Resonance

Category: Christianity

  • Prophetic Interpretation of Scriptures: Confessing the Word

    The Bible is not just a book. This is the Word of God. It is Spirit and Life. The mere words killeth but there is what I call “the Spirit of the Word” that gives it life. The Spirit of the Word and the Word of the Spirit are one. All Scripture is God-breathed.

    When we say the Bible is highly prophetic, we are not only referring to the prophecies that were fulfilled and are being fulfilled spoken of by Scripture. We are also referring to its prophetic interpretations, which is allowed. See, you may not know the context, the Greek or Hebrew or even the semantics. However, once you can read and the Rhema jumps at you, you can insert yourself into the reality the Scriptures offers.

    In simple words, every story, every anointing, every exploit, every miracle, every height, every depth, every move, every single one you see in Scripture is still alive and available in Christ. In order to carry that consciousness, you insert yourself into the Scripture. You may not know the context, but as long as it resonates with you by the work of the Holy Spirit, you can lay hold of the Word. Prophecy is foretelling of the future. Prophecy is also forthtelling the future. By confessing the Scriptures, you are forthtelling. Your future in Christ has already been predetermined. Agree with God’s Word concerning you.


    The Word you are reading may have been spoken thousands of years ago, but it is still alive. That is why the more you read, the more you are being transformed. Insert your name and lay hold of the consciousness of it by declaring it until it becomes your reality. Once you carry the consciousness, you will soon produce the results. Let me show you some wonderful examples;

    Work and Prosperity

    And the Lord was with [insert your name]; and [insert name] was a prosperous person, and worked in the house of his master with diligence.
     (Adapted from Genesis 39:2)


    And [insert your name] found favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
     (Adapted from Proverbs 3:4)


    And the Lord blessed the work of [insert your name]’s hands; whatsoever [insert name] did prosper.
     (Adapted from Deuteronomy 28:12 & Psalm 1:3)


    And [insert your name] became exceeding great, and had possessions of flocks, and of herds, and a great store of servants; and the Philistines envied [insert name].
     (Adapted from Genesis 26:13–14)

    Marriage and Family


    And [insert your name] found a virtuous woman, whose price is far above rubies.
     (Adapted from Proverbs 31:10)


    And the Lord remembered [insert name], and opened [insert your name]’s womb, and gave conception.
     (Adapted from Genesis 30:22)


    And [insert your name] rejoiced with the wife of [insert your name]’s youth, and was satisfied with her love always.
     (Adapted from Proverbs 5:18–19)

    Comfort and Peace

    And the Lord gave [insert your name] rest round about, according to all that He had sworn unto their fathers.
     (Adapted from Joshua 21:44)

    And [insert your name] was comforted after his mother’s death.
     (Adapted from Genesis 24:67)

    And [insert your name] sat under his vine and under his fig tree, and there was none to make [insert name] afraid.
     (Adapted from 1 Kings 4:25)

    And [insert your name] shall dwell in safety alone; the fountain of [insert your name] shall be upon a land of corn and wine.
     (Adapted from Deuteronomy 33:28)

    Good Health and Well-being

    And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. So shall it be with [insert your name].
     (Adapted from Deuteronomy 34:7)


    And [insert your name] shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, bringing forth fruit in season; [insert your name]’s leaf shall not wither.
     (Adapted from Psalm 1:3)


    And there was not one feeble person among their tribes; neither shall there be among the household of [insert your name].
     (Adapted from Psalm 105:37)

    Strength and Victory

    And [insert your name] pursued his enemies, and overtook them, and turned not again until they were consumed.
     (Adapted from Psalm 18:37)


    And [insert your name] waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
     (Adapted from Hebrews 11:34)


    And [insert your name] encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
     (Adapted from 1 Samuel 30:6)


    And the Lord gave strength unto [insert name]; the Lord blessed [insert your name] with peace.
     (Adapted from Psalm 29:11)

    Favour and Divine Help

    And [insert your name] found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
     (Adapted from Genesis 6:8)


    And the Lord went before [insert name] by day in a pillar of cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give light by night.
     (Adapted from Exodus 13:21)


    And the Lord made [insert your name] the head, and not the tail; and [insert your name] shall be above only, and not beneath.
     (Adapted from Deuteronomy 28:13)


    And [insert your name] was a faithful person, and the spirit of excellence was found in [insert your name].
     (Adapted from Daniel 6:3)

    If you treat this as a magic formula, get ready to be disappointed. Also, if you think it’s something you say once and it just happens, I’m sorry. It takes repetition for it to enter your subconscious reality. Inserting yourself into the reality of Scripture is more of inserting the Word of God into you. It allows you to meditate until you build the consciousness. At the beginning, you may be declaring it but not necessarily believe it. However, with time, the Word comes alive as it is activated by the Spirit inside you. The reason why this is very necessary is because negative confessions during hard times is like pouring hot water on a sore.

    Whatever situation you find yourself,  gather relevant Scriptures on your area of focus, study those Scriptures and meditate on them, write prayer points from those Scriptures and pray them in line with the Word, document them and turn them into declarations. The Word of God on your lips, spoken by the inspiration of the Spirit of God, carries the same weight as the words from the mouth of God. It is God’s Word, not yours. Let it become real to you first and see it become real in your life.

    The Danger of Personal Interpretation

    Personal interpretation is addressed in the Bible, particularly in the context of prophetic interpretation and scriptural understanding. In 2 Peter 1:20-21 , it is written: “Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever brought about through human initiative, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” This entire exercise I explained to you, although it involves your personal engagement, it is actually initiated by the Holy Spirit. No, you cannot name and claim what belonged to someone in Scriptures because of your own selfish reasons.

    So no, you cannot claim the coat of many colours of Joseph, the sandals of the prodigal son and the helm of Jesus’ garment. But if these begin to resonate with you by the work of the Holy Spirit, it may be your Rhema into receiving a multi-coloured grace, a place of dignity and healing. Selah!

  • The Altar that Birthed Judas

    Jesus decided to die for our sins and He did, at the set time. However, it’s sometimes confusing to know the role of Judas in the whole story. Jesus was on a mission to die for our sins. That’s the reason why He came. Did He need Judas’ help? Was Judas’ role even necessary? Does it mean if Judas hadn’t betrayed Jesus, Jesus wouldn’t have died? Did Jesus really need Judas to betray Him? Well, it wasn’t a matter of need. Just as certain actions (of the first Adam specifically) necessitated the need for Jesus to come and die for us, certain actions established Judas in the equation.

    When you study the Bible carefully, you would realise that Judas was not the only weapon Satan used in the entire story. In Psalm 22:12-16, it was prophesied that the ones the enemy had prepared were the bulls of Bashan, raging and roaring lion, and dogs. Acts 4:27 identifies these entities as Herod, Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles (soldiers), and the people of Israel. However, Judas is given a fully separate prophecy in Psalm 109. As if Israel as a nation rejecting Jesus was not enough, one of Jesus’ own disciples had to betray him. It wasn’t prophesied that Peter should deny him but it was prophesied that one of the disciples should betray Him? Why?

    30 Pieces of Silver

    Before you can understand the entire story, you need to understand this amount of money first. The Law of Moses established 30 pieces of silver as the purchase price for a slave. Exodus 21:32 says “if the ox kills a male or a female servant, the owner shall give to the servant’s master thirty shekels/pieces of silver [the purchase price for a slave], and the ox shall be stoned”.

    In Zechariah 11, the prophet symbolically acts as a shepherd representing God’s care for Israel, but the people reject him. When Zechariah ends his service, he asks them to pay him what they think his labor is worth, and they give him thirty pieces of silver, the compensation price for a slave in Exodus 21:32. God calls this a “handsome price,” with irony, showing Israel’s contempt for His covenant care. He then tells Zechariah to throw the money to the potter in the temple, symbolizing Israel’s rejection of God and the coming judgment. What coming judgement, you would ask? Or a better question will be, what exactly did the people of Israel do to warrant such a judgement?

    The Potter’s Field

    “The Lord said: Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop and buy a clay jar. Then take along some of the city officials and leading priests and go to Hinnom Valley, just outside the Potsherd Gate. Tell the people that I have said: I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and you kings of Judah and you people of Jerusalem had better pay attention. I am going to bring so much trouble on this valley that everyone who hears about it will be shocked. The people of Judah stopped worshiping me and made this valley into a place of worship for Baal and other gods that have never helped them or their ancestors or their kings. And they have committed murder here, burning their young, innocent children as sacrifices to Baal. I have never even thought of telling you to do that”. What you just read is Jeremiah 19.

    So you see! At the time of Jeremiah, the people of Israel went to the lowest point of Israel, in a valley called Hinnom Valley. In fact, this is the valley from which we get the word “Gehenna”. Gehenna represents hell. At the time of Jeremiah, they were slaughtering their children on altars in this valley. It was literally the gates of hell as Baal and many other gods were worshipped here. In contrast, the Temple in Jerusalem sits on a mountain which was the highest point in Jerusalem in ancient times. Because Israel had committed this abomination for so long, the altar that birthed Judas was cemented into the coming judgement.

    The Field of Blood

    “Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry.” (Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out. And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood)”. What you just read is Peter speaking in Acts 1:16-19.

