The Fire
‘Look! Nebuchadnezzar shouted. I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a god!’ Daniel 3:25
Fire is not without purpose especially in the Christian walk. The function of the fire varies, according to God’s purpose. It could be for refining purposes. Refining could translate to a number of things and not limited to cleansing, purifying, humbling, detoxing, and teaching. God could allow the fire in your life to accomplish any of these purposes. God reserves the right to prune the branch and His pruning tools are solely His choice. Say you have this habit Read the rest of this entry
Understanding Sovereignty
‘But even if He doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up’ Daniel 3:18
The Sovereignty of God is something Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego understood so well. God is Sovereign; He can choose not to deliver us because He is God. This is an aspect a lot of Christians do not understand about God. You have heard a lot of faith preaching that attempts to rubbish the Sovereignty of God. God is Sovereign; He can choose to fold His hands and watch. Does that change the fact that He is God? Not at all and everything He does is in Read the rest of this entry
Keynote To Germination III
‘The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends’ Prov.11:30
Key note to germination number six is put your trust in Jesus. That sounds simplistic but it actually isn’t. ‘But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence’ Jer.17:7. Your leaves will remain green and you will never stop producing fruit in the Name of Jesus. Your trust is like an anchor, it keeps you rooted to God. The converse is a dangerous place to be but that is not your portion. When you trust Jesus, your spiritual roots Read the rest of this entry
Keynote To Germination II
‘Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do’ Joshua 1:8
Prayer and fasting is the third key note to germination. The things that God is saying and doing in us we need to take in the place of prayer and burn in and grow roots. God has said this is the year of establishment. You need to take the Word and pray it in. let it grow roots. Fasting of course accelerates it the process of growing spiritual roots. Read the rest of this entry
Keynote To Germination I
‘In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation’ 1Pet.5:10
There was king in the book of Daniel who had a dream but he did not understand the dream so he called on Daniel. And Daniel interpreted the dream to mean the king needs to humble himself so that the dream will not happen to him. Humble yourself. If someone has such a dream and gets such an interpretation, what do you think the person should do? Fall on his face immediately. God waited for twelve months yet Nebuchadnezzar did not change. After the first three months it seemed as though the dream will not happen. God can be patient but dangerous. Once it was the 12th month, he became an animal and he began to eat grass. He ate grass for 7years. I often say to the Lord, ‘I don’t want to eat grass, oh Lord’. For some people except they eat grass they would not learn. And once the process of eating grass starts, you cannot stop it. The time of seven years must pass. And seven years passed and Nebuchadnezzar said ‘I lifted up my eyes to heaven and I said heaven rules in the affairs of men’. It is good to read another person’s story and laugh but check your life. How are you responding to the dealings of God in your life? 1Pet.5:10, God is saying after you have suffered a while. There is a process, a death that needs to happen before the perfection comes. When God settles you, the people who don’t know the suffering will begin to envy you. They have refused to subject themselves to their own little suffering. Key note to germination, you need to understand the dealings of God.
Secondly, you need to understand the place of covenants. You can covenant yourself to break yourself and aid the germination like Job did [Job 31:1]. Otherwise God would have had to take him through a process. The choice is yours. God also comes into covenant with us to help us germinate and take root in Him. [Deut.29:10-13 & 18]. God says I am entering this covenant with you so that we are yoked together. So that you do not get into the corridor of power and start to bring forth strange fruit.
Prayer: Lord, help me pay close attention to the dealings of God in my life and respond appropriately. Lead me into covenants with You so that I will be yoked to You, in Jesus Name.
Germinate In Christ
‘My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me’ Gal.2:20
The second step in growing spiritual roots is to germinate in Christ. Allow yourself to die in Christ. Allow the old man to die in Christ ‘My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me’. [2 Cor.5:17]. Allow the germination to take place because it is not every seed that is planted that germinates. The parable of the sower: the first Read the rest of this entry
Fall To the Ground
‘My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him’ Isa. 53:2
When God wants to grow you, He will take you through the humbling process. He encourages you to keep your focus on Him. When God is building your roots there is nothing beautiful about it but guess what you are coming up with fruit. Do not be in a hurry about the process. Relax and let your life grow roots. You may not even like the process but endure it for the glory before you. Foundation work is a dirty process. The history of the land lies in its foundations. The foundation building process cannot be accelerated. You can only accelerate at your own peril. God wants to do great things in your Read the rest of this entry
Bearing Fruit
‘And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in your own soil and will grow up and flourish’ 2 kings 19:30
If we are to bear fruit upwards then we have to take root downwards. The root is what supplies nourishment to the tree. If we must flourish this year, then we must grow roots. If we must survive the ever changing seasons then we must grow roots spiritually, financially, relationally and emotionally. It is inevitable if you want to survive. The process of growing roots was outlined in a way by the Lord Jesus ‘I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is Read the rest of this entry
Growing Spiritual Roots
‘Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness’ Col.2:7
The challenge with a lot of us is that different areas of our lives lack the fruit that is required and that God intends for us. So see lives that are void of the fruits of fulfilment. A lot of us need to sink our roots in God. God wants us to grow roots. God in His Word is saying we are to let our roots sink deep in Christ and not let ourselves get carried away with philosophies. Yes you are to open your mind to knowledge but be mindful of the content you take in. The only thing
Faithful in Little
‘If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities’. Luke 16:10
A lot of us have great dreams and huge ambition but God in His infinite wisdom has chosen to start us off in humble ways. The truth is your response to the little things will be your response to the little things will be your response to greater responsibility. Instead, a lot of us, dissatisfied with the size of our dreams and size of God’s response, choose to belittle what God has given us. The reason is simple, we want the big things which causes us to be blinded to what God is doing. God is saying ‘If you’re not Read the rest of this entry
