Praise God!
I will like to welcome everyone and I trust the Lord that today will be refreshing, today will be renewing and you will have a reason to testify, the reason to magnify the Lord.
If you are joining us for the first time, we started receiving from the Lord in this season on divine preservation. I believe God wants to preserve you, He wants to keep you by His mighty power. Church Gist. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, every mouth that rises against you in judgement shall be condemned.
There are five ways God preserve His own people in this dangerous world in which we live. The seasons in which we are in now in our world is just scaring. Sickness, diseases, viruses flying all over the place and all manner of challenges and nations of the earth is just amazing, it’s terrible. There is such rise of crisis, I believe it’s like the lid of hell was removed and unbelievable number of unclean spirit have come into the space of human and causing havoc but for those who know the Lord, there shall be a preservation of their spirit, a preservation of their lives.
- God’s protection means you are inaccessible to the enemy no matter what the circumstances are and you must learn to hold on to the Word of God; you are inaccessible to the enemy. When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into the fire, Daniel 3:12-27, the Bible says there was a fourth man in that fire with them who shielded them from the power of fire and His look was like of the Son of God. They were encompassed by the power of God.
Psalm 91:1 says that He will protect us. He said that He is the hiding place.
…they that dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Church Gist. Then verse 7 says a thousand may fall on your left and ten thousand on your right, with your eyes only will you see the reward of the wicked. Glory to God!
- God has covered you with a garment of light. You need to take this theology into your spirit and know this that you are special, you are a child of God and you are covered by a garment of light.
Psalm 104:1-2.
So when God covers Himself with light as with the garment, it means He also covers you with the same glory and the same beauty and the same power and He took the same and placed on us because we carry His image. We are made in His image and now that we are restored in Christ, we now have that light in us.
- The way God keeps us is that He will keep a shield of the Word over you so no fiery dart of the devil can penetrate your life. Church Gist. That’s why we must know the Word, have the Word inside us. Why? Because the flower fades, the grass withers, the Word of the Lord abides forever. He is watching over His word to perform it.
So as a Christian, yeah the Holy Spirit lives in you but you’ve got to have the Word so that you know you have something with which to respond, the Bible says so that you will be able to withstand the fiery dart of the enemy.
Faith comes by hearing, hearing the Word of God. It’s interesting some people will like to be in places where there is a lot of noise but no word. You need the Word because when everything is over, it is the Word that provides the protection around your life. Glory to God! It is the Word that you also can draw as your sword and use it to fight in the name of Jesus.
The Bible makes us to understand in Psalm 5:12, the Lord will bless the righteous. As with the shield, you will surround him with goodwill, with pleasure, with favour. So you got to know that word; that God’s Word surrounds me, His favour surrounds me, His grace surrounds me. No matter what the attack the enemy brings, I am covered, I am protected by the Word of God.
Glory to God!
- Our security will be determined by how much time and attention we give to God and His word in our lives. So you’ve got to give God attention, give His word attention. Know the Word, be engrossed in the Word, let the Word be inside you. Praise the Lord!
You’ve got to know God’s word because you see, when the enemy comes to attack you, one of the places of attack is your mind and if you don’t know the Word, you will succumb to what he says. You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.
Psalm 25:4
The only way to know the right way is the Word. His word is a light and a lamp. The world is full of darkness and it’s very interesting, you see people full of themselves, full of rubbish, they are ready to read books, this big written that have to do with terror or whatever but not the Bible. Let another book be spinned out on the witches of this place, the witches of that, the flying this; they will read it but not the Word and then they will come again and say I don’t believe in God. Church Gist. Of course what do you think? You’ve opened yourself to mediumistic and demonic spirit and the Bible calls them a lying spirit. Lie is the language of their country (John 8:44). They will lie to the person and use his own vocal cord. There will be shocks in eternity, absolute total shock in eternity. When people come to see that what they thought did not exist, exist. We need to believe the Word. It is our protection. Glory to God!
In the book of Psalms 121:5-8, David said the Lord is your guardian, He is your shield at your right hand. The sun will not harm you by day nor the moon by night. The Lord will protect you from every evil. He will guard your soul, He will guard your departure and you arrival from this time and forever. You got to take God’s word as He said it, no debate. It is His word, God cannot lie, it is impossible for Him to lie and God is not interested in impressing you, if it is not so, He would tell you. Jesus said in my Father’s house there are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you. Oh I love that place, if it were not so, I would have told you that there is nothing there. Glory to God!
