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THE NATURE OF SIN (1): SIN IS DECEPTIVE

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Thursday August 3, 2023

THE NATURE OF SIN (1): SIN IS DECEPTIVE

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day? lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:13 [KJV]

The problem with sin is the nature thereof. Sin is deceptive. It causes one to believe what is not true or to fail to believe what is true. Sin is death in disguise. But sin will make you believe that it is enjoyment and pleasures without consequences. Sin cause one to believe that there is nothing that will happen. But we have seen that sin kills. Sin destroys whatever it comes into contact with. Sin is at the root of destructions of marriage, business, career, education, etc. A man that drinks believes that he is enjoying but that is deception of sin because he is destroying his liver and vital organs with alcohol. A young woman that is jumping from one bed to another, from one hotel to another thinks that she is happening, without knowing that she is a walking corpse, according to the Bible (see I Timothy 5:6). In plain terms a person who is deceived by definition does not even know they are deceived! And this is the deadly effect of sin in our lives – sin so alters our thinking that we do not even realize we are deceived when we sin!

SIN KILLS

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Wednesday August 2, 2023

SIN KILLS

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:4 [KJV]

Sin is a riddle, a mystery, a reality that eludes definition and comprehension. All unrighteousness is sin. Whatever is not right is wrong. Sin includes failure to do what is right. Sin also offends people; it is violence and lovelessness toward other people, and ultimately, rebellion against Yahweh. Sin involves a condition in which the heart is corrupted and inclined toward evil. Sin is disobedience to the Word of Yahweh. From the beginning the verdict of the creator on disobedience is death. Genesis 2:16-17 says, “16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” That is the day that you decide to disobey the instruction not to eat of this tree, you are signing for death. This death was eternal separation from the creator which ultimately affected the physical existence of the man also. Adam finally committed that treason and brought upon humanity death. Romans 5:12 says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin? and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Death is still reigning today by sin. Sin brings reproach, erodes honour, terminates dignity, cuts down and brings low. Sin is at the root of every evil, because before sin came there was no evil. At the root of every disease and frustration is sin. Sin is a spiritual heart disease, and you know that heart disease is the shortest cut to death. Ezekiel 18:20 declares this verdict “The soul that sinneth, it shall die. …”

PROPHETIC FOCUS FOR AUGUST 2023

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Tuesday August 1, 2023

PROPHETIC FOCUS FOR AUGUST 2023

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Hebrews 12:14 [KJV]

Happy New Month Beloved! Welcome to the month of August 2023, the second month of the third quarter. Remember that in the second day, He will revive us! This month being the second day of the third quarter, get set for a revival that will completely revolutionalize your world. We are most grateful to the Dependable Yahweh for His mercies which has been super abundant over us all from January till date. To Him alone be all the glory in the wonderful name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen! We hope you are flowing in the grace of supernatural prosperity by the baptism of the Word of Prosperity we received in the preceding month. We started with knowing that our prosperity is the will and pleasure of the Dependable Yahweh and then explained the technicalities of His Will, then progressed to look in-depth at the definition of prosperity as given by the Word. We explored the foundation of kingdom prosperity, then the purpose of kingdom prosperity, then the pillars of kingdom prosperity, then we examined the place of the Word, Faith, and Integrity in Kingdom Prosperity. We examined the covenant of Kingdom prosperity which is the law of seed-time and harvest. We explored the mystery of the hundredfold returns on kingdom givings. We looked at the role of angels in our prosperity. We saw that Kingdom Prosperity is sorrow-free. The long lingering question: When am I due? was examined. We saw that being spiritually minded is essential to our prosperity and that ultimately it is our choice that gives us a chance in Kingdom prosperity. What a month! It is the will of Yahweh that all of us in the body of HaMashiach are embodiments of prosperity. Choose to take your place in kingdom prosperity today. An end has come to the siege of penury, lack and want in your life and lineage forever in the wonderful name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

THANKFUL HEART FOR JULY 2023

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Monday JULY 31, 2023

THANKFUL HEART FOR JULY 2023

And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.Luke 17:19 [KJV]

