WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER 2014: OUR MONTH OF PLENTY

“Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.” Joel 2:21-27
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:” 2Cor.9:8

As you travel from nation to nation, you would observe one common thread weaving through all the nations of the world and that is the fact that these are perilous times indeed. This situation presents in wars, violence, terrorism, economic hardships and the like. About four years ago, I was led to take the gospel to another nation. When I got to that nation, the currency of that nation competed so well with the USD then that it posed a little challenge to me financially. However, recently, I employed a staff there and placed him on an income that I calculated against my national currency and I discovered that in a period of less than nine months, their currency which was almost at par with mine, had dropped by about one hundred and thirty percent. I could immediately recognize an economic hazard and decided to pay the staff in my local currency instead to enable him match up to the inflation that follows things of this nature.

The gist of what I am talking about here is that the harsh conditions of the world in these times are real; however, the good news is that the plan of God for us now is even more real. This explains why the Lord has sent this word to us in this season. The truth is that in spite of all that is going on around us, God is saying we shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and bless the name of the Lord our God who has dealt wondrously with us and we shall not be ashamed. The reason for this is that God has the ability to make abundant provision available to us in spite of contrary circumstances. When Elijah declared a three and a half year famine against Israel for their idolatry in 1Kings 17, he was excluded from the harsh conditions by divine provision. In the same way, God has excluded us from the economic hardship of the present times by sending us this word of abundance.  This is why the month of September has been prophetically given to us by God as our month of plenty. The word plenty means full or adequate supply; enough to spare; sufficiency, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply of human wants; abundance etc. It also means a full supply, as much as necessary, a large amount or extent etc.
Someone is reading this article now and asking how this can be when they are actually experiencing the biting effects of the harsh conditions on earth. I must quickly let you understand that whereas God has put in place every resource required for this word to be fulfilled in our lives, plenty is governed by laws. If these laws are obeyed, you will experience the word otherwise, it would be a mere story to you. One truth about laws is that they are effective whether we know of them and act on them or not. This is why it is said that ignorance of the law is no excuse. If you know the laws governing plenty and apply them in your life, you shall not lack; the present global economic crises notwithstanding. On the other hand, whether you know the laws or not, if you do not apply them, you will lack. This is how laws work.
To this end, this month, we shall be looking at the laws regulating provision so that the keys to unlocking the plenty that God is telling us about this season would be delivered to us and as we engage those keys in our individual lives, plenty would attend to us.
In summation, I must quickly say here that the catalyst that makes these laws work is acquaintance with God. In Job 22:21-28, we are made to understand that we must first reconcile with God from our sinful ways and then embrace a covenant walk with God for us to pray to be heard by God and then as we walk in obedience to Him, we shall be enlightened and be enriched with plenty and even begin to reign with him as we can now make decrees that would be established and enjoy constant divine guidance. If you are yet to make this acquaintance, you are only a prayer away from doing so; you can do so now by saying the prayer below and you will become born again and be entitled to access to the keys that can unlock plenty to you beginning from now:
HEAVENLY FATHER,
HAVE MERCY ON ME A SINNER. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR ME ON CALVARY’S CROSS AND THAT YOU RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD FOR MY JUSTIFICATION. I HEREBY DECLARE JESUS CHRIST TO BE THE SAVIOUR AND LORD OF MY LIFE FROM THIS DAY ON AND FOREVER. THANK YOU FATHER FOR HEARING ME AND INCLUDING MY NAME IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!
AMEN!!!

Welcome to August: Our Month of Unspeakable Joy

“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:” 1Peter1:7-8

Last week was dark in the history of time following the mishaps recorded from two plane crashes; not to talk of the disaster recorded from the crash of 17^th of July. While I grieve with the affected parties, I wish to let everyone know, that in the midst of all these trials befalling the world, we have comfort and safety in Christ based on what the God who cannot lie tells us in His word – The Bible – see Titus 1:2; John 15:11 & 16:33.

