The Joy of the Lord is your Strength

 Nehemiah 8:10
10 Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”



When the doctor examined me and came to tell me what the trouble was against my health, I noticed a visible sadness in his face.
 
At that moment, I would not figure out for the life of me why he was sad because I was confident nothing trouble seriously was against my health.
 
Sadly he told me that I had diabetes, and after a few hours down the road.
 
I came to realize that he was sad because he looked at me as a young man up against a deadly threat that had the ability to wipe me out in just the nick of time.
 
However when I went back to the shelter, I looked at the face of God, and it was visibly happy and full of Joy at the news of the doctor’s report.
 
From that very instant I began to make an inquiry about two counter-distinctive responses: at the report and at the medical evidence of that which the doctor said was diabetes in my body.
 
The Doctor was visibly sad while God was visibly happy. Why? I kept wondering, until divine revelation knowledge or rather the pure knowledge of God Almighty hit me.
 
The Doctor was sad because a situation beyond his medical authority and a situation that surpassed his medical technical propensity had evidenced itself in my body at a very tender age.
 
Conversely God Almighty was joyful and happy because now the diabetes evidence in my body was an opportunity and an opening for him to show off, showcase, brandish, and to display his wonder-miracle working power in my life.
 
And as you have all heard the story GOD HEALED ME OF THE DIABETES AND AM FREE.
 
See friends you need to rise-up to a level of understanding that God promised to walk with you, he promised never to leave you alone, he hold you by the right hand even as of now, and he says,” Lo and behold!,”I am going to walk, and talk with you taking you through depths of my glory, the breadth of my knowledge, and through my glorious heights”.
So believe.
 
I have come to see God in situations others may not be able to see him, I have come to appreciate God in ways others may not appreciate him not because of what he continues to bless me materialistically with but because of what he keeps on saving me from.
 
When men got together to cut my very existence …God Almighty saved me. When things began to break-up in my life to the extent that I had nothing to hold unto…God Almighty saved me.
 
When I had no money to take care of me and to pay my dues…..God Almighty saved me.
 
And I cannot begin to explain to you how he saved me but one thing I know is that he saved me by his awesome saving grace.
 
When friends walked away from me and when I called out, to those whom I thought were dear to me and they were no where to come to my rescue...God Almighty saved.
 
He saved me when all my friends turned to the sidelines of my struggle not to cheer me but to jeer me, to mock me, and to disperse my gift, and to classify it as though it was irrelevant….God Almighty saved me.
 
He saved me by informing me that there is no way he gifted me to be irrelevant, and good for nothing.
 
When I was rejected every side that I turned God saved me by embracing and giving me a word of comfort.”He said in psalms 30:5-5 for his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
 
He saved me and I praise him. When everything seemed as though it was going to amount to nothing, God Almighty saved me.
 
He saved me by telling me,” Do not be afraid everything is turning around for your Good”, things are turning around in your life because the scripture declares, “in Romans 8:28-28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who [have been called according to his purpose.
 
Sometimes when you are going through hell and trouble, when things are going crazy you are sad but God is full of joy because he understands that his joy is your strength.
 
He understands your troubles and your problems are only but an occasion and an opportunity for him to reveal and manifest his glorious power in your life.
 
The strength /the revelation by which you overcome do not come from those who are scorning you, pity-patting you, laughing at you, talking, rumor-mongering about you but rather it comes from the Joy of the Lord/ from the revelation of God.
 
The revelation of God is the light/ the knowledge of God, the Light of God is the power by which his glory is made manifest within our very lives…Glory be to God.

Business Unusual

Genesis 1:26-31

²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us make man in our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all^[b] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
²⁹ And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. ³¹ Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2:7, ⁷ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

On the sixth day the Lord God Almighty created and formed man in two counter distinctive narratives found in genesis 1:26-31 plus in genesis 2:7.

The first narrative is creative /idealistic/imaginary, while the second narrative is morphological in form and in nature.

Obviously without a inkling and a shadow of a doubt, the sixth day corresponds with the creation of man and the formation of the same.
  
In other wards, the number six is the number of man.


The man is the physical ambassador/ representative or rather tangible reality of the glory of God upon the face of the earth.

In addition, everything created he thee by manner of his speech(Hebrew) which speech is well captured in the utterance “Let there be…..” is in simple terms the glory of God.

