How God prepared his people for the coming of His Son Jesus

These are some of the ways God prepared his people;

1-By giving them a promise Gen 3:15
A promise from God is as good as God Himself, when He promises, He will fulfill
God fulfilled the Promise in Gal.4:4

2-By Entering into a covenant with them- Gen.12:1-2; 17:7-9
We must to learn to wait upon Gods promises and He will give you and fulfill these promises at the right time. Pray for the grace of God to wait; don't hurry God. Abraham hurried God and ended up with Ishmael. The Lord our God is faithful He will answer you in the right place and in the right time

3-God prepared a family
He came through a family through a virgin girl- Mary. Luke.1:26

Salvation is bigger

Salvation is bigger than belonging to a church.

Salvation is even bigger than ministry; it is a personal relationship with Jesus.

Salvation is way bigger than a religion and/ or congregation.

Scriptural Reference: Matt 16: 13 – 18.

Get out of the crowd and start pursing Jesus on a personal basis.

It is on this basis that you receive certain revelations of God

In the flesh, we use the 5 senses for revelation.

In the spiritual realm, senses do not account for any revelation.

That realm of revelation is dependent on faith

Our mirror is the word of God.

What does the word of God say about you?       

When everything around you is saying contrary to what you ought to be as a Christian, look at the mirror – the Bible.

Scriptural Reference: 1 Cor. 3:16 –20, 6:15.

The Holy Spirit is not a feeling. We can’t feel things in the Spiritual Realm. We can’t walk the 

Christian Life basing on feeling.

We walk the Christian Life basing on the word of God, the Bible.

We are part and person of the body of Christ.

We are thereby supposed to lead our lives with caution and reverence because we are temples of God.

The Christian journey is a mental one more than anything

As a Christian, you should live your life based on the revelation that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God Col 1: 13

Where are you going?

DC is celebrating 50 years, but where are you going?

When you go to a place, leave it in the state you found it or better.

Even DC, are we going to repeat the same things that we have seen over the years or are we going to connect to a greater glory? God moves form glory to glory to glory.

Its not about possessions, but connecting to God's current moves, things of the world are  a by the way in the bible: Mathew 6:33, we are not talking about cars, houses, etc, coz they are a by the way, there is need to connect to a greater place with God.

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You need to get to a place where you are very sure you are walking with God at that moment..

We need to spend more time in the presence of the Lord and make out relationship with Him more solid, we need to pray and seek the Lord and its not only for the youth, but for the whole church of the Lord.

A saved person will definitely go to heaven, but even in heaven there will be rewards, and your reward in eternity is dependent upon the results you provide, when Christ asks you for the number of people you had to lead to Him, and you have none, what excuse will you give Him? Office and businesses is part of the work of the Lord.

The church is a place to be equipped for service of the Lord.

Concerning DC Uganda, aren't we tired of just being part of the society, as DC marks 50 years,  in the next 50 years we should be able to change the nation and society around us. We need to stop religion, just to fulfill a ceremony ,and we need to work with God in every part of our lives.

Christianity is not a duty, but a life style. We need to connect with Jesus. Is it possible for us to connect with something greater that what we are just used too?

Where DC is going you need to have an impact, you need to enter a hospital and people start getting healed, you need to have huge faith, for example as a church, say we are going to open up a number of churches in the Village and throw out the norms we are used too like Strategic planning and let God do what He wants us to do. Ask God for what He wants and let His will be done.

For Uganda, we are the Hope of this nation and if we connect to God, then the nation will connect to God. We've made ourselves so comfortable and we are not moving to particular places coz of different excuses.

Daniel 2:44 The stone that hit the statue and it crushed.

The new Kingdom will crash the work of the devil, we are living in the new Kingdom, we are the new Kingdom that will crush the works of the devil.

We are the ones to bring stability in this world, because we are the salt of this world.

We are in the times where God has come to crush other Kingdoms, our fresh start is to crush each and every thing and making sure that the Kingdom of God is reigning in every sphere of life.

God didn't put us here to survive but to dominate, you either catch up with what He is doing, or be apart of it, we are not just going to exists but have impact.

