Thanks giving

Thanks giving..

John 3:16

Psalm 106:2

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good.

Is He good to you? Then give Him thanks.

Deuteronomy 8:10

When u've eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord.

There is a time God rebuked the

Children of Israel for not giving thanks.

Luke 19:34-37

Give thanks.

The commitment of God to bless His people.

Numbers 6:22-27

Its easier to be given birth to, but its a journey to grow up.

There are valleys that are difficult to cross and some times people give up along the way, the the time you Ned the blessing of God upon your life.

There r times people go through though times and start to loose trust in what God said but God is committed to blessing you.

God wants to bless you for the glory of His name. John 15... Whatever you pray in my name will be given to you for the glory of God's name.

God wants to bless you so that His name will be glorified, there is need for the evidence of God's blessing upon your life. He wants to bless you so that they may know that He is great.

Per take of the blessing of God so that you will make Him known.

God wants all men to see the difference between His people and other people who don't know Him, 

He is so interested in blessing you. He is blessing you so that you will be a different people.

God wants to show a difference between you and your neighbor, That's why 1000 may fall on your 

left and many more at your right, but you will not be harmed.

The Lord will prosper you in the time of dryness so that the nations will know that He is God.

You need to trust the Lord.

God is able to bless you from nothing, to show the difference between you and other people.

If you walk with God, he will walk with you, if you hold on to him, He will hold on to you and He will bless you.

The priestly blessing used opon your life is to preserve you, so that you will even in the most hostile situation,  will survive. Nothing shall come your way that you cannot handle, nothing will be able to 

destroy you.

The Lord blesses you to show mercy, he is not holding you according to your ways. He wants to show His goodness upon you. You r blessed because you hold onto God.

The walk of salvation is not perfection, but commitment unto the Lord. If you walk with God, He will preserve you, you will be peaceful.

So the name of God will be put upon you. God putting His name upon you means that everyone who wants to touch you is touching God. The Lord's name is upon you. Nothing can harm you for the Lord protects His own.

Every battle the Lord goes to, He wins, when God's name is upon you, nothing by any means will defeat you.

The blessing of the Lord will prosper you, don't give up... For the blessing if the Lord is upon you.

Manifestation of Spiritual Gifts

Mark 16:17-18

The scripture is speaking to all who believe. The signs will follow all who believe.

Ephesians 1:3,15-21

God has not blessed us with some spiritual blessings but all spiritual blessings. God is not a Store Master, He is not a Custodian. He has released every blessing in heaven for us.
We don't need to work very hard to earn these gifts.

Religion has blinded our minds and spirits to think that we must work really hard to attain these gifts.

In Christ, we have revelation, wisdom and the eyes of our understanding enlightened and many more gifts as in 1 Corinthians 12

When you're standing, you are in control of your body. When you sit, you surrender your weight and safety to the chair. Jesus Christ is seated at the Right Hand of God, everything in the heavenly places is in Christ and He has surrendered everything to the Father.

Christ is the head of the church,  and if all things are under His feet, where does that place the church?
The power, inheritance and blessing that is in Jesus Christ is in us because we are seated together with Him in the heavenly places. We must walk in these blessings. This is our time!

Ephesians 2:4-6, Ephesians 3:10

God has raised us with Christ. We have been hiding for a long time, we have dynamite power in us. The world is waiting for our manifestation. There has to be a demonstration of power!

As long as we are still struggling in the flesh , we shall cast out demons all night. We must operate in the spiritual realm. Our lives are supposed to be a living testimony, a demonstration that there is a God, and in Him, there is life, power and authority.

Ephesians 6:10-18

If we knew how powerful our prayers are, we would never stop praying! We have to let go of sin. Sin stops our prayers from getting to the heavenly places but when they do, we cannot desire to leave the presence of God!

Break through to the heavenly places!!!

It's not because you have been in salvation for many years, not because you have worked for it, it's a gift for free not a reward!

We are designed to be supernatural. We should not be ignorant about these Spiritual Gifts.

If you don't operate in the new, the old begins to reappear. Old habits for hard. (2 Corinthians 5:17) but Christ in you is enough!!

It's time for manifestation of the Spirit. It's given to each one of us!

The gifts of the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:4-10

Gifts of tongues

The Spirit of God can come upon you and give you utterance for the purpose of communicating with other people.

