Go Forward, not Back and Forth

Text: Acts 7:30-36
More Lessons: Exo.7:3-5
Bible Reading in One Year: 1 Kings 8-10

My understanding of today's text is based on the New Living Translation (NLT), And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years Acts 7:36. What a tragedy! The people moved back and forth in the wilderness, which explains why a journey that should take eleven days took forty years (Ex.14:15). Even then they did not make it to Canaan, except Joshua and Caleb, all because they did not believe or obey His Word in the wilderness.

Today, I rebuke every work of sin that can make you go back and forth in destiny. Indeed, it is time to stop retrogressing in your life's journey. I was troubled when I read Acts 7:36 and I prayed that stagnancy will not prevail over my life ever. And I pray for you, no more one step forward and three steps backward, in Jesus’ mighty name.

Now pray:
1. I shall not perish with the wicked in life.
2. I shall not die unfulfilled, I shall make it to Canaan.
3. The forces of backwardness and stagnancy shall not accompany me on my life journey.
4. I shall ever move forward and make progress.
5. I shall not live a life of disobedience which could bring God's wrath upon my life.

How do you avoid going back and forth?
1. Believe every Word God gives to you without doubt.
2. Let your obedience to the Word be prompt and total.
3. Do not listen to or company with anyone who tells you that God's Word cannot come to pass in your life.
4. Get rid of sin, lust and uncleanness in your life.
5. Develop the habit of listening attentively to God for His Word for you.

From today, you will go forward, steadily and consistently. Your pathway in life will shine more and more and you will not diminish, But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day Prov.4:18.

Prayer/Action
Using Ex.15:14 to pray: make a list of things that you have not been satisfied with, their level of progress and command them to begin to move forward from today. Also use Josh.1:2-3; Job 8:7; Psa.84:7.

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My God is not Poor II

Text:Psa. 105: 37
More Lessons: Deut. 8: 7-10
Bible Reading in One Year: 1Kings 5-7

But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day: Deut 8:18. God gives ideas to enable you make money but poverty mentality takes away from you the power to push. The ability to raise ideas to make money will only come when you believe that you can make it. You break the siege of poverty first by breaking the imagination that you are made to be poor. Some believers think that if things are too easy then you are not doing well spiritually, and that is why Satan is not challenging you. I want to tell you that you can have a problem-free life.

The right mentality says there is money everywhere. Remove the mentality that a place is dry because it makes poverty ride over you. You have to delete the orientation, 'there is no money' from your mind and replace it with the mentality that there is money. When there is a need or a project the positive mentality believes that by all means the money will come. Have you ever seen the son of a president walking about complaining that he doesn't have money? Even if he might not have money in his pocket he is rich because environment. He has more than enough in his environment. When you understand the law of the environment, you can make things work in your favour. God is your environment.

Money is a spirit that you only rule over when you believe that you are in charge. Your certificate is not your source, God is your source. Money mentality does not make you limit yourself to your certificate as your source of living. In our text, over 3 million Hebrews were coming out of Egypt and none of them was feeble physically, financially and spiritually. God brought them out with silver and gold. These Israelites did not have any market in the wilderness yet for forty years they lived in wealth. On one occasion, when Moses asked an offering of them he had to beg them to stop bringing (Ex 35: 4-10, 36: 3-7).Jesus said, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest: Matt. 11:28. This also includes financial rest to those who labour in their finances and are not getting results. He fed five thousand with two small fishes and five loaves of bread. He brought out money from the mouth of a fish when there was a need. He is able to prosper you and supply all your financial needs.

Prayer/Action
* Father, open me up to ideas that will launch me into financial breakthrough
* Father, I posses the right mentality and declare that I am in charge as I step into financial rest in Jesus’s name.
* I declare and confess that God alone is my source, therefore I cannot run out of resources.

