Tuesday 24 January 2017

Spiritual

1Peter2:29
1Corinthians 2:14
John 4:24

To be spiritual is to function and operate one's life based upon the principles of the word of God.

In addition, to be spiritual is to act in line with the special and the sacred.

The special is that which is uniquely personal and different.

The sacred is that which is holy, pure and secret.

The voice of God that delivers the word of God is special in that the voice of God is uniquely personal and different from all other voices to be heard.

On the other hand, the word of God that is delivered by the voice of God is pure, holy and secret.

Through the word God set in motion the world and everything in it thereof.

Without the word of God and the voice of God to establish the thought of God then there is no concept of spirituality.

Every now and then God speaks his word then the will of God is established thereof and there is nothing that can uproot it thereof.

Indeed and in fact there is no devil,and no man with the ability to uproot the word of God spoken over your life.

To walk and enjoy the benefits of the spoken word of God over your life then all you have to do is to function and operate your life upon the word of the Lord God.

According to the great Bishop Eddie Long founder of New Birth ministries in Atlanta Georgia, “it’s impossible to influence the world without being spiritual.”

Without a doubt you are created by God and born of man for the purpose of influencing the times of your day and it’s utterly impossible to influence the times of your day without being spiritual.

Without operating and functioning a life upon the principles of the word of God and the voice of God then you can't impact the world around you.

To change and to shape the universe, all you need to do is to act upon the voice and the word of God.

Indeed and in fact the universe yields and submits to the voice and word of God thus whenever you echo the voice of God and act upon the word of God then the universe has got no option but to submit accordingly.

The word of God is spirit and truth and the voice of God echoes the spirit of God and the Truth of God.

Hence to be spiritual is to be personally unique and different.


The spiritual heeds to the voice of God which voice speaks hope a midst hopelessness.

The spiritual heeds to the voice of God which speaks of help a midst the hurtful events and experiences of life.

The spiritual heeds to the voice of God that speaks of victory a midst discouragement.

The spiritual heeds to the voice of God that consistently speaks of victory, glory and honor.

There is no situation that is able to overcome the spiritual for the spiritual always wins, the spiritual always overcomes and the spiritual always conquers.

In the book of second 1Peter 2:9, the spiritual are part and parcel of a people known as defined as a chosen generation royal priesthood, and peculiar people.

Tuesday 17 January 2017

The crown has been established over life

John 19:25
Genesis 32:22-22

The crown is a symbol of victory, glory, and honor.

The crown is a symbol of favor, influence, and dominion.

The crown is a symbol of power, authority, and royalty.

God created you and established you upon the earth to have favor, influence, dominion, authority, power, victory, glory and honor.

And in order for you to operate in the aforementioned attributes then you must have an established crown rested upon your life.

At the baptism of Jesus in the river Jordan by John the Baptist the dove came from above and rested upon Jesus.

The coming of the dove was symbolic of the coming of the crown of perfection and excellence which Jesus needed to start his assignment upon the earth.

The crown can also be described as the anointing of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus.

Without a crown then it’s utterly impossible to function effectively in your God given assignment.

And for the Crown to be established there is a need to go through certain experiences that only God has appointed.

In the natural, whenever someone goes to war, and suffers no injury, many times than not he or she is considered victorious.

However in the world of the spirit the individual who walks away from the battle field wounded and injured is many times than not the victor and not the victim.

On the hill of Calvary, Jesus was wounded broken and bruised but yet still he was the victor and the victims where those who perpetuated his suffering on the cross.

The man who came and wrestled with Jacob in the mid night hour injured Jacob at the hip and hence Jacob walked away broken but yet still Jacob was victor of the wrestling match that had taken place between him and the man.

The man who wrestled Jacob all the night long did not get injured but yet still he lost the wrestling match to Jacob.

After the wrestling match Jacob walked away with a crown bestowed unto him by the very man that injured his hip during the wrestling match.

The crown that was bestowed upon Jacob by the man he wrestled with from mid night to the break of dawn is known as Israel.

For the man demanded to be let go by Jacob for the dawn was breaking and Jacob refused to let go of the man not until the man blessed him.

And in blessing Jacob the man argued, “You have fought both man and God and you have overcome, conquered, and won and from henceforth you will no longer be known as Jacob but Israel.

Israel is not just a name (life and character) but Israel is a crown and a symbol of victory, glory and honor.

Israel is a symbol of power, authority and royalty.

Israel is a symbol of favor, influence and dominion.

Thus the name and the nation of Israel are mighty and powerful.

