THE BEAUTY OF NOT KNOWING "WHAT NEXT" - PART 5

... A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEED FOR DIVINE INTERRUPTIONS IN OUR LIVES.

Dearly Beloved,

On various occasions, we have found ourselves chastening Saint Thomas conversation where he doubted Jesus and we’ve have christened him “doubting Thomas”, but the other side of the coin is that he couldn’t comprehend Jesus resurrection and wanted to! He needed to physically behold something that would overcome his unbelief, and God in wisdom had catered for his infirmity by ensuring resurrection power didn’t close up the whole in Jesus hands and pierced side! (Jn. 24:20-29). And so, blessed was he, because he ended up believing on that occasion, and on thousands of others, until he would be martyred for believing in a person that had become “spiritually physical” and real to him than he was when he hearkened to the call to become a disciple.

Do you know that all the disciples, while they weren’t saved, left their trades, businesses and professions to follow a man that primarily lived on words (Matt. 4:4/Lk. 4:4/Jn. 4:34); a man whose lifestyle would be controversial and contradict that of everyone else; one who had no permanent home address and had a job of Preaching An Unwanted And Unknown God, and worse off; a man whose goal was to die by crucifixion! FOR OVER THREE YEARS, THEY WERE TRAINED TO LIVE BY GOD’S ORDER OF FAITH – OF NOT KNOWING “WHAT NEXT”!

Beloved, what have we really left to follow Jesus? What has our Christian faith actually cost us? HOW MUCH SEEKING OF THE THINGS OF OTHERS HAVE WE MADE THIS YEAR? (Phil 2:4/20-21/1Cor. 13:5b). The answer to these “anointed questions” would give us a clue of if we are PRACTITIONERS OF HIS FAITH (i.e. using the light of the holy place) or PRACTITIONERS OF OUR FAITH (using the light of the courts of the gentiles or that of the outer court). Gal. 2:20/Phil. 3:9 Vs. Matt. 8:8-10/Eph. 1:15

Another unanswered question before us today is, “how many of us can God interrupt our daily or career/future plans, and how many would respond to God’s call to follow an unpopular course with a curriculum that is alien to that of the business schools of the earth”? The answer to this question would tell us why there are few powerful believers and fewer men of God today who can turn the world upside down and right side up (Acts 17:6/Joel 2:3-10). For MINISTERS and WITNESSES of THE UNKNOWN GOD to be raised in the seasons ahead (Acts 17:22-29/26:16/1Jn. 1:11-3/Jn. 17:3/Rev. 10:7), we would have to answer these questions by the help of the Spirit. Earthly men, nations, kindred, tongue and people are at the mercy of the raising of such breed of saints who would BEAR THE FATHER’S NAME and give a clear INTERPRETATION OF HIS HEART (Jn. 1:12/Acts 9:15/Rev. 5:9)

How many widows can God interrupt their lives like he did with Anna the prophetess? How many heirs, whose parents hope to bequeath their inheritance unto them, can God interrupt like he did with Elisha? How many professionals in fields of great demands like medicine and law, can God interrupt like he did with Luke or Saul of Tarsus? How many ministers like Zechariah can God interrupt their lives and leave childless for decades, so their loins/womb can be prepared to bring forth a seed that would become a forerunner of Christ? AS MANY AS GOD CAN FEED ABOVE THEIR FEARS (JER. 23:4); AND DIVINELY INTERRUPT THEIR LIVES – HE WOULD IMMORTALIZE THEIR NAME AND THEIR NEW NATURE!

Jer. 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall FEED them: and they shall FEAR NO MORE, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking (i.e. in “ownership of God”), saith the LORD.

God awaits a generation of saints that would agree with him that Learning His Gracious Heart primarily takes place through non-negotiable seasons of the unknown where he employs economic setbacks, famine, illnesses, betrayals, inadequacies, buffetings of the enemy, despair etc. to change the genes of our souls, further our course in righteousness, redeem us from the earth and from amongst men, and most importantly, bring us to a terrains of His Faith where the enemy is greatly limited!

I perceive that against a backdrop of hopelessness that is presently on the rise, where every principle and philosophy but God is failing; the Lord would be giving us all New Opportunities To Believe Like The Disciples-Made-Apostles Did, until they inherited a new name (nature); which is the foundation of the City of God, the strata of overcoming believers in the world to come. (Rev. 21:14/2:17). Amen.

Jn. 1:12 But as many as received him (i.e. the Laws of Christ’s Faith and Love – Job 22:22/Jam. 1:21), to them gave He power (i.e. the privilege) to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (i.e. resurrection and life):

Blessings!

