Category Archives: Encouragement
Refuse To Be Offended I
“And blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is he who takes no offense at Me and finds no cause for stumbling in or through Me and is not hindered from seeing the Truth” Matt.11:6 [AMP]
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” Rom.10:17 [NKJV]. Take note, faith comes by hearing and hearing. You will always require faith to walk with God. And the faith you require comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. Which is why we always advise that whether you attended the service or not, get the message on CD or in MP3 and listen to the Word over and over. Let it fire up your Read the rest of this entry
Re-Affirm
“Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him what you have heard and seen— the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor” Matt.11:4-5.
Sometimes, our circumstances or the circumstances in which we find ourselves threaten our intimacy. “Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?” Matt.11:3. Now think about it, how can John the Baptist ask such a question after all he has seen? How can he ask such a question after all he has been through? Remember, John was six months older than Jesus. John met Jesus first in the womb [Luke 1:41]. So John knew Jesus even by revelation [Mark 1:7]. He didn’t take it for Read the rest of this entry
The Only One!
‘Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” John 11:40 [NIV]
For a lot of us, due to apparent delays, we have begun to ask the same question that John the Baptist asked after he had been in prison for a while. “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” Martha faced similar delays. She had called Jesus to come and heal her brother Lazarus but Jesus delayed. Jesus then shows up after Lazarus had died and Martha says, “Well, Jesus, it’s too late right now to heal my brother”. Read the rest of this entry
God Is I AM!
‘Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me’ Ps.23:4.
The only key to the storms of our lives is securing the Presence of God. To still the storms you are faced with, you have so secure His Presence. In spite of the storm, His presence guarantees safety and deliverance. Safety, they say, is not in the absence of danger; safety is in the Presence of the Lord. Once you can secure His Presence, you will triumph over the storms of life. When you secure God’s presence in the storm, the first storm that God stills is your internal storm. For many of us, the first storm that God needs to still in our lives is the internal storm that we are experiencing. The storm of Read the rest of this entry
For Your Good
‘And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them’ Rom.8:28
‘But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way’ Matt.13:25. The second source of the storms is the enemy. Sometimes it is not about you or what you have done, the storm you are going through is as a result of what the enemy has done. The man in today’s Scripture reference sowed good seed in his land but the enemy came and sowed tares. For some people the storms they are facing are spiritual storms. Some people are under intense attack. The good news for you today is Jesus will deal with every storm that is raging against you. If you were to Read the rest of this entry
Seed and Bread
‘Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise’ Heb.10:23.
Everyone that walks with God must necessarily go through storms. Even David had to speak to himself and query his heart. ‘Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance’ Ps.42:5 [KJV]. Have you ever come to God and He turned you back because He was too tired? Have you ever placed a demand on heaven and the response came Read the rest of this entry
Healing Word
‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light’ Matt.11:28-30 [KJV].
Today, God’s Word for you is ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light’ Matt.11:28-30 [KJV]. Jesus the Son of the Living God is saying come and He will give you rest. Those of us that need to have children or more children, I see you Read the rest of this entry
Pleasing Word
‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest’ Matt.11:28 [KJV].
God is going to say to some one today and even before the year ends, ask anything that you want. God is going to give a blank cheque. ‘In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee’ 1kings 3:5. I pray that God will open your eyes to that thing that you will do that God will say to you, what do you want? There is nothing like getting to the place where God says to you ‘tell Me Read the rest of this entry
Hear His Word
‘…and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice’ John 10:3-4.
It is important that you hear God in this season and I am confident that some of us are hearing God already. It is important to hear God for yourself because it will determine which way you will go or who you will follow. Again I am praying over you, you will hear God clearly, in Jesus Name. While Moses will hear from God directly, Aaron would just run with what Moses told him. When Aaron was under pressure, he built a golden Read the rest of this entry
Covenant Right
‘Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the Living God” 1Sam.17:36 [NIV]
David in his conversation with Saul did another remarkable thing. He moved the conversation and made it a covenant issue. David said, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the Living God?” 1Sam.17:26. Let’s stop for a moment and look deeper at what David was referring to by using the word “uncircumcised”. The token of the covenant between God and His people is circumcision. ‘This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised. You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you’ Gen.17:10-11 [Please read the entire Genesis 17]. What David was saying in essence is that goliath does not have a covenant with God. All the other Jews, the Israelites that were running and hiding, didn’t they have the same covenant? They all did but David was activating his own covenant. The covenant is useless if it is not activated.
If you are a Christian, everything Jesus did on the cross is available for you and it is available now not tomorrow. But if you don’t activate the covenant it remains useless. To David conquering goliath was a covenant issue. He said this man is not circumcised and because he is not circumcised, he is not under the covenant. And because he is not under the covenant, he is inferior to us. Let me bring it home, you are bidding for a job and someone that is not saved is bidding for the same job and it is a job you should have. Who should get it? One of the keys to getting it is you need to go to God and activate your covenant. This is an uncircumcised person, I am a covenant child and this belongs to me. It belongs to Your Kingdom and fight for it from that perspective. So it is very risky to be living life not being saved – very risky. Which is why if you are not born again, today is a good time to get born again, or you the may become a causality of many things. The devil gets angry and he slaps you. You cannot challenge him because if you do, he can increase your punishment. You cannot call on God because you don’t have access. I mean you are just in a mess. But the Name of the Lord is a strong tower and if you will run into it, you will be safe.
Prayer [song]: You are my strength when I am weak. You are the treasure that I seek. You are my all in all. Seeking you as a precious jewel. Lord, to give up I’d be a fool. You are my all in all. Jesus, Lamb of God worthy is Your Name (2x).
