SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW (Isaiah 66: 5-8)

 SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW (Isaiah 66: 5-8)

“Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such a thing?

Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once?

As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her son.” Isa. 66:8

CONTEMPLATION

For some time now people have been talking about the move of God in certain places and in terms of dispensation but the truth is that “...God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted in him (Act  10:34-35).” You can walk in the supernatural of God if you would seek Him with all your heart. God is willing to have one thousand Billy Grahams spread all over the world but until we prepare our heart for the assignment it will remain only a wish. People are wasting their time trying to build an empire for themselves in the name of God. Jesus said “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me”(Luke 9:23). It is a personal walk and decision that need to be considered “daily”.  These are the days many without theological training by any religious body will become a weapon in the hand of God. They will do exploit because of their hunger for the word of God they will receive divine insight into scriptures and demonstrate an undaunted faith in God that will be blessed with signs and wonders.

 “Unconventional and unusual worshippers

will become the catalyst by which the process is accelerated.

As they travail in worship, the presence of the Lord will be

released and many will be endued with power from on high.

This revival is here.” FFPW p.158.

PRACTICAL ISSUES

List five reasons why the supernatural is in short supply in many lives and places of worship.

Make a plan to renew your passion for the manifestation of the supernatural daily and keep a journal to document this spiritual journey. It will amaze you what you will record within three weeks.

Tell others about the awesomeness of our God today.

- REV. IGHO Y.

PREPARING FOR A NEW BEGINNING

PREPARING FOR A NEW BEGINNING.

TEXT:Proverbs 4:5-9 (KJV) 

⁵  Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 
⁶  Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 
⁷  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 
⁸  Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 
⁹  She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 

Life seems to be very hard for most people at the beginning of the year because they were very careless in their spending as they party to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. No month of the year should be hard for you if you open your heart to divine understanding.  Proverbs 14:33 says ^“Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.”

 A man of understanding has been given the wisdom to prioritize, so he is careful about his choices and spending’s during the Christmas season, but fools are blind to obvious realities. They spend to prove that they have arrived. Why try to outdo the “Joneses”? this is a senseless competition for which no one will be given any prize. Don’t allow your foolish pride lead you into indebtedness and embarrassment. Remember, after the celebration comes the month of January with 31 days. Your income has to be adequate to meet your need for the rest of the month. There will be bills to pay and it is very possible they would increase.

 Do not forget, ^“ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Every wise child of God will prepare very well, not only to take care of necessary needs but also to commit the rest of the year to God. A wise man will begin to prepare by setting aside some savings so that he will be able to give his first fruit from his first earnings in January of the New Year. He understands the biblical principle that if the first is consecrated then the rest is blessed. By so doing he secures his blessing for the rest of the year and the lines are made to fall in pleasant places for him. 

STAYING TRUE WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN PT. 6

STAYING TRUE WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN PT. 6

TEXT: 1 Chronicles 28:11-13 (AMP)
11 Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, its houses, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner rooms, and of the place for the [ark and its] mercy seat;
12 And the plan of all that he had in mind [by the Spirit] for the courts of the house of the Lord, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for the dedicated gifts;
13 The plan for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service in the house of the Lord; for all the vessels for service in the house of the Lord:



It is the duty of visionary leaders to provide clear instructions and every material and the enabling environment for those working under them to succeed. Not too many leaders are careful enough to make this happen and as a result of such oversight or negligence many glorious visions have suffered unnecessary setbacks.

A myopic leader is concern about himself and his relevance but a visionary leader understands that all of his labour and accomplishments can be destroyed in the hands of a novice or a carefree successor.

To be sure that Solomon does not miss the divine pattern, David went an extra mile to give him the actual plan of what he is expected to build. According to verses 11 David gave Solomon the plan of the vestibule of the temple, its houses, treasuries, upper chambers, inner rooms, and most important of all was the place for the [ark and its] mercy seat…”. Only a man with a strong love for God will be so concern to do this.
 In verse 12 it is recorded that the plan was had for the courts of the house of the Lord, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for the dedicated gifts according to Amplified was by the Spirit. This attest to the fact that he received divine instructions as touching the various plan. Only leaders with a sincere heart and an intimate love relationship with the Lord will be able to see into the heart of the Father to put their successors on the path of glory.
in Verse 13 he made available the plan for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service in the house of the Lord. This was to ensure a great degree of orderliness and for everyone to have the enabling environment to carry out his duty. There was also plan for the keep and handling of all the vessels for service in the house of the Lord. You will not expect any successor with a unique privilege like this to fail, but the truth still remains that if such individuals fail to develop a walk with God that is real and personal, divine direction will elude him.  Those who must succeed in life must be in a divine step ahead of others. God is your only guarantee for enduring success.

STAYING TRUE WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN (PT. 5)

STAYING TRUE WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN (PT. 5) 

TEXT: TEXT: 1 Chronicles 28:18-20 (AMP) 
¹⁸ For the incense altar refined gold by weight, and gold for the plan of the chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the Lord's covenant. 
¹⁹ All this the Lord made me understand by the writing by His hand upon me, all the work to be done according to the plan. 
²⁰ Also David told Solomon his son, Be strong and courageous, and do it. Fear not, be not dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail or forsake you until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

From our Bible reading for today devotional it is clear that the one who received the instruction and understood the importance of building according to the divine pattern is David. But the complication of this assignment is that he is not allowed to build that which he is envisioned with. It is true that David was envisioned with this assignment because in verse 19 of our text he talked about the fact that he got this understanding of the divine pattern “…the writing by His hand upon me…” though he was not qualified to build, it was the hand of God upon him that deposited the vision in his heart. Now somebody else has to accomplish the vision. Many of us know that Pastor E A Adeboye is not the visionary of RCCG neither does he claim to be but the vision blossomed under his care because he was faithful to serve under the founder.

