Nobody Goes that Way

Exodus 3:2-Now Moses was tending the flock of jethro his father –in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.2.There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.

Bishop Noel Jones of the city of Refuge Church in Los Angeles California said,”In order for you to get everything that God has got for you, then you have to live without till that which God promised comes by.

” During the course of my private deliberation (the old folks used to call that devotional time).

The good Lord Almighty revealed it unto me that every time he promises you something it will be always wrestled and opposed by the spirit of doubt.

Faith is only found when doubt is overcome. However the battle between faith and doubt is ever unending.

As a matter of fact fear is only but a sign that the spirit of doubt is eating up more territorial ground within the context of your life and everything concerning the promises of God for your life.

 And if you feel like everything God promised you will never be then doubt is winning the battle.

Hence you got to check yourself before letting doubt to wreck you up by reminding yourself that God is no man that he should deceive but he will look after his word in order to see it bear fruit, and for it to come to pass.

Faith is telling yourself that even though it seems far from coming to pass, I am going to trust God and I’m going to walk like it has  already came to pass.

The battle field upon which faith and doubt wrestle is in the mind

Every time God gives you a word of promise that word is always in direct contrast with your mental capacity, and propensity.

Human reasoning cannot deal, and come to terms with the word of promise, Every time the mind comes across the promises of God for the life of you, it only comes to a place of doubt and consequently fear begins to take over.

God Almighty authentically dwells in a place that many people are not available, willing, and humble enough to go.

As a matter of fact we are always told by past generation leaders, religious leaders, political elders, by educational leaders and even level-grounded church leaders who are so satisfied with the status-quo:

we are told that ”Nobody Goes that Way”, They are trying to place and put us in a box but I break you out of that box in the name of Jesus the son of the living God.

 In order to go where nobody has ever gone in God you have got to be willing to go that way.

You have got to be available and humble enough to go where God is calling you to go even when the opposition is stronger than yours.

You have got to go where everybody says, “you can’t go that way and do this and that," because you can do all things in God through Christ Jesus who strengthens you.

You have got to go that way because nobody goes that way except God took tremendous care in their formation process.

No wonder folk look at you strange, you walk down the streets and even without you dressed up cool and all of that but you are well able to detain their attention because their inner persuasions tell them, “there goes the one who was fearfully and wonderfully made of God to go where nobody goes in order to come out with the power and the glory of God which will deliver men of all kind and all kinds of bondages.

Nobody goes that way but you are going to go that way because you have got to hear the sounding voice of God Almighty on a level that nobody has ever heard it before because that is the calling of God over your life.

Nobody goes that way but you are going that way because you have been assigned of God right from the foundations of the earth to walk in a level of divine providence that is second to none.

Nobody goes that way but you are going that way because there is a divine mandate upon your life to behold the beauty of God and the wonders of the same and eventually live to tell of it to all men, how wonderful, and beautiful it is to place your trust in the Lord God Almighty.

Nobody goes that way but you are going that way and in that way you will come across a holy place burning with fire, fire that has been set by no organic fuels but by the spirit of the living God.

In this place you will learn not to walk according to your desires but according to the accurate will of God.

In this place you will behold of miracles never witnessed of under the sun

In this place you will behold of God the father himself creating from nothing, opening door of opportunity out of the blue, turning barrenness into fruitfulness not as ever done before but on a whole new level in God.

In this place your passion for God and his service will be tangible and evident for all men to behold.

In this place God will set you on fire and your light will shine through out ages.

So you better go that way and spend time that way and don’t be in a hurry to come out that way.

 Even though nobody goes that way you have been called to go that way.

Nobody goes that way but you have got to go that way and while there you will begin to hear words from a distinguished form of speech that nobody has ever heard before.

For a moments time you may think you are losing you mind but in fact you will be discovering the spirit of God Almighty.

And when you begin to feel like crazy , like you are losing your mental balance then you have got to realize that what you are really going through is a transition that will establish you into the power of God Almighty.

When you go that way you will become a generator of power for your generation and many more generations to come.

This generation cannot walk and talk and live void of the power of God. 

