Uncoverable Glory II

Text: Gen.37:1, 3-5.
More Lessons: Matt.5: 14-16

I was in a meeting one day and I was teaching on the gifts of the Spirit. I got to the point where I was explaining the gift of miracles when a deaf and mute boy of about 12 years, who roamed around in a very small town called Ipetu in Kwara State entered. Because the village was so small everybody knew the boy. The parents couldn't control him because he did not even hear what they were saying, so he roamed around the town. This fateful day he entered the church, sat down and watched while I taught.

When I got to the point of trying to explain to believers what the gift of miracle is, and as if to help me do the explanation, I said praise the Lord and the boy stood up and shouted Hallelujah. We had not left the place when the whole town gathered at the church because they heard about the miracle. I don't know how to cover that one. What do you do in that situation? The Bible says when Peter and John healed the man at the beautiful gate, the elders took them and asked them not to preach anymore in this name and decided to rebuke them. They said at the Sanhedrin meeting, For a noticeable miracle has been performed. Nobody can deny this miracle! So what do you do about the people. That's the type of glory I am talking about. You will get one! I'm talking about noticeable miracles. When you talk about glory, there are certain glories that no matter how humble you are, they are there for all to see. They are just there; there is nothing you can do about them. One day, we were to receive Pastor E.A. Adeboye from Lagos; we made sure just very few of us went, we didn't want noise.

The Governor had already told us that we would not be able to use the stadium because of the tension in town. When his aircraft landed, we didn't have to tell anybody anything because all the aircrafts that had been landing were the usual commercial aircrafts. When the jet landed, there were only three people in the aircraft.

Of course people gathered because a private aircraft just landed. And when they would peep to see who was in the aircraft, we had a problem that we didn't prepare to handle. I'm talking about certain measures of glory. What do you think the man of God should do? How does he cover his yam that is spreading now? And I pray for you today, that one day your glory will be so much that you can't cover it anymore. This will happen in a short while. God will pick you from grass and you will find yourself in glory, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Prayer/Action
* As the glory of the sun cannot be covered and it glory of my life shine.
* Ask God to open Heaven and shine on you.
Take time to worship God.

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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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