Blessing – Page 18 – Prince Chimaobim

TO ACCESS HOLY SPIRIT’S VOICE (2): BE JOYFUL

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Monday December 12, 2022

TO ACCESS HOLY SPIRIT’S VOICE (2): BE JOYFUL

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah 30:29 (KJV)

There is a spiritual climate that you must come into or maintain to be able to access the glorious voice of the Holy Spirit. Like we said yesterday, the Holy Spirit speaks and is willing to speak to you. The challenge is that you are not in His frequency to hear His glorious voice. That majestic voice demands that you function in joy. The foundation of an acceptable song before the Lord is joy; gladness of heart. The state of your heart is crucial to your spiritual frequency. Your spirit must function in the frequency of joy and gladness of heart. This joy comes from a vital relationship with the Lord. When you have joy, it is easy for songs to flow. The voice of His Majesty demand that there is a climate of praise. Isaiah 30:30 says “And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, …” You see when the conditions are met, the Lord does not withhold His voice. The challenge is that we are not diligent to get the conditions right. When will He cause His glorious voice to be heard? Only when you come to Him with a song and with gladness of heart! If there’s no gladness of heart, you become deaf to the voice of Yahweh. But when there’s gladness in your heart and a song in your mouth, then the Lord causes His glorious voice of direction to be heard. Let nothing take your joy from you. Hold fast unto it. Somebody once said, “Happiness is not found, it is created.” If you’re not a happy son of Yahweh, you will never be a winning son (see Deuteronomy 28:47-48).

KNOW YAHWEH’S LEADING (2): BY THE INWARD VOICE

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Friday December 9, 2022

KNOW YAHWEH’S LEADING (2): BY THE INWARD VOICE

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Romans 9:1 (NASB)

The second way Yahweh leads us is through the inward voice. The Inward Voice is the voice of your recreated human spirit. It is called the conscience. Your recreated human spirit picks information from the Holy Spirit and repeats that through your conscience. The Holy Spirit dwells in your recreated human spirit and it is in there that He speaks. So your spirit picks up what the Holy Spirit is saying and repeats it. This is why quietness is very critical to picking that inward voice. The Inward Voice is often the school master and it is important that you keep it tender. You can sear your conscience. When you do wrong, it is not the Holy Spirit that condemns you. It is the Inward Voice that tells you “hey that is wrong”. So, to keep your conscience tender, always repent at its rebuke. When you continue to disregard your conscience, then at a time, it will go dead not speaking and correcting you any more. That is a situation of seared conscience. Don’t ever violate your conscience.

WISDOM FACILITATES ROBUST ENVIABLE CAREER/BUSINESS

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Tuesday November 29, 2022

WISDOM FACILITATES ROBUST ENVIABLE CAREER/BUSINESS

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.
Proverbs 22:29 (BBE)

Wisdom wants to make you an expert in any area of your calling in life. If it is not excellence, divine wisdom is not involved. Divine wisdom drives you to focus on your career or business, develop goals, short and long term goals and begin to apply yourself to the demands of diligence in order to make the most of your time. We are going to outline wisdom steps to take to emerge an expert in your career or business that will make you attract kings and nobles around the world. Remember that kings are ordained to come to the brightness of your raising (see Isaiah 60:3). The operation of wisdom puts governments under pressure to consult you because they cannot deny your effects by the excellence that exudes from you. What are the wisdom steps?

WISDOM FACILITATES ROBUST GLORIOUS MARITAL LIFE (B)

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Monday November 28, 2022

WISDOM FACILITATES ROBUST GLORIOUS MARITAL LIFE (B)

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:19 (KJV)

The husband has a responsibility to love his wife as HaMashiach loved the Church. Our opening text states, “and be not bitter against them” meaning that the wife has the capacity not just to annoy her husband but to behave in such a way that will embitter the man. To be bitter means to express severe grief or regret about something. It means marked by strong resentment or cynicism. The husband must know that the wife could behave in ways that could bring strong resentment in his heart towards her and from the beginning make the room to love her in spite. The Church is not close to being perfect but HaMashiach still loves the Church and gave Himself for her. Husband remember that loving your wife has a yardstick and it is a very high one. It is as HaMashiach loves the church and gave himself for her. Loving your wife is something you must be intentional, dedicated and consistent about. She does not need to be perfect to deserve your love. The Church was lost when HaMashiach died for her. It was that sacrifice of love that brought us into relationship with Yahweh. It is loving your wife that will bring out the angel and comforter in her alive. Put showing love to your wife in your budget. Be intentional about it. Your open heavens amongst others depends on your wife’s disposition towards you.

