Hi Everybody,
I just felt led to share this amazing video message from Joe Kirby from Off the Kirb Ministries. He is such a great evangelist and I just feel like this word that he shared was so relevant and compelling that it needed to be shared right now with anyone subscribed to my Blog. I pray that this Post blesses someone today. God Bless You Everybody! 🙂
Hi Everybody!
I just wanted to post this amazing write-up from a fellow blogger Adam Cook from addictionhub.org/. I read his article and thought it was worth sharing on my blog. I feel that in this day and age, many people suffer from different types of addictions that can be disruptive for cognitive functionality and can affect mood or alter people’s personalities when having the inability to cope with an addiction. Please read through Adam’s article and let it enlighten you and encourage those that do suffer from any type of addiction that there is hope at the end of the tunnel. You do not have to believe that you are a slave to your addiction when there are resources out there to help people overcome any type of addiction. I pray that this article blesses your spirit today. If you’d like to email Adam, you can connect with him via information@AddictionHub.com .
God Bless You Everybody! 😀
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Living with addiction is difficult at the best of times; sometimes, you may think you’ve gotten to a point where you feel strong enough to beat it, and then a big life change happens to set you back. Dealing with those feelings can be overwhelming, even if you have a sponsor or support group to talk to, so it’s important to find healthy ways to battle substance abuse and get into a good headspace.
There are many ways you can take care of yourself while living in recovery–physically, mentally, and emotionally–and it’s important to incorporate these good habits into your everyday routine to make them easier to follow.
Here are a few of the best ways to battle substance abuse and its effects.
Consider getting a service animal
Service dogs are wonderful companions for individuals who are battling depression and other mental health issues, and this goes for people in recovery, too. These dogs can not only be trained to help you with physical issues, but studies have shown that simply petting a dog can lower blood pressure and relieve anxiety.
Get into a good routine
Having a healthy routine can be extremely helpful when you’re in recovery. This includes getting in daily exercise, which can release hormones in your body that make you feel good, as well as eating a well-balanced diet and getting enough sleep. All of these things are very important when it comes to staying happy and well.
Try to make these healthy habits part of your routine every day. Do your grocery shopping for the week on Sunday and buy enough to make several good meals and lunches, and if you have time, cook some up that night to stick in the fridge. That way, you can grab a pre-made lunch instead of stopping for fast food, and you’ll have a healthy dinner waiting for you when you get home.
Exercise is a key component when you want to feel better and take up healthier habits.
If you feel you don’t have enough time in the day to get in a workout, consider setting your alarm for just fifteen minutes earlier than usual and do some aerobics before you hop in the shower and go to work, then go for a brisk walk on your lunch break or after dinner that evening. Breaking up the workout is okay as long as you get about thirty minutes of exercise per day.
Practice self-care
Addiction can take a significant toll on your body, so once you’re in recovery, self-care becomes essential. It can be anything from doing something that makes you feel relaxed to making time for your friends and loved ones. Whatever makes you feel good in a healthy, positive way should be practiced as often as possible, so book an appointment for a massage, or make plans for a long lunch with your closest friend. Carve time out of your schedule to take a long, hot bath before bed, or go to the local park and play a game of basketball with your friends.
Find support
You may already have a sponsor or counselor, but sometimes that’s not enough. If you feel you need more time to talk, consider seeking out a support group or therapist to help you get through those dark times when addiction feels ever-present. You might also seek help and support from your family members or close friends, as long as you feel comfortable with it.
Get rid of bad influences
When a person is struggling with addiction and is in recovery, it’s important to make sure there are only positive influences around. If you are still in contact with people you spent time with
pre-recovery, you might find that seeing them makes you want to use again. Surround yourself with people who understand how important it is for you to stay sober.
Remember that everyone must take recovery one day at a time. If you feel you’ve taken a step backwards, think about the events that led you to that point and make a promise to yourself to incorporate some positive changes. Reach out to your support system for help, and don’t forget to take good care of yourself along the way.