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Financial Principles

Seek first the kingdom of God  Mathew 6:33

If you are going to stretch out financially, then set out to seek the kingdom of God and also His righteousness.
You have to be a seeker of the Kingdom of God..
2 chronicles 31:20-21 Hezekiah did everything right, true in obedience to the word of God and he prospered.
Psalms 1:3, Psalms 37:25-26, You can break a curse upon your life and your descendants by seeking the Lord.

If you are to stretch out financially, first things must come first; Mathew 7:7

1. Ask and you will be given
2. Seek and you will find
3. Knock and the door will be opened

 Ask, Seek, Knock

When the fullness fo time comes, you will knock into your destiny.. Your circumstances will not be able to stop it, because the promises of the Lord are yes and amen...

Diligence Deuteronomy 8:1-2

1. Be diligent in what you are doing
2. Be consistent and hard working
3. Be persistent and careful

When you work hard consistently and persistently, being careful in what you do, the Lord will set you above, on high you will prosper in whatever you do...

When you are diligent in what you do, then you will become the only choice available... Everything will work out for you, because of your diligence.

Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 12:11, Proverbs 21:5
Be diligent in what you are doing, lets be diligent people of the Lord, so diligent that even your enemies will look for you..

Giving Malachi 3:10-12

Giving causes increase, first you must give to God, in that you are honoring God...
Honor God in your offering..
If God asked for 10% in the tithe, what do you think is God's minimum standard? Its surely 10%
Proverbs 11:24
Proverbs 19:17
Proverbs 3:9

Pharaoh doesn't mind how much you pray, preach fast, as long as he is in charge of your possessions, we need to set free our possessions form the york of the enemy because the Lord needs everything we have to worship Him..

End time events and why are they important to us?

Stage of preparation

We are preparing for the coming of the Lord, Mathew 24:1-3

1. When will these things come?
2. What wil be the sign of your second coming?
3. What will be the sign of the age?

Mathew 24:4, The most important preparation is not to be deceived... there is deception everywhere today...
Mathew 24:6, Wars, famine, the Gospel will be preached...

Although these are the signs of the second coming of the Lord, the Lord will protect His own people.

Rapture This is what we are waiting for next, 1 Thessalonians 4:13
When you are in Jesus and Jesus is in you, you don't die miserably, what happens is you just sleep and then wake up in front of Jesus...

When they wake up, they wake up before the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.. when the trumpet is heard, those who dies in Jesus will rise up and we who are alive together with them, we shall be caught up in the air, this is the _Rapture_

In the stories of the 7 churches in the book of Revelations, there was only one church ready for the rapture.. Revelations 3:10

Jesus is coming to take the church up, we don't know when, but He is coming, then there will be the time of tribulation.

Tribulation will be a time of trouble, it will take a period of 7 years..
The Anti Christ can't come yet, because the rapture hasn't happened yet.. 2 Thessalonians 2.

The Anti-Christ wants to control:
1- The Economy
2- The Military
3- Religion

Zachariah 14:1

The Lord is coming back with an Army...

Revelation 20:2 The Lord will allow Jesus to come rule the Earth for 1000 years...

Revelation 20:7-9

Final Judgement.. Revelation 20:11-18

So Easy to Love you

Opportunities of a lifetime must be ceased in the lifetime of the opportunity
There is no limitation on what you can do in this place, let go and let God.

God will call you His friend at the lowest point of your life
He doesn't say things like "When you get your act together, then we can be friends"
So you can walk around saying that you are a friend of God.

God looks at Abraham when he is lying about his wife (Genesis 20:2), but at the same time believing God.
He looks at him going through all those terrible times,

For example when your sick, you know that youre sick, but then your belief should be healing.
Its not a contradiction, but a statement of two realities,
And one of them is going to overwhelm the other if you just keep on saying what God says about you.

And if no one else cares about you, if no one else loves you,
Look at them and say
"You know what I like you God is that its so easy to love you, so easy to love you, because you are wonderful"

That's what the Father is, Love

Stretch out, don't hold back

Isaiah 54:1-6

“Sing, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband,”
says the Lord.

Barren – Unproductive, unfruitful, sterile, infertile, infertile
Fertile – Productive, fruitful

No one wants to be unproductive; everyone wants to be fruitful in every area of life – be it Business/ work, Education, Family etc.

However, it’s common tendency to find ourselves unfruitful. But why are we unfruitful? We can have many quick answers: Because we haven’t been faithful to God, Because we haven’t been obedient to God, Because we haven’t paid tithe, Because we haven’t helped the needy…the list can go on and on…

All these could be true reasons as to why we sometimes find ourselves unfruitful.

