Men must always pray

 

Lu 18: 1  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

 

Why Pray?

1. Unless man prays God will not do anything on the earth! The key words in the statement  are man and earth. God will not do anything in this earth realm that has been given over to man , unless a man prays! God has decided that way and so it will be forever! Because Adam and Eve messed up in Eden, God became a man and redeemed it back and restored it back to man; now  the honour and glory belongs to man!

 

God is better than self motivation stuff, he imputes power and authority to you just as we like to give all we have to our children and want them to succeed. God gives us everything and expects us to exercise rule and dominion over it!

2. the second reason is we join hands with God to do the will of God. Prayer is not asking God what oyu need. Prayer is an activity reserved for you the vice regent on earth to sit in the board meeting with God and rule and reign! God has predetermined everything; but we ought to know that so that I can accomplish it in prayer. It frees me to be a co- laborer, partner, joint functionary with God.

3. The third reason  is to exercise rulership and dominion over earth. The fall of mankind robbed him of dominion, the man became the slave of the devil. The choicest of God’s creation became subservient to the enemy of God! God planned redemption in such  a way that it meant not merely deliverance for man, but to restore man’s  position  of authority above anything else, including the devil. Unless that was done, man could not exercise authority!

But, So many are content preaching a gospel of mere freedom from sin!

Eph 2: 6

6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

 

Redemption is not just freedom from sins, or a status of sonship, or even freedom from the devil’s atrocities! It is much beyond that- God has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places…

Where in the heavenly places?

19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

 

Jesus is at the right hand of God. We also have been made to sit at the right hand of God (in Christ Jesus)! The right hand of God is a place of power, authority and dominion!

So many have got it wrong! Some claim that there are seven heavens; and because they are not married and are consecrated they were going to the seventh heaven and all the others would be stuck in the third!

You would be lucky to just get to heaven; find some little corner! However the bible says … made me sit together with Him- where God himself is; at the most important place in heaven- in equality with Christ!

 Why did God not stop just with forgiving my sins? I would be glad and serve him forever with just the promise of heaven! But that is not enough for God! He is a God of too much! You think about yourself; God is thinking of the whole earth! God raised you up!

At the right hand

Is it an honorary position? A doctorate? No! We are seated in close proximity with God where we can talk to him, in a place …

Eph 1: 21

 

21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

 

Why sit in the heavenly places?

NOT TO LAY EGGS! this is not about Jesus being seated at the right hand of God! Jesus being seated- there is where he came from- it is not about him- it means nothing ever happened to us!

It is about the man Jesus Christ! This Man freed from the dead, from satanic hold in hell, came out- with new life and ascended back to heaven and sat victorious and all the power is now invested into this one Man– Jesus Christ!

As col 2: 15 says-

15  And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

 

It is not about Jesus the Son of God- it is about man! The man Jesus who came as our substitute- and is now seated there as a man! And because  a man is seated there- God says- consider the man Christ Jesus- it is trying to tell us that it is not merely Jesus seated there-  it is us! Together with Him… Him sitting there was already a reality for Him- it is about us!

Where  am I?

Above all principality and power!

Where are they ( all the powers and principalities)?

They are under our feet!

So many have no clue to the reality of this statement. Someone advised, “be very careful when you lay hands on someone possessed with the devil- the devil may get onto you! Haha. It is a mean devil- he would do this and that to you!

Churches have not taught Christians the knowledge of this reality.

Someone referred to Jude 1: 9

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

 

Michael, the most powerful archangel of heaven dared not rebuke the devil! I don’t rebuke thee, the lord rebuke you! Please get a revelation where you are sitting! The Lord Jesus is on your side- the devil is under your feet; he has been placed there!

Get a revelation- you are not Michael the archangel- you are a son of God seated with Christ at right hand of God (where Michael is not sitting); let Michael be who he is! I am not what He is, I am seated at the right hand of God, raised up together with Jesus, seated together with Him! ‘The Bible tells,  you rebuke the devil!’

In my name you shall cast out devils! I give you power over every serpent and scorpions; nothing by any means will hurt you!

Let us look at it logically- let us not try to teach each other Hebrew or Greek!

Heb 1: 14

14  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

It means they have been appointed to serve us- they are ready to serve us. Is the one who serves greater or the one being served is greater? We ought not to think that man is made lower than angels! Scholars suggest that ‘man is made just a little lower than God’ is a better rendition of the original text! Angels are our ministering spirits!

Maybe Michael was deferring to his once upon a time buddy in angelic hierarchy; it does not apply to us! We were once captives but now the defeated foe has set us in our charge. We have been handed over all of the whole earthly realm by the Victor Christ Jesus! Under my feet!

Why pray?

We pray to exercise dominion! Therefore  before praying, we must pause to meditate on all these truths! We are seated with God! Where is satan positioned right now? What is his title ? never refer to him as Mr Satan- he is to be referred to as the defeated foe!

Whenever the devil wants you thinking something about yourself or your failures, call him aside for a little talk and remind him how his teeth were knocked out on Calvary! Do not for one moment be in awe of him, even that he is a mean devil!

If we are seated at the right hand the the Father, then we are seated FAR above all principalities and powers-  the devil’s power is nothing! (Every word of God is important for you to overcome! )

Most of the problems in the church is trying to get what you already have. We think we have nothing but God has given us everything, we think we are so small but we are so big!

Jesus being raised up is a only relevant if we are raised up with Him too! In this connection read ch 2:6

And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church],   Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself]. (Ephesians 1:22, 23 AMP)

We are his body, another translation-

He has put all things under his feet  for the benefit of the church. So that the church may benefit from it- the people of the body, individually and corporately.

Why did He put all things under Jesus’ feet?

What benefit does Jesus have in being raised up and head over all things? Nothing! He was there; He merely got back there! But if we were to benefit – it makes all the difference!

However the church does not benefit since no one ever speaks about it! All they ever say is be careful of the devil, he may get on you! It is for the benefit of the church, for me, that Jesus did it! Jesus benefits nothing, I benefit everything!

Full gospel?

Full Gospel is definitely Not being full of food or even having a  pot belly! Having your sins forgiven and going to heaven is not full gospel! Deliverance from the devil is not full gospel! It is about what you are now in Christ and  your being seated with Him in heavenly places!

This realization  should be as real to you as cold and hot! You never seek counsel to or seek a prophet to divine cold or hot! You just know it! The truth about the full gospel should be as real as you know the ground will take our weight when you get out of the bed in the morning! The bridges we cross, we never check the cement constitution before you motor across one!

Those who fly in aero planes – feel it is the safest mode of transport. Even safer than a motor cycle or car or even walking on the road! The pilot will put the aero plane on autopilot and not care for a thing! Thorough knowledge leads to being sure of the outcome!

When the Christian a thinks of his position he is able to use it instantly like a mathematics table, how the devil is a defeated foe-  it leads to a victorious Christian life in his thought, attitude, word, action and behavior!

Eph 1:15-23

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God),  I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.  [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,  By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know  and  understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),  And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable  and  unlimited  and surpassing greatness of His power in  and  for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,  Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places],  Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age  and  in this world, but also in the age  and  the world which are to come.  And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church],   Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].

 

Why comprehend and understand all these things? If They do not understand it, their Christian life would be a failure. They ought to understand where they are. The have to know the devil’s condition. Prayer is not about howling or blabbering or complaining to God! It is exercising rule and dominion! It is talking the language of a person who knows his rights and privileges!

In Eph 1:23

The church which is his body, The fulness of him who fills all in all!

The church is the fulness of God- love and strength. It is not a church of weakness and Inability! It is an army of people who are the fulness of Him.

1 cor 12 : 6,7

Yet when we are among the full-grown (spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding), we do impart a [higher] wisdom (the knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden); but it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age  or  of this world nor of the leaders  and  rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing  and  are doomed to pass away.  But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden [from the human understanding] and now revealed to us by God–[that wisdom] which God devised  and  decreed before the ages for our glorification [to lift us into the glory of His presence]. (1 Corinthians 2:6, 7 AMP)

The Moffat’s translation talks of the rulers of this age who are dethroned, refers to  that rule behind the leaders. The devil is dethroned, he is under our feet. He is under our feet!

Mat 16: 17,18

Then Jesus answered him, Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are you, Simon Bar-Jonah. For flesh and blood [men] have not revealed this to you, but My Father Who is in heaven.  And I tell you, you are Peter [Greek,  Petros --a large piece of rock], and on this rock [Greek,  petra --a huge rock like Gibraltar] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades (the powers of the infernal region) shall not overpower it [or be strong to its detriment or hold out against it]. (Matthew 16:17, 18 AMP)

Peter spoke these words under the revelation from the father. Christian truth cannot be received in an academic way, it must dawn upon you- things unknown must be made available you. The spirit of God has revealed it to us! Listening to a lecture will not do you any good, but if spirit of God would open your eyes…

It was at this moment that Peter ‘got’ it for the first time, though his having been with Jesus so far had not helped!

Upon this rock… not  Peter! The rock is – knowing who Jesus is, where he is right now, where He puts us. Upon that revelation the church is built! Building a church is not  about gathering relatives together! The church is not built by human methods! Even a persecutor and murderer would believe a revelation one day and then begin to preach the next day! It is God’s truth coming to someone under the work of the Holy spirit.