This Article is a guest post submitted to me by Jason Lewis at Strongwell.org. I pray that this post blesses you today.
Church can offer a wealth physical, spiritual and emotional benefits to seniors. As experts note, “Due to life circumstances that may be unique to their age or health concerns, elderly people often confront a variety of emotions or mindsets that may be somewhat debilitating and hard to bear. These include a sense of isolation, loneliness, boredom, and grief, as well as others.” Here are the ways attending church can help with these feelings.
Church Cuts Out Loneliness
Church is a very social activity which can be especially helpful for seniors who may feel cut off from society. Attending church gives seniors a positive community to be a part of, and gives them a regular, healthy connection to others. Feelings of isolation and loneliness can be dangerous for older adults, and a lack of social connection may lead to loss of sleep, depression and anxiety. When left unchecked, these feelings can cause seniors to turn to alcohol or drugs to cope, resulting in a dangerous addiction. By connecting with others at church, the elderly can absolve themselves of these negative feelings and find stability in the process. They can find new friends and new people to help them out when times get rough.
Attending Church is a Much Needed Activity
As people age, they give up much of the hustle of their younger lives. They may leave careers and may not be able to continue some of the hobbies that kept them so busy. A lack of routine or mobility can leave seniors bored, but attending church is a wonderful, and low-key, way to get out of the house. Seniors can have a practical, positive reason for getting up and getting moving. Church services are offered pretty regularly too, with socials and activities during the week, so getting involved with a church is a great way for seniors to get active again and reduce the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle.
Prayer Can Be a Form of Meditation
Church Can Provide Renewed Purpose
Connecting with others, getting out of the house, and quiet contemplation are all such powerful reasons for seniors to attend church. When these elements combine, seniors may find the most compelling reason of all to join a church: a revived sense of purpose in their lives. Church helps attendees find a higher connection to the universe and helps them see their place within it. Seniors may also find themselves in the position to impart wisdom upon younger generations or participate in community service projects, which adds meaning to their life. Religious teachings and activities can have a major impact at such an important time in the lives of older adults.
Although important in their own right, religion and spiritual redemption are not the sole benefits of regularly attending church services. Church has the power to create the loving connections, regular routines, peaceful reflections and sense of purpose that can be so empowering to elderly adults. With church, seniors can find a connection to God, to the world, and most importantly, to themselves again.
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Evangelist Chilavert adds so much to our understanding of Christmas that it is worth sharing here on my blog. Many things he says in this post brought me deeper insight about the significance of Christmas that we don’t really dwell on that much during the season. I pray that this post blesses you today. God Bless Everybody 😀
Christmas has come and gone, I know some people are still basking in its euphoria. Some celebrated it religiously, some celebrated it by buying gifts, Christmas trees, visiting friends, having fun, some took it as a time for sober reflection, some have no business with Christmas, some attended church service on that day for the first time this year while some decided not to notice whether Christmas occurred or not. That’s OK but there are things you don’t actually know about Christmas.
Matthew 2:2 says, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him”.
* How and why did the wise men travel a long distance with so much assurance of Jesus’ birth? It is because the wise men were sure of what they came for, they knew He is the King of…
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I know I did a post earlier in 2011 called “What is in a Name”, however, after reading Evangelist Chilavert’s post, it adds some more insight on the same subject matter. I think it’s worth the read. Enjoy!
People answer names depending on their family, origin, god, environment, tribe, region, nation, religion or the people they adore. The name you answer can be a hindrance to your destiny. Most people answer names they don’t know their meaning. Even when they know they think it has no effect on them. That was exactly what happened to Moses.
Moses was born in Egypt when the children of Israel were suppressed and killed. Moses’ sister Miriam with the consent of the mother made bulrushes for him and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. By peradventure, Pharaoh’s daughter saw him, adopted him and named him Moses (Exodus 2:10), meaning, saved or drawn out of water, and from that day water became a hindrance to Moses. Let me show you.