And if you are to be validated and accepted in your generation, and in many more generations to come as one who operates and functions in the power of God Almighty then you have got to go that way( in the place God is calling you)

They Hate You

Genesis 37-5-11

⁵ Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. ⁶ He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ⁷ We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.⁹ then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” ¹¹ His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

In a perfect world situation everybody craves to be loved, to be admired, to be celebrated, to be adored, to be appreciated, and to be validated as much as to be affirmed.

So what happens if you walk through the world and you do not partake of none of all the aforementioned, does it mean that your world is void of perfection or something is utterly wrong with you.

As a shofar mandated  by God Almighty to transmit to generations the Zion Sound of Victory, Glory, and Honor in the name of Jesus Christ.

Allow me to  make this proclamation: The reason why some people most especially your close relatives will not celebrate, admire, adore, appreciate, validate, and affirm you for who God has appointed you to be and for who God has anointed you is simply because they HATE YOU.

 It’s not what you expected from your family, and friends, you expected and anticipated better from them.

Organically, your friends and family should be at the forefront of celebrating, and appreciating your anointing in God, but you look around in the terraces and in the bleachers , at the back and at the front, and to your dismay your friends and family are not around to cheer you.

And you ask why they never showed, they never showed because they HATE YOU.

Yes! They hate you and I know it’s a discomforting realization but they hate you.

They hate you in the same measure that Joseph’s brothers hated him when his dream revealed to them of his future happiness and prosperity, and they began to plot for his demise.

They were motivated to plot his demise because of the envy they held for his accomplishments and pending achievements.

People hate you because you so accomplished and your achievements remind them of their less accomplishment and under achievements.

They hate you because it will kill them for God to bless you and because it’s inevitable for God to not bless you.

Some people in fact have to die for God to bless you because even if they would live to see the blessing of God on your life.

Some people will be grieved because your blessings are above them.

When God is getting ready to bless you bigger than your imagination some things have to die in your life, some relationships have to die because they cannot dwell and stand under the weight of the glory of God on your life.

Some people will not validate your gift and the blessing of God on your life because it reminds them of how inferior they are to you.

They are hoping and praying that nothing God has promised you will never come to pass because they are not able to live with the fact that you are blessed.

The more scorn and hatred people pour unto you the more mercy, and grace God pours unto you.

I’m gifted and people can deny it but they cannot change it.

Joseph’s dreams were to the benefit of his brothers but they still hated him for his dream.

At this junction, the people who hate and envy you for what God has promised do not even realize that they are equal benefactors of the promise and the anointing one your life.

Some people do not like you, they resent you, and they are offended by the clarity and the articulation of your voice and the activity of the same.

They hate you not because of what you have on now but because of the future prosperity that has been laid-up for you.

And whatever they do to cut you off , to deny you that opportunity, whatever they do to shut the door of happiness in your face, Its only setting you up to get closer to the happiness that only God can give and no man can block.

They hate you because of the Joy that God has laid before you.

Your future prosperity annoys many, that they can’t even affirm your greatness, and validate your uniqueness in the present.

They ought to be greatest and loudest cheerleaders, and quarter-backs because when God’s promise and dreams come to pass, they will partake equally in your enjoyment as great benefactors.

God judged you and found you to be more worthy of his tangible glory upon the earth, So that they may never arise anymore occasion for judgment in your life, but for him to show and pour his mercy on you all the more.

So the more people hate you the more mercy of God is poured unto you.

When men despise you, the mercy of God will defend you.

When Joseph’s brothers plotted to kill Joseph, Reuben which means “mercy of God” intervened on Joseph’s behalf so that he would not be killed.

He convinced them to throw Joseph in a pit planning to rescue him after the brothers were not present. But in his absence Judah which means “thanksgiving/praise” plotted to sell Joseph to the descendants of Ishmael.

 It’s interesting right here, because in the New Testament they were a man called Judas Iscariot, he was a disciple of Jesus.

In fact he was in charge of the treasury; he followed Jesus for material benefit and not for spiritual benefit.

He hoped that while in Jerusalem, Jesus would overthrow the government and the colonial powers of the Romans and then upon assuming government power, Jesus could make Judas Iscariot the minister in charge of finance, an occasion that would afford him all that he ever desired in life.

 To his utter chagrin, when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, Judas found out that his hopes were far from truth, he found out that Jesus was not about a physical government to rule over people but about a spiritual government whose mandate was to win souls and to lead people in the salvation plan of God.

