Develop a Personal Walk with God

Develop a Personal walk with God

Rev Kenneth Copeland at the ongoing South West Believers Conference shared a testimony of a church where 90% of members were working at the world Trade Center during 911. The Holy Spirit had led the pastor to teach on the leading of the Spirit, walking by faith and in love over and over immediately before the attack.

When the attack happened, they lost not one member, and not even one had an injury. There were testimonies of how individuals were led through the floors to safety and how so many people were saved through these people leading them out by the Holy Spirit leading. Today, the church is still at ground zero winning souls...

Sometime we need to stick to what we are called into... We are called to walk in the Spirit, walk in love towards all men, Pray in the Spirit, walk daily in faith towards God... Many churches aren't doing this, rather we preach and teach to make people depend on a person's anointing rather than their own personal relationship with God...and no one's faith can carry the burden of many other people, no one's relationship with God can substitute for people's personal relationship with God, you can't hire another person to be your parent's child in your stead when you aren't dead...you can't hire your pastor to be your permanent representative before God, he too would have to stand by himself first...but he has a responsibility to point you towards God and help you develop your own personal relationship with God, he has a responsibility to help you walk with God on your own by exposing you to teachings and personal examples that will help, he has a responsibility of seeing you have a personal walk of love and of faith...motivating you unto conformity to the image of Christ in a sweet fellowship of the Spirit...

Then you can call on God in time of trouble even when your pastor isn't around and God will save you...

No voice is better than yours before God for yourself. Yes, we pray for each other and prayers of intercession and agreement can be powerful but that's between people who have greater confidence in their personal walk with God, who believe God hears them and not a people going with a mentality of having need of a particular people to pray on their behalf before God can save them as if they don't have access to the Holy Spirit or to the throne of grace...

Jesus Christ didn't die on the cross in order to make any of us a second class child of God. While we were growing up we needed people to support our growth, we needed milk, we needed care, we needed a watch over us so we don't hurt ourselves as children but we get weaned and live in freedom to take personal responsibilities and that is same spiritually. But lots won't want to be weaned and their pastors love the patronage and dependence which doesn't have capacity to produce at crucial times...all the time, as a personal walk with God will do...

We must realize what apostle Paul said, we have no authority over another person's faith but we are helpers of their faith...Ministers are helpers of God's people's faith and not lords over it...

Determine to develop your love life beyond the politics of your local church...

Determine to develop your faith life based on the word of His grace on all that Christ did for us on the cross...
Learn to take your personal shield of faith, no one will do that for you, everyone is carrying his or her own to quench the firy darts of the devil...take yours too...

Determine to have a robust prayer life based on a personal relationship and fellowship with God without a third party, in your closet, on the altar erected in your recreated spirit, the temple of God within you beyond a church altar...

Determine to learn how to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and live in it beyond whatever anyone tells you God is saying to you... God wants to speak to you personally daily concerning things pertaining to your life...the Holy Spirit lives personally within you as a believer...

Determine to know God personally, read your Bible and other books personally and glean the truth, to you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom...read this write up to the end for instance...many won't unfortunately and they'll miss the message therein!

Determine to be like the Berean Christians who would go back to check if what the great Apostle said in the open were true with the scriptures... Nobody else can judge correctly for you like you digging personally into the Word...

Prove all things, hold on to the truth...

This will save you in the day of trouble...by that, those God has raised to watch with you can become more effective and their prayers and prophecies can cover for you in areas of your laxity in the day of trouble and on the evil day there won't be any space for the devil to strike...

Remain blessed today and always...

Study the following scriptures from where the write up came from for better understanding...

[My Offline Bible] Romans 10
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

[My Offline Bible] John 16
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

[My Offline Bible] Habakkuk 2
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 1
24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 (The MSG)
Don’t suppress the Spirit, and don’t stifle those who have a word from the Master. On the other hand, don’t be gullible. Check out everything, and keep only what’s good. Throw out anything tainted with evil.

We must take personal responsibilities of our walk with God. Good morning.

The Bible Class, TBC, Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class holds today at 6pm...
Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Mosan Road
Beside D Mama's Pride Supermarket
Shagari Estate
Ipaja, Lagos.

If you can be there...

Set Your Calling Free: Faithful is He who Called

Set Your Calling Free: Faithful is He who Called

[My Offline Bible] 1 Thessalonians 5
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Everyone under the burden of a call of God but consistently revel in the truth of the faithfulness of God who called.
Apostle Paul said, faithful is He who Called, who also will do it.
The performance and the perfection of our callings are with God. When we obey the heavenly vision, God steps in to fulfil the vision through us.
Even then, we still face stiff oppositions and the hour and power of darkness persist, we should never forget the fact that God is faithful. He is righteous. He wouldn't demand of us beyond the grace given us. He remains our sufficiency and present help in trouble.

