-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘GOD WILL ENCOURAGE YOU’ (Part 2)
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 day in the presence of the Lord; another time with our God.
Heavenly Father, we give glory, honour, adoration, praise to Your name. Awesome God, mighty God, great God; God of faithfulness without injustice. We come before You this morning, we acknowledge Your greatness, Your awesomeness. Minister to Your people this morning; touch their lives, heal the sick, set captives free, fill Your people with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Take burdens off their shoulders. Everything that troubles them; every valley shall be made smooth, every mountain shall be made low, You the Lord of host will do it and You will exceed our expectation to the glory and praise of Your Holy name. We thank You because You are an awesome God, a great God, in Jesus name.
Amen.
Praise the Lord. What a beautiful day! Trusting the Lord that you will be blessed, trusting the Lord that the hand of the Lord will touch you and you will have a reason to magnify the Lord.
If you are just joining us, we’ve been speaking and prophetically declaring into our lives, those scriptures on encouragement. Church Gist. In tough times and good times, God wants you to learn the power of encouraging yourself and to stay in His word and know that God is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent. When He speaks a word, His word will come to pass.
The people of God do go through things but God wants them to be encouraged, to know that He the Lord will never leave them nor forsake them. His power is at work in their lives, His grace is sufficient for them, His power will continue to make way where there seems to be no way.
This morning, we want to read from the book of 1 Peter chapter 1, I will like to read to encourage somebody this morning.
Praise God!
Peter writes to the believers to encourage them and to celebrate them and say, you haven’t seen the Lord like we saw Him and walk with Him. But you rejoice, you serve Him with joy unspeakable and full of glory, so He encourages them and I want you to know this morning, God wants you to be encouraged by the fact that He is not a man who lies nor the son of man who changes His mind, whose word is not good. Church Gist. God is as good as His word. A man is as good as his word. If I tell you 4’0 clock and I come 4:05, then you know that my word is as good as maybe, 98 per cent. But God, His word is too good, awesomely good, beyond good. Praise God.
So, God wants you to be encouraged and joyful so that in tough times, the joy of the Lord reminds us that we are only passing through whatever we are passing through; that there will be answers, there will be a way out, there will be solutions, there will be the outstretching of God’s hand.
- The joy is to sustain you and make you know that you are only passing through. When you read the book of Hebrews, when it speaks of the saints who went through things in Hebrews 11, the Bible says, they were looking for a better place, a heavenly home, where God is the builder of it. They just had this assurance; “Okay, you can do anything you want to do to us, we have a better place”. Glory to God.
So, we see that the joy of the Lord helps you and reminds you that you are only passing through whatever you are passing through.
- The second blessing of the encouragement that comes from the joy of the Lord is that; this joy reassures you with a living hope. Church Gist. So, if you have a living hope, it means that, there is still hope. For everything you trust the Lord for, there is still hope. For the things you are praying to the Lord for, there is still hope. For the ones You’ve been crying to the Lord for, there is still hope and not just hope, it is a living hope.
No one can undo history, no one can steal our living hope. It comes from a living Christ. Our hope is anchored in the resurrection. Everything that Jesus went through, is so crucial to our salvation and our person. He is rising, our hope is anchored to that His rising. So our hope is not in the person who is dead. Our Christ is alive, our hope is not in a dead god, not in a wood, not in a person who promise that he is the saviour and then he passes on. Our hope is built on nothing else than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. So we have a hope that is alive because the source is alive and living hope.
So because you have a living hope, you hold on and He never disappoints and He comes at the right time. He comes to prove Himself, He comes to deliver, He is our living hope. He is never too late.
- You were redeemed for an incorruptible glory. The passage we read this morning says, to an inheritance which is incorruptible (1 Peter 1:4). So, that is our assurance. We have been redeemed, not to corruption. We were not redeemed to bricks and mortar, our redemption is bigger than that. Church Gist. The things that are bought with money; all these computers, paper, books, tables, clothes – they are corruptible. That means, they wear out, they burn up, they waste away. They can be stolen, they can be neglected, they can be spoilt. They can be stolen, that’s why we have banks, we keep money, we are doing credit card – invisible money and even when you do invisible money, somebody is raiding banks and even if they don’t raid banks, somebody is trying to steal it by hacking into the banking system.
Some are also cast aside, some have perished, they’ve died but we have an inheritance that can not perish. That is the joy we have in the Lord, it can never wear out, it can never fade, it can never rust, it can never lose its shine. So, be encouraged child of God this morning, that your anchor holds to something eternal, something great, something powerful. Church Gist. Your anchor holds to something more solid, to something enduring, something long and loving.