1 Corinthians 14:2-3 When you speak in tongues, you speak to God, for the Spirit speaks to God.... Its a very powerful way of praying.

The Spirit of the Lord can put words in your mouth to speak to people that understand a language that you have never learnt in order to use you to pass on a message through you.

God can also use who spoke in tongues to also interpret them in order for the people listening to also be edified.

1 Corinthians 14:15

Romans 8:26....

We need to allow the Holy Spirit to pray through us. When you pray in the Spirit, you make intersessions according to the will of God, for He knows the mind of God.

Prophesy.

A prophet is a spokes man for God~ In the old testament.

A prophet according to the new testament

1 Corinthians 12:10
1  Corinthians 14:3
A prophet edifies the Church.

1  Corinthians 12:20... Let 2 to three speak and others wheigh what has been said because; there are three sources of prophesy:

From the person~ human source.

From the devil, that's why there are false prophets, the prophesy from the devil kills, steals and destroys

From God, the effect of a prophesy from God causes you to draw closer to God.
We should judge the prophesy, test every prophesy, don't just follow them, of it's for you, it will be confirmed and you will follow it and it will come to fulfillment.

Knowledge truth.

Word of wisdom

Word of Wisdom is an utterance from the Holy Spirit applying God's word to a specific situation. Its also the ability from the Holy Spirit to give advice for a specific situation.

We need a word of Wisdom, so that we can be able to apply wise counsel to a situation at hand.

Mark 12:14

Married men need wisdom as they talk to their wives.

Wives need wisdom as they talk to their husbands.

You need to know how to speak, and when to say, and how to say it...

Word of knowledge

This utterance from the Holy Spirot revealing information about people, circumstances and the word of God.

God can reveal truth to you for your own consumption, or for someone else, but we ned wisdom.
We need the gift of Wisdom. If you are God fearing, put things right before God.

Discernment of Spirits

Acts 16:15...

We need discerning gifts to know what spirits are behind an act, they might even seam right,but by the Spirit, we can discern what is right or wrong.

The Holy Spirit wanst to use you, but you need to be whose.

The purpose of the gospel is not to embaras people, but it's for life.

Acts 15:19

How to use the Spiritual gifts.

You can only write abuse by proper use

Use the Spiritual gifts when you are rightly motivated by the love of God.

Never sell the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Mathew 7:15-23, Don't follow gifting, but you will know them by their fruit.

The Devil can imitate the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but won't be able to imitate the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Lift up the master of the miracles, not the miracles. Lift up Jesus,He is the one performing the miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit in you.

Spiritual Gifts.

James 1:17

1 Corinthians 4:7, Spiritual Gifts.

2 Timothy 1:6, Spirit of power, love and self-discipline

1 Timothy 4:14, don’t neglect the gift that was given to you.

Worship the giver, not the given. The Lord our God is the giver, the father loved the world so much that He gave Jesus Christ. John 3:16.

Jesus came into the world to save the sinners, he took the heart of stone and replaced it with the heart of flesh, now by the grace of God, and we are able to obey the Lord, give Him glory. God loved and God gave.

We live in a world full of so many religions, the question is.. Which one is the perfect one? If you ever look for a perfect religion and you find one, then join it, it will become imperfect, because you yourself, you are perfect.

Ephesians 4:11. It’s God that gives the spiritual gifts to prepare the people of God for works of service so that the church would grow.

1 Corinthians 12: 4, Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

We serve a God who gives gifts, what a wonderful God we serve.

Hew gives the gift of the Holy Spirit, its also associated with the promise of the father. 

Acts 2:38, repent and you will receive the gift of the holy spirit, He empowers you to carry out the work of the Lord. 

Acts 1:4, Wait for the gift my father promised.. John Baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy spirit. He gives you the power to be a witness, power to live a Holy life, power to do the work of the Lord. 

Don't despise the gifts of the Holy Spirit, 1 Thessalonians 5:20, Grow your gift, so that it will be used to build the entire body of Christ. As God to reveal to you what He has deposited in you by the way of gifting, by the way of talents and He will let you know.  

Use your skill, your talent, your ability for the Glory of the Lord. The gift you have is form the Lord.

God has put in you something, discover it, find it and use it for the Glory of the Lord. You need to practice your gifting so that you can discover it, grow it. 