The faithfulness of God teaches us that what God has created like the sun, the seasons and so on can never be more consistent than God. As the inanimate creatures set in their courses remain faithful, they reflect the glory of God's faithfulness to us.

God's faithfulness also teaches us that God wouldn't change His mind concerning His original counsel, thoughts and plans concerning us. He created and equipped us to deliver and He has faith in us that we will deliver without fail. We were created in Christ Jesus unto every good work ordained before that we should walk in, He won't change the goal post in the middle of the game. He is faithful. There is no shadow of turning with Him, there's no darkness at all with Him.. It is absolutely impossible for Him to lie. He is unchanging and most consistent and we can trust Him...

His faithfulness taught us that when He has a plan, He makes sure there is enough resources in power, wisdom and in other necessities provided and made available to fulfil the plan. God doesn't starve a vision from Him whose time has come. He pays for whatever He orders. He has omnipotence ready to tackle whatever may arise against the calling. He has wisdom unfathomable to proffer solutions to any problem. He has grace for the race available before the race begins. He is a faithful God.

His faithfulness also teaches us that though the time for the vision is long, the vision is true, it won't tarry beyond the appointed time and if we'll wait it won't fail.. Habakkuk 2. The appointed time will become the fullness of time if we don't grow weary.

Many visions are trapped in impatience and in unbelief. Troubles, delay and divers attacks weaken many people's resolve to remain faithful. It's common that people abandon great visions and callings because of unbelief, fear of the unknown, doubts and double mindedness. A lot doubt if God even ever called them due to the pains of the fire of affliction.

But we must always remember that God has His plan and the things eye haven't seen nor ear heard, which haven't entered into any imagination which God has prepared for us already have budgets of power, wisdom, provisions and every other needed resource  prepared long before we were born. His plans won't fail, He is greater than all, He won't bring us out of Egypt and not bring us into Canaan. We can trust Him.

When we do, it becomes easy to run with the vision, enduring hardness as good soldiers of the Lord till we can say we have kept the faith...

Let's gather tomorrow as we explore these things in God's presence as we pray and learn to keep our callings free for fulfilment of divine purpose.

God has a resolve to bring our callings to fulfilment, let's join hands with Him. He has purposed it and He will also do it...

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 46
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Pray along, be there if possible... See banner for details...

Good morning.

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Set Your Calling Free: Faithful is He who Called

Set Your Calling Free: Faithful is He who Called

[My Offline Bible] 1 Thessalonians 5
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Everyone under the burden of a call of God but consistently revel in the truth of the faithfulness of God who called.
Apostle Paul said, faithful is He who Called, who also will do it.
The performance and the perfection of our callings are with God. When we obey the heavenly vision, God steps in to fulfil the vision through us.
Even then, we still face stiff oppositions and the hour and power of darkness persist, we should never forget the fact that God is faithful. He is righteous. He wouldn't demand of us beyond the grace given us. He remains our sufficiency and present help in trouble.

The faithfulness of God teaches us that what God has created like the sun, the seasons and so on can never be more consistent than God. As the inanimate creatures set in their courses remain faithful, they reflect the glory of God's faithfulness to us.

God's faithfulness also teaches us that God wouldn't change His mind concerning His original counsel, thoughts and plans concerning us. He created and equipped us to deliver and He has faith in us that we will deliver without fail. We were created in Christ Jesus unto every good work ordained before that we should walk in, He won't change the goal post in the middle of the game. He is faithful. There is no shadow of turning with Him, there's no darkness at all with Him.. It is absolutely impossible for Him to lie. He is unchanging and most consistent and we can trust Him...

His faithfulness taught us that when He has a plan, He makes sure there is enough resources in power, wisdom and in other necessities provided and made available to fulfil the plan. God doesn't starve a vision from Him whose time has come. He pays for whatever He orders. He has omnipotence ready to tackle whatever may arise against the calling. He has wisdom unfathomable to proffer solutions to any problem. He has grace for the race available before the race begins. He is a faithful God.

His faithfulness also teaches us that though the time for the vision is long, the vision is true, it won't tarry beyond the appointed time and if we'll wait it won't fail.. Habakkuk 2. The appointed time will become the fullness of time if we don't grow weary.

Many visions are trapped in impatience and in unbelief. Troubles, delay and divers attacks weaken many people's resolve to remain faithful. It's common that people abandon great visions and callings because of unbelief, fear of the unknown, doubts and double mindedness. A lot doubt if God even ever called them due to the pains of the fire of affliction.

But we must always remember that God has His plan and the things eye haven't seen nor ear heard, which haven't entered into any imagination which God has prepared for us already have budgets of power, wisdom, provisions and every other needed resource  prepared long before we were born. His plans won't fail, He is greater than all, He won't bring us out of Egypt and not bring us into Canaan. We can trust Him.

