Established by the Word

Tuesday 19 April
READ: Psa. 119: 89-93
MORE LESSON: Heb. 1:3

It is important that you learn how to look at your circumstances through the Word of God. Do not judge the Word by what you are going through; the Word of God is more valid than the experience of man. If the Word of God says you are healed but you are still feeling the pain, remember that the Word is superior to your feeling.
Anytime you are faced with situations that are not in agreement with God's will for your life as revealed in the Word of God, what to do is to challenge that situation by the Word of God. That unpleasant circumstance has no option but to bow to the Word. Any circumstance that you stand on the Word of God against but refuses to bow is saying that the Lord God needs to amend - and that is not possible. The Bible says, For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Psa. 119:89. The Word of God is eternally established in Heaven; there is no situation on earth that can bend the Word. Keep holding on to the eternal Word of God in spite of what you can see, feel or hear in the physical. Your situation must eventually bow to the Word. The Word is established in Heaven, and when you hold on to it on the earth, it will establish you.
When you stand on what God has said, divine help is inevitable. Everything that you need in life is in the Word. If you are confronted by sickness, the healing that you need is in the Word. As it is written, He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions: Ps 107:20. If you want victory over trials, temptations and battles of life, then get into the Word. Jesus set us the example when satan confronted Him; He beat him hands down by the Word of God. Jesus kept replying satan with 'it is written . . .' till Jesus gave him the final Word, Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve: Matt 4:10 (NKJV). God’s Word holds the key to all things for all believers. It is the lamp to our feet, light to our path (Psa. 119:105), and by it we are healed-Psa. 107:20.
That is the testimony of all who love God’s Word and it can become yours today if you choose God’s Word as your life anchor.

Prayer/Action
* Challenge every situation contrary to God’s Word in your life to bow now, in Jesus’ name.
* Declare the supremacy of God’s Word over every challenge today, in Jesus’ name.
* Promise God that you will always obey His Word all the days of your life.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, because of the blood of Jesus, cause me to enjoy extravagant mercy this year, in the name of Jesus

Fulfilled by Help

Monday 18 April
READ: Exo. 2: 11 – 15
MORE LESSON: Exo. 12: 30 - 32

Moses must have grown up knowing that he had a divine destiny to deliver the children of Israel from captivity in Egypt. He carried a dream and vision to deliver his people; and he killed someone because he wanted to fulfil his destiny but he only succeeded in becoming a fugitive. For forty years, Moses, a prince and honourable man in the Egyptian Empire, lived in the wilderness among sheep. He carried an unfulfiled dream around in his heart as he lived in mediocrity as a shepherd in the wilderness of Midian. Many people today have unfulfilled dreams and some have even given up, having done all they could and they could not attain the fulfilment of their vision in life. Fulfilling your dreams in life and destiny is not a function of human effort. May be like Moses, you might have even done wrong in the attempt to get to your dream and you find that you still cannot attain it. There is mercy for you today if you will repent, ask for forgiveness and come to the God of all help.
It is only by the mercy and help of God that a man can fulfil his dreams and visions in life. Moses used human wisdom and ended up a fugitive but when the help of God located him, he became the deliverer that he was destined to be. This time it was not by his power or might but by the Spirit of God upon his life. Moses had an encounter with God that turned his life around and he became who he was born to be. You need an encounter with God in order to fulfil your divine destiny, and today that encounter will come your way, in Jesus’ name.
The same Moses who fled from Pharaoh became like a god to Pharaoh (Exo. 7: 1). In fact, in Exo. 12: 30 – 32, Pharoah himself called on Moses and begged him to take the people out of the land of Egypt and pleaded with Moses to bless him before leaving. When the help of God locates you, what you have been looking for and you couldn't get, people begin to beg you to take it. What Moses ended in trouble trying to do by his own effort, he was able to gallantly achieve by the help of God. Of a truth, . . . it is not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts: Zech 4: 6 .
Today, I announce to you that your destiny will be fulfilled by the help of God. If you have been struggling with fulfilling your vision in life and it is getting more and more difficult, I connect you with the same God that helped Moses to fulfil his dream, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Repent of all the wrong steps you’ve taken in the attempt to fulfil your dreams.
* Ask that the Holy Spirit will lead you and grant you fulfilment, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask that God will help you to identify His voice as He leads you.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I command every ancient gates and everlasting doors shut against my destiny to break open now, in the name of Jesus.

