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Self Improvement

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Self Improvement

It is good for us to always improve ourselves as we follow God’s will. What you attract is a reflection of who you are. If you refuse to learn and grow in life especially in the will and word of God, you will attract broken people and abusers who will not hesitate to exploit you and take advantage of you.

If you are vulnerable, people always notice and they will use your vulnerability against you. Pray to God for protection and inner strength. Improve yourself. Do not be desperate and you will see that a change in mentality and disposition is all you need to get rid of and avoid the wrong people.

Abusers, time wasters and exploiters will not be able to get hold of your mind and spirit.

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Answered Prayers

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Visions, Revelations and Messages

In this vision, the Lord spoke to me and said, “I will use your worship, praise and thanksgivings offering to answer your prayer.”

This vision was given to me just a few days ago. The Lord had been ministering to me about increasing my worship and the time spent with Him in seeking His face. So I obeyed and I spent the whole night in praise, worship and thanksgiving to the Lord. I especially thanked, praised and worshipped Him for His great salvation and the blood of Jesus that saved me and redeemed me. I did this throughout the night but I slept a bit in between my worship and prayer. I also presented my petition to Him but most of the time was spend in worship, praise and thanksgiving as He had commanded me to do.

Towards the early hours of the morning, the Lord spoke to me and told me some things that He would do for me. He also warned me not to abuse any of the blessings that He was about to manifest in my life. I promised Him that I would not and also told Him what to do to me if I abused His grace or blessing. Then later, He showed me a vision of something like smoke or incense rising from my throat as I was thanking, praising and worshipping Him. That was when He told me that He would use my praise, worship and thanksgiving offerings to answer my prayers.

Praise, Worship and Thanksgiving

In my walk with God, He has been very consistent about letting me know that praise, worship and thanksgiving are offerings or sacrifices that I must give to Him. Sometimes He refers to them as His food. He would say to me, “give me my food.” Anytime He says that, I will just go into praise, worship and thanksgiving in obedience to His voice and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Can you now see why it is good to be constantly led by the Holy Spirit? The Bible tells us that those who are led by the Holy Spirit are the sons of God. It is simply very difficult to experience the reality of sonship and growing to the full stature of Christ without the constant leading and direction of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus was on earth as the word of God, He did not have any vacuum in His knowledge of the Scriptures because He was filled with wisdom. Yet, Jesus did not walk by the Scripture alone. He also walked in and by the Holy Spirit who authored the Scriptures. Jesus knew the word and the giver, author and father of the word.

Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to be tempted by the devil and returned in the power of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus heard that His friend Lazarus had died, He remained where He was for three days before going to raise Lazarus from the dead. He did that by the leading of the Holy Spirit. Jesus also knew the timing of His ministry by the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

Without the Holy Spirit, Jesus would not have manifested the great victory that He did and He understood that so well. What baffles me most is why a lot of believers ignore the Holy Spirt and are trying to do what Jesus did not do. They are trying to have victory by the written word of God alone. It is not possible. If Jesus did not attain His great victory by the written word alone, then it is foolish for us to think that we can. Are we greater than Jesus? A spiritual student can never be grater that his teacher.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. Acts 18:24

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 was filled with the written word and had a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. Apollos of Alexandria had a thorough knowledge of Scriptures. The Berean Christians were filled with the knowledge of Scriptures. So, it is possible to have a thorough knowledge of Scriptures. We need to know the Scriptures and the power of God. The Holy Spirit manifests the power of God. It is a big mistake or error not to know the Holy Spirit and rely on the word alone. You need the word and you need the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. Matthew 22:29

Beware of anyone who claims to know the Holy Spirit, yet has limited, little or no knowledge of Scriptures or entertains false doctrines. The person claiming to know the Holy Spirit must have a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures because the Holy Spirit is the giver, author and father of the word of God. Jesus had to first all thoroughly teach the Apostkes and fill them with the Scritures. That was the first cleansing. The word sanctifies and the Holy Spirit sanctifies. The blood of Jesus also sanctifies.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. John 15:3

The word of God and truth cleansed the Apostles. Jesus cleansed them with the word then later filled them with the Holy Spirit and power. It is purity before power and sanctification before manifestation. As we walk by the leading of the Holy Spirit daily, He will wash us thoroughly with His truth and ways and enable us to fulfil our callings and destinies.