 A plan that ensures a life of righteousness, prosperity, upon the earth, Once Judah discovered that they was no money at the table to take home from Jesus’-led mission, he  resorted to the opportunity of betraying Jesus in exchange for money.

 For him money was more important than serving the mantle of God.

Judas sold Jesus out but before he sold him out, he had to market Jesus to his haters, meaning that he has to first and foremost highlight the benefits of paying for Jesus’ betrayal to his haters, so the name Judah apart from meaning praise also means to market and sale a product so as for it to be exchanged for money.

  

The fundamental reason why God appointed the descendants of the tribe of Judah to govern over Israel and all the children of God both Jews and gentiles is because of their ability to praise God effectively.

 Praise is marketing God as a consumable to the world so that people can discover the benefit of coming into relationship with God in the

From Obscurity to Notoriety

Look At Me

Acts 3:9

3One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. ² Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. ³ When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. ⁴ Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” ⁵ So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.

⁶ Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” ⁷ Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. ⁸ He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. ⁹ When all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰ they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

In our daily struggles to get by and by it’s a common occurrence to look at so many prospects that present themselves with the propensity to facilitate the fulfillment of our dreams, goals, visions, desires, and assignment.

However if you can honestly agree with me, most of the things that we have looked to and look on to facilitate our dreams, goals, visions, desires, and assignment have many times than not fallen short of our expectations.

 And hence leaving us wounded and disappointment and what will I say about disappointment.

Disappointment is only but an illusion-it’s the negative response against expectations unmet.

Disappointment can be overcome and conquered not by managing your expectations but by actually scanning new opportunities in the very place where your expectations have not been fulfilled.

For instance when you enter into a restaurant that claims to offer the most delicious Italian pizza around town and it turns out after testing the pizza that the restaurant’s claim is far from the truth.

What do you do? Instead of storming out of the restaurant all in regret, see an opportunity of actually opening up your own restaurant that offers the real Italian pizza test.

Sometimes moments of disappointment can actually be an opportunity for us to make areal-time impact and a difference in your life and the life of some one else.

In the portion of the scripture above, “There is a man sited at the Beautiful Gate annexed to the entrance of the Temple of the living God-my dear friends the temple of the living God in  this very regard is symbolic to the presence of God.

This man was born crippled in fact he is carried and placed at the gate to beg alms.

He is crippled because he can’t make progress in life except by the help of someone else.

He needs some one else to carry him to a place where people can give him alms so that he can survive for a day and another.

The focus of his life is to survive today and tomorrow and he understands,” I can only look at men and look up to their alms I will survive”.

And the problem that has almost eluded his attention is that no amount of alms can be able to allow him to walk into his dreams, to walk in his visions and to walk towards his goals, and to be able to accomplish the same.

This is important for every one of you who has a dream, a vision, a goal, and an assignment that is logically crazy and ridiculous.

And men of ordinary stature keep on saying, “How in this world can that be and come to pass, seeing that you have no money to facilitate your big dreams?

  

Some times you do not respond even though you feel like you should but because you have no words to explain what you feel, because what you feel is a divine persuasion in forming you that somehow and some day the dream of your life will come to pass.

 And when it comes to pass, your dream will change the course of history, and how things will be done in the future.

 So you wake up early in the morning having mustered a little strength for the life of you and you begin moving and walking towards your dreams, your goals, your vision, and the assignment of your life.

Some shallow people around you call you crazy, insane, and ridiculous; some have even stopped you in your trucks and asked you the question,

”Do not you have some thing better to do with your life? Why do not you go become a lawyer, a taxi driver, an entrepreneur, a real estate agent, a distributor of trading merchandise, or an accountant?

Some times you have an answer for them, and sometimes you have no answer for the people who think your dream is not worth pursuing.

Deep down your heart you have an answer but you do not even know how to articulate it for them because they won’t even understand that ,”one thing has  your heart desired and that is to dwell in the house of the presence of God/ the temple of God, so as to behold of his beauty and wondrous works.

The lame/crippled man had a desire, he had a dream he had an assignment, and he had a vision, and his vision was in the house of God but not out of the house of God.