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THE BEAUTY OF NOT KNOWING 'WHAT NEXT?' - PART 4

... A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROFESSION OF NOT TAKING THOUGHTS.

Dearly Beloved,

The earth has seen great academicians, politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, sportsmen and philanthropists, but the gospel truth is that the devil, in his fallen state, has never been threatened by their raise or by their exploits! As long as our souls can’t discern his works, we can’t overcome (come over) him, and that is only because we still have his goods - Jn. 14:30. Not a few of the world’s great men breached the eternal standard of righteousness, because they had to take thought for their lives while laboring for the meat that perishes with the use. (1Jn. 3:8/5:4/Matt. 6:25/34/Jn. 6:27)

Jn. 14:30 I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing (i.e the lust of the flesh/eyes/pride of life) in me.

1Jn. 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Many men have made it to Guinness book of world record and have been immortalized by men, but few have had a victorious thought life needed to become a glorious servants of righteousness (Rom. 6:18/Eph. 6:20). The earth is therefore urgently in need of a new breed of powerful believers who would take a deep look into the perfect law of Liberty that has been COMMANDED in Matthew 6:34, who’ll thoroughly believe it until they can’t believe anything else! 

Matt. 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for TOMORROW SHALL TAKE THOUGHT FOR THE THINGS OF ITSELF. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matt. 6:31-32 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? for YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS THAT YE HAVE NEED OF ALL THESE THINGS.

The true church is meant to produce such companies of believing believers whose eyes, like Moses, would have been so trained to see him who is invincible that they would become windy in nature – with a walk/conversation that no carnal mind can comprehend (Heb. 11:27/Jn. 3:8/1Cor. 2:14-15).

·         Such are the company of men whose walk have been foreshadowed by the patriarchs/sons of men.

·        Such is the constitution of those who’ll constantly be led contrary to the course of this world that they may become professionals in not-taking-any-thought that the father isn’t revealing from above and haters of every thought that is emanating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The world would remain a market place for the exchange of unlawful and lawful thoughts, but we are at the mercy of discerning those that are expedient/profitable (1Cor. 6:12). Thoughts by nature are weightier than things the natural eyes can see, so we also are at the mercy of developing our spiritual eyes/judgement (Isa. 11:3/Eph. 1:18a/Col. 1:9). The first man (Adam) lost out in a warfare of thoughts; he couldn't endure the commandment that the tree of life would administer daily. The last man (Christ) prevailed in a warfare of thoughts - he NEVER depended on himself, though he had great abilities and powers within (Matt. 4/Jn 5:19/30).

These are days when every believer must daily appraise his true state (2Cor. 13:5) by courageously asking unasked questions like, "which tree has been feeding my mind, inspiring my hope and fueling my pursuits"? Is it the tree (father) of life that raised Jesus in three decades into becoming the tree (everlasting father) of life? Answers to such questions would enable us deduce why Adam must have snapped when he realized the tree of life didn't guarantee him “control of what next" or give him "control over his life". MAN WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE IN CONTROL OF HIS LIFE – GOD WAS AND IS MEANT TO! (Gal. 2:20/Jn. 5:21/30).

Eternal life (i.e. intimately knowing of the Father and the Son – Jn. 17:3) would deny us many destiny-besetting “privileges”, because that is God’s wisdom to train flesh on how to truly depend on God and become quick in the fear of God (Isa. 11:3/Heb. 12:9)!

Blessings!

Tayo Fasan

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Urgent Vacancy For Men of The Future - Part 6

... A CLARION CALL TO PREPARE FOR THE BIRTHDAY OF OUR SOULS

Dearly Beloved,

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As productive and captivating as products and services has been to us in this generation, and as exciting as the act and art of buying and selling could ever be, it is of no personal value to the devil and his cohorts – despite their fallen state! They only seek to use all such legalities to enslave men (1Cor. 12:2/Rev. 18:10-13) who are meant to be guided by Apostle Paul’s counsel in 1Cor. 7:29.

·         1Cor. 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

The greatest concern of our corporate enemy is that a company of New Testament Kings would soon arise on the earth – men that would journey into fullness of spiritual understanding of what was been concealed with great wisdom (Prov. 25:2/Eph. 3:3-6/9). When (not if) they do, God’s throne would join them in celebrating the birthday (rebirth) of their souls as they come into the age of responsibility – to end the reign of sin and death (Heb. 7:25/Rev. 12:8-11)

Inventions that drive economies today are like toys before the devil. Our Lord Jesus wasn’t praising him while he declared him as “the prince of this world” (Jn. 14:30). He was simply telling born and unborn generations that;

-       The principles running the earth is that of a rebel holder and what gave room for the reign of such is that men continually love an inferior light (darkness) rather than the true light (Gen. 6:3-6/Jn. 3:19/Jn. 1:9/1Jn. 2:8).