That type of a church is not a mere organization – the gates of hell will not prevail against it! It is not the devil coming after you- gates do not travel!

It is the Church which is offensive, the church rises up, expands like leaven dough rises and pushes against the gates of hell and destroys the work of Satan! It is a triumphant church! This verse is Proclaiming our victory and the defeat of Satan!

Mat 16:19

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven. (Matthew 16:19 AMP)

It is about authority! When The devil plays havoc in your life,  you do not find an evangelist and stand in line for prayer!  Know what the devil is, who you are in Christ, fill your heart with this truth and tell him who he is!

This is the basis of prayer! When you build a church on this rock, then the gates of hell will not prevail against us! What we decide will be established on the earth!

 

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Men must always pray

Lu 18: 1  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

What is the use of praying if God is all powerful knowledgeable and has determined everything?

Why pray?

1. God will not do anything until and unless a man asks. God has left himself out of the equation on earth as a result of the honour God gives man.

2. Prayer is men working with God to bring to pass the will of God one earth. It is about God’s plan and purposes; we are God’s vice regents; getting god’s will done through consultation with God, engaging with Him administering with God- not begging

Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

God never took it back!

God never repented this: he never rescinded with afterthought too! The reason why he did it was to bestow honour and dominion on man! Even if he makes a mess of it, I have decided to keep the honour on man; I will even set the mess right!

That alone would make you sit up straight!

To grasp this fact about dominion and honour bestowed on man, we need to understand certain truths. The creation of man, the fall of man and redemption of man. God’s original intent in making man was for him to have dominion. The mess that man made was owing to his sin and Satan. That brought rebellion, resulting in being cut off from God. Man fell so far away, we can no longer appreciate us being rulers: In some churches rulership might even be construed as heresy or queer! We are so removed from truth that we do not think about glory and honour! It has landed us in such ruin that it has destroyed our lives! Sin has so dominated and ruling our lives.

He won it only to give it back to us

What is redemption? It is where God comes in,  takes back the position that man lost and (incredibly gives it back to man, restoring honour glory back to man so he can function in his original intent again! God will never be changed no matter whatever mess we make of it! It is about God changing us to suit His original intentions and purposes rather than Him! God never changes! Selah!

Observe your own life, why did you grow up, why did you school, why work? Why raise a family? What is the meaning of all this? How many years you might have spent doing things just for the heck of it- either hanging out with friends, or running around with the crowd, or just chill out at some watering hole: JLT! Spending hours at a street corner from 6 pm to 11 Pm! Not knowing what is the purpose of life! They do not know! If only we can teach them about the purpose of God! That is the only way you can know… there is no other way!

You ask a thing what is its purpose, usually it does not know! The maker knows all about it! So is with man too, His maker knows all about it! You will never find the key to success until you come into a relationship with God and He reveals to you your purpose! Coming to God is not as hard as climbing a mountain- it is just asking God to help you with it!

The day you pray- Lord, Come into my life… from that day, you never say Chumma!

You discover His purpose for today, tomorrow, the next day, the next week, the next month, the next season. The next year, the next decade, the next half century…. you discover a mission for your life, you know where you are going! Success is all about getting to know…

Learn the right language

Merely getting saved does not guarantee your knowing God’s purpose… prayer of some saved people may be all messed up! They cannot pray well because in their mind is still messed up. Others many years into the Christian walk still mess up prayer because they learnt prayer wrongly- from other saints! Do not learn from others who do not know! Because many saints are just saved, their spirits are saved, (they would go to heaven) but their minds are not renewed! They re just doing their best they can…

Lord I am just a worm and dust, I am nothing… I come begging…

Begging prayers come from a saved person who does to know his he position. You may be in that condition, but once you start coming here, you have got to change! If you are for over 3 months in the same condition I’d start worrying about you! The prayer of someone who knows God, his word will be different.

Many feel God has condemned them  to just cry and howl before Him day and night! They feel they have to come and sprawl  before Him and cry out and beg and plead for mercy. No! It is about God causing you to sit in the heavenly places (in the most important place in the universe) along with Jesus Christ and prayer is not begging God anymore! It is me sitting with Jesus at the right hand of God, and working with God about His plan and purposes and doing His work on this earth! It is not about bawling, lay down prostrate, do cartwheels or trapeze like in a circus- Oh Jesus!

You come to Him meditating about who you are and your position with Him! You are a son, joining in Jesus’ great prayer activity. When you pray that way, your whole prayer approach changes! Learn to pray from Jesus; learn to pray from His word! Your prayer words will change the most efficient type! Then you will have 100% answers to prayer.

Understand God’s idea of redemption- God redeemed us; He was so true to His original plans and intention, he did not cancel out anything from His original blue print! When He redeemed us, to restore our rights to rule and have dominion.

Eph 1: 9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

God did not plan man’s redemption and salvation after he sinned and fell! God’s infinite wisdom and purpose caused him to plan it even before it, in fact before he made plans to make the heavens and the earth! –He is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. So God did not make a mistake! (God should have prevented man from making a mistake)! God’s plan of redemption was so perfect, so good, even before he made man. –that Jesus would become the redeemer.

Which He purposed in Himself…

He had decided on some things before the foundations of the world…

10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

In the fullness of time- in the right time, (before anything came into being) that He would restore everything to Himself.

11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:

In the third chapter

Eph 3: 10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

 

The many sided wisdom of God might be announced to the principalities and powers. Are these demonic? In some places they do refer to the demonic powers, but it need not refer to the demonic always! The context refers to the Holy angels of God in heaven. Why? Many belabor to interpret it; God wanting to reveal His manifold wisdom through the church to demons is not of any profit to God! The demons do not like God and His wisdom: they may  be astounded and confounded by it, at best!

What was God doing?

His angels had been with God prior to mankind itself, engaged in creative acts and interventions with affairs of man after man’s creations. They have served as His servants… doing His bidding; leading to numerous accounts of their acts in the OT. They know a lot about us mankind too! They looked on as Adam fell and they remember; they saw Abraham try to sacrifice Isaac, the parting of the red sea, God’s dealings and mighty works were witnessed by them. However, when God does something like sending the Second person of the Trinity, they were told to announce His birth! Michael to announcing to Mary the birth of Jesus, he merely consoled her “not to worry” he did not understand what God was doing. Why announce to shepherds? They witnessed the garden of Gethsemane scene and strengthened Him. They had supported Him in the earthly ministry, not knowing why God was doing this, and they drew their swords and waited for God to order to take them down, to put the roman soldiers to the sword when Jesus was crucified on the cross. What was God doing?

Jesus came alive! They were told to tell them He is risen. What in the world is happening? He is not here anymore! As He was taken up in the clouds- he is going to come back the way he went up, Go do your work- preach the gospel!

Since then, many other incidents they participated in, releasing peter form the prison… but they did not understand the death on the cross.

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

11  According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

They do not understand , but a certain Paul was given  a revelation, through the preaching of the Christian church, the manifold wisdom of God must be made known to the angels of God( not only to the parishioners) there is a balcony crowd- more than those present here! I preach to balcony crowd full of thousands of millions and millions of angels! There is something wonderful- all our questions answered at P 43!

Angels are looking in… Something interests them- an exposition they never heard! Like we people understand! God has purposed to make known to them! It is such a thing to make known to angels! It is therefore not enough to have moral stories… not to lie cheat… there is moral science! Done better at schools!

Christian preaching…

Christian preaching… is not about chewing, spitting and snorting! Anyone smoking would be told by an elder not to do that! … Pentecostal preaching is not that- to is about the glorious redemption, mystery of God’s plan and purpose- God gathering all through Jesus Christ! The cigarette packet would clarify; the arrack shop will tell you about it. If you continue it is foolishness, why do it to get all hose sicknesses? I am not waste my time preaching on that; I want to preach what God has done for you-

About long hair and snuff and … is not worth your effort! It is insignificant! Christian Preaching is different, that the angels are interested, to discover that they td onto know what God wanted to do in the actions of man!

That the angels are interested in discovering what they have not comprehended despite working with God for thousands of years that they now have to flock to hear Christian preaching to understand the mystery of God’s plan through mankind.

Boldness and Access

It is because of what Jesus has done, his shed blood, because of what He has done! Because if what He has done, we have boldness and access.

“Boldness and access” if you appreciate redemption and the sacrifice on the cross, they you will have boldness. With confidence.

That is why, to pray we have to stop begging. Begging is not prayer. Before you beg, think for a moment: through Jesus Christ, you have boldness to come, knowing you have access. Come knowing that you are allowed; you are welcome there!

Prayer is not me trying to get into God’s presence, and trying to twist His arm! It is not trying to knock on heaven’s door wanting to get a foot in somehow! Someone complained, “I am trying to call up God; seems all the lines are busy! No! God is never busy.

God has never been in a hurry all though history. God made the heaven and the earth and gave the earth to man. Man lost the authority on earth through rebellion, so God took the initiative to save the earth and sent God’s son as a man. It is not enough for him to come as a man;

For God to become Man…

1. He had to be sin-less. He cannot man in sin of he had sin himself! He had to come without sin.

2. He had to be the express image of God. Colossians is full of expressions how Jesus is the express image of God. Exactly like God, just as Adam was. So Jesus said, “If you’ve seen me you have seen the Father”- his exact image!