His longing was to dwell in the presence of God; I know this because the moment he was lifted up from his state of non-progress and from the state of cripple-ness, he went into the temple with peter, and John jumping and praising God.

His desire was not in the market place, not in the streets but in the house of God, and if it was not in the house of God then after the moment of his miracle he would have gone somewhere else other than the temple.

His desire was always in the temple but the problem was that he was always looking at the wrong people to help him into his desire, dream, aspiration, goals and in the place of his assignment.

And because he was looking at the wrong people to facilitate him in the course of fulfilling his dreams and assignments, he eventually found himself stuck-up, being unable to make no progress in his daily endeavors, and in the fulfillment of his personal goals, and desires.

He was getting money but he needed something more than money to shift him from his dilemma to the place of his joy and total fulfillment.

Whether you understand it or not-Joy and total fulfillment are expressed when you can come to a place 

where you can jump up on your feet, and start walking around and praising God.

He was looking at men for gold and silver for alms so that he can fill his stomach.

It’s a different thing to be able to fill your stomach with food to being able to fill your heart with joy and fulfillment.

Pure and total joy as much as total fulfillment comes when you are walking in your dreams, goals, and assignment.

Not in eating, and drinking….I remember the last day of the Battle of Gifted Tongues 2010-by the time I was done with everything that had to be done on that last day.

I WENT BACK HOME WITH NO MONEY IN MY POCKETS NOT EVEN TO AFFORD  a decent, and sensible meal but I was full of joy and fulfillment because I was finally walking, and operating with impact, and making a different within the context of my dream, and in the vision that God has laid upon my heart.

People can help you as far as surviving today and tomorrow but when you look at God for help, and survival he will sustain you for a life time.

Look at God even when things seem hopeless, look at God even when times are hard, look at God even when things are falling apart, look at God even when the threat of failure and disappointment is staring you in the face without blinking an eye.

Look at God and soon or later he will speak a word of strength into your spirit aligning with your soul and eventually your flesh.

And while you still looking at God, his word of strength and power will begin to shift everything that has been hindering your progress in the fulfillment of your dreams, visions, aspirations, vision.

Look at God and men will look up to you to direct their sight and faith unto the things of God.

As they desire what God is doing in your life to be done in their lives.

In looking to Peter, and John, the man at the beautiful Gate was not merely looking at ordinary men but at the anointing of God and God himself.

When you look at God his anointing which is indicative of his power and strength will transcend into your life.

So as to shift you from the place of stagnation to the place where things will work for you and move in your favor because it’s the strength of God that can facilitate your dream, vision, goals, and assignment.

Look At Me

Acts 3:9

3One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. ² Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. ³ When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. ⁴ Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” ⁵ So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.

⁶ Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” ⁷ Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. ⁸ He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. ⁹ When all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰ they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

In our daily struggles to get by and by it’s a common occurrence to look at so many prospects that present themselves with the propensity to facilitate the fulfillment of our dreams, goals, visions, desires, and assignment.

However if you can honestly agree with me, most of the things that we have looked to and look on to facilitate our dreams, goals, visions, desires, and assignment have many times than not fallen short of our expectations.

 And hence leaving us wounded and disappointment and what will I say about disappointment.

Disappointment is only but an illusion-it’s the negative response against expectations unmet.

Disappointment can be overcome and conquered not by managing your expectations but by actually scanning new opportunities in the very place where your expectations have not been fulfilled.

For instance when you enter into a restaurant that claims to offer the most delicious Italian pizza around town and it turns out after testing the pizza that the restaurant’s claim is far from the truth.

What do you do? Instead of storming out of the restaurant all in regret, see an opportunity of actually opening up your own restaurant that offers the real Italian pizza test.

Sometimes moments of disappointment can actually be an opportunity for us to make areal-time impact and a difference in your life and the life of some one else.

In the portion of the scripture above, “There is a man sited at the Beautiful Gate annexed to the entrance of the Temple of the living God-my dear friends the temple of the living God in  this very regard is symbolic to the presence of God.

This man was born crippled in fact he is carried and placed at the gate to beg alms.

He is crippled because he can’t make progress in life except by the help of someone else.

He needs some one else to carry him to a place where people can give him alms so that he can survive for a day and another.

