Month: October 2023 (Page 2 of 2)

This morning the Holy Spirit in our fellowship time reminded me of what the Lord has provided for us His followers and the process through which we can lay hold of all the wonderful things we read and wonder about concerning the life of those who walked with God.

We need to remember the Holy Spirit pointed out to me that we have obtained the same precious faith they walked in and for that reason we can also share in all the benefits and true manifestations of what they walked in if we apply and put into action the same things they did.

The Holy Spirit pointed out that we need to stop idolizing what they accomplished and start walking in the same anointings that brought them results so our lives can reflect the glory of the Lord for men to see today.

Let us look at the scripture the Holy Spirit quickened to my heart this morning from 2 Peter.1:1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: Peter was first of all a bond servant of Jesus which means Peter only repeated what His Master spoke to Him to say and also an Apostle.

Someone sent on an errand with a specific message to deliver from Jesus for a group of people which they are to receive as if Jesus Himself was addressing them with absolute confidence knowing that what was contained in that spoken word would manifest on their behalf if they just received it and embraced it in their lives. As an Ambassador has the authority of the nation he represents to say their decisions on any matter.

This means that what is about to be said should be received, accepted and then applied to your life in the now to change whatever was there before to line up with this new truth. To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of Our God and Savior Jesus Christ. When you are told you have obtained something it means you have possession of it.

You are not hoping you will receive it but you have it in the now. Let me share a story to emphasize this point. As a teenager I remember only telling my friends that I was traveling for holidays when the airline ticket was in my hand and not when we were planning it because anything could happen to stop or cancel it. This was because many classmates would tell us what their parents were discussing about travel and then they never traveled because it was a discussion not a fact and this would mean they were laughed at and derided in class for saying what never happened with words of how was your holiday haha.

On the other hand I would come back with the proof of having traveled with goods that proved it though I had said nothing prior about traveling. I am using this analogy because this is how real having obtained something is, and the Holy Spirit had used it to remind me of my certainty in receiving what God had for me, because it is in your possession and can be used anytime. Peter said we have obtained the same like precious faith that He had which means to me that what Peter did I should also be able to do also.

Let’s look at what Peter’s faith did in Acts.3:6&7 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. Peter said such as I have or have obtained the name of Jesus I give you, rise up and walk and the man walked instantly.

Peter was not hoping that someday this would manifest. He knew what he had and released it in the now and it happened exactly as spoken by Peter. The man got up and walked and leaped praising God in the temple.

Peter goes on to explain in Acts.3:12 So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? Verse.16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

The precious faith we received through Jesus Christ has brought about this miracle not Peter’s special relationship with Jesus, but a like precious faith we can also walk in which we have now received. We just need to put it in action as Peter did that day. This is because we received it from Jesus as a gift of His grace not our own ability by the operation of the Holy Spirit.

Years later the same faith works for Peter in Acts.9:33-35 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed. 34 And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.” Then he arose immediately. 35 So all who dwelt at Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord. Peter again says Aeneas receive healing in Jesus name and it happens immediately and see what results happen on the back of this miracle.

This is the same precious faith Peter tells us that we who have trusted Jesus have also obtained and need to press into using to bring about the miraculous as Peter did so we experience the same results. This only because we have the same access by faith to all the promises Jesus made available to His followers.

My prayer for you today is to believe the words you have heard and receive them as the man at the temple gate and move into the place of manifestation of God’s miraculous power working out signs and wonders on your behalf. May you also find grace in these words to be a demonstrator of this like precious faith by going forth and being an example showing the healing power of Jesus to men as Peter did. Come off the sidelines and be a true witness, participator in the power of the Holy Spirit in demonstration.

Remember Jesus gave it to all who believe in His name in Mark.16:17&18 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Go ahead and allow the Holy Spirit to make you a faithful servant of Jesus through the word of truth you have received and continue to follow Jesus faithfully and be a standard bearer of the truth of the Kingdom for men to see and come to the knowledge of the truth and become free in Jesus name.

The word of God is real and it works today as it did in Peter’s day. In Cincinnati Ohio when attending a conference, on the day before it, as I met the workers in the church a little boy with his Mum who had a broken ear drum was healed instantly because the Holy Spirit said I should pray for him there and then and not wait for the conference the next day.