But let’s look at JOB in the Bible: – Job was a very prosperous man, God-fearing, Obedient, Humble, before disaster struck Him. He was rendered unproductive. Many people were quick to make judgement over Job of how he could have disobeyed God and so was suffering for his sin(s).

How about the sick, blind, deaf, barren etc. who are so since their birth? Someone asked whether it was their fault or the fault of their parents. Jesus Christ replied that for that particular case, it was neither their fault nor the fault of their parents; rather it was for the purpose of manifesting God’s Power and Glory.

One of the commonest questions every human being asks and the very question that has tested our faith in God is, “Why, even when I’ve done my very best?”

Why do we seemingly fail/ look inadequate when we have tried our very best?

To everyone who is barren, not because they haven’t tried hard enough, to everyone who has been faithful and seems not to see fruit”

God says, “Sing, Rejoice, shout, Cry out loud, changamka, amka, imba paza sauti, piga kelele…”

Take your eyes off those who seem to have achieved or have actually achieved; fix them on God – the Enabler who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think.

God will surely remember you.

“Enlarge the place of your tent,
    stretch your tent curtains wide,
    do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
    strengthen your stakes.

God in Heaven above has a dwelling big enough to accommodate everyone who will go there. However, for us here on earth, we have limitation of space..

God tells us to enlarge the place of our dwelling. This analogy speaks of much more than our physical habitation. How about if we enlarged our hearts to accommodate a little more of the unlovable, the weak, the timid, the disadvantaged…etc.?

Many more are to be added to the number in the church; are we ready to receive them? They surely will come in all shapes and sizes; we need to enlarge our dwelling place both physically and at heart to cater for the numbers that will be added unto us.

An enlarged tent will surely demand for longer ropes and pegs driven deep into the earth/ ground. Otherwise, the tent will collapse! So, even as we enlarge our hearts to accommodate more people, we should be ready to be firm in our Christian stand lest our tent collapse with us and them in it.

For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
    your descendants will dispossess nations
    and settle in their desolate cities.

We as Christians need to increase our foot-print. God has given us the ends of the world to conquer and subdue. Recently, the world woke up to the news of a firm Seventh Day Adventist Christian who put his foot to the ground and did the un-imaginable. Nullifying the presidential election results for a sitting president in Africa had never been heard of. What this man did was not rocket-science. He simply chose to defy pressure from all angles and remain true to his Christian belief and conscience and did what he was lawfully supposed to do.

We need true Christians in all domains of work, both in the government and private sector, in all professions – Judiciary, Legislature Banking, Surveying…etc. We don’t just need them there; we need them there to do their Christian duty of bringing life to the desolate cities. We need them to plant Christian seeds in those places so that life again can spring up in those areas.

“Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.
    Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
    and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

Fear not! We are told not to be frightened. Who is telling us not to fear? God. Who can stand against God? Of course no one.

In our country and throughout Africa, a barren woman cannot raise her voice in the midst of married women with children. It’s usually the case that a woman who cannot bear children is forsaken by her lawful husband and disrespected among people despite her level of education or position she holds.

How can such a woman sing out aloud? It’s shameful. But God tells you that is seemingly barren in some area of your life to shout, to sing to rejoice…


For your Maker is your husband—
    the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
    he is called the God of all the earth.

For your husband is your Maker – His Name is YAHWEH of Hosts – and The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
God is your Refuge – when you have no one to run to
He is your Restoration – when you are broken. He will repair and rebuild you. He will make habitable the desolate areas of your life.

Psalms 27:1 says, “The LORD is my Light and my Salvation, whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life, of whom sham I be afraid?”

God will shine His light upon you. He will rescue you from whatever is seemingly devouring you.


The Lord will call you back
    as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,
    only to be rejected,” says your God.

For the LORD has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected” says your God.

The LORD is your Comforter – When you are cast down in spirit. You have no one to talk to you. No one has time for you. No one seems to listen to you. Almost everyone is busy judging you and throwing blame to you for barrenness, God will be your Wonderful Counsellor. He will listen to you. He will make you fruitful and your children will surely surpass those of the married woman.

Confronting giants

Revelations 13:11
I Will not die, I will live..