We need to know both the word of God and the Spirit of God. We cannot sacrifice one for the other. Any of the two extremes will lead to frustration and failure. Beware of any church that ignores the Holy Spirit. There was a Church I was attending when I lived in London and that Church is a Bible Church. A Church which is well known for righteousness and holiness.

That Church was all about Bible but they would conveniently ignore anything that had to do with the Holy Spirit, His gifts and His manifestations. It was not my ideal Church but it was convenient for me because they would pick me up and drop me at home. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “beware of Churches that ignore the Holy Spirit.” Immediately the Holy Spirit said that to me, I stopped attending that Church. At that point in time, I had grown so much in my walk with God and the leading of the Holy Spirit that I knew that failure to obey the voice of the Holy Spirit leads to bad consequences. I obeyed Him.

If you want answered prayers and constant victory in Christ, live by the Spirit and the word and avoid imbalance and a tendency towards single vision and focus. Learn to have multiple visions and focus about the things of God. Learn to open your heart to God for His teaching and leading and learn to obey Him when He gives you an instruction. I am still learning and I will keep learning until the day I get to Heaven. I depend on His grace to help me, keep me and sustain me.

May we learn to walk with and in the Holy Spirit. May we always be led by the Holy Spirit, May we have thorough knowledge of the Scriptures and may we examine the Scriptures like the Barean Christians to know if what our local Church is teaching us is true and in line with the Scriptures. May great grace be upon us in Jesus name and may grace, mercy and peace be ours in full measure.

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Embracing Grace

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Embracing Grace

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. (Galatians 2:21 NKJV)

You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 2:1

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so. Hebrews 13:9

Any teaching the distracts and seduces us away from attributing power to the grace of God and depending on the grace of God is anti Christ. It is opposing to the true gospel of God’s grace. Jesus Himself is the grace of God – He is the face and power of God.

There are so many legalistic teachings in this new age which seem like goodly wisdom but actually take people away from the grace of God. The gospel is the gospel of God’s grace. The more we acknowledge God’s grace and depend on it for holiness and fruitfulness, the more successful we will become as Christians. It is the Holy Spirit of God that produces fruits through us. In the natural world, regardless of how fertile a woman is, even if she has billions and billions of eggs, if there is no sperm there will be no conception.

This shows us that woman needs man and man needs woman if they want to have children. Also, no matter how ready a couple is, when there is no power or grace from God for conception, nothing happens or things begin to malfunction. When God closes the womb, it becomes difficult to conceive a child.

The Bible even tells us that God can harden the hearts of persistently stubborn people like Pharaoh. ( The sad truth is that some people cannot be broken or submissive to God. God has given me visions and revelations about this. Another sad truth is that some humans are not real humans – they appear human but are actually spiritual beings that have come into this earth to exalt evil. Such beings can never repent so you so do not have to bother yourself about why they cannot repent! That is a topic for another day.)

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8:13

So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. Roman 8:6

If we do not submit to and yield to the Holy Spirit, we will not bear much fruit. We need to understand that they are the fruits of the Holy Spirit, not our own fruits. We are just vessels of honor. We are the ones that should cooperate with God through submission and being yielded to Him, His desires and His will.

He is the vine, we are the branches. He prunes us and makes us more productive and we are to abide in Him not in ourselves. The flesh of man is powerless. He is the one that can make us what He wants us to be. It is this humble mindset that is attractive to God. He is so powerful that our acknowledgment of our true nature makes us beautiful in His eyes. Just like a man does not want to marry a man or be with a manly woman with extremely manly traits, God does not want to be married to humans who regard themselves as gods.

