THE HAND OF THE LORD THAT DISCIPLINES IS THE HAND OF THE LORD THAT BLESSES HIS PEOPLE AND HELPS THEM!
-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘THE MIGHTY HAND OF THE LORD 5’
Praise the Lord!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to morning glow, welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. It’s going to be a great day and a great weekend.
This month is going to end with the blasts of testimonies, open doors, favours and uncommon grace. But we must return all the glory, all the praise, all the honour and all the adoration to the One who loved us and gave His life for us.
Jesus we magnify You this morning. We give glory and praise to Your name. We thank You because You are God from beginning to the end. Church Gist. We celebrate Your faithfulness, we honour You, we lift You up. Bless Your people this morning. Touch lives, let Your outstretched hand do awesome wonders in the lives of Your people to the glory of Your name in the name Jesus.
Amen!
Praise the Lord.
Welcome everybody. I trust the Lord to bless you and to minister to you in a very special way this morning in the name of Jesus.
I will like to celebrate everyone who is on this platform this morning. I am so blessed praying the hand of God and I tell you that I am just prophesying into your lives and I am prophesying into my life.
Seeing the hand of God doing some awesome terrible things in recent times. I want you to know that what we do on this morning glow platform is beyond the immediate thing you face; it is having to do with the whole of your destiny and the rest of your life. Church Gist. Not just your life, generations to come will harvest the seed you are sowing at this morning glow. Glory to God.
Like you’ve heard me say, I can never, never forget; I am forever grateful to the Pastor who whose Church God sent me to and I got born again. He taught me how to pray. My pastor was just too much. We did six days all night and I had no choice because I stayed in the Church parsonage as a Bible school student.
When I came, I can’t stay in the room when some guys are really praying. So from 10:00pm to 1 or 2am, every day. And those guys we pray together, come 7:00am, they are off to work and some of them were just painters, bricklayers and there are some who are professionals but God lifts them up. Praise God.
- May you be lifted and may you be favoured.
This morning we will continue to pray the hand of God in our lives. Remember all that we’ve shared concerning the hand of God. Incase you have just joined us, we say first of all that the hand of the Lord is mighty. Joshua 4:20-24. God demonstrated the hand. Church Gist. The Bible says “that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you might fear the Lord your God.”
The hand of the Lord is mighty. We also see that in Job 7:7-10 and we see it in Proverbs 21:1. And then in 1 Peter 5:6-7, we see the hand of God. Glory to God.
- May you experience the hand of God in this season of your life. May you experience His blessings and favour in Jesus name.
The hand of God was so mighty; I am sure you remember the story in 1 Samuel 5:1-7. They carried the Ark of the Lord and thought it was an ordinary box to ridicule Jehovah, they went and put it in front of a wood they have carved in the form of a fish head, called Dagon. The presence of the Lord broke their god to pieces and put all kinds of disease on their bodies.
- The hand of the Lord is mighty, is awesome and that hand will bring you testimony, will bring you healing in the name of Jesus.
The hand of the Lord, we also said, empowers the people against the enemy’s hand (1 Kings 18:44-46). The hand of the Lord is dangerous and deadly against His enemies. It empowers His servants against his enemies. Church Gist. We see this in 1 Kings 18:44-46. When the hand of the Lord was upon Elijah. Humbled the Belial and all those who worshipped Belial and then prove mighty by giving Elijah supernatural power to outrun the chariots of Ahab.
Then the hand of the Lord is awesome for disciplining His own sons and daughters. We see that in Scriptures. God brings the hand of discipline on our lives so we can walk in His counsel, walk in His will, walk in His purpose, live a life that honours Him; a life of righteousness, a life that glorifies God. Because we have a new testament reality of the fact that there is now no condemnation, does not mean that you do not perfect your own holiness.
You perfect your holiness with the fear of God. That’s what the Scripture says; perfecting holiness with the fear of God. Church Gist. And so God sometimes brings discipline into the life of His people. David said thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. One for direction, one for correction; staff directs, rods corrects.
The staff directs and the rod correct. I just bless the Lord for many of us, we were raised in the atmosphere of the rod of God’s correction. Who know what we would have been? Praise the Lord. At the time of correction, we saw those people as evil; I just thought my dad was made of being a sadist (laughs).
My dad will never flog you until your cup is overflowing and the day your cups overflows, you shall reap a full harvest with the soldier’s belt. Yeah, the soldier’s belt in the days when I was a little boy was the same as the British army’s. Church Gist. It was made of trampoline sown, sown, sown until it is as thick as my finger in its thickness and they put this brass around it. And also use something we called Blanco to prepare that belt. We didn’t know we are preparing for our own judgement.
The hand of the Lord is also not only for the discipline of His people, it is also to help His people. Glory to God. The hand of the Lord that disciplines is the hand of the Lord that blesses His people and helps them. My mother used to say the same teeth with which a dog uses to play with its little puppy is the teeth with which he bites the puppy when it is time for discipline.
So the hand of the Lord disciplines, directs but also helps. This morning, we are going to cry to the God of help. Ezra was helped by the hand of the Lord (Ezra 7:6-9). Church Gist. You need to know how the Bible flows, Ezra, Esther, Nehemiah were all in the same Babylon and so you can see a correlation. Ezra was a Scribe, was more like leading a group of people at that time and capturing what was happening when they were in captivity.
This Ezra went up from Babylon and he was a Scribe in the law of Moses (Ezra 7:6-9). I love this verse 6. He wanted somethings to go rebuild Jerusalem, he prayed, he went to the king of Babylon and the hand of the Lord was on Ezra and the king just granted him everything. Get ready!
