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  • HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (7): BY GIVING YOU PEACE

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (6): BY TEACHING US THE FEAR OF YAHWEH

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    Saturday October 22, 2022

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (7): BY GIVING YOU PEACE

    Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
    Psalms 119:165 (KJV)

    There are few things that are as valuable in life as peace. Peace is a stress-free state of security and calmness that comes when there’s no fighting or war, everything coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom. Peace is a state where there is no war or fighting within or without you. It is coming to a place of perfect rest and tranquillity in your spirit-man. So many people are at war within. They have the good things of life and live in good places and environment yet there is war within, no peace. The worst case of existence is lack of peace existence. That is the reason for suicide. The worst part of it is that there is nothing physical that can give or guarantee you peace within. Peace within comes first from surrendering your heart to the Lord Yahushua, reconciling with the Father through the Lord Yahushua. Then that state of peace is established by taking your seat in the Word. When you are in the Word, no devil can offend you, nothing can upset your heart. The world may be in turmoil; your environment may be on fire but within there is absolute peace and tranquillity. Peace is a state of living without a guilty conscience. Peace is a state of living without your heart skipping at the thoughts of things.

    Beloved, peace is your portion but it is not a gift that falls on your laps. It is a gift you lambano. Lambano is the Greek word that means to take something and make it your own. How you lambano peace is by staying in the Word, reading, studying and meditating on the Word. II Peter 1:2 says, ‘Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,’ How is peace multiplied to you? Through the knowledge of Yahweh and of the Lord Yahushua. Knowing the Father and His Son multiples peace to you. You are already brought into peace at new birth, but you need a dose of peace daily to maintain your sanity in this wicked and evil world. How is that daily peace received and multiplied? Through the knowledge of the Word. This is very crucial. There are Christians today that are at war within, because they are too busy for the Word and there is no other medium to receive daily peace apart from the Word.

    Cutting yourself from the Word is cutting yourself from peace. It takes diligence in the Word to be found in HaMashiach in peace (see II Peter 3:14). Diligence implies persevering determination to perform a task. It means conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation. Diligence in the Word is the way to peace. Never forget that! Shalom!

    REMEMBER: It takes diligence in the Word to walk in peace daily.

    PRAYER: Sweet Heavenly Father, thank You for Your word to me today. I ask for the grace to be diligent in the Word as a lifestyle from today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: May the Lord give war 100 times back to anyone bringing war in any form into your life in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    II Chronicles 16:1-14

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 39:1-41:18; 2 Timothy 1:1-18; Psalm 90:1-91:16; Proverbs 26:1-2

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  • HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (5): BY IMPARTING THE SPIRIT OF FAITH

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (5): BY IMPARTING THE SPIRIT OF FAITH

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    Thursday October 20, 2022

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (5): BY IMPARTING THE SPIRIT OF FAITH

    So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
    Romans 10:17 [KJV]

    The Word does not only inform us, it transforms us. It transforms us by imparting the Spirit of Yahweh to us or put another way, the faith of Yahweh. John 6:63 says that the Word is spirit and life. The problem we have is running from the Word. If you can just make the Word your best friend and be diligent to read, study, and meditate, the Word would impart you effortlessly with the faith required to see the Word come to pass in your life. The Word builds us up by imparting us with the spirit of faith. The spirit of faith is the force that compels obedience to the Word of Yahweh. The truth is that it is not just the knowledge of the Word that transforms, it is the response of faith to the Word that transforms. Until you respond to the Word in faith, it would just be like a story to you. But what we are saying today is that faith is not what you scratch your head to get. Faith is automatic with the Word entering your spirit-man. Faith comes by hearing and understanding the Word. Your task is to dedicate yourself to the Word. Know all that we have already discussed about the Word being eternal and infallible. Believe that the Word is Yahweh speaking to you today. Then respond as if the Word is true and see what happens. Faith is not a struggle. Anybody residing on the lane and even the room of the Word will come under the force called faith and that effortlessly.

