Monthly Archives: May 2019

COVENANT BREAKTHROUGH SERVICE: MAY-JUNE 2019

COVENANT BREAKTHROUGH SERVICE
YEAR 2019 THEME: Solution and mercy
Annual Scriptures: Gen.17:1-2, Ps.85:10-13, Ps.138:8);
QUARTERLY THEME and Scriptures: (Theme – My Mountains Are Moving Away), (Scripture – Ezek.36:1-8);

MONTHLY COVENANT PRAYER SESSION:
VIGIL: May 2019 – June 2019;
Time: 12 A.M to 1 A.M.;
DATE: Friday 31st May 2019 to Saturday 1st June 2019;
COVENANT THEME: Renew Your Mind And Prepare For This Greatness(Romans 12:1-2, Joshua 3:5);
Monthly (June) Scripture: 2 Kings 3:17, 1 Chronicles 15:1-9;

FAITH DECLARATION: With resolute faith, declare the following eternal words aloud: Ezekiel 36:11.

CONFESSION: Confess the following Scriptures with resounding faith that cannot be resisted nor denied: (Psalms 5):

Make open declaration of peace, comfort, undeniable breakthroughs and safety into the new moon now.

HOUR OF HEAVENLY SHOWER: pick up the Scripture below and speak gladdening words to Jehovah: Judges 5.

HYMN: A New Name


PRAY NOW:
1. O God, by the strength of your right hand, let my voice in prayer matter tonight in every realm.
2. Because of your mercy father, let my voice in prayer matter before you tonight.
3. Converters of breakthroughs to breakdowns and diverters of joy and glory in my case, tonight enter into divine imprisonment till Christ’s appearing.
4. Reversers of prayers and breakthrough moments, your end has come. O divine countenance arise against them.
5. Court rooms of darkness where my case is constantly being discussed, catch fire with your workers.
6. Who is in charge of my life’s file, O east wind of the Lord, carry them away forever.
7. What words and what accusations are plaguing me, be cancelled.
8. O God, reveal the person that is behind my bad experiences.
9. O God, expose to me the persons that are injurious to my good.
10. What next step do you want me to take in order to attain the next level of greatness. Reveal it to me O God.
11. I provoke the hand of God and His holy angels into action on my behalf tonight with my tears.
12. Restoration O God. That which I have lost and the things that are being awaited, be restored to me in this new moon.

THE SPIRIT AND THE MARK OF ERROR/MISTAKE

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 20 – Monday, 27th May, 2019
(1 Sam.13:1-14, 2 Sam.24:1-25, 1 Chron.21:1-30)
THE SPIRIT AND THE MARK OF ERROR/MISTAKE

That nothing can happen to man whether positive or negative without the influence of either of two spirits is a fact of no deniable consequence. That there are benevolent and malevolent spirits is also a fact not existing in farce.
It equally remains a fact of incontestable spiritual soundness that there are only two sources of the existence of spirits: God being the source of all benevolent spirits and satan is the sole master of all malevolent ones.

That spirits of error/mistake occasion curses and that curses birth the actions of spirits of error/mistake cannot be a spiritual misnomer. That the error/mistake caused by wicked spirits can affect a whole nation although that error was caused by just a single man is a statement which does not exist in spiritual fallacy. For every known or unknown curse not canceled will remain active eternally. Did king David cancel the curses of Shimei? (See 2 Sam.16:5-14).
That to every problem in the life of a man there is at least a spirit attached to that problem and/or responsible for that problem, is as well a statement containing no falsity. This foregoing statement (and indeed the entirety of the aforesaid) were underscored by the content of Luke’s gospel in chapter 13:10-11.

Spirits of problems and negativities are real. If they are real as the premises of this piece of writing have so far established, then the fact that there are wicked spirits responsible for human errors and mistakes is wholly true.
The deeper fact is that these spirits are not only responsible for unexplainable mistakes in the ditch of which men finds themselves. They are equally responsible for explainable ones.
Was it not the spirit of error which led king David to number the nation of Israel? Ask King David the question whether he had any reason for his census and you will be amazed that he had no answers.

The target place of the spirit of error is the human thought. Spirits of error are very versatile in influencing thoughts and imaginations. They do so in order to steer man into unscrupulous action malevolent to man’s goodness.
Spirits of error deafen the ears and hearts of man from lending credence to good instructions. That was the case of king Zedekiah in the book of prophet Jeremiah. Despite years of arduous warnings, king Zedekiah refused to heed divine instructions until destruction took hold on him.
Spirits of error set marks on men so that anywhere they go there is a recurrence of every malevolent experience. Why is it that you uttered that statement at that moment when that statement was not needed? Why is it that it was the one sent to help you that you decided to pick offence with?

