-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘MAKING PROGRESS’
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Welcome to another day, another time to be in the presence of the Lord. Welcome to another week. We are trusting the Lord that today you will be blessed, you will be highly favoured and your life will never be the same. The hand of the Lord will touch you and you will have reasons to magnify the Lord today.
It’s gonna be a great week, it’s gonna be a great month and it’s gonna be a great year.
Today we are actually beginning to focus on making progress. 2021 is the year of progress and prosperity and the Lord lay it on my heart that this morning and maybe subsequent mornings to focus on you making progress.
Heavenly father, great father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our awesome God, our Father, our God, our Saviour, our Master. What a joy to be in your presence to wake up to a new day, a brand-new time in your presence. Refresh, renew your people this morning. Minister to us in a special way and let there be an outpouring of grace, an outpouring of blessings. Let there be testimony to the glory of your name. We praise you, we thank you. We say it is done in Jesus name.
Amen!
In Genesis 26:1-22, we see the story of Isaac whom God caused to make progress. Often time progress is born in the womb of challenges. There was a massive challenge in the world and in the middle of it everyone was packing their bags and running away. God told Isaac don’t move, stay in the place of covenant. Never follow the multitude but follow the leading of God. Isaac of course obeyed and stayed there and God began to make him prosper.
There was a famine in the land and Isaac listened to the command of the Lord and the Lord blesses his work. The man waxed great, went forth and grew until he became very great for he had possession of flock, herd and great tour of servants and the Philistines envied him. He made progress, he went forward. I believe God is making you go forward and making you make progress. Nothing can stop you in this season of your life, nothing can hold you in this season of your life.
Progress is the desire of God for you. The path of the just man shines unto a brighter day. So 2021 and the years to come, there will be signpost of progress in your life. God’s intention for your life is for the present year to be a better year than last year, for next year to be better than this year.
Life without progress is burdensome. Living becomes tremendous and exciting when everything you do is a pointer to progress. Progress really is your right as a believer. Your calling is to make progress from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18).
The instinct to succeed and not fail was put in you by God. He puts it in you. He wants you to make progress. God wants you to make progress and to wax great. It just happens that the vicissitudes of life, the challenges begin to crush this desire for progress.
All humans want to make progress. When you were a baby, you wanted to stand, you wanted to crawl, you wanted to walk. Sometimes you walk too early, you stood too early. You fell and got up again. There is that thing in us that want to make progress and this is your season. Nothing will hold you, nothing will stop you. This year, this week things that have been held on hold are about to be released into the fullness of progress, fullness of testimony. You are progressing into the things the Lord has for you. Nothing can stop you.
There are enemies of your progress. For example, past achievement is an enemy of progress. Let’s even not focus on some human beings somewhere, some this and that somewhere. You own past achievement can be a hindrance to your future progress. It can be a hurdle because you are so focused on it. Instead of running the vision you are running revision.
Moses my servant is dead; that was the Word of the Lord to Joshua. Moses my servant is dead. In all God was telling Joshua that Moses was great. I was listening to the Scriptures yesterday and as I was coming to the end of it from Deuteronomy and entering Joshua, it says; and they mourned Moses for thirty days and after that the Bible says they make progress. They mourned Moses for 30 days. He was a colossal, he was huge. Moses was a Gargantua, there was no two of his kind.
Moses led this people but then God said Moses is dead. The greatness of yesterday is dead. Glorying in the past is Satan subtle chain to hold you down. It makes us to just focus and think nothing new could happen. The devil is a liar!
The past was great but that was then. The past was great but that was yesterday. Refuse to settle for: ‘this is so good enough, this is good enough’. Enough for when? Enough for how long? Move into greater things. Paul refused to see, to stay where he was and at the end of his journey, he moved on.
Do not believe that you are at your peak. You can go from peak to peak, from peak to peak. There is something that is really exhilarating when you really are desirous to conquer mountains. There is something in us that want to make progress. This day everything that have held you down or tried to kill your vision is getting out of the way for you. God is bringing you into new strength, new vision, new dreams, new dimensions in the name of Jesus.
Do not allow the present breakthroughs to hold you down. The glory of the present is only an introduction to your awesome future, awesome blessing, awesome glory. God’s agenda is to lift you above all nations, above all people. So don’t rest at the present bus stop. You are not at your destination yet, it’s not your terminus. It’s just a bus stop, you are just passing through. God is taking you into greater glory.
This morning we are about to prophesy into your life. Financial progress, spiritual progress, material progress. Progress in your spirit, progress in your mind, progress in your life. Every area of your life, God is bringing progress in the name of Jesus.
Listen, a greater future awaits you. Don’t let anything negotiate you out of it. But you’ve got to forget the enemy of your progress and that is your past achievements.
Progress is retarded by any attitude that says you are already there. God’s command to you is to go forward. The Lord said to Moses (Exodus 14:14-15) to go forward. Do you know that Bible scholars believe that at the time God told them to go forward, the water hadn’t receded? People started walking into the water. Some it has reached their knees, some it has reached their waist.