Psalms 118:17
I will declare the goodness of the Lord.

Giants present themselves differently
-Money
-Family
-Health

3 John 2

Being healthy is not being absent of disease, you need spiritually healthy too.

Health means  complete physical, mental and social wellbeing.

To prosper in all ways means that whatever you do, us a success.

Knowledge ~ What is knowledge? Proverbs 1:7 When you know God, gear Him and follow His instructions (read the Bible), then you will prosper.

Knowledge of the Holy one is understanding.

Let us be organised, purpose to find out how healthy you are, find knowledge for the things in your life.

Know who who are.

Genesis 1:1-34

God created man in His image

Man is a spirit he has a soul and it lives in a body.

When you get born again, the soul receives life, and your spirit becomes one with God

If you have spiritual ignorance, you die, Adam dies because of ignorance of the God who created Him.

God gave Adam instructions, but he compromised himself.

Jesus is Spirit and He came in the body, so that He can interact with human beings.

You we created at the beginning, God doesn't create people every day, you we're created in the beginning.

Ignorance is bad

Corruption through the body bought ignorance in to the man, the  spirit is like a magnet, what goes in, stays in and produces fruit.

Before you do anything, you think about it, conceptualize it and then do it, the problem is that we try to deal with the out come, when its too late.

You will not go to the presence of the Lord and say that you never knew, your spiritual life is more important than any thing. God is not a human being to think the way we think.

What men have done is to familiarize God, people have created systems, when they learn how the system works, they start working the system.

Christianity is more than what we know, more than what we make it appear.

A Christian who is ignorant is like a solider with a gun and is blind. When ignorant if the word of God, you are like a wave tossed up and about, an ignorant Christian doesn't know what to do when in trouble, when things are not going our way, but the good news is that we have Jesus Christ in our side.

We need wisdom, wisdom comes through the spirit of the Lord...

The holy Spirit is responsible to teach us, He reminds us if the things that were taught to us, if a man doesn't have the spirit of God, God doesn't know that man..

When you become full of the Spirit if God, you will move in the spiritual realm were the body cannot move.

The Spirit of God dwells in you, he doesn't live you, you just become ignorant of His presence in you.

You should not be a victim of circumstances, but a Victor of circumstances..

Exodus 39:13-15

People used to be anointed in order to minister, but we have reduced the anointing to Olive oil.... You need the anointing, don't get tired, because you don't know how much longer you will be on Earth.

Even the life you have, is not yours, if you love your life, you will loose it, know who you are

John 1:1-4

God spoke the word and wisdom cane, when we speak, we r to speak the word of God.

If you are to over come, you need knowledge of the word of God, when you have the word of God, you know God's part and yours, you need the word of God.

Things you need to over come the world

Knowledge
Wisdom
Understanding
Anointing
Spirit of God

Isaiah 26:3 You will be in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on the Lord, you need the peace of God...

Have the peace of God, its a free gift from God, and its for overcomers, know who you are.

Raising a Godly family

Men, we protect women and children wherever we are, whether they are strangers or not, but once you are present, speak up.

The favour of the Lord will go before you.

Keep faithful to the Lord and He will make your paths straight.

Raising a Godly family.

Institutions ordained by God:

1. Family
2. Church
3. State

Each have there own responsibilities, one cannot do what the other is supposed to do.

God attaches very high value on the family.  He personally put together the first family.

God sent Jesus through a family, because He holds the family as a very important organisation, He would have sent him directly. 
Today the family is under attack,  Genesis 6:6,

If we are going to do something about a family, then we must go back to the foundations of the family.

Once the foundation is set right, then the organisation will last.

The foundation needed for a Godly family

God created family and marriages to be sweet fulfilling and to bring great joy.

1. A family is a reflection if the relationship with God, every relationship God shows us is a reflection of the family.
2. A family is the medium through which the kingdom of God is extended. Genesis 1:28, as the family extends, so does the kingdom of God.
3. Malachi 2:15 God demands Godly offspring.
4. A family is a place that shows the heart of God.

As a father, you need to mentor your Children, a firm them and bless them... Children without the father's blessing people get ruined, it takes a father to turn a girl into a woman and a boy into a man.

Its important for fathers to affirm there children, when fathers don't do that there children get ruined.