When we do, it becomes easy to run with the vision, enduring hardness as good soldiers of the Lord till we can say we have kept the faith...

Let's gather tomorrow as we explore these things in God's presence as we pray and learn to keep our callings free for fulfilment of divine purpose.

God has a resolve to bring our callings to fulfilment, let's join hands with Him. He has purposed it and He will also do it...

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 46
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Pray along, be there if possible... See banner for details...

Good morning.

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Set Your Calling Free: The many Adversaries at the Door

Set Your Calling Free: The many Adversaries at the Door

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 16
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. 9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

As long as Satan lives, there will remain a stubborn resistance to any effort to establish God's will on the earth. Satan is going to use any and every means possible to mount roadblocks on the way of doing God's pleasure.

Obeying the call of God would demand daily contentions against the arrows of the enemy. In the physical, Satan will raise the most unexpected of men to militate against God's call outside those who don't believe and in the spirit his rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness won't relent. And sometimes there is collaboration between the spiritual and the physical, where humans take on satanic intercessory ministry to stand between a child of God and Satan to establish the will of the devil in the life of the child of God through witchcraft and other works of the flesh...

[My Offline Bible] Romans 15
30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; 31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; 32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

Apostle Paul speaking about human opposition had this to say also...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 11
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Not every believer will escape being used by the devil to wanting to stop other callings from manifestation and such can be so diabolical in a world where competition is rife in the absence of the God kind of love and abundance of wrath and strife.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Thessalonians 2
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

So many callings have fallen victim to the many adversaries at the open door. Many have been perpetually hindered from taking the lands of their open doors. Many have pitched their tents at the point of satanic hindrances and roadblocks... It ought not to be so...

There is deliverance in God who called.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 4
14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 3
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

No matter the opposition, if we stand with God and pray aright deliverance is available. There is deliverance in God. Apostle Paul, a minister of God who had such stiff oppositions wouldn't permit his calling to be trapped, he knew what to do, he did what he had to do and won the fight...today no one remembers his persecutors but he remains relevant so long the earth lives.

He prayed...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Thessalonians 3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

He prayed with an attitude of a conqueror and not a victim...

[My Offline Bible] Acts 20
23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

He received help and continued his work till the end...

[My Offline Bible] Acts 26
21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. 22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

We need to understand that the open doors God gives may come with adversaries and they may be many at different times, but the doors also come with the proviso that no man can shut those doors God opens...if we don't shut them by succumbing to Satan's intimidation.

[My Offline Bible] Revelation 3
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

No power of hell or any scheme of man can stop us from fulfilling the call of God upon our lives if we don't become careless and complacent with it...

No matter how long we have been hindered and by whatever powers, the power accompanying each call was envisaged to tackle any kind of opposition. It remains a hard thing to kick against the gourds..

[My Offline Bible] Acts 9
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

As we gather this Saturday, we'll be engaging God in all prayers, exploring His faithfulness and provisions for such hindrance situations in ministry and as the Lord lives, callings shall be set free as God takes preeminence to bring His will to pass over every life..... He will help and we shall continue in His work...

If you can attend, don't miss it, if you can pray, don't be quiet. Let's join hands with God through prayer to bring His will to pass on the earth for His kingdom to come...

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Peace to you...today and always..

Good morning

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Set Your Calling Free: Cry Aright

Set Your Calling Free: Cry Aright

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 40
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

The Lord God called out to Samuel, the young lad given to the Lord and staying with the old Priest and Prophet Eli. But he wasn't used to the voice of the Lord, it took the intervention of the old man to get the conversation started...

When God calls, the initial call may not be as clear as to be quickly acted upon. There is always a need for clarity and clarification.

Isaiah had the call to cry, and he had to ask, what shall I cry? Otherwise, he may not be able to cry aright.

Knowledge about the call is important to the one receiving the call. It is possible to hear the call and not know what one is called into. It is possible to know what one is called into and not know how to do it. It is also possible not to know the positioning in the system, the physical placement, the sustaining system for the call and so many other information about one's call...to many it's just another life's project.

This gap in knowledge attracts all sorts of lies to fill. Many make religious sense and so occupy the mind. Many of those lies keep people running helter skeeter with lots of efforts without doing God's will...

Lots of callings are trapped in this quagmire and confusion...and must be set free through knowledge to their fulfilment...

This Saturday at Grace Missions International 2016 Midyear Ministers Retreat we'll be seeking God's face and His Word to set those callings trapped by various issues free to fly and fulfil their purposes...

Pray along, refer someone, be there if possible...

We trust God to awaken the sleeping army of giants and raise saviors from the mount of Jacob to judge the mount of Esau.. We expect dry bones to live again...

