 2020 what it stole.
7-fold recoveries and restoration of freedom, lives, blessings, jobs, peace, marriages, businesses and careers,
academics, cars and houses etc…
Let us look at another wonderful scripture that promises us 7-fold restoration.
Psalm 79: 12…. Return sevenfold into the laps of our neighbours the taunts which they have taunted you O God.
Lets look at the message translation.
May I show you more scriptures that you all will use to ride upon the year 2021 in bliss and in pageantry for seven-fold restoration?
Genesis 4:15 – no matter your misconducts as a child of God, your Cain is not in the hands of your enemies. Whoever tries it will receive seven-fold punishment from God.
Decree for Seven-Fold Restoration
“Heavenly Father, show me where the thief has tried to rob from my life. Right now I pray blessing, love, well-being, protection, and provision upon every person that has hurt me. I choose to walk in love. I speak blessing over them and forgive them, in Jesus name. I release them into Your hands. I command everything that the thief has taken to be restored in Jesus name. I command the thief to repay seven times what he stole. In Jesus name, I command every fine to be paid and I empty the storehouse of the thief! I command the thief to restore seven times everything that he has ever taken from me, in Jesus name. Amen.”
As I round up listen to this:
Passivity regarding the promises of the Word of God will leave God’s intended blessing resting upon the pages of the Bible and will cause us to move into the place of self-preservation, trying desperately to do our best in life to just get by. And unfortunately, the result of this on-going passivity will generally cause one to go from crisis to crisis, never quite understanding why, and with the victory always just beyond our grasp.
But those who come to the realization that the promises are genuine and pertinent for us today, will wrap their arms of faith around them and pull them off of the pages of the Bible, refusing to let them go, until all things become just as the Word declares them to be. They refuse to take the devil’s “these are not for you” as an answer, and adopt an “I will not be denied” attitude. They are convinced that if they see it written within the Word of God, then those promises belong to them! I call this tenacious and aggressive stand of determination – bulldog faith.
These are the people I see over and over getting results
May God give us great results in 2021 and beyond.
Song:
1. My faith looks up to thee,
thou Lamb of Calvary,
Savior divine!
Now hear me while I pray,
take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day
be wholly thine!
2. May thy rich grace impart
strength to my fainting heart,
my zeal inspire!
As thou hast died for me,
O may my love to thee
pure, warm, and changeless be,
a living fire!
3. While life’s dark maze I tread,
and griefs around me spread,
be thou my guide;
bid darkness turn to day,
wipe sorrow’s tears away,
nor let me ever stray
from thee aside.
4. When ends life’s transient dream,
when death’s cold, sullen stream
shall o’er me roll;
blest Savior, then in love,
fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above,
a ransomed soul!
Text – Isaiah 45::22 – many translations.
Faith looks up not down.
Looking up to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith – Hebrews 12:1-3
For in him do all things consist. Colossians 1:12- 19
Looking up to the brazen serpent..Numbers 21:8,9
It takes grace to look up especially in the midst of several discouraging happenings around us – deaths, suicides, extreme lack, sorcery, witchcraft, manipulation, economic woes…..which all represent the storms of life
Peter looked around bc the storm was raging and began to sink. Matthew 14:25-31
But the Bible enjoins us not to look at the things which are seen…the troubles around, but the things which are not seen…..2 Corinthians 4:17
We need extraordinary grace not to look at the things which are seen….
That is why God positioned our eyes in the front so that we can look ahead and not look back or look around…..
For we walk by faith not by sight -2 Corinthians 5:7
Galatians 2:20 – see some translations (MSG, NLT, AMPLIFIED, GOODNEWS).
Only those who are dead to the flesh can really live full lives of faith…
Colossians 3:3 – we are hid in Christ in God. We can only see Jesus where we are hid. Only Jesus.
In Him we live, move and have our being….not outside him. Acts 17:28
Let us pray that we will receive the grace to walk by faith ALONE – our prescribed habitat. Fish cannot live outside water…..it will die!
The first thing I wld like to say to this August gathering is that loyalty is not TAUGHT. Loyalty is CAUGHT!!!!
Shocking????
The word “loyalty” has been abused in ministry.