Oh glory to God. Jesus we magnify You this morning, we rejoice in Your salvation. We celebrate Your goodness, we make great Your name. From the rising of the sun to the going down of it; we thank You for the blessing of knowing You, the blessing of salvation. We praise You for our hope is built on nothing else than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. We dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’name. On Christ the solid rock we stand, all other ground is sinking sand. We bless You.
Jesus, we magnify You this morning, we make great Your name. We rejoice. Thank You for our hope is built on something eternal that does not fade. We thank You for our salvation is incorruptible and it is undefiled, it can not be messed up. We bless You.
Jesus, uphold us by Your mighty power, keep our eyes on You that we will not be deceived, we will not be carried away by the errors of our days but to be grounded in the truth of Your word, the truth of Your person. We bless You this morning, we celebrate Your goodness. We thank You for Your favour, we thank You for all that You have done. We thank You, we bless You, we magnify You, in Jesus name.
PRAYER BULLETS:
Psalm 19:14
- We come before You this morning, do not reject our prayers, do not reject our confessions, do not reject our words. Let the words that we speak, let the meditations of our spirit man be acceptable in Your sight. Let that which we declare today come to pass. What we bind shall be bound, what we loose shall be loosed. What we declare shall come to pass.
- I pray for everyone on this platform this morning, may your words carry power. As you declare it, it shall come to passes. As you decree, it becomes reality. As you call, the finances from the four corners of the earth, they come to you. As you speak to your spirit man, you will see results. As you speak to your mental life, you will see results. As you speak to your emotional life, you will see results.
Psalm 32:8
- Father, we face today, the 17th of August and the rest of this month and the rest of this year and according to Your word, You will instruct us, You will guide us, You will teach us. I pray for everyone on this platform today; may the Spirit of the Lord be your guide. May the Spirit of the Lord be your teacher; instructing Your mind, guiding you in Jesus name.
- I pray for you today that Spirit of the Lord inside you will guide you in major and minor matters in this season of your life. Very clear direction, very clear leading. The Spirit of counsel; you will hear the voice of the Lord clearly, saying this is the way, walk in it. May you hear His voice, may you know His leading. May you be guided in this season of your life.
Jeremiah 29:11
- This morning I speak into the whole of today, the whole of this week, the whole of this year; that the Lord will make the future manifest. The future designed for today, the 17th of August, shall begin to manifest. You will connect with your blessing, favour, the outstretching of the hand of God – you will not miss it.
Isaiah 40:29
- Go into today; power to you, strength to you, grace to you. The hand of the Lord shall rest upon you. May the power of the Lord rest upon you today; you will not faint, you will not falter, you will not fall.
- I pray for you today; may the Lord strengthen you for exploits, for achievements, for breaking grounds, for awesome ground breaking testimonies.
- People will remember you for good.
1 John 4:4
- We release you into today; go into this day, anything that is in the world, you are greater than it. Evil reports, you are greater than it. Attack of the enemy, you are greater than it. Lies from the pit of hell, you are greater! Attack on your mind, you are greater than it, you will not sink, you will not die, you will not perish.
- I speak into your life today; you will overcome. Anything thrown at you today, go in the arm of victory because you are a child of overcoming. May the strength of the Lord be upon you, may the oil of God distinguish you in this day of your life.
Isaiah 45:1-3
- I anoint your eyes to begin to see the hidden riches of God, the hidden favours, blessings, breakthroughs. I anoint your eyes in this season of your life for your business, for your work to begin to see the hidden riches around you.
Psalm 22:19
- May the Lord come close to you and strengthen you and help you. This day, victory belongs to you, glory belongs to you. The things that troubles a man and make him to give up shall not happen to you.
2 Chronicles 32:7
- Go into this day, week and month, enter the rest of this year strong and courageous, not afraid, fearless.
Psalm 28:7-8
- May the Lord be your Strength today, may the Lord be your shield and as your heart trust in Him, may you be helped; Heaven will help you, God will help you by putting a solution in your spirit, by raising men for you. May God put a song of victory, song of joy, song of testimony in your mouth today. You will be lifted by the Lord in the name of Jesus.
1 Peter 5:7
- Lord I come before You this morning, everyone who is at this altar; many other cares and battles that we have not mentioned, we come before You this morning, as a child of God, as a servant of Jesus Christ, I come before You this morning. I cry on behalf of Your people, we cast all our cares on your shoulder. We thank You because You care for us; answers are following.
Psalm 46:1
- God will be your refuge and strength. God will be the very present help for you in the time of trouble. People you don’t know will rise and help you. In this season of trouble and unrest in the world, God will be your strength, He will be your present help in the time of need, you will never be put to shame.
Psalm 73:26
- Go into this day, God will be your portion. Everything you desire and dream of will begin to manifest right before your eyes in Jesus name. I hear a statement and I believe it is for me; a mouth full of testimonies. Today and the rest of this week, a mouth full of testimonies in Jesus name.
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