Born to Rule

Saturday 14 November
READ: Gen 1: 26 – 28
MORE LESSON: Psa 91: 13 - 16

The original mandate of God for man is to rule the earth. God created you to rule. According to Gen 1:26, when God created man, He told them to have dominion over everything that He made. Child of God, you are not created to be a slave, you are born to rule. Deut 28: 13 says, And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them. God wants you to be the head, meaning that if you start at the bottom, He wants you to make progress up till you get to the top. Wherever you find yourself, in your career, academics, job or society, go for the best place. Continue to develop yourself and grow till you are at the top. God wants you to rule in your sphere of influence.

God wants you to exercise dominion over life and situations. In your health and physical well being, He wants you to rule. You should not be ruled by sickness; you should dominate it – go for health and not just healing. Healing is getting well when you fall sick, and then you start praising God. As good as that is, it is not the dominion that God created you for. True dominion is when you live in divine health, where no sickness can touch you - that is your portion, in Jesus’ name.

God wants you to dominate over perils; do not allow anything that is not of God to perch on you and your family. When you read Psa. 91, you will realise that there are many pestilences, terrors and evil flying around looking for a home to rest on. Do not allow them to rule over you. Exercise dominion over them by declaring your authority over all evil in Jesus’ name. Insist by declaration of faith that you will not be a victim of circumstances. Rule over situations. You must also dominate in your finance. A child of God should not be begging around or work hard with nothing to show for it. The spirit of dominion will give you breakthrough in your business and career till you become the envy of unbelievers around you.

Dominion for a believer is not limited to casting out demons; it includes successful living. Success is yours in Jesus’ name. Unfortunately many believers are satisfied with their current level and that is the reason why they are not ascending to the place of dominion that God has destined for them. In fact, some use scriptures to justify and defend their smallness. God has made provision for you to rule and dominate even before you were created. I simply want you to take hold of the provision in the Word and ascend to greater heights.

Prayer/Action
* Reject the slave mentality.
* Declare yourself a ruler wherever you are.
* Ask God to take away every sign of a slave from your life.
* Prophesy that you will never live a beggarly life.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I bless everyone that bless me today, and curse be anyone that curse my destiny, this is my heritage in Abraham, in Jesus’ mighty name.

Problem Solvers Network

Friday 13 November
READ: Gal. 6: 9 - 10
MORE LESSON: Psa. 65: 2

Do you know the reason why God is relevant? It is because He is a problem solver. You wouldn't come to God if not for the fact that you know He has the answers to your questions and the solution to your problems. Even the Bible recognises the fact that men come to God because He solves problems, O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come: Psa. 65: 2. We always give testimonies; a testimony is nothing but a way of saying you had a problem and God solved it. So God is relevant throughout all the ages because He is a problem solver and for you to be equally relevant you must be a problem solver.

One way of appreciating God for solving your problem is extending His problem solving nature to others. If you want to thank God for solving your problem, you too go and look for somebody's problem and solve it. Maybe you have been languishing under the affliction of poverty and then God blessed you, find somebody also who is suffering from poverty and do what you can to raise that person out of it. May be you didn't have a means of paying school fees when you were in school but God helped you in whatever way and you finished school by the mercy of God. Now that you have finished school and you are blessed, find somebody who is not able to go to school because of lack of money; encourage the person by your own testimony and solve that person's problem with your resources. If you solve another person's problem and he also goes on to solve another person's problem with his own testimony and a chain of problem solving is generated, imagine the good that will happen in our world. When you create a chain of solutions by solving people's problems and urging them to go on and solve other people's problems, you create a web and network of thanksgiving to God. For every one that gets into the network and gives God praise, Heaven traces it back to you and interest accrues to your heavenly account.

God's relevance is in His ability to solve problems. So also your relevance in life is in your providing solution to people's problem. Extend God's problem solving nature to people. Do it out of love and request nothing from the people only that they too look for somebody whose problem they will solve. By so doing you will create a network of solution and have a degree of relevance that only eternity can reveal. Go out today and do something good to somebody who will also do something good to somebody who will do something good to somebody .and it goes on and on.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God for the anointing to solve problems. 
* Ask God to lead you to someone who needs what you have today, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray that you will have a new testimony of a problem solver.

PROPHETIC PRAYER.
I command the door of access to my next level to begin to open for me now, in the name of Jesus.