Genesis 18:18-19

The family is at the foundation of every nation.

Until the family is able and experiencing prosperity, the nation will not prosper, it will have no future, 

The hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world

The foundation of a family is marriage, the quality of the marriage will determine the quality of the family, if the marriage is weak, the family will be weak and vice versa.

A marriage is a covenant not an agreement or contract. Malachi 2:14

A covenant gives 100% to the other person, its business where you give a percentage less than 100%.

The job of the husband is to love the wife, irrespective of whether they submit to you or not.

1 Peter 2:3

Its not for you to change the lady but its for you to love them... 

Young people, how do you live your life?

1. Build your faith and walk with Christ. 
2. Build your values, values are very important in life; honesty, character, skills, these are much more important than what you can do, God looks at the heart. 
3. Obey your parents and those with authority over you. 
4. Keep your sexuality. Your sexuality is your birthright. 
5. Be patient, because there is time for everything.

Sanctify Yourselves #Confronting Giants

Preaching by Elinor Chemonges

Have an expectation like never before, because the Lord is here.

Confronting Giants in life

Psalm 84:4-7  

Let’s continue to go higher in the Lord, when the Lord is taking us higher, He is with us, every step of the way.

Joshua 3:1-13

We shall overcome giants only in the presence of the Lord, there is no giant that is greater than the Lord.

The Lord has promised to go with us, be with us, and fight for us.

Haggai 2:9 God want to do greater things in our midst. It’s beautiful to be in the presence of the Lord, but the Lord we serve is a holy God.

The Lord is very clear, He is calling us to sanctify yourselves for he wants to do wonders in our lives.

Joshua 3:5 Sanctify yourselves, for the Lord will do wonders in you tomorrow, if you are going to see the work of the Lord tomorrow, then sanctify yourselves.

Sanctification is a personal thing, you have a part to play.

Hebrews 12:1, what does it mean to sanctify yourself?

Whatever your weight is, it might be a habit, attitude, sin, memory, etc., but there is a weight that could be holding you, let it aside, because its stopping you from soaring high and getting into the presence of the Lord.

When you get into the presence of the Lord, He will do wondrous things in your life.

Like the Eagle, it renews itself by removing its feathers, beak, and claws, let’s sanctify ourselves, let’s let go of the weights that have hindered us from accessing the presence of the Lord.

Once the Eagle has renewed itself, it can then saw, hunt, and also greatly increase its life span.

Joshua 7 The armies of Israel were defeated, because Akan had done what the Lord had refused the Israelites from doing, because of this sin, the children of Israel could not stand in front of their enemies, but until they had destroyed the items that Akan had brought in their camp.

When we are in right standing with the Lord, then we shall overcome every giant that stands in our way, the Lord is a God of renewal, He is a God of a second chance, He will surely restore you, you can ask for cleansing, and the Lord will work in your life.

Sanctify yourself, lay aside every weight that could be pulling you down

From Oppression to Restoration.

A giant is something that's bigger than you.

Because its bigger than you, it's imposed over you and it can challenge you.

Sometimes we fear giants because of their size, the imposing on them there is always something bigger than you wherever you go.

Moving from oppression to a place of restoration.

Oppression comes in different forms, it means you are put in a Conner by a power or something that's greater than you.

The first instinct of facing oppression is to run away from it.  Sometimes you have to face the oppression.

You have to back back at oppression, you have to respond to this fear.

Oppression is a place of captivity, its a place of no choice. But there is a way out, the power of the holy spirit will provide a way out.

Oppression takes faith out of you and puts fear, it takes courage and puts anxiety. Oppression takes something out of you and replaces it with another thing.

Isaiah 35:1-10

The wilderness will turn into a stream of rivers, the God we serve is able to break the back bone of oppression, your weak points will be made strong to accomplish the will of God in thus life

Ecclesiastes 7:7

When oppression comes in, a man can become mad.

When you are oppressed, you use reason, why are there Christians today who are part of exploitation, its because they use reason when faced with oppression. Be content in the Lord.

You shall not be ignorant of what God has for you.

Powerlessness causes depression, it causes you to dine with the enemy, with hope that he will help you out of it.

The word of God is a powerful too that will take us from oppression to restoration.

We are oppressed because we don't know what is in the Bible, how much time do we spend in oppression with no knowledge of what is in the word of the Lord?

