Stop looking at your problems, and start looking at the greatness of God. See the greatness of God, and the littleness of your problems. There is nothing too hard or difficult for God. Trust Him.
Pray and don’t faint. Prayer removes your focus from self and it’s limitations and redirects it to God. The more you remain in prayer, meditating on the word of God and praising God, the more you will build up yourself and your inner man.
Peace, trust and faith will grow and worry and anxiety will flee because you are now focusing on God instead of self.
And when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight. ” And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well. (Luke 18:40 – 18:42 ESV)
When you go to God in prayer, know exactly what you want God to do for you. Do not be timid and confused in prayer – be bold, confident and expectant! God loves the expectant, persistent, unyielding, patient faith.
Do not loose hope, rather, persevere until you receive. Be a Christian warrior not a Christian coward. God does not like cowardice – He loves bravery and boldness, so be a brave warrior.
May the Lord’s great grace visit you with great power and great glory in Jesus name
Messages and Revelations from Christ to the Church
The Lord spoke to me and said, “ When you are in a difficult situation and you don’t know what to do, just start praising God.”
Praise and worship is a spiritual offering to God. Praise removes your focus from self and redirects it to God. Praise is an action that indicates faith in God. As you begin to magnify God, your mountain will begin to shrink in your eyes, and in reality, as God begins to dissolve the mountain.
Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Psalm 103:1
When Paul and Silas were in prison, they were in a difficult situation and what did they do? They got up at midnight and began to praise God and pray. The presence of God came down.
It is good to sing praises to our God. Praise God, when all else fails – you will find joy and peace as you wait for God to manifest the answer!
The Lord spoke to me and said, “Child, you need to spend time with me.”
There is no short cut – the more you spend time with God, the more you will experience His life giving presence. This has consistently worked for me for several years.
Learn how to spend quality time with God in praise, worship, thanksgiving, prayer and reading the word of God and watch your christian life grow!
Never steal God’s glory. Always give all the glory to God. Never say, “my faith or my righteousness healed me,” rather say, “ I prayed to the Lord with faith and His power healed me!”
I was meditating on my bed, on a conversation I had with someone who went on and on about faith and never acknowledged prayer, Holy Spirit, holiness, waiting upon the Lord and seeking His face, praise, worship, thanksgiving and the power and glory of God. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “they are stealing my glory.”
The truth is that our Christian Faith is not as simple as that and there is no formula for healing and deliverance. Deliverance starts and ends with God and being led by the Holy Spirit into the root cause of a demonic problem and how to pray to get deliverance. The Holy Spirit also reveals hidden sins in our lives that we are not aware of, and how we are praying amiss.
When you study Mark 11:23 Jesus told the disciples that they needed faith. He also told them in Matthew 17:21 that a stubborn demon they could not cast out, only goes away by prayer and fasting. So it was all about faith, prayer and fasting. Of corse in the act of prayer, they will have to praise, thank, and obey God. The Disciples needed more annointing like Jesus.
Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Mark 11:23
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. “ (Mark 11:25 ESV)
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. 1 Peter 3:7
I have come across people who had serious demonic problems who were not properly ministered to and were being taught all kinds of faith doctrines and they died! I particularly remember this twenty two year old boy who took His took his own life. Another sister also died as a result of taking salt which the doctor asked her not to take and she was saying she had faith.
The same Church who was teaching her this unbalanced doctrine was the one that told us this story and blamed the sister and said that she was not wise, however, this sister was acting on their false unbalanced doctrine. We must be careful and always search the Scriptures by ourselves like the Barean Christians. We must be on our guard against false doctrines.
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17:11
This person kept talking about faith and never acknowledged the need to spend time in the presence of God, waiting upon the Lord, hearing from the Holy Spirit and being filled with the Holy Spirit and hinderances to answered prayers. The person never acknowledged waking up at midnight to praise God and pray like Paul and Silas. The person never acknowledged the effectual fervent prayer of a righteousness man avails much.
Paul had to seek the face of God concerning his thorn in the flesh and the Holy Spirit spoke to him. He did not ignore God and go around saying I have faith, I have faith. Paul also told Timothy to start taking wine because of his stomach problem and frequent illnesses. He did not tell Timothy that he was not healed because He did not have faith. It is only the Holy Spirit that knows why people are not healed and the root, hinderances and solutions to their problems. Man does not know.
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. 1 Timothy 5:23
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me (2 Corinthians 12:7 – 12:8 ESV)
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
Denial is not faith. Paul pleaded for his affliction to go away so he acknowledged his problem. He did not go around confessing that he had no affliction and that he was already healed. Denying a problem can never help you and it is not faith, however, take your cares to the Lord and see His power and ability instead. Do not focus on the problem or obsess over it.
I kept trying to explain to the person that faith requires action and the action part of faith is spending time in the presence of God, seeking His face. The active part of faith is when you praise, worship and thank God with effectual fervent prayer.
