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The Faith: The Source of Good Works!
Can you allow the Lord to take over in the new face of your life? Can you stop struggling and allow Him take over? His hands are not short to help. Can you allow him and let go of your own work? Can you allow him to work? He wants to work. Let him work on you and let him make a display of what he has done and will yet do in you. He is faithful and is able to bring to pass what his mouth has spoken; he will not fail in your own matter.
Godliness is a compulsory attainment for those who are racing into the inheritance of Eternal Life and it must express itself in what is called good works and not dead works. Good works is the first phase of the expression of the work of the living.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Good is not a man; Good is God. It is the domain of God that is good. Conscience had hitherto been called the parameter for measuring good but good is not used for man but for God. We are going through the process of conformation to the image of God, away from our former formation (this world) because this world is evil. In our former formation, we were estranged from this Life; we were framed to live after this world and the world forms us. However, God wants us to be transformed from this formation into various levels of formations until we reach the perfect or ultimate formation which is the formation of Eternal Life as expressed in the Father or in God. The first level of formation is good and good is God. This is a formation of Divine Life, therefore it is called Godliness. What is Godly is good and God intends to bring the Church (the Body of Christ) in this season into the Life of the Gospel.
It is what is good that can be accepted and then it will eventually morph into the Perfect Will of God. It will continue moving and morphing until it reaches perfection. In the realm of the spirit, we are being monitored to ensure that we attain the realm of perfection from the good. Except you are in God, you cannot know what is good, because it is not a religious language but a language of the Spirit showing forth the personalities or works of God. It shows forth God's work as it is in creation. God is turning us to entities of good works.
Every tree is a product of its making. The heaven is not improving our earthly nature; they are discarding it and making it after the similitude of him who created it. It therefore becomes a type of creation: the first creation. This was contained in the writings of Paul to pastors to teach men and turn them to creatures of God/men that God has raised. In order to align men in order, you must know God's expectation. When a pastor does not know God's expectation, he cannot work towards it. The Gospel is not about preaching the bible. A pastor must have insight into God's expectation.
Titus 3:8-14
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
The law has its own standard and expectations (Joshua 1:8). There is a success expected in the scriptures but such is not meant for Christians following the Lord. The product of the law is an earthly man that only has a confirmation of God's confirmation. No man can ascend out of the earthy through the law, but it can make God come to earth as we are his people. The law has instructions concerning everything about a man's life and his daily conduct. It monitors everything about men; this makes it look more practicable and does not need the Spirit to practice it. The bible however is revelation that you believe and live by faith. Those who are in the law do the law but those in Christ believe. In Christ, it is about believing first and not doing. God wants to move us to a place where we are spiritually productive; this is the fruit of the new stage of our lives.
Colossians 1:9-10
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Being fruitful is a product of a tree; it is your person that has become a fruitful tree. It becomes your natural outflow which is an investment of growth over time. Bearing fruit depends on how the tree has been made and how long it has stayed overtime. As the Lord initiates the thought, he has the power to effectively implement it by his divine power/will. This is the place every saint must attain to. The oversight is to see men turn, transform and change; becoming fruitful and powerful.
1 Timothy 6:17-18
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
It takes power to distribute riches. Riches is not what is being spent, it is a strong wall city that defines a new life. For a man to ignore it he must have acquired stamina; if not, he will do it religiously, which will be worse than that of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5). When it is checked in the face of truth it will not measure up to anything. Riches is a heart issue. They have to work upon the heart and transfer faith into it for man to have faith to do righteousness. The Gospel is teaching us to have power for distribution that we may become lighter. Spending and being gladly spent takes power; that power is inherent in the Gospel, which Jesus came to introduce and do, not of man. Jesus was not trying to be pious he was seeing wealth in man and it takes power to do that. The Gospel takes away the confidence in riches and makes men trust in the living God instead.
It takes time for a man's soul to fully accept that riches is indeed uncertain; he will prefer to have it first. The reason for this is fear of that which is uncertain; fear to believe one has the ability to survive without riches. The power that sustains this world is care, concern, which was one of the first things Jesus tried to expose to his disciples. Matthew 6:25-34. Care is the hook of this world, which the leviathan uses to hook a man's soul and makes him un-free to obey God. This makes the man not to trust in the scriptures concerning him. The teaching of Eternal Life is how to break the hold of uncertainties and the strength of fear. Things outside God that are of men are called evil. These things make men conscious of time when it comes to the matters of God/spiritual things.
