- Every scriptural instruction obeyed naturally equals a miracle.
- Prompt response counts the most in our walk with God.
- Your colour, beauty can be turned to shame because of delayed response.
- Many of us are too slow for the great future that God has in store for us.
- You don’t have to be a supplanter, you don’t have to deceive nobody, but you can quickly respond and explode with every blessing.
- Procrastination is a trap, it robs people of their best in their walk with God.
People are busy looking for what is so close to them. From scriptures, every miracle is a raw product of one’s obedience: “Whatever He tells you to do, do it” and then that equals a miracle (John 2:5).
Know what He says to do, do it: the outcome, a miracle.
It is not something in the sky that you are trying to locate, whatever He tells you to do, I don’t know what you want, but whatever He tells you to do, do it. Your wants will become abundance, your lack will become plenty. Whatever He tells you to do, do it.
“Worn out shoe, one suit but put on a Jesus smile and went about, ‘Jesus loves you!!’; then everything turned like a dream of the night” (documented testimony). A miracle is not a magic, it’s the confirmation of God upon man’s obedience.
-I see you go through this season a walking miracle.
Simple obedience. Obedience of faith to every scriptural instruction naturally equals a miracle. Naturally equals a miracle!
-I see every obstacle on your path turn to a miracle without sweat.
Prayer: Speak to me Jesus, I want to hear from you (Luke 21:38). I know we are in the Midst of the Year where you level out all everlasting mountains, through the obedience of your people, now help me. Engrace me with the spirit of obedience into next levels. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Lord Jesus, we are here at your feet waiting to receive from You, let no one return without an encounter with Your Word. Let Your Word come down and bring about our next level desired change of story. In Jesus precious name.
PROMPT OBEDIENCE COUNTS THE MOST IN OUR WALK WITH GOD
That is the exhortation line at our Covenant Hour of Prayer this week.
Revelation 3:20 – I will sup with him, I will settle down with him, I will change his story forever, but you don’t knock on a door forever.
“Hello, anybody in? Hello, anybody in?”: they are not in. You will turn your back. It will be equal to madness knocking without end.
Every revelation is a knock on the door of your heart:
“Hello, I have this package for you, are you interested?”
Response: No, I have gone to bed.
“Hello, are you interested?”
Response: No, I am writing a professional exam.
“Hello, are you interested?”
Response: I have too many issues around my life I am dealing with now.
He goes off.
Songs of Solomon 5:1-10. We saw that story of the beloved that was knocking on the door of his lover. He said, “open to me.” I have washed my feet, I have put on my pyjamas (or pyja’woman’). Amen. She was having the fun of her life.
He said: Hello. Final, see my finger through the hole (Song of Solomon 5:5).
Bye bye. Whatever you see is your choice. She got up and started all the ceremonies, dressing up, perfume, per’leg’. By the time she opened, the beloved was gone and the watchmen caught her, she was shouting, “who has seen my beloved with me?”
Your beloved what? This night, they removed her veil (Song of Solomon 5:7). Her beauty, her colour was turned to shame for delayed response.
Delayed response!
Children, have you any meat? (John 21:4-6). They said, None. Cast your net on the right side.
Some person with a PhD in fisheries said, “Hello Sir, what is the difference between the right side of the boat and the left? You know these prophets; at times they just talk nonsense. Okay I am on the water, you say, on the right side. Is it not the same fish (that) are on the right and on the left?”
He will just be arguing until all the fishes disappear to another place.
“And when they had this done, they enclosed great multitudes of fishes” (John 21:6).
Prompt obedience gave them their laughter-order of breakthroughs. Prompt!!
Imagine that Naaman went for a Council meeting before going to Jordan, He will just come down and swim. The cleansing power in Jordan came in there as the Word went (2 Kings 5:10). If you go at another time, you will have to cleanse yourself (because) the Power had left (2 Kings 5:10-14).
Prompt response counts the most in our walk with God.
Paul responded promptly to his call and the giant in him came alive (Galatians 1:15-16).
“…IMMEDIATELY I conferred not with flesh and blood ”(Galatians 1:16) – men that make the most of their walk with God are men of prompt response to His instructions.
Many of us are too slow for the great future that God has in store for us.
And suddenly in Galatians chapter 2 verse 8, the Word says, “for he that wrought effectually in Peter, to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles.” Prompt response.
If you check Peter’s story: Immediately he left the boat, left his father and fled after Jesus. Immediately.
Men of prompt response makes the most of their walk with God.
We were told yesterday Abraham, no premonition, no formal idea, no discussion, no deliberation: Arise, get thee out of here to a place that I will show you and I will there make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee (Genesis 12:1). So Abraham departed.
Prompt response to scriptural instructions pays the most.
That man lost his house, lost his car, worn out shoes but he responded promptly and the heavens opened widely. Prompt response!
There is a story here, we can use it as an illustration. When Isaac was old, he called Esau, “bring me the venison such as I love and make me savoury meat such as I love, so I may eat it, so that my soul can bless you till I die.” By whatever happened, Jacob came in. How did you get it so quickly my son?
Verse 20: you get it quickly. You get what He says to do quickly. You get it done quickly. We know there was a deception in there, but we are using that as an illustration. The one that got it quickly got all the blessings.
Genesis 27:25-29
Genesis 27:25 – You have won my love for getting it quickly, my son.
That’s how Israel came to be, nations shiver Israel till now. Church Gist. Let me say humourously, what we have is not the Nation of Israel, it is United Nation of Israel.