When your faith leads you to have an active working relationship with God and you are full of rejoicing, and thanking God all in circumstances, you know that your faith is active. True faith leads you to be filled with the Holy Spirit and be led by Him.
True faith leads you to bear all the fruits of the Holy Spirit and have the gifts of the Holy Spirit. True faith leads you to Christian maturity, and knowing how not to pray amiss and pray in line with the will of God.
Remember that Christ told the Christians in Laodicean Church that they were naked, blind and poor, yet these were believers that have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus.
Being redeemed means that we walk in the word of God and Holy Spirt always. You are redeemed and God knows it, demons know this, so if you think that all you need to do is believe this foundational teaching and not walk in God, the word of God and the Holy Spirit then you are like the blind, naked poor believers of Revelation.
If you keep confessing that you are delivered, yet refuse to put on your white garment, you are stubborn and proud. Jesus Himself told these belivers to put on their white garments, meaning they were not protected.
You are delivered by the blood of Jesus, no doubt and will go to heaven, but if you refuse to live in the perfect will of God, the devil will have an upper hand and a foothold over you. Do not give the devil a chance.
You are delivered by the blood of Jesus but you can still give the devil a chance by your careless lifestyle. Judgement begins in the house of God, so learn how to resist the devil and enjoy God’s mercy.
True faith attributes all the glory to God. Faith that excludes everything else to the glorification of faith itself is simply not Bible Faith.
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked (Revelation 3:17 ESV)
Faith is good, holiness is good, prayer is good, and we must never throw them aside because the Bible commanded us to have faith, be holy, praise God and pray. Learn the secret of clinging to all the instructions about prayer and faith in the word of God. Faith alone is single vision. Learn the secret of double and multiple visions. Learn the secret of overcoming in Christ and being a mature believer.
Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me. Psalm 40:11 NIV
It is only God’s love and mercy that can protect you and sustain you. His love is His glory. His love heals and delivers you. His love is greater than every sin, shadow and evil, so always cling to His love and grace.
God’s love for you is greater and deeper than you can ever imagine. Never judge God by your circumstances and trials. See Him through the lens of His word. Believe in His amazing love for you, and always pray to experience His life giving love.
He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. Psalm 18:34
Prayer, praise, worship, thanksgiving, the word of God and obedience are ways of fighting and resisting the devil. You are called to be a spiritual warrior and champion.
May God give you complete victory over the forces of hell. May the gates of hell not prevail against you, in Jesus name.
May have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, Ephesians 3:18
It is God’s power that makes us understand Him and His love. There is nothing about God that we can understand with our own power.
He is the one that opens blind eyes and minds. A blind mind is a mind that has been deadened by death and darkness. We were all born blind and deadened with the inability to grasp and understand the word of God.
Wisdom and understanding come by grace and revelation through the Spirit of God. We need power to understand the love of God. Not just His love, but how great, how wide, how deep, how long and high that love is.
Understanding the love of God builds confidence, trust, faith and love for God. Love will always beget love. The reason that a lot of people do not love or trust God, is because they do not believe in the love of God. They don’t believe that God is full of love and mercy.
Even a lot of people who worship God with their lips, and say they believe in God’s love and love Him, deny Him with their actions. Your actions will always reveal if you love God.
If you claim to love God, yet, go around hating others and harming them, you do not love God but are a pretender. From the beginning of time, pretenders have always existed so it is nothing new – people will always pretend to love God and outwardly go around posing and parading themselves as God – lovers, yet they are evil and unwilling to change.
To them, it is simply a game and a way of deceiving others in other to take advantage of them. Remember that Jesus called the Pharisees and Sadducee’s snakes. He also called them hypocrites. Satan also masquerades as an Angel of light.
Deception is always preceded by a sinister motive. People never pretend, in order to do good. They pretend, in order to do evil and harm. They pretend, in order to cover up their true motives and intentions. They learnt that skill from the devil. The devil that we can’t even see, yet he talks to us, Mmmm.
Men do this very skillfully, when they want to exploit and violate women, and women also do this, to take advantage of rich men or gain other benefits. People simply pretend to love in order to harm. However, they are pretending for what they want to gain. What an irony – love should be for love not harm. Man has simply perverted all of God’s good creation.
Love is what we were commanded to have, and love comes through knowledge of God, which only comes from God’s power.
May we truly understand the love of God, through God’s power. May we always depend on God’s power for wisdom, revelation and truth.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20
Most of the time, we limit God or look down on His grace and power. Sometimes, we see Him the way we see ourselves or other humans. We are simply incapable of seeing God the way He is. This infirmity is natural in humans.
Truly seeing God, the way He is, is the epitome of faith. Faith is a way of understanding and the ability to see God. To understand is to see and to see is to understand.
God is able to do much more than we can ask or imagine! We have not yet imagined what God can do. We have not yet magnified His power and ability to even a little fraction of what it is.
We need to see the greatness of God, and the littleness of our problems. We must constantly keep enlarging God in our minds and keeping shrinking our problems and reducing them to ants before God.