Jesus authored a kind of faith that can take men above the world. Before he came to the world, men had faith; they believed God can do things (a faith that moves mountain and that which God and man can do together). To now believe in God is raising. Faith is a principle which is not first learnt by us. In the realm of faith and authority, all men are not equal and each submits to the cadres of authority. Therefore, we have a lot of faith lessons to learn in the scriptures such as the power of speakings which is part of the principle of the general faith. This practice of faith is believing God can work through men. This is the highest faith that people of the world can practice and we do not invalidate it. It is abnormal to say a thing and not mean it; doing so shows that you are yet to learn the basic principle of faith that words are powerful. This is a consciousness that comes to men when they want to be part of the spiritual world. All of these principles are applied in the faith of Jesus Christ. They are all inside the Law of Faith in Jesus.
1 Timothy 3:1-10
These are not things you do to keep to the demand of the status. As a new believer, it is possible to be a fast learner and still be a novice because it is not gotten by information but by revelation that is planted by use over time. Time is needed to grow there; you must practice faith and be able to answer in every season. You are a novice if you cannot survive the seasons of life; you are inexperienced. It is not about faith that moves mountain but the faith that builds your being. The result of the Faith is not seen on the outside but in you. The devil will prove and know that such person is a novice. They will need to be proved to know if faith is in their being and a permanent part of them. Being proved means being subjected to seasons. God will allow the tempter to bring seasons and watch your conversations in the seasons. Your conversation is actually who you are. God allowed Job's wife to tempt him to know his content but he survived the season.
The heavens watch our responses in whatever happens to us or the seasons we face. The reason men fail is greed, because the Faith has not had its full work. The Faith that Jesus authored was what Apostle Jude called our general faith, which is the faith that will save every man that comes to Jesus, without this faith, a man cannot rise above the world. The first thing the Faith does is to re-write our life. The summary of what is inherent in the world is lust (of the flesh, eyes and pride of life). Lust is not subjected to what you use or how you look like but a content of the soul. It is not about your religious packaging but the forces in the soul that pull the soul and determine its conversation. The Faith that Jesus authored is what produces good work.
Jude 1:1-3
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
The first thing that was once delivered is the Faith. We are born again to be brought into the Faith, but this does not mean we are practicing the Faith. Faith was first delivered to the saints; you must be a saint to be brought into faith. Being a saint means you have been quickened and made alive to practice faith but it does not mean you are already practicing it. By the new birth, you were opened to the world of faith but you may not be able to practice the Faith. That is why spirits can easily seduce you to practice their faiths, through the different doctrines of devils. 1 Timothy 4:4. Believers are children of faith who are susceptible to receiving doctrines easily. The doctrines of the earth often look more real than practicing the Faith of the Son. The doctrines are anti-faith; they are teachings against what Christ stands for. The reason men are susceptible to such teachings is fear and whatever is of fear has torment. The basis of Christianity is the Faith and without it you can never know Eternal Life. You must also be able to practice it the way it is. Some doctrines are extra-curricular teachings that want to take you out of the Faith and are fueled by experiences not faith.
John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
It is about knowing the true God and Jesus only, not doctrines in our churches. The devil does not want you not to have knowledge of this and would do anything to hinder you from knowing the only one you should know. The Faith is the knowledge of Jesus Christ or the Son of God. If you do not know the Son of God, you can’t know God; he is the first syllabus and the only mediator between God and man. The foot of Jesus is man and his head is God; you must complete Jesus to get to God. Jesus is knowledge; he is the Faith. When you complete Jesus, you overcome the world. You would not need to command the world to go (if you do so, it will go and come back), you only need to over grow the world (it will be under you, and you will easily discern it). The essence of the Son of God is to overcome the world (1 John 4:4).
For yea this is my feast for you. You are welcome to this feast. You will stay here until I make many by this. It is in preaching that you will come into it. This is the feast of fat things that will unmask the face of the covering cast that has covered men for many ages. This is the feast that I will feast with you. I will not go away but stay with you on this platform. You have come to a thresh-hold you will be fed. You will be fed with that which is my bread and wine. You will conquer with this wine and bread that I serve you on this mountain. You are welcome to the feast of fat things. We will merry together on this plain. Before you will see my Father, I will feast with you first. You will eat until you are full then I will show you to my Father. You are welcome.
This is why Jesus could not give the gift of Christ until he ascended. They are gifts from above. The five-fold gifts are things from above and their work is from above. Their primary job is to make you know the resurrected Son of God, Christ, who is an entity from above - the very heavens (Ephesians 4:10-13). The man Christ is a perfect man. The knowledge of the Son is the Faith, which is one faith (not the way individual churches see it). It is one faith and the knowledge is also one. The job of the five-fold ministry is primarily to unveil the knowledge so that God's children will gain weight and not be tossed to and fro by the winds of doctrine. When you are not stable, you cannot be productive nor produce good works.