That wonderful relationship you once had, why did it break down irreconcilably? Was it truly your church who offended you or it is the spirit of error in action? Think of it, why are you regretting that action of yours?
Take your mind back to your first sexual experience, was it truly out of your conscious mind’s consent? What was your immediate feeling after the experience? Gory, isn’t it? Believe me, you were plagued by either the spirit of error directly or its mark placed on you.
Ah! what great disaster this wicked spirit has caused in the lives of many innocent people. It is therefore the moment of serious cry to heaven. Do not blame your friends. Rather blame your carelessness and the spirit of error that you are in that unpleasant situation.

Spirits of error trigger actions. For example, decisions sometimes taken by men which turned out to be regretful, are functions of wicked spirits. Why are you planning to leave that job, that accommodation, that church, that friend, that wife or that husband. Your parents experienced divorce and the same trend is bedeviling your marriage now.
Have you considered it in prayer by confronting rather the spirit of error? Spirits of error can spread lies through spiritual media only so that as soon as the affected party gets to know then he will be mistakingly moved to take a wrong step.

Is everyone pleading with you over your decision and your mind remains adamant? Very likely, the spirit of error is attacking that mind. Listen to what John Patterson quipped: ‘only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t! dead men can’t’.
The ultimate desire of the spirits of error are:
(1) to put man in perpetual bondage,
(2) to inflict regretful afflictions,
(3) to stop man from reaching and fulfilling divine agenda for his life and
(4) ultimately to destroy.

IN THE END, HEAR THE EVER RESURGING TRUTH: THE MORE AND MORE THAT YOU CONTAIN, AND HAVE LESS AND LESS OF GOD, THE LEAST ORDINARY YOU WILL END UP. AND AT LAST THE STORY WILL BE NON-ACHIEVEMENT, WASTED LIFE WHICH IS A FUNCTION OF WASTED TIME AND WASTED EFFORT. CHRIST’S POWER IN RIGHTEOUS APPLICATION THROUGH THE VEHICLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SOLE ANTIDOTE TO QUENCHING THE DASTARD FIRE OF THE WICKED SPIRITS OF ERROR/MISTAKE. WILL YOU RISE UP FOR THE FIGHT TODAY?

Question and Answer Section:
Question: For how many times did the Jews warn prophet Nehemiah?
Answer: ten times.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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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: The Great Physician

PRAY NOW:
Cry onto heaven today for the detachment of the spirit and mark of error/mistake by and through Christ’s power.

STRESS

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 19 – Monday, 20th May, 2019
(Mark.6:31, 2 Sam.21:15-17)
STRESS

How so brilliant any dictionary may in more modern times be in defining the word stress, if that definition is without the inclusion of the fact that stress is a contributor to sudden death, such definition is certainly attractive but lacks merit and value.

The truth is we often underrate the destructive power of stress. The tale was told of that Ghanaian woman in the city whose name I am withholding for reasons of misconstruction and stigmatization. She had taken many shifts without a moment of rest at her place of employment where she worked as a ‘care worker’.

That unfortunate day, her ‘care organisation’ was short-staffed. Yet, this woman opted to take the shift. As soon as she rose up from her seat she suddenly collapsed and was immediately taken up dead. There was no cause attributable to her death other than stress.

From our second text, the Bible informs us that David waxed faint while at the battle front. The obvious questions are: Is a battleground a playground or a place to grow weary when one’s life could be at stake? Was the art of war a new thing to David? Again, was the question of old age which made him wax faint?

None of these question could have their answers in the affirmative. It then draws the conclusion that David could not have waxed faint other than for the reason of stress. Stress of being a king. Stress of managing the kingdom. Stress of attending to countless wives. The stress of Absalom, Amnon, king Saul, etc. Of course, the ultimate concern is perhaps king David never knew how to manage stress.

The Lord understood this. This is the reason he invited His followers to get into a given environment in order to get some rest as enunciated in our first text. The further truth is that embarking on too many activities without rest, without proper diet and without some form of rejuvenation diminishes mental alertness.

Worst still, some people adopt the strategy of taking sleeping pills in order to kill off stress. Such is most dangerous; if you continue to do that you would pass out from your sleep and you may never be revived back to life. Such is the death I call a nonsense self-inflicted death.