Thus name and nation of Israel can't suffer defeat at the hands of her adversaries.

Thus the name of Israel is synonymous with great influence, dominion and favor as much as global power and authority.

Jesus was broken , wounded and bruised for the sins of the world and after all the suffering he endured, the men who perpetuated his suffering placed a crown of thorns over his head as a sign the he was a victor despite all that he was going through.

Indeed and in fact the man who came to wrestle Jacob had a blessing for Jacob that he was assigned to give unto Jacob but there was no way he was going to bless Jacob with breaking Jacob.

It’s for this reason that Jacob does not become Israel until he is broken by the man at the hip.

There are people that God has assigned in your life to bless you by establishing the crown of victory, glory, and honor over your life but they can only do it after breaking your heart, after bruising your life and wounding your life.

Conversely they are people who have been assigned by God to wound you and break your heart so that God can use the occasion to bless you with a crown by which you will be effective in your life and in the assignments that God has rendered unto you in both time and eternity.

Hence with the aforementioned understanding you have got to be thankful of those who came in your life and never appreciated you.

Be thankful to those who abused your life and took you for granted.

Be thankful to those who broke your heart and left you for dead.

Be thankful to those who vainly used you in an effort demoralize yourself worth and self esteem.

Be thankful to those who worked hammer and tongs to make sure that you lose ownership of everything substantial that you worked so dearly for.

Be thankful because if it was not for them then the crown of God for the life of you would not have been established upon your life.

If it was not for the Roman soldiers who beat and wounded the body of Jesus then he would not have received the crown that validates him as the Lord of Lords and the king of kings.

The people who came in your life and wounded knew not they were assigned by God to establish God’s crown over your life.

In fact there is no way they would have known because they left you for dead without considering that after your brokenness and wounded self then the crown will be established over your life.

After the crown has been established everywhere you go you will be known as a man of victory, honor and glory.

Everywhere you go you will be known as a man of power, authority and royalty.

Everywhere you go you will be known as a man of favor, influence, and dominion because the crown of God has been established over life your life.

Nations shall be awestruck at your sight and bow down in your presence because of the crown of God that has been established over your life.

Friday 13 January 2017

Your Enemies Have Conceded Defeat

Genesis 32:22-32

Ideally without a doubt the mission of the angel of destruction who came to wrestle with Jacob in the mid night hour to the break of dawn was to destroy Jacob so that his assignment in God may not be fulfilled.

And if destroying Jacob was not going to be possible then the angel was determined to at least paralyze Jacob in the assignment in God.

This is further evidenced in the fact that after realizing that it was not going to be possible to overcome and to conquer Jacob, the angel of destruction struck Jacob by the hip hence leaving him with a limp.

The man wrestling Jacob assumed that if Jacob is left with a limp then he will not be able to flow in the will and assignment of God over his life like he ought.

Yet the one thing that the angel of destruction did not figure was in the fact that in order for Jacob to be effective in the assignment of God upon his life all he needed was to depend on the word of God, and the spirit of God.

For as long as Jacob was depending and leaning on God he was to be effective in the assignment rendered unto him by God.

The most probed question of all the time is in regards to why the man wrestling Jacob is unable to defeat, overcome and conquer Jacob yet the man possess divine strength against Jacob who only posses physical strength.

Well the answer to this question is that Jacob was never defeated by the angel of death because he was standing on the word of God, and the promises of God.

It’s here and now that I would like to park and earmark to you that even though you look weak in relationship to the adversaries of your life you will conquer and overcome because you are standing upon the ground of divine revelation.

God has set you up and established you upon the ground of divine revelation and even though your enemies may be mighty and strong they will not defeat you.

The enemies of your life will not conquer you and they will not overcome you because the spirit of the living God Almighty is fighting for you.

All the enemies and adversaries of your life are going to concede defeat because as of now they are demanding to let go of your life because they realize you can't be defeated, overcome and conquered.

You can't be conquered because God is with you, and he is standing shoulder to shoulder and walking with you arm to arm.

Those who came in your life to fight you and see you defeated are beginning to leave your life.

Because they realize bringing your life harm and hurt is an impossible reality.

And as a result of failing to defeat you, they are going to reveal to the whole world that you’re a conqueror and an overcome of all things.

After having overcome the spirit of destruction whoever encountered Jacob was in fear and in tremble at the sight of Jacob.

Because they realized if Jacob can overcome and conquer the spirit of death then they is nothing that can conquer and overcome Jacob.

