Saturday, March 28, 2015

Daily Load of Benefits

Saturday 28 March
READ: Psalm 68: 19
MORE LESSON: Psa. 92:12-15

I have good news for you today. The news is that Lord wants to load you with benefits. This is neither on a weekly nor monthly basis, but every single day of your life. This means that on a daily basis, God has a basketful of blessings, provisions and benefits made ready for you. No matter how old you live to be, before you wake up each day there is a load of benefits waiting for you; and remember this scripture was written before you were born. So from the day of your birth to your last day on earth there is a blessing from God to you.

As wonderful as it is that God blesses us each day, that is not all the excitement to it. Also, the blessing for each day is a load. Mind you, when God calls something a load I assure you that it can't finish in a day. So the load of yesterday would not have been exhausted when God delivers another to you today. And He will not fail in delivery for a single day because He has enough resources to daily load all human beings with benefits from eternity past to eternity to come. What wonderful news!

The secret to getting your delivery daily is that every day you wake up the first thing to do is to give thanks to the Lord. You should lift up your hands to heaven and say, 'Oh Lord, thank you for today. I'm excited about the new day. Thank you for the load of benefits that is waiting for me in all my ways today.' Then you proceed to use the Name of Jesus to bind anything that stops the delivery of your load for the day. You can thereafter go ahead to command the day open for all the benefits coming. From today never start the day crying, murmuring or complaining any more. Don't say, 'Yesterday was bad enough, today has come again.' But rather reach out in faith and confidence and see the benefits that will be delivered to you each day.

That is not the end of this wonderful news. The high point today is that you can claim the benefits in arrears if you have lived without receiving the delivery of your loads of benefits all these years. I want you to know that all the ones you didn't receive were stolen by the devil but since your name is on the loads you can reclaim them. Just take the Name and Blood of Jesus and begin to rebuke the devil to get his hands off all your benefits, past, present and future, and then in faith,u start to claim them in arrears.

Believe this wonderful news in God's Word that the Lord our God daily loads us with benefits.

Prayer/Action
* Give God thanks for all the benefits already waiting for you this new day.
* Thank God for being so mindful of you as to prepare loads of benefits for your destiny.
* Command the blessings of today to be downloaded now.
* Ask that all that caterpillars and canker worms have eaten be restored now.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I bless everyone that has been a blessing to me this year, especially my physical and spiritual parents; they will not lack helpers.

Friday, March 27, 2015

Burden Bearers

Friday 27 March
READ: Num 11:16-17
MORE LESSON: Phil. 2:19-22

There was a time when Moses grew tired of the ministry because the burden of the people was too much for him to carry. The people made life difficult for him till he cried to God that he was tired, and prayed for death. One of the greatest weapons the devil uses against God's servants is discouragement and he always uses people to achieve this. You must decide never to assist the devil by being an instrument of discouragement to your spiritual leaders. Rather, commit yourself to be an instrument of encouragement to the prophet God has set over you.

However, in the midst of this discouragement, we learn an important principle: God raised people to bear the burden with Moses. So the LORD said to Moses, Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel . . . I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone: Num 11:16-17 (NKJV). The Lord is still in the business of raising burden bearers for His servants. People that make themselves available to be burden bearers are the ones that will be raised to positions of leadership in the Body of Christ. They will also get to be anointed with the same Spirit that God has placed upon His servant. They are the future leaders of the work of God. There are many blessings that accrue with becoming a burden bearer of the Lord alongside His chosen servant. I pray that God will give you spiritual maturity so that you will not be a burden to God's servants but a burden bearer with them.

Each time God wants to achieve a new dimension of ministry in His servants, He raises men that will do the work with them. God is interested in succession, continuity and expansion of His work, and we also should. We should know that God's work is not a one-man job but one that we all need to carry on together. God is still looking for men that will make themselves available so that He can release His Spirit upon them to carry on the work along with His appointed servants.

When Joshua, the servant of Moses, saw God anoint new men, he quickly demanded that Moses should stop them from prophesying because he felt that the new development would take the ministry from Moses (verse 28). But Moses, a mature servant of God, explained to the young man that it was God's will and for the benefit of all, that men are raised. But Moses replied, Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them! (verse 29).