David understood God’s ability to protect him, infact he depended on this ability because the days of David were just as evil as now. Arrows were flying, king can die tomorrow, there were betrayals in his camp, all manner of things, they were people who suddenly turned off on David, people who ate with him, who lived with him, who walked with him. They looked at the political game which way should I go? Things are changing, Absalom is taking over the government of this land; I don’t want to be following David and just end in jeopardy, let me follow Absalom, he is the new king. They didn’t realize that David had a consecration, a calling, a commitment and a covenant with God: you follow Absalom, you follow nothing.
The Bible says Ahithophel later found out that he had followed empty, he had followed nothing because God suddenly turned his good counsel to nothing. Church Gist. The guy went and committed suicide because of the embarrassment. You got to understand that God will keep you, God will protect you.
- You need to let the joy of the Lord be your strength. It will protect your mind, it will protect your spirit, you will be free from worry. The Bible says in Psalm 16:11, in His presence is the fullness of joy. If a person does not have Christ and is living under the curse, listen to what the Bible says; Deuteronomy 28:66 “And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:” but when you have Christ, you have protection, you have preservation.
- In this season of this world, I declare and decree God’s preservation over your life. As you go out today, you are preserved from the hands of the enemy, from the attacks on your mind, from the lies of hell, from the strategies of hell, from the programs of hell, from the things hell want to do to you in the mighty name of Jesus.
This morning again we come with those P’s. One is P of Praise. We praise the Lord, the God who kept us, the God who preserved us, the God who blessed us, the God who saved us, the God who is our God forever and He will always be our God. Church Gist. The God who deserves to be worshipped, to be magnified. The God who is, who was and is forever. The God who lives, the God who works in our lives. This morning we magnify Him, we celebrate Him, we rejoice in the God of our salvation, we worship Him at all times.
We will not bow at the gate of modernism, we will not bow at the gate of humanism, we will not bow at the gate of materialism, we will not bow at the gate of humanity rather we stand before our God, we will exalt Him, we will magnify Him.
To magnify means to boast, we boast the name of our God. It means to expand, we expand the grace of our God. It means to hype, can you really hype God? He already fills all things. We make great His name this morning.
To magnify means to blow up. Can you really blow up God? Because you see, He is eminent, the eminent of God means He fills all things. We magnify Him this morning. We heighten His name, we glorify His name. We jack up, that’s the meaning of magnify. This morning we jack up the name of our God. We make great the name of our God, we replace everything that does not exalt Him with worship, with testimony to His name. Church Gist. We bless Him this day, we do not take His name in vain, we do not take His person in vain, we do not take His work in vain, we do not ascribe His greatness to doctors. It is not the medicine that sustained us, it is not the supplements that made us strong, it’s not even what we did.
The God who renews us, the God who revives us, the God who strengthens us, the God who gives us grace. We magnify Him this morning, we make great His name, we celebrate, we rejoice. The Bible says; and my spirit rejoices in God my saviour. We bless Your name our God.
The P of Protection, I speak into your life that this season that we are in and in the coming months of this year, may God build a wall of protection around your house, a wall of protection around your family, a wall of protection around your destiny, a wall of protection around your calling. No weapon formed against you will prosper. Every lie they packaged, they put together is nullify by the blood of the Lamb, is cancelled by the blood of Jesus Christ. God’s counsel will stand in your life. God’s purpose will stand in your life.
- Anyone who doesn’t like the call of God for your life, the grace of God on your life, the blessing of God on your life, they are wasting their time. God will protect you, He will protect your mind, He will protect your family, He will protect everything that pertains to you. David said God will perfect all that pertains to me.
- I declare and decree in this season of your life that God will build a wall of protection around your vision, around your dreams, around your destiny in the mighty name of Jesus.
This morning I speak the P of Power. May the power to walk right come upon you!
- May the power to live right come upon you!
- May the power to serve Jesus come upon!
- May the power to make impact come upon!
The Bible says in Acts 1:8, but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, in Judea and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
- This day I declare and decree that the power of God comes upon you for good, for greatness, for favour, for testimony.
- God leads you, God guides you, God blesses you, God empowers you, God graces you, God silences the darkness for your sake. Church Gist. Power will come upon you and God will raise you with the Holy Ghost and with power.
The Bible says by reason of the anointing, the yoke shall be destroyed. The power that destroy yokes, that remove burdens will rest in your life and your calling.