3. Jesus had to have a deep relationship of love with God.

John 3:35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. 

When Jesus was on the earth, he was another Adam. Just like Adam! Now Jesus the second Adam has come and now everything has been placed in His hands because the Loved Him.

Jn 5: 20  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

Whatever the Father wants done He shows the Son and the son carries it out! He even lays down His life for the Father knowing He would be allowed to take it up again. He and the Father are One, in purpose, in accomplishment, in activity, in thinking ad doing…

Jn 10:17  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

30  I and my Father are one.

One in intent, activity, thinking and doing, Jesus and the Father were one! Jesus having become man, has become another Man! Another Adam is now walking on the earth! Imagine what effect it had on the devil. He was probably running helter-skelter since; here was a Man who spoke a completely different language! Whereas all other men were sin-stained and under his thumb, here was another, walking a different walk, the express image of God, sinless therefore cannot come under the power of Satan! He has a wonderful relationship with God to top it all! He has a personal knowledge of God, and here he is, lived to do the Father’s will! Praying Thy kingdom Come, they will be done!

My meat is to do the Father’s will and to complete it!

Even in Gethsemane, at the most difficult time of His life, he prayed, let this cup be removed from me, nevertheless, not my will but yours be done!

He was so consumed with the will of His father that when someone announced the arrival of his kith and kin, He said,

Mr 3:35  For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

And God wants to use you in prayer

The will of the Father, was what consumed Him so much that even his earthly parents, brothers and sisters were secondary! When He was on the earth, He was a   special man, in a special  relationship with God, administering God’s will on earth. As a result, the blind saw, the lame walked and even the dead were raised: here was a man who came to do the will of the Father! He had not come to lay burdens on the people: He did not come to even be ruled and dominated by the circumstances of life, but ruled and reigned, just as God had told Adam to do! Jesus was the only person doing it: the only person qualified to do it: owing to His sinlessness!

Because if His special status, his prayers were so important- and He prayed all night, early morning, and late at night- about His father’s business!

All others had lost touch with God, despite prayers going on in synagogues and other places, temples and homes! The prayers of Jesus were the prayers of a man closely connected with God! In the absence of anyone else to pray, he had much to do, therefore had much to pray about! In prayer he was administering, ruling and reigning, the only One qualified to intervene on earth. Everyone else was lost on earth in Jesus’ time! He was the only one who could talk to God and bring God’s intervention on earth!

When He died on the cross, he died in our stead, took man’s sin as a sacrifice. After he died, bearing our sin, he had to descend all the way to Hell too! He had to take back that authority from the one who had taken it away from Man! Now having paid the price Jesus had become the legal owner, He went and took back the earth from the serpent and came out…

Jesus did not lay claims to all of this  for himself, after acquiring rulership. He did not say, I overcame so I am going to keep it , at least not give it to man who messed it up the last time, I will take it to the right hand of the father and I will keep it with me, and administer it all myself!

As a man he had obtained the power and authority, legally had taken it back, and legally transfers it back to man!

To those who believed on Him He gave them authority to become the sons and daughters of God!

The devil is in bigger trouble now! Instead of one son, there are many sons now! He is going to perfect you, he is going to transform you, show you to the way, give you the holy spirit and make you what He wants you to be!

Jesus transfers that authority through the new birth! When you accept Jesus and are born again, all the authority that Adam lost is given back to us!

And God wants to use us, through our prayer to rule and administer and reign on earth! Are you ready for that?

Legalistic or liberal?

It is not about fasting and prayer, or not even prayer and star bucks! Sadly your rights and privileges were never the subject of Christian preaching except being focussed on externals! Preachers wee either liberal coming out of seminaries like cemeteries to peak of the bible as a though it was mythology or to legalism on the other end, focussing on men’s traditions, though they shout hallelujah and do some things!

This is what we have, the preaching and songs are setting are different, but what we preach is the word of God!

So many get cold feet to believe God’s word, and do not take Him at His word: who are we to command God? (We ought to be careful with these things! We can only beg Him! ) but it is about really believing His word, so much that we are willing to do what He says! Coming to Him in the knowledge of what He says, reading, meditating and believing and speaking His word, standing on the word and expecting it to come to pass! That is what God expects!

Can we command God?

It is not about ordering God around! The heavenly Father is pleased when you believe his word and insist on it- when you ask according to His word and according to His will, just like your heart will be thrilled when your son or daughter comes to you and stakes a claim on your promise to the Where are we right now

Where are we right now? That realization will let you escape the begging mode! Stop! You are seated with Jesus at the right hand of the Father. Who is at the right hand? Jesus is seated there, and you are seated right there with him! So you pray just like Jesus! Don’t hide behind the crutch that Abraham prayed that he was just dust and ashes! Do not kill yourself with the bible! If you do not understand it, it will destroy your future! Look at Jesus; he is the Son you must be like!

Just like Jesus always prayed, “Father I thank you for you have always heard me!” Have boldness! To talk to Him!

Redemption has given me rule and dominion back, Jesus got it back for me! I am to rule, I am to have dominion on this earth through prayer! Prayer is the means of exercising my rule and dominion. Every time I pray, I am exercising rule and dominion. With confidence with boldness I have access into God’s throne room. I am welcome there! I have a standing invitation, the doors are open; I am God’s child! I have rights and privileges! I am seated with Christ at the right hand of God and I talk to Him as my Father!

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Men must always pray.

Lu 18: 1  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

If God is omniscient, He knows everything why pray?

If God is omnipotent, he can do whatever He wants, I do not need to tell Him what to do!

Good is in control of everything, what is the need of me praying?

God has determined everything; He will go only according to His pre determined force, according to His thoughts, plans and will and is going to do what He wants anyway! If He does not change,

Why pray?

1. Without amanasking God does not do anything on this earth:

God has set this law in operation on earth!

 

God has delegated this whole earth in the hands of  man.

Why does not God do anything to undo what man may do (foolishly)?

In raising a child, there is a fear that the child may hurt himself if freedom is given to it. We may fear that the child would get spoilt in this bad world. What is the child going to do when he goes out, or when you give him money, or when you trust her! Or send them out of town! There is a big risk involved in raising children!

However tying up a child in a room in order to save it would produce the opposite effect! You would have a son for sure, but you would not have someone who can function! In order to let the son grow you have to let him go! There is great risk involved in it: we allow them and pray for them, cover them with prayer: and look forward for it to turn out well and it does! If you lock them up: they will never trust you! There will never be an exchange of love, or fellowship, or intimacy! If the world was not given into man’s hands, man would not have received such an honour the psalmist talks about:

 “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Ps 8:4 AV)

 

God trusted man by giving him the earth and believing that man would carry out His purposes on earth. God bestowed on him so much and you cannot ask Him why; he is an all-wise God! Even after the fall, God never intended to take it back! And He came in flesh, won it back from the devil- and gave it right back to us.

From now on, if anything has to be done on earth it will happen because a man asks for it!

This is the privilege of man- God will never take it away- that would change the very nature of man! HE has bestowed on man!

2. Prayer is working with God to fulfill His purposes.

We must pray because we are in partnership with God over rulership over this earth!

Consider the seeming contradictions: If God knows everything, has predetermined, is unchanging… why pray? Since we are in partnership with Him, God deems that whatever happens on earth would be as an outcome of that partnership with you! That partnership is exercised in prayer!

It is not about working for God but working with God! You are a partner. This may sound unbelievable since this is not man talking but it is God talking!

Prayer may be explain as a series of logical statements:

(a)                       God made man for himself because God wants to fellowship with man! Gen 1: 26

26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Look at the words repeated above: that man is made in the image of God- like God. Before he made man, God had function in his mind about man- in designing man; the vital statistics were frozen by Him beginning with the purpose He had for Him!  He made man in His image and likeness for the primary purpose for man is for him to be in fellowship with God!

Man is a spirit just as God is a spirit! God does not have a body but man has a body!  I am a spirit living inside a body and though the window called the eye, I look at others!

Man also has a mind; able to think, determine, have a will and able to execute. He is able to think intelligently since God is able to to do it too! God is able to determine and do what he has determined! They could have fellowship and relationship only if there was parity! God would think and communicate to man and man would understand! God made man like himself- for communication on a level beyond! Man can decide and do what he wants.

(b)                     God created man to carry out His purposes on the earth. God’s purposes are going to be carried out by them having dominion. By man being able to exercise dominion on earth. Man has been given that ability. The mandate to exercise authority has been coupled with the endowment of ability. Man was going to exercise dominion- and one of the ways was thorough prayer.

Ps 8: 6  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

They were placed beneath him in pecking order. Are you plagued with feelings of inadequacy, failure, can’t-do or weak mindset?  It is wrong to think that you are a worm or dust or ant! Every little and big thing is under your feet: God has made you ruler over all creation! You have to get that mindset!

Ps 115: 16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Are you contented and looking for 3 cents of land? No! The whole earth has been given to you! God ahs decide to take care of the heavens; but the earth he has given over to you! God not only made man like himself, in the spirit and mind faculty- He gave him a body.

We grew up being taught to hate our bodies- dust to dust… the body of sin… we did not care what we ate , how much we ate… and the body responded in like fashion!