Stop the Prodigal Life

Thursday 12 November
READ: Lk. 15: 11 - 32
MORE LESSON: Jer. 3: 12 -15

There was a son of a wealthy man in the Bible who took his share of the father's property and travelled to a far country. He left the security, love and abundance in his father's house and went to see the world for himself. He was a prince in his father's house but he became a slave in the world where he sank into penury and was struggling to eat with pigs. The Bible calls him the prodigal son: the son who wandered away.

Many children of God have left home and have travelled far into the world of sin and suffering. They have forsaken the riches of God's grace, and as pigs eat dirt and filth, so they are living in mire with the pigs of the world: partying, fornicating, lying, cheating and stealing, drug abuse and alcohol addiction are filth that has become food to them. A daughter of God well brought up with the Word of God grows up and gains admission into the university and starts living in with an unbeliever-boy, who defiles, debases and even beats her and she says she can't leave him. That is eating with the pigs because she has wandered away from her Father's home.
The prodigal life is a terrible life. it reduces a prince to a drug addict-beggar and a princess to a prostitute with no sense of self worth anymore. Whatever prodigal life you have gone into, it is time to return home.

This reminds me of an intelligent young man who finished secondary school in flying colours. When the enemy attacked him with the spirit of prodigal living, he packed his baggage from the city where he was and went back to his village. He got admission to the university but discarded it and went to the village, where he had no father, mother or sibling. He had only one companion that he sat and talked with: a mad man. The mad man was his closest friend whom he chatted with from morning till evening every day. Then one day, some people that cared about him came to take him forcefully from the village. As they were dragging him away, the mad man was crying, “Please don't leave me, why are you going, who will play with me when you are gone?” This boy was well to do, respectable and intelligent before the enemy attacked him. They brought him to me and I broke every attack of the prodigal spirit over him. I prayed for him, made sure he got admission again and registered and attended a higher institution. He is a successful man now to the glory of God.

Prodigal living can be as a result of your choice of a life of sin or a demonic influence upon you. But whatever the case today I declare that an end has come to your prodigal life, in Jesus’ name. Return home to God your Father, He is waiting for you.

Prayer/Action
* Command every strange satanic manifestation to be broken over your life now.
* Rebuke any bondage in your life to be broken now by fire, in the name of Jesus.
* Command the spirit of soundness to come upon you, in the name of Jesus.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
There is the glory of the sun, the moon, and the stars, I shall operate in the highest of the glories, in the mighty name of Jesus.

Costly Pleasure

Wednesday 11 November
READ: Num 25: 1- 5
MORE LESSON: Prov. 7: 7 - 27

Balak king of Moab wanted to curse and destroy Israel but God fought for them and turned it to a blessing. Balaam, the hired prophet, could not curse Israel but he knew what he could do to turn the face of God against them. He knew he couldn't overcome them spiritually or physically so he decided he was going to make them do what God hates so that He would withdraw from them and then Israel would be vulnerable to attack. Balaam advised Balak to turn his girls loose to go and entice the Isrealites to sexual immorality. Even the unbeliever knew that the sure way for a child of God to lose the favour of God and be at the mercy of the enemy is to live in sin.

The Moabites had tried to war against the Israelites and they couldn't confront them. They also tried divination but it didn't work because there is a great God behind Israel. So they selected the most beautiful girls in their land and sent them into the camp of Israel. The girls approached the men of Israel and told them that they wanted to give them free pleasure. When the devil offers you free pleasure then know that that pleasure is going to be costly because what he will take from you will be too big compared to what he gives you. The pleasure of sin is too costly, please run away from it. This is what Moses understood that made him choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season (Heb 11:24-26). Job in the Bible also said, I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? Job 31:1. But when Israel saw these girls from Moab, they rushed them. It was these free girls that finished Israel. The Moabites defeated Israel without using a bullet by sending fornication into their midst.

It is still this same strategy that the devil uses today, he knows that if he can get you to sin against God, he has finished you. So he sends free pleasure into your life. However, I want you to know that something free could be too costly. A daughter of God that gets free money from a man and loses her spiritual alertness will soon discover that gifts can be costly. Brother, when that girl comes with her gifts, in fact she may offer to buy her own drinks and pay for yours as well, she is enticing you to sin, please don't wait to consider her offer, run because that offer will cost you your life and eternity. It is too costly. Those free girls penetrated Israel and God was angry with them and struck them with a plague in which twenty four thousand died. Run from sin.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to reveal to you and forgive every sin that can make you vulnerable to your accusers and enemies.
* Rebuke any form of sexual immorality in your life, from your thought to reality.
* Pray that sin shall not be found in you no matter how small.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I shall testify of the eleventh hour miracle this month and my expectations shall not be aborted, in the mighty name of Jesus.