COVENANT BREAKTHROUGH SERVICE:FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019

COVENANT BREAKTHROUGH SERVICE
YEAR 2019 THEME: Solution and mercy
Annual Scriptures: Gen.17:1-2, Psalm 85:10-13, Psalm 138:8);
QUARTERLY THEME and Scriptures:
(Theme – Answered), (Scripture — Psalm 21:1-2);

MONTHLY COVENANT PRAYER SESSION:
VIGIL: February 2019 – March 2019;
Time: 12 A.M to 1 A.M.;
DATE: Thursday 28th February 2019 to Friday 1st March 2019;
COVENANT THEME: Sunshine At Midnight;
Monthly (March) Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-22;

FAITH DECLARATION: With resolute faith, declare the following eternal words aloud: Isaiah 60.

CONFESSION: Confess the following Scriptures with resounding faith that cannot be resisted nor denied: (Psalms 114, 123 and 126):

“O Spirit of the Living God, praise, honour, alleluia and majesty to you for divine kindness and guidance. As thou has given power to the sun to rule (in Gen.1:16), so I decree that the sun in all its fullness and power break up at midnight of entry into the moon of March and scatter every darkness that have hitherto limited and prevented the rising of the light of my greatness. O Sun of Righteousness, arise tonight at midnight and dispel every darkness preventing my announcement. Let the power invested in sun by Jehovah shatter the evil veil covering me from being seen by my divine helpers. O Spirit of revelation, deep secrets of the kingdom and for humanity remains with you. Therefore, reveal tonight and through the night those secrets of the powers that hold me bound and cause my release by your effort and power alone. Holy Spirit, let the star of my marriage, happiness, business, home, career, ministry, wealth and children spring up and shine. O the forces claiming ownership of my life other than God, collide against the power of God invested in the sun. By the power invested by Jehovah in the sun, I break out of obscurity and I break forth into greatness. O power of God in the sun pull out my husband, wife, children, happiness, wealth, career and ministry from the grip of darkness and connected them to the divine source of the Holy Spirit for me. This quarter shall not pass by until my change come, Amen and Amen.”

HOUR OF HEAVENLY SHOWER: pick up the following Scriptures and speak gladdening words to Jehovah: Psalms 129, 145 and 149.

HYMN: Blessed Assurance

PRAY NOW:
1. As it did happen to the ‘woman’ in Rev.12:1, O God, shield me with the power of the sun as I begin to pray now.
2. O Sun of Righteousness, arise now upon my destiny and let my change begin from henceforth.
3. O power of God in the sun, arise and scatter every power and force that renews its wickedness against month in month out.
4. Every covenant made with blood of any animal with my blood in order to cause me suffering, tears and delay, be nullified now by the blood of Jesus.
5. Who gave me evil money and since then I have labouring with lack and losses, let the blood of Jesus and the power of God in the sun nullify that evil and release my finances into proper shape again.
6. My glory and blessings in the hands of the wicked forces of my father’s house, I retrieve you all by God’s force and divine fire.
7. Where has my destiny been tied down, O power of God in the sun, turn into divine fire and divine thunder and release my destiny now.
8. What forces are feeding me with evil food in the dream in order to cause me retrogression, die tonight.
9. Who is coming or already waiting to reverse my prayers of tonight, die now.
10. Who am I showing true faithfulness to but who is an enemy, after the order of Psalm 7:3-5, so let it be unto them and let them be exposed.
11. O Sun of Righteousness, release to me the good news of the moon of March.
12. O God, one idea and one person that will multiply my greatness to a thousand times greater, please give to me and connect me to in this month and year.
13. In the name of Jesus, I reject the pains coming to my nation and people because of the wicked policies of the government of the day soon to come.
14. When great fire shall break out in Lagos state this year, I and my loved ones shall not be casualties.
15. O God, let the wicked themselves have full taste of their wickedness that they may cease to make wicked covenant in order to attain political ambitions.
16. O God, save the Redeemed Christian Church of God from impending disaster.
17. Lord, by your blood, your mercy and your power invested in the sun, I hand over my life and destiny in the month of March 2019 unto you.
18. O great God, let the flood of accidents, sacking and tragedies turn away from my life, home and loved ones later after now in this year.