As Christians, we cannot have two lives but one, Christ. If Christ is not your life, then you do not have a life. The Faith of the Son will purify the conscience because the conscience is very important. Conscience can torment a man and hinder him from walking in the Faith. What made Jesus stand above the world is liberty.
We will also stand above the world like Jesus did. Amen!
The Raising Of Sons!
You have passed/crossed a major threshold and have come into a large expanse that is for establishment; an expanse where our feet will be shod and hearts will be assured in one thing; where children will be little and many will grow up. It is a place where I will reduce the number of children and bring many to maturity. You will see things clearly and true worship will ascend to me. I want to harvest worship, not the one you do not know but the one you know; for you have come to the place where knowledge will open unto you and enable you to journey to the end. You are welcome even to this threshold; for only few have found it and mercy has prevailed on your behalf.
It is a place where your joy will be full- where you will experience fullness of joy. You will rejoice always; the joy that knows no bound because it is the joy of our coming, hope and clarity. You can rejoice forever more and that is where we have brought you to; a place of eternal joy where nothing hinders your worship and ascension; a place of consistent joy even in the face of affliction. That is where you have come to; it is our commitment at this time. It is no more business as usual, as the whole heaven is upon you to bring forth. You will serve us with joy and our joy will come as our knowledge increase in your heart. Our joy will be the strength of your furtherance and you will further, for our joy will be plenty.
The present world we live in is upon a prophetic timetable. Some of us wish that this world will just continue. However, it is clear that it will not continue forever because it is not a world that God framed; it will pass away with every of its structure. We are just being given a short time for recovery of the seed of God on the earth. This world is sitting on the keg of gunpowder and the princes of the earth know that diplomacy can only go on for a short season, before it eventually explodes. The heavens are determined to raise agents of a new world that will not pass away. This world and its fashion/frame is passing away- passes away; 1 John 2:17, ‘And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever’. Therefore, we must begin to pay more emphasis on the things that we are receiving.
Isaiah 25:1-3
O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
This is a prophetic scripture speaking of things ahead in the spirit. It is amazing how the devil crafted evil tablet in men, people and nations. As long as the earth continues, the word ‘conquest’ will not stop; this intention is put in some souls to fulfil by all means and they will never repent from that. God can however save some of such souls from such conquest agenda. When men proclaim peace, the things that are capable of destroying them are underneath. Therefore, be careful that the days do not come upon you unawares (1 Thessalonians 5:3). Being moderate makes you have the necessary agility needed to fight to overcome (Matthew 24:20).
Church is a bought out space to keep your foot light and to help you respond at every point to the Spirit’s call. Even when it seems that there is peace, there is actually no peace anywhere as it seems. When God’s building is being raised, assault also increases against it. Therefore, we must be prepared and become agents of eternal counsels. This is why we are in church.
Acts 2: 22-24
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
The Lord foreknew what he wanted to do but the enemy implemented it. In God’s counsel, it was not possible for death to hold Jesus down which was however unknown to the enemy. The enemy only had a part but God accomplished the rest of the whole thing himself. This is why you should not joke with the writings of the prophets for they contain the whole picture of God’s intention. If you don’t enter into the complete picture of God, you will only play your part, but you will still be a victim.
God’s picture is to terminate death and bring Life. Every one born on earth is born into the picture which one does not leave until one dies; it is what we participate in either consciously or unconsciously. The essence of Jesus’ coming is to be the medium to part the completeness of the complete picture; Christ is the executor of the complete picture. The third hour of the day is designed purposely to finish the age long agenda. The prophets specialize majorly in declaring the intention of God in the place called the third hour of the day or the last days. That is why Jesus is called Emmanuel- God with us; He holds custody of all things. Everything about the last day is put into His custody. He is the custodian of the agenda of the last days. Immediately you get born again, you plug into that agenda but most times we are not active to participate. This season is designed by God to break the cast that has held us down from responding to the motions of the Spirit. There is a motion of the spirit that is necessary to move us.