The pain he was experiencing was excruciating but he was instantly healed as I prayed for him and he said all the pain had gone and was rejoicing in that moment and we had a healing service as others came forward and were healed as they saw the miracle and he was a testimony in the conference that healing was available to everyone today and we had a glorious time in the Holy Spirit as many were healed and delivered by the power of the Holy Spirit.

May this be the reality of Jesus in your lives by the Power of the Holy Spirit as you have obtained the like precious faith in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning in our fellowship time impressed on me to share further on what we need to do after we have boldly come into the holiest place where God dwells. The importance of the posture our hearts must take and be in to fully maximize the benefits we have been granted by God.

We need to remember that everything we gain from the Father God and Jesus depends on the stance our hearts take and how and where our hearts go will determine the progress or failure we experience.The Holy Spirit constantly puts emphasis on where our hearts are in any matter because the heart position will determine the outcome we receive in spite of what God promises.

So let us dig further into Hebrews.10:22 which reads let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

We notice firstly that we must draw near to God with a true heart meaning that if we come with a false heart we will not be accepted. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth so in order to embrace His help and support we must desire to know the truth and eradicate lies from our hearts. Our hearts must love truth because only knowing the truth will make us free from deception and its consequences which are death.

So in order to draw near to God our hearts must embrace the truth in full assurance of faith. What is full assurance of faith and how do I walk in that you would ask. Does it mean I need to be perfect and have no faults? Well that is a tall order you will say, and no one can be that and do it. Let us examine that concept of full assurance of faith and see how to use it in our hearts so we can benefit from it to better our experience of God’s best for us in the now.

Full assurance of faith is not dependent on you but on your heart believing what God has already done on your behalf. Your heart must choose to believe what the Lord has accomplished for you and receive it as fact. Your heart must be resolute in believing that what God has said, He will do, and what He has spoken, He will perform or accomplish.

Full assurance of faith is that your heart believes implicitly and confesses what God spoke as if it is so in the now and refuses to believe or accept anything other than that fact. The woman with the issue of blood is a clear example of this fact. She had never met Jesus, never attended any of His meetings, and studied His ministry.

She had only heard witness stories that Jesus heals the sick and on the basis of that fact decided in her heart that if she just touched the hem of His garment she would be healed and kept confessing that fact until the day she was in His vicinity and touched the hem of His garment and experienced what she had said over and over again from her hearts belief that Jesus possessed the power in Him that when she touched Him she would be whole and it happened just as she believed.

Jesus confirmed this truth as He went on to say to her in the presence of everybody present that your faith has made you whole. Not my power but your full assurance in heart of my ability has given you this miracle while those near me have received nothing because they are waiting for Me Jesus to do something rather than approaching Me with an assurance in heart of what I said I came to do in Luke.4:18&19,21 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me [i]to heal the brokenhearted,To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,To set at liberty those who are [j]oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

From that moment Jesus said this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing any person who drew near in full assurance that what Jesus said and believed it in their hearts could receive by their confession all Jesus said they could have of that promise. This is so not because they are perfect but because they chose to believe what Jesus said they could experience because of Him.

This is how you draw near in full assurance of faith with a true heart and embrace all the Holy Spirit has available for you and receive it because of what Jesus did, not your ability or righteous acts. You have no place to boast about this because you only received it because of what Jesus did to make that possible when you engage your heart.

This assurance of faith then works to sprinkle your conscience from evil works and washes your body with pure water that presents you acceptable to God.

I pray that as you hear this truth the grace flowing from these words will be poured out on you to see it manifested in your life and you walking in the place of full assurance of faith in Jesus’s ability to do everything He promised you can partake of through His sacrifice for you.

Permit your heart only to believe and confess what Jesus said and not the opinions of men and their fears or concerns about God’s ability. Only believe what Jesus declared and live your life resting your heart on what He said and go ahead and experience all the benefits of drawing near to God in full assurance of faith in His ability to do exceedingly abundantly and above all you could ask or think according to His power at work in you in Jesus name . Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning in our time together reminded me that it is Jesus who determined to show us off as His companions on the earth. Jesus is the person who decided the kind of glory He wanted us to be the revealers of on the earth. The Holy Spirit pointed out to me that we need to have the right perspective on the position God has made us sit in the heavenly places with Him, so that we do not let the lies and deception of satan rob us of what is available for us to walk in and through false humility cost us the very manifestation of the benefits God has made available for us.