    Finance is an aspect that many people are struggling with daily. But that needs not be your experience because you can live differently by just doing what the Word says about your finances. The first is to honour the Lord with your finance and that starts with the tithe. The tithe is not man made ritual. It is the part of Yahweh in what He has given you. If you are too wise to respect Him with your tithe, you can never be free from life’s struggles. Then, also part of honouring the Lord with your finance is your offering (see Malachi 3:8-11). But how can you even know the Will of Yahweh if you are far from the Word? The Word you receive and behave is the Word that transforms you. For you to receive the Word, you must read, study and meditate on the Word. There is no alternative. Then suddenly your perspective is altered and you begin to take steps in line with the light that you are receiving as you read, study and meditate on the Word and this makes a dimensional paradigm shift in your life.

    The Spirit of Faith makes you to start declaring the Word boldly both to yourself and to others. As you study the Word and see that He Himself took your infirmity and bore your sicknesses and that it is a done deal, the spirit of faith causes you to start declaring that “I cannot be sick”. Based on the Word that you have received in your spirit-man, the spirit of faith begins to declare that Word both to yourself, the angels and the gates of hell. It is this bold declaration that brings about the triumphs of the Word in your life. That is exactly how it builds you up and delivers your inheritance to you. Shalom!

    REMEMBER: Faith is the result of reading, studying and meditating on the Word.

    CONFESSION: The Word is my source. As I read, study and meditate on the Word, my spirit-man is imparted with the faith of Yahweh that makes me talk and behave in ways that delivers my inheritance in HaMashiach. All Glory be to the Shaddai!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: Receive the passion to make reading, studying and meditating on the Word your lifestyle from today in Yahushua’s name Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    II Corinthians 4:13

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 35:1-36:32; 1 Timothy 5:1-25; Psalm 89:14-37; Proverbs 25:25-27

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  • HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (2): BY IMPARTING HATRED FOR SIN

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (2): BY IMPARTING HATRED FOR SIN

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    Monday October 17, 2022

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (2): BY IMPARTING HATRED FOR SIN

    Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity? therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
    Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)

    By the time we are done with this series, you will come to appreciate why it is practically impossible to live a successful Christian life outside the Word. Sin is one thing that separates humanity from Yahweh. Sin is not an old concept. Whatever the world has become today in terms of evil is a function of the introduction of sin by man. People ask “if there is Yahweh, why is there so much evil in the world?” Sin is the answer. Wherever sin is present, no good thing will ever be present there. Whenever you see sin, there must of necessity be the absence of Yahweh. This is a very serious matter. Yahweh loves humanity but hates sin. Yahweh does not condone sin. Sin is the straw that breaks the camel’s back with Yahweh. No matter how close you are to Him, once you start meddling with sin, your time has expired with Him. You have overstayed your welcome, we would say humanly speaking. You are quickly like a leper escorted out of the court like what happened to king Uzziah of Judah in II Chronicles 26:16-23. Beloved, you must understand today that sin is not your friend on all counts. The Lord hates sin. When you stay in the Word in reading, studying and meditation, there is an impartation for you of the same order of hatred for sin that the Lord has.

    It is littered in the Word the injunction to hate evil. Staying in the Word exposes you to the mind of Yahweh about sin. It lets you know how He responds to sin, thereby guiding your own response to the lure of sin. This dimension does not come over night however. You need to stay in the Word until whatsoever that deviates from the Word begins to irritate you. You would come to the point that you can never be comfortable with sin in your life and surely not even in the lives of people around you. Living in sin or even accommodating sin in your life is surely the fact of lack of knowledge of who your enemy really is. Your greatest enemy is sin. The power and dominion of the devil over you is sin. If you cut off sin from your life, you would see how frail Satan is. Satan’s power is your existence without a living relationship with Yahweh. Whenever you take care of sin and Yahweh is actively in partnership with you, then you are in charge in all realms.