What we hear is you have to be loyal to me.
“I am the one God ordained not you. So as Elisha was loyal to Elijah you must be loyal to me”. That is what we commonly hear.
It becomes a coercive loyalty at that point as opposed to influential loyalty.
The former is detrimental to success in ministry.
Definition of loyalty.
Steadfast in allegiance or duty
So, the issue for discourse today is : how do pastors engender the followers’ steadfast allegiance?
Before we fully delve into this matter, let us consider the following scriptures first.
Slogan for loyalty: Matthew 7:12 – do unto others what you want others to do unto you.
Esteem each other better than yourself. Philippians 2:3-11.
Seek the good of others. 1 Corinthians 10:24
OVERVIEW OF LEADERSHIP
The first thing we need to realize is that there is leadership vacuum in the world today. God was concerned so much about this that He made a proclamation in
Ezekiel 22:30 of looking for a man…but found none!
In Isaiah He was again on the look out for a leader to send. Thank God this time around Prophet Isaiah quickly bailed out mankind! Isaiah 6:8.
Such is the dearth of leadership.
Unfortunately, God will always need leaders who will be the extension of His hand on earth. Till now, His eyes are still searching to and fro the earth seeking for ready and willing leaders. The problem is that, the qualifications for the vessels God uses in His kingdom are tougher than what obtains in worldly leadership. Brother Gbile Akanni once made a very pointed but very remarkable statement on recruitment for Godly leaders. He said in God’s army, there is nothing like “an emergency sanctification”. One that is quickly put together to usher a man into leadership position. He went on to say that neither does God follow human criteria such as good looks, physique, and academic acumen, but a good heart. To him a good heart will comprise of the following virtues:
– integrity
– honesty
– blamelessness and
– purity.
An example here is David who was referred to as “a man after God’s heart”.
How God picked David as a leader is also instructive. Let us look at 1 Samuel 13:14 to see what God had to do to pick Hs leader and particularly, what was uppermost in His criteria before he was chosen …”the Lord hath sought Him a man after His own heart, and The Lord hath commanded him to be captain over Hs people…”
The expectation of God of His leaders is that they should be CAPTAIN over His people. The leader must not be a dwarf. He must challenge himself to grow DAILY. Otherwise, he will engender followership familiarity occasioned by stagnant growth in grace, in knowledge, in purity and in power.
Leadership is a high call.
Before we leave this overview, let us consider how Jesus exemplified leadership and what he expects his leaders to do.
Matthew 4:17-19
Jesus said to them follow me and I will MAKE you.
There is a following and there is a making.
Leadership is about turning men to who God wants them to be. Psalm 23:1,2.
Until there is a making you have not led! So if I am leading I must be producing changes in the followers.
The prodigal son came back home to be made something. Luke 15:17-19.
Transforming them into something better is the goal of leadership. Not just about producing result.
So, I submit that what God expects from His leaders is TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP.
Hear how Laurie Beth Jones summarized Jesus’ leadership prowess:
“One person trained twelve human beings who went on to so influence the world that time itself is now recorded as being before (B.C) or after (A.D) his existence.”
“This person worked with a staff that was totally human and not divine…..a staff that in spite of illiteracy, questionable backgrounds, fractious feelings and momentary cowardice went on to accomplish the tasks he trained them to do. They did this for one main reason – to be with him again” ACTS 4:13.
This was influence at work. They would want to be with him again and again. Do you command this kind of followership by influence?
Ponder on this.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN LEADERSHIP
To be a great leader, you can’t but be laden with emotional intelligence. Jesus was a master in this. Emotional intelligence is a great virtue that we all need to imbibe in order to have committed and great followers. A leader needs increased EQ – Emotional intelligence Quotient to do well in leading the people.
Simply put, Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. The four skills needed to do well in EI are:
1. Self awareness – the ability to identify your own emotions and know what makes you tick.
2. Self management – the ability to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving. Putting your momentary needs on hold to pursue larger and more important goals.
3. Social awareness – the ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is going on with them.
4. Relationship management – this taps into your abilities in the first three emotional intelligence skills. It is your ability to use your awareness of your emotions and that of others to manage interactions successfully.