Our problems should not be giants in our eyes. The more we enlarge our problems and see them as impossible giants, the more we reduce the power of God in our eyes, reduce faith and even give up.
God is larger, higher and bigger than what we can ever think or imagine. Give Him His proper place in your mind. Place your weakness, shortcomings, limitations and infirmities at His feet and place them beside Him, in comparison and see them as ants before and beside Him.
According to God;’s power In us, He can do much more than we can imagine, and move great mountains. Mountains are nothing before Him and He alone knows how to crush, smash, evaporate, detonate , liquify and consume great mountains.
He will level all your mountains before you to nothing and uplift you. Just realize that His power at work in us can do much more than we can imagine and keep seeking His face.
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, Ephesians 3:16
Most people are confused about the Holy Spirit, the power of God, faith and the Word of God. Some people automatically assume that they are all the same or some of them are the same.
Power, mercy and life are the end result of union with the word of God, faith and walking and being led by the Holy Spirit. Jesus asked the Apostles to wait for power from on high.
To seek the face of God is to seek His power and to wait upon God is to wait upon the Lord for manifestation of His power. You seek and wait with faith, being led by the Holy Spirit and by union with the word of God. You also pray as the Holy Spirit leads you to pray.
Some people will tell you that it is your faith that heals you but in reality, it is the power of God that heals you. Your faith in the power of God will heal you. Your faith must rest on something but your faith should not rest on your own faith.
We must seek after God’s kingdom and His righteousness not a faith that does not encourage you to live in complete union with the will of God, rather that false faith leads you to seek mammon like pagans.
Somehow, people began to make faith into an idol or even the word of God into some form of idol that substitutes the power of God. Then people started chasing after faith or “the word” which they interpreted as a set of magical formulas that active power, wealth and money. Power without purity and prayer? – certainly not the true faith and the true word of God.
Note that those who practice those faith doctrines, do not emphasize complete obedience to the will of God, setting out time to pray, and being led by the voice and direction of the Holy Spirit. They also do not talk about the armor of God and crucifying the flesh by the Holy Spirit.
They preach another gospel, not the gospel that Jesus and Paul preached. In order to be a victorious Christian, you must test the false Apostle, false teachers, false prophets, false believers and false doctrines and find them to be false. You must test the spirits like the Berean believers.
That you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. Revelation 2:2
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17:11
Jesus and Paul practiced total commitment, dedication, consecration and surrender to the word and will of God by complete obedience and a life of praying without ceasing to constantly experience the power of God.
Faith is very good and very vital but it can never take the place of God or the power of God. The more you rely on, and depend on God, the more faith you have and the more you rely on and depend on your own faith, the less faith you have because you have ignored God and His power. You started depending of your self and that is self worship.
Jesus and Paul never taught that, and they never lived like that. They were able to differentiate between all those concepts – faith, Holy Spirit, the power of God and the word of God.
And they recognized and gave each one its proper place.
The Word Of God
You believe in the word of God and walk in the word of God to maintain a healthy active relationship with God. You walk in the word of God – both His written word and the voice of the Holy Spirit to be obedient, know God and pray effectively. Understanding of the word of God builds faith.
You eat and drink the word of God with your mind so as to grow to maturity and know how to pray for the power of God to manifest the way Jesus did.
Faith
Faith in the good news, law of Christ and the power of Christ makes you obey God, trust Him for His power to deliver and also makes you have confidence in your assurance of salvation.
Faith is one of the armor of God that you need to put it on in your spiritual battle, so as the defeat the enemy and experience the power of God. You wear faith like a shield to go into spiritual battle and prayer. You don’t wear faith to be idle and not pray. You also wear faith to obey God.
While praying, your faith makes you persist and persevere with patience. Faith makes you hold on, press in and never give up. But you are pressing on, for something – power. Faith is not the end, manifestation of God’s power, glory, and presence is the end.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is our helper, comforter, guide, teacher and Lord. He is inside us and constantly helps us in our battle, prayer and worship of God. He gives us the word of God as a shield and speaks to us constantly. Listening to Him, and obeying Him will make us pray effectively, obey God and experience the power and glory of God. He is a person and power is what comes out of Him from the throne of God.
Power
The power of God is the raw manifest presence of God and the glory of God. That is what Jesus wore around Him like a garment and by the power of the Holy Spirit He raised the dead and healed the sick. Power is what gives us ability as Christians and we need the power of God everyday. Man’s power can never enable man to live like Jesus and do the works of Jesus
Jesus knew the word of God, the Holy Spirit, faith and the power of God. He never confused or substituted one concept for the other. A is not B, and B is not A. A is A and B is B. That is just how it is spiritually.
This is just a summary, and of course, it does not contain everything that I need to explain but it is enough to elucidate the points I have mentioned above.
God’s power is the only thing that can strengthen the inner man. God strengthens the inner man with power through the Holy Spirit that lives in us. Power or the glory of God increases in our inner man but the Holy Spirit is a person and He lives in us as a complete person, not as a person that increases or decreases.