While I am not a bearer of evil tidings, I want to point out here that the times we are in are perilous times as prophesied by the Lord and His first Apostles. However, He tells us that when we shall see these things, we should look up and take solace in the fact that these things signal the time of our redemption. Also, Apostle Paul makes us understand that these evils are signals that our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. [See Luk.21:25-28; Rom.13:11]. In other words, I want you to understand that as many as would take the time to stay in the Lord’s presence to learn from Him in these times would receive inside information from the eternal throne room that the end is near and this would cause us to break forth in unspeakable joy full of glory as Apostle Peter describes it. A close look at our text scripture and John 16:33 show us that joy and peace which put together, define: “unspeakable joy full of glory” are not experienced based on external circumstances but on inside information gleaned from the Holy Spirit. I must quickly distinguish joy from happiness here. Whereas happiness is defined as an agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind etc.; joy on the other hand, is passion or emotion excited by the expectation of good. I believe that this definition of joy is what describes what Jesus was saying in John 15:11 that He was giving His disciples heavenly information to enable them experience joy in their expectation of its fulfillment. This truth is what makes joy an evidence of faith in the heart in the midst of challenging circumstances.

The truth is that until we can clearly hear the voice of God and be led by His Holy Spirit, unspeakable joy is not guaranteed in these times. This month of unspeakable joy is therefore a month when we have to take the time to learn and practice the art of hearing God’s voice. This would keep us in tune with what would guarantee our unspeakable joy for the rest of our sojourn on earth. To this end, this month, we shall be looking at a series titled: CONDITIONING YOURSELF TO BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

However, if you stumbled on this article and you do not have a living experience of God indwelling you, you can start today by saying the following prayer inviting Jesus Christ to be the Lord of your life and you will be born again into the family of God:

Heavenly Father, have mercy on me a sinner, but today, I repent of my sin and declare that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from this day because I believe He died for my sin on Calvary’s Cross and on the third day, you raised Him from the dead for my justification. Please wipe my name from the book of death and enter it into the book of life in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Amen!!!

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Welcome to July Our Month of Unlimited Favour

As we are ushered in to the second half of this year of Fruitfulness and Abundance – 2014, we are most grateful to God for all He has been to and done for us in the first half of this year. He has indeed crowned this first half of the year for us with His goodness when He declared this month of July to be our month of unlimited favour. This is indeed a big blessing to cap the month of the blessing for us.

Favour can be defined as showing preference for someone or something over others. Unlimited on the other hand means not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity or extent. Thus this month of July, God has chosen to bless us with favour that is not restricted in any way. I call this boundless favour. This becomes even more interesting when we realize that favour is a gift of God and that no man or woman can truly enjoy favour without receiving it of the Lord. In Exodus 3:21, God promised to give the children of Israel favour in the sight of their slave masters so that they would not leave Egypt without means. He kept this promise in Exodus 11:3 and 12:36 where we are told that God gave them favour with the Egyptians and that this made the Egyptians give them whatever they requested of them to go with on their journey.

About Joseph, we are told in Genesis 39:21, that the Lord was with Joseph and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

The early Church in Acts 2:47 was said to have had favour with all the people and therefore, the Lord was able to increase them on a daily basis.

Mary was said to be highly favored and therefore became the natural mother of the Lord Jesus Christ without the involvement of a man and Joseph went ahead to marry her in spite of her seemingly “questionable circumstance”. I consider this kind of favour unlimited.

From the foregoing, it is evident that favour is a gift from God and this month God has chosen to give us that gift without limit because He would bless whom He wills. Secondly, when God is with you, it shows in the favour you enjoy with Him and with people. Thirdly, without favour, no matter how skillful you are, your skill will never yield any return on your investment as you will be hidden from your helpers. This is why the children of Israel labored for 400 years and skilfully built two store cities for the Egyptians and yet had nothing to show for their effort until God showed up and gave them favour.

