Just imagine the version of yourself you would have unlocked if you have been studying deep and praying long, consistently, since the year began.
Imagine the sharpness and spiritual dexterity you’ll have been walking in by now.
Well, it’s not too late to mount up.
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Gehazi, Judas, and Anannias are all reminders that money can corrupt the best of hearts and pervert seemingly noble actions.
If you don't treat money with caution, you'll experience firsthand what it means to Pierce your heart with many sorrows and mass produce evil.
You'll either spend and "waste" time seeking God's face in prayer or waste time laboring in vain attempting to produce results in the flesh.
I'll suggest you pick the former waste, it's certainly a more profitable waste!
You pray little because you hear too many self-puffing sermons that make you content with your own spiritual wretchedness.
Normalize hearings that arouse hunger,
Let your lamentations rise, your strength is actually little!
It's OK to hate the "prosperity gospel"
As long as you've accurately established what the phrase really means.
But please don't forget that God blessed Israel with abundance when they obeyed Him and they suffered scarcity when they rebelled.
Divination or the Prophetic.
A prophet is a seer and not a speaker first. What distinguishes the prophetic is in what they see. He is granted by God the gift of discernment and the ability to see into the realm of the Spirit and know the nature of a thing.
The place where authentic visions are obtained is in the place of intercessory prayer over the people from a heart of compassion.
Those who don't intercede can never "see" accurately. In fact, the difference between divination and the true prophetic is intercession.
Hear what God says
Ezekiel 13:4-6
4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Combine that with this 👇
Ezekiel 22:30
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one
It is while he or she is interceding that they come to "see" into the spirit realm. The prophetic stems out of intercessory prayers, and where that is absent and a person attempts to speak supernaturally about the future, he or she steps into divination.
Compassion taken into intercession leads to true prophetic insights.
The quest to be more “spiritual” has sunk many believers into the worst kinds of deception. There is nothing more spiritual than knowing Christ and living for Him!
Daddy Kumuyi and Daddy Adeboye had to go to the toilet to find a quiet time to read their Bible.
To seek God and be like Christ is not easy. It will cost you everything.
Papa Oyedepo fasted for a year praying for the advancement of the kingdom. He coughed one day and blood came out.
He said thank God for His mercy that kept him.
Apst. Arome fasted for more than a year during his NYSC. Why?
He was seeking God's face. He wanted to meet the Lord, He desired nothing but the Lord.
He said the fasting made him look like an HIV patient, but his spirit was greatly anointed.
He did meet the Lord, yes he did.
Apostle Joshua Selman prayed alone in a room for 72 hours for God's people. In there he was assailed by terrible demons but he still stayed.
We can go on and on and on about how many of our favorite ministers sought and still seek the Lord.
But the underlying fact is this: they spent their lives seeking God.
To seek God is not easy, it will drain, and strain, you. It is a principle of death working in you to produce the life of Christ.
That was why Paul said-
Rom. 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
A sacrifice dies. Your fleshly nature, desires, wants, needs, and pleasures will have to die.
That process is dreadful, but God can help you do it.
Why have we said all this? To tell you to seek God.
Make it mechanical. Vow never to go a day without praying, and never to go a day without reading your Bible.
Do a long-hour prayer once every week and fast at least once every week.
Find a church that prays and join them. Emphasis on prayer and preaching the word.
Brothers and sisters, find God tangibly. Find God till the things described in the Bible become something you experience.
Please, guys, find God. With all your life. That starts with prayers and the word and fasting. Consistently.
Let's leave you with the words of Peter the Apostle-
Matt. 19:27
"Peter said to Jesus, 'Look, we have left everything and followed you..."
May God help you. Amen.
A prayer for theologians and theology enthusiasts on Twitter.
I pray that our vastness in theology translates into profit for God’s kingdom.
I pray that our activism online translates into discipleship on/offline.
May our knowledge not puff up but edify.
Amen 💫
Drink prayer like water.
Breathe prayer like Oxygen.
There is a bolder, stronger and more productive version of yourself at the other end of a consistent prayer life.
Don’t die without tapping into your full potentials!