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Speak with Faith over your battle

30 Friday Oct 2015

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The Philistines were greater in number compared to the Israelites. But Jonathan believed In God and believed that God will win the battle for them. So He went forward to the camp of the philistines with just Him and His armour bearer to fight.
1 samuel 14:6
Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, ” come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; It may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or few.

Sometimes in life we feel like we need a whole army to help us fight our battles. We feel like we are not strong enough to overcome our battles. We feel like we haven’t got the resources to accomplish task.
But Its not about how many people are with us. As long as we have faith in Jesus and call upon Him we shall be saved. As long as we speak by faith and depend on God we will make it.

One amazing thing Jonathan did is He decreed . He spoke what He believed into existence.
He spoke what He wants ,and spoke with faith that God will hand His enemies over to Him. He only went with His cupbearer to face thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen.
1 samuel 14:8
Then Jonathan said, “Very well, let us cross over to these men, and we will show ourselves to them.
9 If they say thus to us ” wait until we come to you. ‘ then we will stand still in our place and not go back to them. 10 But if they say thus ” come up to us, then we will go up. For the Lord has delivered them into our hand, and this will be a sign to us.
Sometimes we believe but we are not speaking. Jonathan spoke and He moved ” For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or few”. Job 22:28
Thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways

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Your words carry power. Because we are God’s children we have been given authority in Jesu’s name. Therefore we have to believe that when we speak we are causing everything to align together for our good. As long as we speak and have faith in Jesus over our circumstances, whatever stands in the way must move out of the way.
You cant see how you going to make it through. Because everything around you shows that you cant. But speak what you want into existence. Speak until it happens. Pray until it happens. Declare until it happens.
God has plans for us of a good future.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Therefore a bleak future is not your portion. Because what your father says about you is who you are going to be. Not what that teacher said, not what that friend said, not what even your mother or father said. Its what God says and its what you decree over your life.
You may not have it altogether right now. But there is hope. You may think you don’t have what it takes physically, mentally or emotionally. But Almighty God is with you. When you focus too much on your own strength you will question. When you focus on the problem, it blurs your vision. But when you fix your eyes on Jesus you will overcome.
Lets start decreeing and declaring

This too Shall Pass

23 Friday Oct 2015

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Your faith is tested in trials. Will you still stand, when everything around you seems to be falling apart? When you prayed and God spoke, then afterwards the troubles increased? When you just prayed Lord take control and not long after everything is not going how you wanted it to?

When you just received a word about your future and nothing is happening yet? Will you question whether God spoke? Or will you hold on to His word, and go to God with the matter?

1 peter 1:7
These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold–though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

Thats what happened straight after Moses had spoken to Pharaoh and told him God said He should let the Israelites go. Before the Israelites were given straws to make brick as part of their labor. But after Moses had released God’s word to Pharoah things got worse. Pharoah ordered that the israelites go and find their own straw to make the bricks. Pharaoh ordered that they should be given even more work to do and not reduce their labor.
And the israelites told Aaron and moses that the Lord should judge them because matters had gotten worse since they spoke to Pharoah.

But where did Moses go after hearing the news? He went straight to the Lord first. He didn’t sit and wonder why things had gone worse. He didn’t ask His friends and family first and discuss it with them. He didn’t question what he had done wrong or give up.
He went straight to the Lord. And He asked God ” Exodus 5: 22: ” Lord why have you brought trouble on this people? Why isit you have sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharoah to speak in Your name, he has done evil to his people ; neither have you delivered your people at all

Exodus 6:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to pharoah. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of Egypt.

When you have commited your life to God. When God has given you a word over your circumstance and over your life. And the next minute everything starts going the opposite dirrection. Go on your knees in prayer. Go back to God with any issues that emerge. Don’t sit down and cry. Don’t sit down and worry. Don’t beat your self up and try to figure out for yourself what you have done wrong when you know You have given your life to God. Seek God first and wait on Him. Be patient to hear His voice. But most importantly stand on the word He gave you whiles you wait for His answer.

Don’t loose hope. Take your eyes of the circumstance and put your focus on God. Worship through the problems. Don’t let it hold you back from smiling, from laughing.Don’t let it steal your joy.
Seek God for guidance and thank Him even when you haven’t seen the answer yet. Have faith in God. Don’t let the circumstance crumble you. Seek God and when you go through the fire. Like clay you may go through the fire soft, but you will come out of it stronger. You will come out shaped and refined as a result of holding on to God’s promises. You will come out knowing why you went through that, that the fire wasn’t meant to burn you or destroy you but to shape you for a purpose. To shape you for something greater.