Hear this amazing discovery: people with the highest levels of IQ outperform those with average IQs just 20% of the time; while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly shows that high IQ is not always the source of success. The discovery of EQ or EI served as the missing link in this rather confusing find. According to Travis brad berry & Jean Greaves; scientists realized that there must be another variable that explained success above and beyond one’s IQ. The critical factor discovered is Emotional Intelligence EQ.
Thus, emotional intelligence goes far beyond empathy. Empathy is putting your feet in the shoes of others in order to feel what they feel and thereby be more tolerable in handling their plights.
Jesus demonstrated emotional intelligence so many times. His EQ mastery can be summarized into 3 parts :
– strength of self mastery – he said “I Am”, he stuck to his mission, he believed in himself, he had internal anchors, he felt a sense of destiny, he is keenly aware of his resources amongst others.
– strength of action – he saw everything as being alive, he had a plan, he saw things differently, he formed a team. He was bold, he took one step at a time, he took the long view amongst others.
– strength of relationships – he gave them a vision of something larger than themselves, he beheld them, he was open to people and their ideas, he treated them as equals, he spent lots of time with them. He loved them, he defended them, he acknowledged in public and in private, he believed in them amongst others.
The summary of his EI mastery is as encapsulated in John 15:15-17. He said I no longer call you servants but friends. That is the height of emotional intelligence. Friends pour into each others emotional bank account.
True friends don’t hurt each other. True friends are loyal to one another.
The maxim of EQ is TOUCH THE HEART BEFORE TOUCHING THE HAND!
ACCOUNTABILITY IN LEADERSHIP
HOW TO HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE
Matthew 25:14-30
Successful leaders believe in accountability.
When I say, “Leaders hold people accountable,” who comes to mind? Followers right?
Wrong!!!
Authentic leaders think of themselves, as well as others, when they think of accountability.
Authority without accountability is abuse.
Accountability begins with leaders, not Followers. If you want accountability from others, become accountable to others.
After you become accountable, expect accountability.
Reality about accountability:
You might try to impose accountability, but you can’t buy or force it. Accountability that elevates performance is freely embraced. Anything other than a person holding themself accountable is de-motivating coercion.
Mutual:
“Go into every interaction with those who work for you believing that you are as accountable to them for your performance as they are to you for their performance.” Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
Leaders are accountable to followers for the following:
– Attach their job to the broader mission of the company.
– Explain how their job fulfills strategy.
– How people interact.
Additional ways leaders can be accountable to followers:
Every employee would leap for joy if they heard their leader or manager say, “I’m accountable to you for my listening behaviors.”
Create environments where people can bring out their best.
One-way accountability is arrogant. Mutual accountability is the rave of the moment.
For a plant to grow well, it requires a conducive and convivial atmosphere – good air, good rain, good sunlight, absence of weeds. Etc…
For faith to grow and become a colossus, there is an environment that makes it thrive.
Luke 17:1-5
The punch line there is vrs 5.
But there was a discussion up to that point.
So, faith will be choked in an atmosphere of hatred, offense and rancour.
But these are common things that have almost become norms. Hence, the exclamation by the apostles…..haaaa, lord increase our faith!
Clearly therefore, faith is stunted in this kind of atmosphere.
Hebrews 4:1-6; 5:1
Another toxic atmosphere for the growth of faith is an atmosphere riddled by unbelief.
Impediments to entering into God’s rest :
– hardening of heart
– not knowing His ways
– a wicked heart with wrong motives
– lack of reverence or Godly fear.
If belief is fundamental to Godly rest, then we must quit two major fuel of unbelief:
– worry – Matthew 6:25-33
– anxiety – Philippians 4:6
Having done these, then we should accept Jesus’ invitation – Matthew 11:28-30.
One very conducive atmosphere for faith to thrive is love – an atmosphere of love.
It stands to reason though, as the opposite of hatred is love.
Galatians 5:6
Yet another great atmosphere for thriving faith is joy – an atmosphere of joy and inspiration.
When your joy tank is ebbing or getting low. Re-fill it DELIBERATELY.
David has learnt how to do that masterfully. He rejoices in The Lord.