THE REASON FOR HEROD’S PURSUIT AFTER BETHLEHEM’S BABY IS THE SAME REASON FOR SATAN’S PURSUIT AFTER YOU (Part 2)

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 7 – Monday, 25th February, 2019
(Eccl.3:16, Matt.2:1-18)
THE REASON FOR HEROD’S PURSUIT AFTER BETHLEHEM’S BABY IS THE SAME REASON FOR SATAN’S PURSUIT AFTER YOU
(Part 2)

Whether the church and its constituent members have met the mandate given by the Lord in John Chapter 21:15-17 is a question for the honest to answer. The unchallengeable logical truth is this: if love is synonymous with the spirit of the Living God, then chaos, envy and hatred represent clearly satan in that other given form.

If these opposites of love represent satan, and these opposites reign in the stead of love in the church, then there is no difference between the church and the wild world governed by satan.
Just take a look at the lamentation of the Preacher in Eccl.3:16: ‘And Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgement, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there’.
By what other nomenclature shall we describe a court room? Can it not be better referred to as ‘the place of judgement’? Surely, a reference to the court room as the temple of justice cannot be termed a misnomer. But how sad it is when a court room becomes the chamber of wickedness. Then the reverse side of justice becomes prevalent.

OH! how much aching to the heart is the fact that the church is not left out in this unsavoury quagmire. Is the church not a place of righteousness? And yet, iniquity thrives there?
What is a church? Whether we configure all sorts of political, philosophical and academic definitions about this connundron or not, the fact remains that certain definitions are unchallengeable.
One of such unchallengeable definitional stance is the fact that a church is a building, inistitution, organization, etc, dispensing the truth of the gospel of Christ with love, through love and in love.
A church can also be defined as the entire body of Christ. Equally, a church is an individual Christian washed by the blood of the Lamb and living through the purity of that blood by the exemplary life of the Master.

In all of these definitional stances, one word and figure is central. This is the centrality of Christ. And indeed, this is where the actual big trouble is. Big trouble because, were Christ to be out of the equation, there would certainly have been no need for this discourse.
The inclusion and centrality of Christ means that the individual church or the organizational church must be like Christ in all its entirety. Were this to be the position of things, the world and its ideological principles will not be prevalent. Were this to be the position of things, the strength of the pursuer of Bethlehem’s Baby would have been long dashed. Why?
The church is now separated from Christ. The pursuer of Bethlehem’s Baby thrives where division is the order of the day. And where this pursuer is allowed to thrive, attacks on the church is and will continue to remain severe.

Love is a shield. Love is a ‘sheltering tree’. There is no sure spiritual security as love (1 Cor.13:1-13). The security wall of love is an inpenetrable one. Where the cord of love is singularly intact, attacks become mere fables (Jn.13, 1 Pet.3:13).
The church is constantly assaulted because it has failed in love. The church prays and hardly gets prayers answered because the church has failed in love. The church exercises large amount of faith but cannot move the smallest mountain because it has failed in love.
Do not we understand what that Man of God said in his message titled, ‘the power of His word’ that ‘mountains that cannot be moved by faith can only be moved by love’? Isn’t the Man of God so correct? For the Lord said, ‘and when ye stand praying, forgive. This is so that your father in heaven may forgive your trespasses’ (see Mark.11:25).

Even with the greatest faith, can prayer be answered while unforgiveness is dominating the heart? Can unforgiveness be taken away by faith? No! only love in the heart can exterminate the bitterness of unforgiveness. So then, we understand that most problems remain intact because love of the other man and the love of God is missing. Love therefore is a major criterion for answers to prayers and for effecting change.
So sad, the church which should dictate the affairs of things on earth, is now a-no force to reckon with because the church has missed its mission and purpose.

I challenge any one who cares to listen to challenge me in the otherwise that one thing responsible for the great growth of the two largest Christian congregations on earth today (i.e., the Catholic Faith and the Redeemed Christian Church of God) is not the prevalence of love in the heart of the majority members for one another.

What about you O Express Image Glory Ministries? How much love do you have for God and the things of God? To what extent do you love your Christian brother? There is no greater fulfiler of destiny than passionate love for that destiny. Express Image Glory Ministries is a Commission and an aspect of Christ’s destiny. What is your commitment to it?
Love is the greatest transformer effecting positive change. How much of love do you have in you to effect change in another or in the church of God. When we fail to fulfil love to the work of Christ thereby fulfilling the Godly ideology of Christ, do you think your own personal destiny will be fulfilled?
Or have you been contributing to the work of Christ here on earth but without impact and result? Then watch the heart with which you are carrying out that assignment for Christ. Is it a rude, arrogant and reluctant heart? Change it today.