    Beloved, decide to develop love for the Word which will empower you to stay put in the Word, day in day out. Your struggles with sin and unrighteousness is enough. There is a place in the Word, I desire that you position yourself today and stay free forever. Not everybody is struggling with sin. Not everybody is living with guilty conscience. Don’t allow Satan to deceive you that everybody is struggling with one thing or the other. It is not true. There is a position you will maintain in the Word that puts an end eternally to your struggles with sin. Take that position today. Selah!

    REMEMBER: Staying in the Word imparts you with hatred for sin.

    PRAYER: Dear Father, thank you for your word to me today. I ask for the grace to stay in the Word until my nature is completely altered and intense hatred for sin is imparted in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: Your days of struggling with sin has ended. From now enter into the realms of dominion over sin in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Romans 6:11-23

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 30:1-31:26; 1 Timothy 2:1-15; Psalm 87:1-7; Proverbs 25:18-19

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  • HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (1): BY IMPARTING A MINDSET

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (1): BY IMPARTING A MINDSET

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    Sunday October 16, 2022

    HOW DOES THE WORD BUILD UP (1): BY IMPARTING A MINDSET

    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
    Romans 12:2 (KJV)

    We are going to examine how the Word accomplishes the task of building us up. This is important because your inheritance is not in view until you are built up. You only qualify to enter into your inheritance in HaMashiach as you come to full development. The Word builds us up by imparting a mindset to us. When you gave your life to HaMashiach, it was your spirit-man that was born again. Your spirit-man was recreated according to the image of the Son of Yahweh, at new birth. Your soul was not saved then, your body was not saved also. The saving of the soul is a gradual process and involves the active partnership between the believer, the Word and the Holy Spirit. The soul comprises of the mind, the will and the emotions. You must educate your mind/intellect by the Word. You must also confirm your will to the Word and bring your emotions under the influence of the Word and all these is not a day’s job. It is a gradual process.

    Often what undo the believer is ignorance than the devil. At new birth, the believer is superior to the devil and all the gates of hell. But the believer’s exercise of power is only limited to his/her knowledge of his/her rights and authority in HaMashiach. All the power of heaven, earth and hell is at the believer’s disposal but exercising that authority is only according to knowledge. So, the Lord cries in Hosea 4:6, ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.’ When you start relating with the Word, it imparts to you a mindset. It is called the Victor’s Mindset. It is a mindset that no matter what, you win as long as you act within your rights in the Word.

    The Word renews our mind. Re-educating our minds from the perspective of the world to the mind of HaMashiach. The mind of HaMashiach is that mind that conforms to the Word but it is not a gift. It comes by robbing our minds with the Word and over time, impressions of the Spirit set in our minds causing us to behave in agreement with the Word at all times. It is renewing the mind with the Word, discovering the Will of Yahweh in His Word and making His Will your will and conforming your emotions to the Word that saves the soul. This is very crucial. The essence of the new birth is the saving of the soul but that cannot be done without active partnership with the Word and the Holy Spirit. This is exactly what Yahweh wants to communicate in Joshua 1:8. Same thought is expressed in Philippians 2:12. Selah!

    REMEMBER: The salvation of your soul depends on you renewing your mind with the Word.

    PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I ask for the grace to take the reading, studying, meditating and doing of the Word as a matter of life and death so that I can work out my own salvation with fear and trembling in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: Everything that takes the Word with laxity dies in you today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Philippians 2:12-13; Joshua 1.8.