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Through the circumstance you will come to have a personal story, a personal journey between you and God. You will come to experience God’s mighty hand on a personal level.

Only when you hold on to the promise, to the dream, to the vision , no matter how hard it gets. And continue to seek God no matter how hard it gets. The trouble will pass and you will remain standing. So don’t let hard times make you unstable, keep standing, because a time will come where the strong wind will pass and if you held in to God and seek His face you will remain standing.
I remember when I first decided to take my relationship with God seriously and not be just be called a christian but act like one and be intentional about seeking God.  But right after that decision i received bad news from different angles. I lost half of my essay, and a friend copied my work and collaborated with my lecturer so I would be introuble instead of her been blamed for plagirism. I was thinking “why would things get worse after I have made the decision to be serious about God and my relationship with Him”. But that kept me on my knees and more importantly I had my own personal experience with God when i saw Him turn everything around for my good. God revealed to me in a dream confirming that I will make it through and everything planned against me will not work. The dreams God revealed to came to pass. Not only did I experience God’s greatness and favor but i came to understand that God never fails when you depend on Him. I completed university and Continue to rely on Him into my career. And through that experience I learnt to rely on Him and seek Him even in the bad times.
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Everything including the good and bad will work out for your good. So don’t loose focus on rainy days.
God loves you.

Submit..Surrender all

17 Saturday Oct 2015

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Romans 12:1  And so, dear brothers and sisters,[a] I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.[b] 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

God requires us to give ourselves to Him. Submit our bodies in obedience to Him, submit our minds, submit our hearts. You can’t ask anyone to make something for you until you give them the materials.God cannot use us and change us until we give ourselves to Him. That does not mean accepting Him by word of mouth only, but accepting Him in our actions and hearts.That we choose to obey Him, that we choose to think about life and people the way He thinks. That we choose do His will.
The more we give Him ourselves, the more He can use what we give Him. When you go to a tailor and ask them to sow you a skirt, you buy the material that is sufficient to sow a skirt, however if you would like to sow a top then you have to give Him more.

God requires us to submit, which means let go, surrender, lay down your plans, your dreams, your actions and Let Him give Him yours. It means not choosing however i want to live, but i choose to live how He tells me to Live.
Thats why the bible says don’t copy the behavior of this world. It means don’t choose the way the world chooses. Choose God’s way. Don’t submit to the worlds ways, or your own ways. Choose God’s ways. His way is life.

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Psalm 16:1
You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.
And His way is not copying anyone but Knowing His ways through His word for your self. Somebody is not your role model, God and His word should be our role model. Because people will fail, people can change, and using them as your role model will disappoint you. Jesus is our role model, He lived on earth so we can know how to live. God never fails, and He puts His word above Himself.
Psalm 138:2 (NKJV) “I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; for you have magnified Your word above all Your name.”

As the song goes “I surrender all to you, everything I give to you, with holding nothing. I give myself away so you can use me. ”

I remember crying so much at my Granmother’s funeral. And even though I know we will all leave this earth oneday, I was so sad I just didnt want it to sink in she was gone. I just didnt want her to leave, So i kept sobbing and asked my mum why my Granmaa couldn’t stay just to spend more time with us. And my mum replied “You loved her but God Loves her more. She is not yours She belongs to God.

We don’t have to be afraid to submit, because we belong to Him.

My life is not my own, To You Lord I belong.

God Loves You

To obey is better than Sacrifice

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God asked Saul to destroy all the Amalekites. He spoke through the prophet Samuel and told Him to do so.
But Saul left the best of the sheep and oxen and the king of the Amalekites and didnt kill them. ( 1 samuel 15:20-21)

The reason He didnt kill them was because ” He feared the people and obeyed their voice”. ( 1 samuel 15:24)

(1 samuel 15:24 Then Saul said to Samuel ” I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.)

Saul became more focused on pleasing people than pleasing God. The reason He disobeyed God is Because “He feared them”.
But did He forget that the people did not choose Him? That God chose Him? He needed God in every battle to win. He needed God’s direction to know how to rule His people. But for a moment He started to fear them instead of God.

He kept the best of the sheep and oxen belonging to the amalekites, so He could sacrifice them to God. But God didnt ask for a sacrifice. He asked Saul to obey.
You don’t have to seek people’s opinion on obeying the word of God. You don’t have to fear that you will loose a friend or you will loose a boyfriend. You don’t have to fear that you will loose things.