When we sincerely serve the purpose of God under others we provoke the grace of heaven upon our lives to move to a new dimension of glory. Go back to read verse 20 of our text and note what David said to Solomon, the one that will have to accomplish the vision and you will understand the blessing that follows a man who is faithful to help another accomplish a divine vision. He develops courage and boldness. He receives the assurance of God’s presence. He receives the grace and anointing to start and finish the assignment. Therefore he has a guarantee of long and healthy life.

Be careful about your ambitions and desires, they may lead to multiplied sorrows and unfulfilled destiny.  

STAYING TRUE WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN (PT. 4)

STAYING TRUE WITH THE DIVINE PATTERN (PT. 4)

TEXT:  Exodus 25:8, 9 and 40 (AMP)
⁸ Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

⁹ And you shall make it according to all that I showed you, the pattern of the tabernacle or dwelling and the pattern of all the furniture of it.

⁴⁰ And see to it that you copy [exactly] their pattern which was shown you on the mountain.

We have been talking about “Staying True with the Divine Pattern” for some time now and as we bring this short study to a close it is important to mention that everyone that has been given the privilege to serve under a visionary must realize that every opportunity of service is an access to greater dimension of glory. If a man is truly able to humble himself to understand the his assignment in the bigger assignment of another and he is able to serve faithfully, it is possible that the LORD will find him useful to entrust him with a unique vision.

Too many people want to accomplish their own vision in the vision of another man. When they claim to be serving to help accomplish the vision of their leader they are actually using the time, equipment, materials, office, contacts, reputation and workers of the leader to accomplish their vision. When Joshua was with Moses he had no vision of his own that he was passionate about. He was so faithful that when it became clear that somebody has to succeed Moses it was not difficult for the LORD to choose him. So many who claim to be assisting in accomplishing a vision are so far from being a suitable successor of their leader. They were too busy chasing personal ambitions and some times fighting the vision with their own vision. Joshua was so committed to helping Moses succeed that until the death of Moses you never heard of him sharing a parallel vision. 

Until heaven finds you faithful and dependable in serving the vision of another man you may never be able to get the privilege of receiving your own from God. Be careful, what you are calling a vision may well be a figment of your own imagination designed to destroy your future. 

SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW 1

SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW 1 (Ezekiel 47:1-6)

People encountered the ministry of people like Billy Graham, Kathryn Kulhman and others and their lives were never the same. Is there any chance of you making just one person God conscious today?

CONTEMPLATION

There is a strong spiritual dimension about our lives that we often relegate to the background. Most of us are too careful not to be branded as fanatics so we begin act civilized and sophisticated. Until we get real and unapologetic about our faith and personal relationship with the Holy Spirit we will never be able to walk in the extraordinary. Most of us do not have the supernatural manifestation of God because we have not been bold to introduce and share about the personality and works of the Holy Spirit in and around our lives. Until we involve him he is going to seat still because he is a perfect gentleman who will only speak or act where he is acknowledged.

“In search of the solution, some have attended church

growth conferences and seminars. They have applied different

methods and steps, but nothing extraordinary happened. All

they truly need is the presence of the Holy Spirit and the difference

will be clear.” FFPW p153.

PRACTICAL ISSUES                      

Take out some time to make a list of the supernatural happenings of God in and through you in the last one week. Go on to ask yourself if this cannot be accomplished by a moralist.

Share with at least one person what you are trusting God for that will encourage others to believe God for the supernatural when it happens.

-          REV. IGHO Y. 

First Fruit

FIRST FRUIT. (Part 2).

 TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 26:1-4.

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance and possess it and live in it.

2 You shall take some of the first of all the produce of the soil which you harvest from the land your God gives you and put it in a basket, and go to the place [the sanctuary] which the Lord your God has chosen as the abiding place for His name [and His Presence].

3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days and say to him, I give thanks this day to the Lord your God that I have come to this land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to us.

4 And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the Lord your God.

When you obey God in first fruit it is not like giving God your offering though it is a form of offering. You give offering but you pay tithes and first fruit because they are not your own. Do you understand the difference? They are like tax. You are only required to pay tax if you belong to a system of government were you enjoy certain benefits from that system which you belong and as a way of showing your allegiance to the system you are expected to pay your dues.  When you obey in tax you are paying what you owe the government, it is not a donation.

When a man obeys God and pays his first fruit, he demonstrates his allegiance to the kingdom of God and immediately activates certain blessings of the kingdom to his own benefit. The word of God in Isaiah 1: 19 tells us that if we are willing and obedient we will eat the good of the land. There are blessings that cannot be activated in your life until you willingly walk in obedience with God. It takes understanding for a man to obey God in tithes and first fruits. A carnal man with greedy ambition will always find it unreasonable to pay obey God in issues like this. To him it is more reasonable to save as much as he can to be able to accomplish his dreams therefore the issue of first fruit does not come into the picture. But in so doing he succeeds in lucking up supernatural flow of God’s blessing in his life. He does the normal thing, gets normal results and lives the normal life. Obedience to God in the release of first fruit is by a divine light. Those who lack this light also lack the glory that goes with it. The choice is yours so choose right.