Let us look at what God says about us in Ephesians.2:4-7 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Every word spoken here is what the Father purposed that we His children should walk in regardless of the state we were in before. The great love of the Father in releasing Jesus to die on our behalf was not accomplished when we were perfected,but actually when we were dead in trespasses. He chose to make us alive with Christ. He proceeded to raise us up together with Christ, not put us down, which is the intent of the enemy to disqualify us and make us feel small and unqualified to share in what God has freely given us so we reflect shame and disgrace to the name of the Lord.

The operation of grace means we are given the ability by God to have supernatural strength to be and do what only God can do. You would have noted now that each time I write a post in the words given me by the Holy Spirit there is a grace released to the hearer which if you take will enable you to walk and live out what God has promised.

The Apostle Paul who penned down the words we are looking at today from Ephesians was a blasphemer of this very Jesus, who He now says that because of the operation of grace which Paul received, can now walk in a place where the glory of the Lord so overshadows his life that even the close friends of Jesus are startled at that reality.

Paul goes on to manifest Jesus in such a way in Acts.19:11&12 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

Can you imagine demons leaving at the sight of a handkerchief or apron with no one speaking violently to them commanding them to leave from the body of a former blasphemer of Jesus, Paul. The effectiveness of the grace of God which we need to understand more and utilize in our lives through the Holy Spirit, the giver of such grace, will position us to experience the full scope of the promises of God to us. Verse.7 of Ephesians.2 explains the fullness of what the Holy Spirit wants me to convey to you. God wants to show you of by demonstrating a show through your life what is the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness towards you in the ages to come.

A never ending show of Gods exceeding greatness of grace for men to see and marvel at how awesome our God is to do such wonders through our lives. The Lord has no problems doing greater works through our lives. He wants us to share His nature and Jesus always encouraged His followers to have and do greater works than He did. Jesus cursed the fig tree in Mark.11 but invited Peter and whoever heard those words to speak to mountains and command them to move and see them move because of words they spoke.

The Holy Spirit wants you to know without a shadow of doubt that He wants to work miracles, signs and wonders through your life so that the name of Jesus will be seen and made known through vessels of clay so that the excellency of the power may be of God and not men for all to see.

I pray today that as you hear these words and receive them because in John.1:12&13 it reads But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Your receiving the words of Jesus will make them become active and alive in your life. The Grace will then flow towards you and you will become a New person.

Everything God wants to show through your life will be made manifest because you believed and received in your heart what the Holy Spirit is saying through this word to you today.

Forget about yesterday because with God it is always about today when you hear His voice and respond a new dawning of life and light begins. May your life take the shape of the show the Father has planned for you and may you reflect His glory on the earth for men to see and glorify His name in Jesus name. Amen.

The precious Holy Spirit, my best friend, my Helper, my confidence, my everything this morning in my communion time with Him shared with me more on the boldness and confidence of heart I need to have continuously to walk in the fullness of all the inheritance the Father has made available to me in the now.

As I meditated on the word which I encourage you to do everyday as the Lord is the One who instructed Joshua in Joshua.1 to meditate on the word day and night and not let the word depart from his mouth, because continually doing so will enable him to observe to do all that is written in it, and thus make his way prosperous and find good success.

Everybody wants good success but not everybody wants to meditate on the word all day long. However doing so does bring exactly what God said would happen that is good success.

As I did the Holy Spirit pointed out to me Hebrews.10:19-23 which reads these life changing words which I encourage you to declare aloud over yourself : Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Let me share how you take this word and declare it over your life.

I am qualified as Jesus’s brethren today, so I have boldness, no more timidity or fear or inferiority complex to enter the Holiest place in the Universe. Not because I have a righteous right I have attained, but through the blood of Jesus that has made atonement for my soul.

My boldness is in what the blood of Jesus has accomplished for me to empower me to enter into the Presence of the Holiest in a new and living way Jesus has made available to me through His flesh on my behalf.

My confidence is in what Jesus’s blood made available to me and for that reason I am as bold as a lion when approaching the Father knowing I will not be denied access because the blood of Jesus speaks the better things for me that accompany deliverance.

Now just let these words permeate your heart and soul and wash all over your being and see what the Holy Spirit will do on your behalf. It is staggering what the reality of what Jesus did for us will do to energize and revive your whole perspective of God, faith when you apply the truth to your life.