* The river Moses was drawn out from was where the Egyptians worship and sacrifice to the goddess of…
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Hey Everbody! I just had to reblog this post by Minister Chilavert. It really got me thinking! This post will definitely bless you. Enjoy this read.
It is so strange that most times the Scripture does not give us elaborate reasons why certain things happen. It only takes the discernment of the Holy Spirit to understand spiritual things.
My question is this? Why did the devil come in form of a serpent? There are other animals the devil would have manifested into but chose to use the serpent as a host in the garden of Eden. I will certainly tell you why.
* The serpent is the only animal God created with six senses which is more than the five senses of man, does that make sense to you?
For you to live or operate beyond the senses God gave you, you need to apply the sixth sense. The sixth sense is the spiritual sensitivity, without it you cannot discern. The devil turned the spiritual sensitivity into subtility. Adam and Eve dwelt on their five senses…
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I like what Evangelist Chilavert had to say about The Power of a Man. I agree with the statements he has used here and the Biblical references. It’s worth the read. If you want to see what he says is The Power of a Woman check out that post by clicking here.
The man in most cases is the head of most positions on earth. At least he is the head of the family and other privileged positions.
The power of a man is not to use his position to bully those who are not privileged like him, intimidate others, sexually harassing the junior staff of his company and if they don’t yield to his selfish desires they get fired.
The power of a man is not to take advantage of the feminine gender, involving in domestic violence, telling his spouse to do as as he says without mutual agreement, imposing his autocratic influence wherever he finds himself, in ministry, politics, organisation, company etc, No. You are not a man by showing off or by power tussle.
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Hi Everybody,
I spoke on this topic with my church tonight and hope that this message blesses your Spirit. If you want to be successful in life, you have to move by principle, and I mean by Godly principles that can be best understood through the life of Jesus. Jesus shows us so many examples of how we ought to live, so take a look at this on your own and do some soul searching as you pursue greatness in your life. Amen! 😀
Luke 4:1-13 (NKJV) – Satan Tempts Jesus
4 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into[a] the wilderness, 2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
3 And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered him, saying,[b] “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”[c]
5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him[d] all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”
8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan![e] For[f] it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”[g]
9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:
‘He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you,’11 and,
‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”[h]12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”[i]
13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
When you are pressing through for your blessings in life, when you are in pursuit of elevation or promotion, and going to the next level, you must understand that there is a battle you face against your destiny. This battle is against the adversary (the devil).
You have to understand who your adversary is and how he operates in order to overcome his schemes.
We are praying and fasting not as a religious exercise, but as a spiritual exercise to develop emotional strength, wisdom, discernment in order to grow in Knowledge, Power and Faith to achieve desired results. It takes a lot of work to remain focused, and through prayer and fasting is where your spirit becomes sharpened to deal with things ahead of you that you would not have seen had you not prayed and fasted.
It’s time to understand what it is that you are dealing with when you are in pursuit of elevation in your life.
In Luke 4:2 – Jesus was tempted for 40 days and nights by the devil – this means that your enemies do not rest until they take you down. Christians are sleeping while their enemies are plotting for their downfall day and night. You cannot afford to take on a passive approach in your daily affairs when the enemies of your destiny do not rest until they have achieved the destruction of your destiny.
However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
My question to you is, are you still sleeping?
In Luke 4:3 – The devil undermines Jesus by mocking him and attempting to see if Jesus has an area of pride to prove himself and test his loyalties – Do not get suckered into this. You will have people in your life who will mock what you are about and will attempt to get you to prove your self-worth by provoking you to prove who you are in an arrogant way. This provocation is really just a method to get you to act out of pride and arrogance which could turn people off of you, who could have potentially been your destiny helpers. Be still and know that this can cause you to sin and do something outside the will of God if you get suckered into proving your identity and self-worth just because someone mocked you. Try not to be moved by the provocation of your enemies who rile you up to puff yourself up with pride and arrogance to cause you to miss opportunities with people who want to help you move to the next level.
