*Jesus, that’s the kind of testimony I want.
*I couldn’t give 80,000 Naira then, but I said, ‘that’s the kind of testimony I want.’
*I have left that stage a long time.”
- God will surprise you this year.
- We are not in a competition, we are just being provoked to love God by the testimonies of others.
ENGAGING THE WONDERS OF SPECIFIC DEMANDS ON THE PRAYER ALTAR
Jesus called Bartimaeus to Himself, “I have heard your throat breaking cry, but you have not asked anything. What exactly do you want?” (Mark 10:51)
Bartimaeus: Lord, that I might receive my sight.
Jesus: You would have spoken, all this ‘have mercy on me’ is ambiguous. I don’t respond to ambiguities; I respond to specifics.
Give me a man child, Hannah said and God didn’t give her a girl child, He gave her a man child (1 Samuel 1:20)
James 4:2, Mark 10:47
We serve a covenant keeping God; let’s go down specific this last week, in a bid to make the most of this season in our lives.
Elijah called on Him, He answered by fire because that was what He demanded.
Nehemiah made specific demands on the prayer altar, got back to the king and the king granted him by reason of the good hand of God upon him. The answer he got from God, the king had no choice but to respond to it (Nehemiah 2:4,8). He made specific demands and heaven responded to it.
Elisha: wait a minute, what exactly do you want? A double portion of the Spirit that is upon you – specific.
2 Kings 2:9-10. We saw in scriptures how Elisha did twice the miracles that Elijah did. It’s time to get down specific, we serve a covenant keeping God.
Now I know, Peter said, “God is not a respecter of persons but in every nation, everyone that fears Him and walks according to the rules will be acceptable to Him in every nation, everywhere” (Acts 10:34).
God is no respecter of persons but He is an eternal respecter of His covenant (Psalm 89:34).
Outline your specific demands in Kingdom Advancement Endeavours (Matthew 6:33).
That my ‘Testimonial Daughter’ said, “God said, ‘this is your vision for 2020, now where is Me in this vision?’ Me first.” He told her, she wrote her God First priority vision and Jesus stepped in, visited her with things beyond her wildest imagination: that she could build a rural church with one month’s pay.
What kind of pay is that Sir? There is no rural Church that costs less than 10 Million Naira ($20,000) even when you get the land free.
She was operating in one realm of favour before, then another realm of favour came.
Have your Kingdom Advancement specific demands:
- You are a Cell Leader: “Jesus, I want this cell to replicate within the 1st Quarter. I demand for this in the name of Jesus.”
What is in it? Favour
The time to favour me has come because I take pleasure in the stones of Zion and favour the very dust thereof (Psalm 102:13-15). Fearful favour comes from favouring the things of the Kingdom.
It’s a covenant. You favour the matters of the Kingdom, you have provoked God for fearful favour on your life; the kind that your Church enjoys continuously for 40 years: Never had to beg, never got stranded.
Doing one thing that you know and doing it forever: The Kingdom first.
*Every other specifics of your life will deliver with ease.
This my daughter said, ‘Lord, I want to build a rural church this year.’
He said: I hear and I know it is true, it is from your heart; I will surprise you to see it happen.
She completed her 10 souls in February. It’s 10 souls for the year, she got it done in February 2020.
We serve a covenant keeping God. Let’s be covenant conscious. We are not serving an ‘abracadabra’ God, you can keep track of His acts and you are seeing it every day.
Can I say this again:
- There are no private revelations in scriptures, “what I say to one, I say to all” (Mark 13:37).
- There are no private testimonies in scriptures: it’s not that God likes somebody and He doesn’t like another one. NO. We are all equally accepted, the Beloved, all of us. We are God’s beloved sons and daughters.
Every child of God is a beloved of the Father; it’s not like Jacob loving Joseph more than everybody else. This God loves all of us equally, all we need to do is to respond to His love by our obedience. When that happens, He begins to decorate our lives.
*The good news is, whatever you might have lost in time past, you are recovering all this time. By just falling in line.
It’s not all about being specific, it’s about being CORRECTLY SPECIFIC; it’s about being COVENANTLY SPECIFIC (Matthew 6:33).
*Many will still get a job this month.
*Before this week is over, many will be visited with surprises.
We have been harvesting testimonies of what has been happening in the course of this fast, your own will be there.
*That burden of your heart, concerning certain specific issues of your life will be turned to a testimony.
Any prayer that is not accompanied with the name of Jesus has no access to Heaven. You are just chanting religious things. It is the name that gives us access, gives our prayer access to the Throne of Grace.
