THE BEAUTY OF NOT KNOWING 'WHAT NEXT?' - PART 2

Dearly Beloved,

Have you ever seen someone tenaciously looking for what actually was not lost, or someone trying to keep what really isn't his? Have you ever seen folks emptying today of its strength while trying to solve tomorrow's problem? Have you ever seen believers react to a seemingly "legitimate need" like Saul did, and thereafter lost his kingdom? Have you ever wondered why after over 6000 years, the church is yet to produce a critical mass of 144,000 believers that'll simultaneously overcome fear like our Lord Jesus and His the early apostles did?

Heb. 2:14-15 ... that through death he (Jesus) might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

(i.e. fear of death here isn’t physical but the fear of not obeying/loving/enjoying the world – Heb. 11:24)

Heb. 11:24-26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin (Egypt) for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt

The fear of tomorrow lingered in the life of Abham until he began to walk in the consciousness of his changed name/identify - Abraham. Fear is an unarmed robber that daily preys on any believer that hasn’t begun to hear what Jesus heard from the father in the days of his flesh.

Fear was the first and only pseudo "gospel" that the serpent preached to Adam in Eden. The fear of losing what should never have been a possession caused Adam to trade his birthright and mortgage that of posterity. Fear is the reaction of any soul, at any given time "T", to any given opportunity where God expects us to lay down our corrupt-prone life (desires/love), and sheepishly follow God until our souls lay hold of resurrection power.

Most of the thoughts or counsels we react to, hardly ever emanate from the Holy Spirit,  through our regenerated spirit! Our recreated spirit that’s seated with Christ in heavenly places will never inspire us to "use our brain" or "think big" in taking decision that borders on our destiny in God. Most of such philosophies that motivate believers are worldly and sensual (Col. 2:8/Jam. 3:15). When a believer feeds on such wind of doctrines that emanates from Grecian wisdom, they become dull of hearing the very truth that should reveal Christ unto them (1Cor. 1:22b/Matt. 13:15/Heb. 5:11). All of such "brain waves" can never close the gap between God and man!

1 Cor. 2:11 For what man knows the things of a man (his inheritance/things of God’s Glory –vs. 7), save the spirit of man (not the mind) which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Most of the thoughts or counsels we don't respond to, are such that demand we wait without necessarily knowing when God will show up! That is God’s technology that should make men to lose measurements of the nature we inherited from Adam, so men can gradually inherit their true life (eternal life) which has been hid in Christ Jesus! Otherwise, we’ll fall prey to the dictates of an independent spirit and lose life.

History, our Lord Jesus, and even the devil, all confirm that "we have control over our choices (decisions and indecision), but we don't have control over the consequences of our choices, which will always affect posterity either positively or negatively. 

The biblical provision to overcome the fear of tomorrow is not the faith that gave birth to the good reports of Heb. 11:1-39b. Rather, it's the faith of Heb. 11:39c/Titus 1:2 that was authored and perfected through the victorious walk of our Lord Jesus. 

Not a few believers over generations have “gone to heaven” without overcoming the fear of death, but a generation that will “make it to the father” are currently being born anew (Jn. 13:3/14:3/1Pet. 1:23/Jam. 1:21). God NEVER approved of the former, but of the latter. It’s our lot – let’s selflessly embrace it!

Blessings!

Nothing that happens AROUND US should be compared with what should be happening WITHIN US!

Weather Forecast For 10th - 12th December 2015

Dearly Beloved,

It may interest you to note that the persons of the Godhead have always dwelt in an abode from a beginning that had no beginning, but sometime in eternity they agreed to prepare man to make it to a prepared place. They prudently considered the implication of the foundation for this project which would be laid over centuries. They knew that the completion and furnishing of their temple in each soul would cost them an enormous amount of longsuffering. They ratified their accord with an oath and pledged that a generation of men would see God’s secrets demystified. The father of good light and perfect light was refreshed to know that a generation of men who were once subject to vanity would overcome death and attain His rest. (Jn. 1:1/Rev. 10:7c/Jam. 1:7/Heb. 4:1-9)

The father kept consulting with the person of The Word, who under the auspices of the Holy Spirit would set out on an adventure to save and raise man into an estate where he would become a fellow of eternal life. To guarantee the destruction of the only enemy God had in common with men, The Word had to agree to be stripped of all His power and glory, and take the likeness of sinful flesh. The father raised the Son with His ways, crowned him seasonally with glory and honor and through him, consecrated The New and Living Way in Jesus Christ (The Way); so that man’s journey back to his original eternal dwelling place - The Father (The Place), would be guaranteed. (1Jn. 1:1-3/Ps. 90:1-2/Heb. 10:20)

Man’s sole response to God’s gracious outreach was to diligently make his calling and election sure ! Man had been given no alternative but to cross over from being the least among God’s creature into being great in the realm of the creator. Man was given a lifetime blank cheque to learn what Jesus learnt from his father over a period of three decades. Man would thereby learn righteousness, unlearning his ways, experience reconciliations and justifications in the Spirit and then partake of God’s glory after attaining a soul-state where he can permanently love what the Son loved (Righteousness)!