You never know you can do something until you try it, you need to find it out, peruse it,, 

How do you know you are gifted?

• Believe that you have a gift, act it out, stir it up, grow it

How do you sustain your gift?

1. Prayer: Pray without seizing for its the will of God in Christ Jesus Concerning you. 
2. Word of God: You need to read the word of God, read it, hear it, believe it, practice it and your ministry will continue to grow, the Lord will sustain you. Everything you need to know about God, is revealed in His word, everything you need to know about life, the devil and so much more is revealed in the word of God. 

Acts 2:4. they were all filled with the Holy spirit, they spoke in other tongues and the Holy Spirit gave then utterance. The lord will always do His part, just do your part. Pray without seizing. 

Sunday Post~Power of Prophesy

The power of Prophesy is in the word that comes after all that you know. 

1 Corinthians 1:2

The Wisdom of men will not be enough.  There are three kinds if wisdom ;

Wisdom of men
Wisdom of demons
Wisdom of God

I came to show you that Christ is real "To make Jesus real and known"

As believers,  we don't have to be surprised when miracles happen, because they will follow you.

As a believer,  you are supposed to walk in the supernatural above the ways of the world.

You just have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to live the supernatural.

When your faith connects to the power of God,  then miracles start to happen. 

There are conditions that politics/politicians, good speeches or governments can't help,  but only the power of God can change. 

The power of God is in the church of Jesus Christ. 

You can rise up to do exploits in the name of Jesus, rise up and begin to work in the power of God. 

As long as you are a believer,  you can demonstrate the power of God. 

Show that the God you believe is a miracle worker.

Tell people about God and demonstrate Him.  The only way to make Jesus real is to demonstrate His power. 

People want solutions,  and u can't blame them,  they will go to where the answer is. 

May there be an awakening in this place.. In this church. 

God wants to stir up your spirit,  He wants to bless you to walk in the power of the Lord. 

Don't fear to walk in the power of God. 

Acts 8:4-8
Preach Christ,  if you want to see the power of God.

Your message about Christ will be believed if they hear and see. Phillip preached and demonstrated. When they hear the message and they see the power of God. 

Don't only stop at speaking,  let the power of God flow to touch people.

What is impossible with man,  is possible with God. 

The purpose of Miracles

Miracles affirm the word of God
Miracles glorify God
They prove that God is real. 
Miracles build faith
Miracles bring people to Jesus
Miracles are symptoms of faith
Prove the intense presence of the Holy Spirit. 
They disqualify the devil

Sunday Post~Following up on new believers

Discipleship and followup process

What consists of making disciples

Mathew 4:19 ~ Follow me and I will make you fishers of men...

1 - Discipleship involves following by the calling of Jesus.

When Jesus saves you, things in your life are put right.

Jesus call us to be members in the kingdom of God

2 - Discipleship involves a leaning processes, keep learning from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Mathew 11:25 -29 Come unto me all ye that are burdened.. you shall find rest for your soul.
When you learn from Jesus, you learn his character. He wants to change your character, identify

We also learn the work of Jesus, which is saving people. We have to get involved in the work of saving people.

There is room to put things right, Jesus preached to all categories of people.

We must learn from Jesus regarding the secret of his power. John 3:33&34.

God poured His Spirit on Jesus in full capacity, whatever Jesus did, He did under the anointing of the holy Spirit.

Its by the power of the Holy Spirit that you will be able to succeed as a Christian. 

3 - Discipleship also involves following up the people who get saved. 

John 5:14, Jesus was doing a followup, of the man who was healed.

John 9:35

We need to follow up people to understand the challenges that people go thorough, so that they can be helped.

As you testify of the Grace of God, there are people who will not be happy with you, but keep on, stand up for Jesus and testify.

Why do we follow up?

1. To comfort new converts
2. To encourage new converts
3. To give hope to the converts. Etc

4 ~ Discipleship also involves a growing processes.

God wants us to grow.

The joy of every pastor is to see that the church he leads is growing, from faith to faith, from glory to glory, from strength to strength.

We need to grow despite persecution.

Growth can take place when there are things pressing you, finances, health, anxiety, stresses, but those are the good soils for the growth if your faith. Keep up hope, don't let go.

Remember that in all challenges, you are more than a conqueror.