When you see yourself from God’s perspective of you, your heart will explode with ultimate gratitude for the achievement that has occurred on your behalf through the blood of Jesus sprinkled for your benefit. Jesus alludes to this reality when in Mark.25-34 the woman with the issue of blood approaches Jesus on the basis of what she had heard of Him and boldly takes her miracle without even speaking to Jesus, but her continuous saying if I touch Him I will be whole, and when she touches the hem of His garment power goes from Him to heal her because she boldly approaches His Presence and gets healed instantly while those around Jesus are wondering what is happening.

Jesus stops because it gets His attention and chooses to use her as a testimony of how we should respond to God and allows her to share what she did regardless of the fact that He, Jesus has been stopped on His way to attend to the daughter of Jairus who was on the verge of death and Jesus needed to arrive before death to save her. It adds to what Jesus achieves in the house of Jairus which is to raise the dead.

This is the level of boldness we need to exude in confidence as we approach the Holiest place in the Universe and receive everything Jesus has bought and paid for us to experience through His blood that speaks on our behalf better things that accompany deliverance.

My prayer for you this morning is that as you hear these words and receive them the grace of boldness will be imparted to you and you will approach the Throne of God Most High and receive what you are needing that seems to have eluded you and come out triumphant as the lady with the issue of blood and have a new story of what the Lord has accomplished on your behalf.

You will become a witness to the might of the Hand of the Holy Spirit working in the now of life for you.

May you also continue in this process and develop your heart and soul to live continually in this place of boldness in the Lord where you continuously approach the Holiest place in the Universe and your life becomes an emblem of Praise and a sign and wonder in your generation who reflects as a Gem the awesomeness of the power and reality of the kingdom of Jesus for men to see and glorify His wonderful name in Jesus name. Amen.

The Holy Spirit this morning in my fellowship time with Him spoke to me to open up to you more about how you are to respond to the assaults of the enemy against you. Yesterday the Holy Spirit started me sharing with you on Psalm.2:1-3 about the plan of the enemy against an anointed vessel of the Lord and how everything God gives us on earth can be contested, but how we need to build a fortification through the word of God to override any obstacle that rises up against us. This morning I will share more from Psalm.2 on the stand that the Lord takes against what threatens His plan which the Holy Spirit taught me I should adopt to walk in the triumph already determined for me.

Let us dive in further into Psalm.2:4-7 which reads these words He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. 5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: 6 “Yet I have [e]set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”7 “I will declare the [g]decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. I recall the first day the Holy Spirit unveiled this word of truth to me. He first of all shared with me that I qualified to laugh at satan’s plans against me because in Ephesians.1:3-6 which reads  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. I am blessed with every spiritual empowerment in the heavenly places with the Lord so I am above what is speaking against me so I can laugh as my father laughs from where He sits and I sit with Him. That thought alone is enough to take you over every obstacle, but there is more.

We are not to live from the earth’s perspective , because we are seated in heavenly places with Christ from where decisions are made and ratified on earth. The Apostle Paul states in Colossians.3:1&2  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. We live from the heavenly realm. Remember that Jesus has all authority both in heaven and on earth and is the Supreme Ruler over the earth. It is funny when someone is trying to trick and steal from someone who is watching every step you are making and can thwart what you are doing with just a smile on His face and laughter. The laughter from the Lord holds them in derision. Well let’s look at what derision means : the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt for someone and bring their plan to naught as they make it.  Now you understand why during a God birthed revival as people laugh in the Hoy Spirit, years of bondages are lifted from them as they submit to the Holy Spirit in an uninhibited way. What sometimes years of teaching has not accomplished is removed just by laughing at the enemy through the lens of the Holy Spirit and bondages just simply fall off. 

 I have seen the Holy Spirit do this often but I want to mention a lady who came to see me in Freetown Sierra Leone and when I asked her how she was She broke down saying everything was wrong and the Holy Spirit spoke to me to bless her and so I laid hands on her and she fell under the power of the Spirit and was knocked out for an hour and when She woke up she was filled with laughter and said she felt so light because it was as if so many burdens had been lifted off her and she had no cares anymore. She came back weeks later and gave testimony that her life dramatically changed from that day and things had just worked out miraculously and problems had been solved and life was good and she had a smile on her face and a new rejoicing in her step because the Lord had used laughter from the Holy Spirit to untie her from years of bondage and made her free.