Hitherto, you have not asked anything in my name: you’ve just been asking and asking; sweating and sweating!
Hitherto, you have not asked anything in my name: that’s why nothing is happening.
Ask and you shall receive; that your joy may be full. Consciously so, deliberately so, intentionally so, faith-filled so. It has go in the Name: if the Name is not there, it is not going nowhere.
As ordinary as zero is on your phone, if you don’t put that zero, the phone won’t go.
What is zero: nothing. But if you don’t put that ‘nothing’ (zero), it won’t go. It will take the name of Jesus for our prayers to gain access to the Throne of Grace for attention.
Why? What is the name doing? The name of Jesus is clearing the barriers… the oppositions to your desires (Philippians 2:9-11).
The Name does not only secure attention, it destroys oppositions. Everything standing on the way of your desires, He clears it.
It takes the Name to gain access to the Throne of Grace and to take delivery of what belongs to you, clearing the barriers of the prince of Persia on your way. If you don’t want to be delayed for 21 days, you engage the name to clear that ugly prince of Persia off the path from taking delivery of your desire. That’s why we must engage the name of Jesus, not as religious connotation, knowing what that name carries, it provides you access to the throne of grace and destroys the opposition to taking delivery of your desires from God.
He gave Him a name, so it is the gift of God (Romans 11:29, Philippians 2:10).
Elisha died and was buried…they spied the army of the enemy coming in their direction, so they threw the body of the dead into the sepulchre of Elisha (2 Kings 13:20-21). As the body touched the dry bones, the man stood on his feet, “who brought me here?” The gift was speaking even in his death and how much more Jesus that is still alive and He is living forever.
The gifts and the callings of God are without repentance.
I will like you to invoke the name of Jesus for access to your prayers.
Let me tell you how to deal with the devil:
When your prayer life appears to be dry enough, just pace through your room, “in the name of Jesus!!!”
Do you know what you are doing? You are clearing the barriers in your prayer life and you find out suddenly you are up.
The name of Jesus!!! You are invoking that name with faith.
What are you doing? You are clearing the way to your prayer life. you are clearing the way to accessing the Throne of Grace. You are dealing with the opposition, getting them off your path.
The God of specifics is here, go ahead and inject your faith into that name; engage that name in your specific demands for this week.
- In the name of Jesus, my prayer life is released.
- In the name of Jesus, a fresh prayer fire falls on my life.
- In the name of Jesus, brand new day for me.
- In the name of Jesus, brand new access for me, brand new triumph for me.
Do you intend to bring any soul to Christ this year?
How many? Be specific, how many do you want? How many do you desire to bring to Christ?
Proverbs 11:30, Proverbs 3:35
- Bringing souls to Christ wipes away the shame of men.
*You won’t see shame anymore in your life.
Leave the emotional part, how many souls do you desire to bring to Jesus this year, that will abide for life?
God knows your level, He knows my level but He gave to everyone according to their several abilities. At least you are under obligation to bring one, at least one
“Jesus, I desire as one of my Kingdom Advancement specifics that you grant to me ‘x’ number of souls, at least one new convert; at least 2 senior converts; at least 3 established members.”
Make specific demands, believe in Him: it will open the door to every other specific demands of yours.
That will abide in the House of God and grace to do it on time (John 13:27).
Make that specific demands.
I’ll leave the rest specifics to you, to define your own before your God and watch how He decorates you this year. He is no respecter of persons. He doesn’t like one believer more than He likes the other one; we are equally accepted as the Beloved.
- Whatever testimonies that you’ve heard, that you desire, you will see it.
I saw a young lady, we were in a meeting in America and they said, “somebody is here that wants to give $50,000 for this project.” They were taking an offering for a project. Then that small lady, I saw her go to the platform, “excuse me, the Lord told me to bring $80,000 when I was coming. Would that be acceptable?”
I said, “Jesus, that’s the kind of testimony I want.”
I couldn’t give 80,000 Naira then but I said, “that’s the kind of testimony I want.” I have left that stage a long time.
Any testimony of the Lord is a pointer to your heritage.
*God will surprise you this year.
We are not in a competition, we are just being provoked to love God by the testimonies of others.
*Yours must come.
SPEAK TO THE DAY
This is Day 1 of the 6th 3-day module in this ongoing fast. What you do with the first matters a lot. We have just one more module to go.
“Lord, I speak to Today, to open up.”
- Light has come, you must fly.
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