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  • HOW TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (3): THE MYSTERY OF A QUIET TIME

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    Thursday March 18, 2021

    HOW TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (3): THE MYSTERY OF A QUIET TIME

    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
    II Corinthians 13:14 (KJV)

    Whenever I think of the term “Quiet Time” the Greek word “koinonia” comes to mind. Koinonia is the Greek word translated communion in our opening text. Literally koinonia means participation. Personally or socially, koinonia means intercourse, that is the highest level of communication between two people. Quiet Time is a time of communion or intercourse with the Holy Spirit, the Word and the Father all in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach. Your calling in HaMashiach, beloved, is a calling into the koinonia of the God-kind. I Corinthians 1:9 says, ‘God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.’ The quiet-time is a specific time in which we seek the face of the Lord, to know his friendship personally and to worship and understand him better. Just like the term implies, Quiet-time is a time and place of quietness, where you can maintain some level of tranquillity to concentrate on the Presence of the Lord and on the communion of this God-kind. Quiet time, also called heart-to-heart time, or one-on-one time with the Father, is a regular individual session of Christian spiritual activities, such as prayer, private meditation, contemplation, worship, or study of the Bible. Quiet-time is the time of you coming to yourself both spirit, soul and body and consciously reaching out for the Person, Presence and Word of the Lord. That is the mystery of recovery of destiny as it happened to the man we have come to know as the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32. Luke 15:17 says, “And when he came to himself, he said,” that is his destiny could not be recovered until he sat down in probably a quiet-time session.

    There is nothing you cannot find solution to in a quiet-time with the Lord. The most precious moment of the day is that time you sit before the Lord in absolute quietness to read, study, meditate, worship or just maintaining some quietness. It deepens your relationship with the Lord like nothing else can. Maintaining this time daily will bring a revolution to your relationship with the Lord. Quiet-time is a great way to encounter the Word and have the Word make lasting impressions in your spirit-man.

    Just like all the other ways to encounter the Word, Quiet-time must be a deliberate exercise. It is a time you must schedule and keep with the Lord. King David scheduled his own quiet-time at the middle of the night. Psalms 119:62 says, ‘At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.’ Do you wonder how King David managed to emerge a king, a priest, a prophet, a psalmist, a singer, a songwriter, an instrumentalist, an inventor of musical instruments, etc.? He was a product of a solid quiet-time with the Lord. Schedule your quiet-time right away and make a covenant with the Lord to keep it. Shalom!

    REMEMBER: Quiet-time is a specific time of quietness for personal intercourse with the Lord.

    CONFESSION: I love you Lord and I cherish our time together. There is nothing that can substitute my time with you as you teach me Your Word and lead me in the path I should go. Thank You Lord!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: As the deer pants for the water brooks, I decree your heart start panting for the Word and the presence of the Lord in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Philippians 2:1.

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Numbers 18:1-20:13; Mark 16:1-20

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  • HOW TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (2): MEDITATION

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    Wednesday March 17, 2021

    HOW TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (2): MEDITATION

    Meditate upon these things? give thyself wholly to them? that thy profiting may appear to all.
    I Timothy 4:15 (KJV)

    To meditate means to mutter; to speak to yourself in a low tone over a subject for over a period of time. Reading the Word is likened to eating food. The Word is spiritual food for the spirit-man. But what you eat doesn’t profit your body until it is digested and assimilated. Meditation is spiritual digestion and assimilation of the Word into your spirit-man. Joshua 1:8 says, ‘This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.’ Reading the Word is putting it into your mouth but beloved, don’t stop there, go further to speak that Word to yourself. To meditate actually means to murmur. Murmuring is a negative word because it is dwelling on the things that are not working in your life. But the process of murmuring is the same with meditation, the only difference is on what you are dwelling on in the process. When you are dwelling on the Word, murmuring it to yourself, it is called scriptural meditation. Meditation is not a gift, it is the result of the overflow of the Word in your spirit-man. Most times, meditation is involuntary. Other times, you must be intentional on what you are meditating upon. But I want you to see that when you flood your mind intensely with the Word, meditation becomes involuntary. At all times, your mind is on the Word. This is the level and dimension I desire you come into.

    Do you notice that Joshua 1:8 says that we should mediate on the Word day and night? The day is a 12 hour period and the night is a 12 hour period. What does that tell you? Meditation is a 24 hours job. That is why I said that you must come to that point of meditating on the Word involuntarily. You must come to that point that even when you are not actively dwelling on the Word, your mind is on it by the virtue of the overflow and flooding of the Word day in and out. That is the only way to comply with Joshua 1:8 and until you comply with that scripture you cannot get what it promised – for then you shall make your way prosperous and then you shall have good success. When we were growing up in the faith, we heard that for you to maintain spiritual health, you must be consuming at least three chapters of the scriptures daily. That looked big then. But can you imagine consuming about 20 to 30 chapters daily and some times up to 50? Beloved, that is exactly our reality now.