    When Judas returned the 30 pieces of silver, the chief priests of the Temple in Matthew 27:6 decided not to put the money back into the treasury. They knew that it was money used to betray innocent blood. Rather, they purchased a field with that money. Matthew 27:7-8 said “they consulted together and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.”. Unbeknownst to even them, they had bought the same field Jeremiah stood about 600 years back to prophesy. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced, and gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me”.

    At the time of Jeremiah, it was a potter’s field. In the time of Jesus, although most parts of it were used as a refuse dump where fire burnt continually, there was a potter’s field there as well. Jesus talked about hell than any other person in Scriptures, and He usually used this particular place as the imagery for people to understand. The prophecy did not end there. The altar that birthed Judas is the same altar on which he died. The prophecy was not specifically for Judas per se, but the abominations of Israel had cemented a betrayer among his very disciples. This son of perdition not only represented the betrayal of Israel as a nation but cemented him as an antichrist figure birthed from the altars of abomination. No wonder the Bible said Satan entered him.

    Altars are transgenerational. Abraham raised an altar and Jacob encountered God at the exact spot. Altars establish decrees and prophecies. No matter what this betrayer did, once he allows himself to be used, he can never be saved. He will forever be lost. Also, no prayer can cancel out what had already been established by the judgement. In like fashion, the altar that birthed the antichrist can also be seen in Scriptures. It has already been cemented into prophecy and absolutely nothing can change it. At this point, you should become excited at the number of things also cemented by God through Christ concerning you that absolutely nothing can alter.

    The same Bible that said in the last days, the Spirit will be poured out on all flesh is the same Bible that says that in the last days, many shall depart from the faith. My question to you now is, which prophecy are you fulfilling? Both will come to pass. However, are you going to be a Judas or a John?



  • Appreciating the Body of Christ

    Last year, we explained a lot of strategies of the Kingdom of darkness. Their strategies are well-known to the people in that kingdom to the extent that it’s as though we in the Light don’t know what our agendas are. However, we don’t have to know it all before we can play our part in this Kingdom. The Kingdom of God we are in is the most organized, most excellent, most strategic, most aligned and most transgenerational. I’m not talking about Heaven; I’m talking about the Body of Christ. I know you don’t believe me but stay with me on this one. We are not going to talk about what applies to all of us. We are rather going to talk about what we think should separate us when it clearly doesn’t. It will make you appreciate the Body so much.

    Different Ministries: Same Spirit

    I Corinthians 12:4-5 says, “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.” In writing to the Corinthian church, Paul knew they were Greeks and had gods for everything. The god of thunder is different from the god of beauty and so on, in the kingdom of darkness. Every demon has its stronghold, ability, influence and infliction. Just like doctors can know which particular disease you’re suffering from based on diagnosis and the combination of symptoms you have, every demon has their signature on their victims that we can ascertain by discernment.

    However, in our Kingdom, it’s the same Spirit for everything. The one in charge of the Body of Christ is not your head pastor or your denomination’s president. It is the Holy Spirit. It is His Government. He is in charge of gift allocation, character development and even diversity of ministration. The Body of Christ is not as haphazard as we think it is. Some are crying for a governmental body that will oversee certain things, like the establishment of new churches, who gets to minister and which Bible versions should be put out of use. I’m here to tell you that someone is already in charge, and that Person will be here when you and I are gone. The Body of Christ will still continue to flourish no matter who leaves or dies.

    Differences of ministries is not a disadvantage at all to the Body of Christ. Two people can have the same gift and even the same office but there can still be differences of ministries. John the Baptist didn’t perform any miracle, Daniel never said “thus saith the LORD”, Abraham never uttered a word of prophecy and yet, they were all prophets. In fact, David is the one who prophesied about Christ the most in the Psalms. Abraham’s entire life was the prophecy itself and every time he spoke, prophecy was embedded in his words. Same office, different ministries. Paul said it this way, “If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?”

    See, we need each other o. I don’t know why we criticise each other for doing diverse things. We want Apostle A to address matters like Apostle B. We want Ministry A to do the things Ministry D is doing. Meanwhile, it is the same Spirit that is ministering to the Body in diverse ways. Everything everyone is doing is important. I shouldn’t expect you to be like me and you shouldn’t expect me to be like you. Yet, we are all expected to be like Christ. In this short life, each of our lives will exhibit Christ in a certain fashion idiosyncratically. Abraham is to fatherhood and faith as John is to love as David is to praise and authority. Solomon is to wisdom as Barnabas is to encouragement. We need each other as a Body because we are all different parts of the same whole.

    Different Streams: Same River

    There are different streams in the Body of Christ. There are ministries with a divine mandate for deliverance. Another into prosperity. Yet another into the Word of Faith. Another again into even wisdom. The mistake we make is that we think unity is conformity when the Spirit is focused on diversity. We can all prophesy but there are prophets. We can all teach, but there are teachers. We can all evangelize, but there are evangelists. We can all shepherd but there are pastors. However, everyone has what their ministry will point to.

    A stream is not a specific church but various similar ministries that follow a certain trajectory based on the mandate the Spirit gave to such a ministry. So if you see a pastor preaching about only marriage issues, don’t think it’s not important. Being a spiritual person doesn’t automatically make your marriage work. It is their mandate. If you stop them, it will explode into a problem far worse than you thought existed. The Prosperity Gospel is not from hell; it was a timely stream set up by the Spirit in an age where everything runs on money. Peter didn’t need money to preach on Pentecost Sunday but your fellowship needs it in our world today. To deny the importance of the Prosperity Gospel is sheer hypocrisy.

    Family System: the Kingdom of God

    I have come to realise that whatever stream you condemn will be eradicated from your life. Whatever you dishonour, you won’t benefit from. Anything you despise, you will lack. You see others with the gift of miracles and healing (although we can all be used to heal) performing signs and wonders all the time. You think it’s not about miracles? You will need a miracle one day and you’ll realise a miracle is not a luxury. Why is so-and-so always talking about spiritual warfare? Why is that one too always talking about success? See, inasmuch as every preacher is mandated to preach the whole counsel of God, there will always be an emphasis. The emphasis can be for a season, but a mandate can be for a lifetime.

    Different Emphases: Same Truth

    If your emphasis is about holiness, you’ll tend to think holiness is the most important thing so all the others with a lesser focus should stop theirs and focus on holiness. However, the Spirit of God is the one in charge of what should be emphasized at what time. Be careful of what you condemn. You may be condemning something orchestrated by God Himself. Daniel, Jeremiah and Ezekiel were all alive at the same time at a point. Yet, although the Scriptures they wrote were about God primarily, they all had different emphasis. They were in different locations under different circumstances. In fact, what God revealed to each one was unique. In Daniel 9, we see Daniel reading the book of Jeremiah.

    In one sect, fasting is at the core. When you are assigned to such a sect, you’ll fast as part of your consecration. Even though fasting is important to everyone in the Body, it is not necessarily given for all of us to fast all the time. There is no formula. Not every ministry is meant to go global. Some will stay at the local church level and be of tremendous help to their community. There is no need to put pressure on a local church to go global. Not every church will start a school. To one, God will say go. To another, He will say Wait. However, to all, He says love. In this Kingdom, we don’t assume how things should be. All things are possible and yet our extensions and boundaries are set by the Spirit of God. Don’t waste your time on “side missions” because of the external pressure of how things ought to be.

    Sometimes, in our bid to emphasize to the Body the emphasis of the season or of our mandate, we sometimes deemphasize some other things. In emphasizing wisdom, we de-emphasize prayer because there can be a lot of prayer but a lack of wisdom. Or in emphasizing power, we de-emphasize wisdom. I’m not saying it is wrong to do so. It is the work of the same Spirit. The people who are meant to keep emphasizing prayer shouldn’t be offended at such deemphasis. They should keep emphasizing prayer. There are times and seasons for everything. Fasting is important, but the disciples didn’t need to fast when Jesus was around, for instance. Thus, there are times where something deemphasized is overly-emphasized to bring balance to the Body.

    Different Parts: Same Body


    There are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

    It takes many parts to make a single body. That’s why the eyes cannot say they don’t need the hands. That’s also why the head cannot say it doesn’t need the feet. In fact, we cannot get along without the parts of the body that seem to be the weakest. We take special care to dress up some parts of our bodies. We are modest about our personal parts, but we don’t have to be modest about other parts. God put our bodies together in such a way that even the parts that seem the least important are valuable. He did this to make all parts of the body work together smoothly, with each part caring about the others. If one part of our body hurts, we hurt all over. If one part of our body is honoured, the whole body will be happy. Togethe,r you are the body of Christ. Each one of you is part of his body.

    So you see, we need to appreciate the Body of Christ more. The Same Spirit but different manifestations. One can pray for hours and years and never see angels. Another person drinks encounters like water. There are ones who can wake up and start prophesying. Others can teach all day if you give them the chance. There are some with the gift of administration like no other. How about the gift of helps? It is by the Same Spirit. We need to appreciate each other. There are those with eyes. Others are the arms that help the hands. Some are the ribcage who minister to their leaders. Some are the kidneys that make sure no evil doctrine enters the bloodstream of the Body. You may not like them o but they are necessary to the Body. Don’t expect the ear to play the role of the kidney, and don’t be mad at the kidneys for not acting more like the feet. This is the Body of Christ for you.