But the crown of his entire glory on the face of the earth is man, thus man is the king of God’s glory upon the earth as much as the leading glory of God’s glory upon the face of the earth.


This is further so because after he created and formed the man, he gave him a distinctive and special assignment to have authority, and dominion over all things created and formed.

To be fruitful, and to multiply; to fill the earth and subdue it;

In other wards, God always expects man to have authority, and dominion over all things created, to be fruitful, and to multiply; to fill the earth and subdue it.

To multiply by way of producing many of your own kind, God did not ordain you and sanctify you to operate in the mathematical field of addition but in the mathematical field of multiplication.

Mathematics is the practical interpretation of the essence embedded in numerical signs and symbols.

Science is the study of living things that are underpinned and equated by numerical value.

In other wards numbers have life in them and whatever has life has got a sense of purpose, direction, and meaning.
  
However in order for one to tap into the life that is embedded in numbers, one needs an interpretation of the number.

In theology, numbers are interpreted to tap into their divine relevancy, and significance to the people of God.

Numbers speak to the destiny of God’s people.

Thus as we celebrate our spiritual father’s 30yrs anniversary in ministry, the spirit of God moved  me into the realm of divine understanding so as to become fully aware of the direction that God was talking our spiritual Father.

As a son I ‘am always concerned to know where my father is going in as far as the things of God are concerned.

Because as a son my next level in God and in life often times than not depends on how far God allows my father to go;

God is more persuaded by multiplication than anything else that is why he instructed the crown of his glory (man) -upon the face of the earth to multiply and to be fruitful on the earth.

And in order to get the number 30, in the most proficient way possible, God will multiply six by five in order to achieve and accomplish 30.

Number six is interpreted to mean the man of God/the crown of God’s glory upon the earth and in this vein God will have me to tell you that Number six refers to our spiritual Father-the man of God and the crown of God’s glory in this particular day, and time of our lives.

And God will have me to declare by his tender mercies and precious grace that from this time forth, he is multiplying our man of God/our spiritual father with the number five-which divinely when interpreted means the favor of God, the mercy of God, the gift of, and the revelation of God.

In the natural when you multiply six by five it equates to number 30.

In this 30yrs anniversary celebration, God is multiplying our man of God by his favor, mercy, grace, revelation, and gifting of the spirit.
So that the results of his ministry from henceforth will be unusual;

The ministry of Robert Kayanja is and has began from this 30yrs anniversary celebration to produce unusual fruits of favor, mercy, gifts, revelation knowledge, and grace.

Business will not be as usual anymore but it will be unusual, if I would put it boldly the ministry along with its fruits is going to be extraordinary.

They will be unusual and extraordinary testimonies of financial breakthrough, in the ministry of the man of God, testimonies of unusual and extraordinary miracles, signs, and wonders, extraordinary, and unusual testimonies of deliverance from poverty.
  
There will be extraordinary and unusual influence, power, and dominion.

As much as extraordinary and unusual favor

From the Bottom of the Bellow to the Cream of the Crop

1 Samuel 2:8-he lifts the poor from the dust and rises the needy from their misery. He makes them companions of princes, and puts them in places of honor. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD; on them he builds the world.

Folk are looking at you scrapping and operating at the bottom of the bellow, at the very bottom of the bellow and they erroneously think that where you are right now is going to be your permanent condition.

But what they do not understand is that while you are scrapping and operating at the Bottom of the bellow, you keep on calling the name of Jesus, they see you calling the name of Jesus and because they cannot hear you but they can only see your lips moving they think you are losing your mind.

You keep on praying in silence more like Hannah in 1 Samuel chapter 1, who continued to pray to the 

LORD for a long time and Eli watched her lips, she was praying silently: her lips were moving but she made no sound.

So Eli thought that she was drunk, and said to her, “Stop making a drunken show of yourself, Stop your drinking and sober up.

No, I’m not drunk sir, “she answered, and I have not been drinking! I am desperate and I have been praying, pouring out my troubles to the Lord.

Do not think am a worthless woman.

 I have been praying like this because I’m so miserable.

Some people are looking at you calling out the name of Jesus while you operating at the bottom of the bellow and they think you are insane and crazy.

They think you are losing your mind because it’s as though you talking all by yourself but your lips are moving as you pray silently and you can’t stop even when you are being labeled mad cause your troubles are so great and you desperately need God to give a redress.