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Galatians 5:22

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:11

Remember that Pharaoh regraded Himself like a god and his people regarded him as a god. Is that the kind of man that God will tame? A man that does not want to be tamed but who prefers human worship and taking God’s glory and attributing it to himself. Any human who acts like stubborn Pharaoh ends up like stubborn Pharaoh. Even those who later acknowledge God, are dealt with like Nebuchadnezzar. It is only superior power that humiliates human pride. God showed Him just a little bit of His power and He buckled and realized his great folly and mistake.

God wants humans who regard themselves as human. He made us human for a purpose and His grace is manifested and perfected in weakness. His grace is also sufficient for us.

May God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him, so that your hope will continue to grow by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13

Hebrews 13:9, clearly shows us that it is the grace of God, that strenghtens us. It is also the Holy Spirit of grace that increases our hope. If he increases hope, he also increases faith, hope and love. All those wonderful spiritual fruits and virtues that we admire and long for belong to Christ and are produced by Him to the glory of God the Father.

The Holy Spirit of Grace is the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and Christ is in heaven. We can experience Him, by His Holy Spirit. It is God that tames the flesh. It is God that also tames the tongue. The Bible says that no man has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is only God’s righteousness and grace that produce result – that is why Christ died. He died so that we can partake of His righteousness and grace. It therefore makes no sense for us to keep depending on human legalistic laws and claim to be worshipping God. We are to worship God in Spirit and in truth and never set aside His grace and righteousness for our own self invented grace, righteousness and effort.

May great grace be upon us in Jesus name. May grace, mercy and peace be ours in full measure.

More Scriptures

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. Romans 9:18

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses. Exodus 9:12

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3 NKJV)

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Superhuman

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Superhuman

Sometimes, there are people that people around them hardly have any kind of empathy for. They see them as supermen and superwomen.

Causes

1. Hatred was invoked on them

2. People do not see them as human beings.

People see them as superhuman or subhuman but never as humans who can feel pain and sorrow. They can suffer unimaginable afflictions, yet people around them will not feel any empathy for them, rather they even expect more sacrifices and sufferings from those people. They are oblivious to their sufferings.

I have seen this happen to wives, husbands, children, siblings and friends There will always be that wife that the husband feels no empathy for, rather he is always complaining and grumbling. He expects her to suffer anything without complaining and he expects her to make superhuman sacrifices for the family, yet, his sister or friend might be passing through a very light hardship and you will see them racked with morbid concern. Such a man has empathy for his sister and friend but is blind to his wife’s pains, sufferings, sorrows and sacrifices.

There will always be that husband that the wife never feels any empathy for. No matter how much he sacrifices and how much afflictions he suffers, the wife feels he is a Superman that can suffer anything. No amount of sacrifice or inconvenience that the man suffers for her and the children is ever enough. She has no empathy or feelings for him. He is simply a superhuman savior to her. He must not be human. He is not allowed to be human. The truth is that such a woman does not love that man because her brother or platonic friend might be passing through very little suffering and she is ravaged with concern for them.

There will always be that child that the mother feels absolutely no empathy for. That child from birth has suffered unimaginable pains, sorrows and afflictions, yet the mother or father feels no empathy for that child. The other children might suffer just a tiny scratch and you will see the mother or father drown in empathy, concern and sorrow for that child.

They feel that child’s pain and do not feel the other child’s pain. The latter is the sacrificed child. It is very unfortunate but true. If you are in that situation God loves you and God’s love, mercy and empathy is bigger than any other love.

Some humans are constantly denied love, kindness, patience, understanding and empathy, especially by people closest to them. They leave those unfortunate relatives traumatized. That is the bitter truth about love and life. The Holy Spirit told me that those who are passing through such and who receive no empathy from people around them, especially those closest to them are seen as superhuman and are not regarded as human beings by their abusers.

Humans feel pain and sorrow but their abusers see them as people who cannot feel pain or sorrow. They are either superhuman or subhuman in their eyes and minds. The Holy Spirit also told me that those people who are denied empathy have hatred invoked on them spiritually. As a result of that aura of hatred, people never show them love and empathy. They are always rejected and unloved even in the midst of close relatives and friends. They are unseen, spiritually, and it is as if they do not exist to those around them. They live in complete spiritual isolation. It is not natural and that is not how God created them. God did not create anyone to be denied love and empathy.

