Rise Up and Walk

Text: Acts3:1-8
More Lessons: Mk.16:15-18

I was preaching somewhere in Kaduna North West Nigeria a couple of years ago when right in the church, a lady I who had difficulty with her legs came in limping on crutches while the service was in progress. On noticing her, I was moved in my spirit and I called her to bring the stick to me and go back to her sit. As soon as she dropped her stick, she walked back on her legs without the crutches and that was the end of that situation. Being crippled can be spiritual and physical. You can be crippled in business, academics, health and the like. Whatever crippled you, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to rise up and walk.

Anyone who is born with two legs should be able to walk. Anyone who went to school should be able to feed himself/herself. This man in our text was crippled and couldn't walk. He was born crippled and the parents could not help him. It was not his fault that he was born cripple. There are many of us suffering afflictions and pains we never had a hand in their coming. I make a declaration today, not as I was born but as I was commissioned by the LORD that for every of such you never knew how they came; rise up and walk. Where ever you are on the surface of the earth today, I command you, rise up and walk. You will give your testimony in Jesus' name. Every story that has filled your life with a filthy result, I command you rise up and walk.

For the crippled man in this passage, all his mates had gone far ahead of him. It is not correct that your mates are higher than you, I take you back to your rightful position; take it in the name of Jesus. The day they gave birth to him, he had a name. But that name was swallowed by the situation he found himself. In fact, the Bible says of him " a certain man lame..." His situation swallowed his name. Every negative situation that swallowed your name and destiny, I command that situation to vomit you now in the mighty name of Jesus. Verses 7-8 of our passage indicate how Peter took the cripple by the right hand, and lifted him up immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he arose walking, and leaping, and praising God.

Your miracle will announce you to the world. He was brought to the entrance of the temple daily. Every situation that has daily limited you, I command that situation to be replaced with daily blessings in the mighty name of Jesus.

Prayer/Action.
* Pray and receive strength for every weak area of your life in Jesus' name.
* Ask God for a lifting up in your career, home, academics, etc.
* Command all situations that are dead and contrary to your destiny to rise up and walk.
* Like Peter, command every challenge with which you were born to break off you

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Prospering Anywhere

Text: Gen.26:1-14
More Lessons: III Jn.1:2

Every child of God is an automatic candidate for prosperity. There is nothing we ask from God that He didn't make them available long before we were born. The delays to having answers to our prayers are most often caused by our ignorance or inability to do our own bit of the covenant. Painfully, our part of the covenant with God is so infinitesimal yet we allow situations to blow them out of proportion for us. Take the issue of salvation for instance, God's role in making Jesus available is far greater a part of the covenant; ours is just to believe.

It is like a mathematical equation of God's role taking 99.9% to our .1% .God wants to proper His children but so many of us have placed barriers upon ourselves as a result of what we do or what we wrongly construe as barriers. Not all obstacles are barriers, most of them are stepping stones carefully arranged by God's angels to lead us to our divine destinies. Our ability or inability to comprehend this determines how far and how well we go in destiny fulfillment.

Our passage talks about Isaac and the issue of prosperity. From this passage it is clear that prosperity is not first an environmental affair. Prosperity is not necessarily about what your enemy is doing, has done or is about to do to your matter. Do you know why? The Bible says in Psalm23:5 that,”Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over”.

This is a clear confirmation. In this scripture, David said, in the presence of my enemies, my cup overflows. I declare unto you today that no matter what the situations are, you will overflow with employment, children, abundance and breakthrough right in the presence of your enemies in the mighty name of Jesus. In Gen.26:1which land did the Lord say Isaac should go? Gerar. Which land did He say he should not go? Egypt. What was the result? Gen. 26:13 says, “And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great”. Therefore the type of land which you dwell is not the case, it is what you do with the divine instructions you receive from God that makes the great difference. In Gen.26:14, Isaac prospered so much that the people around envied him. The land of your birth or the town where you work have nothing to do with your prosperity. If as a child of God you are rightly connected to Him, He will make you prosper irrespective of your geographical location or occupation.

Prayer/Action.
* Declare upon your life God's divine prosperity that has no regards for human positioning.
* Pray that God will change your prosperity mentality to connect with His divine plan for your life
* Ask God to make you an Isaac to your generation.