IN THE END, REMEMBER LUKE 13:6-10. GOD WILL NOT BE PATIENT WAITING FOR YOU TO CHANGE INDEFINITELY. REMEMBER ALSO ROMANS 15:1. WITHOUT LOVE FOR GOD AND FOR FELLOW MAN, THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF FULFILLING YOUR DIVINE MANDATE IS INEVITABLE.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: Who was Tabitha (Dorcas) in the Bible?
Answer: She was one given to love and she impacted her generation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.
Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus by paying your hard-earned money to only this one account and no other: Express Image Glory Ministry, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Account number – 0020881228.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to the Administrator of this Ministry, the Assistive Technology Adviser or the Resident Pastor. The Superintendent Minister and Pastor of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: Just As I Am Without One Plea
PRAY NOW:
1. Christ Jesus, I ask for fresh renewal to my soul today, be the King over my life and let me truly be yours in deed and in truth.
2. O style and practice of the world filtered into my soul, be flushed out by the blood of Jesus.
3. O God, empty me of self and all inordinate passions of the world.
4. I shall not serve but control money and I shall serve God and humanity with it.
5. (Proverbs.23:5), O spirit called money, develop wings, fly to me and sojourn with me.
6. O God, rid the Body of Christ off all the fashions and patterns of the world and make us become like Christ.
7. O God, give succour to all Christians in every part of the globe where affliction is the order of the day because of the profession of their faith.
8. Take one person and pray for that one person through out this week including one day of fasting for that person.

If you don’t vote for a Christian, the unbeliever will win and rule over you. Therefore, please vote for TIMI EMMANUEL OLORUNSAYE OF THE ADC PARTY FOR FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – IFAKO-IJAYE CONSTITUENCY. He is the husband of one of our sisters.

WHO TOUCHED ME?

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol 4 No 7 – Monday 18th February, 2019
Matthew 9:20-21, 1st Kings 8:63-66.
WHO TOUCHED ME?

Man will continue to search for different methods of ensuring that his purpose of living is fulfilled. Many will device different strategies (either good or bad) of making life worth living. However, the choice of selecting ever lasting solution among various options is up to man.

The woman with the issue of blood for twelve years needed a touch for miracle, I pondered over how she has been living before she met the Messiah, a little hold on the hem of The Healer’s garment made her whole, the touch or contact was physical, what actually completed her victory was a spiritual transaction of FAITH. In our contemporary society, you and I have not seen Jesus with our eyes with the view to touching Him, but you can touch Him through your prayer, effectively backed up with faith.

King Solomon wisely nudged God with unusual sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. How did he slaughter these animals? How many days, coupled with mammoth congregation? For a man to offer such sacrifice of different offerings, it means he wanted what he could not achieve alone; what will announce him and his glory to the world. No wonder there hasn’t been a man as wise as Solomon till now.
Read the ultimate outcome of Solomon’s sacrifice “And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and the supplication before me; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually”. 1 Kings 9:3.

Each time I read the sacrificial sacrifice of King Moab, which stated thus “And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land”. 2Kings 3:26-27.

I’m always overwhelmed how the battle turned in favour of Moab, a people that God has sold in time past to the Israelites. I concur that the heart of the Offeree(someone that offers sacrifice) and the intention are of utmost importance to God as God carries out a complete check on the heart. How could God exchange battle against His covenanted Nation, is God bias? Absolutely No. Understand that the battle was too sore for the King, he had to offer his son that would’ve reigned in his stead.

What exactly is your mission on earth or i would rather ask are you comfortable with your life? What sacrifice would you offer to God? You can touch, contact or hold Jesus In various ways which are not limited to effective prayer, quality worship and praise, sincere evangelism, sacrificial giving, good offering and quality service to God.

IN THE END, WHEN YOU TOUCH JESUS IN VARIOUS WAYS THROUGH FAITH AND HE ASKS, WHO TOUCHED ME? THAT IS AN EVIDENCE OF AN ANSWERED PRAYER.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.

Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus by paying your hard-earned money to only this one account and no other: Express Image Glory Ministry, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Account number – 0020881228.

Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to the Administrator of this Ministry, the Assistive Technology Adviser or the Resident Pastor. The Superintendent Minister and Pastor of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

Hymn
Pass me not by o gentle Saviour.

Prayer Points
1) O Lord my God, bring your promises, covenant and prophecy for me in this year into manifestation.
2) Father, as I touch you through my offering, sacrificial giving, tithe and godly service, please answer me in Jesus Name.
3)O gentle Saviour, do not pass me, Express Image Glory Ministries by, please bless and bless us indeed in Jesus Name
4) Father, you announced Solomon through answered prayer, please God answer me and announce me to the world in Jesus Name.
5)Father, protect me from every evil, known and unknown natural catastrophe associated with 2019 in Jesus Name.

Pastor Adeniyi Obajimi

THE REASON FOR HEROD’S PURSUIT AFTER BETHLEHEM’S BABY IS THE SAME REASON FOR SATAN’S PURSUIT AFTER YOU

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 6 – Monday, 11th February, 2019
(Matt.2:1-18)
THE REASON FOR HEROD’S PURSUIT AFTER BETHLEHEM’S BABY IS THE SAME REASON FOR SATAN’S PURSUIT AFTER YOU

It is nothing short of an unpardonable misnomer for any Christian to think that it will happen differently to him or her from the way in which it happened to the Captain of our salvation (John.15:18, 16:33, 1 Peter 4:12). The reason it cannot happen differently is hinged on a twofold rationale. First, it is the same spirit in the dragon which pursued after the woman in Revelation chapter 12 that was equally operating in the life of king Herod. Sadly, it is the same spirit operating till now. Understand this: the dragon having failed to overtake and afterwards destroy the woman made a decision to go after the rest of her offspring meaning Christians like you and me (Rev.12:1-9, 13-17).

The second rationale is this: the Christian and any one of a different faith belong to separate kingdoms. Being of separate kingdoms has far reaching implications. One of which is that variant spirits control the two. Being variant spirits imports the continuity of contests and wars between the two varying spirits.

The deeper implication is that the Christian and the opposite one’s faith operates on separate ideologies and are to fulfil separate agenda with one saddled with the responsibility of upstaging the other. How? I explain this further later in this edition.

In the meantime, there remains a question recurringly resonating. Is it not mind-blowing that a whole king of an entire nation was so mentally deranged and so morally derailed in and from all right senses that his sole assignment for a period of time was nothing else but to pursue after a harmless Baby born in a manger?

Was that Baby a political king willing to upturn his government? NO!!! Was this Baby a special King of some sort who had arrived with a mission to alter world order and establish an unprecedented government, thereby returning humanity to God and to the prevalence of common good to all? Undoubtedly YES!!!

For indeed, this was one of the purposes for His birth. For is it not written that: ‘and the government shall be upon His shoulders?’ Was it not equally written that: ‘of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgement and justice from that time forward, even forever?’…… (Is.9:6-7).

For the Jews (and indeed for Herod who was a Roman impostor) during that era of Christ’s earthly ministry, conceiving Christ as a King who had come to rescue the innocent Jews from the iron-grip of the Romans and One who had come to alter the world order as a political figure was not just a common expectation, it was a common expression born out of common belief (Matt.2:1-2, Jn.6:15).

Let us be very clear: Christ was not a political figure. He was certainly more than any one of that sort. Though not a political figure, He had a universal mission to alter the status quo and institute a different ideology. Common or intuitive knowledge will not challenge the fact that the process of transformation—the process of altering an existing system or ideology for the introduction of another system or ideology of novelty requires a different principle.

Oftentimes, an attempt to establish a different and clearly defined principle can be very tortuous and tumultuous. Tortuous and tumultuous because human nature and its consonant impulses strive very hard at adaptation. And adaptation is the password of any change with the goal of eventful success.

The world system at the time Christ was born was an ideological mix of oligarchy and capitalism. The authority dictates to the subjects. Proletariats were the ‘toy’ of the bourgeoisies.

In short, it was a system favourable to the rich, and slaves and the poor generally were only allowed to live and exist because of the reason of servitude. In fact, the food allowed for slaves to eat was not supposed to nourish them and cause them to flourish in body composition and aesthetical looks, it was merely for the reason of keeping them alive to work, work and work.

That global order could not be described in no better language at the time but one that was outrageously illtreative and chaotic. It was in this human uprising of despair, spasmodic, and without conscionable mercy that Christ emerged with a new ideology.