  • Understanding the Body of Christ

    I’m so glad that the diction around the priesthood is being claimed back by the church in recent decades. Words like altars, priesthood, shrine and sacrifice are not new to the traditional African man. The diction itself is not evil and has made its way back into the Christian vocabulary. It’s the practice of it that we must make sure to clearly distinguish. First of all, we are a royal priesthood, we have an altar, and we are beseeched to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice. These words are literally in the New Testament. Mind you, even in the Old Testament, God desired a kingdom of priests. That’s exactly what He got in the New Covenant as Christ made us kings and priests unto God. It may sound occultic to present yourself as a living sacrifice, but always remember that the enemy counterfeits. If there is a counterfeit, there is an original.

    Personal Altar & Corporate Altar

    A personal altar is for one person. Any other altar for two or more people is a corporate altar. Such altars include family altars, national altars, etc. Can one person have more than one personal altar? Abraham raised 4 personal altars. Job had a family altar. David raised a national altar to stop the plague. An altar is simply an embassy that gives spirits the visa to operate in our human world. As long as it gives spirits the legal rights to operate within a certain territory and intervene in the physical realm, it’s an altar.

    That being said, the biggest and most powerful altar is the Cross. Ephesians 1:7 in The Message translation states: “Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds“. By this altar, we receive power to become the children of God. By this altar, we are born again, born of God and a new creation. It is the brazen altar in the Tabernacle of Moses because it satisfies the wrath of God, offers a more pleasing sacrifice and enables one to come boldly before God.

    God in the Midst of His People

    For an individual in Christ, one has God with you, God inside you and God upon you. These are different expressions. However, as a community (2 or more persons), we have God in the midst of us. This arrangement is only available where two or three gather in God’s Name. Individually, my body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Corporately, we all come together to form the temple in which God dwells. Ephesians 2:22: “In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. Matthew 18:20 says, “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them”.

    This arrangement is one of the many things the finished works of Christ secured for us. We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession. Do you realise our priesthood here is not just personal but corporate, captured in the context of people and nation? The inheritance we have access to in Christ is not only personal but corporate. He has “qualified you to share in the inheritance of His Holy people in the Kingdom of Light” (Colossians 1:12). We are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. God was not only looking for an individual. He was looking to make us part of His family. We altogether are the bride of Christ.

    The Need for Koinonia Among the Brethren

    Any Christian that isolates oneself will not make it to the end. If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Please share this with your friends who believe in Christ but prefer not to be part of a church. If you want to pray for 40 days, pray alone. If you want to pray for 40 years, pray with the brethren. “I can pray and worship God in my room”. You won’t even do that for more than a year and you’ll stop.

    Even with keeping our consistency with our personal altars, it is necessary that someone close to you knows. Have time to pray with the brethren and have time to pray alone. Could you let someone else know that you have a scheduled time you pray alone, preferably your spouse? So that on the days when you find it hard, accountability will make sure you don’t quit.

    Baptism

    That is the literal idea behind Christ building His church. As He is building you and building me, He is building a corporate body. That’s why we are called brothers and sisters. We are a family. There is one baptism, one faith, one body, one Lord, one hope of our calling. Just as we are one Spirit with God, we are one Body. Just as the Father and Son are One, Christ’s finished work makes us one with each other. “Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are.”

    Baptism is not only a matter of repentance, cleansing and washing away. It is also a symbol of death and resurrection. Even more so, it is the technology by which Christ incorporated us into His death and resurrection. It gets better; it’s this same technology that makes us the Body of Christ. There is one baptism, not three. Just as there is one God, not three. Baptism is one of the finished works of Christ. Christ is the Head of the Body and we are the parts. He is the Vine, and we are the branches. We individually come together to form the corporate group and corporately, we come together to form one individual; the Bride of Christ.

  • Establishing the Kingdom: Building a Personal Altar

    Today, we are going to go through the practical ways for thy Kingdom to come into a territory so that the Will of the LORD will be done just as it is in Heaven. Last week, we fully got to understand that God has a role to play and we have ours to play. Such an understanding can cause a major shift in our prayer lives because when it comes to areas where we can take action, we will rather pray to God for instructions instead of praying for Him to do it.

    Is there witchcraft in your family? Is occultism taking over your territory? Perhaps, you’re abroad and the place is so dark you barely even find another person in the Kingdom of Light. There is a technology to uproot darkness from the land, so Light will rest on the land. There are so many examples in the Scriptures already. I have discussed this under the Gideon Strategy and also the Deborah Strategy. For today, I am going to lay the entire process bare so that with God, what looks impossible will become possible. You’re not small at all. You alone can light up the world.

    Personal Altar

    The first thing to do is to set up your personal altar. This is why many believers lose contentions and lose grounds. They come with blood sacrifice and you come with the Blood of Jesus. They come in the name of their gods like Goliath, but you come in the Name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies like David did. However, when it’s now altar vs altar, the Christian has no altar. Ow! In the Tabernacle of Moses, there were two altars. The bronze altar at the outer court is the Altar of the Cross, which gives you access into courts of God in the first place. However, the priest has a personal altar in the Holy Place.

    This altar was not for blood. The priests performed all the blood sacrifices on the bronze altar. Hebrews 9:12-14 informs us that the Blood of Christ is the best and that we need no other blood. Our personal altar is for incense. Not physical incense like in the Old Testament. Revelations 5:8 makes us understand that our prayers are the incense. Psalm 141:2 confirms that. I know you pray. However, there’s a way to attend to the altar. One is the fact that the altar needs to be serviced daily. Also, there are specific times it needs to be serviced.

    Prayer Watches

    God taught the priesthood He established in Leviticus to keep the fire on the altar burning continually forever. Also, there were times in the day when it was serviced. That’s what the Bible calls watches. See, when Jesus said “watch and pray”, He wasn’t only saying watch as in look. I know you pray, but praying only when you feel like it is dangerous. That means when you don’t feel like it, you won’t pray. Praying only when it’s a corporate meeting is also dangerous. That means you have no personal altar. To pray continually on your personal altar, have specific times you have intentionally set aside to pray. Pray at the watches. What are the watches? There are 4 watches in the day and 4 watches in the night. 12am, 3am, 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm. These were the watches from the Old Testament into the New.

    • 6am – Mark 1:35, Psalm 55:17
    • 9am – Acts 2:15, Mark 15:25
    • 12pm – Acts 10:9, Psalm 91:6, Acts 22:6, John 4:6
    • 3pm – Acts 3:1, Acts 10:30, Luke 23:44-46, Mark 15:34
    • 6pm – Psalm 55:17, Daniel 9:21, Ezra 9:5
    • 9pm – Matyt 26:40-41, Genesis 28:11-12
    • 12am – Exodus 12:29, Judges 16:3, 1 Kings 3:20, Job 34:20, Ruth 3:9, Psalm 119:62, Matthew 25:6, Acts 16:25
    • 3am – Exodus 14:24, Judges 7:19, Lamentations 2:19, Psalm 63:6

    One thing you’ll realise in these verses too, is that these are mostly the times God makes an intervention in the earth. These are the times marked for encounters for many also. If you don’t keep watch, you can easily miss seasons. It is a powerful thing to wake up at midnight to pray, for instance. Now that you know this, set an alarm and pray at these times. Start small and stay consistent. If you happen to be at school or work during your set time, pray within you. So you see how there’s no excuse to pray? You can pray for an hour everyday by simply praying for 10 minutes at 6 prayer watches. With time, the burden to pray will increase and you will pray till you are released. For now, start small.

    What will you pray about? Speak in tongues. If you need prayer points, then pray Scripture-based prayers only, for now. Once you are consistent and Heaven knows they can rely on you for your quota, you will be given assignments as an intercessor. You will begin to pray for people who don’t even know you. Be sure to study Scriptures daily too, otherwise your prayers won’t change you. Every priest lives a consecrated life. Your life will literally be shaped by the altar as you dedicate yourself to attending the secret place of the Most High.

    Next week, we will talk about how, with time, God will promote you to service your family altar and uproot many carcasses in your family practically. For now, don’t put aside what you have just realised. Act upon it. I will encourage you to read the Bible verses for the prayer watches. Don’t wait to set everything right first. Start today! Having a personal relationship with God and a personal prayer life is a must for every believer. It’s not for pastors alone. Start small and build. Before you realise, hearing God’s Voice, casting out devils and living an abundant life will become your new normal. For a Christian, the supernatural is our natural life.

  • Being Responsible & Playing your Role

    A theology that focuses on what Christ has done for us alone but depraves us of any form of responsibility and response is at one side of the extreme. If it was only about the finished works of Christ, the New Testament should have ended at the Gospels. Every single book in the New Testament gives us practical instructions, clearly showing that our part to play is not only now possible in Christ, but important. You have an assignment. This is the general description of everyone’s destiny in Christ. He gave us His Spirit, His Life, His Grace, in fact, Himself, so He can continue His good pleasures on the earth. It’s not only about what God can do for you, but what God can do with you and through you. Be an earthen vessel!

