IT TAKES FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO LIFT IT UP.
DON’T LET ANYONE BRING YOU TO THE POINT WHERE YOU DOWNPLAY THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EMPOWERED FINANCIALLY.
A LIFE OF HUSTLING AND RUNNING FROM PILLAR TO POST IS NOT GOD’S PLAN FOR YOU.
IT IS THE BLESSING OF THE LORD THAT MAKETH RICH. FINANCIAL VEHICLES BECOME IMPORTANT WHEN GOD HAS AUTHORIZED BLESSINGS TO COME TO YOU.
GOD IS A GOD OF RESULTS AND OUR RESULTS BRING GLORY TO THE NAME OF THE LORD.
WITHOUT THE POWER OF GOD, DESIRES WILL REMAIN DREAMS AND WISHES.
IT TAKES THE POWER OF GOD TO TRANSLATE DESIRES FROM THE REALM OF WISHES AND EXPECTATIONS TO THE REALM OF THEIR MANIFESTATION.
- Apostle Joshua Selman at Koinonia, April Miracle Service
(PART A).
Hallelujah!
Mighty God, we give You all the praise. Thank You Jesus; thank You for the testimonies, thank You for Your marvelous hand upon our lives. This is but the finger of God; for the revival fire blazing across our territories and the nations of the earth, the spectacular display of Your power and wisdom; we thank You.
PRAYER:
Lord, do not leave me the way I came, let me not go back the way I came. Take away the burden, give me directions, give me an encounter with Your power. Let something from Heaven rest upon my life and destiny. Set my ministry on fire, change my story, give me a turnaround tonight.
- I can assure you and I know by the Spirit tonight that; someone’s change of story is finally here in the name of Jesus Christ!
Everyday cannot be the same in a man’s life. There are certain moments where you encounter the power and the grace of God and it will turn your life around.
- May this day be that day!
The morning that the man at the pool, Bethesda, I’m sure he woke up that morning thinking it will be like every other day, not knowing that was the last time he would lie down there. Church Gist. You woke up this morning, believing it may be every other Miracle Service, but let me prophesy into you: - In the name of Jesus, the Son of the living God, may tonight be a spectacular night for you!
Why do we come to God to encounter Him?
1). Because we love Him.
2). Because we know He is the only One who has the answers we are looking for. Let no man deceive you; except God gives you, no man can give it to you and I announce to you that this God is very benevolent and He will give you all things richly tonight!
- For someone, God will arise this night and end cycles in your life in the name of Jesus Christ!
- For someone who have been saying, “God where are you?” You are about to hear Him answer you tonight in the name of Jesus Christ!
- After this service, everything around you will let you know He came to you in the name of Jesus Christ!
- Every power in existence that will not let you receive from God; we curse it in advance tonight in the name of Jesus Christ!
I’ll like you to be full of faith and expectation, it doesn’t matter where you are, be intentional, don’t waste your time; you have come to God. You have come to Him to receive (Hebrews 11:6).
- You won’t go back the same!
- There must be a change of story!
- God will visit you in a way that even before you announce it, people will know something has changed in your life in the name of Jesus Christ!
There’s a way God can visit you, the Bible says, when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, it was not them that were doing the speaking. The Bible says, the heathen said the Lord has done great things for them. - May God visit you in a way that is your enemies that will testify!
- For someone tonight; weep not, your crying comes to an end.
- For another person, the mockery comes to an end in the name of Jesus Christ!
- Someone will know tonight that it pays to serve Jesus!
I was very touched listening to the testimonies and you can imagine the gentleman, the footballer, just crying and do you know what it means for people to once laugh at you and then, see the other side of God’s goodness?
- May that be your testimony this night.
Listen, if you didn’t come here to receive, go back home because for as long as you came here tonight, in the name of Jesus, the Giver of all good things, He’s ensuring that something must land upon your life! Church Gist. If you don’t want to smell smoke, you don’t have anything to do with the kitchen. But for as long as you find yourself there, there must be something from Heaven. - In the name of Jesus, may it be clear that you met God tonight!
I welcome you to that service where your life must change in the name of Jesus who is the Son of the living God. I know what God told me before I left home to come here; I assure you, not one jot of His speaking will be missing from your life! As He has said it, He will do it!
Miracle services are moments where we have the opportunity to experience the spectacular power of God in the midst of His people. Every service is a miracle service, but there are times designated according to God’s program, where He visits men and we are glad that tonight is that night in the name of Jesus.