Are you more afraid of people that are not in control of their own breath than the one who gives you life? Are you more worried about people who cannot protect you from evil than God who never sleeps nor slumber for you? Are you more worried about what the people who don’t know what tomorrow brings than the one who makes a new day?

God is merciful, God is kind, But we’ve got to Obey Him.

I used to seek people’s opinion about God’s word. Even though i knew the word myself. So I listened to friends and people’s opinion on whether I should stop fornicating. I was afraid of God, but i was more afraid of loosing someone I was not married to. And this was also the advocates of friends who went to church and believed in God. Before I began fornicating I was afraid, afraid because deep within me I knew God was not happy. But as time went on I began to think ” well every one around me says its fine”. But I didn’t realise how much fornication had eaten my peace. I didn’t realise how much it began to affect my relationship with God. I would go to church and worship and give offerings. But deep down God wanted me to surrender myself more than the offerings and the lip service I did.

The issue is I cant blame my friends for the decisions I took to disobey God. Because I had a choice. And no matter how people influence you to make a decision, at the end of the day they won’t face the consequences you will.

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So first go to God’s word about the matter. What does God say about the decision you are about to make?

1 samuel 15: 22
Behold to obey is better than sacrifice.

God doesn’t want our lip service of sacrifices when we have not given Him our soul. He doesn’t want the devil to have entrance and do what He wants with us. He doesn’t want our souls to burn in Hell. He wants us to have peace, He wants us to rest in His bosom. He loves us.

We will be judged individually, not with friends, not with family, not with partners. We will be judged individually. Not on because we feared people more than God. When our soul, spirit and our bodies are powerless after death, where we end up will be a result of the choices we made whiles we were alive here on earth

Because Saul disobeyed God and followed people’s opinion instead of what God told Him to do, the Lord rejected Him from being King over Israel.
Our destiny can be diverted just by following the opinion of people instead of what God has said. Don’t reason with the truth, when you know what God’s word says follow What He says. God knows you more than your closest friend. He has the best in store for you and He has great plans ahead for you.

The Glory of the Lord

09 Friday Oct 2015

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The Presence of The Lord

The glory of the Lord is holiness, the glory of the Lord releases power, the glory of the Lord brings revelation, the glory of the Lord brings victory, the glory of the Lord brings peace.
When Moses left the Israelites to seek God’s counsel, Whenever He returned His face was shining. It was shining so much He had to cover it up at a point ,so He could communicate with the Israelites.

Exodus 34:35 and the people of Israel would see the radiant glow of his face. So he would put the veil over his face until he returned to speak with the LORD. 

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But God wants us to see His glory beyond how He impacted Moses.We have the Holy Spirit living in us as God’s children and God’s glory can be manifested  through us beyond how it shown through Moses. God wants His glory to be shown through us to a broken world. 
2 Corinthians 3:7-11The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death, though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face.For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away. 8 Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life? 9 If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God! 10 In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the new way.11 So if the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new, which remains forever!

Lord I want to experience more and more of your glory.We’ve got to experience more and more of God’s glory. That we don’t just see change in our lives, that we see change in our communities, in our cities. And as the bible says we can be bold, because of Jesus, we don’t need to hide our face, we’ve got to show our face so lives can be impacted

2 Corinthians 3:11-12  Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold.13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away.

Also so amazing that when the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, that the Israelites would stop their Journey until the day God’s glory left the tabernacle.
In the presence of the Lord there is freedom, there is liberty, there is fullness of Joy.
The Israelites needed to rest in God’s presence. So much that their journey to the promise land was on hold. God’s presence is more important than the plans you have ahead and the plans He has for you. Because its resting in His presence that you will uncover the steps that will lead to your victory.

The Victory matters and it will happen, but you’ve got to spend time with the King of Kings to know how you will conquer. You’ve got to rest in His presence and wait on Him to uncover the secrets to your next level.
We’ve got to choose a time to rest in God’s presence. We’ve got to make time where everything is put on hold for our King. Because He creates a new day, and we won’t be able to enter the new day and walk in His steps without consulting Him.
The Israelites put their journey on hold. Have you put God ahead of your plans, or have you put your plans ahead of God? The journey is not as important as the one who paved the journey. There would be no Journey without Him.
We can experience more of God’s glory when we spend time with Him. When we seek His face and put everything aside and put our mind and our hearts on Him. When we say “Lord I want your presence more than all you have for me”. More than the riches and gold that will perish.

John 11:40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”