You are not worthless, and a nuisance it’s only that your misery has gotten to its height and you desperately need God to put a stop to it.

God will stop your misery today I know this because he promised to get you out.

You are scrapping at the bottom of the bellow but what folk do not realize is that you are going to come out at and in the name of Jesus.

Yes! it may take a little while some times it may even take longer than a little while, sometimes it may even take longer than a little while but you are going to come out of that situation that is seemingly permanent in the eyes of men, and women who do not understand the prophetic and have no idea that the situation that you are enduring right now cannot endure for ever because the mercy of God Almighty is getting ready to put a stop to it even as l speak to you right now.

The Lord God who exalts the humble is rising you up from the bottom of the bellow. The Bible declares, in”Psalms 34:1”-I will bless the Lord at all times, and his praises shall continually be in my mouth.

Just praise God if you will even as of right now because I remember the old people sing and swing “that when you praise God the blessings come down.”

We are walking and breathing in a season where the first are getting ready to become first.

Its one thing to live at the bottom of the bellow and still be able to wake-up in the morning and, say “thank you Jesus because my life will look better today than it looked yesterday

 It’s one thing to be at the bottom of the bellow and still be able to pose out of your daily struggle to get by and tell God under no uncertain terms that even though you slay me yet shall I trust in thee and in the direction that you have curved out form me.

See my dear friends God will have you going in the direction that you do not want to go but because you trust him you none the less you go.

God will sometimes have you doing things that you do not feel like doing but because you trust him you do it.

God will sometimes have you accepting things that you would not have accepted but because you trust him, you accept.

God is coming to get you from the bottom of the bellow to the cream of the crop because he promised, he promised and he is not a man so as to lie.

If you are living at the bottom of the bellow and God promised you a blessing.

You are coming out by the promise of God for the life of you.

The promises of God are coming to get you and snatch you out from the bottom of the below.

And just in case you do not trust his specific promise unto you, just remember

1 Samuel 2:8--he lifts the poor from the dust and rises the needy from their misery. He makes them companions of princes, and puts them in places of honor. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD; on them he builds the world.

God told St. Peter to tell you that, “you are a chosen generation, king’s priests, and the holy nation God’s own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

You may be feeding at the bottom of the bellow as of now but  God’s holy hand is snatching you out because you are the priest of the great king of kings chosen and ordained to proclaim God’s wonderful acts.

And these wonderful acts begin with your being brought out of the bottom of the bellow unto the cream of the crop.

These wonderful acts have to begin with you so that when you begin to proclaim God’s wonderful acts people can’t doubt you because your very own story is that you came from the bottom of the bellow to the cream of the crop.

The Mercy of God: A Winning Force against the Devil/the Yetzer Hara

John 11: Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) ³ So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”,⁴ When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, ⁷ and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

John 11:⁴¹ so they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

In Hebrew scriptural understanding there is a concept known as Yetzer Hara. The Yetzer Hara is a spiritual concept that states that when HasHem-God Almighty.

The Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob created humanity, he created humanity in the same way but with each individual created he distinctive roles, assignments, dreams, goals, visions, and aspirations.

Each individual within the field of humanity was created with distinctively unique features that set him apart above rest.

And with this in mind everyone created and formed by God as a living breathing entity unto God Almighty was created and formed to achieve specific assignments, dreams, goals, visions, and aspirations that are pre-designed to fulfill the plan of God upon the earth.

 Because the devil is the principle sworn enemy of humanity, he sets out to attack every unique individual in the human field, in a unique distinctive manner, which the Hebrew sages describe as the Yetzer Hara.

The Yetzer Hara is the evil inclination that sets itself in motion as a distinctively unique attack against your life and your life’s vision, dreams, aspirations, and health.

The attack by the Yetzer Hara is the attack of the devil himself against your life so intense and intent at tearing apart and ravaging your entire being in the nick of time.

The Yetzer Hara or the devil’s attack against your life goes way back from the very time of your conception way back from the very time of your conception in your mother’s womb.

Right from the time your mother conceived you in her womb, the Yetzer Hara has been attacking your life to destroy and if it can’t destroy your life in the nick of time then it will work to alter your course set before you even before time, history, and eternity by the God the Almighty.