    If God Wants, He Will Do It

    “If God wants to do it, He will do it” is the mindset of an irresponsible person. It makes it look like certain things don’t happen or didn’t happen because God didn’t want to do it. It is very similar to “whatever will be will be”. It’s a philosophy of people who will never contend for anything and think everything will just be handed over to them. Even babies cry for help. Sit there and compose yourself as you suffer. Do you think the devil is merciful? He is the epitome of wickedness, my dear. It doesn’t matter what he has done to you before. It doesn’t matter how long he has done it to you. As long as you remain irresponsible, you’ll suffer for a long time.

    Your parents raised you because they love you unconditionally. They also raised you to be responsible. It’s the same with God. You will forever remain a baby Christian if you think everything is up to God so therefore you don’t have to do anything. It is babies who operate like that. Babies don’t have to work or even be responsible for themselves. They don’t even bathe themselves. Their parents do all that for them. However, a time comes when you grow up. The fact that you now have responsibility does not mean your parents have stopped loving you unconditionally. The Fatherhood of God raises us up to be responsible for our actions and input.

    See, God is always willing. That is always 100% the case. It’s not whether God is willing or not, it’s whether you’re responsive or not. There’s no instance where you do nothing. God provided the people of Israel manna but they were still required to go out and pick it up. See, things don’t just happen o…things are made to happen. As children, you see things happen. You wake up every morning to find food in the kitchen. You always have clothes to wear, you pay nothing to have a roof over your head and all. As an adult, things don’t happen. Rather, you make things happen. If you don’t speak, the mountain won’t move. If you don’t ask, you will not receive. If you don’t seek, you won’t find. Take responsibility!

    God will do what He alone can do. However, as a Father, He will never do what He has given you the ability to do. God will wake you up in the morning but He will not brush your teeth for you. He alone can do what He does, and He never does what He has enabled you to do. Read that again. If God did what you can do, you will say you did it. Yet, as humans, we want to play God’s part by taking things into our own hands, leaving the part we are rather supposed to play. God is the one responsible for giving you a talent, but make no mistake; He will demand a return-on-investment. Yes, God has demands. He will require of you. Everything He gives is free and yet, it will cost you everything.

    When we don’t understand these things well, we will ask God why He has woken us up in the middle of the night to pray and say “couldn’t He have used that energy used to wake us up to pray for something to just do that something He is talking about?”. Stop playing that “God, you can do all things” card on God and get up and pray. The fact that God has involved us does not mean He can’t do it on His own. It is a privilege He has given you to share in His glory. Don’t fail God. Don’t disappoint Him. Be a person after His heart by doing all His Will. Whatever the Master tells you to do, do it.

    What Necessitates our Role

    When God created the earth, He gave us the dominion. Therefore, anything God wants to do on earth should involve us. That’s the protocol He set in place. That’s why in Ezekiel 22:30, God is searching for a man. If a president wants to do something in a region, he does it through a Regional Minister. Otherwise, why will you appoint a Regional Minister if you keep bypassing the person to enact things in the region you gave them authority over? I hope you get it now. It’s a legality. You now understand why, although Jesus was predestined to be born, Anna had to stay in the Temple day and night to pray.

    Write this down and never forget it; NONE OF GOD’S PRINCIPLES CONTRADICTS THE OTHER. God does not break His precepts to fulfill another. God will not suspend one command to accommodate the other. Grace does not negate fasting. Faith does not negate works. Favour does not negate prayer. Mercy does not negate faithfulness. Forgiveness does not negate obedience. Love does not negate responsibility. Omniscience does not negate demands.

    Not only is our role important, it is commanded by God. God can do it without you but has chosen to do it with you. If you don’t play your role, it will amaze you the number of things that won’t come to pass in your life. Apart from the legalities involved, God is not going to waste His resources when there is no one on the receiving end. He is the God of abundance, not waste. If no one in a generation is responsive, He is patient enough to wait for another generation. What God wants to do will be done at the end of the day, with or without you. Your cooperation means it will come to pass in your lifetime. Your lack of cooperation means it will pass you by but what God wants to do will come to pass.

    God has a 100% track record. He has always played His part. If you take action, it is for your own benefit. You already know what God requires of you. You have already received instructions from God. If you obey, it is for your own benefit. God remains God whether you win or lose, succeed or fail, make it or give up. It’s up to you to obey God. Whatever you think is up to God to do is not a problem at all. Always have the mindset that God has already played His part because He indeed has. So at the end of the day, you can’t blame God for anything.

    If You Don’t Fight the Devil, He Won’t Fight You?

    I don’t know why, as a Christian, we are trying to avoid warfare. There has to be a deception somewhere. The Bible literally calls you a soldier, more than a conqueror, calls our journey the good fight of faith, instructs us to put on our spiritual armour and tells you who you are up against. Why are you running from the battle? Do you think the devil is not interested in destroying you or what? Someone who has checked your background, preplanned ways of destroying you and has tried to kill you countless times?

    In a way, you don’t even need to be a Christian for the devil to hate you. You just have to be a human being. Being a Christian makes your matter worse. He hates you completely. The book of Psalms says he will attack you “without cause”. That means it’s not your actions that causes him to fight you; it’s your identity. It’s not what you do that makes him fight you; it’s who you are. So stop accommodating darkness by hiding your light under a basket. By being Light, you have already declared war against darkness. The devil will fight you in many ways whether you fight back or not. You better renew your mind and take dominion. Subdue!

    God Knows, So What?

    In any outcome of our lives, the easiest thing – and also the stupidest thing – to do is to blame God. “God knew that it would happen but He made it happen”. You made a wrong decision but it’s God’s fault that He didn’t step in to stop you. “Oh God knew I would fornicate…”. “God knows how much I’m suffering so He will come through for me.” My friend, at the end of the day, you can’t use that as an excuse o. Jesus came to pay a very heavy price and yet, people still go to hell. Doesn’t God know that they will go to hell? God knowing means He made provision beforehand. Jesus said “God already knows what we need before we ask Him”. Yet, the fact that He knows does not stop the fact that we should ask Him.

    Throughout the Old Testament, we see that God came through for His people whenever they cried out to Him. They can suffer for many years but immediately they cry out to God, God begins the rescue mission. Do you think it makes God insensitive because He doesn’t step in until they cry out to Him? No! Why do you choose to suffer when you can simply cry out to the Lord for Him to come through for you? What is easier to do; cry out to God or suffer while trying to navigate the situation on your own? You get the point. You have access to God. You can cry out to Him in times of trouble and He will answer you.

    What God does sovereignly is none of my business because I have no part to play in that. However, I am responsible for the part I have to play. Is it intercession? Is it prayer? Is it submission? Is it diligence? I will do it to the best of the ability He has given me. He will give me more than I ask and will even give me what I don’t ask by His Sovereign act. That notwithstanding, I shouldn’t expect to receive what I don’t ask when I have been given the privilege of asking. Your decisions directly affect your destiny. We are not robots.

    Arise and shine. Pray and do not faint. Be diligent. Ask, seek, knock. Contend for your destiny. Pursue, overtake, recover all. The violent takes it by force. The work won’t do itself. You’ve got work to do!

  • Judgement Day: Giving An Account before God

    “Each one’s work will become manifest, for the Judgement Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.”
    — 1 Corinthians 3:13

    Heaven keeps records, earth keeps memories but fire keeps truth. The words of the Lord are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. If it is true and pure, your works will stand the test of fire like the words of the Lord does. On that Great Day, what will matter is not just what you did, but why and how you did it. God is not just the Judge of actions — He is the Judge of motives.  That Day will not be about numbers, applause, or stage lights. It will be about weight, substance, and eternal value.





    God will not ask what church you attended. He will ask what you did with what He gave you.

    You will give an account for:

    The grace you received (2 Corinthians 6:1)

    The gifts you carried (Romans 12:6)

    The time He gave you (Ephesians 5:16)

    The words you spoke (Matthew 12:36)

    The truth you knew (James 4:17)


    No one will stand for you. Not your mother or father. Not your leader or boss. Everyone will speak for themselves. It is a matter of accountability. Even Jesus gave an account to the Father: He said in John 17 said, “I have finished the work which You have given Me to do…while I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.”

    Even the Holy Spirit will give an account — just as Eliezer prophetically returned to Abraham to report on his search for a bride for Isaac (Genesis 24). In like manner, the Holy Spirit will give an account to God the Father on how He prepared a Bride for the Son. Jude 1:24 says He is “able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy”. If God is giving an account to Himself, what much more you and I?

    He has said in his heart, “God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see.”
    [13] Why do the wicked renounce God? He has said in his heart, “You will not require an account.”

    Psalms 10:11, 13 NKJV

    Don’t let anyone deceive you. You will surely give an account before God. If you know that God does not just accept anything, you will make every good effort to present your utmost for His Highest. It is time to re-align, to shift your focus and to re-examine what you have made the goal of your life. Nonetheless, make no mistake: Heaven will not be a competition of who got the most crowns. If that is your motive, you will miss the mark. Heaven is not about us. It is all about God. It has always been and will always be. Every good work will be ultimately accredited to Him because He deserves all the glory.