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (7): IT IS WITHOUT HYPOCRISY

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Friday November 25, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (7): IT IS WITHOUT HYPOCRISY

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James 3:17 (KJV)

This is the last characteristic of divine Wisdom that Brother James talked about. This Wisdom is without hypocrisy. In Greek, the words for hypocrisy and hypocrite have to do with someone playing a part, as if they were an actor on stage. They’re dissemblers, pretenders who simulate, feign, and pretend to be something they are not (Thayer’s dictionary, entries on G5273 and G5271). The opposite is what we find in wisdom — anupokritos (G505), something that is unfeigned, undisguised, sincere. Somehow, we’re all familiar with the problem of hypocrisy in the Church. For most of us, it’s something we’ve had close experience with. We’ve found ourselves disgusted with others who we identify as hypocrites and we may even have caught ourselves doing hypocritical things. The Bible tells us “wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom” (Prov. 4:7, KJV). Wisdom is something Yahweh has in abundance and which He is eager to share with those who ask for it (James 1:5). As we grow in wisdom we will become people who are sincere, authentic, and live without hypocrisy.

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (5): IT IS FULL OF GOOD WORKS

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Wednesday November 23, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (5): IT IS FULL OF GOOD WORKS

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, …
James 3:17 (KJV)

Good works are simply actions that are good. Yahweh is the creator and definer of good. It is good to do everything He says is good. For example, the Bible tells us that Yahweh’s law is good and is given for our good: “Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good” (Romans 7:12). “Keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good” (Deuteronomy 10:13

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (4): IT IS FULL OF MERCY

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Tuesday November 22, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (4): IT IS FULL OF MERCY

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy …
James 3:17 (KJV)

Mercy is defined as that aspect of Yahweh’s character in which He does not give people what they deserve. Mercy is a disposition to be kind and forgiving. It is the feeling that motivates compassion. It is the force that alleviates distress and shows great kindness towards the distressed. When you are full of mercy, you pity those who are afflicted and those who afflict and offend you. When you are full of mercy, your default response to those who hurt you is pity not vengeance. This means that vengeful, get-even spirit is not divine Wisdom but earthly, sensual and devilish wisdom. When you are full of mercy, you are patient with people’s quirks. There are just people that behave odd and oppose everything. When you are full of mercy, you exercise a lot of patience with people’s quirks. What person in your life has irritating quirks? How can you practice patience with that person this today and this week? Colossians 3:12 admonishes to ‘Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;’ The bowel is the inner most being of a person which is often considered by Hebrews as the seat of the tenderer affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion. This is telling us that our mercy should flow from our innermost being and not a fake camouflage. That when you see someone in trouble, something should well up from your depth to show mercy to the person.

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (1): IT IS PURE

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Saturday November 19, 2022

IF IT IS THIS WISDOM THEN (1): IT IS PURE

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, …
James 3:17 (KJV)

From today to the next couple of days, we shall be looking at the hallmarks of this wisdom. These are the things that show forth that this wisdom from above is operational in you. The Lord Yahushua says in Matthew 7:16, “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” The Lord Yahushua HaMashiach, the wisdom of God, asked the Jews of His days confidently: “Which of you convinceth me of sin?” (see John 8:46). He was too sure of His walk of purity. Later it was said concerning Him, “And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?” (Matthew 13:54). It follows therefore that the wisdom on display in His life was rooted in purity. That is why to operate Yahweh’s wisdom, you must be pure, because the wisdom from above is not cunning or crafty, it is pure and open. Those petty things you engage in like bitterness, strife, envy and other works of the flesh are the things that hinder you from operating in the same frequency of wisdom as the Lord Yahushua did. Iniquity is a destroyer; you must destroy it before it destroys your destiny. Iniquity corrupts mentality and your mind is the seat of Wisdom. It follows that you cannot function in this Wisdom from above with iniquity. Sin is a sinker of destiny. Don’t play around it. Don’t feel comfortable with any sinful habit, because the end of sin is death. Galatians 6:7-8 says, “7 Be not deceived? God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption? but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”

GET RID OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

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Friday November 18, 2022

GET RID OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Amos 6:1 (KJV)

There is nothing that kills vision, plans and pursuit like the comfort zone. The comfort zone is that place in life where you are so comfortable that you don’t feel like being disturbed about anything else. The comfort zone can be defined as a state of mind in which people are at ease, in control of their environment and experiencing low level of anxiety and stress. A comfort zone would be a state of mind where a person’s anxiety and vulnerability are minimized to manageable levels. It is that area of your life in which you feel familiar with and in control of. For example, some people love to go to wo

EVALUATION, REPLANNING AND FOLLOW-UP

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Thursday November 17, 2022

EVALUATION, REPLANNING AND FOLLOW-UP

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
I Corinthians 13:5 (KJV)

There is need to evaluate and re-evaluate to make sure that you are on course with your purpose. In life, you must learn to be following yourself up on your purpose and plans. This is crucial because things will come to discourage you, to distract you, to engage you in other seemingly important things which are not connected to your purpose and plans. The purpose of evaluation is to ensure alignment. As you sit down to evaluate your plans, you would come to the point to make adjustments, or to re-plan completely. Facts that necessitated some actions may have changed drastically that would need new strategies to ensure you are on course. Except you sit down to evaluate you may not discover these facts. As you go in the course of pursuing your purpose, you may come to situations of total distraction. Distractions are real. Most times, you would have deviated for a long time but for quick evaluation of your purpose and identifying the seemingly good thing that is now taking your time that was never part of your assignment in the first place. You must make weekly examination and evaluation your lifestyle, if you desire to maintain a constant focus on your assignment.