The Greater Life

Wednesday 10 February
READ:John 14: 12
MORE LESSON: Mk.16:15-20

Today, I want you to know that God is not glorified in your living a mundane life. God is not happy about your poverty, debt, sickness and failures. God is not proud of the fact that life is difficult for you. Any one that portrays Christianity as a life of struggles and hardships is not correct. A victorious destiny is God's design for you.
Did you know that God doesn't want you to have less than what Jesus had while He walked on the earth? He doesn't want you to be less than Jesus was; that is why Jesus said, he that believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do because I go to My Father. Jn 14: 12 (NKJV). What excites God in Heaven is when He sees His children living the greater life.
Smith Wiggles-Worth the great preacher went to preach somewhere and when he finished, he retired to the room where he was to sleep. In the night, he was woken by noise in the room; so he opened his eyes and rolled away the blanket to see what was responsible for the disturbance in the room, he saw a demon bouncing up and down in the room, he hissed and said, 'I didn't know it is you', pulled the blanket back to cover himself and continued to enjoy his sleep. Without a prayer or a command, the devil left, angry. That is the greater life! it is not when you dream that a goat is pursuing you and you start running to see all the prophets in the country.
There is a greater life in every area of your life. You can be greater in your spiritual life, finance, in success and impact, and in your ministry. That is God's will for you. Jesus is our perfect example; He lived on top of every situation when He was here in the flesh. He faced hard times and challenges and He overcame them; that is the greater life.
The greater life is not a life void of challenges; it is the life that prevails. Paul the apostle was in a shipwreck and everybody was devasted and unable to eat but he stood up and started encouraging everyone else; including his captors (Act 27: 22 – 27). He assured them that he had spoken to God and had secured all their lives with God and none of them would die. The greater life is victorious in tribulation and cannot be quenched by trials of life. Today, go for the greater life in every area of your endeavour; that is your inheritance in Christ Jesus. You were born to be great, don't do anything less; go for the greater life in Christ Jesus. You will do greater works as He has said, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* I declare that I was created great and shall do great things, in Jesus’ name.
* No devil shall be able to truncate my greatness, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
No defeat or loss shall be found in my life anymore, in the name of Jesus.

The Unsearchable God

Tuesday 9 February
READ:Isa. 40:18-28
MORE LESSON:Rom.11:33

God is unsearchable and unfathomable. The person who knows the greatest about God on earth today has only discovered an infinitesimally small percentage of who He really is. The more you seek and search to know God, the more you will discover that there is more to know about Him. The noblest pursuit of any man is to seek to keep knowing more and more of God.
Someone once told me that he did his PhD research on pepper. I was intrigued that a whole thesis can be written on mere pepper; I kept wondering what there is so much to write about pepper that will take the volume of a PhD thesis. So I asked for further details only for him to tell me that actually the whole thesis was not on pepper generally but he narrowed down his study specifically to the seed – the pepper seed. He also added that when he began to study the seed he discovered that there are still more areas to study in the seed of pepper that were outside the scope of his work.
If that can be said of pepper then I wonder how you can ever know everything about God. Throughout your life, you must sustain a heart posture of someone that is still a learner in your quest to know God. You can’t exhaust all there is to know about Him.
This is what necessitates the need for more of the Word and the Spirit in your life no matter how far you have gone in the Christian journey. Some people feel that they have read so much of the Scripture and got so full of the letter that no one can preach God's Word to them anymore. If anyone wants to preach; they summarise the sermon, conclude and grade the preacher even before he finishes saying the introduction. Don't you ever become like that; you must never outgrow reading the Bible, listening to genuine Word of God from others and you must never outgrow staying with the Holy Spirit to learn.
God is unsearchable but the Holy Spirit can help you to keep discovering more of Him. It is the Holy Spirit that reveals God to us in our spirit. To know more of God, you need to develop your spirit man by deep and intimate communion with the Holy Spirit. As the Scripture says, But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God: 1 Cor 2:9-10.
You are given the privilege of knowing more and more of the unsearchable riches of God as you fellowship with His Spirit.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, grant me grace to know you the more, in Jesus’ name.
* Father, cause my understanding to be enlightened more about You, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
In this month, all things will work for my good and fulfilment, in the name of Jesus.