However God gave you this body! Therefore we have to treat it right! Cannot become so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good! Wanting to go to heaven! God gave you a body so you can stay on earth as long as possible and fulfil God’s purposes on this earth! You are not made for heaven but for earth! God gave you something He does not have- he is a spirit. Though you are spirit, you have a body to live on earth, instead of merely floating around! A body with the express purpose to rule over the earthly realm.  A material realm for  a material body. When you die you can go to heaven; you no longer need a body for heaven! In the meantime do not be in a hurry to escape! Be a godly minded person willing to do God’s purposes on God’s earth!

From Genesis to revelation there is not one indication that God wanted to rule this earth directly: He gave it to man in the beginning; man messed it up, God regained it and gave it back to man! Man to keep it and exercised dominion over it!

God made the Garden of Eden as the prototype of how He wanted things to be on earth: he wanted man to think like God and replicate it over all the earth! Expand and treat the whole earth like God would: love the earth like God. Environmental concerns are a new area of study: tracing how we could take care of this beautiful earth! If Adam would have loved the earth with the heart and mind of God, how much better this earth would have been! Maybe a 1000 times better than it is today. Man’s rulership ought to infect the earth in such a way that the whole earth would be filled with the knowledge of God! As the waters cover the sea. Man should reflect God’s character and the whole earth would be filled with the knowledge of God!

(c)        That you would not be servants of God but be sons of God!

God is a father- He had  a Son, who delighted in the Father and the father in the Son. God so decided to have more sons like Him; so He created Adam and mankind. The earth is a family business, run by sons and daughters. Not working for but with Him.

(d)       Work with God to exercise dominion on earth!

Therefore prayer was not invent after the fall!  Since man lost fellowship with God, some feel that he had to come begging and yearning for God in prayer. That is not true since prayer’s two elements are

(i) Loving fellowship and

(ii) Participate in the business of carrying our God’s purposes.

Prayer is not merely about establishing connection with God. Prayer was essentially Edenic business- where God shared His intents and desires and man went about doing them! It is a time of alignment where God’s desires motives and dreams become internalised as your own.

Prayer is not  about changing God! God says- I am God and I change not!

Real Prayer if learnt, will change you! You will hear Him and learn his thoughts- your desires, motives, opinions will feelings, and love, plans and goals will become yours! When you pray you become a changed person! We ought to pray since it changes and transforms us from eng self seeking to caring about what God wants! As Adam spent time with God, God shared his thought d mind with him; the more Adam loved God the more he wanted to spend time with Him!

God called Adam over to the garden to spend time with Him!

Gen 2: 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

God started sharing with man His thoughts, his plans purposes etc Gen 3:8

8  And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

It was God, the One who always walked in the cool of the day in order to fellowship with Adam! He wanted to be there! He is there to restore normalcy and order in our lives. Oftentimes we wonder what could be the source of the disorder and confusion in our lives and we fancy it must be God (because He is there!).However Chaos came your way because you were the policeman on the beat yet have not exercised your dominion and authority and done what you should have.

Like traffic lights operated by the traffic policeman, you have to turn on the red light and say stop! You have to turn on the amber and say get ready to go! And the green light and command the charge to move forward.

God always chose a man through history in spite of his fallen-ness, his inferiority, failure and tendency to mess things up. While they were still in their sins.

Abraham prays to God about Sodom; God also wanted to tell Abraham before doing something to Sodom.

e. The purpose and the will of God give us confidence and boldness in our prayers.

If you know exactly what God wants to be done on earth, that gives you confidence in prayer! The will of God is the centre and heart of prayer. A lot do not understand it well and mistake length of time spent is the game changer.       It is good to spend a lot of time, (Jesus did). Yet it is praying what you ought to is the strength of prayer. The will of God is the focus of prayer! “My prayer- I spend four hours a day” a lot of people want to get her knees calloused- “show me your knees and I will tell you whether you are a praying man!” Football knees or praying knees? I fast many times a week!

It is knowing the will of God that is most important; fasting, prayer and long periods of time in prayer thereafter is meaningful. Premium on Your efforts is meaningless.

Some com to a meeting like this so someone could pray for them and they could get free form their labours and loads. They are busy bearing such burdensome responsibilities, ride themselves in being self made. But sweat and toil is a sign of the curse! But spending time with God and knowing God’s business and devoting oneself to it will bring success without the toil.

Are you in God’s business? If not why not? Find God’s business for you and life will become easy, exciting. Instead of trying so hard and being so busy, stop for a minute and pray! The time spent in prayer is so valuable since it demands you come in alignment with God’s purposes and plans. Away from ‘busy’ness and frenetic activity prayer plugs you into God’s way of doing things! Work becomes enjoyable, pleasure, adventure, journey, day by day engaging become you are paying attention to God’s plan for your life.

Joshua was told that this book of the law shall not depart from his mouth. This ‘success manual’! Prosperity and success is my will and desire for you. Anything prayed in prayer must be on the grounds of God’s will!

Deut 1:10  The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

11  (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

They were already expanded like the stars; god wanted them to make them a 1000 times more. You may want double, but He wants you to rise from your smallness and inability and become a different kind of person so you can fulfil God’s purpose on earth. So you cannot be satisfied with double because it would be enough!  God wants you to expand a 1000 times so you can be a blessing to the whole earth. It is not about me! It is not about our five rupees and ten rupees or hundred rupees and doing the work of God! Even if you wrote out all that you have and out it all together, it would still not be enough for doing the will of god! That is why God wants to make you a 1000 times more! Then you will have enough!

But God was happy with the widow’s two mites? Yes God wants you to give out of your shortages so He can get His abundance into your life, so you may not die in your poverty. You may break the cycle of need and want.

But real giving is when you are bringing in so much there is no room to keep it. The people of Israel brought in gold and silver for the tabernacle in abundance, so much that that Moses had to tell them to stop!

Ex 36: 4b came every man from his work which they made;

5  And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.

6  And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

7  For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

Today’s churches take the offertory money to the bank and they check whether it is counterfeit!

Why is it not happening in our churches today like in the OT? Because no one is preaching prosperity! When 50 lakhs of people came out of Egypt God made them rich with arrears, gratuity… these people who were slaves suddenly found themselves rich! They would call their children and let them wear a necklace or bangles or rings… what was God doing? He was letting them reprogram their minds- they were children of the most High God!

God told them to bring in gold and silver… why? Because He gave them gold and silver!  Thinking God’s thoughts is not being reconciled to double or triple! It is about a thousand times! And when you reach a thousand times, it is starting from there and going another 1000 times!

It is not our needs- it s what God wants! He wants increase for you!

Ex 36 37  Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

God wants the people of Israel to ask me to do this for them: what? To be increased like a flock! God wants to be asked; and He will not do it for them until they ask!

Where is it what God promised? Come on, God increase me like a flock!

But you may feel, that is wrong, how can we ask God to do it? God must just do it, why should I ask?

No! God is interested in you being the person He made you out to be: He wants you to partner with Him; that is more important to Him!  Until you set your mind, you set your vision, until you make it your purpose and goal God will not do it! God has already decided: to multiply you, but it is not going to happen until I ask!

Blessing is waiting! So many people’s blessings are waiting! And super spiritual Christians say: I do not want nothing form you Lord!  I just want to retire have my pension and die and go to heaven! God says: it’s all about you! But I am all about the whole earth and mankind! Think my thoughts!

Take hold of His truth, meditate on it, ask Him and then he would do it for you! Instead people cry out; lord why you don’t listen to me Lord, I m crying out, I m fasting and praying…

God waits till you wash your mouth of uncleanness, and from your mouth you say, Lord you have said this and I want this! When you talk the right words, it produces the right results!

 1 kings 8: 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

25  Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

26  And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

Solomon was in essence saying, what you told my daddy, please do it! Because god ahs exalted His word over and above everything else even His name.

John 17: 4  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

 Jesus said to His father. I have completed all you told me, now glorify me!

Jn 4: 34  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

My meat is doing the will of the father! He wanted to delighted in to do what His father wanted! The food that satisfies Me. Jesus said at another place, Lord I know that you hear me every time I pray…

Many Christians pray, Lord how many times have I prayed you do not hear!        Every time you pray God hears!

I jn 5: 14  And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

This is the confidence we have, not in our works but asking according to this will! It is whether you knew Is will and you prayed according to it! Prayer is a wonderful time of ruling and reigning with God!

God’s will is eternal; God’s purposes are eternal, they are revealed in His word! God will always do what he has said He would do! My prayer is God must do what He said he would do! I will fill my heart and my mind with what He has said with His will, His purposes with His thoughts with his feelings, his intentions, be filled with Him 

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Men must always pray.

Lu 18: 1  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

 

We will consider various truths about prayer. Firstly why pray?

If God is omniscient, He knows everything why pray?

If God is omnipotent, he can do whatever He wants, I do not need to tell Him what to do!

Good is in control of everything, what is the need of me praying?

God has determined everything, He will go only according to His pre determined force, according to His thoughts, plans and will and is going to do what He wants anyway!

In light of the above why pray?

Unless and until a man asks God will not do anything on earth. It is about how the earth is designed to function! Does God, heaven and earth wait  for a mere man like me prays? God is all knowledgeable, but why does he wait?

