Provoking Blessings
‘May many nations become your servants, and may they bow down to you. May you be the master over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. All who curse you will be cursed, and all who bless you will be blessed’ Gen.27:29
Let me tell you a story about a pastor friend. He was very anointed but he was broke. It is a terrible thing to be anointed and broke, it is a frustrating thing. A lot of us think prayer alone attracts wealth. You can pray from now till tomorrow, if you don’t sow a seed you can’t reap a harvest. So the guy was very anointed but he was hungry. One day a lady offers to take him to lunch and his soul was satisfied. He said to me that prophecy began to flow from him for the lady, specific words of prophecy. I can’t judge him but when I heard this I Read the rest of this entry
Provoked
‘Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father’s bed; Then you defiled it—He went up to my couch’ Gen.49:4 [NKJV]
The nature of curses and blessings is that curses are provoked and blessings are also provoked. ‘Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest’ Prov.26:2 [NIV]. If you are a child of God and perhaps someone is just jealous of you in the office and begins to curse you just laugh because the curse is not going to rest on you. Again who can curse the one that God has blessed? God has not beheld iniquity in you. It is so important to be on God’s good side. Israel said to Reuben ‘because you went up Read the rest of this entry
You Will Excel
‘Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s children shall bow down before you’ Gen.49:8 [NKJV]
Today’s word is a declaration over our destinies so I need you to take it very personally. God’s word for you today is ‘you will excel’ [you will prosper]. It is important for you to receive this word and take it personally. Declare it over yourself, calling your name out loud ‘…I will excel’. Read Gen.49:1-4 & 8-10 [NKJV]. What plays out in this portion of scripture is the dynamics of blessings and curses. For you to go far in life you must understand the dynamics of blessings and curses. You must leverage on blessings so that you will gain Read the rest of this entry
Unconscious Prophecy
‘Here comes the dreamer!” they said… Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!’ Gen.37:19-20
For Joseph it was his dreams, for Abraham and Sarah it was a promise from Jehovah, and for David it was what he had witnessed God do first hand. One thing these people had in common was they knew what God had said concerning them even though everything else seemed to be working contrary. For some of us, we can identify with these people because we are in similar situations. Some have been married for years and are still trusting God for the fruit of the womb because you know that God has said about you ‘be fruitful and Read the rest of this entry
Will You Play The Fool?
‘And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard’ 1 Sam.21:13
David in a bid to escape Saul found himself in danger of loosing his life before Abimelech and he demonstrated hallelujah and got free. Hallelujah means to change behavior suddenly, it means to feign madness. [Read 1 Sam.21:10-15]. It was after this that David wrote Psalm 34. The summary before Psalm 34 reads ‘A psalm of David, regarding the time he pretended to be insane in front of Abimelech, who sent him away’. ‘I will bless [barak] the Lord at all times: his praise [tehillah] shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast [halal] in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad’ Ps.34:1-2 [KJV]. A while back, a friend of mine had Read the rest of this entry
Praise
‘So David and all the people of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and the blowing of rams’ horns’ 2 Sam.6:15
I can testify to the miracles and the awesome things that happen when we praise God. At a particular worship experience, as we were praising God, shackles began to break. However, these are just byproducts. The real reason why we praise God is because we are grateful to Him. Why would David – a king, dance like a fool? There are a couple of reasons. Positionaly somebody must play the fool before the king in a procession, David said to himself ‘who is best suited than me to be the fool before the ark. Who is more qualified Read the rest of this entry
Honor The King
‘And David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a priestly garment’ 2 Sam.6:14.
When David heard about how God was blessing the house of Obed-edom, David went there and took the ark to the city of David. When you see that you have made a mistake be quick to change. David did not allow pride limit him, instead he put pride aside and requested for the ark. I suspect that Obed-edom’s blessing was not just any kind of blessing. For God to bless you and a king would be jealous of you; just imagine how blessed the man was. While transporting the ark, David was so afraid that every six steps he would stop the Read the rest of this entry
He Sees, He Knows, & He Rewards
‘But as for you, be strong and courageous, for your work will be rewarded’ 2 Chr.15:7
After the ark returned to the Jews, about seventy men decided they wanted to see what was inside it. So they opened it and God killed all seventy of them. So the ark was relegated through the time of Samuel and Saul until David’s time. True to how God described him ‘a man after My heart’. David said ‘how can the ark of God be relegated’. So he decided to bring the ark of God to the city of David. So they put the ark on a cart. Meanwhile the place they relegated the ark to was the house of Abinadab, the father of Uzzah. While the ark was Read the rest of this entry
The Same
‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever’ Heb.13:8
Jesus the express image of the invisible God rode into Jerusalem. There was so much celebration and people were laying down their cloths. However, way back, an event took place that can be likened to the one that took place in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. There was a time when the Jews went to battle carrying the ark of God. The ark of God signifies the manifest presence of God amongst His people. Yet today Jesus says ‘where two or three are gathered together in My Name there I am in their midst’. They carried the ark to Read the rest of this entry
Resurrection
‘He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying’ Matt.28:6
The beauty of resurrection or Easter as we know it is that through Jesus we can expect that every thing that is dying and ought to be alive in our lives will come back to life. Through Jesus we can expect that everything that is dead already that ought to be living will resurrect. We have the victory through Jesus Christ. Unfortunately for the enemy, he keeps forgetting the power of resurrection and making the same mistake he did with Jesus with us. The enemy sees your marriage has the potential to thrive and he attacks it. Stop Read the rest of this entry
