Singleness of heart is sincerity, incorruptibility and oneness. We should do all things under one thing because the one thing is the needful. Our strength has nothing to do with the physical but when men are raised in strength it will affect their environment. For a person who is supposed to enter into the strength of God it will show in the natural. Woe unto us if everybody speaks evil of us everywhere we go for that would mean that we are misrepresenting the Gospel. We must come to the place where there is expression of strength which must be shown to people. We are not asked to exhibit energy or go about with zeal but to exhibit the Lord because demonstration of strength is in the Lord not in our boasting.

1 John 2:5

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 

 

Show me someone who has the Word of God abiding in him and I will show you a strong man. Our strength is not what the world calls strength. Our strength is the Lord and by this knowledge which is the Faith of Christ is spelt by the Gospel. As young people, we should dispense our energy in the pursuit of God; we should not be that person that do not know the workings of God but be the expression of the Godliness of God. Knowledge is what commends strength; a man is strong because of what he knows.

Proverbs 24:4

And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. 

 

Riches are the programs that God has come to send to his Church which are our inheritance. Strength is the function of wisdom. Abraham was strong in faith and gave glory to God which enabled him to hope against hope. If we have come to know that Christ is our life material things will not be termed as our lives. Knowledge of Christ is strength as knowledge is demonstrated in strength. Isaiah 33:6. When shakings happen if we do not know our strength we will be unstable and easily convinced away from Truth. Wisdom and knowledge stabilize us. We are standing not in our power but in the knowledge of God which communicates knowledge to man. If we want to know a wise man endued with knowledge such should show in Godliness. It takes strength to live a Godly life.

James 3:13-15

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 

 

Malice, and strife and anger are expressions of a wisdom. Some people are strong in the flesh but the Lord wants to strengthen us in his strength. It takes strength to stand and not complain because we see from the side of God. Whatever we do should be shown in the meekness of wisdom. There is a Grace that is in Christ Jesus and this grace is strength to us. The display of anointing or doing of miracle in any way is not strength. Strength is patience embodied; it is power under control. It takes strength to forgive. When we come to the point where we can easily forgive we have come to the place of strength. This is power in the character of Christ.

What will make us strong is if we have known the Truth in Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ is full of Grace and Truth. Grace is divine ability while Truth is the content that will help us to express the divine ability. Fullness is having the knowledge and Life of Christ. Strength is complete when we have the manner of the Life of the Spirit and also understand the spirit. Anything that we can do by ourselves is our strength. The strength of the Lord will always ask us to do things that are naturally impossible but when we ask for help it will be possible. When we have God we have strength. It takes strength to do the law and covenant for those who know their God will be strong and do covenant.

Before now the Church has handled demon but now the Church will handle Satan himself. When we see Babylon falling it is a pointer. The warfare is becoming heightened but the Lord is the strength of our lives. It is higher than an average believer but the Lord will move us in to the sphere where all things are bare. We will have the strength to stand when we grow and all things are made naked to us.

For it is one building that I am constructing on the face of the earth, I am bringing stones that will fit into their place, and the house will have their full shape. I am bringing stones that will fit into the building. You will also be a stone that will fit into the picture, that you might bring down the image, and the crushing down of the image, pay attention to the raising of this building, pay attention that you might bring down that which has kept many away in the pursuit of life. Pay attention even has you build that building that will bring down the enemy.

God is doing a work of building himself in men and when the work is done we will see people in different shapes and colour. God is saying that a time will come when we will come to our strength; where God will collapse individual strength and make it OUR STRENGTH; then no man will be able to say “I”. There is a display of individual strength, wisdom and ability; a time where individual strength will not be found again and God will become Our strength. Ministers need to be conscious of what they preach and teach for they are to build according to pattern. God is raising a people of strength who will totally depend on God and will not put their trust in their natural strength of wisdom. We must agree with God so that we can be built.