The focus of his life is to survive today and tomorrow and he understands,” I can only look at men and look up to their alms I will survive”.

And the problem that has almost eluded his attention is that no amount of alms can be able to allow him to walk into his dreams, to walk in his visions and to walk towards his goals, and to be able to accomplish the same.

This is important for every one of you who has a dream, a vision, a goal, and an assignment that is logically crazy and ridiculous.

And men of ordinary stature keep on saying, “How in this world can that be and come to pass, seeing that you have no money to facilitate your big dreams?

  

Some times you do not respond even though you feel like you should but because you have no words to explain what you feel, because what you feel is a divine persuasion in forming you that somehow and some day the dream of your life will come to pass.

 And when it comes to pass, your dream will change the course of history, and how things will be done in the future.

 So you wake up early in the morning having mustered a little strength for the life of you and you begin moving and walking towards your dreams, your goals, your vision, and the assignment of your life.

Some shallow people around you call you crazy, insane, and ridiculous; some have even stopped you in your trucks and asked you the question,

”Do not you have some thing better to do with your life? Why do not you go become a lawyer, a taxi driver, an entrepreneur, a real estate agent, a distributor of trading merchandise, or an accountant?

Some times you have an answer for them, and sometimes you have no answer for the people who think your dream is not worth pursuing.

Deep down your heart you have an answer but you do not even know how to articulate it for them because they won’t even understand that ,”one thing has  your heart desired and that is to dwell in the house of the presence of God/ the temple of God, so as to behold of his beauty and wondrous works.

The lame/crippled man had a desire, he had a dream he had an assignment, and he had a vision, and his vision was in the house of God but not out of the house of God.

His longing was to dwell in the presence of God; I know this because the moment he was lifted up from his state of non-progress and from the state of cripple-ness, he went into the temple with peter, and John jumping and praising God.

His desire was not in the market place, not in the streets but in the house of God, and if it was not in the house of God then after the moment of his miracle he would have gone somewhere else other than the temple.

His desire was always in the temple but the problem was that he was always looking at the wrong people to help him into his desire, dream, aspiration, goals and in the place of his assignment.

And because he was looking at the wrong people to facilitate him in the course of fulfilling his dreams and assignments, he eventually found himself stuck-up, being unable to make no progress in his daily endeavors, and in the fulfillment of his personal goals, and desires.

He was getting money but he needed something more than money to shift him from his dilemma to the place of his joy and total fulfillment.

Whether you understand it or not-Joy and total fulfillment are expressed when you can come to a place 

where you can jump up on your feet, and start walking around and praising God.

He was looking at men for gold and silver for alms so that he can fill his stomach.

It’s a different thing to be able to fill your stomach with food to being able to fill your heart with joy and fulfillment.

Pure and total joy as much as total fulfillment comes when you are walking in your dreams, goals, and assignment.

Not in eating, and drinking….I remember the last day of the Battle of Gifted Tongues 2010-by the time I was done with everything that had to be done on that last day.

I WENT BACK HOME WITH NO MONEY IN MY POCKETS NOT EVEN TO AFFORD  a decent, and sensible meal but I was full of joy and fulfillment because I was finally walking, and operating with impact, and making a different within the context of my dream, and in the vision that God has laid upon my heart.

People can help you as far as surviving today and tomorrow but when you look at God for help, and survival he will sustain you for a life time.

Look at God even when things seem hopeless, look at God even when times are hard, look at God even when things are falling apart, look at God even when the threat of failure and disappointment is staring you in the face without blinking an eye.

Look at God and soon or later he will speak a word of strength into your spirit aligning with your soul and eventually your flesh.

And while you still looking at God, his word of strength and power will begin to shift everything that has been hindering your progress in the fulfillment of your dreams, visions, aspirations, vision.

Look at God and men will look up to you to direct their sight and faith unto the things of God.

As they desire what God is doing in your life to be done in their lives.

In looking to Peter, and John, the man at the beautiful Gate was not merely looking at ordinary men but at the anointing of God and God himself.

When you look at God his anointing which is indicative of his power and strength will transcend into your life.

So as to shift you from the place of stagnation to the place where things will work for you and move in your favor because it’s the strength of God that can facilitate your dream, vision, goals, and assignment.