He got it quickly and heaven lavished blessings on him. You don’t have to be a supplanter, you don’t have to deceive nobody, but you can quickly respond and explode with every blessing.
John 5:1-4
“Whosoever FIRST steps in”, not whosoever steps in (John 5:4). Whosoever FIRST steps in, not whosoever drags himself inside. It’s a dive.
You make the most of your walk with God by your prompt response. Prompt response!
There were these 10 servants and the Householder gave them a pound each: Now go, do business till I come. I perceive that the first one that got 10, got off immediately. He hit the ground running. The other one was planning and strategizing till half of the time, he also made some gain.
Someone kept his own, “you can come anytime you want; I can only move when I want. I mean you can’t force me to move. There is fundamental human right. You can’t push me. I have my life to live, I am a man of myself. You can’t say, ‘Operation Possess What’, I am not possessing anything.”
Guess what? Only two got anything out of it, out of the 10. What percentage is that? 20 percent. Only two, the other 7 were still planning and strategizing. They went to school first, to go and learn how to trade. The market had closed before they came, because when the Man came, the market closed. End of business.
The first one got a sporadic, dramatic turnaround: Have thou authority over 10 cities (Luke 19:17). Dominion speaking.
The other one got authority over 5 cities (Luke 19:19).
And the others became wanderers on the street. Church Gist. Prompt response is the key to maximizing our walk with God.
There were 32,000 volunteers in Gideon’s army (Judges 7:3). God said, they are too many, they won’t do anything. He said, “go and tell them, anyone who is afraid, let him go back.”
They were already murmuring: ‘Haba’, can we beat the Amalekites? Well they said we should come, we have come.
Anyone (who) is afraid? 22,000. They were not just afraid, they were undecided, they were procrastinating. What if we lose? What if I die? I mean life is more than just fighting.
Is anybody afraid? ‘Oya’ boy, I go.
God said, they are still too many. They will pride themselves that their number gave them the victory. Bring them here and I will prove them for you. The disciplined separated from the undisciplined and you have only 300 remaining. And God by 300 brought the victory (Judges 7:9)
-You will be listed among the 300
You also know the percentage of 300 out of 32,000. Awesome God.
Is it not true therefore that are many are called, but few made it. Very true.
Is it not true that broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be that walk in it. Narrow is the gate that leads and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:14). Too true.
Prompt response is key. We have 5 weeks more to go.
Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, Christ shall give thee light (Ephesians 5:14).
Stories are changing already.
-Your own is listed for a change.
-Your story is listed for a change.
It is not a gift, it’s a choice.
Choose ye this day whom you shall serve (Joshua 24:15)
1 Kings 18:21 – stop dancing around
…but thou shall not excel because you are unstable as water (Genesis 49:1-3).
And I said what does that mean?
Judges 5: 15-16. “…great searchings of heart” – to go, not to go; to move, not to move; how? What about my other business? What about what I am planning to do?
Judges chapter 5 verse 16: That is the nature of Reuben, procrastination: I can’t go, I won’t go, let me wait first, let me see, the weather is looking cloudy, can anybody do anything right now? You see I have this contract, I have this job.
Procrastination is a trap, it robs people of their best in their walk with God.
-You will not be robbed.
Give the Lord the biggest revival order of clap offering. Give Him a revival order of clap of praise.
Fellow brethren and heirs of the promise, joint heirs together with Christ, we don’t need this terrific prayer if every member of this Church will make it a choice to engage with their God in the pursuit of this agenda.
What is twice? Each one bring one, one person. That is twice.
But as they say, only 5 percent of people make things happen.
I don’t know how true that is, I don’t know where their scientific facts are.
25 percent watch things happening. They are entertained by the happenings. They clap in response to any testimony.
70 (percent) don’t know that anything is happening.
Prayer: Lord, quicken me back. Get me on my feet, make me a partaker of the wonders of this season.
Go ahead and pray.
Lord, quicken my spirit, get me back on my feet, keep me running. I don’t want to be an onlooker, make me a partaker of the glory that is blowing around here. Thank You Lord. In Jesus name we have prayed.
Now make your choice, no barren week in my life the remaining weeks of this season.
I was telling one of my sons yesterday, if they told me 7 pm, that you must bring somebody tomorrow, I will get him. 7 pm on Saturday, if they told me, “go and bring somebody”; I will get him. They are all over, waiting for who to say, “hello, Jesus loves you, He wants you. He wants to decorate your life, He wants to secure your tomorrow.” Everybody is waiting, the world is compassed with troubles, they are looking for escapes. That is why we are there.
A friend of mine said, “the Lord called him 25 years ago. Now he has retired, he wants to answer the call.”
I said, “he has called somebody else.”
If you send somebody for 20 years, won’t you send somebody else if you need it!
I said, “go and settle down. Forget about that calling, it is gone.” It is gone!
God is no respecter of persons.
No week between now and the 1st of August (2021) shall be fruitless in your life.
Your prayer altar shall be supernaturally fruitful.
Your passionate pursuit of souls shall bring in harvest.
Anyone you pray for shall abide in the faith.
Anyone you pray for the Lord will save them.
No one on your list will miss their steps.
Each one will make it to heaven, each one will make it to the Kingdom in the name of Jesus.
SPEAK TO THE DAY
It’s your day. Speak to the day.
It’s a day of testimonies.
Speak to the day like someone in a revival. Seize the day.
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