-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘GOD WILL ENCOURAGE YOU’
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 week, welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. Trusting the Lord to bless you, enrich your life and impact your life. May this week be awesome for you, may it truly, truly be a week of testimony, a week of the glory of the Lord, a week of the revelation of God to you.
Heavenly Father, we magnify, celebrate and glorify You. Awesome God; healer, deliverer, our joy, our salvation. The God from beginning to the end. The God of a thousand hills, the God of a million rivers. The God who spoke the universe into existence, the God whose power is unlimited, the God of the impossible. We bless You, we awesomely make great Your name; for from the rising of the sun to the going down of it, none like You, none so powerful. Church Gist. We thank You, You will exceed our prayer, You will exceed our cry; when we call on You, You never disappoint. Take the glory this morning. Meet us Father at the point of our needs today. Lift somebody’s spirit, encourage them. We thank You, You will exceed our prayer, You will exceed our expectation, You will touch Your people, You will cause them to have reasons to magnify You.
Who will not serve a God like this; a God who is faithful, a God who keeps His word, a God who never lies, a God who sworn and He never needed to swear, for if You didn’t do it, who will arrest You? But You choose to swear that Your word is good and truly You have proven it by the works You do. Bless Your people today, stretch Your hand today, glorify Yourself. We thank You, in Jesus’ name.
Welcome this morning, I trust the Lord that you will be blessed. Our Morning Glow this morning is on Encouragement. I trust the Lord that He will truly lift up your spirit and He will encourage you. When things look tough, God will encourage you. When it looks like there is no way out, God will encourage you. Church Gist. When there are delays to your breakthrough, God will encourage you. Let’s read this morning, Haggai 2:1-9.
May God bless His word richly in the name of Jesus. May God do awesome things and make His word to be a blessing; to touch, to deliver, to set free, to give victory in the mighty name of Jesus.
The people of God sometimes, will not want to admit that we may have made mistakes ourselves. In the days when these people were carried to slavery, when they were in slavery, they promised God; when we get back, we will build a house. We’ll do this, we will do that. But when they came back, they abandoned God’s house. So they began to go through challenges themselves. Some of them that were making a lot of profit, the profit was washing away and they didn’t know why; that they’d offended God, they’d sinned against God. But God now is the One encouraging them and telling them; ‘Okay, I will visit you. I will turn things around’.
God understands and cares about the discouragement we face in serving Him. He did not ignore the situation; what they have done, how they have behaved but He said; “I will save you, I will help you and I will restore your glory and the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former”.
They’ve lost the excitement of coming back from slavery. “Ha, when we get back, that our place of worship, our place of God, we are going to rebuild it”. They got back to the land, they did not remember; “I will serve the Lord, I will sow seeds, I will do this, I will honour His prophet”.
Delays can discourage when you have not seen the breakthrough. Outside opposition and criticism can discourage you, when people are making you to be afraid. God told them in verse 5, ‘do not fear’. In other words, there must be somebody who is stirring up opposition against them. Sometimes satan will stir up opposition against you, but the Word of the Lord cannot fail; when the enemy comes like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will raise a standard against him.
Sometimes also, around you, there will be pessimism, comparism and people are pessimistic about you, about your future, about what you would become. Somehow also, opposing you or comparing themselves, but God wants you to know this morning, He said; “I will return the glory”. You don’t need to compare yourself to anyone. You don’t need to look at anybody.
You know, some of them were comparing; this house does not look like the previous house. This glory does not look like the previous glory. Just focus on God, do the right thing and you will be surprised, when God will bless you, He will give you the kind of peace that passes understanding.
There are those who are discouraged, when they are blessed, they think they are not blessed. When they are lifted, they think they are not lifted. When they are successful, they think they are not successful. You want to know why? They are busy comparing themselves with somebody, so they get discouraged. They are a lot of people discouraged because they think they should have added something which they have forgotten another Scripture which says, each according to his ability.