Oppression will make you loose your alertness.

In order to move to restoration, you need knowledge of the word of the Lord.

 

May God Himself, bring you to a place of restoration in your life. 

Isaiah 36  Isaiah 37  Isaiah 38

Confronting Giants of life

Even in the old times, the children of Israel had obstacles along the way.

The place of enlargement in between now and then, there is a lot of work to do. There is a journey for your to move until you arrive at the promised land.

The challenge is that we sit down and do nothing.

There is always a journey for you to cover, keep being occupied, keep moving until you reach the destination God intends you to be.

David after being anointed to be king went back to looking after sheep. 1 Samuel 17:3 every one feared Goliath.

David realised that the killing of the lions, bears was not by his power, and because of his testimony, when he saw that Goliath had terrorised the army of Israel, his spirit was steered up, where others had seen death, he saw victory.

You might be waiting for that door to open, for that opportunity to arise, things might not be moving the way you would want them to move, but the word of the Lord is true, God doesn't change, his word is life. When God says stretch out, Stretch out. 

Keep your trust in the Lord  

Remember before you got that job, how much you fasted for it, how much you prayed for it. Now the job looks like nothing, but if you remember how God levelled that mountain for you, He will surely level the mountain ahead for you.

Its possible to forget the things the Lord has done for you and you start the take the things he has given you for granted, but take them seriously, and those testimonies will build your faith.

David had the testimony of confronting the Lions and Bears while looking after sheep, that  steered up his faith in the Lord.

Keep your morale high
Some times we miss opportunities because we think that we are not of the status of the opportunity, for example you leave a good managerial job just because it appears high.

Desire big things. Think about how big you can achieve, how much more you can achieve, keep your vision large.

Keep your morale high, don't say your too young, or too old. Joshua 14:10 He didn't think of his inability, he instead asked for a land for him to take, because he was still strong.

Speak to your situation. 
Speak the work of the Lord in your situation, it will obey, speak to luck, God has taken the place of abundance, you will not luck.

The word of God will work for you. Every time it spoken, it works for you.

Do not fear, do not give up. 
Hold on to the promise of the Lord, the giants you see today, are not real, step out to that thing that you are and you will be shocked how much you will prosper, how much you will win.

Fear not, fear not, for you will not be ashamed, neither will you be confounded, you will not be put to shame, stretch out, you will not be put to shame.

The Lord will walk with you, He will change your life,trust God, go for something bigger, risk, the Lord likes people who risk, who believe in Him. He will not fail them.

Go out and overcome, there is nothing that will fail you, absolutely nothing will fail you.

Stretch out

Confronting Giants

Psalm 42:1-11

This Psalm talks about  the war that happens within when you confront your giants. With the enemy questioning where your God is and if He is real.
The giants around us in our different aspects of life can be so many, in ministry, in the marketplace even in our homes.

How do you conquer these giants?

Everyone needs an enemy. Everyone needs an adversary. Everyone needs a giant.
Everyone who was called by God had to have enemies. Joseph had pride, an enemy within himself. His parents and brothers, Potiphar's wife. Moses had to defeat Pharoah.

Giants are necessary because they define us. If there was no Goliath, we would not know anything about David. If there no cross, we would not know about Jesus Christ. Face and confront your giant because that is what will define you. If you do not face your giant, you will be defined by nothing.

Understand that it all starts with you shining your light bright - by being the salt and light.
Matthew 5:14-16

There is always a danger when our light shines the brightest. We tend to hide our light so that our enemies do not see us. When we shine our light, we attract good people and enemies too. Your giant is revealed when you shine your light brightest. Don't be a secret agent. Be a public agent.
Preach the gospel, move in influence and tell of the goodness of the Lord.
Giants are not attracted to little things. Goliath called David little. Giants do not seek out people who are hiding.

Victorious living means you have defeated your enemies and giants. Once you defeat an enemy, you move to another level. What keeps us from moving to other levels is failure to confront our giants.

Proverbs 16:10
Isaiah 26:3
When you face your giant, you have to keep your mind on the Lord.

Psalm 18:28-30
Psalm 91:7-8
You cannot confront the devil with your imagination or cleverness but only by the Word of God. Speak the Word of God!

Ways of confronting and conquering giants.