As usual, we’ll pray for the sick, minister deliverance to the oppressed, but the focus tonight; there are two major areas of focus tonight as God gave me in the place of prayer:
1). Your finances.
2). The glory upon your life and destiny.
My assignment tonight is to deal with these areas to make sure that except God be God; believe me if God be God, something will shift in these areas in your life tonight that will surprise you!
I believe in results; I absolutely believe in results. Results have the power to convince, results have the power to change the mindset of people, results have the power to reveal. I wrote something about results here; every time Jesus saw the absence of results, He cursed that process, including the tree. Church Gist. When He saw that the tree had green leaves but did not have figs, He cursed it and said, “Let no man eat of you again.” God is a God of results; our results bring glory to the name of the Lord. In as much as the ultimate of our pursuit, the reason why we seek God and we desire encounters with Him is primarily because we love Him, but let me tell you this, no man should device you; if your life becomes indefinitely barren of results you will be frustrated.
Results mean desired expectations, solutions to problems, outcomes of an expectation, consequences, the effect that you are expecting. But the two expressions that I love is, ‘desired expectations and solutions.’ We all have expectations in our lives, expectations that range from healing to supernatural intervention to supernatural provisions to advancement and enlargement in life, restoration and God is able to make those desires come to pass (Mark 11:24). God is able to give men the desires of their heart.
As we have learned here, the agency that sponsors the actualization of desires is the power of God. Without the power of God, desires will remain dreams and wishes. It takes the power of God to translate desires from the realm of wishes and expectations to the realm of their manifestation. Church Gist. God finds joy when believers experience His hand, His goodness and His power. The Bible lets us know that every time there’s a manifestation of the power of God, there will always be joy. Joy is the result of the experiencing the outstretched arm of God (Acts 8:7-8). There can be great joy in your life, destiny and family to the degree that there’s a performance, a manifestation of your expectation.
Everything God says and desires for the believer had a requisite level of empowerment to make it happen. In this part of the world, there are times where the Power Holding Company or maybe your generator, it can bring light but the voltage can be too low to power certain gadgets and so, you find out that there’s light, but the gadgets that require lesser voltage, they may come up but certain heavy-duty gadgets may not be able to come up because there’s a greater level of power required. There are certain things in your life that would require higher levels of the power of God to be made manifest. Church Gist. The power of God works like money, currency; if you have a thousand naira, it might be able to buy you a bottle of water, but a thousand naira might not be able to buy you a car, pay for a house rent or buy you a house. So, if it is a house you are looking for or a car you are looking for in this example, you will need multiples of that amount to match the amount that can buy that house. It is true that every house you are looking for is available or can be built, depending on the amount of financial empowerment in this example.
There are people in our world who are called very wealthy people. Why are they wealthy? They are wealthy because of their mindset and their understanding of the laws and the systems that govern finances. But more importantly, pragmatically speaking, they are wealthy because they have the financial capacity, to be able to afford the kind and the level of life that suit them. Church Gist. Men of God, you are trusting God for increase in revelation, impact and membership; the desire is there and that possibility is there, the Word of God tells us that that possibility is there, however do you have the empowerment enough to produce that outcome?
Do not downplay the ministry of power; it is what sponsors the actualization of all desires, with no exception. It is dangerous and frustrating to know what should be, but not have the power to make it happen. “I know my life should change, but the power to make it happen is not there.” Tonight, God has come to place power upon your desires in the name of Jesus Christ!
- Whatever is stopping you from going forward, whatever is making you keep repeating prayer requests; you write again and write again; may the power of the Holy Spirit bring that issue to an end now in the name of Jesus Christ!
Again, in this side of the world, we experience sadly periodic blackout. Whether your gadget is new or not, once there’s no power, it is as good as death; your fridge, electronics, all other gadgets are at the mercy of the power that flows to the voltage required. So, there are times that people can go 24-hours, sadly, sometimes 48-hours and there’s no blink of light, except you have an alternative system and sometimes, if you have a generator and your generator is small, you have to off certain things to allow it stand. Church Gist. The size and the voltage matters. So if you want a generator that can power everything in your house, you’ll get some technicians to calculate the total voltage needed and then you go and get a generator that is by far, more than the voltage. Now, you can on everything and run the generator from morning till night. There are times you on a generator that can only take one television, you add any other thing, it will shout outside and stop and yet in the midst of that darkness, there are people and there are homes that have never had light blink once. There was light in Goshen and there was darkness in Egypt. The difference is power.