    On Judgement Day, your works will not be counted — they will be weighed. Every sermon, every song, every seed sown, every quiet obedience, every unseen sacrifice — will pass through fire. Not hellfire. But holy fire — the kind that tests purity and substance. If it was wood, hay, or straw — it will vanish. If it was gold, silver, or precious stones — it will remain. Did you preach because you were sent, or because you wanted a platform? Did you serve out of love or out of compulsion? Were you giving to be seen or as worship? Did you obey because it pleased God or because it pleased your brand? Even the devil can make himself look good sometimes. The fire will reveal what you hid behind charisma.


    You can build an orphanage and still be disqualified. You can run a megachurch and still hear, “Depart from Me…” (Matthew 7:22–23). Because God doesn’t just reward works. He rewards obedience. What He never sent, He won’t reward. Whatever you didn’t do in love counts for nothing (1 Corinthians 13:1–3). What you did for men’s praise already has its reward (Matthew 6:1–5). The fire will not judge your looks. It will judge your roots, not judge your façade. It will judge your fruit. Motives will be measured. Intentions will be weighed. Cain gave a sacrifice that was later in the law of Moses. It wasn’t the sacrifice. It was the desire to please God that enabled Abel to give a more pleasing sacrifice. It’s not just the sacrifice. It is obedience.


    IT’S NOT ABOUT ESCAPING HELL. IT’S ABOUT PLEASING HIM. For the believer, this Judgment is not about salvation. The Cross settled that. This is about reward. This is about pleasing the One who gave His all. Some will be saved as through fire — everything burned, only a soul remaining. 1 Corinthians 3:15 says so. But others will stand with crowns — not for their glory, but to cast at His feet.


    Live with that day in mind. You don’t prepare for Judgement Day by being busy. You prepare by being faithful. Check the heart that is behind the hands. If the heart posture is not right, the works of the hands won’t count. You don’t impress God by being loud. You please Him by aligning yourself to His purposed. So walk in the Spirit. Obey your assignment. Don’t compare callings or envy platforms. Don’t chase the applause of men. Chase after God’s own heart. Let eternity be your view. Let pleasing Him be your life goal.

  • The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

    The Fatherhood of God is the Pinnacle of all relationships. It is what makes inheritance and  reproduction possible. The highest revelation of the devil is as a deceiver. The highest revelation of God is as a Father. In all of experience, there is no relationship more transformative, more intimate, or more eternal than God being our Father. Not merely a cosmic Creator. Not just a distant Sovereign. Not only a Transcendent Being. Father. This relationship is not symbolic. It is real. It is eternal. It is heavenly DNA. The proof of this fellowship, the seal of this covenant, is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.


    When Jesus walked the earth, He did something radical. See, God had mentioned that He was a Father several times in the Old Testament but it was never a continuous personal reality to any individual. Jesus called God Father over 165 times in the 4 Gospels. He introduced a relationship with God that no Old Testament prophet had ever dared to define so personally: Abba, Father. Not just “God of all Creation” or “God of Israel” but Father. In fact, when He taught His disciples to pray, the very first line was, “Our Father who art in Heaven…” It was a revelation of identity that we are not talking to a Wind or Invisible Being; we are talking to a Person who is really our Father.


    To know God as Father is to know your origin, your identity, your inheritance, and your eternal home. A Father doesn’t just give commands; He gives life. You don’t only serve Him; you have access to Him. It’s not a formal relationship. It is a cordial one with all due respect, love and affection. This is the relationship God the Father has with God the Son. We were created to participate in the relationship that exists within the Trinity.

    Jesus: God the Son, Eternally from the Father

    Now here lies the mystery that grounds this revelation: Jesus, who is Himself God, is called the Son of God. Why? Not because He was created, for He existed from eternity. Not because He was born later, for He is the Word that was with God and was God. He is eternally begotten, not made, as the Church has confessed for centuries. If you believe Jesus was created, you are not even a Christian. This Sonship speaks not of time, but of relationship. He is God the Son, not merely in title, but in nature.

    He is the Son and therefore, everything is done through Him, by Him and for Him. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He did not become the Son when He was born in Bethlehem. Yes, a time came when He was begotten in the flesh as the Son of Man but He always pre-existed as the Son of God. He has always been the Son, because God has always been the Father. The sonship of men is a replica of the Sonship of Christ with God, not vice versa. Giving birth to a son makes us understand the eternal relationship that exists between God the Father and God the Son.

    The Original and Replica of Fatherhood & Sonship

    You cannot be a father without a child. You cannot be a master without a servant. You cannot be an employer without employees. Proof of your fatherhood is your reproduction of sons. Herein lies the depth of this truth: God has always been Father, not because He is the Father of Spirits, but is God the Father in the Trinity. That means He was Father before anything was created. He is the only Being in the entire universe with 3 persons so it becomes difficult to understand the Triune Nature of God. The Father is not the head of the Trinity. Remember that the Father and Son existed before there were fathers and sons. Our replica of having fathers and sons does not and cannot fully depict the relationship between the Father and Son.

    For instance, the Trinity does not have or need a mother. Also, in ours, the father is always higher than the son although the son grows to also become a father. A foreshadow is never a full depiction. The Trinity is not a hierarchy of importance, but a perfect unity of Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-equal in glory, distinct in person. Therefore, not every aspect of our replica is exhibited in the Trinity and vice versa.

    Also, even the arrangement of their names – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit – is simply because of how they were revealed to us. It is strategically and intentionally arranged that way but it has no ranking or hierarchy within. God the Father in the Old Testament, Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us, and the Holy Spirit was poured out when Jesus left the earth. Immediately we begin to think that God the Father is greater than God the Son, that means we make God the Holy Spirit the smallest of them all. That is not just a bad idea o. It’s an erroneous and evil one. How about when Jesus said the Father is greater than He, when He walked the earth? You’re right to ask for precision. Let me clarify.

    Is the Father Greater than the Son?

    When Jesus said, “The Father is greater than I”, He was not denying His divinity or eternal equality with the Father, but speaking in the context of His incarnation as the Son who had taken on flesh and entered into the limitations of human life. As at the time He hadn’t died and resurrected, the Bible said He was even made a little lower than the angels as clearly written in Hebrews 2:9. He suffered every affliction known to man and had to fully rely on the Holy Spirit. Though He was God, He did not think that by force He should try to remain equal with God. Instead of this, of His own free will He gave up all He had, and took the nature of a servant. He became like a human being and appeared in human likeness. Imagine God being hungry, tired, travelling on two legs, tempted, surprised etc.

    He was humble and walked the path of obedience all the way to death, His death on the cross. In becoming man, He willingly accepted a lowered position (not a lesser nature), humbling Himself to obey the Father’s will in the work of redemption. The statement reflects the functional distinction within the Godhead during His earthly mission, not an ontological difference. As God, He is equal with the Father. He was fully and truly God as He walked upon the earth as the incarnate Son sent into the world. However, because He laid down many of His God-abilities so He could carry our burdens, He acknowledged the Father as greater in position and authority within the redemptive order.

    📖 “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” – Matthew 3:17

    In this relationship, we see eternal love. The Father loves the Son. The Son honors the Father. The Spirit reveals and glorifies the Son. There is no competition in the Godhead. Only love, only joy, only truth.

    The Son of God & the Son of Man

    When Jesus is called the Son of God, it affirms both His divinity and His mission. What He did can only be done by Him. He is the Son of God as God and He is also the Son of God as Man, born of a woman, born under the Law, to fulfill the promise made to David. The Son of God became the Son of Man so that the sons of men will become the sons of God.


    📖 “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” – John 1:14

    He is not God pretending to be man. He is God made man, who took on flesh and yet remained divine; the perfect Son, the obedient Lamb, the image of the invisible Father. By Him, we understand what God intended when He created man. Through Him, we understand who God is. By His Sonship, we are drawn into this family. He reconciles God with man, fully representing God and embodying the fullness of the original intention of man as planned in Genesis 1:26.

    God the Father is the eternal God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the only begotten Son from eternity, shared perfect fellowship with the Father before the foundation of the world. Yet in love, Christ humbled Himself and took on flesh, becoming the Son of Man, so that through His life, death, and resurrection, He might bring many sons to glory. By uniting Himself with humanity, He opened the way for us to share in His relationship with the Father, which is no longer distant or estranged, but reconciled and adopted. Now, through Him, we can boldly call God our Father, for the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has become, through grace, our God and our Father (John 20:17), drawing us into the same covenantal love and divine fellowship that the Son has eternally enjoyed.

    Abba! Father!

    You can know God as a Judge and still be lost. You can know Him as Creator and remain outside the garden. You can even fear Him as Almighty, yet never know Him as Abba. But when you truly know Him as Father, everything changes.


    The Spirit of Sonship is what confirms our adoption. It is what makes us heirs with Christ, co-seated with Him in the heavens. It is what heals our orphanhood and silences the lie that we are abandoned. It is what gives us boldness to pray, to hope, to wait; because we are not begging strangers. We are coming to our Father.

    In ancient Jewish culture, adoption was not a common legal practice as it was in Roman society, but the concept of being chosen and placed into a familial relationship held deep covenantal significance, especially through inheritance and lineage. Unlike modern adoption which often involves bringing an unrelated child into a new family out of compassion, the biblical idea, particularly in the New Testament, emphasizes the act of God legally placing us as sons with full rights and privileges. Paul, writing to both Jews and Gentiles familiar with Roman law, uses the term “adoption” (huiothesia) to express the profound truth that, through Christ, we are not just forgiven but brought into God’s family as full heirs (Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:4-7). This spiritual adoption is not based on need or pity, but on divine purpose and covenantal grace, granting us the same status and access to the Father as His own Son.