So your success is measured by your ability and your commitment; your prayer, your desire and your destiny and God wants you to find fulfillment in what He has done for you; He gave you great children, but you are busy looking at the children of Mr. B and C. He gave you a beautiful house but your eyes are on the house of Mr. A, C, D. He gave you a beautiful life but your eyes are on the side of another person. He gave you a beautiful husband, your eyes are on another couple. You say, look at those couple, they are doing better. We are here, we are suffering. Instead of you to realize, if their house was good, they built it. If their blessing manifested, they built it.
A wrong perspective and so you get discouraged sometimes because you didn’t even realize that you are the one discouraging yourself. Whatever our source of discouragement is, God understands, He cares but He doesn’t cuddle us to stay in that discouragement, so He gives us a word of encouragement. He says, be strong.
- This morning, may you be strong.
God’s word to us when we are discouraged is to be strong and to persevere. When you are waiting for a breakthrough; something you’ve prayed for, sometimes you will want to be discouraged, please don’t. The enemy takes advantage. We must always learn from the things happening around us, even including the ones that are really very shaking.
The Americans occupied Afghanistan for twenty years and then pulled out. While they were in occupation, the Taliban would say; you have watches, we have time. Hmmm, that is powerful. You have watches, you are watching the number of years you are here, we have time; this is our Country. Church Gist. My mother used to say, the chair would stay at home to wait for the butt that sits on it. So listen, sometimes you are discouraged, you feel like: “my God, my life is finished. I am dead, I am not going to come of this”. But you’ve got to understand that, God will take care of it. He is waiting for you, He is going to turn it around.
Stop being discouraged when you look at other people’s blessing. Start being encouraged. Perseverance, instead of being discouraged requires the right thing. Keep your eyes on God; keep working, keep serving and you will be amazed that one day, God will tap your shoulders, you will look around, you will see your ram in the thicket like Abraham saw his own ram in the bush.
God assures us by His presence, by His promise and by His prophecy. His presence goes with us, His promises are with us and His prophecies are with us. Glory to God.
After telling Zerubbabel, Joshua and the people to be strong and to work, God added, “I am with you”. So, be encouraged this morning, God is with you. Yahweh is for us. Praise God, God is with you.
- I declare again that God is with you. In dangers, in challenges, God is with you.
Matthew 28:19 – You must take your life on that statement and be encouraged. God assures you that when you are discouraged in serving Him, He is with you. He assures you that He will bless you. He can’t lie, He can’t say what will not come to pass.
God assures us with three things to lift our spirit:
- His presence.
Do you know that, once you have the presence of a king, you have the blessings of that king? You have the greatness of that king, you have the power of that King.
- I pray for you today, that the grace and the power of God will encourage you, will lift your spirit and you will not be down, you will be above only, you will not be under. You will be strengthened, you will be lifted. Grace upon grace; favour upon favour, blessing upon blessing, power upon power, in the mighty name of Jesus.
- His promises. The promise of God cannot fail. The Bible says, according to the word I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you, fear not.
Father we give You praise. We thank You for this morning, we magnify You, we celebrate Your goodness, you grace, your power and anointing. Thank You for another week, another time in Your presence. We bless You, You are God from beginning to the end; none like You, none so glorious, none so powerful. We thank You, You are our healer, deliverer. We thank You for the week that ended, it ended in Your power, it ended in Your presence, it ended in glory, strength, joy, divine ability. Take the glory, praise, honour this morning.
PRAYER BULLETS:
1 Chronicles 16:11
- Father, we come before You, we seek Your face as we enter this week. It’s Your face we want to know. When we see Your face, then we will hear You. When we see Your face, then You will lead us.
I pray for you today, this week, as you seek the face of the Lord, may your paths shine. Anyone who will entice you with a business or idea that will waste your time, your money God will speak to your heart. You will not fail, you will not be put to shame
Psalm 121:1-2
- This morning Lord, we lift our eyes to you, we declare and decree, it’s gonna be okay, it’s going to be alright. Favour will meet us, goodness and mercy will connect with us, we shall dwell in the house of the Lord. People who will bless us; people who will encourage us and strengthen us will connect to us.
2 Corinthians 5:7
- This week, everyone at this altar, we declare by faith; doors open, favour comes by faith. I declare and decree this day; that by faith, favour comes.