I define here the power of God as an ability that causes you to get results, the ability that translates dreams and desires to their manifestation. You cannot imagine what happens in your life where certain dimensions of God’s power come upon you and their possibilities begin to manifest in your life. I believe in results as consolation to our Christian experience. Nobody will be indefinitely committed to anything and anyone without an advantage that you derive from that person. There are consolation and there are benefits to serving and knowing God and if you have not received yours, it must land on you this night in the name of Jesus Christ!
Nothing will change for as long as you forbear with your current level. One genuine result in the Bible, in Acts chapter 3, they saw the man at the Gate Beautiful and Peter said, “silver and gold, I do not have, but such as I have, give I unto you; in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” The Bible says, the man got up and walked. In Acts chapter 4, they were summoned because of the ripple effect of that result; it went all over the town and they called them and when the man went, Peter went with his testimony standing by him and while he was speaking, the result was there. Your evangelism is powerful if your result is standing with you.
1 Chronicles 29:12
It is possible to have riches and not have honour. What does it mean to have honour? To have honour means to be regarded and to be rewarded to match your true worth. If honour is not at work in your life, you will be underestimated and undervalued; the perception that people have about you will not match the true perception. My dear people, this issue of finance, no matter what else go forward in your life, if you are down financially, I assure you by the God of Heaven, you will be limited in a way that will annoy you forever. Church Gist. Every time we talk about finances, there are two schools of thought; there are people who are just canally minded and their entire scope of idea about finances is just fueling the lust of the flesh. No, this is not what we are teaching. We are people of intention and mission; we know that every time God places resources in your hands, it provides the platform for the betterment of your own life and the advancement of His Kingdom.
It is important for you to know the role that the presence and the availability of financial resources can bring to your life. They’re needless troubles, battles, health concerns; there are some of you, we keep praying for you all the time because it is not a medical condition; what is happening to your health is a reaction of something not all right with your finances. Church Gist. I vowed a vow before God that, I will never raise a people who are just spiritually vibrant and then, they lack the resources to be able to help them make progress. I believe in influence; I believe in God coming through for His people. I know what it means to be in a state of limitation; compromise is easy when you are in the presence of financial limitation in your life.
The name of Jesus is very heavy, it takes financial resources to lift it up. It takes more than desire, if you must lift up the name of Jesus to the nations. Don’t let anyone bring you to the point where you downplay the importance of being empowered financially. It takes financial resources to bring glory to the name of the Lord and I tell you, for as long as your heart is opened, something will come upon your life tonight!
Isaiah 48:17
The foundational law that governs the activation of the blessing of God upon a man’s life is that, you must come to a point where you acknowledge that all blessings come from God. Blessings don’t come from your job, investment or whatever it is that you are involved in. The challenge with many believers and that’s the reason why we are not able to see the power of God, is that our minds are on the vehicles and the platforms that help us to prosper, not the one who gives the prosperity. The financial vehicles are only profitable to you when God has authorized it to come to you. The Bible says, except the Lord builds a house, they labour in vain that build it. A life of hustling and running from pillar to post is not God’s plan for you. Just depending on a job, a business or some investment to empower you; your investment can work well for you and one sickness can destroy an investment of ten years within one month; it is the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich.
Everybody must bow to something spiritual for authentic and lasting wealth to come. It is impossible to rise beyond a certain threshold of wealth. There are levels of wealth when you get to, it is not goods and services you sell again; it is your allegiance and your fraternity with a spirit that continues your journey from that point. You cannot ignore spirituality and bank on brain work alone. If you are convinced that it’s only your brain work that took you so far, keep watching. Church Gist. There are results that men cannot get, there are results that businesses alone cannot produce, there are financial results that investments or jobs alone cannot produce. God’s desire tonight is to purify your heart to realign your understanding and then, to release something genuine upon your life, that you’ll see changes in your life and you will know.
- God is able to empower you. The spirit that makes you have to sit down and wait for others to be blessed for you to eat; I curse that spirit tonight!
When it has to do with the grace of God, everybody can partake of it (Acts 4:33). There are certain giftings of the Spirit you will see, He gave some but when it has to do with His engracing and His empowerment, it’s in everyone’s destiny in Christ. Greatness is very powerful, in 2020, around the period of my birthday, usually I would take out time to just pray and ask the Lord to give me a prophetic word for the next season of my life and God gave me this scripture and there was a striking difference between those two to three years of my life; Psalm 71:2
“Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.”
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