In Luke 4:4 – Jesus didn’t need to prove himself – He already knew who he was and therefore responded with dignity and grace and told the devil plainly that “listen, you…I know what you’re trying to get me to prove but I’ll tell you something, you need to remember what Your Creator (God) has said and commanded you to do” (this is my paraphrasing what has happened) and therefore, Jesus turned the conversation around to pinpoint the enemy’s lack of obedience to do what the Lord has commanded all creation to do and that is to live by every Word of God. The Devil could not come with a good come back on that point because he knows very well how rebellious he is to God the Father. This is where Christians need to learn to order their conversations right. Just because someone is undermining you, doesn’t mean that it gives you the license to respond with contempt. Learn to wisen up and respond with wisdom and grace. Order your conversations right and act with humility.
In Luke 4:5-7 – The devil takes Jesus to a high place and claims that he has authority over all the things that any man/woman would desire to have and that if he works and acknowledges the devil by giving him praise, he could have a share of what he has as well as a promise to this allegiance – Listen, do not be fooled by people who try to trick you out of your rightful place of promotion by getting you to side with them and work for them like a gopher to make them look good. I am not talking about rightful submission to authority here. I’m talking about those who scheme to get you to undermine the “right authority” by causing you to take a side that is rebellious in nature in order to achieve gains and/or promotion by dishonest means.
To take this into context, try and imagine this: Have you ever been in a workplace where a supervisor undermines the authority of the manager who you report to and gets co-workers to side with the supervisor in order to gang up together to attempt to overthrow and get the manager fired so that they can take the manager’s place by bribing people into being disobedient through lies and slander (accusations) in order to receive promotion at the promises that the supervisor makes as a form of a pact, or allegiance. “If you do this for me, I’ll help you get the promotion you deserve…”
The devil attempted to do the same thing with Jesus. But how did Jesus respond?
In Luke 4:8 – Jesus told Satan to get behind him – Sometimes you need people to get behind you so that you don’t lose focus on what’s ahead of you. You can shove such people who are there to distract you “one side to the back” (a Nigerian saying) if they are in your face. Jesus refused to entertain the conniving nature of his enemy to be disobedient to the True authority Jesus submits to, which is God the Father. In the same way, you may face people in life who will try to get you to be rebellious and cause you to attack the leadership, to undermine and scheme against the heads of your company or church and overthrow managers to steal their places of authority by dishonest actions and slander. This also is a test of where your loyalties lie.
God does not approve of rebellion in any fashion, so why should you side with the devil and become associated with the oppressor? You will find that those that help such conniving people become a slave to the oppressor who never intended to fulfill their blanket lies and promises. Children of God, it is important to understand the meaning of submission to the right authority. Where do your loyalties lie? Do not entertain people that get you to rebel. You will find a tight noose around your neck if you fall for such schemes in your life. This is a trick the adversary uses every time to get you into bondage. Be wise to rebuke those who attempt to get you to undermine the leadership in your church, your workplace, your family or in any other area of your life. You will preserve your soul if you understand the meaning of submission.
In Luke 4:9-11 – The devil attempts yet again for Jesus to prove himself, but in this time, he wants Jesus to take a huge risk to prove that his identity is indeed the “Son of God” based on his qualifications – Sometimes your enemies will be able to guess and see where you are heading in your destiny, and they will try to trick you into proving yourself quickly by taking a high and unnecessary risk just to prove that you are indeed what they suspect you are in your journey of life. They entice you to seek recognition concerning your identity and abilities by pursuing to get noticed in the wrong way.
Do not be fooled into seeking recognition for the wrong purpose. This will undermine your integrity.
Let us take an example to understand what is going on here: Say for example, you know that you are good at public speaking and your boss acknowledges it and has given you the responsibility to be his speech writer. You are then invited to listen to your boss speak at a function but a co-worker thinks it is unfair that you aren’t being acknowledged for the numerous speeches that you have written for your boss to speak. This co-worker then tells you, to hijack the function and embarrass your boss by letting everyone know that you wrote that speech for him and that your boss doesn’t know how to do speeches without your help. By doing this, it is assumed that people will give you praise and acknowledge you for your skills and this will draw away the attention from your boss and put you in the spotlight. But the catch is, if you listen to your sly co-worker’s advice, you will find out by the very next day that you are fired and without a job because you undermined your integrity by undermining your boss in your pursuit of recognition for promotion.