Bitterness to Sweetness

Monday 8 February
READ:Ruth 4:14-17
MORE LESSON:John 9:1-6

Many times, Christians are faced with unpleasant situations and experiences. Even in the path of obedience to the Lord, there may be losses, suffering, pain, death and injustice. No child of God is without trouble, but God always solves them, Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all: Psa 34:19.
Troubles and trials are not to make us bitter, but better; God allows them because He knows they will end in sweetness. What is considered a loss now often leads to gain for God's children. Do you know that a believer's major goal in life is not to be comfortable, satisfied or even happy, but to glorify God? (see Job 5:17-21). A man was born blind in the Scripture and the disciples asked Jesus, “Why was this man born blind?” Jesus, replied, “It is that God might be glorified”. Your situation is allowed so that God can be glorified. He knows you can bear it and that you will not deny Him because of the pain. Jesus endured the cross, and Paul the apostle endured much persecution. Also, bitter herbs are used in the Passover meals (Exo. 12:8, Num. 9:11). All these analogies should prove to you that the bitterness you are experiencing is not taking God unawares; He wants to use it as the stepping stone to your celebration and victory.
Unpleasant experiences, persistent
problems and unexplainable tragedies may happen but we must know that God uses trouble to purify and refine men. Hannah was barren, Bartimeus was blind and Naomi suffered so much loss that she wanted her name changed to 'Marah' which means, 'bitterness'. In fact she said, for the Almighty has afflicted me....: Ruth 1: 20-21. At the end, all these people mentioned testified of sweetness; Hannah, Bartimeus and Naomi all became subjects of testimony. Naomi's testimony was that a son was born to her in old age (Ruth 4:17).
Bitterness, however, does not turn to sweetness on its own. It usually takes spiritual authority and the anointed ones to stand over one to have it (Exo. 15:23-25). The solutions to all the problems of church members largely depend on the priest that God has placed over them. James 5: 14 -15 says, Is any one sick? Let him call for the elders and let them pray over him anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Marah water was made sweet by Moses in Exo. 15:23-25. Elisha also ended the bitterness of the people of Jericho by divine directional prophetic act. God has placed the cure for every bitter water of your life in His vessels. You must honour and connect with these vessels. I prophesy sweetness to you today, and through God declare that you are free, in Jesus' mighty name.

Prayer/Action
* Oh Lord, turn my bitterness to sweetness, in Jesus' name.
* My pathway will no longer be that of Marah, but of sweetness, in Jesus' mighty name.
* Let the travail of Jesus on the cross make a way for me, in Jesus' mighty name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Today, I release the power of life and good living into my destiny, in the name of Jesus.

A Fresh Anointing

Sunday 7 February
READ:Psa. 92:10-15
MORE LESSON:Psa. 23:5-6

One of the things God does when He wants to move His people forward is to anoint them with fresh oil. Psalm 25: 3 says, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over: Psa. 23:5 (NKJV). It is not possible to enjoy a running-over-cup in the presence of the enemies without the anointing of the Lord. This is because if the enemy is present and you are not empowered with fresh oil by the Lord, satan may steal your cup. Today, God will anoint you with His Spirit and you will be secured and make progress, in Jesus' name.
When a man is to be promoted and exalted, He needs to be anointed afresh. Psa. 92:10 says, My horn You have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil (NKJV). Anointing with fresh oil is needed for victory over the enemy so that his desires will not be fulfilled over you. This is why verse 11 says, My eye also has seen my desire on my enemies; My ears hear my desire on the wicked Who rise up against me. I prophesy to you today that everyone risen against you will fall for your sake, in Jesus' mighty name. Spiritual prosperity and fruitfulness is another great advantage of the anointing. You will not dry up; you will not stop growing and you will be green and prosperous all the days of your life.
When a man is anointed with fresh oil, he is planted and he cannot be displaced; he is fixed, settled and flourishing. He experiences limitless fruitfulness till old age, and that is to say that a man that is anointed has broken the barriers of old age. What a young person cannot do, he can achieve because of the oil; the oil of the Lord on your head will not run dry, in Jesus' name. Similarly, the psalmist says all of this will happen to you to prove that the Lord is upright; He is a rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him. The Lord will make you a show and a proof of His grace and power. May you prove His strength and uprightness as you journey from earth to Heaven, in Jesus' name. This is why you must always crave for the oil of the anointing. The believer must be anointed constantly by the Holy Ghost and by His priest. Go for the anointing each time you have the opportunity and cherish it.
Moreover, when a man is anointed by the Lord, he walks in goodness and mercy all the days of his life as recorded in Psa. 23:6. As you continue on the path of daily freshness by the Spirit, your heaven is sure. What a journey, what a destination! Your journey today will end in goodness, and may God bless you abundantly.

Prayer/Action
* Oh Lord, anoint me with fresh oil now, in Jesus' name.
* I shall flourish in the court of the Lord; I shall not go back to the world, in Jesus' mighty name.
* My days, weeks, months and years are anointed with fresh oil and I will see the goodness of the Lord in them, in Jesus' mighty name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I command every gang up of wicked spirits against my advancement, in 2016 to be scattered now by fire, in the name of Jesus.