This month, I see God giving boundless favour to every one of us who desires it to bring about the miracles of abundance, love, joy etc. as may be required in each life in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In light of the above, this month, we shall be looking at what favour means, the source of favour and what we can do to appropriate the favour of God.

While we are at this, I want to quickly say that the greatest favour we need is the escape from damnation brought upon mankind by the disobedience of Adam in the Garden of Eden when He sinned against God and brought the entire human race under the curse which includes disfavor. But God has solved this problem by sending His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die for our sin and bring us redemption. This grace can be actualized by embracing Jesus Christ as our savior and Lord. If you are yet to make this choice you can do so right now by saying this prayer out loud to God and believing it with all your heart:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. I believe that Jesus died for my sin on Calvary’s Cross. Therefore, I repent of my sin and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for receiving me into your family and entering my name into the Lamb’s book of life in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen!

If you just said this prayer, Congratulations, you are now a member of the family of God and a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. See John 1:12, Eph.2:19 and Col.1:13. You are therefore entitled to all THE BLESSING in the Old and New Testament parts of the Bible including the blessing of unlimited favour.

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WELCOME TO JUNE 2014: OUR MONTH OF THE BLESSING

WELCOME TO JUNE 2014: OUR MONTH OF THE BLESSING

Deu.28:1-14, Gal.3:13-14 and Proverbs 10:22

We rejoice with you as you made it to the beginning of the end of the first half of the year 2014 and want to say congratulations! We are still in our year of Fruitfulness and Abundance as the Lord told us at the end of last year. From the beginning of this year up till now, God has been so faithful to us that we had to dedicate the entire last month to giving Him thanks. As we round off the first half of this year, the Lord has overwhelmed us again with another prophetic direction characteristic of His goodness and mercy. June is to us our month of THE BLESSING. Let me say a few things here about the blessing:

There is either of two forces on earth controlling the situation and circumstances of man and these two forces are THE BLESSING and THE CURSE. In Deuteronomy 28, the bible makes us understand what can be identified as THE BLESSING in a person’s life and also, what can be identified as THE CURSE. This chapter of the bible also shows us the conditions we must fulfil to enjoy the blessing or suffer the curse. The good news here is that the demands of God for THE BLESSING are not beyond our reach. What is needed for the blessing can be summarized in cultivating a healthy relationship with God. We are told in Galatians 3:13-14 that Christ by His sacrifice has redeemed us from the curse which came on us all through the sin of Adam and multiplied to mankind through personal disobedience born out of the sin nature we inherited from Adam. Thus the main condition we need to fulfill now is to receive the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for us and become eligible for the blessing. Then we move on to the next level of cultivating a healthy relationship with God by abiding in the Lord Jesus Christ and letting His word abide in us. Then we shall know the truth of our redemptive heritage which has the power to release the blessing of God on us and keep us curse free indeed. See John 15; John 8:31-36.

The beauty of the blessing of God is that it has the power to:

·        Free us from the influence of the darkness of ignorance where Satan rules and keep us in the light of Knowledge where Jesus Christ is King – see Col.1:13.

·        Make us rich without any sorrow added – see Proverbs 10:22

·        Enforce the word that God wants us whole with nothing broken and nothing missing as well as healthy spirit, soul and body. 3John 1:2

·        Destroy any curse operating in our lives when we meet the condition of true repentance and many other good things too numerous to mention. When we read the bible, we will find them out for ourselves. See Gal.3:13-14

In light of this, this month, we are going to be looking at the demands of the blessing so that we can fulfill our role in faith to enjoy what Christ died to give to us. I must quickly say here that the foundation for all we are going to be saying concerning the blessing is that you receive the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for you by saying the prayer below; if you have not done so yet, as this is the only means of access to THE BLESSING that can destroy any curse.