One of the striking things about our opening text is the fact that thanksgiving and praise provokes perfection of blessing. This is all the more important, because July is the month of rest and perfection. On the seventh month, the ark rested upon the mountain of Ararat (Genesis 8:4). On the seventh day the Lord rested from his work, therefore blessed he the seventh day and hallowed it (see Genesis 2:2-3). Today’s text shows us how to walk in a life of practical rest, wholeness and perfection. If you have started seeing the move of Yahweh at all in your life, then there is what to do to see the full bloom of that move. If you have started seeing the healing and strength like you have not seen before, then there is this one thing to concentrate on to see the fullness of that which Yahweh has started. That one thing is heart-felt thanksgiving and praise. Some even though Yahweh is on their case and working to bring them out of their predicament have turned him off by continuous murmuring, grumbling and complaining. You applied for a job, you were called for interviewed amidst hundreds of others. Just seeing the crowd that turned up for the interviewed ignited unbelief in you, “there is no how I stand a chance among so many”, then you continue with murmuring as usual. However, the fact that you were invited for interview is the hand of Yahweh at work in your favour which if you had noticed it and overflowed with thanksgiving, then it would be impossible for you not to have the job.

YOUR CHANGE IS YOUR CHOICE

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Sunday JULY 30, 2023

YOUR CHANGE IS YOUR CHOICE

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

There is an adage that says that you can take the horse to the stream but you cannot force it to drink water. Change in life is a choice. Until you make that choice, you remain where you are. Until you leave the shore, you cannot discover new islands. The essence of Yahweh’s Word is to effect changes. Just a Word from Yahweh can change the entire course of your world. Change is a choice. It is your reaction against the present that creates a future. Judas Iscariot heard the Word, just as much as all the other disciples did; but it did not produce a change in him, because he did not choose change. When you are resistant to change, you remain in chains. When you don’t respond positively to the Word of Yahweh, you remain in captivity, whereas the Word is meant to set you free. John 8:32 says: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Judas heard the most direct message in the world (from the Word Himself), but he didn’t give room for a change. So he stayed on in chains, until he arrived in hell! That won’t be your case, in Yahushua’s name! Change is a choice! What information does is to provide opportunity for a change. But your response to the information is what determines your choice for either change or chains. Having gone through the teaching on Kingdom Prosperity this month, what is your choice?

WHEN AM I DUE?

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Friday JULY 28, 2023

WHEN AM I DUE?

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.Galatians 6:9 (KJV)

There is what is known as Due Season in the school of prosperity. Due season is the season that your blessing matures and start flowing to you. Ecclesiastes 11:1-3 says, ‘1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.’ Every time you give, you are laying a foundation for the times to come (see 1 Timothy 6:19). So, your due season is when your cloud is full. You are not due until when your cloud is full! Until you have cast enough up there, laying up treasures for yourself in heaven, your rain of blessings will not fall upon you here on earth. How then do I fill up my clouds? It is by casting your bread upon the waters, and when it is due it will rain down blessings for you. Every opportunity to give a sacrifice brings you closer to your due season, because it helps to fill up your cloud faster than regular input. That’s why with every acceptable sacrifice, there’s a forceful turn around of destiny. The cloud suddenly becomes full, and the “rain” begins to fall! Each man plays a principal role in determining his due season. Some have been regular Christians for 20 years. Others have been around for just five years, and they have filled their clouds again and again, and the “rain” just keeps falling time and again for them.

KINGDOM PROSPERITY IS SORROW-FREE

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Thursday JULY 27, 2023

KINGDOM PROSPERITY IS SORROW-FREE

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.Proverbs 10:22 (KJV)

One distinguishing feature of the blessing of the Lord is that it is sorrow-free, hassle-free and strain-free. We have established already that the blessing is not being full of money. When we talk about the blessing and prosperity, the mind of people run to having a fat bank account. That is definitely part of it but the blessing is bigger and larger than have a fat bank balance. Inside the blessing is riches. Our opening text says that the blessing makes rich. That means that when you are blessed, you are on your way to riches, to be made rich. You don’t get rich to be blessed, but you get blessed to get rich. The truth is that it is not only the blessing that procures riches. The devil also gives riches when you adhere to his method. So, if riches is solely your aim, you can as well subscribe to the devil to procure one. However, when the devil gives you anything, it comes with a lot of pain, sorrow, mourning and eventually at the cost of your own soul. Mark 8:36 asked such a question as to clarify the consequences of subscribing to the devil, it is always at the expense of your own soul: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? When it is not Yahweh, then it cannot be good because every good gift comes down from above from the father of lights with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17).