    Can you imagine channelling the time you use on social media on reading the Word? Can you imagine cutting off unnecessary visitation to make more time to read the Word? Can you take skipping one or two meals just to concentrate on the Word? Beloved, wake up and take responsibility. There is no free lunch even in free town. Life is gabbage in, gabbage out. Selah!

    REMEMBER: Meditation is murmuring the Word to yourself.

    CONFESSION: There is something in the Word for me and I engage my mind to dig it out on daily basis as I meditate on the Word. The juice of the Word is pressed out for the nourishment of my spirit-man. I am grateful Lord!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree a fresh delight for the Word upon you today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Psalms 119:15, 23, 48, 78, 148.

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Numbers 16:1-17:13; Mark 15:21-47

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  • HOW TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (1): READING AND LISTENING TO THE WORD

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    Tuesday March 16, 2021

    HOW TO ENCOUNTER THE WORD (1): READING AND LISTENING TO THE WORD

    Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
    II Timothy 2:15 (KJV)

    Beginning from today, we are going to examine how we can encounter the Word. With all we have seen the Word can do for us, unless we connect with the Word, we cannot enjoy the benefits. So how can we experience the Word and have the Word impart and metamorphose us? As we begin to unfold how we can do this, believe Yahweh to be a doer and not a hearer only. Decide to do and plan to do. Set Word objectives of what you must be covering in the light of what we are going to be showing you in a couple of days to come. It is He that does the Word that is blessed in his life (see James 1:22-25). The first way we encounter the Word is to hear it. Romans 10:17 says, ‘So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.’ Hearing the Word is by reading and listening. When you read, you are engaging your eyes and ears at the same time. This is important because what you see, makes impressions on your mind. The ear and the eyes are major channels into your mind and consequently your spirit-man. Consider this instruction from the Lord through Moses in Deuteronomy 11:19, ‘And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.’ This is saying let the ear channel of your children be saturated with the Word practically all the time.

    What reading does for you is that it floods your eyes and ears with the Word. What your eyes sees and your ears hears is what remains on your mind and that can be effortless. The work you need to do is to expose something to your eyes and ears, the other reaction of it remaining on your mind is almost involuntary. Even when you don’t plan to think about it, the mind just goes there because it is what it sees and hears that it cogitates upon. Without reading and listening to the Word being read out like audio Bible as we have them in this age, you are cutting off yourself from having the Word make impression of the Spirit on your spirit-man. There is Igbo adage that says “an ocean does not drown a person that it did not see his/her legs”. The Word is powerless in your life unless it comes into contact with your mind and spirit-man and that for a long while.

    Beloved, Satan knows this fact, therefore, he makes sure that you don’t make out time to read and listen to the Word. Now, you have to seat down and make a Word reading schedule. If you don’t do it, then it would not be done. You must set your Word reading goals for each day and then you can measure your progress. Why is setting Word targets important? Just the way you cannot measure performance against nothing. There must be a budgeting before you can measure performance or the actual against the budgeted. Same applies in your Word life. If you don’t have a target of what you must cover each day, you are not going to have anything to measure your performance against. Selah!

    REMEMBER: Set daily Word reading targets and ensure you are not failing.

    CONFESSION: The Word is the food of my spirit and on daily basis, I feed my spirit-man so fat deliberately. I do not take chances on taking care of my spirit-man. I am intentional about my spiritual health. Thank You Lord!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: Every carelessness about your spiritual health is over from today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Job 23:12; Joshua 1:8.

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Numbers 14:26-15:41; Mark 15:1-20

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  • THE WORD CANNOT LIE

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    Saturday March 6, 2021

    THE WORD CANNOT LIE

    That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
    Hebrews 6:18 (KJV)

    The Word cannot lie. It is impossible for the Word to lie. It is something that cannot happen. If the Word says something, it is better heaven and earth expires than for the Word to fail to come to pass. Matthew 5:18 says, ‘For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.’ The surest thing in time and throughout all eternity is Yahweh’s Word. It is one thing that you can take with your two eyes closed and still not miss your way or target. It is that sure and even more. The Word has been tried seven times and proved true both in heaven, on earth and in hell. Psalms 12:6 says, ‘The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.’ We want you to understand how infallible the Word is and that will built trust in the Word that will become your bedrock for unbelievable success with the Lord. The problem is faith. If you can believe the Word, you can become whatever the Word says, no matter how far removed presently from your reality it is. It is impossible for the Word to fail. The Word is the integrity of the LORD YAHWEH. The Word carries in itself the capacity and capability to become whatever it talks about, the only clause is if the person can believe enough to behave in accordance to the demands of the Word. Mark 9:23 says, ‘Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.’