Stress is unnatural, it can only be killed off by its opposite that is, natural things. There is a dangerous thing which occurs during moments of stress. At certain stress level, an anti-depressant hormone called cortisol changes and becomes a depressant hormone.

At this point, any disaster can occur. What then is the solution to stress? Watch what doctors do to those who complain about depression. Doctors simply prescribe anti-depressant drugs. Why? The sole reason is to boost certain hormone which will help to counter the hormones responsible for depression.

Two of these anti-depressant hormones include: serotonin and endorphins. Any one who is always in the habit of eating banana is sure to be stress free and live a good life. Why? Because bananas contain tryptophan which is another anti-depressant.

Finally, what is God’s worry should not be human worry. Therefore, reject worry and rather pray. Eat good food and indeed such food that is well-balanced. Develop the habit of often smiling, happy and dandy. As I have noted somewhere, there are no better drugs than good food and good laughter.

My dear brother, you are the admin in your office. You are the same person sorting out the files of hundreds of people. You are also at top gear in the distribution of letters to several clients, not excluding members of staff too. The writing of the report is also done by you. Yet, you are the specialist in micro-waiving people’s food for them.

Hmmm! do you have time to pray in the office? Do you have your tea-break as at when due? Do you go on your lunch break regularly? Have you ever developed the habit of taking 15 minutes’ nap during your lunch break hour?

Ah! no wonder, your brilliant brain is not as sharp as it used to be! No wonder, you are not as handsome as you used to be! You now look like an old grandpa!. Please come of that thing my brother. Learn from the elementary knowledge of division of labour.

Dress happily to your taste and delight; it contributes to reducing stress. Think about sweet things in your heart. Imagine travels and picnics with your future wife and children. Be romantically holy in your thoughts.

Mrs. Stress woman. How is your marriage? Are you still in the habit of doing things the same way since you married? Can’t you develop new ways of romancing your husband. So, you are now old and groggy that you cannot communicate with your husband as you did in courtship days? Please bring reminiscing moments of your courtship back .

Avoid fizzy drinks all the time; they contribute little to you. Avoid fatty foods; embrace vegetables and fruits much more. Learn the habit of sprinkling properly washed fresh vegetables on your plates of rice meal.

Take out time to combine well-iced malt drinks with milk for an afternoon drink. Combine the liquid of well-squeezed ugu vegetables with milk and malt drink. They provide into your system such fresher red blood than any drug can.

IN THE END, “UNSTRESS” YOUR STRESS BY BEING HAPPY IRRESPECTIVE OF THE STORM. YOUR THOUGHT IS THE ANSWER AND THE PILLAR TO THIS SUCCESS. LET GOD AND LET GO OF THINGS YOU CANNOT HANDLE.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: What are the things or the people that stress you out? How can you intelligently deal with them?
Answer:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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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: Murmur Not
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, take over my worries.
2. The issues that get me worried, I say bye bye to you today.
3. O God, give me a heart that can relax in you.
4. Pray (the entire church) for the unmarried and troubled Christian homes.

SATAN SUCCEEDS THROUGH NO OTHER MEDIUM EXCEPT THROUGH THAT WEAK PART OF MAN’S FLESH

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 18 – Monday, 13th May, 2019
(Judges.14:16-18, 16:6-17, 28, Psalm 39:1)
SATAN SUCCEEDS THROUGH NO OTHER MEDIUM EXCEPT THROUGH THAT WEAK PART OF MAN’S FLESH

Ever wonder why the Psalmist states in Psalm 39:1 that: ‘I said I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me’?
It is because satan has no two strategies for ensnaring man into the ditch of temptation and sin. It is simply one. That one is the advantage taking of the weak part of man’s flesh or body by satan.

Understand that satan is a psychologist and a strategist and he employs the instrumentality of psychology with effortless ease. Satan’s one and only one strategy is to study the weak part of man’s flesh. Having gained understanding of that one weak part, then he makes that weak part the straw through which he violates and defiles the man through ensnaring. Put aptly, for satan to succeed over a man, he needs the co-operation of that man’s physical body parts that are susceptible to some sort of weakness.

By the grace and the Spirit of the Lord, the Apostle John understood this mystery too well. In his spiritual thesis to mankind, Apostle John itemised two body parts in his first Epistle in chapter 2:16 which satan employs the most having understood that they are the two parts of the human body most vulnerable to his schemes.