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. I believe that Jesus died for my sin on Calvary’s Cross. Therefore, I repent of my sin and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for receiving me into your family and entering my name into the Lamb’s book of life in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen! If you just said this prayer, Congratulations, you are now a member of the family of God and a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. See John 1:12, Eph.2:19 and Col.1:13. You are therefore entitled to all THE BLESSING in the Old and New Testament parts of the Bible.

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WELCOME TO MARCH OUR MONTH OF PERFECTION

Eph.4:11-15: “And He gave some apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: that we henceforth be not more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and the cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”

Psalm 138:8: “The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me…”

Recently, one of our Church members was telling me a ridiculous story of a “Church” she used to attend where they were told that the way to subdue the devil was to take up physical canes and weep him. Also, when you look around today, you find so many believers praying that the demons afflicting them should fall down and die! These are just a few of the unscriptural practices you find in the body of Christ that gives me a lot of concern. In the first place, you cannot subdue the devil with physical canes because the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. Secondly, spirits do not die! They are eternal beings. All these truths are in the bible which these baby believers carry around without reading or if they read, do not understand. Unfortunately, many who pedal and believe these lies are not even believers but humans seeking solution to their personal problems from places where they cannot find it.

The reason for this state of affairs if that many are not recognizing and taking advantage of God’s gift of the fivefold ministry offices of the apostle, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. God set these ministry gifts in the Church to help us grow up to be able to do the work of the ministry. Contrary to what many in the body of Christ believe, ministry is not restricted to these fivefold ministry gifts or full time Levitical work; it is an all-encompassing lifestyle of the believer intended to prepare the world for the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have always believed that it is not good enough to complain about a situation without doing anything about it. The word of the Lord to us this month has therefore provided us with the opportunity to make our contribution to solve this problem. To this end, this month, we shall be looking at the fivefold ministry in the body of Christ and the role each of them is expected to play to help perfect or cause us to mature in Christ to enable us arise and fulfill the ministry or our destinies as assigned to us by God. The office of the Apostle for instance is not in the title but in the work of planting Churches or setting up similar institutions as appointed by God. Their ministry is usually accompanied with genuine signs and wonders and mighty works and the vessels remain humble before God.  

Also, from our second text scripture for the month, it is clear that the perfecting or maturing of the saint could only be made possible with cooperating with God and this is why Apostle Paul said in Philippians 2:13 that it is God who works in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure. This is why we cannot attain to spiritual maturity without God’s Spirit guiding us. However, to get His guidance, we need to renew our minds with His word because without that we would never agree with God as the Bible says in 1Cor.2:14 that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God because they are foolishness unto him. Thus this month, we shall also learn how to renew our minds to follow the dictates of our spirits which are controlled by the Holy Spirit to the end that each of us would be able to discern the voice of God and hear directly from Him.

It is my heart felt prayer that this month, you will grow up spiritually to the point of being led by the spirit of God so you do not fall prey to spiritual charlatans in Jesus’ name!

For God to lead you however you must belong to His family and if you are interested in hearing from God directly so He can lead you, the first step is that you must be born again into the family of God. If you want to do so, you can do it right away by saying the prayer below out loud:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name!

Amen.

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Four Simple Steps to Consciously Hear and Follow the Voice of God

In the time which we live in, the need to hear the voice of God in order to be guided by Him in our daily lives cannot be over emphasized. This is why it is so important for us to hear his voice. Sadly, many hear without realizing it because Jesus said in John 10:27 that His sheep hear His voice. Also, we see from Ps.32:8 where God said He will instruct and teach us in the way we must go that it is God’s will to cause us to hear His voice.

In light of the foregoing, we shall examine four simple steps we must take to consciously receive the voice of God. These four steps are set out in Hab.2:1-3. That text reads thus in the King James Version of the bible:

“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

And the Lord answered me, and said, write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it;

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not tarry”

1.     Stillness: This is keeping still before God with absolute concentration and a determination to receive a revelation of your God given purpose from God or any other thing you may desire to know of the mind of God. A good example of this is found in the story of Elijah in 1Kings 19:9-21 in the Old Testament and Paul in the New Testament. Acts 9:1-20.