    The Word impossibility only exists in the mind of the person that has failed to believe the Word. If you believe that if Yahweh is to come down on your situation, there will be instant change and intervention for you. The same effect is obtainable if you can believe the written Word enough to take the steps it requires of you. The Word can never prove false or seen to be a lie. Beloved, please know that Yahweh and His Word are one. His Word is Him. There is nothing that is superior to the Word in both heaven and on earth. There is no revelation or understanding that stands against the Word, the Bible that stands. It is only the Word that is immutable. No situation can defile the Word. In Genesis 18:10, the Lord visited Abraham and spoke the unthinkable by all human standard. He said “And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” Genesis Chapter 19 came and passed and nothing happened. Genesis chapter 20 came and passed and nothing happened. Some would even have started murmuring and saying what a liar the Lord is. But in Genesis Chapter 21, the Lord visited Sarah as He has spoken, He did unto Sarah as He has said.

    Whatever He has spoken concerning you, no matter how far removed from your reality, is a possibility. The Word cannot lie. Its immutability has been confirmed seven times. This month, the wonders of the Word shall begin to manifest in your life and situation in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    REMEMBER: It is impossible for the Word to lie.

    CONFESSION: I am born of the Word and if I am real and true, then the Word is much more. My life and world is based on the Word with divine certainty of success and accomplishment. Halleluyah!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree that your faith on the integrity of the Word comes alive now thereby taking delivery of all the possibilities of the Word in your life in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Hebrews 6:16-19

    ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
    Leviticus 22:17-24:9; Mark 10:13-31

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  • THE PLACE OF FAITH IN KINGDOM PROSPERITY

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    Saturday August 22, 2020

    THE PLACE OF FAITH IN KINGDOM PROSPERITY

    But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
    Hebrews 11:6 (KJV)

    Your blessing is packaged in God’s Word but can only be delivered by faith.  Hebrews 4:2 makes us understand that you can have the word preached unto you but until you mix it with faith in your heart, the word will not produce.  Romans 10:17 says, ‘So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.’  Faith for prosperity comes by hearing the Word on prosperity. That is the reason the enemy keeps attacking the teachings on prosperity, because he knows that until you hear it, and hear it, faith will not come.  Faith is not, “I agree.” That’s consent.  Faith is not mental assent.  Faith is that active living force that controls your attitude and your actions as you allow the Word you have encountered to direct and control you.  When faith comes, you graduate from hearing to doing.  It moves you to do what you heard.  It is your actions that tell whether you believe what God has said or not.  God weighs your actions, to prove your faith. Your action either betrays or authenticates your claim of faith (see 1 Samuel 2:3).

    You have heard, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (see Malachi 3:10-11), and all you do is to only thank God for the message, but don’t pay your tithe, or you give offerings grumbling (from left over balance from Coca Cola)! You certainly don’t know the meaning of what you have heard.  You hear the Word that says, “Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.” (see Proverbs 3:9-10)  You agree, but do nothing about it. That’s not faith. Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works! (see James 2:14-26)  Your actions betray you. It’s your actions that tell whether you believe what God has said or not.  

    You can’t talk want and enjoy divine supplies, because Mark 11:24 says, “You shall have whatsoever you say.” Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:13: We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; So what you have believed, you naturally speak.  Faith is expressed in words. Not just by the words you speak to other people, but even the ones you speak to yourself. The words you speak either count for you or against you. Everything in life answers to what you say. In the school of faith, your tongue draws the conclusion. But your tongue answers to the contents of your heart, because it’s out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. That’s why God is stuffing your heart with matters, so that your tongue will never run dry of the truth that refreshes and prospers. One of the laws of the spirit of life is the law of right speaking. And that functions according to the contents of your heart. Every seed sower is a prosperous citizen of the kingdom, if only his mouth allows him to get it.  Let faith be in your mouth, then you shall make your way prosperous, and you shall have good success.

    REMEMBER:  Believing and behaving the Word is what activates the covenant on your life.

    CONFESSION:   I believe the provisions of the Word for my prosperity and I take required actions according to the Word to realise it in my life.  Glory to Your Holy Name!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE:  As you take steps in obedience to the Word, I decree that every resistance to your prosperity is blasted by fire now in the name of Christ Jesus Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Job 36:11

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
    Job 4:1-7:21;  1 Corinthians 14:18-40;  Psalm 37:30-40;  Proverbs 21:27

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