NOT EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD FOR THE MOMENT HAS A FUTURE.
MANY PEOPLE ARE TOO MUCH IN THE FLESH. FROM MORNING TO NIGHT, JUNK KEEPS ON ENTERING THE MIND AND THE SPIRIT; FROM ONE MOVIE TO ANOTHER, ONE THING OR THE OTHER AND THEN FROM GOSSIPING THIS PERSON TO TALKING AGAINST THAT PERSON – ALL MANNER OF FLESHLY OPERATIONS.
IF YOU’RE TOO BUSY BECAUSE OF PEOPLE; IF YOU ARE NO LONGER HERE, THOSE PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE LIVING AS IF YOU NEVER EXISTED. SO, CALM DOWN AND BE WISE.
YOU WERE NOT MADE FOR BUSINESS; BUSINESS WAS MADE FOR YOU.
WAITING ON GOD IS NOT WASTAGE OF LIFE. THOSE WHO WAIT ON GOD DON’T WASTE IN LIFE.
DON’T MOVE BECAUSE OF MASS MOVEMENT; IT MAY AFFECT YOUR DESTINY NEGATIVELY.
DON’T EVER BECOME IMPATIENT BECAUSE OF OTHER PEOPLE’S RESULTS OR EXPERIENCES.
DON’T EVER BECOME IMPATIENT, WAIT ON GOD. WAITING ON GOD WILL GIVE YOU A SPEED THAT HUMAN EFFORT CAN NEVER GIVE.
-Pastor Paul Enenche at 2022 Overflowing Grace and Glory Fast, Dunamis International Gospel Centre,
Day Ten
Lift your hands and voices and let’s appreciate the King of glory.
Father breathe upon Your people tonight. Thank You for the privilege of Your presence. Thank You for honouring Your word, honouring the sacrifice of Your people in the fast with multiply miracles and signs and wonders; we are eternally grateful Lord. Thank You Master, in Jesus precious name.
Jeremiah 6:16
I welcome everyone here this evening to this explosive Service of Communion.
Tonight, subject is:
HINDRANCES TO DIVINE DIRECTION.
Our objective tonight is to understand the things that hinder people from receiving or hearing from God. It is important to know as we have established that divine direction is a life saver; divine direction is a destiny saver. Church Gist. Human lives and destinies are literally anchored on direction. I am so excited because in the course of this month, God is opening the eyes and the ears of people; people are dreaming; prophetic dreams and remembering them.
Divine direction is a non-negotiable capital asset of human life and destiny. A woman just testified; she said, life was easier when she could hear God. The question is; what are the hindrances to divine direction?
1). The lack of value for divine direction.
Many have no value for the will of God and for the purpose of God for their lives. So, they live life to chance; they live life to random motion. Church Gist. They entered into business carelessly, get married carelessly, travel abroad carelessly; they have no value for the will of God for their lives. So, there is so much frustration, frustrated relationships, marital connections and business investment.
What you give yourself is not as valuable as what God gives you. What you give yourself can never be profitable as what God gives you. Whatever it is, you are the one who gave yourself that wife or you took yourself to America. It’s possible to be everything you want without God, but that thing cannot be as profitable as what God gives you.
Also, what you achieve for yourself can never be as wonderful as what God achieves with you. Church Gist. There could be self-made millionaires and billionaires, but the millions and the billions would not give you as much rest and usher you into the realm of wonders as what God does for you.
What you do for yourself is subject to earthly forces but what God does for you is superior to earthly forces. That is, you can rise to prominence and rise to anything by yourself minus God. But those things are under the control of the forces of the earth. Inflation, deflation, recession, depression; anything can still affect you, but whatever God does for you, is superior to earthly forces. Let God be involved in your marriage and let’s see the witch that can tear you apart.
So, beloveth brothers and sisters, many are not hearing God or receiving from God because they don’t discern the value.
What is the difference between being led by God and being led by self? It is the difference between Abraham and Lot. When God called Abraham, He led him out and said, “go to the place I will show you.” When Lot was separating from Abraham, Lot led himself. Church Gist. The Bible says, he lifted up his eyes and saw the well-watered regions of Sodom (Genesis 13:10-11) and Lot chose what he saw. Not all that glitters is gold. Please learn from Lot; Not everything that is good for the moment has a future. That is why God must lead and direct you; not everything that appears good for the moment has a future. Everything lot saw was beautiful, it was flourishing, not knowing a few years to come, that place would be demolished. It was marked for demolition. Lot chose a place that was marked for demolition because his eyes gave him.