In answering this mystery, we will begin from Gen 1: 26

26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

A statement about how man is to be made, and for what  he is to be made. Let them have dominion- over everything! God’s good counsel determined it this way- that men would rule and that the earth realm would belong to them. The import of this delegation is better understood if we consider that God never can or will change His mind after such a pronouncement! Man is in charge, he can forbid  or allow it to happen. He has decided it to such an extent that He even excluded Himself out of it! Unless man asks for it , God has decide not to do!

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Ps 8:4 AV)

 

From now on, Whatever man wants will happen on the earth!

What happened in the Garden of Eden?

Gen 2:16  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Prior to the fall, as long as man lived in obedience to God, man enjoyed the position of the top being on earth; ruling and had dominion on earth. The moment he disobeyed God, he allowed the devil to become his master. His action made the statement, Satan is my lord. No only did they come under the power of Satan, everything that they owned  also came under Satan’s authority.

Look at some additional information available in the temptation of Jesus in Lu 4

 5  Then the devil took Him up to a high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time [in the twinkling of an eye].6  And he said to Him, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, and grace), for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whomever I will.

By and through Jesus were all things in heaven and earth created! Who is the devil to make claim that he possessed everything in the earth? That this has been delivered to him. When? That h could give it to whomever he wished. Jesus never contested it!

Though God is the creator who made everything and owns it all, since He had given it to man, he does not claim ownership of it anymore!

That is why to take back the earth from the then god of this world- Satan, he had to come in the form of a man, nobody else had rights to contest ownership! That was the reason for incarnation, take on flesh. As  a man and as man’s representative, Jesus is called the second Adam or the last Adam. Adam lost it Jesus regained it and gave it back to man to whom it rightfully belongs!

Why should God take the form of a man? Isn’t there a man on earth who could do it? Why not a prophet, or sage, or mahatma?

Romans 3:23 (AMP)

Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives.

 

All men are sinners, so no one qualifies to contest rights to the earth ( by being sinners, they have already obeyed the devil)

1 John 5: 19  We know [positively] that we are of God, and the whole world [around us] is under the power of the evil one.

The fall placed the entire human race under the power of the devil and the devil places them under the quicksand of sinful nature; if you try to help one another, you will only sink faster; you are all in it!

The only One who could help is one who is not caught in the miry clay of sin, and throw a lifeline to save them!

Jesus came as man’s answer, born of a virgin. Why does he need to be born of a virgin?

Rom 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Was it the woman who sinned first? The bible gives us men a bad deal right there? Man is the one who passes on the sin nature from generation to generation. Everyone born to  a man is a sinner under the power of Satan, already sinking in quicksand. No one among the sons of men could be used for this purpose.

Therefore God became man and came down born of a virgin. Of a virgin because everyone born of man is sinful, he had to bypass man, and become the seed of a woman. Untainted by sin and therefore not under the power of the devil! If he was not born of a virgin, he was a sinner, if he was a sinner he cannot be a savior. That is why the virgin birth is so central to the Christian faith- if you cancel the virgin birth out, you can cancel the savior, then there can be no salvation.

Jesus stands outside the realm of Satan, free from the power of sin, able to bring man out from the clutches of Satan. Which is why when he walked the streets of Galilee, he performed miracles, made the evil spirits to flee, healed the sick! The demons had not seen a man like Him before: He was a different kind of a person whom they could not handle!

When they crucified Him, they thought they had Him defeated; but he had finished paying the redemption price for man as a representative of man, died there cursed for us, bearing our punishment.  After He died he descended all the way down to hell and there he defeated Satan as a man.

God did not have to defeat Satan: God is greater than the devil anyway! He did it as a man, as man’s representative! Took the keys of death and hell and walked out as a victor-  as a man!

1 Tim 2:5   For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Many years after Jesus had ascended to the father, Paul wrote, there is a man seated there!   He is still a man. Christian teaching says that Jesus will never given up his humanity: forever he would remain a man. The greatest honor God can ever give to man, the second person of  trinity comes in the form of humanity and retains it forever and ever! If one man could do it, then all men can defeat Satan and rise up!

What is this man doing now?  The man Christ Jesus, is at the right hand of the father and He intercedes! We talk such a  great deal about the 33 ½ years of Jesus’ ministry on earth: what is He doing now? Was it all over for Him after the cross?

 

 

The Present Day Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom 8: 34  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Heb :4: 14-16 talks of the great high priest.

Heb 10: 10-22 Jesus is in a  prayer ministry now: as a man! It is n this context that we can understand John Wesley’s statement more fully: unless man asks God won’t!

Before man ever came along, God in his wisdom had declared that he would have dominion and rule!

Mat 18:18

18  Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

What a statement? A man ? Why such power and honour to man?

This statement needs understanding because people usually lapse into ‘begging mode’ in order to pray.

Or they realise they are in front of God, and the only way they will get anything is by howling and screaming! Dealing with God is a difficult time!

God wants man to join Him in ruling and reigning. Praying is not about begging and pleading about what we want!

God originally made man so that only what man wanted would happen on earth! The greatest example is the fall itself!

 Why did not God prevent the Fall? God could have stopped it and taken the earth realm away from man!

Were you there when God hung the skies in space? When he said to the seas, thus far and no further? Instead of questioning God it is better to be in awe  of God! This precious person: man that God has made! Before you come to God and start begging, your mind has to be filled with the respect and honour God has bestowed on you! How does God think about you ?

God looks to you as a man made in His likeness and image; as His son as His daughter, He wants you to use your authority on this earth: He wants you to be the man on this earth (that you were made to be)

The begging can stop right there!

Rise to the occasion; stand in your place and (even if it means listening to some of these things again) then pray!

Your approach to prayer will go beyond tears accounting! God will answer according to His specification! No armchair philosophy works with God. No Murphy law; no rocking chair theory!

If God could do whatever he wanted to do on earth, the the Christian has it made! Without ever asking, everything must be so good and so perfect in every Christian’s life? Why is it not going right?

If you do not decide and you do not ask, nothing is going to happen n your life, your family or church or world- unless you ask for it!

A big storm or hurricane or tsunami blows, you say, I think God sent that storm!  if you think that the earth is going to take care of itself because HE knows about it, you have not understood the import of John Wesley’s statement: If you don’t, God wont!

Redemption is God’s answer for man the loser messing up creation’s design at Eden! It is about gaining the earth realm and giving it back to man!

There is no use begging God! Prayer is about such privilege! It is about God’s purposes and plans and we are God’s vice regents! This is what is amazing about this God! Most gods abuse you; demand you to come here or there! He says Come as you are!

Understand His purpose and plan for you and live for it! understanding of God’s love lifts me to a new level of respectability. God respects us so much and lets us determine what we want.

To a blind man He said, what would me have to do for you!

Are you blind Jesus? Cant you see the man is blind? However The man needn’t  have wanted his blindness healed, maybe he had a head ache! what do you want? What you want will happen!

Mk 11 24  Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Without you desiring it, nothing is going to happen. Saved, baptized spirit failed people do not go anywhere since they have not realized what can happen, how God’s will can come to pass  in their life through prayer!

Mt 16: 19  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Amazing that God creates the whole earth and delights to put this whole earth under the responsibility of a man!

Even in the OT,

 Is 45:11  Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

Even in the OT men had such clout with God, they could go to him and literally command Him! You would make a mistake, if you said, I am just a worm in the dust, how can I command God? Armchair philosophers would say: God can do anything, he even used a donkey!

God used that donkey because the prophet was sitting on that donkey, the prophet who was to prophecy wrongly about Israel! Balaam was invited by Balak to curse the people of God who he was afraid would overrun his country! The prophet agreed to do it for evil gain; opened to curse God’s people and only blessings flow out!  

So many are led stray owing to bible verses! They would find a verse to embrace poverty! That bible verse killed their future, abilities and potential! It made them nothing because they didn’t understand the verse under the power of the Holy spirit!

2 Cor3:6   Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

If you take the word out of context like the devil applied it to Jesus…

Jesus called the bluff! He discerned that the devil’s aim was to kill Him! I know what the verse means. The devil was tying to kill Jesus with Ps 91 which was actually a life giving  psalm! Jesus could interpret that verse with the help of the Holy spirit- with enlightenment!  Some unsuspecting believer would have said, I jumped acc to ps 91…  and would have been dead or with broken bones!

Ps 91 is not talking about jumping off buildings! Not understanding God’s word with spirit’s help causes people to embrace disaster and reckon it is God!

Some quote,  give thanks to god for everything… you better not give thanks to God for what the devil does…

What does the verse  Give thanks in everything mean? It means give thanks for  every perfect gift comes form the father above… don’t thank God for everything the devil does!

The bible if applied the wrong way can destroy you! So may live lives of utter failure because of what the church has taught them! powerless, and like dirt- they become what they hear!

How to command God?

Realise that God never does things against His will! Though people use prayer and fasting as an arm twisting exercise! Somehow God…

God’s arm never can get twisted: His arm is long and extended! Cooperate with God and you will find prayer very easy!

God’s will has already decided: God has no confusion about it- he has made known His will: he wants us  to know and do His will on earth! You can understand His will only in that context! It is all about a relationship with God; God created man to rule and throve in a relationship with God![1]

We must work as a result of a relationship with god! That is the way it was ordained by God! Yet a nagging doubt remains in some- why does he want us to ask? Why cannot he just do it Himself? Why waste time with me!