Do not be provoked into seeking recognition and acknowledgement the wrong way.
The adversary is always provocative, and malicious in what they try to get you to do in order to miss the mark in your destiny.
How did Jesus respond to that provocation?
In Luke 4:12 – Jesus responded by rebuking the devil and telling him you can’t tempt me to go outside the will of God. In the same way, if anybody attempts to get you to seek recognition in the wrong way, you should tell them where to go and not bother you because you want to hold on to this beautiful thing called INTEGRITY! Do not allow people to cause you to miss opportunities for advancement by making you undermine authority, and doing things dishonestly in order to achieve promotion or elevation. Smarten up and do not give room for nonsense.
In Luke 4:13 – The devil departed from Jesus after tempting him for the last time and will wait for another opportune time to tempt him again to go outside the will of God – Your enemies will try and try again to get you to do something wrong that will make you miss the mark. Sin is defined as “missing the mark”. You don’t want to miss the mark in your destiny, so as we pray and fast, seek God to give you wisdom to know what to do, strength to withstand temptations to do something outside the will of God concerning your life, discernment to identify who your enemies of your destiny are, knowledge to handle every situation with God’s grace, and the will to remain focused on the goal without being distracted.
You need God to help you with every attack that may come from the enemies of your destiny. It is not “if” the enemy comes that you need God’s help, it’s “when”. You will face obstacles; you will face trials but you must determine within yourself to hold onto your integrity. Jesus demonstrates that you can strengthen yourself through prayer and fasting to face such schemes that occur in your life. This battle is won when you operate in the realm of the Spirit of God. Your own might and power is not sufficient to handle each attack that comes your way. Seek God and He will show you the way to gain success the right way. Put your Faith and Trust in God.
So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
Don’t make prayer and fasting a religious exercise, it is your spiritual warfare weapon for success.
Philippians 3:12-16 – Pressing Toward the Goal
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
Hello Everybody! 😀
My message from this past Friday is also posted on my church’s website via The Anointing for Breakthrough Started with Jesus – by Minister Sherline . I’m on day 6 of the 7 day Fast and I give God praise.
On April 6, 2016, marked the 2 year anniversary since my Pastors and I and my sister started the church. We give God all the honor and all the praise. It has been challenging but I’m so happy to see people desiring to seek God more in our church that we’ve been getting so many people contacting us across the globe and in other cities that want to connect. I believe that God wants to equip His Church for the greater call in people’s lives, but everything starts with the foundation of your belief system. Many churches have clogged up the foundation to suit their own agendas, but we must advance the agenda of Christ in order to see His Word become manifest in a generation that needs to know, Jesus came for all people, and not just some, but all people to live a purpose driven life, Amen! 😀
The Power of the Anointing for Breakthrough is already in you. The word “Christ” (in Greek khristos) means “the Anointed One”. If you have Christ in you the hope of glory that means that the anointing is already in you through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The question is, is it operating inside of you?
Are you tapping into what is already inside of you if you are a believer?
The Anointing God puts on you cannot be taken away, it is generational.
You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
The Anointing for breakthrough started with Jesus
Jesus had first fasted for 40 days in the desert while being challenged by Satan before releasing this Word found in Luke 4.
Luke 4:16-30 – Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,[j]
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”[k]
20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”
23 He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum,[l] do also here in Your country.’” 24 Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26 but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath,[m] in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28 So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.
The Anointing on Jesus is the same anointing we need to tap into as Christians in order to operate in a realm of perpetual breakthroughs.