-       The enemy of God is a worldly system that has been befriended by most men, and this has limited men from loving precious things that can’t find a physical expression in time, i.e. precious things that have been hid in God, and only accessible by revelation. (Eph. 3:3-5)

-       To overcome the wisdom of this world, you must be a prince of another world-to-come, which he came to unveil by his walk, so men can walk likewise (Rom. 10:15/ph. 6:15/1Jn. 2:6)

He came to man as the serpent, deceived Eve and then reached out to Adam’s secret desire to have an adventure with the world (1Tim. 2:14). He then went for Adam’s descendants, got some to despise God’s Civilization of Faith, he fed fat on men’s ignorance and wickedness for centuries until he stole the title deed of the earth and mounted “the air” as a dragon and later the great red dragon (Gen. 6:3-6/Eph. 2:2b/Rev. 12:3). Our corporate assignment is to unseat him from his throne and the stature required to do so is acquired as we are reconciled with his laws of Faith (living) and Love (abiding). (2Cor. 5:18/1Pet. 1:23)

·         2Cor. 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

-       Simply put, we experienced reconciliation or peace with God in our human spirit (not our souls) at New birth because of what Jesus did and we accepted as a gift of righteousness.

·         Jam. 1:17 Every good gift (the light of His Faith) and every perfect gift (the light of His Love) is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should (future tense) be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

-       Simply put, we must learn the light of the Faith of the Son over some decades so we ultimately fellowship with the light of the Love of God. These provisions would cause our souls to be Christ-like in nature and bring it into the same quickened experience/state that our spirit attained at new birth (Eph. 2:1a/Rom. 5:1-5/1Pet. 1:9/1:22-23/James 1:18)

God has called every genuine follower of Christ to the same herculean task of overcoming His enemy like His Son, the early apostles and few rarely known saints have done till date. We simply need to trust Christ to be in us, what he requires of us! Christ must be in us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, for the rebirth of our souls. (1Cor. 1:30)

Blessings!

Tayo Fasan

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#True_Change_Is_Imminent – Part 3

... AN APPRAISAL ON WHY OUR DEFINITIONS MUST CHANGE SO WE CAN BECOME STAKEHOLDERS OF GOD'S PEACE

Dearly Beloved,

Over the years, I have come to agree with the Lord that A FREE MAN IS SOMEONE TO WHOM IT HAS BECOME CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT HIS LIFE AND PEACE SHOULD NOT BE DEFINED OR REGULATED BY EXCITING HAPPENINGS OR DISAPPOINTMENTS THAT RESIDES UNDER THE SUN. (Rom. 8:6/Mal. 2:5/Eccl. 1:8-9)

SO BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE CHIEF ASSET IS A FREEDOM THAT IS BORN FROM ABOVE BY TRUTH (Jn. 3:31/8:32), WHOSE DEFINITIONS OF GOD’S GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS RUNS CONTRARY TO THAT OF MANY OTHER BELIEVERS OR CARNAL MINDS. Such a believer would gradually experience the IVORY PALACES IN CHRIST JESUS (Ps. 45:7-8/Eph. 1:3) where he would naturally LIVE BY FAITH (1Pet. 1:23/Heb. 10:38). Ultimately, he would experience GOD’S ETERNAL DWELLING PLACE (Ps. 90:1) where he would naturally ABIDE IN LOVE (1Pet. 1:23/1Jn. 2:10/14/17/3:6)

1Pet. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible (seed/word), by the word of God (two edged – Heb. 4:12), which liveth (faith) and abideth (love) forever.

True freedom has a synonym called the peace of God and it can become the inheritance of those who choose to despise (hate) the peace being offered by the world (Jn. 14:27/12:25). By default, our natural well educated mind is a friend of this world and at enmity with God (Job. 22:21-23/Rom. 8:7/Jam. 4:4), and as such it can’t understand the subtlety of the peace being offered by the world. So our judgement (ways/thoughts) has to be overhauled/changed.