Today you can be one of the burden bearers that God will raise and anoint for His work if you make yourself available.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will be a pillar and not a caterpillar in the Kingdom of God.
* Pray that you will inherit the double portion of your spiritual leader like Elisha and not leprosy like Gehazi.
* Pray to be a tool in the hand of God and not a spanner in the wheel of progress.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
The glory of my latter house shall be greater than the former and I shall make progress.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Make Yourself Available for Glory

Thursday 26 March
READ: Gen. 2:5
MORE LESSON: Eph. 1:9-12

When God created the Garden of Eden in the beginning, there was a glory and beauty upon that garden. Everything planted in the garden grew and was fruitful. There was a river that parted into four tributaries that watered the garden. The trees of the garden were ready for food and everything had been prepared. The garden was ready and the glory was there but the Bible says that God had not caused it to rain and there was no man to till the ground. The man to occupy the garden was not to labour to prepare the garden but to enter into an already prepared glory. But no man was available so God created Adam to enjoy the glory made ready in the garden.
The Bible says that God had not caused it to rain because He had not found the man that would till the ground. Glory was available in the created garden but God needed a man that will step into the glory. God is still in the business of looking for men that will manifest His glory in our days. He is searching for people that He will use as tools, even in this end time, to affect and impact this generation.
If you are born again, the seed of the glory is already in you; you just need to make yourself available to God in order to go forth and manifest His glory. Make up your mind that wherever you find yourself, you will make yourself available for God's glory there. Go forth in your school, business, place of work or wherever you find yourself, and manifest the glory of God.
Are you available for God to make you manifest His glory? Refuse to hide the glory of God; refuse to be lazy or to put your light under a bushel. The text we read says there was no man to till the ground and manifest the glory of the garden that God created. Let it not be said in your own time that there is no man to manifest God's glory and to serve Him. Be that man that will be available to do His will and manifest His glory.
Man is undoubtedly created for the sole aim of manifesting God’s glory, and there is still room for you to be one of such examples. If you are going through a challenge of life, that situation in God’s hand is an opportunity to turn you to a wonder and a testimony. That challenge is not designed to ruin you but to prove what God can do through you. So, don’t despair; don’t give up. Keep up with God and you will be the next evidence of His glory.

Prayer/Action
* Thank God for the opportunity to be an agent of glory in life and destiny.
* Ask God to grant you grace to live worthy of His glory.
* Ask God to turn every situation of your life to a praise of His glory.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
The function and purpose of God for my life shall not be aborted, in the mighty name of Jesus.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Arise and Shine

Wednesday 25 March
READ: Isaiah 60:1-7
MORE LESSON: Isa. 40:1-5

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee: Is. 60:1. This popular portion of the Scripture talks about the rising of the glory of God upon His people. And God's glory is certainly something we all desire to see manifest in our lives. Everything God has created has its own glory. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory: 1 Cor. 15:41. Every man has his glory but not everyone is shining forth the glory, which is the reason God told His people to arise and shine forth the glory. I pray that your glory will show forth, in Jesus’ Name.

Your glory talks about your virtue, value and worth. It is time for you to begin to engage your abilities, virtues and worth so that you could have achievements and results to show to God's glory. You may meet a man who does not look very impressive to you until you begin to hear that the same man has many achievements and owns so much wealth. When you get to know that he has written so many books, travelled to speak in so many countries and bagged so many awards, you immediately begin to respect him. Why? Because you just heard about his glory-his attributes, abilities, qualities and results. That will be your portion, in Jesus’ name; men will begin to respect you as they see God’s glory upon you.

When we read Isaiah chapter 59, which proceeds God's command to the people to arise, we realize the condition of the people God told them to arise. They were living in sin for which reason they lost the glory. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. They were down because of sin. Any sinful man or nation is always without glory. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD: Isa. 59:20. Immediately after turning from transgression, the next chapter says, Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee: Isa. 60:1.

If you want glory, you have to say goodbye to sin. Sin makes a man come short of the glory but when such a man turns to the Lord, his story changes.
As you turn from sin to the Lord today, I prophesy that your light is come; you will arise and God's glory will be evident upon you. Whatever acts of sin that might have been tying down your glory, I rebuke them today, in Jesus’ name. Your glory will rise in this new day that the Lord has made, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Give God thanks for His promise of glory upon your life.
* Ask that whatever is covering your glory (known and hidden) be broken today.
* Declare that your destiny will not be crippled but shall arise and shine from today on.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I rededicate my life and destiny to the God of Israel today and forever, in the mighty name of Jesus.