Acts 3:17-18
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Christ showed up and walked in the divine thoughts that many prophets had spoken. He fulfilled what was spoken by the mouth of all those ahead of him. The mark of the prophets of the scriptures is that they must generate words that have to do with the determinate counsel; they are different from seers. The prophetic is in line with those things that are yet to enter into the heart of man. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). When we are born again we have plugged into a lineage that is activated to think what man cannot think and has not seen. The things that God has prepared are the eternal counsels spoken by the mouth of the prophets. Even if the whole world denies Jesus today, what God has in mind is still ‘he and his children’ and he is prepared to take children from nations of the world like China. His hands will stretch to the end of the earth and he will gather men unto himself. There is an assignment for these nations in the eternal plan which they are currently unaware of. Our lives were taken from us and plugged into a lineage that is propelled by the eternal counsel; this is what determines our living or dying. As we hear this word, we are being dipped into our baptism. This is why the Church must teach these things so that men may be aware of their agenda.
Acts 2: 14- 18
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
The third hour is the hour of executing eternal counsels and of declaring God’s faithfulness and mercy; of fulfilling the promise of God to the fathers and of His wonders on the earth. These counsels are locked in Christ. It is not only that they will see vision as written in Joel 2:28 but that they shall prophesy. To prophesy by the Spirit is the elementary part of the Spirit which we shouldn’t forbid because it is going to be a journey into the very hard core of Prophecy. There is the beginning of prophecy and the hard core of prophecy. What Jesus did, which he called the determinate counsel, is the hard core prophecy; fulfilling and not just saying what had been spoken. However, without the Spirit of Prophecy, we cannot move to the core of prophecy; we cannot meet what God wants to do. The apostles were first plunged into the spirit of the Holy Ghost so that it can bring them from their carnal arrangement. They were Jewish people who had the law in their mind (Joshua 1:8); they did what they observed from their mind. But the prophet said the law will first be put in their inner man, then it will be written in their hearts; it was a writing from within. To break Jewish men (the children of the promise) from their mental composure, they will be given a dose of the Holy Ghost so that the Faith of God that believes in the Spirit than that which the mind can think may be given to them.
What the Spirit says does not negate what has been written. That’s why it is necessary to link the move of the Spirit to the scriptures to ascertain that it is consistent with the writings of the prophets. Apostle Peter was able to connect to Prophet Joel when the Holy Ghost was poured upon them in Acts 1:8. Man can do anything under the outpour of the Spirit as occasion serves him (1 Samuel 10:7). But if man is not careful, he can misbehave under the flow of the anointing as King Saul did. The Spirit gave the apostles faith to freely give all they had during the early days of the Church; it was a community managed by the Spirit (Acts 5), but Ananias and Sapphira misused the outpour of the Spirit.
It takes the baptism of the Father, Son and Spirit to express God fully. Despite the activities of the Spirit on the apostles in the early days, they were not meant to tabernacle there, they needed to move forward. Men were needed to bring the divine thoughts of God (Isaiah 11: 2-3). When it was time for things to move further, the administration of the Spirit needed to be changed. King Saul did not know that the Spirit upon him was for him to obey the Spirit of the Lord. God will not require what he has not provided (1 Samuel 15:22-23). God therefore chose another man (David) that will receive the same Spirit on Saul and then do all of God’s Will, not his own.
In every of God’s economy, there are seasons where you will misbehave and God will overlook it, but if you are going to make progress, you must make use of every season. There are seasons that when you serve, your heart is watched (to see the rhythm) to know if you will do it as ordination serves you.
God grew his son (in the inside) with the seven spirits; he had the spirits upon him from childhood (Luke 2:40). The spirit/grace trained him to learn; he was quick to learning. David must have something that looks like Jesus (the growth of the inward man/ of the rod) to be called the father of Jesus and for Jesus to be called his son (Isaiah 11:1). What rested upon him was what raised him which is a figure of sonship that is available to all of the sons of God. You cannot prosper in the testimony or the eternal counsel if your inward man is not growing. What makes things of the Spirit weighty are because they are of the holy place/ the sanctuary; the things of the sanctuary are weighty and precious like gold. The heavens won’t give you the Kingdom if you are not weighty (if you lack circumcision in the heart). They want us to grow and have root. They want us to know the dynamics and the seasons of the Spirit.
As you drink of the Spirit in this season, understand that there is a place ahead (that you are going) that you must not miss. David waited for many years to build strength to overtake Zion until he finally took control and built Zion (2 Samuel 5:7). The heavens must have rejoiced exceedingly when David finally built Zion. If you live without hitting such moment where heaven rejoices over you, then your life is a waste. Reading the scriptures shows us that we can also do/get it right. That’s why it is important to build strength by the words coming to us now.
In the midst of the earth, God can raise people, though this raising is unknown to men, which is why it is by revelation. If you are under an atmosphere where the mystery of Christ is not been revealed, then your future is in jeopardy; flee from such places.
May the Lord strengthen our hearts for raising. Amen!
Getting Your Business Priority Right!
Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
As much as it is required of us to be diligent in our business, its pursuits must not take away our commitment to Christ. We must ensure that our commitment to making our businesses grow does not limit/hinder our commitment to Christ. Do not let what you do define or give your life a meaning, only Christ should define your life.
Focus more on that which is profitable here on earth and in the world to come. Give your heart to the force of Eternal Life and it will have an all-round effect on other things that concern or pertain to you.
Obesity!
Obesity is an abnormal weight amassing that can expose you to different diseases like cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, and so on. There are different types of obesity such as mild, moderate and morbid obesity. It is necessary for one to lose weight once one discovers the tendency to be obese. This is done by modifying your food intake, doing exercise, avoiding fatty foods and consumption of red meats, especially for the aged.
Your health is my concern. Pay attention, for Eternal Life is in your body. The life I have deposited in your soul must be displayed in your body; pay attention to ensure your body carries Eternal Life to term and that Eternal Life will not be cut short in your body. As your soul prospers, let your body and health prosper. I judge infirmities that are threatening your life; those infirmities that are life threatening. You are not putting off this body now. I will judge that which threatens your longevity. I have so much concern for your health so pay attention much more to things that concern your health saith the Lord.
The Mystery of Faith!
In the Gospel, although walking is vital, we will have to run to the end instead because the heavens are increasing grace towards us to enable us race to the end.
Tonight, I welcome you into the room of circumcision, to the place where we cut deep into the heart- where we inscribe upon your heart things that will shape you forever. We bring you into secret, sit up and be ready for the operation; for it will cut deep as well as leave you transformed and circumcised; because we have brought the book and we want to open the seal about your future, perfection and glorification. Pay attention; let your heart be focused for we are here for you. We are gathered to you to accomplish what we have purposed to do; to inscribe on the tables of your heart things that will change you hereafter. So, welcome to the room of circumcision.
1 Timothy 6: 1
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
In the days of the scriptures, those you see in public were rich men; most of the poor were slaves. The middle class were not really rich; they were only a little above the slave status. Therefore, for a rich man to be a Christian, it shows he has moved so much; because a mere rich man could not stay in church. There were riches of faith in the Church and except you have grown, it is not easy to be rich and still be in church.
James 5:1-5
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Apostle Paul was commending the rich men in church in those days because they were not only called but also faithful. It showed they were not just vain men but they had been worked upon. He understood that what was called riches was actually moth-eaten. 1 Timothy 6:17, ‘For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The uncertain riches had become real to these set of men who have come to discover how uncertain riches were. If you don’t have riches you lack the ability to say it is uncertain because you don’t know its worth.
Every generation has estimation of who is rich which differs one from another; riches was defined with different things (e.g. cattle, silver and gold, and so on) and based on the number of servants they have. In these days, riches mean affluence, industries and things that men are sustained by. As a result, a lot of men do not regard themselves as rich men. During those days, most people’s dream and aspiration was to become rich and these do not die easily until one has faced so many trials that make one eventually give up those dreams and aspirations. It is natural for men that over time and years, the aspiration will just naturally die out.
God is not against riches as seen in the scriptures; Abraham was a rich man (Genesis 12: 5,13:1-2); Job was an extremely rich man in the middle east (Job 1:1-3), and so on. At a point, some preachers were using faith to preach riches using the patriarchal blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacobs. God is not the author of poverty. It was wickedness working through all manner of disobedience, laziness that overtime brought poverty.
Riches are not wrong because God blessed the earth for men to be blessed. The riches of the earth were hidden in dark places (Isaiah 45:3). Oil is found in the earth. The present assault against America (as a world power) from the Arabs was as a result of the oil boom which is gotten from the secret place of the earth.
Acts 14:15-17
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
There activities did not stop God from blessing the land and giving them riches. He gave them riches and brought seasons over the land. God did not look at man in order to release riches because riches are earthly. The devil knew that riches were of the earth and unreliable, he therefore decided to use it against men. Riches are uncertain, it is the need of the time that put value on it; if need changes, the value also changes. However, because of the earthly nature of man, riches have been made a fortified city. Man has overtime gained confidence in riches. That is why it is not easy to correct a rich man as long as his effort is springing wealth. Riches are also deceitful; it is a superficial secured city.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Riches also make great promises and speak loud but wisdom is excellent because not only does it give defense, it also gives Life and reality. But to a rich man, wisdom is defined by his riches; to him, his wealth determines his wisdom. The riches often control thought, value, estimation and company. That is why when you have riches, it has you because riches possess its owner. Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: King Solomon did not just reach his resolution about riches, he knew what he was talking about because he had handled riches. Most times, when men aspire to be rich, they often think about meeting necessary needs. God gives these riches and we can get it by being born into His family; this makes us naturally rich men which we come into it by reason of grace to make speedy turnover. He opens us to unusual way of thinking in the realm of wealth. Riches do not just mean that which is done by diligence, endowment, inheritance, corruption, and the likes. Some things that are kept in reserve will just open up to you without much ado while some men are programmed in their mind with a will to be rich.