Ordinarily, systemic arrangement of the global order at the time prior to Christ’s emergence was a complex one. But Christ, not only simplified His own systemic arrangement, His ideological principle was not by any means strenuous to adapt to, it was equally unasymmetric to follow.

Instead of asymmetric imbalance promoted, permitted and allowed to permeate and pervade by the bourgeosies and the world system at the time, Christ simply struck a perfectly fair balance between the rich and the poor, the proletariats and the bourgeoisies, the authorities of the day and the subjects offering obeisance to them.

His ideology was simple, founded on a twofold principle: ‘…love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind’ and ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ (Matt.22:36-40). Ideological principles do not often exist as stand-alone. Usually, global systems augment their self-centred ideological system known as ‘order’ by establishing institutions to monitor, ensure and enforce submission. No where in human history are such institutions founded without some form of law, force and coercion. Law, force and coercion exist for the purpose of furthering global order agenda.

In fact, in more modern era, because of the reason of unconscionable sensitivity, the bar set at Westphalia in granting the doctrinal principles of non-intervention and legal equality to independence of states to states in 1648, altogether culminating into what is now known as national sovereignty, has, in more contemporary times been cynically breached by international laws all for the purpose of strengthening interests and galvanizing national leaders, territorial politicians and the powerful rich into one high class and the rest of the world in another of a defined variance.

Oh! now I remember Thrasymaccus. It was that noble man Thrasymaccus who enlightened me with his definition of law and justice in Plato’s Republic when he defined the subject as the law or the justice form set up in order to establish an advantage or fulfill the interests of the stronger. The human institution of the world global order understands that financial empowerment is key to control and governance. For is it not true that one who has six shillings under his control is lord over him who has none?

But Christ Lordship rather instituted an institution of love, equality of all men and the art and the act of seeing the next man through one’s personal pains. This means that the church as the institution founded by Christ (Matt.16:18) was so founded to teach, practice and oversee love in perfect display first by itself and of course by its constituent members.

But where is that institution, the church standing today? Are the constituent members of the church standing in the two doctrines upon which the church was instituted by Christ its founder? Is the church and its leadership not now the world exercising world global order and agenda? (TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK).

Question and Answer Section:
Question: Who put the understanding of the Scriptures into proper perspective to Appollos?
Answer: Aquila and Priscilla.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.

Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus by paying your hard-earned money to only this one account and no other: Express Image Glory Ministry, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Account number – 0020881228.

Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to the Administrator of this Ministry, the Assistive Technology Adviser or the Resident Pastor. The Superintendent Minister and Pastor of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: Just As I Am Without One Plea
PRAY NOW
:
1. Christ Jesus, I ask for fresh renewal to my soul today, be the King over my life and let me truly be yours in deed and in truth.
2. O style and practice of the world filtered into my soul, be flushed out by the blood of Jesus.
3. O God, empty me of self and all inordinate passions of the world.
I shall not serve but control money and I shall serve God and humanity with it.
4. (Proverbs.23:5), O spirit called money, develop wings, fly to me and sojourn with me.
5. O God, rid the Body of Christ off all the fashions and patterns of the world and make us become like Christ.
6. O God, give succour to all Christians in every part of the globe where affliction is the order of the day because of the profession of their faith.

If you don’t vote for a Christian, the unbeliever will win and rule over you. Therefore, please vote for TIMI EMMANUEL OLORUNSAYE OF THE ADC PARTY FOR FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – IFAKO-IJAYE CONSTITUENCY. He is the husband of one of our sisters.

DO NOT AWAIT TO SEE SIGNS AS MARK OF YOUR ANSWERED PRAYERS

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 5 – Monday, 4th February, 2019
(2 Kings 3:15-17, Habakkuk 1:5, 3:17-18)
DO NOT AWAIT TO SEE SIGNS AS MARK OF YOUR ANSWERED PRAYERS

The many experiences of life never cease to raise myriads of baffling questions. When life’s questions are posed to us for which we are able to provide answers, the end-result is always most relieving.
The perfect opposite is the turn of events when baffling questions leave without the prospect or possibility of answers. The aftermath is an end-result which leaves us in utter disgust, despondency and bewilderedness.
But was it really those baffling questions that inform the misery they leave behind? In my opinion, under a careful soul-searching consideration, I find that the questions of life which end up leaving us in disarray and bewilderedness leaves us with such egregious(outstandingly bad;shocking) pain because of our humanity.

