WHEN YOU TRULY HAVE THE SPIRIT OF ENCOURAGEMENT IN YOUR LIFE, YOU DON’T WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO GET DOWN BEFORE YOU SPEAK UPLIFTING WORDS.
-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘DIVINE ENCOURAGEMENT’ (Part 3)
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. Trusting the Lord to bless you this morning; to impart your life, to touch you, to heal you, to deliver and to set free. From the rising of the sun to the going down of it, the name of our God is to be praised. He is God. He is still healing the sick, delivering people, doing miracles; He deserves all the glory, honour, praise and adoration. None like Him, none so powerful.
I was on the steps in Prayer City on Sunday. As the Service ended and I was about to come out and a lady greeted me, carrying her baby and she said, this is my miracle baby from KICC. You spoke during the Season of Possibility; I couldn’t even remember which month. Church Gist. She said I’d waited on God 11 years for a child and He gave me this baby, beautiful little girl. Awesome, I said, just get the video department to record this; that is awesome. That is the God we serve; faithful, healer, the God who turns the house of the woman who had been considered to be without a child, to become the joyful mother of a baby.
Heavenly Father, we magnify, celebrate, glorify You this morning. We start today by just rejoicing that You are God, forever You are God, from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. None like You, none so powerful. Bless us this morning, minister to us, let Your name be glorified, silence the voice of darkness, shut the mouth of the devil, stretch Your hand, prove Yourself, do great things in our midst. When we bind this morning, we rejoice in advance because it shall be bound, when we loose we believe that it shall be loosed. Your name will be glorified at all times, in Jesus name.
Amen.
I speak blessings on everyone right now who is on this platform today, you have come to this altar; joy is going to break out in your house in a powerful way in the name of Jesus.
If you were not with us on Monday and Tuesday, we started to begin to prophesy the encouragement of God into our lives and we will continue there today. Church Gist. We trust the Lord that the Spirit of encouragement and grace will come upon you. You know, it’s like you’ve been driving since January 1, now you are in August, sometimes the tendency is just to be tired but God is encouraging you and making you know that you are not forgotten, you are not left behind. So, be encouraged this morning and know that God knows your name.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN ENCOURAGER?
- You have to be lifted before you can exalt somebody else. So, you need to be an encourager yourself. Yesterday, we saw that the name of a man was Barnabas, his name was changed to Barnabas, they used to call him Joses. But he was an encourager, he was one of those people who encouraged other people and so, they changed his name to an encourager. This morning, I want you to know that the Lord will encourage you, He will strengthen you and He will give you victory.
2 Corinthians 1:2-4
Look at how I started this morning, sharing a testimony of that beautiful baby on the steps and the mother, after 11 years of waiting on God. God smiled on her, glory to God. So God comfort us, He wants us to comfort others with the comfort with which we are comforted. I love the comfort, comfort in this place. Verse 3 calls Him the God of comfort and verse 4 says, He will comfort us in all our tribulations that we may be able to comfort them who are in trouble by the comfort with which we are also comforted. Church Gist. So in other words, you go and encourage somebody who is discouraged by the courage that has been put inside you by the Lord.
- You need to be an encourager because freely you have received it, freely you should give. Peter and John said to the lame man (Acts 3:6), silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. Glory to God.
Galatians 6:2
So, this morning, don’t just wait to receive, go out and give. Encourage somebody, push them, encourage them; encourage five, ten people to be on Morning Glow, encourage them and say look, instead of complaining to me everyday about your pain, your challenges. I know a place where nobody is crying and nobody is dieing, I’ll take you there. Bring them to Morning Glow. Let the Spirit of counsel come upon them. One Scripture, one prophetic word may be what they need, may be the medicine that will turn the situation round.
The ministry of encouragement is a round the clock job. When you truly have the spirit of encouragement in your life, you don’t wait for people to get down before you speak uplifting words. Many years ago, the young man who grew in Sunday school with Pastor Yemisi, his own name too was Yemisi. Anytime you met this guy, he became a Methodist Minister eventually. Anytime you met him, before he even became a minister, he left you with a Scripture. He was also an encourager. My head is still ringing with the last one he left me, like 39 years ago. He said: ‘I leave you with this scripture, the Lord is coming’.
So if we had more encouragers on Job, we would have had a lot less despondency from Job. He was despondent because his friends would flew in, let us use that word fly, from various countries, came to beat him the more; you are a sinner, you are thief, you did something, that’s why God wrecked you. If you can’t encourage, keep quiet. Don’t come up with your own assumptions. So, this despondent man, found himself encouraged only by one little boy around the corner. Sometimes, you find people, some of us in Church, we know of a person who have issues, don’t beat them down. Don’t shoot the wounded.