What is the difference between being led by God and being led by sight? It is the difference between Lot and Abraham. If sight was leading me, I wouldn’t marry my wife. I told my children the other day and they were all laughing and she told them herself. Why? Because at that time, she never cared for nothing. She just was anyhow. That is medical student, didn’t care for anything, the hair was plaited mat. Any dress available, shapeless; she is the one supplying me the information I’m giving now. There were flashy people around, very flashy; spiritual and flashy. But God led otherwise. By His mercies, there is rest.
Not everything that looks good in the moment has a future. The land of Sodom and Gomorrah, the place Lot saw appeared well watered; everything was flourishing but there was no future. It was marked for demolition. Church Gist. There are people who look at the containers of things without looking at the content of things and it is only God who knows the content. That good looking man that looks like an angel today may be a devil inside and you never knew; only God knows the inside. There are men who want to marry who they will sacrifice; very nice guys but deep occultic guys.
One man told his wife; “madam, just help me die. Any amount you want, I will give you. Just die.” She is a very spiritual woman, the woman said, “if I die, how will I spend the amount?” It was like a bone in his neck. She became spiritual, firebrand.
- You will never jam such men and women!
That is the difference between being led of God and being led by self or sight. It was the difference between Jacob and Esau. Esau had no altar for anything; Jacob was always raising altars and hearing God. Today, Jacob is still alive, they are called the people of Israel. Esau has disappeared long ago.
- You will not disappear in time!
The summary is; the difference between being led of God and not being led of God is like the difference between light and darkness; day and night. Church Gist. Growing up as a young Christian child in the University, my greatest passion in life was never to miss God on anything and it would push me into prayer and fasting. I value following the plan of God to a point where I fear to miss it.
- Lack of true spirituality. Where is lacking in spirituality, that person will be lacking in sensitivity. There is a connection between your spirituality and your sensitivity; a connection between your spirituality and your connectivity with Heaven. A connection between your spirituality and your receptivity.
When your prayer life is down, when your study of the Word is down; it is difficult to pick signals. No prayer, no study of the Word, no fasting – difficult to pick divine signals.
Proverbs 20:27
Your spirit must be on fire, must be lighted if you must make discoveries in the realm of the Spirit
1 Corinthians 2:9-14
A person must be spiritually alive to pick spiritual signals. Your spirit must be sound, vibrant and healthy if you are going to function adequately in the spiritual realm of sensitivity.
On campus in those days, before and during the University, my prayer schedule is between three hours and seven hours. Most times, minimum was three hours and this is praying in tongues, non-stop. So, sharpness was at cutting edge. One day, I came on holiday and I came home and there was a “prophet” who was prophesying and everybody was being imparted, bringing message for people and all manner of messages and there was this notable prophet, genuine prophet of God who was unable to discern that woman and said, this woman is not of God and he said, what? Now, this guy I’m talking about can tell you anything in your pocket. “This is not of God.” Church Gist. My spirit was so sharp that that tongue I heard was from another world, not from heaven. She said, what do you mean? I said, investigate it, pray and find out from God; this is not God. We prayed for the woman and asked that the power of God should come on her, if what is in her is of God, let it remain. If what was in her was not of God, let it delete and it deleted on the spot. He couldn’t speak another tongue. That was the end of that assignment. It ended forever.
Sharpness – when spiritual exercises increase, spiritual receptivity multiplies. Don’t live your life dull like that, looking for solution everywhere. Sharpen your spirit in prayer, the Word, worship and waiting on the Lord. We’ll be talking about some of these things by Sunday when we continue on posture, positioning for spiritual direction.
One day, someone was watching a picture and he said, this person is such… And I said, I’ll like you to check him out. It will be so accurate that when something is right, it registers with your spirit. One man brought somebody, he wanted to marry; he is a pastor and I looked at the two of them and I said, “is this person you want to marry? Father, let your will be done in their lives.” He left and it didn’t work because it wasn’t workable. One man brought a woman he wanted to marry and he said to me, the Lord said I should marry this girl. I said to him, if you didn’t tell me and I had the permission, I would have told you because God showed me already.
- In the name of Jesus, you will not miss it!