As much as there is nothing that Jacob turned Israel can't overcome and conquer.

Indeed and in fact everything that was in your life to destroy you is now leaving your life while confessing for all to hear that you’re a conqueror and the one who overcomes all things.

Poverty, obscurity, ignorance, demonic powers, disease, lack have all conceded defeat after wrestling with you and realizing that you're a conqueror and an over coming force of all things outside the will of God, as a result of the fact that the spirit of victory, glory, and honor of God is rested upon your life.

The power of the Holy Spirit, the wealth of this world, the perfect health of your physical body are all going to be witnesses and dwelling signs in your life that you're an overcoming force and a mighty conqueror by the spirit of the living God in the name of Jesus.

The future of your life has been made secure by victory, wealth, prosperity and health and from henceforth you will be known as a prosperous man, a wealthy man and a healthy man of God.

There is no sorrow in your life, no remorse and no poverty because you have overcome and conquered your enemies in the name of Jesus and your enemies have conceded defeat

Tuesday 10 January 2017

Ahead of Your Contemporaries:

Genesis 32:22-32

Jacob wrestled not only with Laban and the angel of destruction but he wrestled with Esau his brother from his mother's womb.

The fight in the womb between Esau and Jacob seemingly was about superiority and obviously Esau won that wrestle.

However Jacob took Esau's birth right as the first born child by purchasing them with a bowl of bean soup.

Esau did not realize that he had actually not only given up his birth right but even the blessing that was due to him as a first born child.

Hence a battle and a conflict ensued between Esau and Jacob after Esau realized that Jacob did not only take his birth right but also his blessing.

And to save his life Jacob was relocated from his father's house to his uncle's house named Laban.

For several years Jacob and Laban were at logger heads because throughout his stay with Laban, Jacob was never able to experience Justice because he was played, ripped and cheat by Laban on countless occasions.

Years later as destiny will have it, Jacob finds himself wrestling with a man at the midnight hour after leading his family across the river Jabbok in fear of encountering his brother Esau.

Whom he thought was going to destroy him as a way of revenging after Jacob connived with their mother to acquire a blessing that actually belonged to Esau.

The river Jabbok is tributary of the great river Jordan and the river Jabbok is a short cut to the promise while the river Jordan is the main course to the promise.

The main course to the promise of God for the life of you will many times than not take you and expose you to a process of consecration, and sanctification.

So that when you get into the promise of God for the life of you then you be able to reflect the glory of God for all to behold.

Consecration and sanctification are vitally important because they induce in you an ability to give all the glory to God after understanding that it’s not about you but it all about God.

Jacob imagined that the only way to avoid an encounter with Esau was to avoid crossing the river Jordan hence he decided to take his family and his possessions by way of the river Jabbok

After crossing his family over the river Jabbok Jacob came back without continuing with his family and then he suddenly started wrestling with a man who did not come to bless him but rather to destroy him.

However the man was not able to destroy Jacob because he stood his ground and at the end of the wrestling the man ended up blessing Jacob with the name Israel-the anointing to overcome all trials and all the struggles of life.

Indeed and in fact after the wrestle Jacob was no longer Jacob but Israel and he was left with a limp in his movement to ensure that all his progress and movement in life depends in his right standing with God.

Thus a result Jacob was able to go a head of his family in a miraculous way to the degree that even though his family left him behind he was ahead if his family the next time they saw him.

Jacob's family thought he was going to come from behind but they got shocked when they discovered Jacob was ahead and not behind.

There are those among your contemporaries who think your life is operating behind and they are ahead of you and that you will never catch up.

They believe you running behind and backward because the last time they saw you were in solitude.

However what they don't realize is the fact that the reason why you stay behind in life was to wrestle with God for a future that no man can give but only God.

And in this season of your life you are going to find yourself ahead of your contemporaries to the extent that they will not be able to catch up with you but to only ask themselves how in the world you got to be ahead of them in terms of character, lifestyle and living standard.

Indeed you going to find yourself on a level ahead of your contemporaries and they won't believe once they see you.

God came inform of a man to bless Jacob but because Jacob was too insecure of every man that he ever encountered because many men had played his life and taken his efforts for granted.

And instead of embracing the man who came with a blessing from God Jacob only but wrestled with him.
In this season of your life God is bringing people in your life but dare not delay the blessings of God for your life by wresting those he sends you way but embrace them with trust, confidence , and understanding that they come not to hurt you but to bless you.

Holy Communion

Exodus 12

Genesis 32:22-32
Matthew 26:17-30

Much akin to the Old Testament pass over meal is the last supper in the New Testament.

