The Set Time

Friday 16 December
READ: Psa. 102: 13
MORE LESSON: Hab. 2:3

The text for today reads, You will arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yes, the set time, has come: Psa. 102:13.
Each time people read this scripture, they take it as a declaration about a future time. Just because the Bible says, You will arise..., some people are so analytical and say that since Bible says that God will arise, it means it is not now; it is later.
The truth is that this scripture actually emphasises that the time set for your divine visitation has come, so He will arise now. This verse of Scripture is a challenge from the living God to you to quit pushing your miracle to the future and start to believe the-God-of-the-now. The set time for your favour and mercy is now; dare to believe that your story can change right now. It doesn't take forever for God to turn a life around; it only takes an encounter. A sinner can become a saint in a moment. A disease of many years can disappear right now. The child you have been waiting for can be conceived right now. The time for your visitation has come; believe God for it now. It is for this same reason that the Bible communicates in Heb 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Note that it reads Now, faith is . . . not, 'Tomorrow, faith will be . . .'
When a difficulty confronts a man for so long, it starts to look as if it will take eternity for it to change. A man that has faced an affliction for a very long time begins to find it easier to believe that God will someday somewhere in the future change his life than to believe that God will stretch out his hand right away and turn his situation right now. This kind of faith that pushes the set time till a future date denies God's children of experiencing the miracles of God. Full faith believes in the God that will arise right now.
Today, whatever you are believing God for and however long you have waited for it, I want you to begin to declare that the set time for your miracle is now. There is a time set for your divine visitation and that time is not next year; it is not even tomorrow. The Bible says that it is now. In the name of Jesus, receive your desired change right now.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to arise for you today and cause His favour, love and power to manifest in your life.
* Declare that you will not miss your time of visitation, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, let today bring me word of Your unfailing love and breakthrough, in the name of Jesus.

The Seed that Breaks the Siege

Thursday 15 December
READ: II Kings 3: 26- 27
MORE LESSON: 2 Sam. 24:15-25

There is a story in the Bible of the king of Moab who was against Israel. He was being terribly defeated and he saw that there was no hope for him anymore. So when he realised that he had been besieged on every side and the battle was too hot for him, he took his eldest son and sacrificed him. The army of Israel was so appalled by the sight of this sacrifice that they turned from the battle and returned to their land. So the battle stopped even though it would have ended in favour of Israel and the destruction of Moab.
This king actually applied a spiritual principle in a diabolical way. The Bible says that the children of darkness are wiser in their generation than the children of light (Luke 16: 8). God is against human sacrifice and He is against those that sacrifice their children to idols. However, the act of making a sacrifice when the going gets tough is a principle that will never fail in its potency to turn situations around. This principle should be used by the children of God and not left to the children of darkness to use against us. Whenever there is a siege in your life, take a seed and make a sacrifice to the living God and see how miraculously the situation will turn in your favour.
The seed could be money, possession, time or effort. However, it must be something that costs you. Like David said in II Sam. 24: 24, you should not offer to God a sacrifice that costs you nothing. So whatever poses a siege in your life, be it childlessness, exam failure, lack, sickness or misfortune, you can break that siege with your seed. Sacrificial giving to God is powerful when you name it after a particular thing that you want God to do for you. Perhaps you have tried all you know to do and things are not working out well, then what you need at that point is to take some substantial seed in your hand , walk to the altar and sow it to God as a sacrifice. Then tell God that the challenge has become too strong for you and you have come to the end of your ability on that issue.
Hand over that battle to Him and you will see how easy it is for the Lord that thing which seems so difficult for you. You don't need any man of God to prompt you before you sow siege breaking seeds. Determine it by yourself, take it to God and sow it and you will see your captivity expire speedily, in Jesus’ name. No battle, no matter how strange, is too big for God, He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me: Psa. 18:16-17

Prayer/Action
* Lord, give me seed to plant that I may have bread to eat, in Jesus’ name.
* Let the dew of Heaven fall upon my seeds for abundant production, in Jesus’ name.
* I shall never withhold more than is needed, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
This month, a thousand shall fall at my left, ten thousand at my right hand, only with my eyes I shall see it, it shall not come near me, in the name of Jesus.