1 Timothy 6: 9-10
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
This scripture does not mean you must not be up and doing. Some Christians have rested on this scripture and become lazy and unproductive. The scripture is talking about people who take risks through endangering their lives and that of others who want to get riches by all means and through every available way. The root of such pursuit is covetousness. Such soul can however never grow (Matthew 13:7, 22) because riches are deceitful; you can never get the right estimation of riches because it is a spirit monitored by its god called mammon. This was why Paul commended rich men who still gave themselves to the Word of Life.
If you don’t have the Faith of the Son of God, you cannot overcome the spirit of mammon. Having faith only cannot overcome this spirit (1 John 5:2-4); it takes our Faith (Faith of the Son) to overcome the world because it puts a value of life in you that is stronger and higher than mammon.
Mark 10:23-24
And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
Those who have riches normally trust in riches. So, if you are a natural man with riches, you will definitely trust in it. If you are also a Christian with riches, you will trust in it. There is therefore a heart you must attain where the trust in riches will collapse. There is a place you get to in your walk with Jesus in which the reality of faith in Jesus will overcome the vanity of riches. Riches have a strong force of influence yet it is vain because it cannot save its owner in the day of death; the owner will just leave it behind. If rich men see the outcome of what happens to their wealth after their death they will have a rethink of their journey before dying. Most rich men often regret what happens to their wealth towards the end of their lives, especially when they behold the way their children spend and handle it right before their eyes. What you heap as wealth with your whole life end up being the source of your sorrow at the end of the day.
When rich men came to Jesus Christ he tried to make them see and handle true riches which is more than that which they have heaped for themselves. When he beholds them, he loves them and wants them to handle true riches. A rich man that can teach the riches of faith without a sign of his riches in sight is a blessed, beloved and faithful man. Such posture is a symbol of conversion and Godliness. That is why God commanded Timothy to save such men who are also thirsty of Eternal Life. He was meant to instruct, raise and teach them how vain their riches are and not to trust in such riches. He was to teach and charge them hoping for response.
1 Timothy 6:17-19
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
To do good means to practice Faith because the just shall live by faith not his faith but that of the Son of God; an endowment of faith that comes through Jesus. Being rich in good works makes them ready to distribute. As they distribute, they are being raised and laying up in store for themselves a good foundation. By so doing they position their hearts to receive true riches that gives them the true rich estate. This foundation that is being laid can ascertain them Eternal Life because it is a proof that they have attained Godliness.
Every rich man does not want a poor man to be like him; that is why he gives them things that cannot raise them. There is need to deal with the thoughts that exalts riches. Riches can move from silver and gold to other forms but they are majorly a store of wealth. When you have desire to be rich, remember that the requirement for upward movement is that you must scatter it. Most people running capitalist system, especially church business often help people with the mindset of giving them hope to look up to them the more and the wealth is not taking care of everybody. This is not really distribution of wealth; true distribution of wealth means you won’t show anybody; no one must know!
The Lord who gave the wealth knows our number and when the wealth is distributed, there won’t be excess left. When the wealth is not enough, it means men have cheated others. This is because there is a fear that if one has the same things like you or more than you, he may become proud. But when the faith of the son comes to you, you learn and have the power of faith to distribute and communicate. If the wealth is from above, nothing will affect it; you will be secured. Proverbs 16. God knew the manna from above will fill everyone because he has measured it.
When godly men are being raised, powers are being raised and there are possibilities to do the unthinkable. The thing that makes you change the standard of living when you perceive an increase in financial status is covetousness. If any rich man wants to enjoy joy in their lives, let him embrace faith. The other part of it is that if a man does not have riches, he has complex. It often makes them feel like they are naked and need clothing. Lay hold on Eternal Life. If your life after being measured with unbelievers is not different, it means you are not appearing in Life and you lack foundation because the place to start life and the things of life that can survive the present earth till the world to come cannot be found in you.
Acts 5
In the early church, it was easy for them to give. They were not giving to collect back, rather they were giving their miseries in exchange for reality. Therefore, when you pursue money, you are pursuing misery and misery will naturally come to you. The Lord will make his riches available to us in this season (Amen). For the Lord to be teaching this means he is giving us the ability to make riches a blessing and not a curse. When you have riches and are aiming for heaven without Eternal Life, you are a miserable man. What makes heaven what it is, is the reward and having laid hold on Eternal Life.