First the anointing Jesus speaks of comes from the Holy Spirit (Verse 18). The Holy Spirit provides the power that backs the anointing for you to be able to do the following:
What is Revelation? The dictionary defines it as:
God’s disclosure of Himself and His will to His creatures; an instance of such communication or disclosure; something thus communicated or disclosed; something that contains such disclosure, as the Bible.
In the KJV it says in Proverbs 29:18 – Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
The NKJV version says: Where there is no revelation the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.
Vision brings you revelation, however, you are required to keep the law which is contained in God’s word; meaning that you must follow God’s Word. It is not enough to be a hearer of it when you don’t do what it says. You don’t want to be a Revelation Short of a Breakthrough.
Vision allows you to see what you couldn’t see before and it brings about direction towards your elevation.
When God gives you a revelation, he reveals to you what was hidden so that you are guided in the right direction.
You need Revelation for ELEVATION.
How can you follow the Lord’s direction when you cannot see?
That is why it is important to meditate on God’s Word so that you are provided clear direction as to where you ought to go, rather than follow another man’s revelation of where they think you should go. You have to learn to see God by following His Word. That’s why there is emphasis to meditate on His Word day and night so that it does not depart from your mouth. The more you meditate, the more you can see clearly and hear clearly. If you don’t meditate on His Word, you will follow a false direction and will end up misguided into the wrong direction and that is why God’s people keep perishing, because they don’t keep God’s word. They don’t meditate on it and therefore, they run in the dark and find themselves lost and directionless. It is important to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus if you want to maintain the vision that He has for your life which is in:
Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Romans 4:17 – As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
The Power of the Anointing:
1 Corinthians 1:27 (NKJV) – But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’”
15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.
2 Kings 5: 1-19 – Naaman’s Leprosy Healed
5 Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman’s wife. 3 Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.” 4 And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel.”
5 Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”
So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said,
Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.
7 And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”
8 So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
9 Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” 11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’ 12 Are not the Abanah[a] and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
16 But he said, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
17 So Naaman said, “Then, if not, please let your servant be given two mule-loads of earth; for your servant will no longer offer either burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord. 18 Yet in this thing may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord please pardon your servant in this thing.”
19 Then he said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a short distance.
Jesus kept emphasizing in the synagogue that a prophet is not accepted in their own country and was calling that out on the Jews. Elijah and Elisha were such prophets and they kept giving instructions to willing vessels to receive blessings who were foreigners. In the Bible, you will find the frustration of the Lord in the book of Isaiah who keeps saying “Oh Jerusalem, how I have sent you many prophets and you did not receive them” and they kept killing them, dismissing them and not hearing them because they would not accept the instruction that the Lord had to give to them to guide them back in the right direction. The blessing of the anointing was no longer reserved for just the Jews, it was also for the Gentiles. That’s why Jesus states that He was going to pour out all His Spirit on all flesh. You no longer needed to be a Jew to receive the anointing and this reality and truth heavily offended those in the Synagogue.
The anointing gives direction to willing vessels and it does not discriminate. This is why a Muslim or any non-believer for that matter can come to church and receive the Word and act on it (being a doer of what they hear) and receive the reward that a Christian sitting in the same room would miss. The Anointing searches willing vessels that are ready to obey the Lords instruction in order to receive the blessing that they seek. This is why the people wanted to murder Jesus upon hearing all this. They were not ready for the Truth and wanted to kill him by pushing Jesus off a cliff, but they were unable to because the Anointing protects your destiny. That’s how powerful it truly is and this is the same anointing that is in all believers that have been baptized receiving the same power through the Holy Spirit.
Hello Everybody!
This is part 2 of the God’s PA Review message that I promised I would share on here. This Post was taken from a message I shared tonight at church. It is posted on my church’s website livingproofcentre.org . I do believe that the message is timely and I pray that it blesses somebody today. Be encouraged, Amen! 😀
When you look into the Bible, there are many situations where you encounter people that experienced a “Transition into Elevation”.
What is the meaning of Transition?
It is a movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
What is to Elevate?
to elevate an archbishop to cardinal.