THE HUNDREDFOLD RETURN

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Tuesday JULY 25, 2023

THE HUNDREDFOLD RETURN

29 And Yahushua answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, 30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mark 10:29-30 (KJV)

The Word is the seed of Yahweh. The heart of man is the ground upon which the Word is sown. There are so many scenarios and outcome of the plantings of the Word in the heart as our Master Yahushua narrated in Mark chapter four. Please acquaint yourself of the different outcomes of the Word in that chapter. But we are interested today in the fact that there is a seed that was sown in the good ground of the heart. Though it was a good ground, still they produced in different dimensions. The Word will produce according to how you hear it, how you receive it, and how you bring forth fruit. These returns are brought forth by believing and acting on Yahweh’s Word and by the confession of your mouth. Some hearers will bring forth no fruit because they will allow other things to choke the Word (see Mark 4:19). Some will bring forth fruit. Some will bring forth a thirtyfold return, some will bring forth a sixtyfold return, and some will bring forth one hundredfold. Then our opening verse reiterated the hundredfold return again confirming the fact that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall each matter be established. Beloved, there is a hundredfold return on whatever you did because of the gospel. This includes your time, resources and efforts. If you ever gave towards the gospel, you can expect a hundredfold returns. None of the blessings of Yahweh work automatically, even though they belong to us. They become manifested in our lives as we exercise our faith to receive them. Healing belongs to every believer, but that great blessing is enjoyed only by those who exercise their faith to receive it. Tithing carries great benefits and rewards, but if you don’t tithe according to the Word and use your faith to receive those benefits, they are not manifested in your life as they should be. In the same way the hundredfold return is a powerful force in the believer’s financial blessing, but you have to release your faith to receive all that the Word offers you. The force of faith must be applied by the Word of Yahweh in your heart and by the confession of your mouth.

SEEDTIME AND HARVEST

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Monday JULY 24, 2023

SEEDTIME AND HARVEST

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Genesis 8:22 (KJV)

Seedtime is in today’s tech language input and harvest is output. Unlike the computer what you gabbage in is not what you gabbage out, but what you gabbage out is much more than you gabbage in because Luke 6:38 says, ‘Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.’ So, it is pressed down, shaken together and running over that you gabbage out. Giving is like gabbaging in and harvest is like gabbaging out. “Yahweh is not mocked”, says Galatians 6:7, “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” The covenant of prosperity hinges on the mystery of seedtime and harvest. It is this law that brings you into an encounter with the “Power to get wealth” (Deut. 8:18). Seedtime precedes harvest. It is not harvest that determines the seed, but the seed determines the harvest. First He gives seed to the sower and then bread to the eater. It’s not bread to the eater, from which he will take the seed. No! It is the seed that generates the bread (see Isaiah 55:10). Until this is understood, you will remain at the same level.

THE PLACE OF THE INTEGRITY IN KINGDOM PROSPERITY

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Sunday JULY 23, 2023

THE PLACE OF THE INTEGRITY IN KINGDOM PROSPERITY

Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.Psalms 112:1 (KJV)

Integrity is a requirement to qualify for Kingdom Prosperity. Integrity implies being true to the Word of Yahweh; not double-faced, not double-tongued. Integrity is the quality of unity between you and the will of Yahweh. It is walking in the fear of the Lord. The fear of Yahweh is the foundation that makes your acting on the Word of Yahweh to produce. Job’s testimony (see Job 1:1-3) shows us that you don’t have to be crooked to get to the topmost top. Money is the context upon which this injunction “Fight the good fight of faith” in 1 Timothy 6:12 was given. Nothing corrupts more than money in today’s world. People scheming to play out one another. You must fight financial corruption or you die in it. The Bible says, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life”. That means money is wrestling against eternal life in your life. But godliness with contentment is great gain (see 1 Timothy 6:6-7). Financial corruption is a deadly attack from hell. Yahushua once said to a man, “This is money, this is heaven, choose one”, and the man said, “I take money!” Or how else would you explain that account in Mark 10:17-25? Yahushua told him, “Sell all you have and give to the poor and you will have eternal life”. But he said, “No, I don’t want eternal life, I want ‘eternal’ money!” He signed for suicide because of money.