Having endowment of great wealth is not away from the Gospel, but it will be a proof of access. You should not run way from riches but understand and know its responsibility. Your aim must be to practice the vocation of Eternal Life and to lay hold on it. The basics of life like diligence, willingness to work and excellence is a must and are not contestable. The reality of prosperity in the world we are in is a must: you must excel and prosper in whatever you do. By faith, the Lord will destroy the idolatrous root of money in us and He will save us from the capitalist spirit of this age. Let men become weightier than the passing glory of this world.
When heaven looks at us, they look at a place that will become a blessing. That is the mindset he uses to bless us and has determined that through us the earth will be blessed.
May the Lord help us. Amen!
Truth, the Friendship Guide!
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
What we need both in the Spirit and the natural is hid in friendship because Friendship is by Truth. Whoever we are friends with therefore should be a servant of the Truth; anything otherwise is an agreement with idols.
Our relationships are not ordinary and it is important we know that friendship is a platform of wisdom God has packaged for our salvation which is brought about by Truth; the principles of Christ. Let Truth be the guide of your friendship!
Grace to click the START button!
Learning how to start is the secret behind every business. Starting a business is never by magic. It is therefore necessary we start and waste time no longer if the grace has been given.
The start of anything is always a dicey period but if nothing is started then nothing can be improved upon, neither will any success be attained. The scripture records that the end of a matter is better than the beginning there of, therefore irrespective of uncertainty or fear of failure, plunge in and start.
Starting is what kills the fear of starting. So, START that business NOW if you are sure GRACE has been granted, for indeed Grace has been granted.
The Power of God: The Gospel of Christ!
Mercy will be built in us as we bow our knees to the Lord.
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
When we drink of the Lord, a well of Life will be dug in us, not when we go to the mountain. I got a bit curious with the fact that many of us need to understand the Gospel and its frame work which will commend patience to see it done; then we will not be in a hurry and give in to many thoughts.
The Church was not born without the Holy Ghost. Jesus told his disciples to tarry so as to receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon them. “After” here means ‘the aftermath of an occurrence’; he did not say when the Holy Ghost come but after for power is more than the noise that was heard on that day of Pentecost. Power is not in the speaking with new tongues and certain things began to happen by the reason of baptism of the Holy Ghost; Power is a Person. Laying on of hands on the sick by a new convert who receives the Holy Ghost and making them recover is not really the power spoken of; Power will come after the Holy Ghost is given therefore we need the Holy Ghost to receive power. It is very wrong to just stay in the realm of the first receiving of the Holy Ghost. The reason for the Holy Ghost is the Gospel. He is not the power. We can be tempted to say when we have the Holy Ghost we have power, the Holy Ghost is not deceived because he knows from the beginning who Power is. He knows that He is to prepare us for the person of Power.
To talk about the Holy Ghost alone was important at a time when people were not aware about the Holy Ghost, when we did not know the frame work we are tempted to say anything. When the gospel enters a place it will first be baptism of the Holy Ghost then power will come, in a nation that the gospel is being preached and they have not come to the Pentecost the church is not yet established, until the Holy Ghost is come we cannot receive power.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Holy Ghost knows he is not the power but was given so that we can receive the Gospel which is the Power of God unto Salvation. Power is the Gospel of Christ. If we are not given the Holy Ghost, we won’t have the template to receive the Gospel; there will be no basis for understanding power. Power is associated with Salvation which is alien to man. The receiving of the Holy Ghost is to prepare us to receive Power. To preach the Kingdom of God is to teach the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost conveys all of God to us. When Jesus left the disciples they did not receive Power yet even when the Holy Ghost came. What prepares the heart for the Gospel is the Holy Ghost. When I meet people who argue with the Gospel I know that Holy Ghost is absent for the Gospel is the mind of Christ. When God wanted to bring power to the Church, he had to raise Paul. Holy Ghost is to make our hearts mild; even with the Holy Ghost some people will not receive power except God by passes them with all their prayers and fasting just like Peter when the Lord came to him and yet he would not eat. God did the same with Paul by pushing Paul off the horse to make him know it was the Lord. The Lord hijacked us with power like that of Paul to make us come into the Gospel. With all of this Paul later came to describe it as apprehension but the entire hijack is not power. After the encounter Paul was given power for the people needed it.