Before God speaks to people, the Bible says; “I was in the Spirit” (Ezekiel 37:1) – Ezekiel was in the Spirit, John also in Revelation 1:10. Many people are too much in the flesh. Church Gist. From morning to night, junk keeps on entering the mind and the spirit, from one movie or the other, one thing or the other, then from gossiping this person to talking against that person – all manner of fleshly operations. So, the spirit is practically low.
There is something we call, protein-energy malnutrition; where a child is not well fed with carbohydrate, but especially protein. As a result of that, one of the symptoms of this condition is hepatic. The meaning of that is that, the child is not conscious of the environment. He pays little or no attention; he gives attention to nothing. Church Gist. That is how it is in the realm of the spirit. You know when people are hungry and they are lacking in food, they don’t pay attention. Poverty makes people to lose attention. They used to say that somebody is so poor that they can’t pay for anything, including attention. Somebody can be so spiritually bankrupt that spiritual signals are flying about, he can’t pick any of it.
- That will never be your portion!
I’m sure you heard the story where one man came here, first of all, he sent a text message, that he is a bishop from one country and he came to Nigeria on mission and he came to do missionary work and that he wants to do this and that. So, I said he should come. The moment I set my face upon him, I knew him. He came with his daughter, 15-year-old daughter, with his friend. So, I said, come here and let’s go and pray. As he stood there and was watching, I called the little girl aside; “who is that man to you?” Church Gist. She said, “he carried me from the East.” What’s your relationship with him? “I don’t know him.” – She was literally abducted. Do you know what she said next? “Please set me free from him.” I told her, “you are already free. Your freedom is already here.” I signal to the guy and went and organize the security quickly while he’s still busy there as bishop, waiting for help. His friend is an air force man, who assisted him. He had air force ID card, all fake. By the time they took them to the police area, they began to say the truth.
That was how the step-mother of the lady came from the East and the pastor that was duped there, came from the East also to identify the criminal here. How many places he had gone and went free?
We need spiritual sensitivity and I prophesy to you today, that grace is coming upon you!
- Over-busyness in life (Psalm 46:10). Be still, so you can know. You are too much in a hurry. There are so many people who have lives that are running in too many directions. Their thought is centered on a thousand things at once. Very difficult to receive anything from God.
Be still and know means, there is knowledge in stillness and calmness. Busy man, busy woman; so busy, no time for God and church. What is the meaning of this? Church Gist. It means, there is a time to shut down all other activities and concentrate on God and focus only on God. Concerning the captivity of Judah, Daniel shut down in Daniel 9:2-3.
Mark 1:35
Nobody was busier than Jesus, but a great while before day, He went out. Listen beloveth brothers and sisters, when people take annual leave, some take casual leave. What they use it for at times, can be a function of their priorities in life. Supposing you took that one week, broke it into two; the first three days of that one week is praying, waiting on the Lord, studying the Word, studying the books, catching up on your sermon notes and being sharpen and sensitive to hear what God has to say to you for the next level and you are just intense in the spirit – how profitable that would be? Church Gist. What a difference it will make to life. By the time three days are over, you prayed in tongues for three hours, five hours per day for those three days, you’ve gone through the book of the Acts of Apostle, Proverbs, you have read a book and you came out loaded, fired. You took the next four days, hit the road running; “work has not allowed me to win souls, let me do rugged evangelism, let me win souls and plant them in the Lord. Let me be a Christian, let me be fruitful” (John 15:16) and by the time those four days are over, you have done seven days of aggressive spiritual exercise and then Heaven says, “Hey, that man is due for promotion. Make him the head of that organization. He has a Kingdom mindset that influence a system from up – down if you place him on top.
That is how to live life and live profitably.
You sleep with expectation, waking up with revelation and trust the Lord with desperation; “I need to know what to do, I need steps to take. I can’t live my life by random motion and to assumption” and before you know it, God is speaking to you and then, you are practically in charge of satan, the devil and show him the way back to hell.
- I see something changing in somebody’s life!
In case you’re busy because of people (God forbid), if you are no longer here, those people will continue living, as if you never existed. So, calm down. Be wise. You were not made for business; business was made for you. You brought the phone; the phone did not buy you. You may make up your mind, from this moment forward, after a certain moment of the day, no more phones. Let me face my life. Church Gist. How many of you have ever been in the midst of a very serious prayer and a call is coming in and it appears like a call you cannot ignore? The fact that you saw a call coming, whether you answer it or not, you are distracted, especially if it is somebody whose call you must answer.
