Thursday, January 2, 2014

Greater Year

READ: Prov. 4:14-22
MORE LESSONS: Psalms 65:11
Bible Reading in One Year: Genesis 3-5

Happy new year is a common greeting at the beginning of a new year. However, a careful look at the compliment reveals that it is a prophetic declaration to the life of someone in the new year. January marks the beginning of a new year and anyone who understands times and seasons will agree that the prophetic declaration is much more needed in our generation, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof: Matt 6:34.

God's plan for His children is that yesterday should not be better than today, therefore this year must record better achievements than the last one. As a just man, your

path must shine brighter each moment than the previous one. The NIV Bible says that God crowns the year with His bounty and that His cart overflows with abundance (Psa. 65:11). Imagine God, the loving One, dragging a cart overflowing with abundant provision of all you need for the year.

What do we do to enjoy the promise of abundance? The verse tells us that the promise is for only the just or the righteous. Righteousness entails doing the right thing and abhorring those things that are evil. These days, several people believe that no one

can be righteous. This is true if one wants to attain righteousness by his own strength, as

Isaiah declares, But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away: Isa 64:6. However, the Holy Son of the living God, Jesus, has been substituted for us, For He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the

righteousness of God in him: 2 Cor. 5:21. If only you can lay aside your own effort and accept the finished work on the cross, you can become not just righteous but the righteousness of God.

This is easier to do than to strive to do it in the power of the
flesh. You too can become the righteousness of the Lord.
This is a state that all who desire a happy year must attain. Happy New Year, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Re-dedicate your life to the Lord again.
* Thank God for the righteousness of Jesus that is available to you.
* Declare that this year will be better than the previous year.

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year and Welcome to the Season of His Glory

Bible Reading in One Year: Genesis 1-2

On behalf of myself, my household and the entire leadership of the JAWOM family worldwide, I say HAPPY NEW YEAR to all members of our great Commission, partners, friends and all people of goodwill. It's a new year, therefore, Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing…: Isa. 43:18-19. This Word encourages you to let go the failure, pain, disappointment, sorrow and the like of 2013; let them go with the old year. Begin to work for and look forward, by faith, to new things in the New Year. What are the new things: Lev. 26:4-12 (NLT).

4 . I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

5. Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your
own land.

6 . I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.

7. In fact, you will chase down your enemies and slaughter them with your swords.

8. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand! All your enemies will fall beneath your sword.

9. I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.

10. You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!
11. I will live among you, and I will not despise you.
12. I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.

Standing on these promises of God, 2014 is a season of His glory upon you in all areas of life. Old stories will give way to a new glory of God which will swallow up your reproach and pain until there is no single reproach left in your life. Your land shall overflow with blessings, your harvest will last beyond the next planting season, your land/destiny shall be fertile, you shall not cast your young ones, you shall not be feeble, silver and gold will serve you. You will be blessed and be a blessing. Negative end time prophecies will not overtake you. You will serve God; you will not serve sin or satan.

You will be a battle axe in the hand of God. With you God's purpose and plan shall be fulfilled. You will end 2014 on a glorious note. You are permanently in our prayers and care. We prophesy a happy year for you, in Jesus' mighty name.

Bishop and Rev. (Mrs.) David Bakare.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Last Adam


Text: Rom.5:17-19 
More Lessons Isa.53:4-5

Every born again child of God is born to reign; not just in Heaven but even in this life. By our adamic nature, we are sinners and total losers because when the first man, Adam, committed high treason against the government and rule of God in Heaven, his sin brought judgment on the entire human race. Every human gene carried this judged and low nature. The life expectancy of man kept dropping from almost 1000years to about 70years now.

Man and all of creation began to experience dominion melt-down. Life according to the lineage and order of Adam only brought shame, sickness, sin and a low life because of the curse of sin. But several years later, Christ Jesus came on the scene, sent by God and paid the ultimate price by dying on the cross, shed His blood, saved us from our sins, rose again triumphantly after three days and now through Him we have received a higher life such as has never been seen before. This is our Holy Ghost birth or our second birth. Now you are a new creation in Christ Jesus, you are a winner and a champion forever, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God John3:3. Our new birth is a total paradigm shift from the principles and Our new birth is a total paradigm shift from the principles and demands of the old and cursed man to the power and wisdom of God by the one, Jesus Christ.

There is a higher life in Christ Jesus, higher than sickness and disease, higher than the fear of man or failure, and even higher than death itself, …and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Praise God forever more Eph. 2:6. No devil can stop a believer in Christ Jesus because he/she is seated far above all the wickedness of this world. The blessings of God are free for born again people. This is our grace story. We got what we did not deserve because we believe in Christ! You may say that's too good to be true, until you read the full account of what it cost Jesus Christ to take all the punishment for the sins of mankind, taking the full weight of God's wrath against us upon Himself just to save you and I from the curse of sin and give us a rebirth into uncommon favour and grace.

The life of God that we lost in Adam is restored in Jesus. Jesus is the only way out of trouble and to eternal joy and fulfilment. Jesus is the last Adam, full of grace and glory. Just believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Start living a new life. Jesus is Lord!

Prayer/Action
* Say, “Thank You Jesus for paying the ultimate price for my redemption”.
* Because Jesus has paid fully all that needed to be paid, I enter fully into my inheritance, my life shall no longer be void of anything good.
* Receive the mentality of a winner and a champion for all things today.

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Help is on the Way II


Text: Psa.37:34
More Lessons Jam.1:6-22

To trust God means to take away your confidence from man and focus entirely on God alone because the arm of flesh will fail but the Word of God lives and abides forever. We cannot do God's part for Him. He alone is God. We can only do our part and wait on Him to move on our behalf. We cannot also ask God to do our part for us. Waiting on God is actually partnering with the divine to deliver the fulfilment of our destiny. Sometimes it could be tough waiting for God especially when you've prayed and prayed and He seems not to say a word about what you're going through.

The best way to handle such seasons and transitionary times is to remember that when a teacher sets an exam, he's quiet and says nothing until the exams is over. Sometimes those tough times are test times that the Lord is taking you through and like every good examination, He intends to use those circumstances to take you to your next level.

Waiting on God has largely been misunderstood to just mean fasting and praying endlessly on a pressing need or matter, but as much as those exercises form the bedrock practices for waiting on God, there is much more. Let's look at a few more things that we must get straight in trying and waiting times.

1. Never murmur or worry. Many people spend most of their waiting moments murmuring or worrying as though they have forgotten that the God we serve can never fail. So to get quick answers to your prayers, you cannot pray and worry; you must remain joyful at all times. You must depend on the joy of the Lord to strengthen you. Crying and weeping will only depress and keep you further away from taking hold of your miracle.

2. Sow seeds sacrificially. One of the principles that are binding on the universe is the law of sowing and reaping. Sowing provokes a harvest. Sow a prophet's offering to your pastor or make a vow to the Lord in your local assembly and bind it to your request. Look for people who God has blessed with the same thing you desire and sow a seed into their lives to connect to the blessing in their lives. Be involved in projects to help the needy or build the house of God. For when you put the matters of God's house first, He puts the issues of your house first. Between the promise and the provision is the process. Hang in there because Help is on the way for you!

Prayer/Action
  • Ask for the unfailing help of the Lord for all that you do.
  • Ask for direction from the Lord concerning the type of things to do for the particular help you need.
Meet a particular need of a member of your family or assembly today as a point of contact for your help.

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