You tell a crying child as you leave for work that you would get her ice-cream if she behaved at school! As soon as you return- you expect the child to clamor for it- and the father loves it- he loves the whole exercise to getting her the icecream!

The father loves the son to ask- the whole interaction, one wanting to do more for the to her- and the child is apprehensive- will my father get me the icecream?   The father would get any amount of ice cream- how much more the heavenly father!

Prayer is like that- God wants to see if we believe Him and His promises! Have you looked into it, and have you asked based on his promises- God is so delighted since you are bringing his promises.

Put me in remembrance… tell me what I told you! Has he forgotten? No! Does he need Siri, the virtual assistant? No! it shows that you read it, you desire it, and you believe Him! You have something going between with God! This is the plan and purpose God has…

Then prayer becomes a very easy exercise! If oyu think prayer  is a  hard exercise, that you do not know God , and what he is about; whether you would get it or not…

You ask

Sometimes He gives,

Sometimes he odes not give…

Whether He gives it or not, you be cheerful!

Paints a picture that man is better than God! Man is steady and God is cantankerous! You cannot believe.. never mind, you be more mature than God, you give thanks anyway! Be glad any way; keep your smiles up anyway… what nonsense!

Believe God wants you to have joy, peace, that is his will for you- success, prosperity… that is his will. Yu do not need to ask God for all these things because you like to have it! Every beggar would like to have it too! We are children of God, we know who we are, we know what he wants for us- therefore we so not ask what we want! We ask these things because it is his will- He wants it for us!

I like success because God wants it for me! God does not like me to be  failure, or beneath or tail or victim. Because He wants it, I come against everything that comes against my success, exaltation, prosperity, victory! I am convinced that I am filled with the passion of what God wants for me! He delights to see me succeed! To come up just like I would delight to see my children come up!

So my prayer is not me wanting something! It is not like going to a grocery store and handing over a list!

Prayer is not about your needs or your desire- it is about what God desires for you- higher than your ambition for yourself!

Many face prayer with trepidation… pledging to go wherever god sends-

To the slum,

To Africa… you can thrive in Africa because God will prosper you there!

Prayer is understanding what God wants for you, be convinced about, go at it with all you have got because God is with you, like a bull dozer, ready to pulverize everything in your path!

No weapon formed against you shall prosper- it is not about an individual person! It is about a person going out to fulfill God’s purpose, and God guarantees that nothing will thwart God’s purpose, no weapon can withstand his purpose, align with god’s purpose!

Prayer is not a grocery list! It is a big job! Whatever I ask for, salvation, peace prosperity and success, and riches– all because it is His will!  I will not embrace anything else! Because I want to see His will come to pass!

If you embrace poverty, that is what you will have! If you let it go, it will go! You can say… I am going to do the will of God, stand with God and pray it…

You can have the desires of God… the desires God places inside you comes from Elshaddai God! Your mind and heart expands- and think in larger and larger terms, because of relationship!

Your forefather did not live in a house called success in a town called prosperity. You know it because God teaches you, you read his success book everyday!

There is no use of Christians praying and praying all day long on their knees, with tears- and achieve nothing!

Ask and receive , that the Father may be glorified- in you receiving what you ask! When you get it it is because it is His reputation at stake…  

no use because of armchair philosophy- one day we will know…

It s better to know you can ask according to His purposes! Do you know what he wants you to do- are you praying according to these lines- are you bearing fruit in prayer? (that is a lot of work- read the bible, go to church, take notes…) much easier to say God can use a donkey… Lord Jesus make me a donkey to carry you you into Jerusalem!

God says No! I have made you a man in my image! No  hard work involved!

Love God, worship enter his presence and there you will have what you ask- let his word fill your heart!

 

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22  The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Blessing is basically an empowerment from God. The devil on the contrary enslaves, keeps them under his control. Blessing makes one rich; more so powerful and successful in every area of life.

You have to believe that he blessing that is upon you and you have to work it in faith. Therefore Abraham’s blessing and His faith are of importance.

Abraham had been blessed in gen 12. God put something on the man when he blessed him! After his God-encounter, something changed irrevocably within Abraham! God told Abraham that He was going to bless him, and make him great in the earth!

Similarly, when we come to God, God comes to us with – blessing! He picks us up in our shame and state of disrepair and blesses us! He sets us free and empowers us with his blessing! All the way down to Jesus who was a descendant of Abraham.

So that the blessing of Abraham may come upon the gentiles.

God is not sectarian.

You and me!

God did not begin with Abraham because He is a sectarian God. Actually God wanted the blessing on every man!  He does not want to bless just the Jews. He had to begin somewhere, and he wanted to show some people as n example to the world, and so he began with Abraham, through Israel and wanted to convey something to the world. He after all is not just the God of Abraham!

Before Abraham was there was Adam! And God is the God of Adam!  He had the blessing come to us by grace. You do not have to do anything to get the blessing! You do not have to pray or beg or plead for it! It is already given to me through the cross of Calvary!

So many ask for blessing, but the fact is the blessing is already yours! Start to understand that you are blessed though Jesus, He dies to put the blessing through grace, you have to take it by faith.

Big Problems, Big God!

God does not want anyone to take the credit for it, so When he led the Israelites through to the promised land, God made them encounter giants much bigger than them; on purpose! The cities were tall, the people were huge. When they faced big problems, they were to give glory to God for defeating them!

Whenever you face big problems, remember God wants the credit. Or you might say, took it by the tail and whipped it!

Big challenges big needs, big problems, means there is a big God and there is a big victory.

Blessing is something you cannot see! The God who put the blessing on Abraham put it on you and me, but since you cannot see it, it has to be understood only by revelation! Therefore it’s preaching has to be unfolded little by little, like a little better for everyday.

1. 1.     The curse.

The day that Adam sinned, the world was plunged under a system of operation called the curse. The curse came over the social, economic and political realm of man’s life and all these realms operate under a system called curse.

God gave man work.

When God gave man work, it was not so man would go to nothing by the sweat of his brow! God gave man work so he would enjoy it, that he would discover his talents and take joy and pleasure in his work.  So work is blessing but the toil that comes with the work is a curse. The sweat is the curse.

We work now, but it is toil, we bear children, but the bearing of children is painful. Some even die giving birth. Some cannot even have a child since it has become so difficult to have one! We are married now, but as a result of the marriage, family problems have come to roost. Tensions between the man and the woman. She desires him and the man taking advantage of her dependence lords it over her, instead of both ruling the earth!

The new system in operation encompasses the whole world. Economic problems, sickness, drought, lack bests the world because of this Curse system!

Everywhere in the world this curse system is in vogue. But God did something about it: we see in Gal 3: 13 that Jesus who came into the world, caused the blessing to replace the curse, that he blessing of Abraham might come upon you and I.

Why the blessing of Abraham?  Tangible benefits and blessing that everyone can see! Abraham had gold and silver and cattle and maidservants and men-servants, al results of the the blessings that can be seen by the naked eye. The blessing is no unseen! Since Jesus came, the new system has come into effect. – The Blessing system! As you can now see there are two systems: The curse system is also in operation that began with Adam, and the blessing system that began with Abraham!

When you put your faith in Christ you come under the blessing system! We can all operate under this blessing system but the problem is, we got so used to the curse system that we find it hard to do without it and make allowance for it in our mindset. We find it so hard to switch over to the blessing system since it is an understanding problem!  It is a lack of comprehension! Of how to live! It is hard to have been living in one way and start living in another system right away!

Take any kid to school in the kindergarten!

 

Change is something everyone resists! College to work, you feel out of place! From bachelor hood to marriage, you feel the jitters! Everyone takes a while to change!

 

(Mtech math study)

Knowing that the blessing belongs to us is one thing; to switch over from the curse system to the blessing system takes a while! To tear away from the system into which you were born…

You did not enter into these problems after birth. Your forefather Adam plunged you into this curse system! Maybe you would like to ask a few questions when you met him! When you were born you were already in trouble! You were born in a cursed world and the cursed world system is working everywhere and there is murder robbery and there is evil and all kinds of hatred and shortages and poverty and sickness everywhere; you were born into a world of problems; Adam landed us all into problems!

How can one person land us all into problems?  No one among us went to fight Pakistan personally because you had a grudge to settle! But when the ambassador form one country goes to another country, and declares war, his whole parent country settles into war!

 

Bismarck, a Prussian statesman, sought war with France; he then published the Ems Dispatch, a carefully edited version of a conversation between the King and the French ambassador to Prussia. The provoked France into declaring war on Prussia.

When an ambassador declares war, it plunges the entire nation into war: whether the nation likes it or not! The nations shoot each other and consider each other as enemies because one person can cause everyone else to go to war!

That is how all of mankind got into trouble before we were even born!  We were already in trouble, born into a cursed world. When you hear Jesus’ word and put your trust in Him, you have now become citizens of a blessed world. However the switchover is a bit difficult. To switch form a cursed world system to a blessed system is quite difficult!

1Jn 5: 18

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

You ought to know that you belong to a new category of people when you become born again. The wicked one does not touch him!  You now belong to the Lord!

19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

The whole world is on one condition but you and I are in a different condition.

