What’s your Name?

READ: I Chron. 4:1-10, MORE LESSONS: Hos. 1:2-11

There is so much about a name, it tells one’s history or heritage. Jabez was so named because his mother had him in pain. Jabez did not like it so he asked God to bless him, enlarge his coast and keep him from evil (1 Chronicles 4:10).

When Phinehas' pregnant wife heard the sad news that the ark of God had been captured and that her husband, his father, and brother were dead, and that the army of Israel suffered heavy losses and fled before the Philistines, she went into labour and gave birth to a boy whom she named Ichabod because of the bad events surrounding his birth (1 Samuel 4:17-22). Jesus was named Jesus because He was born to save His people from their sins and Emmnauel because God came to dwell with man (Matthew 1:20-25).

What is your name? Is your name a memorial of pain, an epic of sorrow, despair, frustration, rejection, doom or a symbol of faith, hope and abundant life?

We have many examples in the Scripture of how a man's name can determine his destiny, some had the name from birth, others had theirs changed. Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, Peter, all had a change of name, while Jesus, John the Baptist and Isaac had their names from birth. All of them had their destinies influenced by their names. Although Jabez had a bad name, he did not drop the name but had a change of the influence of the name. The Bible says …And God granted him that which he requested IChron.4:10.

The point is, names have effect and influence on one’s destiny, negative and positive. But unlike what many believers think, the first thing to do about a name with a negative influence is not to change it but to pray for deliverance and a divine instruction on what to do with the name. You need not rush to change your name, rather give prompt attention to the force behind the evil name. Even names that come out of negative events will respond when there is a change of force behind the story. When the power of God breaks the yoke and the story of barrenness, lateness, failure, sorrow etc. changes, obviously the evil name will go. I agree with you, every evil force working against you by  your name is broken. Receive power for a greater life now.

PRAYER / ACTION

* Rebuke every evil name that any negative situation could have forced on you.

* Send any force working with your given name back to hell.

* Ask God for divine direction on any name that you bear or think that people call you today.

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When Fire Falls

READ: I Kings 18:36-39, MORE LESSONS: Exodus 13:20-22

God has manifested His presence and His power by fire and in diverse ways. He does great things by fire. May God accept your sacrifice and answer you, in Jesus’ name.

When God was about to call Moses He brought him closer to Him by fire. Moses saw a strange sight of the bush that was burning but was not consumed. God got Moses’ attention through this great sight. Wherever there is fire people give attention to it. I see God send fire to your life today and burn off everything that is contrary to your joy. A flowing fire shall come upon your life, flow over and ahead of you, sweeping away everything that constitutes danger and hindrances in your life. The streams of the river of fire shall make glad the city of God, which is you.

God proves His greatness by fire. One day He told Moses to prepare the Israelites to meet Him on the mountain where God was going to appear to them by fire; His coming was announced by thunder and lighting. The Israelites were frightened and could not stand the awesome sight. So shall God chase your enemies by His fire upon your life.

There was a time that Israel rebelled against God and were deaf to all of God's calls to them to repent. Finally judgment came, God came down by fire and confirmed His prophet, Elijah. The prophets of baal were slaughtered that day.

Today the prophets of baal represent the agents of darkness and every tool that Satan is using to perpetrate his falsehood and wickedness. Wherever these agents are working in your destiny and family, I prophesy destruction and an end to them; they will continue no more, in Jesus’ name. Each time the fire of God falls, something significant happens; you can connect with this and ask the fire of God to fall upon every enemy location in your life.

PRAYER / ACTION

* Ask that the pillar of fire will go with you into the rest of this year and that you will have rest.

* Pray that God will intervene in every difficult issue of your life by His fire.

* Command every life threatening danger around you to be consumed by the liquid fire of God.

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Strange Fire II

READ: I Kings 18:36-42, MORE LESSONS: Isaiah 43:18-19

To conclude this study, be reminded that the fire of Jehovah consumed dust, even stones and water. Let us first consider the characteristics of a stone. It is hard, signifying difficult things and situations, things that you have patiently endured, yet they have not changed. Stones can take the form of a mountain, very lofty and solid. Dust on the other hand refers to tiny ubiquitous particles found everywhere, even in locked rooms. Dust therefore stands for things that make you dirty yet you don't know how they enter your life. You do everything to prevent them, but they keep coming. Water is the ever powerful, touchable, visible thing which has a great force to destroy and to quench anything in your life, just as water has no respect for anything on its course.

With the strange fire, the people acknowledged the sovereignty of God, ...when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. Vs 39-40.

Elijah the man of God slew all the prophets and priests of baal. Similarly, every force and priest contrary to the priesthood of Jesus in your life, I proclaim them slaughtered. As the stones were consumed, so are the evil forces in your life consumed, in the name of Jesus.

And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain v41. This instruction is to you for your future. I say to you today, get thee up, and don't be down anymore, for the things that put you down have been burnt by the fire of God.

PRAYER / ACTION

* Command that every hard and impossible story of your life be consumed by fire today.

* Ask God to take hold of bow and arrow and destroy every agent of hell in your life just like Elijah destroyed the prophets of baal.

Create a time of prayer today between 12pm and 1pm, Use the following scriptures to pray- Psalm 68:1; Psalm 3:1-5, Psalm18:37-40

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Strange Fire I

TEXT: I Kings 18:36-38, MORE LESSONS: Jeremiah 32:27

The difference between a prophet and others in the body of Christ is that, like Elisha, the prophet receives divine instructions from the Lord. The water in Jericho was bad because Jericho was a cursed land. Pregnant women who drank from the water had miscarriage and they requested Prophet Elisha to ask God what to do.

Elisha poured salt into the water as Jehovah instructed. There was no record of anybody using salt to deliver from any situation before then, but after Elisha poured salt in the water, it was no more destructive, And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake II Kings 2:21-22.

That is the life of a prophet. Sometimes divine instructions are not common, and people may wonder why anybody should do things that way. Sometimes they look like rituals but it is better to obey.

In our text, after Elijah prayed, fire fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice. One key word here is “fire”. There are two kinds of fire: the fire that the enemy makes and the fire that Jehovah makes. But how do you differentiate between the fire of your enemy and that of God? The fire of God consumes strange things. It is not strange for wood to be consumed by fire. The enemy's fire can do that. It is strange, however, that the fire of God consumed stones. Other strange things happened- the dust and water were consumed. Naturally, water consumes fire, it quenches fire but the reverse was the case as there was no trace of water on the altar after it was consumed by the fire.

This strange fire will burn off every dirt in your life today.

PRAYER / ACTION

* Release the fire of God upon every work of the devil in your life and family.

* Command the fire of Heaven to swallow up every name and act that make you to cry.

* Prophesy and renounce every satanic activity working against your destiny.

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