1. Love your enemies.
Your physical enemies, those who say evil about you and do bad things to you, love them! They will see the goodness of the Lord to you and know that truly you are a child of God. They will be drawn to God that is why you should do it the Jesus way!
Matthew 5:44-45

You must love your giant before you defeat them. Get close to them and minister love and salvation to them.
In Acts 9, Ananias had to face Saul the giant who had been persecuting the church for him to receive salvation.

2. Confront principalities and powers not flesh and blood.
We conquer when we avoid personalizing the giants. They are not flesh and blood even when they appear so.
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15
We fail to defeat giants today because we react in flesh and blood.

3. Know that vengeance is for the Lord.

Giants manifest through the people around us. Don't seek compensation against your giants and enemies, only compensate them for the harm they have caused.
Do not try to help the Lord in vengeance.
If we seek vengeance on our own, the world will become handicapped.
Do not fight back.

Philippians 2:13

Leviticus 19:18
Proverbs 25:21-22
Deuteronomy 32:35
Exodus 21:23-25
Matthew 5:38-39

4. Giants are crucibles and furnaces for our destiny.

God always turns your enemies into crucibles.
Joseph comforted his brothers who had oppressed him. they were the furnace that God sent to refine him. to get him to his destiny. him defeating the giant was good for him, his family, their children and the entire world.

Proverbs 17:3 

Genesis 50:19-21

5. Let the wheat and weeds grow together.

Evil will always surround us. Our focus should not be on illuminating it but on advancing righteousness.
Jesus teaches us the parable of the weeds in Matthew 13 to allow righteousness and evil to grow together. We should not eliminate anyone from the kingdom but advance the kingdom at all costs, allowing evil to be seen for what it is. In the end, we shall know what is wheat and what the weeds are. When you fight your giants, don't eliminate them from the Kingdom, they too must be saved.

6. Learn to push back.

There is a place for physically pushing back as long as we focus on principalities and powers not flesh and blood. When you do that, you will stand! As long as you are standing on the truth of the Word of God.
Nehemiah 13:19-21

7. Know that the battle belongs to the Lord.

All our focus should be on God. We should not be afraid because the Lord is sovereign and in control. Do not try to win the battle on your own.
Focus on eternity - that is the greatest victory of all!

Confronting Giants

1 Samuel 17:1-10.

Goliath used to make threats while his armies were drawing closer, probably Israel's army was retreating.

Jesse told David to deliver something to eat to his brothers. 

The king would offer gifts to whoever would fight and win Goliath.

David stopped looking at the huge tall Philistine and noticed that he was not circumcised.

1 Samuel 17:29

Let no man's heart fail. After 40 days, Soul gets a man who was brave enough to confront Goliath.

Proverbs 19:15

"And this uncircumcised Philistine will he like one of them." - Speak to that challenge and tell it those words.

For the Lord who has delivered you out of all your challenges, He will deliver you out of that challenge too.

And Saul said,  "Go, let the Lord be with you"

Sometimes when you when desperate, you use unconventional things.

We shall not confront the enemy the way we've always done and think we shall win, we have to use in conventional means.

This one morning, the scenario has changed, the picture has changed.

David approaches Goliath in the name of the Lord, the God of the armies of Israel.

When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled...

The children of Israel came and destroyed the camp of the Philistines. 

Godly Parenting

 What is Godly Parenting?

When you look at your children, don't look at them considering the nucleus family alone, you are raising a giant, nations.
You are raising up giants when you look after children, you are not raising up dwarfs,your children need to build spiritual muscles, not being tossed up and down by other religions.

What do children symbolize?
Proverbs 22:6

Children represent the future of our livelihood.
David perused and recovered all the children and wives that were stolen by the Philistines.

When God gives you children, then your future is bright.
As parents you are supposed to prepare the children, nature then, instruct them and command them into the statutes of the Lord.

Godly parenting means grooming a child so that the child can achieve there true purpose for life, this means that you are partnering with God to raise the Child spiritually, morally, mentally and physically.

Train the Child in the way he should go, and not the way you should go.

Proverbs 29:15
Don't live the child to the guidance of his own will, otherwise, they will by default choose wrong.

Isaiah 28:10

Have the wisdom of handling children, build them up in love.

Children are not the same, even when they have come form the same parents, so train them in love and be patient with them.