However it important to understand that the pass over meal of the old testament as much as the last supper of the New Testament are not the actual definition of the term holy communion.

Holy Communion in all actuality refers to a unified level of communication with the word of God.

The word of God denotes the desire, the will, and the instruction of God.

The word of God is holy and when you commune with the word of God what you are doing is full filling the act of Holy Communion.

Every now and then God gives his word of instruction and you decide as much as agree to follow the instruction then you are performing Holy Communion.

Once God gives you a word of instruction and you follow the instruction God moves to stand with you and against your adversaries.

Many times than not the evidence that God is standing with you and against your adversaries is earmarked by his presence over your life.

The presence of God is the fullness of Joy and Peace.

Every now and then you engage in the act of Holy Communion what you're doing is following the instruction of God, agreeing with word of the word of God.

And entering a covenant with God where God promises to stand with you in Peace and in Joy.

The goal of your enemies is to destroy you and the strategy of the enemies of your life is to take your joy away and to break your heart.

However your enemies shall and will not accomplish their goal of destroying your life because God is standing with you and fighting for you with his peace and joy.

Indeed and in fact the enemies of your life plus those that seek to destroy you by robbing your Joy and peace will end up blessing you and setting you up on a platform for you to be a blessing to countless people and for countless people to bless you with substance.

To point out further, the enemies of your life will and shall not destroy you because you’re in Holy Communion with God.

Jesus instructed his disciples to remember the last supper and to partake of it every now and then as act of remembrance.

In remembrance, to how his body was wounded, bruised and broken for our transgression and so that we may never suffer the punishment of transgression which yields sickness, poverty, and death.

Hence it’s important to understand that in imitating the last supper as well as the Passover meal we are engaging in holy communion as well as renewing our covenant with God which gives us access to the peace of God, and Joy of God which ensures unto us an abundant life.

The enemies of your life will not destroy you because the peace of God and the joy of the same came upon you when you engaged in the act of Holy Communion.

In other words, because you obeyed the word of divine instruction from God your enemies are now intimidated and in terror because of the peace and joy of God rested upon your life.

The peace and Joy of God is in the Hebrew language known as Shaleem and it simply translates to mean nothing missing and nothing broken.

The shaleem or rather the peace and Joy of God are what ensure that your life is fulfilled, complete and whole.

Thus as long as the shaleem or the Peace and Joy of God is rested upon your life as a result of engaging in holy communion then no destruction will be able to come near your life.

The enemies of your life are awestruck because of the Peace and Joy of God rested on your life and they perplexed as to why so much money has gone out of your hand through robbery but yet still the Joy and peace of God have stayed.

The enemies of your life are confused as to why the people you loved betrayed you and walked away with no care for your life but yet still your heart has not become desperate and broken.

However the reason why your joy has stayed despite all the loss of property, friends, loved ones, despite the betrayal, and the love that you never received because the one you loved was only but taking you for granted ,manipulating you for self-intention is all under pinned by the Peace of God and Joy of God rested and your life.

Indeed and in fact you're not broken and missing nothing because the peace and Joy of God came upon you when you followed, obeyed the word of divine instruction from God which engagement is also termed as Holy Communion.

The Israelites obeyed God and engaged in partaking of the Passover meal and swiping the blood of the lamb on their door frame and as a result when the angel of death swept through the heart of the land of Egyptians all the firstborn children in the land of the Egyptians were killed but those in the community of the Israelites were spared.

Death and destruction was able to neither touch nor impact the Israelites because they were in Holy Communion with God as a result of obeying the word of divine instruction to eat the Passover meal of unleavened bread, bitter herds and roasted lamb.

They was a wiling and a spirit of mourning that enshrouded the community of the Egyptians like never and will never be experienced again for they disobeyed God by refusing to let the Israelites out of Egypt.

However at the same time when the Egyptians where mourning and wiling the Israelites where experiencing the peace and Joy of God.

Both Israelites and the Egyptians where dwelling in the same land but the reason why they was a distinction between the Egyptians and the Israelites is because the Israelites obeyed God by engaging in Holy Communion while the Egyptians did not.

The spirit of destruction comes not only to wipe you out but to wipe your future out and the only strategy by which your future will and shall be preserved is by engaging in Holy Communion.

By Holy Communion in the name of Jesus Christ you will not experience lack, poverty, poor health and no brokenness because the peace and Joy of the God is rested upon your life in the name above all-Jesus Christ.