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 28:1-29:32; 1 Timothy 1:1-20; Psalm 86:1-17; Proverbs 25;17

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  • OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (5): HALF-HEARTED SUBMISSION

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (5): HALF-HEARTED SUBMISSION

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    Saturday October 15, 2022

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (5): HALF-HEARTED SUBMISSION

    And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
    II Chronicles 25:2 (KJV)

    Half-heartedness is a state of feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm. This is a state where you are not excited by the Word and that shows in not having enthusiasm for it. Remember that we had said earlier that it takes staying long in the Word to encounter the deep things of the Word that makes you come into the dimension of the Word that delivers to you your inheritance. But where there is lack of enthusiasm, there is not going to be that energy to stay long in the Word. A half-hearted submission to the Word is not going to be able to access the Word because of lack of interest. Yahweh does not force a relationship with us. Relationship with Him is a function of whosoever is interested. Psalms 122:1 says, ‘I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.’ It is your interest that drives you to seeking to know the Lord. What is the problem with the half-hearted submission? It is its lack of interest in the Word of the Lord. The drive to know the Lord and His Word is not existing in the half-hearted person. Any encouragement you seem to be giving to the person appears as if you are dragging him/her against his/her will. All we are trying to show today is that this kind of half-hearted submission is a hindrance to accessing the Word and when you can’t access the Word, it can’t build you up and as long as you are not built up, you cannot be entrusted with your inheritance. For “1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all? 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.” (Galatians 4:1-2).

    You must strive to kill every trace of nonchalance to the Word. This is why we engage in consecrational fast to activate the fire of the Word in our hearts. Without periodic consecrational fasting, the heart may relapse to that mode of no enthusiasm for the Word. But as you fast weekly, the fire is rekindled for the passion of the Word in your soul. Periodic fasting as a Believer is non-negotiable. Matthew 6:16 says, ‘Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: …’ Fasting is a matter of when and not if. To maintain the glow of the Spirit in your Christian walk, you must be fasting at least once every week. Too much food suffocates the spirit-man. There is nothing that kills the spirit-man faster than food all the time.

    Another way to destroy half-hearted submission to the Word is to know and understand what life in the Word affords you. Knowledge drives interest. When you know what is in something for you, the enthusiasm to go all out for that thing is activated. We shall discussed what the Word does for you to build you up and to give you your own inheritance among them that are sanctified (see Acts 20:32). If obtaining your inheritance is your desire then life in the Word is a must for you and that desire and knowledge drives you into the Word and destroys half-hearted submission. Shalom!

    REMEMBER: Half-hearted submission eats up your interest and enthusiasm for the Word.

    PRAYER: Beloved Father, I thank You for Your word to me today. I receive grace to undertake periodic consecrational fasts in order to keep my spirit on fire for the Word in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: I declare that fire from the altar consumes the root of half-hearted submission to the Word in your life now in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Ephesians 6:6

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 26:1-27; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18; Psalm 85:1-13; Proverbs 25:16

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  • OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (4): EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (4): EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF

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    Friday October 14, 2022

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (4): EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF

    Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
    Hebrews 3:12 (KJV)

    Unbelief can hinder your access to the Word. Unbelief is an evil heart. Every release from the Lord is on the basis that you believe. If you believe no evidence is needed; if you don’t believe no evidence is sufficient. Unbelief places you where there is no other evidence that can satisfy your curiosity. Unbelief makes Yahweh a liar before you. That is why it’s evil. Unbelief is a great sin, it vitiates the heart of man. If faith is the only basis and link to connect with Yahweh, then you are eternally disconnected from the life of Yahweh in unbelief. The Word will become to you the words of a tail that has no relationship with reality. Evil heart of unbelief leads you to depart from the living Elohim and His Word. This kind of unbelief that hinder us from the Word is not the kind of unbelief that we see in Psalms 14:1, ‘The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.’ This kind of unbelief do believe that there is God but that is all there is to his faith. This evil heart of unbelief does not take Yahweh at His Word. The evidence of faith in the Word is action. When you do not act in line with the Word, no matter what you are saying, you do not believe. In time, your evil heart of unbelief will cause you to depart from the living God.