Unfortunately, many of us do not give these two parts of our body the spiritual attention they deserve. Understand that every physical body parts of man require the touch of most fervent prayers in order not to answer satan’s call. Was it not when Eve ‘saw’ the fruit that she then caved-in to satan’s desire?

Seen in that context, see Apostle John’s revelatory thesis also. The two parts identified by Apostle John include:
(1) ‘the lust of the flesh’ (man’s heart and the things that go on in there);
(2) ‘the lust of the eyes’ (the eyes of man and the things that go on in there); and
(3) ‘the pride of life’ (man’s heart and the things that go on in there).

Understand that from the first two texts of this edition certain facts are clearly deducible from Samson’s account and experience. These facts are stated as follows:
(1) That sexual immorality is so vile and it is a sin seriously abhorred by God yet in Samson’s situation, it was not sexual sin which sold him into captivity, slavery and eventual destruction.
(2) That indeed it was unacceptable for an Israelite to marry from other nations in Samson’s day. And by so doing, Samson violated God’s commandment and thus he committed the sin of divine disobedience. Yet it was not the sin of disobedience which sold Samson into satanic captivity, slavery, servitude and eventual destruction.
(3) That it was Samson’s weak body parts which sold Samson into captivity, slavery, servitude and eventual destruction in the Philistine prison.
(4) That the two weak body parts in question are: first is Samson’s heart which couldn’t stand in the face of much pressure and the same heart of Samson which couldn’t contain man’s pressure orchestrated by satan. Second weak body part was Samson’s mouth which couldn’t be restrained from cheaply flowing out most sensitive spiritual information.
(5) That if a man can judge the content of what flows out from his mouth before such contents are expressed, such a man will attain success with ease and be safe from many troubles.
(6) That a mouth and tongue which journeys ahead of a deeply thinking heart and an intelligent, bright head is the mouth and the tongue of a fool and the most unintelligent.
(7) That Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya is far from being wrong in his very terse message that: ‘a man’s mouth is the tool of his deliverance, and at the same time, it is the tool of his destruction’.
(8) Get this fact clear that no sexually immoral person is actually sexually lose because of the misuse of that person’s sex organs. Rather, such a person is sexually lose because of that person’s inability to contain and control the things that go on in that person’s heart.

Did not the wisest king that has ever lived inform us that: ‘guard your heart with all diligence. For out of it are the issues of life’? Give it a serious thought for some moments; do you think there is any temptation you have fallen into which did not involve obviously or unobviously your human body part or parts?

The temptation to steal and the eventual sin of stealing involves the heart contemplating the sin, the eyes which are allured into the commission of the sin and the hands and sometimes the mouth which carries out the commission and the instruction.
Questions may arise on the subject of this edition of The Message Now especially with certain things which do not involve some sort of physicality like the sin of fear. An example is Job.
Many Christians contend that Job committed no sin. Understand that the prophet Job did commit sin. It was the sin of fear. Fear is sinful and will often produce torment. Before the tragedies of Job began, Job first committed the sin of fear in his heart (Job.3:25).
Listen to me dear brother, dear sister! Was there any time you feared you might marry late? That fear is sin. You have got to repent of it today. Why? Because fear is not of faith. And whatever is not of faith is not of God. Understand that fear will always produce the unknown.
I feared that I might not be married perhaps because of my visual handicap. That fear kept me in the waiting loo until a month before I turned 39 years of age. In the name of the Lord Jesus, such shan’t be the lot of any reader of this edition.

What is your unexpressed thought and uttered statement about your next meal, the next accommodation money, your children school fees and even your sleep tonight? Please, dear brother and dear sister: choose the path of faith from today. Stop taking thought of tomorrow only pray about them. The Lord who knows about tomorrow will handle tomorrow.
Understand that everything you will ever need was first created before you were. This, Samson failed to understand. For if Samson understood that everything he will ever need was first created before he was, then in Judges chapter 16:28, he would have used that body part of his to pray for his restoration/redemption and not his destruction with the Philistines.
Instead, having lost his two eyes, Samson thought in his heart that all to life was already over. His heart therefore concluded that what was left of life was suicide and his swift mouth helped him to convey that message into reality.

Samson forgot that the Holy Scripture says that every man will have whatever he says. If every man will have whatever he says, couldn’t Samson have used his mouth to request for the restoration of his two eyes.
Didn’t Samson know that for every created body part by God on earth, there is a spare part of that body part in heaven? And by simple request, there would have been a dispatch of that body part from heaven for safe delivery on earth?