- I speak power in this season of waiting in fasting and praying as a Church; as you wait on God, fresh oil, new oil, holy oil from His presence rest on your life, family and destiny in Jesus name.
I speak the P of provision. In this season as you wait on God, the God of provision, the God who shocks and surprises His people, the God of provision shall provide all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
- The Heavens will open upon you, you will not lack any good thing. Those who trust in the Lord will not lack any good thing. This is your portion, you will be the practical evidence of God’s power of provision.
- Provision to the right, provision to the left, provision on every side, receive it in the name of Jesus.
I speak the P of the peace of God. Isaiah 26:3, He will keep in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him.
- As you mind stayed on God, receive His peace. Peace when you go out, peace when you come in, peace when you lay your head down, peace when you wake up.
- Receive the peace that passes all understanding. Receive the peace that increases for people. Receive the peace that makes a person overcome.
This day I speak the P of purpose into your life.
- May the purpose of God for your life become a reality. May you fulfill God’s purpose for your life in this season in the mighty name of Jesus.
- You will not be derailed, you will not waste your time chasing shadows, wasting life. You will fulfill the purpose of God.
We also pray the P of the plan of God for your life (Jeremiah 29:11)
- May God’s plan for this season in your life become reality.
- Every demonic agenda, every agenda of hell, every agenda not ordained of God, every satanic agenda, every agenda to hurt you, to limit you, we nullify by the blood of the Lamb.
- From this day, only the counsel of the Lord, only the purpose of the Lord shall stand in your life in the name of Jesus.
I pray this morning the P of prosperity. I see a vision of somebody whose hands are dripping oil, which is symbolic of abundance and anointing to do well. Church Gist. The Bible says everything that your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. Then the Bible says in Deuteronomy 28:5-12, that He will bless the work of your hand. I see this hand dripping oil.
- Receive this morning anointed hands to prosper, anointed hands to do well, anointed hands to increase in the name of Jesus.
Listen, this is your calling as a believer. I feel so sorry for many, many Christians who allow somethings to wipe their minds and make them not to hold on to God’s prosperity. Just go through your Bible, you don’t need a theologian, make up your mind and say okay, I hear Pastor Matthew saying that there are more Scriptures on finance than there are on prayer, let me search. The whole of the Bible, infact go and use Concordance, Google, you will find out that every reference to prayer, direct and indirect will be between 300 and 500 but the references to finance, to money, to abundance, to prosperity, to increase, to blessing is over 2,200.
The God who put that in the Bible wants you to prosper. Everyone God called, He prospered them. Why should yours be an exception? He called Abraham, He blessed him. Infact let’s start from Adam, He put Adam in a prepared blessing and as if that was not enough, He put four rivers there. One of the rivers go through the land that is full of gold, Havilah and Havilah is in the land of the blacks.
- You will prosper, your hands will handle excess favour.
God wants to put abundance in your life so that you can make a difference, you can touch lives, you can reach people, you can bless people, you can lift burdens from people’s shoulder and it does not take from you your own joy. Glory to God!
I speak the P of Purity into your life, David said create in me a new heart oh God and renew a right spirit in me. Church Gist. Cast me not away from your presence oh God, take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of your salvation and renew a right spirit within me.
- This morning Father, anything that will hinder your power, your glory in our lives, we ask for your cleansing, for your washing. Wash us with the washing of your blood, the washing of your Spirit, the washing of your word. Cleanse our minds. Help us to live pure in your presence so that when you look at us, it’s Your righteousness You see (Philippians 3:7-10).
- May the power of purity, the grace to live for Jesus rest strongly upon your life this day!
We speak the P of Plenty. May plenty follow you; plenty favour, plenty grace, plenty abundance, plenty open doors, plenty testimony, plenty turnaround, plenty divine favour in the name of Jesus.
From this day, grace upon grace, favour upon favour, blessing upon blessing, power upon power. You will operate in a dimension like you have never operated before, in a level you never operated before in Jesus name.
Today I speak P of Preservation into your life. God will preserve you by His grace, by His power, by His anointing in the name of Jesus.
- I speak preservation on your life. The Lord will preserve you, He will preserve your dream, He will preserve your future, He will preserve your calling, He will preserve your purpose, He will preserve your destiny. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, every mouth that rises against you in judgement shall be condemned. This is the call of God for your life, no man can cancel it, no man can erase it, no man can stop in Jesus name!
- May God preserve you by His mighty power in Jesus name!