    How does evil heart of unbelief lead to departing from the living God? Yahweh, the living God only responds to faith. Faith is believing and acting on the Word. When you don’t believe the Word, you won’t act on it. Because you won’t act on it, you won’t have a response from Yahweh. Over time you are going to get weary and start looking for solutions from other means. This will lead you to depart from the living God. This is why unbelief will finally give you an evil heart. Unbelief cuts you off from the living Word and short-circuits the eternal life in you. You cannot afford the cost of the evil heart of unbelief. Its cost is eternal separation from the Lord Yahushua.

    Make a choice today to believe the Word and show that you believe by behaving same. Making that choice is crucial because believing is a choice. It is a choice you make to respond in obedience to the Word as you hear it. Having made your choice to believe the Word, go for a word bath with a very immersive Word programme. This is because faith comes by hearing and that by the Word of Yahweh. The Word will help you overcome fear which is the basis of all unbelief. The Word will also help you understand the love of Yahweh for you which will empower your faith.

    REMEMBER: Evil heart of unbelief will lead to forsaking the living God and being eternally separated from Him.

    CONFESSION: I am born of the Word. The Word is my source. I have no dealing with unbelief because the Word is my daily meditation. I flourish as I do the Word. Halleluyah!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: That evil heart of unbelief is destroyed today in your life in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Hebrews 4:1-2.

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 23:21-25:38; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; Psalm 84:1-12; Proverbs 25:15

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  • OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (3): THE THORNY HEART

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (3): THE THORNY HEART

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    Thursday October 13, 2022

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (3): THE THORNY HEART

    And some fell among thorns? and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
    Matthew 13:7 (KJV)

    Some seeds fell among thorns (which are a good guard to the corn when they are in the barn, but a bad inmate when they are in the field). ‘And the thorns sprung up,’ which intimates that they did not appear, or but little, when the corn was sown, but afterwards they proved choking to it, (vs. 7). The thorny heart went further than the former, the wayside heart and the stony heart, for it had root; and it represents the condition of those who do not quite cast off their profession, and yet come short of any saving benefit by it; the good they gain by the word, being insensibly overcome and overborne by the things of the world. Prosperity destroys the Word in the heart, as much as persecution does; and more dangerously, because more silently. The stones spoiled the root, the thorns spoil the fruit. Now what are these choking thorns?

    First, They represent the cares of this world. Care for another world would quicken the springing of this seed, but care for this world chokes it. Worldly cares are fitly compared to thorns, for they came in with sin, and are a fruit of the curse; they are good in their place to stop a gap, but a man must be well armed that deals much in them (2 Sam. 23:6, 7); they are entangling, vexing, scratching, and their end is to be burned, (see Heb. 6:8). These thorns choke the good seed. Note, Worldly cares are great hindrances to our profiting by the word of Yahweh, and our proficiency in the faith. They eat up that vigour of soul which should be spent in divine things; divert us from duty, distract us in duty, and do us most mischief of all afterwards; quenching the sparks of good affections, and bursting the cords of good resolutions; those who are careful and cumbered about many things, commonly neglect the one thing needful (see Luke 10:42).

    Secondly, They represent the deceitfulness of riches. Those who, by their care and industry, have raised estates, and so the danger that arises from care seems to be over, and they continue hearers of the word, yet are still in a snare (Jer. 5:4, 5); it is hard for those that are rich to enter into the kingdom of heaven (see Matthew 19:23): they rely upon riches, and take an inordinate complacency in riches; and this chokes the Word as much as care did. Observe, It is not so much riches, as the deceitfulness of riches, that does the mischief: now they cannot be said to be deceitful to us unless we put our confidence in them, and raise our expectations from them, and then it is that they choke the good seed. Selah!

    REMEMBER: The thorny heart is choked to death by the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.

    PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. Today I turn my back eternally to the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: Be delivered today from the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Isaiah 54:1-17

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 22:1-23:20; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12; Psalm 83:1-18; Proverbs 25:11-14

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  • OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (1): THE WAYSIDE SYNDROME

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (1): THE WAYSIDE SYNDROME

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    Tuesday October 11, 2022

    OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (1): THE WAYSIDE SYNDROME

    And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
    Matthew 13:4 (KJV)

    We shall start to examine the things that stop us from accessing, receiving and walking in the light of the Word. The Lord Yahushua told a parable in the book of Matthew chapter 13 of a sower that went to the field to sow seeds. In interpreting that parable to His disciples, we saw that the seed is the Word of Yahweh (see Luke 8:11). The field is the world. As you hear the Word of the Lord by reading, studying or listening, it is likened to a sower sowing the seed into your heart. Until the seed germinates, grows and bears fruit, it has not achieved the purpose of the sower. The fruits of the Spirit, the fruits of a changed life and the fruit of complete obedience to the Word is what we call the Word building you up and the result is that you enter into your inheritance in HaMashiach. But what is the cause why so many people miss the Word? Let us examine what the Lord Yahushua explained in Matthew 13:19, ‘When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.’ Some seeds fail by the wayside. The wayside is the heart that hears the Word but does not understand it. Let us understand that it is same Word that is being sown, the variance is the ground. So whose fault was it that this ground never understood the Word? It was the fault of the ground. These are the set of people that never heed the Word. They never pay attention to the Word. They never take a hold of it. In the first place, the wayside is not meant to be sown so existing on the wayside is planning ab initio to fail with the Word. They come before Yahweh as his people come, and sit before Him as his people sit; but it is merely for fashion-sake, to see and be seen; they mind not what is said. It comes in at one ear and goes out at the other, and makes no impression.

    Because of this set of people’s nonchalance with the Word, they become easy prey to the wicked one. Such mindless, careless, trifling hearers are an easy prey to Satan; who, as he is the great murderer of souls, so he is the great thief of the Word, and will be sure to rob us of the word, if we take not care to keep it: as the birds pick up the seed that falls on the ground that is neither ploughed before nor harrowed after. If we break not up the fallow ground, by preparing our hearts for the word, and humbling them to it, and engaging our own attention; and if we cover not the seed afterwards, by meditation and prayer; if we give not a more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, we are as the highway ground. Note, the devil is a sworn enemy to our profiting by the word of God; and none do more befriend his design than heedless hearers, who are thinking of something else, when they should be thinking of the things that belong to their peace. Selah!

    REMEMBER: Wayside hearers are those who have not prepared their hearts for the Word, hence do not understand it.

    PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I receive the grace to heed the Word as I read and listen to it from now in the precious name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: You shall never be found in the wayside of life but your heart shall be the good ground prepared and understanding the Word in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Matthew 13; Luke 8

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 16:16-18:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:3; Psalm 81:1-16; Proverbs 25:6-8

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  • ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORD (4): THE WORD IS PROPHETIC

    ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORD (4): THE WORD IS PROPHETIC

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    Monday October 10, 2022

    ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORD (4): THE WORD IS PROPHETIC

    We have also a more sure word of prophecy? whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
    II Peter 1:19 (KJV)

    The Word of Yahweh is prophetic. This means that the Word foretells the events of the future. We have the glimpse of the end by the Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord speaks to our future and to our moments. Until you are in the Word, you would not have idea of what the future looks like. Everything happening today is already prophesied in the Word. We know that the Word does not fail because what it foretold of old had come to pass, so what it foretell of the end shall come to pass. Anybody that refuses to take warning that the Word has already given has him/herself to blame. The Word shows you the picture of your future. When you come into terms with that, then you will begin to walk in paths preordained for you. Romans 8:29 says, ‘For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.’ Even your salvation is a function of divine foreknowledge. It is because you were marked for salvation that irrespective of your past wickedness, somehow, salvation found you and when you heard the Word, you believed.

