Keep me burning, Saviour keep me burning
Let this fire overwhelm me, Saviour keep me burning
So when you come again, you will find me standing in your will.
– Sir T
Your greatest assignment begins with hearing His voice.
Before God gives direction, He invites us into intimacy. Every calling starts with listening before leading.
Don't chase your assignment. Pursue the One who is calling you, and He will reveal His purpose.
SOUTH AFRICA…
The Church in Africa, especially the Church in Nigeria, must arise and travail for the Church in South Africa.
South Africa is no longer merely a nation. It has become a gate. A prophetic demonstration gate.
A territory where the spirit of the age is testing the architecture of a New Africa before exporting it across the continent.
Do not mistake what you are seeing. Nations are not only conquered by armies. They are first captured by ideas.
The future has chosen South Africa as an experimental field. A laboratory where new definitions of family, morality, governance, economics, worship, identity and human purpose are being normalized until they become unquestionable.
The intention is to produce an Africa that no longer needs GOD, only systems. An Africa that no longer bows to CHRIST, but bows to progress.
An Africa where efficiency replaces holiness, intelligence replaces wisdom, technology replaces dependence, and abundance replaces righteousness.
This is not modernization. This is a replacement project. The old foundations are being dismantled while the masses celebrate development.
What many call advancement is, in many cases, the careful removal of every structure that once made GOD necessary.
The chaos you presently see in South Africa will settle. But it will settle into an entirely different civilization.
When the dust finally disappears, many will discover that they did not merely survive a season of instability.
They entered another age. An age where CHRIST is tolerated but no longer enthroned.
An age where the Church is permitted to exist, provided she no longer possesses prophetic authority. An age where religion is welcomed, but LORDSHIP is resisted.
This is why the Church must pray. Not because South Africa is weak. But because gates determine what enters continents.
If the gate falls, the territory behind it will eventually drink from the same river. Nigeria must not watch carelessly.
Nigeria is another template nation. Another prophetic gate. Another territory whose future is being negotiated before the eyes of a sleeping Church.
The methodology may differ. The political Style may differ. The economic strategy may differ.
But the destination is the same. To produce a civilization that can flourish without acknowledging GOD.
To create a generation that possesses everything except the fear of the LORD. To redefine freedom until rebellion becomes a virtue.
To redefine tolerance until truth becomes violence. To redefine prosperity until worship becomes unnecessary. To redefine humanity until man forgets he was made in the image of GOD.
Church, wake up. What is happening across Africa is not merely political. It is priestly. Altars are contending. Spirits are legislating.
Principalities are negotiating the destiny of nations while the Church debates irrelevancies.
There is a reason darkness fights so hard for gates. Whoever controls the gate eventually influences the continent.
If South Africa becomes the successful prototype, the model will be replicated. If Nigeria falls, the ripple will shake generations.
This is why intercession is no longer optional. We are not merely preserving countries. We are contending for the inheritance of CHRIST.
Africa does not belong to economists. Africa does not belong to politicians. Africa does not belong to global systems. Africa belongs to JESUS CHRIST.
The Church must return to her knees before she is forced to live under a civilization she failed to confront in prayer.
History is being rewritten. The spirits behind Babylon are speaking again. The towers are rising again.
The image is being erected again. Will there still be men who refuse to bow? Or will the Church become so intoxicated with the language of the future that she forgets the Ancient of Days?
The battle has never been for a land. It has always been for worship. And every nation eventually becomes the reflection of the altar that prevails within it.
The Gospel is the best thing I have to offer you.
I may have good advice, good skills and comfort. But the only thing that is eternally useful to you is the Gospel.
Jesus lived. He walked. He died. He rose.
Believe.
You don't need a crowd to move heaven. You need agreement.
When two or three align with God's heart, their prayers carry authority. Who are you standing with in prayer?
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Protect your secret place.
Everything God builds publicly begins privately.
Never underestimate the power of the hidden life.
The fire that burns in secret is the fire that changes the world.
Guard your secret place. Heaven is building something there.
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
A strong man is not one who carries every burden alone, but one who trusts God enough to lay his burdens at His feet. When your strength runs out, His never does. Believe in Him, walk with Him, and He will never fail you.
Until ministry in Colorado isn't perceived as superior to ministry in Congo, the great commission will not advance with the speed of Heaven.
Until the 45 souls in Ohio aren't perceived as more valuable than the 450 souls in Okitipupa, our so-called global mandates will keep being contained by our carnal thinking.
The kind of limitations that carnal thinking has brought to modern ministry is quite regrettable.
I really hope we see the light soon enough.
I have some advice for young men newly employed,
When you get employed:
• Be grateful to God, your parents, your mentors and your boss for this opportunity
• Work hard
• Respect your employer
• Adhere to your employer's rules and protocols
• Embrace the mission and vision of the employer
However, if working for your employer becomes unbearable due to other reasons,
• Quit respectfully
• Follow the procedures of quitting as written in your contract or employment letter
• Return your employer's resources in your custody
• Handover politely and thank your employer for giving you an opportunity
• Leave with a clean conscience
Don't be chaotic, abusive and contemptuous on your way out.
Don't think you are smarter than your employer.
The employer you are disrespecting gave you a livelihood when you were seeking a footing and direction.
The employer may not have paid you to your satisfaction, but be polite.
Don't go bad mouthing your employer, speaking nastily, and broadcasting your foul mouth while disclosing what is considered private policies, programs, products or services of your former workplace.
Leave courteously.
This way, you open room for better opportunities, newer networks and better leverage.
Don't be a rude employee. Other employers will fear giving you opportunities in the future because they don't trust you.
Be courteous when you close the door behind you, the universe will be kind to you on your way out.
Comparing old pictures of preachers in their days of poverty and obscurity with their recent "God's general" glitz and glamour usually gets me wondering.
God rewards His labourers, but ministerial progress isn't always about accumulating more money and more beauty.
Peter left His fishing business to follow Christ.
Someone was told to sell all he had to follow Jesus.
I'm sure Paul became poorer after becoming an Apostle.
The real issue is not about possessing more things in your service to God.
It's about what God has gained through your labours and sacrifices.
If we are indeed servants of Christ, it is what He gains that should mark our scripts.
Not what we earned, made, or even stole.
Worry is a distruct in God's Character.
Worry is to Meditate on the problem. Prayer is meditation on the Person.
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Paul was deeply conscious that everything good in him came from the Lord. In himself he was the chief of sinners, less than the least of all saints, not worthy to be called an apostle. But by the grace of God he was what he was. Cultivate that sense in yourself.
There are seasons where GOD preserves a man, not by increasing his opportunities, but by reducing his access.
Because there are dangers that cannot be avoided through wisdom alone. Sometimes mercy must remove the pathway entirely.
Quick observations:
1. Believers, don't get your theology from contemporary Christian artists.
2. The goal of Bible reading is not finishing a reading plan. It's knowing God.
3. The local church is God's plan for Christian growth. There is no biblical substitute.
4. The apostles never told unbelievers to follow their hearts.