But alas! I remember that I must bring this to your consciousness. That the Bible warns us to ‘mortify (destroy) the works (deeds) of the flesh. The works and deeds of the flesh are displayed by those weak parts of the flesh. When we destroy their deeds, then those body parts will not respond to satanic desires.
Note that the heart is the place where the root of sin is inhabited. It is therefore the same place where the opposite of sin should dwell if the flesh and all its deeds will be totally mortified.
Thus I admonish everyone to sow the seed of the word of God richly in that part of the body called heart (1 John 3:9, Col.3:16). If this can be effectively and continually done, success is guaranteed; speedy answers to prayers is assured; and the top position in all of our pursuits will not be denied.

IN THE END, WHERE EVERY MAN WILL BE IN THE CLASSROOM OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE OR STRUGGLING BETWEEN BOTH IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS, TWENTY YEARS AND MORE IS A FUNCTION OF US AND OUR CONSTITUENT BODY PARTS. THE QUESTION FOR DEEP CONSIDERATION IS THIS: WHEN EVERY OTHER MAN WILL GET TO THE TOP, WILL YOU ALSO BE THERE?

Question and Answer Section:
Question: Consider this dear Sir and Madam, what is/are your weak body part(s)?
Answer!!!!!!!!!

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: All To Jesus I Surrender All
PRAY NOW:
I mortify my flesh and by the power of the death and resurrection of Christ, all my body parts be alive to divine strength and righteousness henceforth.
I reverse all negative thoughts against my good and goodness.
All negative words that I have spoken against myself and others against me, let destruction from the Lord come against them now.
O God, every falsehood spoken against Express Image, its workers, members and its goodness, be canceled now and forever, in Jesus name.
My prayers shall no longer be reversed no matter what.

THE MYSTERY OF THE LARGENESS OF OBED-ODOM AND THE LEANNESS OF ABINADAB

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 17 – Monday, 6th May, 2019
(1 Chron.13:1-14 and 1 Sam.7:1-4)
THE MYSTERY OF THE LARGENESS OF OBED-ODOM AND THE LEANNESS OF ABINADAB

The Holy Bible informs us in the Epistle of Apostle and Saint Paul to the Romans in chapter 15 and in verse 4 that ‘all things written aforetime are for our learning’. Learning in this context imports two notions.
First is the notion of gaining knowledge. Second is the notion of applying any knowledge gained to personal and extended uses. The combination of these two notions is what makes learning an instrument of immense power producing outstanding results.

Where therefore knowledge is gained only but not applied, the result is merely dormancy and powerlessness. Learning paves the way for knowledge, Knowledge in turn illuminates the path for wisdom and understanding.
And through understanding vision is gained and vision is made clearer. The question is how does this analysis run in tandem with the topic of this edition. When the Holy Bible tells stories, it tells true accounts which teaches knowledge.
God, the author of the Holy Bible expects his students and subjects (that is the sons of men) to study that knowledge (2 Tim.2:15). But not only to study knowledge but equally to ‘rightly divide’ that knowledge.

The process of rightly dividing knowledge is the functional process of unravelling the knowledge; that in itself is application (Prov.25:2). More than this, The process of rightly dividing the knowledge of the Holy Bible makes us come to light with wisdom and understanding.

By rightly dividing knowledge therefore, the intellect is illuminated with a given vision to run with. The two texts of this edition tell us about two different men with the same divine encounters but with different results. Without much ado, their encounters spill out deep mystery and surging questions.

In the main, divine facts on the two encounters inform us that the Ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-Odom for three months. For Abinadab, the Ark was resident in his home for twenty years. Indeed, for Abinadab, his son, Eleazar was consecrated as a priest to oversee the Ark.

Within the space of three months, the Ark had tremendous positive impacts on Obed-Odom , his finances and of course (without question) his overall family. For Abinadab (despite his son’s consecration) the Ark of the Lord did not record a single positive impact for twenty solid years.

What could be the reason for this somewhat differential treatment. Understand dearly beloved that God is not partial and He does not have favourites. But certain mysteries are being taught to us by God in the experiences of these two men for our learning.