    We must take heed to the Word of Yahweh because not doing so is behaving like Esau who despised his birthright (see Hebrews 12:16). The Word is our light into the future, we are admonished in our opening text to take heed to it. There is a prophetic Word concerning your life in the Word, you must discover it, connect with it and run with it. Habakkuk 2:2 told us to run with the vision. The Word is the vision of our future already written down by the Lord, our job is to discover and run with it. For instance, when you were born again, you arrived in spiritual mount Zion. Isaiah 33:24 says, ‘And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.’ Hebrews 12:22 says, ‘But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,’ In Zion where you now spiritually reside, no inhabitant says “I am sick.” That should settle your future without sickness and pain. The prophetic Word says that you shall not say, you are sick.

    That is how the prophetic scriptures settles our moments and our future. In this moment, you are not permitted to be sick because you have come unto mount Zion, and in the future, when you finally starts living and reigning in the millennium from the physical mount Zion with the Lord Yahushua. Same is application in all other areas of your life. In Deuteronomy 28:1-13, the Word prophetically placed you above all the nations of the earth, as you hearken and obey the Lord, He lifts you on the top. That means you are not permitted to be under in life; existing in one corner of the earth; obscure and without visibility to the nations of the earth. The prophetic Word has spoken concerning your future. As you read and discover what is written about you, you begin to take your place on the altar of prayer to enforce the will. That is how it works.

    REMEMBER: The prophetic Word speaks to our moments and future.

    PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I receive the grace to connect with the prophetic Word in my life in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree that things align according to the Prophetic Word in your life now in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    II Peter 1:19-21

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 14:11-16:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:9-3:13; Psalm 80:1-19; Proverbs 25:1-5

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  • ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORD (3): THE WORD IS SURGICAL

    ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORD (3): THE WORD IS SURGICAL

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    Sunday October 9, 2022

    ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORD (3): THE WORD IS SURGICAL

    For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
    Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)

    When we say that the Word is surgical, we mean to say that the Word has the power to open up your spirit, soul and body and stitch, repair or replace whatever is missing, damaged, or failing. The Word can cut open your spirit, soul and body. That is exactly this surgical dimension that our opening text is speaking about. The Word of Yahweh is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Word can cut your body open and remove cancer cell without physically cutting you open but when you go to the doctors or laboratory, they would confirm that you don’t have any cancer any more. Beloved, with the Word in your mouth you can cut off sickness, disease or infection from your body. The Word of Yahweh in your mouth in the name of the Lord Yahushua is a surgical knife that can cut off any pain harassing your life. As a Pastor, this is the way I deal with satanic affliction in the life of the people. I just lay hands on the person and I cut off the hold of that devil in the life of the person in the name of the Lord Yahushua and it is settled.

    The surgical operation of the Word is also a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. You would hear the Lord Yahushua answering a person after discerning what that person was saying in his heart that he didn’t even utter. John 7:39 says, ‘Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.’ This man Simon the Pharisee that invited the Lord to dine in his house spoke within himself, but the surgical Word in the Lord Yahushua was about to cut in and discern it (see John 7:40-50). The Word can make you so sharp that you can discern your environment and even the thoughts of others. This helps you not to be a victim of wicked and unreasonable people who speak peace to you but war is in their heart (see Psalms 28:3). Someone can be telling you of an opportunity if the Word is surgically operating in you, you can dissect in the realm of the spirit what the person is saying if it is true or false.

    The Word penetrates into the spirit and soul and can help you cut off any form of addiction to any substance. Anything that appears indelible in your spirit or soul can be cut off by the surgical power of the Word. Sit on the Word until habits and deep seated unscriptural convictions are cut off by the surgical operation of the Word.

    REMEMBER: The Word is a very sharp surgical knife that can handle spirit, soul and body operations.

    PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I ask for the grace to sit on the Word to both acquire the surgical knife of the Word and to sharpen my spirit-man in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    PROPHETIC RELEASE: Everything that is not consistent with the Word of Yahweh in your life is cut off now in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

    FURTHER READING:
    Isaiah 55:11; Ephesians 6:17.

    ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the bible in one year from Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs.
    Jeremiah 12:1-14:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8; Psalm 79:1-13; Proverbs 24:30-34

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