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My God is not Poor I

Text: Heb. 2:1-8
More Lessons: Isa. 60: 8-16
Bible Reading in One Year: 1 Kings 1-4

A major evil confronting the church today is the siege of poverty among the children of God because they are ignorant of what the Bible teaches concerning prosperity. Disaster comes when people do not understand certain principles and they don't care to seek knowledge in those areas. There is an error we find in the church today which is the teaching that making money is a sin. We should be knowledgeable about what makes some people rich and others poor. Poverty is not merely an economic crisis, it is a spiritual condition. People always like to attribute their poverty to limitations around them like family and educational background, unemployment in the nation, lack of connection and so on. This is a wrong belief. The first major cause of poverty is spiritual emptiness. This is why Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor...: Luke 4: 18.

Poverty is also a matter of the mindset of a person. Generally, bad economy can cause poverty but the individual root cause is spiritual emptiness and the wrong mindset. There are some people who do not know God and are rich because they have the right mindset towards money. When a person has the wrong mindset he will be poor because the way a man thinks determines whether he will end up rich or poor. While the first cause of poverty is spiritual emptiness the second is wrong mindset.

There are unscriptural words and inspirations that pre-programme a mind for poverty. When a person carries a mentality that he is poor because no one has ever been rich in his family; no matter what you put in such a hand, he cannot prosper. If you think poverty, you will continue to be poor. The Bible says as a man thinketh in his heart so he is: Prov 23:7. No matter how much gets into the hands of some people, it soon finishes because they think lack. Even when others have the money they still feel poor. The first thing you must do if you want to break free from poverty is to destroy that thing that tells you that you are poor. Don't walk by sight, you are not poor. To prosper you must discard the thinking that if you didn't start well you cannot end well.

Therefore to become prosperous is foremost to give up the thought that you are meant to be poor. Our text says the gold and the silver belong to God. Change the mentality that it is only unbelievers or people who steal money that can be rich. Think and always confess riches and it will come your way in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Declare that you are not poor
* Pray against every form of spiritual emptiness in your life
* I destroy every spiritual cankerworm in my life in the mighty name of Jesus.

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Learn today, earn Tomorrow

Text: Prov 20: 15
More Lessons: Luke 2: 42-49
Bible Reading in One Year: John 18-21

One of the major preparations a man can make for advancement in destiny is in the place of learning. A man who wants to advance, needs a preparation and that preparation is education. In Luke 2:42-49 we read about Jesus in the early stage of His life sitting amongst doctors of law, asking and answering questions. Daniel also was a man great in the place of learning. In Babylon they needed young men who were without blemish, well favoured, skillful in wisdom, cunning in knowledge and understanding science . You may think that with such qualities, he would have started off straight away but they were to come and be taught the learning and tongue of the Chaldeans. (Dan 1: 4)

Many people want to become great but they want their greatness to begin from the roof. You can't climb a tree from the roof. To be great, there must be a period of sitting to learn. If you want to lead, learn to read. Readers are leaders. When you read, you find out how to do it and how not to do it. Learning is by reading and studying first the Bible and then books on varieties of subjects. Believers should know that they need to be learned both in physical and spiritual things. How much you learn today will determine your earnings tomorrow. Anybody who wants to learn must be humble and teachable at heart; he must be observant and willing to ask questions.

Don't just sit down all through a meeting; ask questions on what you don't understand. Also be observant. The attitude of being observant is one thing that is missing in many Christians. Anywhere I go, I observe if there is something to learn there. I ask myself, 'Is there something they do here better than the way I used to do it?' Don't just listen to messages, observe how they are preached; don't just read books, observe how they are written. So that when it is your turn, you can do better. Observe!

Humility is a price that must be paid to learn. Do more of listening than speaking. Some sit with their pastor and go off bragging, instead of them to sit down and say, 'please, what do you see to this?' and let their pastor do the talking. Anybody who will learn must be somebody who can listen. Do more of listening than talking.

Other aspects of a heart that will learn include denying oneself of some pleasures in order to learn. Buying materials that will aid learning and improve your life instead of spending money on irrelevancies.

I encourage you to put on these virtues and start learning in preparation for the advancement that God has proposed for you right before the foundation of the earth.

Prayer/Action
* Ask the Word to quicken your ears to hear, your eyes to see and mind to learn.
* Pray that God will give you a humble heart to learn.
* Lord, help me to be a good leader by cultivating a reading lifestyle.

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