Living on the Mountain Top I

READ: Matthew 5: 14-16
MORE LESSON: Proverbs 4:18

There is a higher life; it is the life on the mountain top. God's dream and desire for our lives is that we live on top of the mountain and not in the valley. God has no business looking for you down the valley. There is something wrong with the Church that must be corrected. We go to the world and copy what they do instead of the world taking direction from the Church. Prosperity must rule in the Church and the world should come to borrow from us not the other way round. When we talk about living a higher life, we are talking about living a life that is on top of the hill, and it is all encompassing; physically, spiritually, materially, financially, maritally etc.
Five things distinguish a man who is on top of the hill.
1. He is delivered from obscurity; he isn't hidden. No one lights a candle to look for what is on top of a hill. God strategically placed us on the hill so that the world won't keep looking for us. The world lies in gross darkness and to illuminate it, God has placed us as light on the hill. We are only relevant as light if we are placed on the mountain top. We have been delivered from obscurity, so don't go down the hill to seek relevance in the world (Matt. 5:14).
2. He is prominent. He always comes first in the list of honoured men. God's intention for His children is that the world will see His excellency through us. I Peter 2:9 says we are called to show forth His praise. He has placed us on the mountain top so that in the class of the honourable, we will be more honourable.
3. He lives above all situations and conditions. Nothing puts Him under. Any man sitting on the mountain top is there because he has been able to surmount all the challenges that would have stopped him. Living on the mountain top makes you live above every challenge.
4. We are lifted by grace. It is by His grace that we are lifted from being ordinary to become extra-ordinary people. Grace is a lifter.
5. Finally to be a man on the mountain top is to be a celebrity. May you be celebrated by the divine hands. May the glory of the Lord lift and engrace you to the mountain top, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Declare that you are a city on the hill top; you will not live in obscurity.
* Ask that the gift and grace of God in your life will bring you to prominence.
* Give God thanks because you are now seated together with Christ in high places.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER: Oh Thou that answereth prayer, make me a proof of Your power and faithfulness this year, in the name of Jesus.