Proverbs 12:25
- I pray this morning that the Word going forth will make your heart glad and the oil of encouragement will come upon your spirit and make you to know that you can make it, you can achieve it, you can be victorious in the name of Jesus.
Proverbs 16:24
- This morning I speak into your life, may you be encouraged, may you be lifted, may your spirit come up. Everything you’ve heard that somebody told you as if God will not move for you, they are not God. God will make a way.
Proverbs 11:11
- By this word of the Lord, may your spirit be lifted. May today be a day full of joy.
Proverbs 10:11
- I prophesy into your life; encouragement, grace upon grace, favour upon favour and I pray for you also, that God will lay upon your spirit, somebody to call and encourage today, somebody to lift their spirit, somebody to just bless, somebody to just check on.
Isaiah 50:4
- Spirit of the living God, Holy Spirit, You the comforter of men, today we release Your presence, into the whole atmosphere around the four corners of the world. Father, You the spirit of Comfort, You the Consoler, release Your presence upon this people. Encourage them, strengthen them. Let the Word of Your courage come upon them. May they be lifted beyond measure.
2 Timothy 1:7
- Every weapon of fear that have been used to steal from you, we rebuke it in the name of Jesus. We break the power of the enemy, we break the power of fear. We release the grace and boldness of the Spirit upon you. Be bold, be strong, for the Lord your God is with you.
Psalm 37:39
- I speak strength, victory. You will see the end of that matter; the matter will not see your end. I declare and decree this morning, no matter what it is, you are coming out with testimony, you are coming out bold, powerful, victorious in the name of Jesus.
Deuteronomy 31:6
- I declare this morning, may courage come upon you, may strength come upon you. I rebuke phobia, every kind of demonic phobia in the name of Jesus.
John 14:27
- I send you out this morning with the peace of Jesus Christ in the middle of the turmoil of each day. Peace around you, peace when you are in the valley, peace on the mountain, peace everywhere you go. May the peace of Jesus be with you, may the peace of Jesus surround you, may the peace of Jesus overwhelm you in the mighty name of Jesus. The kind of peace that passes understanding shall be your portion. Your heart will not be troubled, your peace will increase.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Romans 8:28
- I pray for you, everything will work for your good, including the mess they threw at you, it shall work for your good. The delay will work for your good. The pressure will work for your good. God will give you a testimony in the name of Jesus.
Isaiah 43:2
- We pull you out of the overwhelming worries, out of the fire that consumes, out of the overwhelming waters. Your hair will not singe, your body will not be consumed. You will not drown in the river that life has cursed. You will come out with a testimony.
I prophesy on you this day; rivers will not overwhelm you. Fire will not consume you, you are only passing through. Come out in the name of Jesus, come out of that fire, come out of that challenge, come out of the river.
Psalm 138:3
- As you cry out to the Lord, the Lord will answer you. Receive answers today, before the end of today. The Lord will answer you and surprise you in massive ways.
Philippians 1:6
- You will not die by the roadside, you will not die empty, you will finish what you began. The things God started in your life will finish well in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 37:4
- I lay hands on you today, the blessings will not come when it is too late. The help will not arrive when it is too late.
Psalm 55:22
- Burdens upon your shoulders, we take them off today, burdens placed upon your journey and you didn’t even know where it came from, we remove them today. We break the power of sadness, pain, worries, anxieties: I rebuke those things in the name of Jesus.
Matthew 19:26
- I hold your hand this morning and I call upon the God of possibilities; the dream, the vision, prayer, anticipations, the challenges, the battles, I prophesy into your life, the God of possibilities will answer you, He will surprise you. The Lord will exceed all your dreams, prayers, visions. So shall it be in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 37:23-24
- Go into today, may your step be a good step and may you steps be ordered by God. With His hand, He will uphold you today. Go into today, succeeding, achieving, breaking forth, being blessed, your steps ordered. Where you should not go, the Holy Ghost’s restrictions will be strong on your spirit. Where you should be, even if the flesh says no, the clarity of the voice of the Lord will be on your spirit. You will know the mind of God, step for step in the name of Jesus. The blessings that are already waiting for you, step in and possess: take it, it is yours in the name of Jesus. No devil will chase you from what belongs to you in the name of Jesus.
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