- People are going to favour you in this season in a way that is unbelievable beyond imagination.
- In the name that is above all names, the good hand of the Lord will awesomely direct you, will help you in the name of Jesus.
David also said my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty. In the same Ezra 7:26-28. He repeated same thing about the hand of God. Church Gist. Ezra really understood the power of the hand of God. The hand of the Lord will surely help His people and everyone here this morning, get ready, the hand of the Lord will help you.
- The hand of the Lord will open that door, will make great what you’ve been trusting the Lord for.
I want you to see His outstretched hand and He will give you victory. The hand of the Lord can enter the corners that you cannot reach, it can reach the farthest places. Listen; this is an antro-morpic language. When they say the hand of the Lord, I don’t want you to see a short hand. The Bible uses human language to describe a supernatural God. His hand cannot be shortening that He cannot reach that corner. Glory to God.
God will reach the corners you are imagining. If you are in London and what you need is in New Yoke; it is too close, the hand of the Lord will reach there. Church Gist. If you are in Australia and you need the hand of the Lord to touch something in South Africa; it is too close, the hand of the Lord will do it. You will testify.
Psalm 37:23-24
Oh glory, Oh glory. Get ready, the hand of the Lord will help you, will help you, will help you.
- In this season of your life, I declare again that the hand of the Lord will help you.
- God will fill your mouth with testimony, fill your life with celebration.
- The hand of the Lord will help you.
- You will testify of the goodness of Jehovah in this season in the mighty name of Jesus and you will see that hand at work in Jesus name.
PRAYER BULLETS:
- Father we give glory; we give You praise. we thank You, Your hand helps. Your hand set free. You are the One who is the helper of Israel; You stretched Your hand in the days of Jehoshaphat, in the days of Ezra and You helped him by touching the heart of kings to favour him. We bless You for the past, we thank You for the present, we give glory to Your name for the future,
We thank You for the outstretched hand by which You have delivered us, the outstretched hand by which You have saved us. It was Your hand that brought our salvation. You were nailed to the cross and as the blood fell and touch the ground, creations were set free, we too were set free.
You delivered us. You washed us with the washing of salvation. Thank You. We bless You name. We celebrate Your goodness this morning. We rejoice at Your faithfulness. We thank You. We thank You. We thank You.
We thank You because Your hand hath wrought victory for us in the past. When the enemy came to eat us up, You the Lord became our defense. Church Gist. You became the One who fought for us. You silence the enemy. You shut the mouth of devils. You gave us victories. You blessed us beyond our imaginations.
We thank You for Your hand that brought provision. When it seems as if we have reached the end of the earth and there is no future for us, when people would have mocked us and say where is their God? You the Lord showed up and prove Yourself too much.
You took our pain and turned it to praise. You took our tests and turned it into testimony. You took our challenges, you turned it into championship. You took every mess, You turned it into a miracle. Lord take the glory, praise, honour and adoration in the name of Jesus.
We thank You for all that You have done. Your word made it clear that You are our help in ages past and You are our hope for the ones to come. We magnify You, we celebrate You because You are the very present Help in the time of need; therefore, we will not be moved.
Let the mountain be shifted and thrown into the sea, there is a river that made glad the people of God, God is in the midst of it. Church Gist. Therefore, we will not be ashamed. Therefore, we will not be moved. Therefore, we will not be disappointed. Take the glory, take the praise.
There is somebody on this platform today, they feel lonely, they feel how am I going to carry this load alone? How am I going to carry this challenge alone, how am I going to go through this alone? This morning, the Lord want me to let you know that His hand is behind you and you are never alone. That He is going to strengthen you, He will prove Himself strong in your life. You are not alone and He is going to glorify His name in your life and He is going to strengthen you.
- Lord we give You praise. We thank You because even those who are afflicted have been set free by You. The afflicted have been healed by You. Church Gist. The pained have been healed by You. Take the praise, take the glory, take the honour and the adoration. We magnify You today, we celebrate You today in the name of Jesus.
And so Father we approach You this morning; You are our help, we have no other one. So we declare and decree the outstretching of Your hands into situations. Situations, challenges, troubles will bow to Your hand in the name of Jesus.
- Men and women in the tightest place will find Your deliverance. Men and women in the most difficult places will find Your deliverance in the name of Jesus.
- (Psalm 108:6) Lord stretch Your hand and deliver the person in a tight corner right now, bring them out of the issues, out of the trouble in Jesus name. Arise oh God, let Your enemies be scattered in the name of Jesus.
- By Your right hand oh God, answer Your people in Jesus name.
- I speak into Your life today that the right hand of the Lord will save you, will deliver you, will bring you out of the corner, out of every situation in the name of Jesus.
- You are coming out of that situation with testimony. The hand of the Lord will stretch out to deliver you and bring you out of the situation in the name of Jesus.
- (Psalm 77:10) From this day the right hand of the Lord shall help you. It shall bring you out of the situation in the name of Jesus.
- Somebody in challenging situations; emotionally, spiritually, I speak a deliverance by the hand of the mighty God from today in the name of Jesus.
- (Psalm 144:7-8) The Lord will stretch forth His hand from on high, He will rescue you and He will deliver you out of great waters in the name of Jesus name.
We bring this morning glow to an end in the name of Jesus. I believe you were blessed. Make sure you serve the Lord with your tithe, your seed, your offerings, your pledges. Make sure your give to the Lord and worship God.
Praise the Lord.
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