Divine Intervention

Sunday 17 April
READ: Psa 126: 1 - 6
MORE LESSON: Psa 40: 3

When God wants to help a man, He intervenes in his situations. As a matter of fact, divine help is God's intervention in an impossible situation thereby improving it or preventing it from getting worse. I want you to know that there is a degree to which God intervenes in your matter such that He makes a statement for you without you having to say a word. God can do something for you that will make the people around you begin to talk about it even without you saying a word. In our text, when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, two things happened as a result of God's intervention.
The first thing is that their mouths were filled with laughter and their tongues with songs of joy. There is a difference between smiling and laughing; there is also a difference between laughing and being filled with laughter. Consequently, there are things God does for you and you smile while there are things He does and you can't help it but laugh. Today, God's intervention in your situation will cause your mouth to be filled with laughter and your tongue with singing. You will dance as you laugh and sing because of God's visitation over your life ,in Jesus’ name.
The second thing that happened when God intervened in their situation is that the heathen began to testify about the doing of God in their life, Then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them: Psa. 126:2. When God goes into operation for you, you don't need to tell stories, the stories tell themselves. They didn't have to tell the heathen what the Lord did, the heathen started talking about it first. I call such interventions of God 'unhideable miracles': miracles that people see and start talking about whether you announce them or not. One intervention from God speaks louder than one thousand speeches.
I was ministering in a meeting and the Lord was doing so many miracles. At the end of the meeting, a Muslim woman came before me and knelt down requesting that she wanted to be my spiritual daughter. I approved the request; a daughter of a preacher must be a preacher, so I led her to the Lord and believed she will surely become a vessel for God's glory. The point I am trying to make is that I didn't preach on salvation in that meeting; I didn't talk to her and I didn't make an altar call. I was just ministering God's power to people and Jehovah was busy intervening in people's lives.
When God intervenes in a situation; 'unhideable things' happen, and people come even if you don’t invite them. God will give you an intervention that men will see and testify of; you will not need to be the one to give your testimony. People will come to Jesus because of what God will do for you today, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Father, intervene in every impossible situation of my destiny, in Jesus’ name.
* Let God arise and let my enemies scatter, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I command every resistance to my breakthrough to give way, and every power hiding my key to elevation; lose your force now, in the name of Jesus.

This Know Also

Saturday 16 April
READ: 2 Tim 3:1
MORE LESSON: Hosea 4: 6

In 2 Tim 3: 1 the Bible says, This know also . . . and it's like saying that there is what you need to know in addition to what you have already known. It is necessary to keep adding to your knowledge by learning more and more every day. God always wants us to be on the side of knowledge. No one in life is all made in one day; you become made by an accumulation of added value. So you need to increase your knowledge more and more everyday of your life till you attain mastery in whatever God has placed in your hands. This know also . . . means there is something about God that you don't know yet, it means you should start knowing more about God. Don't keep bragging about what you now know about God; there is something you still don't know. Everybody under God is a student; the day you graduate you die. In addition to what you have known, God wants you to keep adding more knowledge.
There is always something you need to know. That is why you need to do quiet time everyday and apart from reading your devotional, you need to be able to pick up a book of the Bible and study. You need to get anointed literature and study. Spend your spare time reading instead of going to gossip around and endanger the covenant over your life. Be a reader; readers are leaders. However, knowing more is not limited to spiritual things, even in your profession you need to know more. There is no room for idleness in the Kingdom; if you are done with reading your Bible, there is a computer programme to learn. There is a contract to follow up or a paper to write or a seminar to attend. I don't believe in idleness because there is always something to do. When you are on a journey, you can use that time to listen to sermons, tapes and other materials that will add value to you. The way to learn is to keep learning by listening, reading and observing. Some Christians have stopped attending church services because they are offended at the pastor, so they are not able to learn more.
Maturity is attained by learning more and more. Even as a preacher, there is a need to know more. All you know as a preacher might be the message of holiness which you have been preaching but you might be raising people that are holy but poor. So you need to learn God's way of attaining success and prosperity and start teaching that as well. There is something you need to know also. So it doesn't matter who or what you are at the moment, learn to always go for more. Study to show yourself approved before God, Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth: II Tim. 2:15.

Prayer/ Action
* Father, give me a teachable spirit, in Jesus’ name.
* I refuse to be idle today, in Jesus’ name.
* Holy Spirit, guide my heart to learn something new in life and destiny today, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
My father, let every organised evil against my life be disappointed and paralyzed today, in the name of Jesus.