Humanity because, no one wants to experience struggling, delay, loss, lack and/or suffering of any kind. The natural tendency of all humanity is to enjoy pleasures and have all things so rosy.
Ancient sound truth (which still holds true even through to present times( agrees with the unspurious notion that ‘life is not a bed of roses’. So when the prophet Habakkuk questions the Almighty in verses 2-4 and verses 12-17 of chapter 1, it is simply because the prophet was wholly being human.
Thank God; the Almighty is never devoid of resplendent answers to human and humanity’s question. Like the prophet Habakkuk, are questions already racing through your minds dearly beloved?

For instance, you have fasted and prayed many prayers. When then will I see at least a sign pointing in the direction of my prospective miracle? Understand dearly beloved that with God, seeing signs so as to bask in the euphoria of an impending miracle is absolutely unnecessary.
By the way, why should I celebrate on the mere fact that I have had a positive dream? Are dreams realities? It is true as I have written somewhere that one’s actions or inactions about dreams will determine their reality. However, basking in the euphoria of a mere sign like dream can be most troubling sometimes.

Agriculturists in dark Africa and indeed the world over look up in high expectation when the sky turns dark moments after their planting season. To them, dark skies is a sign of rain soon coming. True as that may often turn out, the further truth is that not every dark sky eventually dissolves into rain.
Indeed, the language and nature of faith differs exponentially from such human/agriculturists’ attitude. With God (and perfectly unlike the expecting agriculturists), winds need not blow. Rains need not fall before one’s testimony of overflowing streams of blessing begin (2 Kings 3:17).
This is why I contend that prayer and fasting are the first few steps of the rungs of the ladder leading up to the attainment of desired breakthroughs.

However, there is yet what the Bible calls patient faith.
Patient faith is a spiritual attitude: an unnatural disposition to God which informs Him that ‘even if my miracle does not come, nevertheless, I will continue to serve the Lord’. This is the spiritual attitude of the prophet Habakkuk which of course brought him to eternal reckoning and everlasting remembrance.
This spiritual attitude of the prophet Habakkuk in Habakkuk chapter 3 from verses 17-18 reads as follows:
’17 Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labour of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls–
18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation’.

When there exists no sign or prospect of a sign that there is a miracle in sight. When the circumstances of life pull in the polar direction from the reality of a miracle. Even in such gloomy season of life, the best attitude is the attitude of willful joy and gratitude. The best attitude is to live in hopeful expectation consciously realizing that it is impossible for God to fail or lie and to be fully persuaded that one’s day of joy will eventually break.

IN THE END, MAN RETAINS THE RIGHT TO QUESTION THE ALMIGHTY AND HE WILL OBTAIN ANSWERS SO LONG AS HIS QUESTIONS ARE EXERCISED IN HUMILITY AND FAITHFUL PATIENCE. BUT WHAT IF MAN BERATES AND RAISES HIS QUESTIONS TO THE ALMIGHTY WITH AN ATTITUDE WHICH INFORMS HIM THAT HE IS UNFAITHFUL AND UNKIND? UNDERSTAND THAT THE ALMIGHTY WILL YET ANSWER SUCH MAN BY MANIFESTING TO THAT MAN THE MIRACLES THAT THE MAN CRAVES FOR. BUT WITH WHAT FACE AND HEART WILL SUCH MAN APPROACH THE THRONE OF GRATITUDE AFTER THE ALMIGHTY PROVES HIMSELF FAITHFUL AS HE ALWAYS IS?

Question and Answer Section:
Question: What was the name of the wife of Joseph (the Prime Minister?)
Answer: Asenath.

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ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).


HYMN: My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less

PRAY NOW:
1. O merciful God, select me for greatness this year.
2. O God, give me an idea that will take my life to the next level.
3. Every new devil assigned against my new level of greatness, submit to God in my life.
4. Arrows of frustration, catch fire and backfire.
5. I shall have a record of celebration before this first quarter expires.
6. If you don’t vote for a Christian, the unbeliever will win. Therefore, please vote for TIMI EMMANUEL OLORUNSAYE OF THE ADC PARTY FOR FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – IFAKO-IJAYE CONSTITUENCY. He is the husband of one of our sisters.