Some of these mysteries include the divine facts that:
1.The state of any man’s heart will determine whether that man is an Ark of the Lord, or that man’s heart is a carrier of the Ark of the Lord or that man’s heart is not any of the two.
2.The state of any man’s heart will determine how far his/her prayers and offerings will matter before God.
Prayer is very delicate. If the heart of the one being prayed for is not right with the one offering the prayer, no matter how anointed that prayer is, the likelihood of a swift and a positive response can be quite rare and slow.
If your Ark (church) does not change you, does not add value to your life and does not reform or transform you in any way and such Ark (or church) does not point you in the direction of heaven, then change that Ark (or church).
If your Ark(church) does not change you but God is in that Ark, then it is you who needs to change yourself.
If God is inside your Ark (church) and you experience no change and then you choose to go into another Ark (church), be sure that you will end up worse than the previous Ark. Why? Because you are simply running from your shadow.
A man may be so close to the Ark (or be the prophet’s) right-hand man yet he may never benefit from the booties being made available by the Ark (or his prophet). Why?
He who does not know how to petition and live under the covering of his/her Ark (or God-given prophet) will end up as a Gehazi or Judas who served but earned nothing in the end.

Don’t forget that it was Jehu who in the end inherited Gehazi’s blessings. And it was Matthias who inherited Judas’ Bishoprick office (Acts.1:26)
Miracles are a function of faith and divine mercy. But understand that mercy trumps in the relationship between the two. For faith did not beget mercy. No. Rather, mercy produced faith in us. For while we had no faith and indeed was not yet come into and under the common wealth of Israel, mercy did marvellous things for us. In the same connection, Obed-Odom’s change of situation was by no means an accident. It was a function of divine mercy; the divine mercy which Abinadab could not obtain. But thank God for what the Lord has done which now paves the way to the throne-room of mercy (Heb.4:16).

If one never takes delight in showing mercy and doing things that attract mercy, Oh! such a person should really not expect mercy. For mercy reproduces mercy.
In the spirit realm, nothing can ever happen by mistake. It was not a divine mistake that the Ark went into the house of Obed-Odom and did the astounding and the outstanding. It was equally not an occasion of error that the same Ark found it way into the house of Abinadab and produced no effect. I prophesy upon the reader of this edition that every water of mercy that has dried off from your life shall resume its gushing flow again, in Jesus name. I prophesy again, you shall be anointed this month with fresh oil of gladness. And in the name of the Lord, this week, fresh dew of heaven shall fall upon you.

Sin and the Ark in one personalty is like a perfume bottle dispensing both stench and scenty smell at the same time. The two cannot be called fragrance but abomination.

What is your life dispensing? Partly stench and partly scent? Driving God away with the stench and drawing Him back with some sort of righteous tendencies? That is lukewarmness. Such cannot just work (Rev.3:14-16).

Many men’s discerning abilities have been long stolen by the enemy. This is the reason many do not sense the presence of their angels or recognize the moments of their divine visitation.

Think about Obed-Odom for a moment. This man had information that the Ark of the Lord had just killed Uzzah. Yet without protest, he welcomed the Ark into his house.

Was it because it was a commandment from the king? Absolutely not. Something else was going on in his mind. Afterall, he had a right to protest even against the king.

It is a mystery but equally true that it is possible for a man to have dwelling with the Almighty yet he does not recognize God. God is thus a stranger to such a man. Likewise, it is possible for a man to know God but God does not know him. These are matters of spiritual attitude, recognition and right positioning.

But there is yet more in the somewhat differential results got between Obed-Odom and Abinadab. What distinguished Obed-Odom and Abinadab was the lowly poor spirit of willing stewardship.

Consider the percentage ratio of three months to twenty years. Is there a point of reconciliation? Remember Hebrews 12:15-16. Failing the grace of God is not without consequences.
The grace of God will always be available to every man. This means that God will never fail to make grace available. But is it all men who make the best out of grace? Do not fail grace but rather seek it and let it flow in you and through you.

IN THE END, BEING LEAN IN ALL THINGS INCLUDING OUR FINANCES IS A FUNCTION OF THE LEANNESS OF OUR HANDS, HEART AND TONGUE BEFORE GOD AND TOWARDS MAN. YOUR LARGENESS THEREFORE IS A FUNCTION OF A LARGE HEART OF RIGHT DOINGS WITH AN EXPECTATION OF DIVINE VISITATION VERY SOON. FOR EXPECTATION BEGETS MANIFESTATION.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: Who are the two sons of Moses?
Answer: Gershon and Eleazar.

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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: The Old Rugged Cross
PRAY NOW:
1. Rededicate your life afresh to God.
2. O God, sharpen my spiritual eyes and discerning mind.
3. Mighty God, make me know the time of my divine visitation.
4. O waters of mercy and O dew of heaven flow upon me afresh.
5. I shall not be a problem to my Ark and O God, let not my Ark be a problem to me.