Jn 17: 14

14  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

 

We can easily understand how Jesus is not of this world. He is the eternal son of God! He was in the beginning with God, He is God, He created everything, and all was made through Him! I understand how he is not of this world. He came for man to the world to this our world.

However what we need to understand is, just like He is not of this world so are we also are not of this world!

We were born of human people who belong to this world! But He claims we are not of this world! What made us different? You were born of God: when you entered the new birth! Because of your faith in Jesus Christ, you become a citizen of another world, even though you are from this world; you are not of this world! You are living in this world; you are the same category as Jesus!

15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Some Christians have understood they are not of this world; they do not identify with the world, the corruption in it, the filth the evil in it. So they just wait for Jesus to come and take them! They do not want to live in this world! But I am going to ruin your party today!

Jesus prayed that you will not be taken out of this world! He does want you to leave here just yet! He wants you to remain here, but kept from the evil one! As in 1 Jn, though world is in the power of the evil one, they would be kept, and they would not be a part of this evil system! So God is interested in you being here!  

I do not want to be a part of this world!  Too bad God wants you to here!

God so loved the world…

How come you don’t love the world? You may say, God said

Love not the world…

Of course God said love not the evil system in the world! But God loves the world, it was for the world that Jesus came , for the world  Jesus died;  into the world the gospel must be preached; to every creature the gospel must be preached! Do not hate the world. You are not to be a part of the devil’s system; the cursed system that is in motion! : do not be a part of that evil system that is in operation, but be in the world

16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

When you live in the world, the word of God will sanctify you in your mindset!  That is sanctification: it is not taking off one type of shirt and putting on one with another design! Or wearing a beard or a shaving off your moustache! Sanctification has to do with how we think, how we do things, how we operate in this world! It has to do with higher things! Let His truth work in you so you can live a higher kind of life!

We are going to talk about his way of life; a blessed life. The different kind of life is the one that God has now made ready for us: the abundant life God has brought into us.

The cursed life is what we were raised in: the system that we were born into. We do things over and over again it becomes your nature and the way you do things!

When you first drive, each of the controls is quite a challenge:

Everything you need to think about, the clutch, gear and brakes: but after a while, it becomes second nature: you drive with your cell phone in your ear, because it has become second nature to you! You never forget how to drive! It becomes a habit; you were set and moulded into the cursed way of life! We were moulded into a wrong kind of life and we have ever consciously made the switch over into the blessed life: what kind of a life is there now!

Lets us look at economics today: everyone is interested in it! Where the rubber meets the road. The bible talks a whole lot about money too! I am going to show how we are so set on the world’s system as far as money is concerned. We are so set on shortages, on living the world’s way of lack and debt and had-to-mouth! So set on living in want, as saying I do not have! We are so set in that kind of life: that after we were born again, we never thought of that kind of life as abundant and never made the switch over economically!

Economics is a problem everywhere, in rich and in poor countries, we have pawn shops in a little town or you have malls in the cities!

People may pawn their gold and jewellery; some pawn ration cards, even passports for money! Some are even proud to know such places where you get that kind of money! They would even take their sons and show them around, as a way of initiating them how to carry on life in the world in a street smart style!  Some brag about it: “I know a place where I can get 10 lakhs today if I want it: I know places like that!” so proud to know… one day you might need them!

Have you ever seen a man who tells his son, Son, if you get ten rupees, take one rupee out of it and give it to God, for God will bless you, he will pour out a blessing on you: blessing is the way to live, in good measure pressed down shaken together! Get into the habit of giving to the Lord out of your pocket money?

Most people teach their children how to borrow! How get things in the wrong way!

In some cities there are pay day stores, that have a record of how much money you get in a month and based on that estimate you can get your goods there! Still worse in modern day malls and convenience stores, there is a fast checkout counter only if you have credit cards; the credit card company have already estimated how much debt you have signed yourself for!

Oh how some of us need plastic surgery!

A prepaid credit card is an oxymoron?

The credit cards are not called harvest cards! They are only called credit cards.  They have to their credit your money in your future is theirs! You are bound to them in a permanent way; with the address of next of kin and guarantor … it is the system!

Street smart?

Even church goers do not like preachers giving a talk on give and it shall be given to you, good measure… it is because they are still fixated on the curse: they would have no hesitation befriending or even recommending a person who has other means of making money: the cursed system! Get into government contracts and make money by inflating the prices! Grease the palms of government functionaries to get the contracts awarded! And so on!

They would not appreciate the blessing system because they have not understood it! This system will take you out of the curse system and be a blessing to you so that you will never lack, never want of the rest of your life!

You have to make the change! The economic system of the world is all based on borrowing: it is based on interest rates…  inflation; the inflation rate rises, it eats up your money, it gets devalued, you inject a stimulus plan, it goes into the wrong pockets, the money gets further devalued and it is a downward spiral! The curse system is in the business of enslaving people: get a loan to study, get a loan for a piece of land, get a loan for a house, and get a loan for rebuilding your ancient house…

The business of enslaving locks people up! The blessing system empowers people so their destiny and future is in their hands, so that they can dictate terms instead of the lender dictating terms to you.

You will have such a control over your affairs so you will have power over your destiny! But so many get used to the borrowing business and get a curse mentality: they would even think you are crazy if you talk of blessing! However it makes perfect sense to them if you talk curse! You will even be counted a smart person! America borrows; Europe borrows, India borrows; if you are a big person, you must borrow! If you are not borrowing you are no more a big shot!

Get rid of friends who give such lectures!

You want to get into the blessing system. Jesus died to deliver you from the curse system to put you into that system!

Many are busy tightening the seat belt in the titanic!

It looks grand and wonderful; it looks like everyone is on it! The who’s who is on the titanic! But it is going down!

 

God told Abraham, notice the words in Gen 12

1        Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

 

Get out of your  father’s house, get out of your country , that system where you have been living so far; I have a land that is flowing with ,milk and honey: get out of this place , and come into that place;

Get out of this life and come into that life!

I think it is an invitation that God gives to each and every one of us today! Get out of that system of lack want and debt! Get out of the system you have been living in, get into the new system!

This call given to Abraham was not a simple call to leave one’s native place! It is a call to leave one’s native thinking!  You          get a way of thinking due to your upbringing; you think that is the right way to think since everyone around you thinks this way! The place may not damage you: but that thinking will!

God beckons you to think in a different way, a different mindset and a higher thought.

Do you want to live in this different system?

This new system operates with revelation. It is run by faith. It s a revelation faith system: this system never goes down. Whatever happens in the environment, the system always comes up!

Strongholds.

Satan has put along of strongholds in people.

There are dear people who come with the request: please come to my house and pray for us there: I feel there are 4 demons living there. Please sprinkle water in every corner and pray for every room: if you chase them out from everywhere…

Brother, don’t be wasting your water and your time: even after I sprinkle the water everywhere, today, you will invite the devil back tomorrow! You are in such a state of mind: your mind is filled with the devil’s thoughts. The devil is not such a fool that he would come with two horns and sit in your back yard and wait for you!

The devil is a high tech devil; he knows that if he comes with two horns, gruesome and ugly, you would chase him out in Jesus’ name! So he comes by way of thoughts and strong holds! He comes with thought patterns of borrowing and debt and algorithms designed to let sink deeper and deeper into his downward spiral of destruction. He just lest thoughts bombard you in such a way that you think in his fashion! That is how he is working!

 

What you need is to be sprinkled with God’s word morning and evening! Get the word in your mind and heat and put it in your mouth and speak it! Get the devil’s thought out of your mind and the devil will have no place in your house!

Some preachers would be ready to humour you perhaps: they would say, I will readily come and take care of that devil for you: last week I took care of 3 such devils in New Delhi! The devil is working through thoughts all the time!

Who do you think is got all the people thinking in this way, to sin and to commit atrocities, extort bribes, carry out crime and live immorally?

The usual refrain by by anyone is: tell me who doesn’t do it? Everyone does it! I do it only because everyone else does it! Everyone indulges in their pet sins, everyone has an addiction!Do you really think that all over the world, there is a two – horned devil threatening everyone? No! He has got the whole world thinking in the thought patterns of his making! That is how he has the whole world in his hands! 

Christians sing God has got the whole world in His hands, but think the devil’s thoughts! By defeating, failure, doubt, self doubt thinking, the devil has the whole world in his hands!  Going the way of failure, he has all of them thinking the wrong way! And some people are busy sprinkling water here and there, while the devil has a field day with them busy thinking his thoughts!

 

Witchcraft.

People worry about pieces of metal with inscriptions hidden in their attic; they don’t have a thought about some old defeatist rusty thoughts in their upper storey! For the past 25 years they may have been thinking the same thoughts.

That is why Jesus prayed, keep them from the evil one and sanctify them by your truth!  The evil one comes through his lies!

That is the essence of what we will be doing next week on! He is the father of lies; he speaks lies and nothing but lies! May truth be a real part of a believer’s life; you will be kept from the evil one!  The evil one will have no place in the believer’s life when he has the truth in his mind.

Worth.