Train the Child knowing that much depends on you.
There are three things that can change one's destiny:
 - The Grace of God.
 - Nature, Paul struggles with nature in Romans 7:24
 - The training provided to the person

Parents are not to abdicate there responsibility to there family, to there children, train your child in a way they should grow.

As people partnering with God, look at your child as a page for you to write good things...

Godly parenting

Psalms 127:3

Blessed r you when your quiver (bag) is full....

Genesis 1:26

God expected Adam and Eve to bring up children in there likeness, and the likeness of God is embedded in Adam and Eve, so the likeness of God would be embedded in the children.

God is looking ahead in time in terms of Generations for your family.

In Genesis 6, God is grieved by the population of the Earth, God is not just interested in numbers, but also interested in the quality of the population.

God wants to:
-Live and reveal himself on the Earth.
-To manifest His character and authority on the Earth.

This could be manifested on the Earth through Godly parenting.

Genesis 5:1 Summary of Adam's life

Godly parenting is not just about getting a child and providing for them, it involves naturing, instructing, directing, love, etc.

God wants to affect nations, wants a holy seed, wants to manifest His glory on Earth through mankind.

God wants man to partner with Him in order to affect nations.

Genesis 18:16

Whatever the plan of God is, children are not far from it.

He chooses Abraham because he will direct, command his children after him.

The work of parents on the Earth is to bring up spiritual giants in their children.

Man is not only a physical body but is also a spirit.

Man is accountable to God, our children must be accountable, must be responsible.

Isaiah 58:12

Parents r supposed to raise up foundations for generations.

Godly parenting means pointing your children to God...

May God give you the grace to produce children who will fear Him...

God's design for the family

Whatever family you live in, God has a design for it.

God's design for the family is built around worshiping Him. Your main purpose in this life is to worship the Lord and glorify his name.

Deuteronomy 6:4-7

It can be challenging to be a Christian in a place sounded by non believers.

Paul wrote the roles of every family member, the Husband, Wife and Children.

Worshiping together as a family encourages peace.

If you worship together as a family, that sin is dealt with.

Worshiping together encourages the right doctrine.

When you don't worship as a family:

Genesis 4:7

2 Samuel 12:10

When you don't worship, you give the devil an opportunity to cause you to sin.

When you sin, you give the devil the legal right over your life.

2 Samuel 15:1-6

If you don't worship with your children, you will never know them, you won't know who to help. You won't know the one to correct and help.

Its not too late to start praying, worshiping God together, you can start worshiping him together. 

Sex

Psalm 100:3

Serve the Lord with gladness.

Restore the things that God wants you to have.

Let all the gifts that ever manifested in you to come.

Whatever mountain, valley, challenge you are going through, it has an expiry date.

After every storm, the sun will smile.

Sex: Meaning got from the complete Christian dictionary for office, home and personal use.

Leviticus 18:22  ~ Abomination.
Genesis 1:26-38 ~ Be fruitful and multiply.

Sex causes multiplication...

Sex is a very strong instinct, its the second strongest to fear.

You can't have sex where there is fear, but without fear, the sexual instinct overcomes.

Sex was instituted in the beginning for the purpose of procreation.

Sex is relevant and allowed according to God's design, when God brings man and woman together.

Once u get involved in a sexual relationship with anyone other than your married wife or husband, its sin. You are commanded to flee all resemblance of sin.

1 Corinthians 7:1-5
Once u get married, you r duty bound to provide sex to each other.

A marriage without sexual inter course is not fulfilled, there is no union. 

If the bed is not okay, the marriage isn't. 

The danger if sexual denial is that it will cause the partner to look else where for satisfaction.

A body denies sex for a long time, might preach to itself not to ever have sex, and when a man's body gets to this place, he becomes importance.

Total denial can lead to enemies. 

Sexual denial also causes breach of the vow.

As you continue to live in a relationship out of your marriage, you end up having children outside your marriage.

To the in married, a sexual relationship is illegal, immoral and sin.

Sex outside marriage causes defilement of our bodies,  transfer of demonic spirits.

Sex outside marriage causes guilt, the guilt that you carry is a heavy burden.

Once sex is done out of marriage, there is loss of blessings from God. You loose the package God prepared for marriage.

Please flee from sexual sin.

Don't be so careless and stupid. Don't give yourself to conditions that will give the devil opportunity to tempt you.