    This sits at the heart of the Gospel: that God is not only holy and powerful; He is Father. And through Jesus the Son, He is your Father too.

  • The Bob Jones 100-Year Prophecy: A Timeline of God’s Agenda in the Body of Christ



    In 1975, prophetic voice Bob Jones, after a near-death encounter, was shown a panoramic timeline of God’s move on the earth—stretching from the 1950s to the 2050s and even glimpses into the 2060s. It was a precise divine strategy—each decade unveiling a layer of the progressive restoration of the Church before the return of Christ. As with all divine timelines, God invites us not only to observe but to align, so we may take our ordained place in His unfolding purposes.

    This prophecy reveals that history is not spiraling randomly. Instead, the Spirit of God has been faithfully steering the Church through a course of increasing revelation, maturity, and power, leading to the manifestation of the sons of God. Let’s walk through this prophetic calendar, decade by decade. That notwithstanding, there are still diverse emphases the Spirit of God places for every day, week, month, year and for every individual and church for His purposes and Will.

    1950s – The Power of God

    This decade witnessed the eruption of the healing revivals in the United States. Evangelists like William Branham, Oral Roberts, A.A. Allen, Jack Coe, and T.L. Osborn traveled across continents with undeniable healing anointings never seen before. Tent meetings drew thousands. Crutches were dropped, cancers vanished, the lame walked. In fact, creative miracles were happening before the very eyes of crowds. God was demonstrating that He had not changed. He still heals. The Body of Christ was introduced to a divine power that shook the foundations of cessationist theology. This was the beginning of restoration: the dunamis of God was back in the Church, just like in the book of Acts.

    1960s – The Spirit of God


    The Charismatic Movement broke through orthodox walls. The baptism of the Holy Spirit swept into Catholic and mainline Protestant churches. The Pentecostal experience, once confined to mushroom churches, was now invading traditional pulpits. This was the work of the Spirit restoring His rightful place in the Church. Leaders like Dennis Bennett and David du Plessis were instrumental in bridging the gap between orthodoxy and spiritual vitality. Speaking in tongues, prophecy, and gifts of the Spirit became increasingly accepted across the Body. The Spirit was now moving—not in the corner—but in the center.

    1970s – The Word of God


    This decade emphasized grounding the explosive power of the previous moves in sound doctrine. Teaching ministries flourished. Men like Derek Prince, Kenneth Hagin, Billy Graham, William Kumuyi, Enoch Adeboye, Uma Ukpai and Fred Price laid foundational truths in the Word of God. Bible schools sprang up globally. As God raised more teaching priests and prophets, the Word Movement balanced the Charismatic zeal with biblical literacy. Believers were taught not just to shout, but to stand; not just to receive, but to believe and confess. The Church began to mature into doctrinal discernment. This was God rooting revival in truth and character.

    1980s – The Prophets of God


    The prophetic mantle was restored in earnest. Bob Jones, Paul Cain, John Paul Jackson, and others—often collectively called the Kansas City Prophets—rose with accurate dreams, visions, and national-level words. The language of “prophetic ministry” returned to the Church after centuries of dormancy. In Ghana, this decade birthed prophetic fathers like Osofo Amoako and many others, who began with fellowships in communities. God was raising eyes and ears for the Church. No longer would we walk blindly—we would discern the times and seasons and take advantage of the moves of the Spirit.

    1990s – The Government of God

    Apostolic ministry emerged. C. Peter Wagner, Lou Engle, John Eckhardt, Pastor David Yonggi Cho, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, Archbishop Benson Idahosa and Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams began to articulate and walk in apostolic authority throughout the continents. Churches shifted from pastor-led models to apostolic networks. Governmental graces began to redefine spiritual territories. The doctrine of fivefold ministry was now more than theological theory—it was becoming an operational blueprint. The Church was being structured for Kingdom advancement.

    2000s – The Glory of God


    The Toronto Blessing, Brownsville Revival, and the Lakeland Outpouring carried tangible manifestations of God’s glory. Unusual signs appeared—gold dust, supernatural oil, glory clouds. While some mocked, others beheld glory. Worship entered a new dimension. Hillsong, Bethel, IHOPKC, and Jesus Culture gave birth to songs that became altar calls in themselves. In Africa, many ministries broke into architectural and global influence. God was clothing the Church with glory. The priestly garments were restored as kings took their rightful place in their high places.

    2010s – The Faith of God

    This decade ushered in the audacity of faith. Not just faith in God, but the faith of God. Mark 11:22, correctly rendered in Greek, reads “Have the faith of God.” This was echoed across movements. Bishop David Oyedepo built the largest church auditorium in Africa with zero loans. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome birthed healing schools and global evangelism streams. Faith was no longer an option—it was the operating system. This decade enforced the Word of Faith movement into the average lifestyle of the believer. With purity of conscience and yielded-ness to the Spirit, believers began declaring possibilites and confessions. God’s people were now speaking from His heart, not just to His ears.

    2020s – The Rest of God

    This current decade has seen turbulence—pandemics, political upheavals, and spiritual warfare. Yet, prophetically, it is the age of rest. Hebrews 4 speaks of a rest remaining for the people of God. We now learnt that true warfare is waged from rest. Apostolic voices like Apostle Arome Osayi, Apostle Joshua Selman, Apostle Mike Orokpo and Apostle Femi Lazarus emphasizes both His wisdom and power. The Body is entering a Sabbath dimension as we prepare for the next decade. Ephesians 2:22 is now a reality: God dwells in us cooperately by His Spirit. This decade will dismantle spiritual parasites and false doctrines to prepare the Church for long-term dominion.

    2030s – The Family of God

    Denominations will blur out completely. Streams will merge. It will be hard to tell if someone is Methodist, Pentecostal, or Charismatic. We will simply be sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. The global Church will function like a united family. Prophetic intercession will surge. If one is touched, all willfeel it. Global networks of intercessors will respond with coordinated firepower. There will be transcontinental collaborations for revival and reformation. Even now, movements like “The Send”, “PrayerStorm” and “OneRace” are precursors to this family identity. The truth is, what God starts continues. Also, what matures and manifests today was seeded years ago.

    2040s – The Kingdom of God

    No longer will the Church isolate itself in pews. The church will go beyond the four walls of the building. This is the age of kingdom legislation. Apostles will sit in parliament. Prophets will advise presidents. The model will be Daniel in Babylon and Joseph in Egypt. Theocracy will not mean religious dictatorship, but godly influence in secular systems. Isaiah 2:2 will be fulfilled: the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be exalted. Kingdom culture will override carnal systems. Nehemiahs will be governors and many saviours shall rise and lead nations into milk and honey.

    2050s – The Sons of God

    Romans 8:19 declares it plainly: the earth groans for the manifestation of the sons of God. This is the decade of manifested maturity. These will not be Christians merely in name—they will walk like Christ. Authority over weather, resurrection power, translation, and dominion over death will be normal. Like Enoch, they will walk with God. Like Elijah, they will call down fire. Like Jesus, they will live a sinless life. These are not pulpit-bound preachers. They are kingdom emissaries in every domain. The average Christian will be full of integrity and power.



    Glimpses into the 2060s – The Church in Glory
    Bob Jones once said, “I saw the Church walking in the glory of God. It had power over death, over the weather. You couldn’t stop them.” The saints will not only escape death—they will reverse it. Some will choose to stay or go, like Paul. These will be the dreaded champions of God. The earth will behold the Bride in full regalia—glorious, powerful, and unstoppable. It will be the Church that Christ returns for.

    This timeline is not fantasy—it’s prophecy. As aforementioned, there are still diverse emphases the Spirit of God places for every day, week, month, year and for every individual and church for His purposes and Will. This timeline pertains to the body of Christ. Names of men of God and organisations were mentioned to place emphasis only. Not every labourer and everything that has gone on was or could have been captured.

    Every fulfilled decade proves the veracity of the next. And we are not spectators. We are participants. Do not despise the pain of the process. Align. Prepare. Rise. You were born for such a time as this. The heavens belong to God—but the earth, He has given to the sons of men (Psalm 115:16). Let the Bride arise. Let the Church awaken. Let the sons manifest. Amen.

  • The Timothy Strategy: Warfare Strategies of the Kingdom of God

    “This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, [19] having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck” I Timothy 1:18-19 NKJV

    The Timothy Strategy will open our eyes to realise that prophecies are used to wage war. It will also make us realise that, in the case of Timothy, his war against false doctrine in Ephesus was a strategic warfare. As discussed, strategies have their place in any form of warfare. Even in physical battles, it is not mere might or numbers that win the war. To think there’s no form or use of strategy in our Kingdom is a lie we must totally throw away. Strategies are not formulae; they are wise instructions. They are not meant to be analysed but obeyed. They are not sourced from human intellect but from the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Based on the inspired Word of God, what we see are underlying principles, postures, precepts and patterns that the LORD is communicating by the revelation of His Word. Let’s delve in!