How do people count your worth! Someone is worth ten crores. You ask a poor man who much he is worth: he says I am worth only ten rupees since I have only ten rupees in my pocket. This is how we measure people. But do you know what the bible says: what price can you pay for a human soul? The human soul was so valuable that Jesus came and lay down his life for the soul of man! One human soul is so precious: the whole world and the entire universe could not equate the cost of a soul that the price of God’s own son had to be paid as a redemption price!

However you can never think naturally in such a fashion about the cost of a human soul! You cannot think naturally by yourself about the value God places on a person! Whereas everyman counts his worth in pennies, drachmas, paisa and lire, God counts your worth by the every life of Jesus! By God himself; by his own blood he redeemed you! You are very precious in the sight of God!

The way the worldly system works is by enslaving people and refusing them the freedom to be whom God intended them to be!            The thinking, idea methodology and mantra of the world are to pull you down in such a way that they will make you become dirt to dirt. But the blessing system picks you up from where you are and makes you something wonderful and beautiful.

Hearing and Doing.

Remember Jesus’ story about two men who built houses, one on sand and the other on a rock.

 

Really it is about their lives. About how they built their lives. The one who built on the rick heard and did the word. Hearing and doing the Word.  These are the two ingredients to build upon a rock. Building your life on the blessing.

According to one the word is important, it is built on revelation. It is not based on what the world thinks and patronises, not based on caste, race, genetic pool or cultural background or regional background! Your life must be built on what the word says. The man who built his house on the rock built his life on the word of God. 

The one who built on the sand built it on the world system. The thoughts he received from the world, form his fallen nature. He built it based on the world system. What he learned from his forefather and his community and his way of thinking.

Spirit of faith.

The bible talks of the ‘spirit of faith’. On the contrary, many people have their community spirit; they have their nationality spirit, their language group spirit. They think in line with that spirit and are full of that stuff. They have that spirit.

The bible says we are of faith. We are of God. We are born of God. The spirit that we have is the spirit of faith. The spirit of faith says, All things are possible. It says I am special; God has redeemed me with His own blood. I am not nothing, I am something! It is based on God’s word.

The world system is a sinking ship, get out while you can, you will not he able to get out one day, since it will start showing its true colours. It merely looks good on the outside.

We’re so accustomed to the world system. It is so pervasive, it is so strongly embedded in our minds; it is a challenge to undo it as a Christian. Get your thought-patterns that you had permitted to thrives for so many years as a Christian, you have to bring it down. Things have to be changed.

Look at an example of the blessing system: Abraham left his father’s house and country and goes into Egypt during famine. The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich. He was not operating by world system. The blessing was working though the revelation, he was responding through faith.

The world system was also competing for his attention. If you shed your tears and sweat, you will make it in life. You may even feel good about your toil. There are many cheerleaders too! Sweat more, sweat more, they say.

The blessing system says, it is according to your faith: it is not how hard you worked: it is what you believe and how much you believe it! No matter what you believe and how much you think, what do you know about God’s will and God’s word?

Work is good, we are not against work, and it was God who gave work. A man who does not work shall not eat!  But the toil and labour and sweat that we associate with work is not part of the blessing.

The toil does not make you rich. Doing God’s will is thinking what God wants you to think, going where God tells you to go, being where God tells you to be d speaking what he says! And God opening doors and meeting our needs and blessing you abundantly. That is how Abraham was blessed.

When Abraham returned from Egypt, he was very rich. Gen 13:1. Abraham literally was so weighed down and weighty with these exceeding riches.

Some people feel God does not want to make very one so rich! Reflect again why Jesus had to die on the cross! So that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the gentiles (everyone)! Jesus dies so that everyone in the world could get out of the wretched curse system where you have to sweat and toil and work hard, with your knowledge and your labour and your effort only to have a little.

He died so you can get into the blessing system where you have a revelation of the will of God, the knowledge of God and what God says: doing what He says and God working with you to do great things. Going where God tells you to go, doing what God tells you to do and being what God tells you to be! And God working miracles in your life. The blessing system puts you at a totally different level in your life!

Look how the curse system works: Americans are worried about the government decisions to invest their pension savings in speculative markets. The fear of losing it all would mean they would not have any pension. And the worry of losing it sends jitters down their spine! They would not have any money after retirement. (They were looking to to as their only sustenance)

The world system would empathise: after all the man had worked all his life for it! Now the pension must come?

Abraham had no pension! No pension because Abraham did not have to worry about it: he had too much! If you have too much you would not have to worry about it too! If you have much more that you will ever need, then you would not worry about pension too! You would need much more that what a pension can give! You will look at the pension and laugh because pension can never meet your need! But blessing will meet much more than your need! Get out of the pension mode and get into the blessing mode!

Will there be a pension when you retire? That is why you ought to get sprinkled by the word here! If you get what I am talking about, you will not be worried about pension, you will get much more than pension! The pension ship is a sinking titanic! You do not know what it is going to be in the day you retire: it may whittle down to very little in worth: what are you going to do if it will not meet your need? Get into the blessing system. Believe in the blessing of the lord that maketh rich; he does not add sorrow with it!

You will refuse to be bothered about the stock market rise and fall and the recession and the down fall, because you will live on the blessing system! The blessing of the Lord!

This is a blessing meeting; we are not going to talk of the glories of the pension! Believe and live by faith starting today, live by the word of God, believe and do what the word says, you will be in the blessing system! All economic woes will disappear: you will live according to a different world; you are not of this world! Your needs are met according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!

Ex 1:6

The world system enslaves you and squeezes the juice out of you and enslaves.

6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

 

The Israelites had landed as aliens, but they grew in number and they grew wealthy. They were influential and powerful controlling the economy of the country- the blessing of Abraham was working.

8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

 

The Israelites had forgotten the blessing; they no longer walked in it: they did not know the blessing of Abraham; they did not comprehend what was working in their favour:

9  And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

10  Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

11  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

12  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

 

The cursed system, tries to pull you down when you do well, it is a crab mentality! They do not like you going up: everyone pulls the other down. Make sure no one gets out. Even though they were troubled and upset, the Israelites were growing mightier!

Ex 5:6

6  And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

7  Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

8  And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

9  Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

10  And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

11  Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

12  So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

13  And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

 

Moses was talking about pharaoh letting the Israelites to go and worship God. Pharaoh concluded that the Israelites had a lot of free time for them to holiday and therefore commanded The Egyptians to give them more work: they were refused straw but they had to fulfil the quota of bricks. Now they had to find straw and bake the same number of bricks.

The Israelites moved throughout the land of Egypt looking for straw: they were free to move around everywhere, but they could not get out! Oppressed and demeaned, they could not go have a different life or another job. They were not earning enough to buy a ticket to go to another place to find another job!  Enslavement is all about this: economic oppression comes upon the people and it s poverty apparatus that immobilizes and paralyses! It takes over people and they get caught in their villages and locality: they cannot travel even ten kilometres out of their little village to see a different life beyond! What they made today is just enough for them to eat one meal today, and they do not have enough to travel and find a better life! Oppressed and famished.

Wooden coins.

To make the Israelites poor, the Egyptians devised another ploy. Historians say that the currency was wooden or shell coins. Whereas the Israelites were wealthy in gold and silver, the Egyptians instructed them to exchange their gold for wooden coins. Soon the Israelites were looted of all their wealth!

 

The Israelites needed money to survive and lost all their gold and liver.

When God delivered them however:

Ex 11:1

1  And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

2  Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

3  And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.

 

God instructed the people to ask for gold and silver from the Egyptians. The blessing is working: and it was payday now! God’s justice ensured Moses was magnified in the sight of the Egyptians and the Egyptians gave the gold and silver that the Israelites asked them for!

Ex 12::35

35  And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

36  And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

 

They plundered; emptied pout the Egyptians. They began to travel loaded down with goods. The Egyptians say their gold and silver walking to the red sea. They decided to pursue the Israelites.

The Israelites panicked, and murmured and rebelled against Moses! But Moses, a wonderful leader, a liberator who preached the blessing message. He had the God of Abraham, who promised him the land of promise had sent him, to keep his covenant. It was because of Moses’ preaching that the Israelites got their gold and silver back!

If there was no Moses amongst them, the Israelites would never have got their Gold and silver back! The lord would grant them favour: inspired by his message, they had got it!

In front of the red sea, they blamed Moses again for their state; they did not want this Moses again! Let us change the pastor!

How can they hear without someone preaching? Without hearing how will you get faith. The challenge of the day is God has to raise many preachers who will rise up among the people that are living in the curses state, to preach about the blessing so people will take a step of faith, be bold enough to cross the red sea!

Moses said, he was going to stretch forth his hand, and all the people crossed over; he looked back and saw the pharaoh and the chariots following. He stretched his hand again and all the Pharaoh’s armies were killed when the sea closed over them.

The greatest need of the hour for people to walk in blessing is somebody to preach the blessing! Somebody to encourage and say, do not let go, do not be upset and worried! Do not linger or hesitate: believe in the Lord and take what is yours: possess it! It is yours; walk out with your blessing!

That is why I am preaching blessing! I am going to preach it, until everyone understands it. I am not gong to walk you without it. 

The alternative is to go back to Egypt and live a less than normal life. Thank God for Moses! Many congregations are enslaved in the poverty that Adam has plunged us into! Many churches need the message of the cross of Jesus Christ, where he bore our curse, and be encouraged to take a step of faith and walk in the blessing of the lord! 

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