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God Owns Seasons

Text: Psa.68:9-19
More Lessons: Gen.49:22-26

One of the greatest lessons of life is that you cannot give what you do not have. A prince should ordinarily have no problem at all in having access to belongings of his father's kingdom. He is at liberty to ask for whatever he wants from his father without going through any other protocol. For us as God's children and co-heirs with Christ to the heavenly throne, our privileges and rights are boundless because Jesus had already paid the price. David records one of such benefits we have from God when he said, “O Lord, send us plenty of rain”. Academic excellence for instance, is a form of rain; so also financial breakthrough in business, ministry advancement, marital bliss and the like. Every day in the life of a child of God is loaded with benefits.

God is so gracious that long before you wake up, the benefits are all yours for the asking. V 19 of our first passage says, “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation”. Why daily? He owns the day so He uploads for you to download. Its left for you to chose within you whether you want to be part of the uploading or not. When the Bible says daily, it has been daily for years that we cannot count. How many people are ready to go to source and load their days? The Bible says, He created also the days, the seasons and the years. So how do you start your day? By going to the One who created the seasons, the days and the years; and what do you do when you get there? You ask Him for what and how your seasons, your years and your days should be. I counsel you to ask for plentiful rain that must be downloaded daily.

The man who writes a ten million naira worth of cheque spends the same minutes in writing ten naira worth of cheque. In a single day's prayer, God can settle all that remains for the rest of the year and all you need do is downloading because the downloading is done daily. That is why Jesus asks us to pray daily, “so give us this day, our daily bread” not our weekly bread.

Today, I add goodness and mercies to every of your day in 2013. Every time you wake up, goodness, mercy, advancement and the glory of God will be waiting at your bed side in the name of Jesus. Because every day is loaded with the presence of the Lord, you will triumph. Satan did not give you this year; he will not take it from you. Satan did not give you this day; he will not add evil to it for you. Seasons are in the hands of God, every season will record goodness for your destiny.

Prayer/Action.
* Pray that all the days of your life be uploaded with the fullness of God in the name of Jesus.
* He that keeps you will not sleep nor slumber.
* Proclaim the remaining days of the year heavily loaded with goodness for you in the name of Jesus.

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God Owns All

Text: Gen.1:13-14
More Lessons: Matt.6:16-20

The day we come to the understanding that when we die we will take no money or material things with us to heaven, all the hatred, animosity and confrontations will dissolve. In verse 14 of our passage God created the seasons; He created days, He also created years, thereby making the issue of calendar not the doing of any man after all. You are likely to be tempted to think that, calendars are just the creation of man to make for better orderliness and arrangements.

The issue of calendar is spiritual because it has a backing and an origin in the spirit. In other words, there is a dimension of spirit affair in calendar. Because God is Spirit, if He created something therefore, that thing has an origin in the spirit. That also tells us that calendars are not just spiritual; they are spiritual on the side of God, because something can be spiritual on the side of evil and it can be spiritual on the side of God. The kingdom of darkness has no hand in the issue of what is the root of calendar; the root of calendar is in God, God created it. There are different types of calendar, but the creation of days and years are the handy work of the Almighty God. We have the Gregorian, the Jewish and even the Islamic calendars that are man- made except for the Jewish calendar that has its origin in Exodus12:2. Because God is the one who created times and seasons, He also takes responsibilities for whatsoever happens inside them. What happens in the calendar is in God's hands because He created all and owns all. Things can't just happen anyhow to a Christian who has this understanding because he knows for sure that God created the days and the days are in His hands.

When you grab the understanding that God created the seasons and the seasons are in His hands, do not allow Satan to take over or determine what happens in your days, in your years and your seasons because it has its root in your God. Your seasons cannot happen any how if you have the understanding that God is the owner of seasons. We have cold and hot seasons with each having peculiar challenges including health setbacks. However, if you have an understanding that seasons are owned by God and that whatever is of God is never negative but positive, then you can use that knowledge in the place of prayer and say, Father, you created seasons, there is no evil in You, this season shall not be evil for me.

Prayer/Action.
* Pray for clearer understanding of the seasons of God for your life and destiny.
* Declare your days redeemed from every evil.
* Reject every form of negative season and begin to command good seasons upon your life.
* Command Satan to take his hands off your life and seasons.

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