    The Timothy Strategy

    Paul basically wrote this first letter to Timothy for him to stay in Ephesus and fight against false doctrine. It gives us a Biblical template on how to fight false doctrine in a territory. There were personal postures for Timothy and corporate conducts the true church had to take to win this warfare. Just like you, Timothy had received a prophecy that he will cause the grand return of Ephesus to Apostolic Christianity. Here he was, listening to his spiritual father and receiving apostolic instructions to restore while maintaining his stance in Christ.

    In order to understand how prophecies come to pass, we need to understand the Laws of Change, very similar to the Laws of Motion God revealed to Sir Isaac Newton. Some things will change no matter what you do. Others won’t change unless you do something. There are certain prophecies where God is simply updating you beforehand; there’s absolutely nothing anyone can do about it to prevent it from coming to pass, although it still takes the interplay of men to fulfill it. Usually, we can easily over-emphasize the Sovereignty of God to the detriment of our own responsibility. What God has said will surely come to pass, yes, but it can pass you by and be fulfilled years after you’re dead and gone.

    Israel will still enter the Promise Land. The question is, will you die in the wilderness because you refused to participate or you’ll enter into God’s Rest? There’s nothing automatic in the realms of the spirit. Things don’t just happen. Persons make them happen. Waiting on God is not letting time pass by. If you do that, time will surely pass you by. Always have the mindset to do something, whether things will change no matter I do or the change is dependent on what I do. I have discovered that praying and studying the Word of God is part of the solution to every problem in the world. However, we ought to realise it’s not every situation that God will step in to do it for us sovereignly. It’s often a partnership. The prayer and Bible study will simply be an avenue by which God will reveal what we ought to do.

    Yes, God can do all things. Yes, in this particular situation He rather chose to give you strategies so you play your role accurately. The prayer and fasting gave you a revelation for the strategies, yes. Don’t be mad! That’s how God trains us. The prophecy is not the end. It’s rather the beginning of the warfare. So what did the prophecy do, then? It’s a decree, aiding your exploits. It’s a permit, legalizing your escapades in that area. Surely, you don’t expect God to do what you can do. God has never brushed anyone’s teeth for them. God does the hard part and leaves us with the easy part – which He will even enable you to do, by the way – so we can participate in His story.

    You Got Work to Do

    In the book of Timothy, there were clear charges on doctrines in the first chapter, instructions for worship in the 2nd chapter, instructions for appointing leaders in the 3rd chapter, apostolic instructions for personal conduct in the 4th, the 5th being generally about relationship care within the body of Christ and the last chapter concerns certain false teachings and strategic resolves to restore order and prevent falling into those traps. See, if there was absolutely nothing we had to do, the New Testament would have ended with the Gospels. Don’t let anyone lie to you. Christ has done it all! Yes. So we can also do ours through Him and for Him.

    What you become is more important to God than what you do. God is more eager to see His Word concerning you coming to pass than you are. Thus, it’s not just mere strategies “to do”. The many hours you spent in the secret place tarrying was not because God couldn’t hear or He was contemplating whether He should do it or not. No! It was for your own benefit. You were being transformed to conform to His Image. It is those who live in the fullness of the stature of Christ that walk in the fullness of the good works predestined for them.

    The volume of your books has been written. Graces have been given. The outcome of your story is determined by your willingness to fully yield to the fulfillment of God’s will for your life during your time on earth. It’s not just a privilege. It’s a responsibility. You will be judged at the end of the day; what you did vis-a-vis what you were predestined to do. There’s prophecies over your head. Jesus gave us a template with how He lived His life. He fulfilled over 350 prophecies within His lifetime with accurate precision. He wasn’t lazying around. He said “As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. The night cometh, when no man can work”. You are not going to be alive forever. Very soon, your chapter will close and you’re going to give an account of your life and all that was entrusted to you. O, there is work to do.

    Faith & A Good Conscience

    Fulfilling destiny is warfare. Having a baby is warfare. Raising a baby is warfare. Leading people is warfare. Taking action is warfare. It takes greater spiritual warfare to walk in victory with Christ than to live in sin and defeat. Yes! Those who paint a fairytale Christianity where everything is sweet and smooth because you have now surrendered to Christ have not read the Bible. “We must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom”. How do you work with God to fulfill the prophecies of God over your life? In order to battle false doctrines specifically, you will need faith and a good conscience. Four times, it was mentioned together in this particular letter. Faith here means “leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance” (AMP version).

    A good conscience is necessary for doctrine. If you have been fed the right doctrines for long, your conscience will prompt you when you hear a fable or false doctrine. All the same, you will need these in your specific warfare with your prophecies. If you lack a good conscience, you will begin to “help” God. You will adopt all sorts of ways and measures to skip His process because you feel time is running out. It takes faith to walk with God, and a good conscience to not walk away. Many prophecies weren’t fulfilled in people’s lives because they simply gave up before the set time. Remember, what God wants to do will still be done. His Words never return to Him void. Jesus will come and die for us even if Mary said no. If He has chosen you to do His good measure, pick up His prophecies on your life and wage a good warfare like a good soldier to see it come to pass.

  • Warfare Strategies of the Kingdom of God III

    Early this year in February and March, we discussed the Warfare Strategies of the Kingdom of God. We started with how God trained David the singer/shepherd boy to David the king warrior. We also explored Nehemiah’s strategy of a tool in one hand and a weapon in the other, Jehoshaphat’s strategy of leading the army with priests who gave praise as well as the Esther’s strategy of eradicating Haman, the decree against the Jews and promoting Mordecai. How God encountered Gideon and trained him was also extensively discussed (although God may lay it upon my heart to continue). Guess what? The LORD gave me about 9 names and I have only discussed 4. Today, we will discuss the Moses’ strategy.

    the Moses Strategy

    In Exodus 17:8-16, we see that the people of Israel were up against the Amalekites. This is before they even get the 10 commandments in Exodus 20. The Amalekites were literally the first nation to fight against Israel as they came out of Egypt. They attacked Israel unprovoked without a justifiable reason. I’m talking about the enemy coming to attack very early into your life when you don’t even know your purpose or what you carry. That near-death experience you had in your childhood and that trauma you suffered in your teenage years was an Amalekite move of the Kingdom of darkness to frustrate your journey.

    What did Moses do? When you are attacked suddenly, what will you do? When there’s a premature attack long before the kairos moment, how do you handle it? The Moses strategy. By now, you should realise that every story in the Bible is super relevant. Every word in Scripture was specifically chosen to communicate. Every battle fought in Scriptures speaks volumes because they reveal precepts, principles, postures, practices and patterns.

    The Secret Things are from the Secret Place

    The Moses strategy can only be used by those who have a rich relationship with God in the secret place. It’s not self-confidence. It’s not just showing up and acting like a boss. The LORD has already promised to help us out on the day of calamity. When it strikes, Wisdom will appear beside you and show you how to navigate the situation. Wisdom will direct your steps and show you mysteries no man can teach you. The average Christian has a more active outer court life than a priestly Most Holy Place lifestyle. Thus, we rush to enter the Most Holy Place when things suddenly go south. Problems shouldn’t draw you closer to God more than love does.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s about time we grew up. It’s babes who need a total intervention when things mess up. Every miracle in Scriptures included the participation of man. You may want God to get up and come and do it but isn’t it more romantic for God to do it through you? When you have an active prayer life and the altar of your secret place is on fire, the Amalekites strategy will not expose you. If your strength fails on the day of adversity, your strength is weak. We should be already ready before the day of battle because the enemy does not play by the rules. Moses didn’t pray so me too, I will show up and speak to the mountain because I don’t need to pray. My dear, you can’t fool spirits. If you don’t have it, you don’t have it. Whenever trouble comes and you see a man face it without praying for long in public, it’s because he already prays in secret. Refer to the ministry of Jesus!

    How to Do it Is As Important to God as What to Do

    When Wisdom tells you what to do, do exactly that. Moses does not need to fight in the battle himself. God is majestic; there’s a particular way He wants His things done. Wisdom teaches us who and how protocol and administration should be handled. If God tells you to do something, don’t just do it. Many people have been shocked to do what God told them and still see failure. You can hear God and do what God told you with your human wisdom. It will fail because it is the Wisdom of God that builds only what lasts. Once God tells you what to do, ask for His Wisdom on how it ought to be done. Wisdom is direct. It’s never ambiguous. Joshua in the valley, Moses on the mountaintop with Aaron and Hur.

    The Moses strategy is wisdom fully at play. Moses was to lift up his hand as an expression of the Hand of God destroying the enemies of God. It goes deeper than that. That was a picture of Jehovah Nissi, the LORD who is a Banner over us. His Hand is continually upon His people, and He lifts us up with His Victorious Right Hand. His Banner over us is Love, and He covers us in the shadow of His wings. A little problem, though. Moses is human and cannot stand and lift up his hand throughout the battle. Nonetheless, God is so vast that each human who comes to earth is meant to portray an aspect of God not fully known hitherto. That includes you and I.

    Understand this and it will forever help you in life; once God gives you Wisdom on what to do and how to do it, you plan your life in that direction. God is not going to tell you every little detail you need to do because the expression of your free will is still allowed within the confines of His Will. Did you get it? You are called to participate in His Will and every decision you make must be fully influenced by what He communicates to you. We saw that in the Nehemiah and Jehoshaphat strategy where it wasn’t a specific instruction from God that they do what they did but the strategy they chose was nevertheless in direct alignment to the Will of God expressed to them.