Good morning

Set Your Calling Free: Deal with the Distraction

Set Your Calling Free: Deal with the Distraction

Life is more than what you get, life is about what you give. God didn't send us here just for the purpose of laboring, getting rich, enjoying it and dying. We are not sent to eat, drink and die. We eat (inclusive of all we acquire) to live and not just to live to eat.

Divine purposes and assignments are more than how we fare on the earth, when we stand before His throne on judgment day we won't be asked how much we left in our bank accounts and as estate. That'll be like asking a tree how much rain, sunlight, manure and other inputs it was blessed with and not how much fruits it bore for those who worked on it... After all, trees don't eat their own fruits...

We aren't rich just to eat, the value of a rich person is in how his riches had imparted upon those around. A multimillionaire may be more of a curse than a blessing, the wealthiest may be of no value compared to a poor widow who God can rely upon to obey Him and be a blessing to someone on His behalf...

This is where purpose counts... Our assignment and calling is primary to our life's enjoyment. God has called each of us into His partnership, we are workers together with Him to achieve His vision and intentions... He has equipped us with opportunities, great potentials and passion to reveal Him and His love and power. We are here on assignment, we are here for a purpose...every single one of us...

Now, we get distracted by what we'll eat, drink, drive, live in, put on and how we'll be seen and be rated in society... This distraction sounds legitimate. To many it isn't distraction because they really don't know any other thing to invest their lives in than to labour and eat...

But really it is a distraction. Distracting us from revealing the real value of our lives. Distracting from making the impact punch on life that brings meaning and fulfilment to our living...

This distraction is a destiny trap, it is shackles to the feet of vision and chains to the hands of life's callings. It must be broken through knowledge in the place of consecration and revelation of divine purpose...

Breaking the chain of this distraction is one of the assignments God will be visiting us to perform this coming Saturday...

Pray in preparation and in expectations that grace will be released and men and women will discover their life's callings and set them free to achieve great things for God and for humanity...

God will do great things!

You are invited....

Set Your Calling Free: Define Your Success

Set Your Calling Free: Define Your Success

When God qualified success in speaking to Joshua, Joshua 1:8, I'm sure it's simply because success isn't always success as He would describe it.

There is good and there is bad, or not so good success. His success is defined in that verse as one that comes by daily and nightly meditating on God's word in order to observe the Word to do according as it is written therein.

It means success can be produced by not following God and His word. And that's evident. Many of the richest and the wealthiest of this world do not believe in Christ and many of them who do can't say they got their wealth by following strictly the Word and the Spirit of God...

Many callings have been trapped in this phenomenon. Whatever a person defines success to be becomes the target of his pursuit. He is going to commit all he has as possessions and potentials, both tangible and virtual into achieving that.

Many gifts and callings are trapped in being used as tools to achieve the kinds of success not recognised by God but in the name of God...

Today, what the man Jesus Christ had as possessions while here on earth matter only a little compared to the fulfilment of His purpose as the Lamb of God crucified to take away the sin of the world and so give to the world the way of salvation...

Jesus Christ was such an enigma that the people were ready to make Him a political king. He didn't also have to die, He had the choice of not upsetting the religious leaders of His day to avoid being killed, He could have avoided all the liberating reformation He preached to stay alive and even if He didn't, He had the power to escape the death... But He wouldn't because good success to Him was to shed His blood and give His life for the salvation of mankind...

Good success is fulfilling divine purpose and to that we have been called and sent forth with gifts of grace to accomplish.

But like Judas Iscariot we may decide to use our privileges and potentials to pursue success as defined by the world and not as defined by God's purpose. And callings so abused get trapped and in danger of not being fulfilled...even if it is used to achieve worldly wealth, accolades and awards...

But when we redefine success and embrace the good success syndrome by following God's purpose and passion and pursuing it with all potential and power within us we achieve that kind of success that preserves those who have them.

All of success to Mary was to give birth to Jesus. She did and she's blessed forever among women.

All of success to Mary Magdalene was to pour her expensive jar of alabaster oil on the feet of Jesus to fulfil the requirements of burial preparation for Jesus Christ and forever where ever the gospel is preached she'll be remembered...

All that Simon of Cyrene was born to do was to help Jesus Christ carry His cross on the way to Golgotha even if he was compelled to do so...that was success...

All that Joseph the Arimathean was born and was made influential to do was to ask for Christ's body and to provide a tomb where it would lay till His resurrection on the third day...his becoming influential and affluent wasn't his success but the fulfilment of His calling to use that to preserve the body of Christ in death till resurrection...

Many have lost the essence of their callings as they use them to pursue the error of world defined success...

You must set Your Calling Free to achieve divine purpose and pleasure... Their in lies your success...

Let's gather to pray this Saturday... Seeking God's face and to leave with our callings ready to fly into achieving it's divine purpose... Don't miss it, if you are in Lagos, don't miss it... If you can travel over, do...God's visiting...

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Good day!