People who experience what I have described above need to pray to God so that God will reverse and break that evil decree and bondage and decree love and mercy upon them. Once the love of God is upon you as a reality, empathy, understanding, patience, kindness and mercy will follow you. People will give you the love and empathy you deserve because we owe each other love.

May love and mercy be upon us and surround us. May great grace be upon us in Jesus name.

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No Enchantments, No Divinations

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No Enchantments, No Divinations

So, I came across a demonic Pastor who tried to cast a spell on me but of course he couldn’t. The Lord usually calls them water Pastors when talking to me, referring to agents of the water kingdom parading themselves as Pastors. Anytime they come across me, they make it their aim to try to get closer to me or entice me to have some sort of fellowship with them in order to perpetuate their evil agenda. Their aim is to destroy or reduce my calling.

Of course I do not respond to them and their efforts to be friends with me. They have been trying their silly and meaningless stunts on me from when I was very young but the Lord has always been my protection, battle axe, weapon and joy.

I see most of the things they do in secret because I am a prophet. The Lord has given me X-ray eyes and has revealed most of their secrets and ways to me and I keep exposing them. The Lord enables me to see their aura and the uncleanness and demons in them. They hate me with a passion but I am not bothered.

They are humans, but principalities, powers and spiritual beasts appeared to me in the past to fight me to try and stop my calling and God defeated them all. I have passed through tough and severe spiritual tests, examinations and trials until the Lord was satisfied and said to me, “you are tested and trusted.” I am not just an Evangelist and a Prophet, I am also an apostle. The Lord Jesus appears to me. He takes me to different Kingdoms to deliver souls and make them born again. Anyone who gets born again in the spiritual world gets born again physically. It is a spiritual work and the battle is won in the spiritual realm so they despise me for that.

So this pastor tried to cast a spell on me but the Lord was faster than him. The Lord neutralized everything before he could even complete it. Then the Lord spoke to me and said, “ no enchantments, no divinations against Israel.”

What they do not realize is that no one can harm us except we permit it. So how do we permit it?

1. Inordinate lust and love for the world, the flesh and money

2. Lack of constant fellowship with God

3. Living outside God’s plan for our lives

4. Not constantly being filled with the Holy Spirit

5. Not living a life of constant thanksgiving, praise and worship for the blood of Jesus that saved us and redeemed us. YES, we are REDEEMED, DELIVERED AND SAVED! We are in the new covenant of grace and mercy and all we need is to walk in it.

6. Not constantly celebrating the Lord of love that gave us amazing love, mercy and grace. Not rejoicing in the Lord always.

7. Choosing sadness over thanksgiving. The truth is that God hates sadness. Sadness is a choice and a lifestyle.

8. Lack of faith in the good news of salvation

9. Not living a life of “pray without ceasing” as commanded by God in the Bible.

10. Despising the blood of Jesus by enjoying a sinful lifestyle

11. Not constantly being led by the Holy Spirit in all things including our prayer lives. Those who are led by the Holy Spirit are the sons of God. They experience the reality of sonship.

12. Not putting on the complete armor of God and the whole counsel of the word of God.

Anyone who lives a lukewarm life in Christ will experience some level of defeat including me and other ministers. God is not a respecter of persons. If we do not respect God, Satan, demons and agents of the devil will not respect us and spells will find a landing ground.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16

No one can curse whom God has not cursed so if you permit and give the devil a foothold and he gains an upper hand, God will permit some level of defeat so that we can judge ourselves and get back into victory. Defeat is simply a symptom of lukewarmness and a substandard Christian life. It is not meant to be a permanent reality.

With God all things are possible. We are to constantly judge ourselves so that we will not be judged by God and that is the lifestyle that I constantly live. When I make mistakes God corrects me but I keep depending on His grace. I am open to His voice, Spirit and leading, and as I have matured in Christ, I am experiencing greater victories in Christ. However, I am very careful because there in a thin line between victory and defeat, humility and pride. Carelessness can make us fall and no minister is an exception. I cling to His grace constantly and I depend on Him totally so that I will not fall. However, when I fall, I get up again and keep fighting. It is only in heaven that we will no longer fight and struggle not to fall, so I fight! I simply keep fighting!

