- Whenever there is something you cannot carry, He said, “cast your cares on Him for He cares for you”
- Drop it for God and pick up what God wants you to carry.
- From this season onwards, I see God picking up every matter that concerns you.
- The benefits of today will not elude you,
Our Father, we have come this morning to give glory to You for the awesome testimonies we have heard. These are your doings and they are marvellous in our eyes. For it, we give You all of the praise and all of the glory. For the answers to our prayers this morning, we say Thank You.
Now our eyes are upon You, speak to us today by Your Word and let Your Word transform each one of our lives. We give You all the praise and all the glory for it. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our line of exhortation for this week has been:
WE DO NOT BEG FOR A TURNAROUND IN THE KINGDOM.
According to God’s Word, we have discovered that God is a covenant keeping God, not a Father Christmas God. In other words, God operates by covenants.
Psalm 89:34
According to God’s Word therefore, it is covenant through which you and I can engage God. Until we have a covenant perspective, we cannot take advantage of our relationship with God.
The Bible makes clear to us that a covenant, Hebrews chapter 6 verses 16 to 18; according to this scripture, a covenant by definition and description is a spiritual deal that is based on well-defined terms and sealed with an oath.
That means that when it comes to dealing with God, you don’t just jump at celebrating promises. You engage with the terms of every provision of the covenant. God does not just distribute promises, God responds to covenants and a covenant means there are terms to every provision. If you see what you like, you must also seek what God asks. Until you find what God asks, you are not permitted to demand what God has. So, it is vital for you and I to understand that:
We don’t move God by emotions;
We don’t move God by persuasion.
We move God by engagement.
Engaging with the terms of the covenant is what secures God’s intervention on our behalf. Emotions do not move God. Persuasion does not move God. It is engagement that moves God. Engaging with the demands of every covenant provision is what positions us to secure what we desire from God. It means therefore that our walk with God is not a beggarly pursuit. No, it is a pursuit of responsibility. Begging God does not move God.
The Bible says the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus and she began to worship Him. She began to display her emotions before Him and Jesus said, “what do you want?”
And she said, “I am asking that you put my sons, one on your right and one left when You get to your Kingdom.
Jesus said,” Do you know what you are asking?” And He looked at the young men and said to them, “what you are asking, are you able to drink of the cup that I will be drinking of? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism I will be baptized with?”
In other words, the enthronement is the product of a responsibility.
Hebrews 12:2
Before He could sit down, He had to go through something, He had to carry out something. It was that which was executed that determined where He would be enthroned.
Philippians 2:5-9
His (Jesus) exaltation was the product of His subjection to a divine task. He said, “He took on the form of a servant” -Philippians 2:7.
It means therefore that if I seek the same exaltation, if I seek transformation, if I seek advancement then I have a responsibility to take on the form of a servant.
So we don’t beg: “Oh God, do this for me!”
It is one of the most popular prayers of believers: Do it. Do it for me!!! And that prayer is always on repeat. If you check those who pray that prayer, “do it for me”, it is on repeat.
“Do it for me today, do it for me tomorrow, do it for me next week.”
It is always “do it for me” and that prayer is continuously on repeat.
Why? Because there is no responsibility being taken.
You see there is no answer waiting until there is responsibility taken. Church Gist. You take responsibility in order to secure your answers.
We’ve been looking all through this week at the various aspect that our engagement with God secures His intervention. This morning we are going to look at 2 other areas, that as we engage God, we find Him stepping in our behalf.
- We discover that we do not beg to have children in the Kingdom. We serve to be fruitful.
Exodus 23:25-26; Psalm 127:3
As we have been taught over the years: children are either a gift or a reward and when it seems you may have resisted towards fruitfulness, the answer is not in begging, the answer is in serving.
As you serve God, He causes you to be fruitful.
Deuteronomy 7:14
For them to enjoy the land of promise, what does His Word say: He said, these are the laws that will keep you in this land of promise. Very simple
He said: love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart – Deuteronomy 11:13
To secure the blessing of fruitfulness, you don’t beg for it. You don’t cry for it, you serve for it. You engage in advancing the Kingdom for it. You engage in promoting the Kingdom for it. I tell you something, the siege of barrenness can be cheaply broken. All you do is to serve Him with all your heart.
One of us said that during the1st, 2nd Wonder Double season, she had been waiting on the Lord for a child and she had prayed and prayed. During the period, even though we were told, engage and pray for others and pray for the Kingdom, she said, because of how heavy the need was for her, she was praying for herself all through the Season. The Season came and went, the barrenness remained. But she said, “I began to hear the testimony of other people, that they left their matters behind and they took on the matters of the Kingdom. They were engaging the matters of the Kingdom and she said,” well, if it worked for others, it would work for me.” She put her matter aside and began to engage. Within 2 weeks, she was pregnant. The siege was cheaply broken.