But the reason why the Yetzer Hara or the attack of the devil against your life has not wiped you out yet is embedded in the fact that God’s hand of mercy has been on your life and it’s still on your life ever since time immemorial.

From the very time of your conception in your mother’s womb the hand of God’s mercy has been on you, that why the Yetzer Hara or the attack of the devil against your life has not wiped you out.

Your mother did not experience a miscarriage because the mercy of God was on your life immediately after your mother conceived you.

Your mother did not abort you out of her womb when she heard every reason to do so because the hand of God’s mercy is on your life.

And when the hand of God’s mercy is on your life no amount of Yetzer Hara/ attack of the devil against your life can defeat you and stop you from accomplishing all that the God will have you to accomplish.

In Jewish traditional understanding and recollection, the Yetzer always intensifies its attack against humanity when the individual is just a few years away, a few months away, a few weeks away, a few days away, and a few hours away.

A few minutes away, a few seconds away, a few moments away from meeting and encountering with the mercy of God, the mercy of God which arises on with great urgency, awareness, and intensity on the days of Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hannah- the high days in Jewish/ Hebrew culture.
Yom Kippur is the day of repentance, and atonement, when an entire nation comes back to God in repentance to be cleansed of and by God consequently.

On the other hand, Rosh Hannah is the occasion of celebration, celebrating the forgiveness of God and the mercy of God, as well as the beginning of a new season and a new chapter in the glory of God.

Picturesquely, as the hand of God’s mercy approaches and nears your life so does the Yetzer Hara/ the attack of the devil against your life become all the more intense against your life.

And sometimes it seems as if the Yetzer Hara is faster in reaching out to you than the mercy of God but however this can be real because the Lord God understands that whether or not the Yetzer proves itself prominent in your life, once the mercy of God comes in your life the Yetzer Hara/ the attack of the devil against your life and your dreams, your purpose, and destiny will have no option but to vacate your premises.

 If the Yetzer Hara doesn’t leave your premises at the arrival of the mercy of God in your life, then they will have to be a war-a fight between the mercy of God on your life and the Yetzer Hara \ the attack of the devil against your life.

And at the end of the war the attack of the devil against your life will be defeated and kicked out of your life.

 In the gospel of John 11, we come across a man by the names of Lazarus; he was a good friend of Jesus who suddenly becomes ill and surprisingly died before Jesus would come to him.
  
Interestingly however, before he died Jesus was sent news of his illness but instead of going to Bethany to attend to his beloved friend, and much probably stop the Yetzer/ the attack against his friend’s life.

Jesus opted to stay where he was for two days and after those two days; he told his disciples that it was time for them to go to Judea-a place where he was apparently not loved.

The distance between Judea and Bethany is 3kms but yet still Jesus decided to stay in Judea without going to immediately attend to his friend Lazarus for two more days.

However after the two days, he arrived in Bethany, four days after Lazarus had died and buried, but none the less he went to the tomb and ordered the removal of the stone covering the cave, he prayed to God who listens to prayers, and after he called out in a loud voice, Lazarus come out,
”He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave clothes, and with a cloth round his face, untie him, Jesus told them, “and let him go”.

Metaphorically, Jesus is the mercy of God and the illness that had killed Lazarus is the Yetzer.

Ironically however upon receiving the news of Lazarus’ deadly illness, Jesus doesn’t rush because sometimes the mercy of God doesn’t rush because it understands that the more the Yetzer Hara torments your life, the more glory of God will be made manifest in your life upon the arrival of the mercy of God in your life.

In John 11:4, Jesus said, the final result of the illness will not be the death of Lazarus, this has happened in order to bring glory to God and it will be the means by which the son of God will receive Glory.

At this junction, God will have me to tell you that the result of the attack of the devil against your life, dreams, goals, vision, assignment, purpose, destiny, business, children, education, family, health, and finances will not be the death and the end of your life, and all its premises but rather it will be the means by which the son of God with whom you have believed and trusted as much followed above rest to receive glory.

 Jesus will receive the glory out of this attack against your life when his mercy arrives in your life.

And the evidence that the mercy of God is in the vicinity and that it has intensified its acceleration, and momentum in the event of getting to you with immediate effect is in the fact that the devil’s attack against your life has been so intense lately.

But the mercy has arrived and there goes the Yetzer Hara/ the attack of the evil one out of your life.

Glory is to God Almighty.