Uncoverable Glory I

Text: Gen.37: 1, 3-5
More Lessons: 1Sam.18:6-8

To come out with flying colours is to have success, to have something that is admired by everyone, to have something that stands out. Coming out with flying colours is not only a beauty, it is a beauty that is seen and known. Some people have glories that are not known or that are hardly identified but when your colours are flying, your glory is known, your glory is identified, it is visible. When glories are hidden though they exist, they are likely to attract less enemies but when glories are known, whatever happens to you, everybody knows. Everybody hears it, they know how beautiful you are in different areas, but you are likely to attract more enemies.

A Yoruba adage says, When your yam is blowing out, you use your hands to cover it up. This means that you can reduce the number of the enemies of your success by not saying much about your success to people. But there are certain glories that even if no one announces them, they announce themselves. How do you use your hand to cover those ones? The glory that will not be seen must be small. There is a dimension of glory that it doesn't matter how much you try to cover it, it's just known because of its size. A first class cannot be covered if it is first class that is earned; it's just there for everybody to see.

Even if you don't announce it, your teacher can come to class one day and say, I appreciate first class candidates in this class, people like…, how do you cover that? Or your teacher always asks students to answer question in class and you know it, you have to answer. So how do you make your classmates not to know that you are brilliant when you have to write exams and pass? Should a man fail so that his glory will not be seen? No. So I really do not know whether we should pray for glories that are not seen or pray for the ones that are seen, because I am looking for a glory that will announce itself.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that the glory that God has given you will not be covered.
* Ask that God’s hands will protect the glory of your life from glory attackers and hijackers.
List out what can make someone’s glory not to be seen. Pray about them today.

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Preventing the Enemy from Planting II

Text: Psa.125:1-5.
More Lessons: Josh.1:6-9.

Yesterday we learnt how to prevent the enemy from ever planting in our lives. The last point is have faith in God; have faith in God that the enemy will not plant a seed inside your destiny. Don't go out in the morning until you are sure that you have confidence that God will take you through the day. If you wake up in the morning and you feel like you wake up on the wrong side and say, today will be bad, things will be tough, then it will be a bad day, you won't survive it. In fact, the devil will not have to shoot you with a gun, he will just say Hey!. . . and you are on the ground.

But when you wake up each day say, Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation Psalm68:19. Say, it is written concerning that in all things I am more than a conqueror through him who loved me (Romans 8: 37). I have overcome them because greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world that I am going into today (1 John4:4). God said He has a thought concerning me this morning, the thought of good and not of evil, to give me a hope and a future (Jer.29:11). So as I step out today, I can see a hope waiting for me For His anger endures but a moment; in His favour is life. Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning (Psalm30: 5). Weeping will not go out with me this morning. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want (Psalm23: 1). Today, only the Shepherd goes out with me, the enemy will not go out with me. It is written, I shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever [I do]shall prosper Psalm1:3. Whatever I lay my hands on to do this morning shall prosper. I'm going out with the expectation to prosper. I can see prosperity waiting for me. I can see doors open.

Have faith in God, start your day with confidence in the God that rules the universe, that He is working for you. That is how to make sure that every tree that the Lord has not planted in the day is uprooted. Lift up your right hand above your head and say, Father, in the name of Jesus, every tree that You have not planted, I hereby uproot. I have faith, I believe in You. Poverty, sickness, affliction and nightmare are uprooted in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

Prayer/Action
* Thank God for the power to uproot everything that the enemy has planted.
* Lift your hands and declare the root of affliction broken over your life.
* Tell Satan you are a no parking zone, you and your entire house hold.

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Preventing the Enemy from Planting 1

Text: I Tim.1:18-20
More Lessons: Matt.13:24-30

There are a few ways by which you can fight to prevent the enemy from planting in your life. First, you need to know that you have to live a permanent life of knowledge of what is yours. Beloved, keep remembering what is yours. First among your possessions is Jesus, Jesus is yours and you are His, you have handed your life over to Him. The Holy Spirit, the power that rules the universe is yours. God's promises from Genesis to Revelation are yours. If you don't know what is yours, you won't be able to fight for it. The Bible says we are seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus far and above principalities and powers (Eph 1:21) .

Second, now that you know what you have, put it to work. The name of Jesus is yours, put it to work. The power of the Holy Ghost is yours, put it to work. The power of productivity is yours, put it to work. Don't ever watch the enemy's plant grow on your territory. Do what you can, even if your cutlass is blunt, keep on hitting it, one day, that tree will collapse.

Third, don't ever in your life believe there is something impossible. Don't tell anybody anything is impossible. The word impossible is a lie. Don't believe the devil's lie that there is something around your life and destiny that is impossible.

Jesus says, ...Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up Matt.15:13. He didn't say some trees. When you say that some things are impossible what you are saying is that some trees cannot be uprooted. At the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. What is meant for you will not go to another, in Jesus’ name. Don't fold your hands while your destiny goes twisted. Fast, pray, put your destiny in God's hand. Be regular in church, create time for it because what you don't create time for in God, you will lose to the devil.

Fourth, fight for your inheritance. Never cease to fight. Use every breathe inside you to say no to the devil and his lies. Every breath includes your fasting time, your prayer time, organise vigils for yourself. Jude1:3 says, ...earnestly for the faith.... When your pastor declares fasting and prayer in church, it is about you, not about the pastor. If you don't go for fasting and prayer meeting you are the loser, not the pastor. Earnestly contend for what is yours.

Prayer/Action
.* Identify the strange things that are co-habiting your destiny and command them to be uprooted now.
* Say no to everything called impossibility in your life.
* Destroy everything in you that could make you a fertile land for evil.

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Contending for your Fruitfulness

Text: Num.27:1-7
More Lessons: Jude1:3

There is a man in Abuja who when the government came to demolish his house said, I built this house with my pension and it is everything I have at seventy. I invested into this house. This is everything I have worked for all my life. If you want to demolish this, I'm not stopping you but I am inside; demolish me with the house so that after the demolition, I won't be around to feel the pain. The authorities had demolished several big houses but for this man's small house, they negotiated and paid him his money. He was able to salvage some of the building materials. He was better off because he contended for his house.

The reason why the enemy is still planting in your life is because your Christianity lacks the power of contention for ownership. You don't contend for what is yours otherwise why the gradual encroachment into your destiny and you stand as a spectator saying, 'it is well.' In fact, sometimes some believers say, 'May be it is the Lord's will'. But it is not the Lord's will for you as a human being to be swimming in your dream. You need to say concerning that your business, it will not collapse. Whatever it takes, by fasting, by prayer or by hunger. If you have to reduce the food you eat so that you can plunge back the profit into the business, if it will take going back to learn from others, do everything you need to do. That is contending for ownership. I hear testimonies of what is happening to other believers. It is okay for them to accommodate oppression, but it is not okay with me.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints Jude1:3. When it comes to my matter I know who I am; I know what belongs to me. And I will not allow satanic encroachment one inch. Don’t allow the enemy to plant trees in your life so that you will not be looking for how to uproot them. In medicine, prevention is better than cure. Dealing with mosquitoes is cheaper than going to buy anti-malaria drugs.

Like the Zelophehad daughters, take your case before the Judge of all flesh and you will have as much inheritance as you deserve.

Prayer/Action
* My life is a no go area for the devil as from today, in Jesus’ name.
* Oh Lord, hedge my life round about with Your presence, let not the enemy have access to it any longer, in Jesus’ name.
Plead the blood of Jesus 21 times over your entire destiny before noon today.

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