I like you to understand this: you have only one head, if you will carry load, it is only one load you can carry and any load you carry on your head, it is the load that you have seen that you have the capacity to carry. If you carry your barrenness on your head, trying to solve it, God cannot pick it up on your behalf. But when you put barrenness down and pick up the Kingdom on your head, God picks up barrenness on your behalf. That is the key.
Whenever there is something you cannot carry, He said, “cast your cares on Him for He cares for you”
So drop it for God and pick up what God wants you to carry.
He said, “my yoke is easy, my burden is light.”
Take my Kingdom, I will carry your matters. That is the key.
-From this season onwards, I see God picking up every matter that concerns you.
- We do not cry to be healed. As we serve God, we are entitled to health and vitality.
Very illustrative is the testimony that we heard. In the midst of Operation By All Means, the Operation that just ended. She said, “we had already paid for the surgery.” The daughter was already sedated and wheeled into the theatre. Then the doctor said, “let’s just carry out one more check before we cut this girl.” Then began to examine her, put her under scan after being sedated. Medically, they don’t sedate to go and do the scan. That was a last-ditch effort, “let me just check before I cut her open.” Then checked, he couldn’t find it. He called other doctors, “maybe it is my eye that is not seeing well, come and look for it.” And all the doctors gathered together and none of their eyes could see it, because a Surgeon that operates without cutting, has removed the lump from that girl.
As you serve God, you serve your way into Health and Vitality.
Why is that so?
You can’t serve God and God not servicing you and when God services you, He restores you back to order.
-From this season onwards, I see the hand of God servicing you and bringing your system back to order.
The good news is not only does He heal you of your disease, but He keeps you in health and vitality.
John 15:1-2
He takes away the things that can disturb it. One thing with God is that for those that labour, He takes away their discomfort in order to ensure they are more and more fruitful. The more fruitful you are in engaging for God, the more God commits to servicing you.
-I see each one of us from this Season onwards, receive grace to keep serving God and enjoying health as we do so in the name of Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:20, Proverbs 13:17
You can’t be serving God and not enjoy health. As you are representing God on the harvest field, He keeps energizing you with health and vitality.
-No more will you ever be registered among the sick.
As we conclude this morning, take note of this:
God is not looking for who to humiliate, He is looking for who to honour.
Somebody says, *I am going out there and they are mocking me. I am going out there and they are embarrassing me. I am going out there and they are speaking against me. Why will I subject myself to this kind of humiliation?”
God is not looking for who to humiliate, He is looking for who to honour.
Proverbs 14:28
1 Samuel 2:30
Whenever you honour God, you secure the honour of God.
-I see each one of us in this season securing the honour of God in the name of Jesus.
He is not looking for who to humiliate, He is looking for who to honour. I have shared the testimony before of one of us who went around winning souls and was mocked because she was not married. Somebody who knew her, not mockery in secret. You know there a mockery that they are talking behind you. There is the one they are about you There is the one they are talking directly to you. This one was not behind, this one was not about, this one was to: direct open mockery. And instead of just cowing down and backing out, she continued. When her marriage was to happen, the same person mocking her called her and said, “please pray for my children.”
God is not looking for who to humiliate, He is looking for who to honour.
-You shall be honoured.
Prayers: Lord I receive grace to keep engaging.
Take that grace this morning.
I receive grace to keep engaging, to keep serving, to keep obeying, to keep pursuing the advancement of your Kingdom.
I receive that grace.
Thank You mighty God, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Keep engaging and God will keep decorating. Let’s not forget, this coming Sunday is our Covenant Day of Vengeance.
To silence evil, there must be vengeance. For each one of us, as we appear this coming Sunday and for all of our converts, the Lord God of Heaven will execute vengeance on our behalf.
Gather all your new converts, reach out to people, remember it is our Operation Andrew Sunday. Make sure somebody new follows you to Church because we all require this ministry of vengeance. There are many that have been under satanic harassment. It is not just for them to be set free but for God to judge the adversary and this Sunday, God will judge the adversary in the name of Jesus Christ.
Fliers: Declare the breath of the Holy Ghost upon the fliers. As the fliers go forth, we declare the breath of God upon every flier. Every flier becomes an instrument of harvest, a sharp sickle returning with great harvest.
Thank You Father for it, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Lord, we send this forth as Paper Missionaries returning with great harvest, we thank You for doing it, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
SPEAK TO THE DAY
Another day is here, another opportunity. Make your declaration of faith concerning the day. As you are speaking, God is responding. Speak to the day right now.
Make your decree and make your declaration. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
-This day is blessed, for you it will be a day of testimonies, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
-It will be a day of Testimonies.
-The benefits of this day will not elude you, in the name of Jesus.
So shall it be, in Jesus name.
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