Let us pray that The Lord will help us to create the atmosphere for faith to thrive in our hearts and thus believe Him for anything.
Can we now exercise our faith on Psalm 2:8? For us individually and for FHIM .
What did John say in Matthew 3:11?
What did Jesus say in confirmation of what John said in Luke 12:49?
Friends, we become living dead without fire!!!!
Receive that fire NOW!!!!
JESUS SAID THE WORKS THAT I DO SHALL YE DO ALSO; EVEN GREATER WORKS THAN THIS SHALL YE DO……….John 14:12
If Jesus could talk like this, I wonder what else we are to do that He did not do.- he healed, delivered, supplied, blessed, cursed, brought money out of the fish mouth, raised the dead……
The revelation I got from that statement is that WHATEVER YOU CAN IMAGINE AS DONE beyond what Jesus did shall be done.
For example, you can actually command physical mountain on your land to vanish and it will happen!
So, this greater works will be hinged on how far u can imagine, envision or dream. These are the language of the spirit.
The story of Elisha that took over from Elijah and did greater works and greater miracles. 2 Kings 2:1-10
The story of Paul that did greater works than Peter…..
The story of David that did greater works than Saul…..
The glory of the latter house shall surpass the former…..
This is what the new anointing shall usher FHIM into…..
Zechariah 2:1-5
Tell your neighbour -get ready for this great move of the Holy Spirit.
Unprecedented in our days.
A replica of Joel 2:3-11.
God spoke to my heart strongly that soon and very soon the fortification of men shall begin to fail them. Their gods and deities and juju that they trusted shall begin to fail them massively.
Their ONLY hope will be Jesus Christ. For in the day of His power His people shall be willing.
And FHIM shall be the recipient and beneficiaries of this great harvest of souls.
I nfact, God showed me a vision of FHIM using a low altitude helicopter or drone to preach to the people because of the MULTITUDE jam pack on the roads and venues of our programmes and meetings.
That is why the generals are retiring now to pave way for our emergence.
Glory!!!
I cannot wait. What about you?
It will be heaven on earth.
Now hear this: this new anointing coming upon us as a people and ministry will make you active. It is not for sitting down.
Watch this: Acts 10:38
When it landed on Jesus he couldn’t contain it sitting! No sir!
The anointing propelled him…..He WENT ABOUT…..doing good…..preaching, healing, delivering and raising the dead.
Let that dimension of anointing …..yea greater dimension fall on you now!
On your streets, in your communities, in your place of work or businesses every where you go or you are, you become a mobile church…….healing the sick, raising the dead and deadly blows upon the enemies.
It will be an awesome re-awakening like never. Get ready!
Your shadows shall heal.
Your voice shall heal.
Your presence shall heal.
Your breath shall heal.
Get ready!!!
Soon all the great works you have heard of or seen shall pale into insignificance in the light of what God will be doing thru us at FHIM.
Get ready! Clean your vessels. Make your body, soul and spirit habitable for the Holy Spirit and crave his power and anointing and watch what happens next.
Shall we pray?
Father, I am ready to manifest this new anointing. Release grace upon me now, to step out of my cocoon of timidity, fear and inertia. Pray!
Receive the fire of the Holy Ghost now!
John 11:38-45
We are going to be praying very extensively that our Lazarus must come forth.
Let us look at what Lazarus represents and that will help us to appreciate how to pray.
1. Lazarus was the only male child in his family. That was significant to perpetuate the name of the family or the family patrimony.
2. Lazarus represented the strength of the family.
3. Lazarus was the beloved of The Lord Jesus. Jesus wept for him too.
4. Lazarus represented a glowing destiny. He was a great disciple of Jesus.
Now, imagine all these great virtues dying….
Imagine your Lazarus dead and stinking!
Some lives are undesirable now, bc your Lazarus – your quintessential part, is dead and stinking!
Remember, this Lazarus is your quintessential part.
It is what makes you who you are.
It is your glory.
It is your strength.
Your glowing destiny.
What will you do if you have the opportunity to raise this your dead Lazarus?
The coming back of Lazarus was very significant to the fame of Jesus. Those who didn’t believe now believed. Vr 45.