I fight by living a lifestyle of faith, prayer, praise, thanksgiving, worship, obedience, fortitude, patience, persistence and perseverance.

May great grace be upon us in Jesus name.

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Every Good Person Has A Flaw

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Every Good Person Has A Flaw

Every good person

Has a flaw

We all have flaws

May we learn to overlook

The flaws of others

In the spirit of true love

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First Cause And Second Cause Of Defeat

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First Cause And Second Cause Of Defeat

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Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin (Romans 4:7 – 4:8 ESV)

God has cancelled our sins and forgiven us. He took our punishments, nailed them to the cross and healed us. What then is the problem? Why are we still suffering from past ancestral, parental and personal sins and mistakes. Sins that we have renounced and forsaken. Why?

Our problem is the second cause not the first cause. I hope what I have said is not confusing. We spend all of our time focused on the first cause but the first cause is not the problem. Our past sins and mistakes (which is the origin and first cause of defeat) were swallowed, crushed and cancelled by the blood of Jesus – that word is settled in Heaven forever. Why then is the devil playing football with us and dribbling us? Why is he kicking us around?

He is having an upper hand because of two things:

1. We refuse to be filled with the Holy Spirit

2. Un-repented sins

However, I have realized that most of the time, the main problem is that we are not filled with the Holy Spirit. If we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we will be led by the Holy Spirit and He will reveal the hidden and unconfessed sins that we might not even be aware of. He will reveal hindrances to our prayers.

Confessed, repented sins is not the problem because Jesus bore our sins on the cross. Some people will tell you is it because you do not have faith in the finished work of the cross- wrong. Faith itself is a fruit of the Holy Spirit and it is given. It is in measures and grows by the power of the Holy Spirit. You have faith in Jesus and His blood, that is why you are born again by His Spirit and His precious blood. The real problem is that you are not filled with the Holy Spirit.

Any faith you want to have now, should not be a foundational faith but a faith that takes you to greater heights. A faith that has actions of prayer, thanksgiving, praise, worship, rejoicing in and celebrating Christ’s victory, good deeds, waiting upon the Lords and seeking His face. This kind of faith is the type that leads you to depend on the Holy Spirit alone and be filled and led by Him. Your focus must be on the solution and the fullness of the Holy Spirit is the solution.

If someone pushes you into a deep well by mistake or even on purpose and you are in the well obsessing about how you got into the well and who pushed you into the well, you will never device a solution that will enable you come out of the well. You are defeated and are not being creative anytime you focus on past errors and mistakes.

You can learn lessons from your past mistakes through reflections but you should not dwell in, and live in the past or the cause of your problems. If you are trapped in that well and you focus on the solution, you will eventually plot your way out of that well and know victory. Jesus is our solution and the Holy Spirit is also our solution. Focus on how to be filled with the Holy Spirit and how to have an active working relationship with Him.

We must be forward looking not backward looking. The Holy Spirit is the living word. He is the now and true reality of God. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you will truly know and experience victory – every knee will bow to Jesus.

I have noticed that when I am filled with the Holy Spirit, I see my afflictions leaving me in the dream. I see myself repelling and throwing up the evil substance causing the affliction. However, if I stop spending time in His presence, waiting upon Him and seeking Him, the Holy Spirit’s life giving presence in me reduces and I leave myself partially unprotected – I get oppressed or afflicted. So, I try to wait upon Him daily and constantly.

Sicknesses are spiritual substances and the presence of God is also a spiritual substance. When He fills us up, every other negative substance must leave and die off. Spirits and demons must also detach themselves from our aura and flee. They cannot remain when God is personality present – I mean when His manifest presence is present. Sicknesses and demons do not give rest but God’s presence gives rest, comfort, help, joy and peace.