Until the Church receives power the assignment of the Holy Ghost is not done, for he will teach us all things, which is the body of knowledge called Christ. When the Holy Ghost comes what come with his coming is power or the body of knowledge of the Son. There was a time in the development of the growth of the Church that the Holy Ghost supervised the activities going on in the Church followed by teaching of the new birth which was embraced, after this then came the Pentecostal and the holy ghost spread like fire yet power had not come, the church has never being stagnated, the church yet did not stop here they went on to the charismatic, who had extra adornment, extra strength which produced a people who began to wait on the Lord, and then Paul was beginning to be born and was beginning to bring the revelation of Christ just like in the days of the apostles. The power of God is the gospel of God which is divided into two which is the body of knowledge about the son and the body of knowledge about God and Holy Ghost was given to bring the church to this course and until this is done Holy Ghost is not meant to come and heal our sickness and diseases.
The phase where the church is now is the phase of the teaching of the revelation of the knowledge of the son, this might be new and strange and unusual but so was it when new birth teaching started so it was like that in history, it is strange because it just coming, that it is strange does not mean that it is not true. John 7:24.
There is need for us to hold these things we must thrive to lay hold and keep and profit with them when we profit we create room for more to come in, when we profit we create a larger space for more to come in, you have being favored by God to come in early, you have being brought unconsciously not by your will so hold it and profit, and by profiting you are thereby creating a larger space for others to come.
There will always be a crop of people with a different teaching on new birth and the Holy Ghost, so also will it be when the revelation of Christ comes. They are the crop of people who will make noise outside what God is doing. Galatians 3:1. Our generation won’t be the first generation. So, when the body of knowledge of the Son is being taught we should not assume that that is all about the Gospel. We will keep following what is revealed till we get to God.
Psalm 144:1
Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
This Psalm has everything to do with the attaining the power of God. Also 1 Corinthians 9:28, 2 Timothy 4:8. If there is a crown it means that it was not gotten on a platter of gold. The crown is not for them that the Lord loves but for those that love the Lord’s appearing and every time God comes he comes with light and with knowledge. To love his continuous revelation, his showing and unveiling to us is to love the Lord. When we do not give the Holy Ghost the chance to unveil Christ and God, we have not allowed the Holy Ghost to be who he really is. We have been taught how to fight and that is by loving the Lord. The way we love is to continuously love his appearing. The criteria for giving Paul the crown was that he continually loved his appearing; this is the war for which we will be given a crown for. We have to be taught how to love the appearing of God or else the devil will keep us busy and the way to love his appearing is to embody what he reveals through hearing. The way to kill a prophet is to refuse his saying or reject his words.
I am building my church and the gate of hell will not prevail against it. I am building my church and the day of mediocrity is passing. I am building my church and the day of darkness is rolling away. My church is coming into the day of brightness and into the day of the morning of my knowledge and doctrine for my doctrine will yet still be in my body, for that which you see today you will not see any longer. Many will come and I will teach them Life and doctrine and they will be made free. You will need to learn of me if you will outgrow ignorance and days of darkness. Blessed are your ears and eyes for you will verily take light to my Body even places that were shut for I am raising the door again and you will come in and have a free course that the world also may have light; that you may be a light to your brethren for they will die in their ignorance if you do not come for they have not pleased me.
It is good to know that there is always affliction for people who come into this space. Whatever message the Lord brings to us, whether the message of new birth or Pentecost, and whatever God is doing with us is a privilege; to suffer with him is a privilege. We cannot stay in what everyone is doing. 2 Timothy 2:11-12. If we refuse to suffer with Christ we deny him.
Every mode of worship has the religious part and the Faith part of it. The religious part is the one that allows everyone to come in and accommodate more people while the Faith has just few people and even holders of the religious can persecute holders of Faith. When we start teaching the Faith of the Son, it is either to be among the holders of the Faith of Christ or to be among the holders of religion. For the holders of the religious part have immediate gain while holders of the Faith have their reward in the World to come.
Matthew 10:32
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
To deny Christ is not to confess Christ; it is to live by another knowledge that is not the knowledge of Christ and die by that knowledge. 2 Timothy 2:11. The way we confess Christ is not by preaching but by being taught the body of knowledge of Christ and dying by this knowledge. If Christ is to be our home we cannot afford to be tired too soon. It is deliberate to start in Christ and end in God. We should not die for whatever is not Kingdom matter and likewise some people should not be our friends for they will discourage us in the Way.
When you are persuaded without doubt it is a gain and we have won a soul causing joy and rejoicing for we know that when we have one in the Way, we have a weapon. Many are needed to be weapons!
May our hearts be persuaded in the Way. Amen!