Lazarus’ resurrection was the greatest miracle recorded by jesus.
If you can pray that your Lazarus should resurrect, then your greatest miracle is ahead of you, not behind you.
We r going to pray now.
Remember, even Jesus had to cry with a loud voice before Lazarus could come forth.
You will do no less to bring forth your Lazarus.
Are we ready to pray now?
A song….Miracle worker, miracle worker,
Come and do ur miracle,
miracle today….
Destiny changer, destiny changer,
Come and change my
destiny today….
Prayers!
1. I command the stone rolled over my destiny, shutting my glowing destiny in to be removed now by the resurrection power of The Lord Jesus Christ.
2. My Father, my father. Let that which hinders me from greatness begin to give way now, in the name of Jesus.
3. My father, let all my imprisoned potential and buried glories, come forth now by fire, in Jesus name!
4. Oh God, oh God, let every negative transaction, currently affecting my life negatively be cancelled and nullified by the blood of Jesus
Let me show you the scriptures that back up this covenant of our living till at least 94 years.
– Psalm 91:16
– Isaiah 65:19-22
– Genesis 25:8
– Numbers 33:39
– Psalm 92:12-15
We are not to take these for granted. But the KNOWLEDGE of this covenant and the fact that in FHIM we actually skinned this covenant with God goes a very long way in separating us from other ministries who didn’t take this DELIBERATE action.
Let me tell you how.
How many of us were in church when our sister Gift shared a testimony of how she survived death when they told her point blank she would die? She said she remembered this covenant and refused to die! Same with sister darling. When she faced death. And many others have shared testimonies here recalling their escapes based on this covenant.
Some who don’t have this covenant would have easily given in to death when faced with such situations.
So this knowledge is good for us.
However, we need to know that every covenant has two parts to it: The Token and The instructions to follow.
The tokens are usually sacrificial in nature more or less represented by blood to activate the covenant.
The instructions are less sacrificial but are set of rules to follow to enjoy the covenant blessings.
E.g Ephesians 6:2-3
Is this clear?
What does The Lord require of us?
– Deuteronomy 4:40
– Micah 6:8
There are rules to be followed
Eg Job who instructed his eyes not to dwell on a maid. Samson was not to drink strong drink. Jonah was to go to Nineveh. Etc. instructions!
Every action has a consequence. When u choose an action you choose the consequence.
That we are under the covenant of longevity does not permit reckless behaviour or reckless living.
– Nobody is permitted for example, to pack into a house not dedicated or start building a house we didn’t pray on the foundation first.
– Nobody is permitted to pick any spouse and marry without our sanction and rules. Or sleep with the spouse or opposite sex you are not married to.
– Nobody is permitted to just travel anyhow and anywhere without permission or prayer cover.
– Nobody should engage in unnecessary fight for inheritance without us judging the case first and giving instructions on what to do.
– We are not to be careless with our health or go against medical advice in the name of faith.
– Whatever dreams or concerns anyone has that is adverse should be brought immediately to our knowledge. And I must be informed within 24 hours.
– We r to also keep the law of tithing which REBUKES DEVOURER and keeps sicknesses away.
ETC….ETC…
I skinned the covenant of longevity with our God and I am paying the required token. That’s btw me and Him. But I did it on behalf of all of us – young and old under this commission. However, you all have to live by the rules of God and by instructions that we give from the pulpit.
2 Chronicles 20:20
Moses had to read the instructions to the children to partake of the exemption during the Passover.
But whoever breaks the rule breaks the edge and the serpent will bite. That person is on his or her own. God is still faithful to His covenant. Ecclesiastes 10:8
Let us read 2 Chronicles 21:1-end.
Exodus 19:5
All thru the journey from Egypt through the wilderness, God was dishing out instructions thru moses. Why do this when He is God and He could still protect and deliver them anyway even if they refused to follow instructions? God does not operate that way. He operates by Instructions. Eg Exodus 14:2.
Concerning the Passover in Exodus 12, verses 1-12 are the instructions to follow and verse 13 shows the token of the covenant – the blood on the lintel.
On your behalf and my behalf, I have paid and still paying the token, your own is to follow the instructions. Finish.
May God release the grace for obedience upon us.
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