Isaiah 64:1
- Mountains are melting before you this week. God is tearing the heavens and coming down personally for you, no angels sent. He is coming Himself. Jehovah the man of war will win on your behalf.
Everything that has constituted itself as a mountain and say; what are you going to do? It shall melt before you in the name that is above all names.
I declare and decree that this week, as you go into the week, mountains from previous days and months shall begin to melt before you and God will give you an awesome testimony in Jesus name.
Psalm 23:5-6
- You are coming into the blessings He prepared, you are coming into the favour. It is the full table of five course meal of testimony, blessing; it is already prepared. Come in and receive. Walk this week, from today Monday, step into prepared blessing, favour. Anyone, any employee, any staff, any association, anyone close to you, wasting your resources, stealing from you, hurting your dreams and visions, God will expose them.
May the prepared blessing come into your hand.
- May you be anointed with oil this week and may your cup run over in the mighty name of Jesus. Goodness, mercy to follow you; all the days of your life, so you can dwell in the house of the Lord.
Psalm 32:7-8
- We hide you in the pavilion of Jehovah this week; from sickness, from disease. We hide you, we preserve you from trouble. We surround you, we encompass you with the song of deliverance. We hide you in the secret place of Jehovah.
This week; may the Lord by His voice lead you in the way you should go and guide your steps. Every step you take this week, everywhere you go – ‘I will instruct you, I will teach you the way to go’.
The Bible says, He teacheth my hand to prosper. I speak into your life today, God will teach you to prosper. He will teach you to stay well. He will teach you even in your chosen profession, the Holy Spirit will instruct you.
I pray for you today, may the Spirit of guidance guide you with His eyes. May the Lord Himself make this week beautiful, awesome, a testimony in Jesus name.
Psalm 18:1-2
- This week I release you into the week, may the Lord be your rock on which you stand and you will not sink. Your business will not sink. Your dreams will not sink in the name of Jesus.
- May the Lord be your fortress. The Lord will be your fortress of protection around you. He will protect you; He will guide you.
- He is my deliverer; somebody this week, the plans of the devil for your life; the lies, the traps, the strategy of hell shall fail in the name of Jesus.
- He is my God… May the Lord truly be your God this week.
- He is my strength… May the Lord truly be your strength. When you are weak, He shall make you strong.
-In whom I trust… May the Lord be your trust this week and as you trust Him, you shall not be put to shame. - My buckler…. Every arrow targeted at you this week shall fail!
- He is the horn of my salvation. May the evidence of victory manifest in your life in this week in the name of Jesus.
- He is my high tower… God will expose everything satan is planning for you in the name of Jesus. Everyone who is packaging an evil load on your behalf this week, this season, they will carry it with their heads. Those who dig an evil pit shall fall into it themselves in the mighty name of Jesus.
- The protection of the Lord will surround you.
- Go into this week blessed, go into this week strengthened, go into this week powerful in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 31:24
- This day I release the oil of courage upon you, I encourage you in the Lord. May you be strengthened, may you be strong. You will not be lazy, you will not sit back. You will be diligent and everything you lay your hands to do will prosper, will work out. God will strengthen your hands, strengthen your heart. The Lord Himself will cause you to make progress.
1 Timothy 6:12
- This week, every battle that surrounds the birth of your miracle, we declare and decree you have victory in the name of Jesus.
Every fight, every battle that the enemy draws, I release angelic warriors to take on your fight. This morning, you angelic host, you warrior angels, I release you into the settings and atmosphere of the children of God this morning; take on their battles and fight on their behalf.
Psalm 32:8
- The Lord Himself will be giving you divine instruction. The Himself will be speaking to your spirit man. The Lord Himself will show you which way to go. May the Lord instruct you and guide you with His eyes. Evil eyes will not see you; they will not see your life, they will not see anything that pertain to you.
You will exceed your own expectations. On the achievement of this week, you will break grounds, you will do well. You will excel to the glory of God.
The oil of God will rest upon you (Philippians 4:7), the peace of God that passes understanding will keep your heart (Isaiah 26:3). He will keep in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him and you shall have peace like a river, in Jesus name.
We put you in the place where you will have reasons to bless the Lord in Jesus name.
Amen.
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