The LORD replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest–everything will be fine for you.” Exodus 33:14 New Living Translation

The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14 NIV

The second cause of our problem is the reason why we are not healed or delivered. The first cause which is past, confessed, sins has been destroyed by the blood of Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross. We need to focus on being filled with the Holy Spirit – our helper, garment and comforter. If we do not need Him God would not have sent Him as a precious gift. We need to partner with Him and not ignore Him.

Those who pay the price by waiting upon the Lord and seeking Him daily for fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit will be refreshed and empowered. They are the ones who will truly taste the fullness of the victory that Jesus purchased for us on the cross by His sacrificial death. We were redeemed so that we can die to sin and be filled with the Holy Spirit. We must never forget that.

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

May great grace be upon us in Jesus name.

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The King’s Friendship

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The King’s Friendship

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He who loves purity of heart And has grace on his lips, The king will be his friend. Provers 22:11

God is the King of kings and Lord of lords and His Kingship is eternal. This word is telling us that Kings love the pure and graceful. The truth is that great and mighty kings also have friends. They have ordinary friends and special friends. If we purify ourselves and saturate our tongues and lips with grace, God, the greatest King of all, will be our friend. He will be our friend the way that He was a friend to Abraham. God is already our friend by faith but this time around, we will be His friends experientially. We will be His special friends.

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Revelation 3:20

He will be intimate with us and we will know Him deeply. If we open up our hearts to Him, He will eat with us and we will eat with Him at the table of intimate, tender fellowship.

May we open up our hearts to Him, through purity of heart, and sanctification of our lips and tongues.

 

 

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Stamp Of Approval

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Stamp Of Approval

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The Glory Of God

Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?” Exodus 33: 15-16 NIV

For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” Exodus 33:16

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is a stamp of approval. By anointing you with power and glory, God is saying that you are His messenger and vessel. He is also saying that He is with you and is pleased with you. If we examine the Scriptures above closely, we will see that Moses is saying that God’s manifest presence accompanying them is evidence that they have found grace or favor in His sight.

The anointing shows that God is pleased with the anointed vessel. It is not everyone that can carry God’s manifest presence. God’s anointing is not for those who are selfish, greedy, drunk, covetous and hurtful. It is for the compassionate and selfless.

We cannot have it both ways. It is either we are for God or not for God. We cannot yield our flesh to evil, sin, laziness, idleness, and lukewarmness and expect the miraculous – there is no wisdom in that kind of mentality and those who persist in such error open themselves up to deception and demonic power. We are not greater that our master, Jesus – God requires cleanliness, dedication and purity before His manifest presence can rest upon us.

The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14 NIV

The LORD replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest–everything will be fine for you.” Exodus 33:14 New Living Translation

It is only the vessels of honor who have cleansed themselves that get clothed with the manifest presence of God. Jesus, Moses and Paul were well known vessels of honor. No one can deny that God was very pleased with them. They found favor and grace in God’s sight.

And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17

May we seek to please God always and may God be pleased with us.

 

 

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Pray To Finish Your Race

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Pray To Finish Your Race

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I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7 NKJV)

Jesus and Paul were finishers. They finished and fulfilled the work that they were called by God to do. If you want God to be very pleased with you, desire and pray to complete your God ordained assignment. Never quit or surrender to discouragement half way – be determined to complete.

“But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. (Acts 20:24 NKJV)

Jesus came to show us the way and He is our example. He said, “my food is to do the will of God and finish His work.” What is your own food? Money, greed, lust, fame or pleasure? What do you desire most in this world? Is it to do the will of God and finish His work or is it how to attract blessings. Even pagans know how to deviously attract good things or “physical blessings” because that is the only thing that they seek. They do not care about God’s will. Good things or physical blessings are not evidence of God’s approval. The most physically blessed person is not the most righteous person.

Blessings are good and God will give good things to those who ask but they should not be your primary focus and hearts desire. Pleasing God should be our primary hearts desire because that is why we were created. If we seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all others things will be added to us.

Pray to always do the will of God and finish your assignment and calling in this life. That is why you were born. Everything else is definitely vanity and chasing the wind and shadows, because they will cease, one day. Everyone will realize this on the judgement day.

 

 

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