A generation of saints that would cross from THE HOLY PLACE into THE MOST HOLY PLACE; from KINGSHIP into PRIESTHOOD; from THE SON into THE FATHER are therefore being born in AD 2015! They are keeping their appointments with all the feasts that will make them delightfully come under God and carry him. Their sole quest is to glory only in the cross of Christ. They know they are being left without an excuse and they must keep acknowledging the Father and Son until they can give a clear interpretation of His eternal power and Godhead. DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU?

Anamnesis 2015 promises to be one of the avenues on earth where the father will be expressly unveiled, and in turn, would cause us to know as we are known. We enjoin you to pray, plan and prepare to stay connected from 10th -12th of Dec. 2015 for this great spiritual outing.

Pls see http://egfm.org/anamnesis-2015/ for more details and kindly note that live audio/video broadcast available on these days. For further details, pls call 07045758513/08023877600

Blessings!

THE BEAUTY OF NOT KNOWING 'WHAT NEXT?' - PART 1

Dearly Beloved,

Our ability to figure out what next on most occasions has always been an exciting sensation, especially in men who’ll rather call the shots like Moses once did as a prince in Egypt. But when we know not what next in a given season of life; our feelings get invaded with a sense of frustration and imprisonment and the true temperature of our souls gets exposed! Rather than fall back on our cerebral strength - our carnal minds which remains at enmity with God (Rom. 8:7); we are at the mercy of acknowledging that God is up to something unplanned, which should lead to the renewal of our minds. (Rom. 12:2/Eph. 4:23)

Job. 23:9-10 On the left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Isa. 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

During Moses first forty years wilderness-making experience where he served his father in-law, he hardly ever knew what next, but that was the secret of his ultimate greatness before God. While we have many alternatives to the faith revealed in Christ for the true church, Moses had none; so God could carefully culture him to bear his authority.

Old faithful like Father Abraham, Joseph and Elisha, all attained their strength of character through seasons when they had no clear interpretation of the end of their protracted custom-made trials! But unlike many today, they found grace to respond accurately. Among other virtues, they added patience to their faith and repossessed their souls (2Pet. 1:5-6/Jam. 1:3-4/Lk. 21:19). They all died to their reputation! But today, believers would rather HUSTLE like unbelievers do and justify their actions with the letters of the scriptures (2Cor. 3:6d/Jn. 6:63b), than LEARN OF THE WAYS OF GOD in such season. (Ps. 103:7/Isa. 55:8)

Our generation is inexcusable! Old faithful, without a complete “bible”, without an advocate like Jesus Christ, without the Holy Spirit resident on earth; kept faith with their future – God! THEY SAW AND SUBMITTED TO THE DEALING THAT WOULD REDEEM THEIR SOULS FROM BEING EARTHLY MINDED (Job 19:25/Ruth 4/Eph. 1:14/1Cor. 1:13/Eph. 4:30/ Rev. 14:3e). Through their lives, we can clearly see that “one of the most potent seasons when faith actually flourishes is when we don’t know what next”.

Like the early apostles, we must be courageous and receptive to new opportunities coming our way. Prospects whereby heaven will hedge us in (Job 3:23/Lam. 3:7), and deal a good blow to our carnal minds, so we can truly gain righteousness while counting what the natural mind would call losses. (Phil. 3:7-8).

When we REACT to seasons of the unknown rather than RESPOND from within, we simply LOSE MEASUREMENTS OF GOD’S LIFE WE PREVIOUSLY GATHERED!

-          Such are the vital seasons where the enemy steals life from us (Jn. 10:10/1Pet. 5:8).

-          Such are the seasons when we ought to lose our ways and our thoughts (Isa. 55:7-8) that remain untouched by our new birth experience, by many bible studies and by many meetings of the Spirit (programmes/conventions).

This is how believing believers can appreciate in the true riches of righteousness and be made rich towards God. This is how we can have our have our minds stayed on God and begin to do things perhaps 80% differently! (Isa. 26:3)

Fresh streams of grace are kissing the earth like never before! The intensity of the preaching/unveiling of Christ by chosen vessels is heightening. Saints are being empowered to renounce the hidden things of dishonestly like self-confidence and the fear of tomorrow. We must not be left out.

Blessings!

Nothing that happens AROUND US should be compared with what should be happening WITHIN US!