God’s provision to address this enmity (obstacle) is the provision of His Faith - the faith of the new creature; the faith of the world to come. As we learn of him and walk in him (Matt. 11:29/Col. 2:6), we would come into many justifications of the Spirit like the Lord did (Matt. 3:17/17:5) and become SHAREHOLDERS OF GOD’S PEACE. We would unlearn sin and receive the prescription of change that Jesus gave in 2Cor. 3:18. Like it is with our recreated human spirit, our souls would also come to a place where it can witness to the fact that “WE ARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD”. (2Cor. 5:21)

·         2Cor. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

·         2Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made (a future tense/expectation) the righteousness of God in him

So, a very crucial activity that is currently going on is that of God raising men that would be made free enough to disobey Satan and all that he represents! Like our Lord Jesus and his apostles, these communities of saints would be empowered by the gospel of God (Rom. 1:1/1:16) to disown every pseudo peace that the world offers men at a hidden cost (Jn. 14:27/Matt. 16:26). Their material comfort (which can be a form of pseudo peace) would not be esteemed at the expense of walking in love toward the saints (Eph. 1:15c/Gal. 6:2/6:10/1Pet. 1:22/2Cor. 8:2)

Our first or second degrees (which doesn’t give us an edge over God’s enemies) cost us some discipline and qualitative investment of time and resources. So it is with the profession of faith (1Tim. 6:12/Heb. 3:1). Hearing the tutorials of God’s righteousness and mixing it with unfeigned faith in our hearts should cost us much more (Rom. 1:16/10:17/Heb. 4:2). Through this shortcut, the definition of the Christian faith as a religion would be expired in us and we would give this generation the right interpretation of the Christian faith as a lifestyle of adventuring truth.

Our generation must seek God for God, not just for things that perish with the use! We must not hold back from seeking the Lord with all our hearts, soul, strength and mind. As we do, Christ Jesus as the prince of peace would come and indwell our hearts by His Faith (Eph. 3:17/Jn. 14:21), and would tarry in us until he finds our hearts comfortable enough for him to beacon to the father to join him (i.e. “relocate” from heaven) so they can both indwell us together (2Cor. 6:16/Isa. 66:1-2/Jn. 14:23/Rev. 21:3).

This is how we would hasten the timeframe in which the enemies of the true church would be judged (Rev. 6:14/12:9/Ps. 110:1), so that this age can to be shut down and the world to come unveiled, Amen. (Heb. 1:10-12/2Pet. 3:13/Rev. 21:1-2)

Blessings!                         

Tayo Fasan

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#True_Change_Is_Imminent - Part 2

Beloved of God,

Man has been subject to the bondage of corruption (disobedience) and his greatest genuine need is to be free to serve God and give an interpretation to his will (Lk. 1:74/1Jn. 1:2)! The enemy knows this quite well so he has crafted ways of seeking freedom that seems right to men and to nations but would enable him accuse them before God and also limit them with an independent spirit. We are therefore at the mercy of seeking freedom in God’s way, with God’s resources, and at God’s time.

·         Lk. 1:74-75 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies (Ps. 110:1/Eph. 6:12) might serve him without fear, In Holiness and Righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

·         Heb. 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, Let Us Have Grace, whereby we may SERVE GOD ACCEPTABLY with Reverence and Godly Fear:

A lot has been done by man’s corporate enemy against the continuous coming of believers to the knowledge of truth (Heb. 11:6/Jn. 8:31-32/1Tim. 2:4), and it will take Ministers of God’s Righteousness and Preachers of the GOSPEL OF GOD (Rom. 1:1), which became the GOSPEL OF CHRIST (Rom. 1:16) and subsequently the GOSPEL OF PAUL (Rom. 2:16/16:25a); to destroy the works of the enemy in the hearts of carnal believers (1Jn. 3:8). LIKE NOAH KEPT PREACHING RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR OVER A CENTURY, THESE CROP OF MINISTERS OF THE SPIRIT (2Cor. 3:8) WILL CONSISTENTLY ADMINISTER GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEREBY UNVEIL GOD’S FAITH UNTIL THE FAITH (OF CHRIST) BECOMES THE FAITH THAT EACH BELIEVER LIVES BY (Gal. 2:20) AND THE FRUIT OF THIS EXPLOIT WOULD BE THE WORLD BEING OVERTHROWN IN THEM AND THROUGH THEM! (Isa. 61:6/Rom. 1:17/Phil. 3:8-9/1Jn. 5:4)

·         Rom. 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth (i.e. to save the souls of believers – 1Pet. 1:9/22-23); to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from (one lesson/dealing of) faith to (another lesson/dealing of) faith: as it is written, The just shall LIVE by (Christ’s) FAITH.