There must be some which it has reached their chest and they thought to themselves, I rather die obeying the Lord and walking into this water than go back to Egypt where I was coming from. I cannot take it to go back to where I was coming from and when the Lord saw that this people truly believed Him, He told Moses: stretched your rod and suddenly the water began to move.
Get ready because the things that have held you down must let you go. The things that have stopped your progress must move for you. This morning progress becomes your portion, testimony becomes your portion, favour becomes your portion, glory becomes your portion in the mighty name of Jesus.
PRAYER BULLETS:
- Father in the name of Jesus, we give you glory and praise. We thank you because you said this year is the year of progress and plenty in KICC (Genesis 26:12-16). We bless you for progress so far, for answered prayers, for healings, for deliverances. For the outstretching of your hands from January 1 till date, we thank you.
Tomorrow Morning Glow will be one year. This is progress. Oh God we give you glory, we give you honour, we give you adoration. We magnify your name. We thank you for all that you have done. Thank you for salvation, thank you for deliverance, thank you for answered prayers. Thank you for saving your people. Thank you because the path of the just man is shining unto the brighter day.
Thank you for shutting the mouth of the devil, thank you for victories you have given. To you be glory, to you be honour, to you be adoration, we magnify you because you are God from beginning to the end. We thank you because we are making progress.
We thank you because our paths had shinned and your light had shorn in our ways. We thank you for your light that rose upon our way that made our journey to be beautiful. Take the glory, take the praise, take the honour, take the adoration in the name of Jesus.
- Our Lord this morning we thank you. This day I speak into the lives of your sons and daughters that the time has come. Every area of their lives is going to experience growth. Every living thing grows. Everything that is nourished and nurtured grows. Spiritually they will grow, spiritually they will understand you, spiritually their path will shine in the name of Jesus.
- (2 Peter 3:18) I speak into your life today, uncommon supernatural progress. Progress of grace, progress of supernatural knowledge. Grace will rest in every area of your life. The works of your life grace, your business grace, your vision grace, your destiny grace, your calling grace. The hand of the Lord upon your life grace, grace, grace in the name of Jesus.
- From this day you are exploding in progress. Progress in every area of your life in Jesus. Today we move you out of neutral into progress. Everything holding you down must let you go in the name of Jesus. Your vision is growing, your life is growing, your business is growing, your family is growing, everything that concerns you grows from this morning in the name of Jesus.
- I speak into your life this morning; you are growing in grace, you are growing in knowledge, you are growing in the Saviour. You are growing from glory to glory in the name of Jesus.
- (1 John 1:3) Today I pray for; your eyes will see it, your ears will hear it, your hand will handle testimony. Your eyes will see it. You will be a living witness of supernatural progress. Your ears will hear testimonies, your hands will handle it in the name of Jesus.
- (2 Timothy 2:15) Today I pray for you in your spiritual life, in you study of the Word, in your understanding of God and His ways, you will make progress. Your mind will make progress, you will grow in grace, you will mature in the Word. The Word will come alive for you in the name of Jesus.
- (Ephesians 4:23) I release the grace of renewal, the power of renewal, the oil of renewal upon you. God renews your strength. God renews your vision. God renews your life. I pray for a renewal of strength. I rebuke sickness, I rebuke diseases, I rebuke tiredness. Tiredness of dreams and visions, nonchalance with your own dreams, with you own vision, I rebuke in the name of Jesus.
- (Revelation 3:21) This day I speak into your life, challenges of life will not conquer you. You will rise above them in the name of Jesus. This day you are destined for the throne. This day your progress will not be lesser. The challenges that will rise in this season of your life, the wisdom to handle them is coming upon you. The grace to handle them is coming upon you, the anointing to handle them is coming upon you, the insight to handle them is coming upon you, the ability to handle them is coming upon you in the name of Jesus.
- (1 John 3:2) A greater level is coming! Greater lifting, greater glory is coming in the name Jesus. Everything written in the next chapter of your life is beautiful in the name of Jesus. I speak into your life today, the fullness of your progress, your calling, your destiny, your purpose will be made manifest in Jesus name!
- I close with Psalm 32:8. Take this into the whole of this week and the rest of the month. May the Lord this week direct you, instruct you, guide you, show you which way to go, which place to put your steps. What place is your treasure is, God connects you with the place this morning in Jesus name.
This week, He instructs you, He teaches you, He guides you, He counsels you with His eyes into the fullness of His wealth, blessing and grace. This is going to be a season of uncommon progress like you have never seen. Doors are opening. Distance doors, close doors are opening unto you and testimonies are flowing your ways in Jesus name.
Spirit of the living God, our antennas are lifted, our eyes are open, our ears are open, our spirits are ready. Order the steps of your people this season, let them walk into places of supernatural progress to the glory of your name.
Amen!
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