2.     Vision:  When God speaks, it paints a picture in the canvass of your mind. Where you have difficulty with comprehending this, God could even use something you can see physically to give you a vision because God works with what we can envision. This is the good use of the power of imagination God talks about in Gen.11:6. For example, God had to make Abram look at the sky to see and attempt to count the number of the stars in the sky until he lost count just to help him get a vision of how numerous his offspring will be even though he was said to be childless at that time and his wife Sarai was pronounced barren. See Gen.15:1-6.

3.     Spontaneity: The still voice of God that is not physically audible comes to you through a chain of spontaneous thoughts. You have no control over the thoughts. They just flow and when God is through with Speaking, they stop. There is no thought original with man. Thoughts are taken. This explains why Jesus said in Mat.6:25, 34 that we should not take thoughts that result in anxiety. These thoughts are words that are conveyed to the spirit of man which must first be picked by the soul. The spirit realm controls the physical one. This is why Paul says in Rm.8:14, 16 that as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God. That the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God. See 1Thessalonians 5:23 which makes us understand that man is spirit, soul and body. Your spirit is the real you made in the image and likeness of God and which departure from your body causes physical death as revealed to us in James 2:26. Your soul is the intermediary between your spirit and body and contains your mind (seat of memory and creativity), your will (seat of decision making), and your emotion (responsible for the direction of your will and general drive in life). Your body is the physical you made up of the five senses of the central nervous system – sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Whereas your body controlled by your physical senses had dictated the way you have lived as a natural man because of the separation of your spirit from God’s through the fall of Adam, now that you are born again, you have to retrain your body to follow the dictates of your spirit which is now led by the Holy Spirit as we saw earlier. This is the real battle of the new creation man. The only way we can win this war is to allow the word of God renew our minds to have the mindset God wants us to have. When this takes place, our wills and emotions would easily follow divine directives and cause our bodies to act accordingly. See Romans 12:1-2.

4.     Journaling: Then you move on to the next step which is journaling. If you try to understand everything God is telling you at the moment, you will lose concentration and may not be able to receive everything God is telling you so you journal for the duration of the flow of thought and later, you can read through what you journaled and you will get the true picture of what God is telling you. This is how the ancient prophets kept records of what they were told (see 2Tim.3:16-17; 2Pet.1:19-21). God exemplified this when He gave Moses the law he wrote on tables of stone and to tell you how important this was to God, when Moses in his anger at the behavior of the Israelites destroyed the tablets, God called him up to the mountain again and made him get two other tablets of stone and He wrote the same commandments on these new tablets of stone. You will find this account in Ex.24:12; 31:18; 34:4. Moses recalled these incidents in his final speech to the children of Israel packaged in Deut.5:22. I believe that the importance of journaling what God tells you cannot be overemphasized. This is why God commands us to write the vision and make it plain on tables so someone can read it and run with it. If what God told the ancient prophets in the past was not journaled, Peter would not have had a more sure word of Prophecy to refer to in 2Pet.1:19. For example, Jeremiah the prophet wrote down what God told him and more than seventy years later, Daniel read it and ran with it. It enabled him to pray for the freedom of the children of Israel from captivity. You will find these accounts in Jer.36 and Daniel 9:1-4. Even when in Jeremiah’s life time, the king tried to destroy the writings of Jerimiah, God caused him to preserve it by telling him to write another which Jeremiah did. See Jer.361-4 and 27-32.

A word from the Lord on the 1^st day of April 2011 when I taught this message in a seminar in Hohoe, Volta region, Ghana.