The Lion Slayer

Wednesday 14 December
READ: I Sam. 17:33-37
MORE LESSON: Judg. 14: 5 - 6

When David was to be launched into his glorious destiny in Israel, he had to face a giant called Goliath. Nobody gave him a chance to bring down the giant but that is because they didn't know the dealings of God in the secret place that had worked strength into this teenager. When Saul told David that he could not fight the Philistine giant because he was only a boy, he gave King Saul a response that I find particularly faith lifting. David said to Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.v34-36.
David had an unprecedented testimony, he was there in the secret place as a young boy and a lion and a bear came to attack the flock that he kept. The way the Scripture recorded it made it sound as if the lion and the bear came at the same time and this boy, without any ammunition, killed them both. In any case, even if the lion and the bear actually came at different times and he killed them without a single gun, that would have still been an outstanding feat. However if they came at the same time and he killed them both, that would be a wonder. I believe that it is possible for the lion and the bear to come at the same time and David killed them both, for with God nothing is impossible (Luke 1: 37).
It is the lions you slay when nobody watches that is the measure of your spiritual ability in God and determines the Goliaths you will be able to slay when a whole nation is watching. The Bible describes the devil as walking about as a roaring lion (I Pet. 5: 8). However, you are the slayer of the lion and the bear joined together. It is not you that should be running around that demons are pursuing you in your dream; use the power of the name of Jesus to slay them. Enough of running around to pastors for deliverance; it is time for you to be coming to tell your pastors the lions you have slain.
When David faced Goliath, he remembered that God had helped him to slay the lion and the bear before. Is there any victory that God has ever given you before? The last miracle is the key to imposing the one you need now.

Prayer/Action
* Father, by the revelation of Your Word, let every confrontation against my life bow, in Jesus’ name.
* I receive the grace not to fear any evil lion but slay them, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Today, I decree every satanic baggage that has made my journey in 2016 tough, catch fire, in the name of Jesus.

Agent of Transformation

Tuesday 13 December
READ: Eph. 5: 23 – 6: 4
MORE LESSON: Josh. 24: 15

The first institution that God made was the family. In the beginning when God created man and He found that Adam needed a help meet for him, He created the woman and that was the beginning of the institution called the family (Gen 2: 20-25). The family is very dear to the heart of God. When Jesus came to the earth, the very first miracle that was recorded that He did was at a marriage feast (John 2:1-11). It has a great implication to note that the Lord attended a wedding; it shows that the Lord has great regard and value for the home.
In the text of today, God is giving instructions as relating to the home and He compares the home with His precious Church. The institution of marriage is so esteemed by the Lord that He compares it with the Church that He shed His blood for. When we look at the situation of the home in our nations, we will realise that there is a great need to return to God's intent for us. Divorce is becoming fashionable in the society, homosexuality, same sex marriage and perversion are being advocated and men abandon their wives and go after young girls. These are onslaughts of the enemy against the home because the devil knows that if he can break the foundation of the home, the nation and the world will come crumbling down.
Incest is so rampant but families are covering it. The families involved say, ''don't let the world hear''. The wickedness in the nations is on the increase because the family and society have rejected God. God is the foundation of the home and the home is the foundation of the nation. When a home is not founded on God, His principles of godliness and righteousness, it is like building a house without a foundation. Psa. 11: 3 says, If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? We have to return to the foundation, parents need to teach their children the way of the Lord.
The healing and deliverance that any nation needs must begin from the home. If every family is what it ought to be, the nation will be what it ought to be. Do you know that even the problem of poverty and unemployment in the nation can only be dealt with at the home front? A poor nation is nothing but a nation of poor homes and so a wealthy nation will be made by wealth in the homes. When parents apply God's principles of prosperity and pass those principles of the Kingdom to their children, poverty will be eradicated from the home and subsequently from the whole nation.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to heal all Christian homes that are going through challenges, in Jesus’ name.
* Tell the Lord that your home will fulfil His purpose and plan, in Jesus’ name.
*Ask God to build homes for all eligible spinsters and bachelors in the church, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I am of the seed of Abraham, root of David and offshoot of Jesus, no man born of woman shall be able to uproot me from the land of the living in 2016 in the mighty name of Jesus