The examples that I can think of are:
Sometimes, transitions into elevation seem to be anti-climactic, because as Steven Furtick said (Head Pastor of Elevation Church) in his New Year’s 2016 sermon, we are typically building anticipation for the event, but once the event happens, we tend to feel no different and yet we’ve elevated.
We’ve risen to a new level, we’ve reached a new height, we moved from point A to point B.
I wrote a blog post entitled “It’s PA time with GOD, how did you measure up?” and in that blog I talked about how God measures our performance. If you have a job, you know that you’ll go through a Performance Appraisal.
A follower of my blog asked a question:
She asked me “How do you know when you have been shifted by God to a new level?”
There are signs everywhere that you have shifted but at the same time the transition may also feel very anti-climactic, meaning that it will feel like as if nothing has happened and yet you’ve moved into a different level. I’ll give you an example, it’s like graduating from high school or college, your excitement will be in the anticipation of that transition from student to graduate, but after the graduation party, you’ll feel no less different and yet you’ve transitioned from being a student to a graduate. You’ve moved up and yet you will feel nothing different because transitions are not based on “feelings”, they’re based on where God wants you to go. So there will be signs that you’ve moved to another level, i.e. your associations/friends/peers may change their attitude about you, new people will enter into your life, new doors start opening for you that didn’t in the last season. With every level, there are new things that happen that didn’t occur in your previous season. That’s why when God elevates you through the Word of His Mouth (be it from a prophet, preacher, minister etc), it is already done. You may not feel like anything happened but think of David, he was a shepherd boy and after he was anointed by the prophet Samuel, he was immediately transitioned into becoming a King but it took him a while from hiding from Saul to take up the throne. So even though it seems like nothing has happened, the signs were around David in that the moment he was anointed, his friendly relationship with Saul became one as an enemy overnight. Your friends/family/peers will change their attitude about you when God elevates you to the next level. I hope what I’m saying makes sense. Yes, it will feel lonely, but David went through that as well in the Bible, so just understand that when you act in obedience, there is a reward for your obedience. So understand that the shift you experienced was meant to happen. If you are moved by the Spirit of God, you will do things that will change your status as you continue to act in obedience. Transitions have nothing to do with feelings, they have everything to do with where God wants to take you.
Man has a standard of evaluations, and so does God. Man’s standard has a series of criteria, and so does God.
However, the way in which God evaluates us is by using this one criterion. Can you imagine that His evaluation is simply based on this one aspect of our life and that is that He evaluates us by our Heart?
Why does God evaluate us through our Heart?
Here are some of the reasons that He evaluates us using our Heart. Take note that this is not an exhaustive list:
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Your Heart reveals the issues you have in your life:
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.
Your Heart can be hardened like stone and it can also be softened into flesh:
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Your Heart reveals what you desire:
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
You think through your Heart:
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you.
Your Heart can be stirred to move by God’s will:
21 Then everyone came whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they brought the Lord’s offering for the work of the tabernacle of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.22 They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought earrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all jewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord.
Your Heart can be stirred by Wisdom to give:
36 “And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the Lord has commanded.”
The People Give More than Enough
2 Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, everyone whose heart was stirred, to come and do the work. 3 And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.
Your Heart harbours all your emotions:
Such as Discouragement, Fear, Love, Hate, Courage etc etc
Your Heart either holds on to the Truth or holds onto a pack of Lies:
And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart;
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Your Heart will always be tested by the Lord:
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
Your Heart can be deceived or you can be deceitful in your own Heart:
“Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,
He who has a deceitful heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
Your Heart reveals your loyalties:
Let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”
In Conclusion:
The Lord searches all Hearts:
“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
Jesus knocks at the door of our Hearts and therefore knows our intentions. We cannot fool God when the Word is what He uses to measure where we stand.
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Here is a Song from Hillsongs United called Here Now to minister to your Spirit as you reflect on renewing a right spirit in your heart to make your Heart become like flesh to hear and feel the heart of the Father who is God.
Exodus 36:1-3
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