Men have submitted to the demands of earning a master’s degree for example, because they can see and calculate the reward for doing so, but many believers cannot discern the reward of seeking to be free enough to serve God acceptably. The first challenge that God seekers face is that of their inability to rightly appraise their true identity or their expected end (Col. 1:27b/Jer. 29:11). So preachers are meant to skillfully paint the picture of how God’s Grace (i.e. Christ/the wilderness) is meant to process and set them free so they can access their expected end – God’s Glory (i.e. the father/the promised land). Pls see Jn. 1:14/Ps. 84:11/Rom. 5:2/1Cor. 2:7c

Through the systems of this world, the enemy has embossed a philosophy in not a few men, that says, “MAN’S IDENTITY IS IN WHAT HE DOES, IN HIS STATUS OR IN HIS ABILITY TO ACQUIRE THINGS ABUNDANTLY” (Lk. 12:15), but God continues to say, that “MAN’S IDENTITY IS IN WHO HE HAS CALLED HIM TO BE, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD! (Matt. 13:35/Eph. 1:4). The preaching the kind of faith that overcomes the world can therefore not be overemphasized!

The identity of our Lord Jesus, while he was a carpenter for over a decade was simply a part of process designed humble him and also “hide him” among men for years. God was simply using that profession as one of the weak arrangements of the earth so he would later confound the world. Abraham’s true identity for 25 years wasn’t in his being “fatherless”; neither was Sarah’s identity in being barren before the eyes of natural men. Joseph’s true identity wasn’t in being a prisoner. Those were the paths and processes they all had to take, to save themselves and those that were tied to their loins (1Tim. 4:16d); so they could all become whom God had called them to be and partake of God’s Holiness (Heb. 11:16c /12:9-10)

Going forward, a genuine wind of change that’s governed by the Gospel of Christ (God’s Power) would be visiting the church (saints) like never before. Men would be walking out of their graveyards (Egypt/worldliness) and from lawful captivities because the trumpet of the voice of the Son of God would give a distinct sound and would be received by willing hearts. We must not resist it because of our self-interest; so we won’t be left on the wrong side of the divide, this year and beyond, Amen.

Blessings!

Tayo Fasan

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#True_Change_Is_Imminent

Dearly Beloved,

We give thanks to the Father of Mercies who in His infinite wisdom answered some unuttered prayers in 2015, but more interestingly, hasn’t answered some of our prayers in the interest of our eternal salvation.

For many of us, 2015 was a year of being prepared and furnished with the glad tidings of the gospel of Christ. Like Esther, many have been undergoing preparations in seasons that should cause our fruitfulness in 2016 to be superior to what became tangible to us in the entire first half of this decade! This year promises to be an unusual year wherein we would further war in Righteousness with known and unknown enemies within (Jam. 4:1-10/Isa. 32:17/Rom. 7:18-24), so we can experience greater tangibilities of Peace and Joy and bring forth 30, 60 and ultimately a 100 fold hundredfold measure of fruitfulness. Amen!

The Father of Glory authorized new seasons in 2015 that revealed His Son like never before, and this was accompanied by unprecedented distractions. 2016 would therefore be delivering riches of spiritual understanding to us that would enable us acknowledge these personalities of truth like never before (Col. 2:2/1Jn. 5:20) and would also be accompanied with distractions that should be unworthy of our attention! Great seasons of the Spirit has been calibrated into 2016 calendar year, such that promises to bring forth new experiences in the waters of truth and inch some closer to the fullness of God.

I am persuaded that God would be bringing forth new interpretations of the Faith of His Son (i.e. of God’s elect – Titus 1:1/2Pet. 1:1) and many believing believers would be eating with their ears (Isa. 55:2c/Rom. 10:17) until they see more into the many-sidedness of God's sayings/wisdom (Hab. 2:1/Lk. 24:44-45/Eph. 3:9) and overcome accordingly.

The Lord Jesus has been intensifying his work amidst in his frail church and it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile some believers with their past personality. But more importantly, in the years ahead, it would be very difficult to reconcile the newness of life in them with even their present state of soul (Rom. 6:4/7:6/Eph. 4:23-24). 

The ministry of change (God’s Face) being supervised by His Spirit would be assuming a new dimension and no one must be left out (2Cor. 3:18/4:6). #True_Change_Is_Imminent!

LET US REMAIN WATCHFUL, QUICKEN OUR PACE AND HAVE A LIVELY NEW YEAR!

Your Delighted Brother & Servant,

Tayo Fasan