Pray that your Faith may not fail.

With Jesus interceding for us, we shall make it, we shall grow in the grace of God.

Sunday Post-Empowered to Witness

When we partake of the Divine nature of Christ, we become empowered to become witnesses for Christ. Similarly, when we receive baptism in the Holy Ghost, we are only plugged in to be more efficient and effective witnesses of the Lord Jesus.
When we go out to witness, we ought to do so in all confidence because He who we are witnesses of, has all authority in not only heaven, but on earth too. In addition to all this, He promised to be with us until the end of time.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. This should be move motivation to witness and proclaim the word of God to His people' because, they will gain knowledge about this Faith, and consequently accept God's love through faith in Christ Jesus.

1 Tim. 2:3-4 - God wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. That is His plan.

Rom.10:10-14- When we proclaim the gospel, people will hear, they will then believe, accept and confess Christ as their saviour and Lord.

Matt. 28:18-20 - This is our calling, to make others be what we have become: It is God's Spirit that empowers us to do all this.
We were not only sent and empowered but also have been given an assurance of Gods presence. This should give us zeal to reach-out and proclaim the gospel.

Col.4:5- Be wise. Use every opportunity to be a witness in not only in what you say, but what you are as well. (your lifestyle). One day what you witness will materialise in the lives of those whom you have witnessed to, for the word of God does not return to Him void.

Sunday Post-Being A Witness

Let your testimony be right because we are a part of the body of Christ and we have witnessed Him in our lives. Acts 1:6-8.

Begin from where you are to prove that you are God's witness. The Holy Spirit moves us; 1 Peter 2:11-12.

Though you have been accused of doing wrong, may those around you see the good in you because you are His image and your body is His temple, lets portray what the Lord has done in us.

We shall receive power from God through the Holy Spirit and the same power shall transform those around us we shall proclaim the Lord's greatness.

As we preach the word of God during this crusade week, let our evangelism impact the society by the power that He has bestowed in us. The same power that He promised us, to those who have received Him.

Pray that the Lord will take all those that will touch and hear your word because the voltage power in you is overwhelming, its beyond any humankind power.

All that the Lord did in Jerusalem we have witnessed, for us to fulfill our purpose on earth is to portray what we have witnessed in the Lord.

Lets pray in deep faith to witness more of the Lord's greatness and thus portray His will. It is the power of God that reveals to you the wrongs you have committed.

As we repent our sins, its the power of the Holy Spirit that convicts us. Lets use the power of the Lord to confess our sins and deliver those around us from the hedge of sin.

We are "live wires" to the society so lets pray to the Lord to empower us to prove His witness in us.

Pray the Lord empowers you with the Holy Spirit to declare His greatness in you even during the crusade week.

Sharing the gospel of the Lord with others

Why you need to share the gospel

1. God Commanded us to 
2. All are lost - Romans 3:10, All are lost, man fell short of the glory of God. When preaching, don't point fingers accusing people of there sins, tell them about the solution of God for their sin. 
3. Sharing is God's chosen method to preach the gospel. Only the redeemed person can tell, Romans 10:14-17, How will they hear without someone listening, how will they know if they are not told. 
4. God desires to save all people. Acts 4:12, there is no name given to men, other than Jesus for which we can attain salvation. 2 Peter 3:9, The Lord is not slow to achieve what He says he will. 1 Timothy 2:4, God wants us to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. 
5. Someone once came and shared the gospel with you, freely you receive and freely you give. We benefit if they know if there is forgiveness of sin. Isaiah 43:23. The forgiveness of sin is available and God forgets about all our transgressions. Romans 8:1 

Benefits of getting saved.
There is healing of the soul when someone gets saved. Luke 1:77

Tools to use for evangelism

1. Love, show them love, then u will gate to them about Jesus Christ
2. Your Bible. We always have to reference the word if the Lord 
3. Talking, we need to learn how to talk in order to sell our product, Jesus Christ. 

Luke 24:47, This repentance and forgiveness must be preached allover the world, should be preached to all nations.
At the end if everything, our goal is to bring people to the knowledge if Christ.
Isaiah 1:17, Come let us discus, though your sins are at red as scarlet, I will make them as white as snow.

Use your tolls effectively as we go out to preach the gospel, when have to understand our intentions.