God is restoring the strength of the Church; He is raising a church, a people who are not weaklings and who will not shy away from responsibility; people who can fight for their people in places of authority and cannot be bought by any material thing. By the time we migrate from my, mine, I, to “our”, it will be of the Lord. We should fear God who holds the waters in the hollow of His hands and measures the hills and mountains on the scale. Daniel stood in Government in His time. Likewise Joseph, he stood for righteousness in his time, so we should know that when we get to the place of authority we are representing US.

Psalm 133:1-2

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 

 

There is a blessing that comes down upon the Church. The blessing that the Church will begin to enjoy when we fully come together when Christ becomes our strength is when we begin to speak the same thing. The reason we see individual strength is because we are eating from different tables. The moment we begin to eat from the same table we will begin to look alike and not be bought with any physical thing and this is the blessing. God wants to bring the Church to the place where we are one, where we agree and align on the same thing. A man of strength is a man who can define gratification, who can stand and not be moved. Samson was seen as a man of great strength; he alone killed thousands and carried the city’s gate as heavy as it was up the mountain but he was not actually a man of strength. He was full of weakness to have gone to Delilah’s house and also dying on her laps. Joseph instead was a man of strength to have denied Potiphar’s wife at the expense of his freedom.

When the Spirit is speaking expressly we know that there is a problem but it is not about the problem, it is about the solution which is made known by the Spirit. We have thrived in the days where we have fought personal battles but it has never been meant to be personal but corporate. It is clear that in the times that we are in, the things that will come against us cannot be fought personally. When we have a conflict that wants to threaten our existence then we will lift up our eyes to our God to save us. In this season we are in, men will turn to God and will ask for help.

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 

 

We have seen churches grow to the extent that everything about it projects man’s gift. The Church in Acts grew with so many multitudes and prospered; such a church cannot be called weak. There are strengths that exist that came from God which can make a man strong or make him weak if he is not careful. A man can be vain and yet strong. When we come to the household of God there is a strength that must become weak, just like Paul who became weak as a result of knowledge that he has. There are levels of knowledge that make us weak when we have them. It is possible for a man to be strong in the gift given by God yet vain.

It is not what Satan gives that is called strength but what God gives that is not used in God’s way unto salvation which is being turned by the enemy. If we are strong today and we do not move to the next level of the strength of God a higher power of the enemy will overcome us. Ananias and Saphira in the book of Acts came with an assumption of doing so much yet doing little. This was a strange spirit to the Holy Ghost and they were judged immediately. The Church met at different levels and the Spirit dealt with them according to that level. There was a time where men could leave their jobs and all they hold dear but right now the enemy has weakened them and they can go to any length to get what they need. A man can be weak or strong in faith, but in the Faith of God we either get rich or poor.

James 2:1

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 

 

It is the Lord that administers individual strength but he wants us to come to the place of OUR strength and OUR salvation. This faith here is what is needed to come into Glory. In the realm of “our”, it is about what God is doing inside us and not what he is doing outside us. Strong faith cannot make us heirs, it can only make us have a promise but rich faith makes us heirs. The devil does not fear a promise but he fears “the” promise. We are coming into the sphere where the discourse will be general salvation and knowledge that we need somebody else. There is no way to access our strength if we are not fully dependent on Him.

Psalm 46:5

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. 

 

The corporate essence is the whole essence. Once it is corporate we will not trust in our individual strength. We are in a season where God is telling us to take time out to know him until we come to the head of all things, Christ is the head because he is a building of knowledge. We need to come to the place where the complete person of the I AM is known, for he is the one who has the full content.

Paul’s imprisonment brought about skills he did not know he possessed. When we walk with God and we are attacked, new abilities will be awakened in us. The Churches in Acts were stronger in their moments of tribulation. If you are a strong man you will not be able to tap into even natural resources for it will be assumed that you have everything it takes to do a thing. When we are really strong then we are weak but when we are weak then we are strong so in the path of salvation God will lead us through ways that will make us weak. Psalm 48:1. God is mindful of the whole earth not only about us so God will have to take our attention away from ourselves to the whole earth so as to see what He is doing. To enjoy God’s strength we must look to Him. God’s strength is to be made known in Zion. Amen! Hallelujah!