When Israel missed it, it took them 40 years to return back to the same spot. It was meant to be 11 days journey.
- You will never miss it!
There are some people, satan sent them to look for your trouble; “offend him, just keep on offending him.” Daddy G.O said that, one day, a man who was offending him so much (the man was the one looking for his trouble). He said, “what did I do against this man, he is looking for my trouble all the time?” The General Overseer said, “Go and apologize to him.” Me? Apologize to him? So he went and prostrated to the man, thinking it would change the man. Church Gist. The man sent him away. That man kept on looking for his trouble until one day, the man told some people, “As for me, I know I’m going to hell. It’s only who I will go with, I’m looking for.”
Somebody was looking for Kenneth Hagin’s trouble, he said; “Lord, what can I do about this case?” God said, I’m using him to teach you love for a while.” You have an assignment with God, there are some people, you are their assignment but they will never succeed and today, every unnecessary satanic agent sent on assignment against you, against any of us; we declare their assignment over forever in Jesus precious name!
4). Impatience with God. Why are people not receiving direction from God? Many are impatient with God – a spirit in haste (Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 28:16). When you believe, you don’t make haste. For many people, God is too slow. You know, God is too slow made people to marry for themselves who they want.
God is too slow has turned some people who are meant to be ministers into native doctors; power to see, hear, do miracles. That is, the rugged process it takes to have a stand with God and to mark their generation.
God is too slow made Abraham to arrange an alternative with Haggai. That alternative is a challenge of the world till today.
Saul was impatient when Samuel said; “don’t offer any sacrifice. After seven days, I’ll come offer the sacrifice (1 Samuel 13:10).
Waiting on God is not wastage of life. Those who wait on God don’t waste in life. Waiting on God is not wastage of time; waiting on God is the salvaging of life and destiny. Don’t move because everybody is moving; there was a time around my life, everybody had a marital relationship and I had none at that time. One of my guys who was established in his pitied me and said, you don’t have anybody around you and he recommended someone for me. He didn’t have a bad motive. The person he recommended was not a bad person; very spiritual but that wasn’t it for me. There are those who say yes to any man that arrived because “I must not be left behind let me just marry.”
At a point also, everybody around me was going into ministry as if there was no fire but I knew it wasn’t time. Don’t move because of mass movement; it may affect your destiny negatively. Don’t ever become impatient because of other people’s results or experiences. Don’t ever become impatient, wait on God. Waiting on God will give you a speed that human effort can never give. Moving with God will give you nothing to lose. If you wait on God and on His time and you move at his time, you would have lost nothing and the devil would have gained nothing.
5). Existence in assumption and tradition. That is; I have done it this way before or it worked like this before (1 Chronicles 14:14-15). For every new situation there may be a new revelation. Church Gist. So if you are married to tradition you deliver frustration. Jesus healed the blind in many ways; one He spat on the ground and put mud. Another one he spoke to the blind – different Ways.
God is too dynamic for us to categorize Him, to classify Him or to cage His operations. If you want to be led by the Holy Spirit, you must be as flexible as the wind (John 3:8). Every child of God is meant to be a child of the wind; easily, moveable by God. Not fixed, flexible by God to do His will.
Lift up your hands and let’s appreciate the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
PRAYERS:
- Lord, thank You for Your Word to me tonight. Thank You for direction tonight.
- Lord, I position myself for direction; I am available to be directed and led.
- Father, reveal Yourself to me. Manifest Yourself to me; manifest Yourself in me and manifest Yourself through me in my generation today.
COMMUNION:
Proverbs 23:18
- I decree today as you take this wine and the body of Jesus; our Master Jesus was never at a lost for direction. He was never stranded or confused as to what to do. Today, every veil of confusion is set on fire!
- Every spirit of lack of direction is set on fire!
- Grace to see clear, to hear clear, to know sharp is released upon you right now in the name of Jesus!
- That expectation in your hand is now become your manifestation!
- The hand of Jehovah that is over this House will go into operation on your behalf. That hand of Jehovah will change your story and give you a testimony in the name of Jesus!
- I decree and declare; a new day for you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost!
- Everyone who came here sick in your body, the blood and the body of Jesus flushes out the sickness in the name of Jesus!
- Spirit husband, relationship is flushed out. Unclean serpentine spirit, witchcraft powers, spirit of poverty and wretchedness are flushed out!
- Divine health is released, in Jesus precious name!
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