Let me continue with the reality of this word in Ephesians.1 God is the One who chose us to place us in this place of triumph in Him before the foundation of the world. This means that nothing can change that fact because you will need to defeat the One who created everything to stop what He made and that is impossible to do. So we need to laugh because we are seated with the Lord in the advantageous position of triumph knowing we will always come out triumphant because He the Lord placed us there for His glory.

Just look at when God speaks to them in Psalm.2 in His wrath so they will come down because they are His enemies and distresses them in His deep displeasure. You certainly don’t want to be in the place where God speaks to you in His deep displeasure and distresses you. However for you God has placed you in His love and given you the laughter experience through the Holy Spirit so that you can experience the Might of His hand at work for you.  My prayer for you today is that as these words minister to you, you will hear clearly and find an abundance of grace to lay hold of the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit working out all the reality of this word on your behalf. Ask the Holy Spirit that You want to experience the fullness of all He has for you and you don’t want any doubt in the heart to rob you of all the benefits God has for you today  through this word in Jesus name. Amen.

This morning as I began with my fellowship time with the Holy Spirit He spoke to me about the pending season of an abundance of rain about to hit His faithful lovers and followers who have endured a season of drought and famine.

Where there has been no sign of rain but, dryness and hardness you are about to experience such a deluge of rain pouring into your lives that will startle you at how quickly what was dry and parched has become moist and fruitful. In 1 Kings.18:1 we read these words from the Lord to Elijah And it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth.”

This word the Lord sends to Elijah seems so strange and out of place because the famine had been so severe that the possibility of rain was not an option as crops had been paralyzed and productivity was in the place of barrenness and all hope of the change of circumstances was lost.

Even the faithful were in trepidation as to what was next because they had done all that was possible physically but nothing was shifting and all their efforts were coming to nothing and the frustration was mounting and causing people to do strange things just to survive through this ordeal.

However God sends this word out because there is going to be a change and He wants His people prepared ahead of time for the shift to take place and ensure they know whose side they need to be on.

As it was on that day so the Holy Spirit says today that there is about to be abundant showers of rain in your lives where drought and famine in your health , prosperity, your business projects and, God plans that just seem to be non productive and, stagnating there is a huge dramatic God turn around about to happen that will bring massive change and productivity as an abundance of rain is about to fall on your lives by the hand of the Lord that will change these dire circumstances in an instant and bring forth much swift success and harvests you never saw coming as everything seemed dry and dead.

The Lord wants you to begin to look up again to Him and prepare to receive instructions from the Holy Spirit on how to position yourselves to lay hold physically of the blessings that will manifest as the rain of the Holy Spirit begins to fall on your life events and God projects and bring forth much productivity and fruitfulness which has eluded you and you have wondered why?

This is because you believed you had done what was required in God and for some reason it has not panned out according to your earnest expectation on the Lord’s part to favor your projects which has kept you wondering what is wrong.

A season of famine the Holy Spirit says has come to an end and years of productivity have been decreed by the Lord. However we need to change our mindsets to the reality of having abundance again rather than saving, hoarding and holding on tightly to what remains because there is no certainty about tomorrow’s provision.

Well the Holy Spirit wants to destroy that notion from your life and prepare you to expect and then experience an overflow of abundant blessings as much abundant rain begins to attend your lives again to glorify the name of Jesus and change the picture and story of your lives. Be ready to stand with the Lord as your enemies will be put to flight as you come out on the other side with no trace of what used to hinder and trap your progress.

You will learn through this process of God’s abundance of rain how to be still and know that God is God and that He will be exalted in the earth and in your life for men to see and know that He God remains the ruler in the affairs of men.

So prepare yourselves and change your mindsets that have hardened because of the difficulties and get your hope back out and begin to expect the Lord in the “Now” to show up and show off on your behalf again in this new season of manifestation. Open your hearts wide to embrace the guidance of the Holy Spirit in this season because that will be crucial to your positioning to lay hold of everything the Lord has and is making available as the deluge of abundant rain falls on your life.

I will post any further updates the Holy Spirit shares with me at this time to keep you alert and aware of all the Lord is doing. My prayer for you today is that as you hear these words your hearts will leap for joy at the prospects set before you and as Mary responded to the Angel Gabriel Let it be unto me according to your word will be your response.

As such every grace will flow towards you and you will experience the full measure of all that God has for you in these words and your lives will become the new status of what the Holy Spirit is doing on the earth in this season to reveal the true sons and daughters of God on the earth to show forth His glory in Jesus’s name as the Kingdom of Jesus expands through your lives. Amen.