“A new day has dawned for you because you have obeyed me in spite of all odds I will cause my voice to be heard in all the nations of the world through what we have done here tonight. Remember that through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down who smote with a rod. I am your God and there is no one who put their confidence in me who shall be disappointed. I do not relate by the ways of men for my ways are higher and my thoughts are higher. I will be exalted in the earth I will be exalted among the heathen because of the trumpet I shall sound by you in a short while. This is my mind for all my own.”

The Sinner's prayer
You may have stumbled on this and you are not born again yet. This steps pertain to only those who are born again but the good news is that you can be born again now by saying the following prayer out loud meaning it with all your heart and God would immediately kick you off on this journey of being led by His Spirit.

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name!

Amen.

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Welcome to February: Our Month of Good Success

“This book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

An examination of our text scripture for the month would immediately reveal to us that qualifying success with the adjective: “good” implies that Success cannot be viewed as positive all the time because good success implies that there is a bad one. Our text also shows us that good success is founded on the truth we know, meditate on and live by. The Lord Jesus Christ in John 17:17 defined truth as the word of God. When our text scripture was written, the word of God was known as “the book of the Law”! This explains why God told Joshua here that as long as he built his life on “this book of the Law”, he would have good success.

On the other hand, bad success is based on falsehood and it cannot stand the test of time not to talk of measuring up in eternity. Such acts of success can best be described as a smoke that would soon disappear or a flower that would soon fade away. A good example of this is the successful coveting of Bathsheba; Uriah’s wife by King David and the clever elimination of Uriah to cover up their infidelity. This proved to become the “but” in David’s life because what he did could not be hidden from the eyes of the all-seeing God. The result is that God judged him and told him the sword shall never depart from his house. Shortly after this, his reproach began to speak as his first son raped his daughter and another son of his killed his first son in vengeance and after this attempted a coup d’état to dethrone him and take his place until he was killed! Really, bad success is the decorated word for abysmal failure! Believe me, this is not the kind of success you want. See 2 Samuel Chapters 11-18. That you successfully dupe a person or an institution of their hard earned money through fraud or obtaining under false pretense does not make you successful even if it enables you to live in luxury for a season. The truth is that you would soon be found out no matter how tight your security is and how committed you are to the cult that empowers you. Any day a saint rises up in prayer against you, you will quickly come to the rude shock that your cult is not as powerful as it pretends to be. You will be cut off in the midst of your days and would prove to be a fool in the end. See Jeremiah 17:11; Proverbs 13:11!

This is why God is telling us that we can have good success and it would begin to show this month as we lay the foundation for it. In 2Timothy 2:19, the Apostle Paul pointed out that the foundation of God’s word rests on godliness: a departure from iniquity. When we make the truth our life style, good success is sure for us. Thus this month, our mission is to unfold the mystery of skillfully using the word of God so that we can maximize the benefit of good success available to us in the truth which is the word of God. Let me close by saying that good success can be defined as releasing and maximizing your potential for your benefit and that of others including your posterity. In some cases; it comes with a lot of money depending on the purpose for which you were created. However, it will never come with lack and want so your needs would always be met. See Psalm 1:1-6; Deu.28:1-15; Exod.23:25-26; Philippians 4:19; Lk.22:35; Acts 4:34.

This month, you shall flow in such light from the word of God that your good success cannot be denied you in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ!

If you want to walk in Good success and you are not sure of where you stand with God, you can make sure right away by saying the prayer below out loud and believing:

THE SINNER’S PRAYER

“Heavenly father, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe in my hearth the Jesus Christ came in the flesh, died for me on Calvary’s cross and on the third day, you raised Him from the dead for my justification. Therefore I ask; Jesus, please come into my life and be my Saviour and Lord. I reject and renounce the fatherhood of Satan from now on and forever, Amen!”

If you just said this prayer, congratulations! Welcome to the family of God. Please send me an email at flourishinggirl@gmail.com.  This will enable me send you an e-copy of our “Believers’ Guide to Growth” to help you start out well on your spiritual journey.  

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