    The Place of Strategy

    By prophecy, you know what God wants you to do. By wisdom, you know how He wants you to do it. By strategy, you execute what He wants done. This pattern is also seen when Joseph talked with Pharaoh about the famine. It is foolish to strategize when you haven’t ascertained the Will of God concerning the matter. This upside down attitude of strategizing on our own before showing it to God to approve it is a waste of time. Everyone’s hands will become heavy eventually. If you really heard from Wisdom from the beginning, you would have listened and told Aaron and Hur to follow you to the top. The battle is won by the edge of the sword, yes. Yet, skill is nothing if you don’t have the Spirit. Don’t run into battle without a covering.

    Joshua and the people fighting did not realise that the outcome of the battle was not the number or the skillset or style. It was directly influenced by the covering. In the realms of the Spirit, just like in this realm, what you are allowed to do is what you have a permit for. You need a backing. How far you go is predetermined by what covers you. We ought to actively participate with God in the establishment of His Will in our lives and in the world. It was this encounter that led to Moses building an altar because the Name of the LORD has been revealed to him. I pray that as we plan and navigate life, God will order our steps in Him and bring us to the place of understanding that it is WITH Him that all things are made possible.

    The Moses Strategy teaches us to

    • have a rich hot-vibrant relationship with God on a daily basis, not when battles happen suddenly.
    • operate in the Wisdom of God to know precisely what to do – and how to go about it – in that given situation.
    • have a covering and permission for whatever we do in order to guarantee fruitfulness. Authority precedes strategy.
    • partner with God to establish His Will rather than having a mindset of watching God step in to do what man can do.

  • Birth Pangs, Burdens & Birthings of the Spirit

    What is a burden? Does the Holy Spirit give burdens? How can God have a burden? Even worse, why would God put His burden on me? Doesn’t the Bible say we should rather cast our burdens on Him? I keep hearing the word “burden” in charismatic circles now, and I’m beginning to sense the weight of one, but I don’t understand all this “burden” things.

    If any of the above is a question ringing in your mind, this post is for you. It’s not just for your understanding, but also a call to participate.

    Burdens of the Body

    When you become hungry, your body gives you a burden. When you enjoy intimacy and take seed, the pregnancy gives you a burden. Anxiety produces a burden. Lack produces a burden. Anger is a burden. Strife is burdensome. Nonetheless, it is important to differentiate between burdens. First of all, there are burdens of the body, soul and spirit. The burdens of the body is what Jesus communicated clearly in Matthew 6:31; food, clothing, shelter. By mentioning the basic needs, He captures the heart of things we really need – not out of selfishness but – out of necessity.

    Regardless, all men share these basic needs in common, as even Abraham Maslow also captured it in his theory on the hierarchy of needs of humans. Jesus also goes ahead to inform us that God is not pretending as if these burdens are not real or necessary. He actually says God the Father knows that we need them. The counterfeit of the needed burdens of the body is the unneeded cravings of the flesh. Such cravings want things that are out of bounds; privileges without responsibility, results without process, pleasures without restraints. This is why we need to beat our bodies into subjection.

    Burdens of the Soul

    The burden of the soul is for association, actualisation, relevance, acceptance and intimacy. Our will needs to know that there’s something to achieve and we are actually working to achieve it without overwhelming struggle. Our emotions are like tanks that need to be filled, and colours that need to be expressed. Our mind wants to engage in intellectual discourses and be part of a community where our efforts are considered, appreciated and are impactful. This is why God created all of us in a family. It is one of the reasons why we don’t need to neglect corporate gatherings.

    We are a family, God’s family. Yes, you can worship God in your room but fellowshipping with each other is also an important part of the Christ-like life. Our soul will begin to degenerate when its burdens are neglected, unrecognised and/or unmet. A lot of humans carry a lot of burdens in their soul and most of them are even unknown to us; past traumas, unhealed hurts, unforgotten embarrassments, unhinged triggers and many suppressed emotions swept under the carpet. If we live by the dictates of the burdens of our soul, we can end up in ungodly associations just for the sake of belonging.

    Burdens of the Spirit

    Do you want to know God more? Do you want to draw closer to God like never before? Do you want to know what it means to be a friend of God? Those are burdens. It doesn’t originate from our body or your soul. The burdens of the Spirit cannot be sustained by willpower of the soul or the desires of the flesh. Whatever is sourced from the Spirit is sustained by the same Spirit. Is it uncomfortable like a burden of the body or soul? Oh, yes. Birth pangs will never make you comfortable. However, it is not stressful. It’s a call to participation.

    After all the noise is gone, you can hear our spirit telling you to do the things God has placed on your heart. Do you hear your heart telling you that you must fulfill your God-given purpose because you can’t fail God? Those are the burdens of the Spirit. The more you listen and participate, the more the attention of your life will shift from you to Him. It’s not a burden you are made to carry alone. It’s a burden you are called to share in, and it’s easy and light. The role you play as a partner is powered, engineered, directed and completed by the help of God. When you choose to carry burdens of the Spirit, God will take care of your fleshly and soul burdens so that you are not distracted by them.

    Exchanging your Burdens for His

    There’s a platform for divine exchange. There are burdens of the spirit, of the soul and of the body. Jesus is telling us to give Him the burdens of our bodies and our souls and take the burdens of the Spirit. 1 Peter 5:7 said cast all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. The previous verse (1 Peter 5:6) told us to submit ourselves under God’s Mighty Hand. The burden of the Spirit is to see the Kingdom established in all the earth. When we seek His Kingdom first, He takes care of our cares.

    See it this way; you are an ambassador sent by a Great Kingdom to this land to accomplish tasks for your King. Won’t He take care of you? Why are you worried about what you’ll eat? Did you send yourself? Unless you sent yourself, you have no reason whatsoever to worry. Once I submit to Him, He places His weight on me. His weight is His Hand, His Glory, His Burden. I, in turn, need not now carry the burdens of my flesh and soul. I leave the rest to Him so I enjoy His Rest. I want to make you a great nation but you’re worried you don’t have a son? My dear, this goes far beyond you. It’s about my eternal purpose. Heaven has already finalised that your lineage will be through which the Messiah will be born. See, what God has promised you goes beyond you.

    LORD, what burden have You yoked You and I to? A yoke is what two oxen carry on their necks as they plow the harvest field. Both oxen are equally yoked so they can work together to achieve purpose. Imagine being yoked with God to accomplish His Will on the earth. That’s such an easy yoke and a light burden. Imagine God as your partner; that’s an ever-winning team. We are joint-heirs and co-labourers with God. I plant the Word, you water and God will make it grow. After planting, why should I worry that it’s not growing? So, which one of you by worrying could add anything to your life? (Matt 6:27). His burden is light because He is faithful, has never failed His part, already accomplished His part before you even came into the picture, and gives us mercy, strength, grace (in fact all we need) to accomplish ours.

    Birth Pangs & Birthings

    Burdens is how God draws us into Himself. Burdens will keep us exploring God for eternal blessings that eyes have not yet seen. We will not reduce the blessings of God to material things. It is eternal burdens that will keep you from settling for less because you see little results. Don’t stop as a fruitful field because you are a forest. God places a burden on parents to take care of their child at all costs. It is only the burden of Acts 1:8 that can cause the relentlessness of Acts 8:4. It is the men who carry burdens that are relentless. Consistency from the Spirit is not drawn from the motivation of the will. No! It’s because necessity has been placed on you to accomplish a task. That burden won’t lift, even if it takes 40 years, until God’s purpose is complete.

    When a woman becomes pregnant, she is so excited. However, that’s not the manifestation. That’s the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. She has received a promise, having been impregnated in the secret place by the seed – which is the Word of God. That is only the beginning. What she has is the substance. A person who has never witnessed a pregnancy will be confused as to what she’s carrying. She knows for sure that she’s carrying a baby. She doesn’t doubt it. However, she cannot remove what’s inside of her and still get the baby she wants. It’s a process!

    Sometimes you are not in a season of delay; the set time is simply not up. We don’t pray to reduce the process. We travail because we have birth pangs. We can’t sleep because we carry a burden within us. No amount of prayer can reduce a pregnancy period from 9 months to 9 days. It is painful but necessary. The substance ought to be fully formed in you. God is incubating something within you. He is cooking something that will change you. You are being changed to become who God is. It’s not just about birthing; your entire physiology is reshaping to accommodate not only the burden but the aftermath of birthing. Selah!

    The burden of the Spirit is conviction. It arrests you. Once you yield to it, it won’t let you go until His work has been done. On the other hand, the burden of evil is condemnation. Once you yield to it, you will degenerate yourself into nothingness. Conviction arrests you and draws you deeper. Condemnation imprisons you and pulls you down. Your call will place a burden on you. There’s a promise God made to you and until you see it, you will continue to travail. As we rest from carrying the burdens of our body and soul, we will not rest until the harvest field has been plowed.

    I therefore now entreat you! You are God’s partner. I charge you to participate and fulfill your God-given assignment. Go into the secret place and be impregnated with His Seed. Your pregnancy cause birth pangs and burdens. Travail until you give birth and the Word becomes flesh and dwells amongst us. Amen 🙏