Give God thanks for granting you and me grace to see the month of March while we are ordained to march forward in all areas of our lives. Thank Him for His word that is coming your way tonight, to open up His word to you. No one like Jesus.
In this month of wisdom the Lord will turn your lives around for the better.
Let everyone’s life begin to exhume treasures from Heaven.
Let everyone experience the exclamation of friends, including mockers.
So shall it be in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
The prophetic focus for the month is
WHAT WISDOM IS THIS?
Not theoretical wisdom, not the wisdom of mighty words or mighty works.
The proof of the baptism of the Spirit of Wisdom will be evident for all to see in the name of Jesus.
Our teachings for our midweek services this month is captured
ENGAGING BIBLICAL COVENANT FOR PROFITABLE LIVING
We serve a Covenant keeping God and not a Father Christmas God.
If you diligently hearken to my voice and observe to do all I tell you to do, I will set you on high above all the nations of the earth and all blessings will come to you and overtake you if you shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
So it’s a condition to meet. To observe to do all that He commands thee.
Jeremiah 30:20-21
So until life ceases God’s covenant remains binding. When you do what He says you have committed Him. The same way He has kept the day and the night running to confirm His Word in your life.
Every provision of redemption is available to whosever will meet the conditions attached.
Psalms 54:11
Walk uprightly is a condition. Wisdom is doing what the Word says to do concerning a matter of interest and when we do the promise graduates into a covenant that is binding on God to perform.
Matthew 7:24-25
Wisdom and knowledge are the stability of our times.
Isaiah 33:6
So it stabilizes destiny, it stabilizes results.
Somebody’s story must change this month.
Psalms 89:34
We serve a Covenant keeping God not covenant breaking God. You can count on Him.
2nd Timothy 2:13
We are going to examine tonight something very fundamental to the securing and preservation for our destiny in Christ. Tonight we’ll be looking at
BIBLICAL COVENANT FOR GODLINESS
All through this month during our midweek and Sunday service we will be focusing on applied Biblical wisdom to secure those amazing provisions that we have in Christ.
There is a place in redemption that destroys the taste for sin.
Our anchor Scripture is
1st Timothy 4:7-8
Don’t mind any theology, any story that makes godliness irrelevant. Don’t mind the teachings all over the world that what you do does not matter, grace has covered it.
1st Corinthians 6:9
It has to become past tense or destiny is dashed.
First recognize that God cannot ask us to do what He has not empowered us to do because His commandments are not grievous. So for God to say ‘Be ye holy for I am holy’.
1st Peter 1:14-16
Why? Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life which now is and the one which is to come.
That is the covenant platform for high level profiting for the adventure of life.
Matthew 5:48
It means we have in redemption to be perfect.
I was moved with that testimony of that individual that was drinking early in the morning, drinking and smoking away his struggles. A young girl walked to him ‘Why waste your life early in the morning? Come to covenant hour of prayer and as he was coming, God was touching him. He was dodging her against coming to Sunday service, the forth Sunday he got saved and his taste for those ungodly things stopped, to show the power of cleansing that redemption comes with. He said ‘I couldn’t even stand my former associates, the smell of smoking and drinking became something completely off. ‘I cannot imagine what my life has become in two months’. Two months of dramatic turnaround.
Somebody is here today, whatever is blocking your destiny from blossoming Jesus will get you out of it.
1st John 2:7-9
If you will engage with the seed of the Word of God, you will be free from the siege of sin and ungodliness. This is so important. This is why Jesus came, to destroy the root of sin and He declared in
John 19:30
It is finished.He got it done. We cannot be captives of what Jesus has destroyed. If you choose to be, He has engraced you to be, you can seek His power to keep you and be what he has made you to be.
Let’s now begin to see what the seed commands, what the Word of God commands to do to live a godly life.
1- Covenant responsibility to purge ourselves. No one takes an adult to the bathroom to bath except he is sick. Every adult walks his way to the bathroom to cleanup.
A man therefore must purge himself. If you don’t have a shower for one week, no matter what perfume you use you will be a nuisance. You walk in, they walk out.
If a man therefore purges himself, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and suitable for the master’s use and prepared unto every good work.
We have that responsibility.
Romans 13:11-14
Just like you put off your clothes when you are back from work and you want to take a nap, cast off, your clothes can’t say you can’t pull me off. Cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. Cast off the one you don’t want and put on the one you desire.
1st 3:2-3
We have the responsibility to purge ourselves to live a godly life. That is why sanctification and godliness is primarily a choice and we all know that without holiness no one makes it to Heaven. The profits are profound but eternal at the end of life so what a wise choice to make.
Everyone whose destiny is stressed by reason of the kind of lifestyle they live I decree a release tonight in the name of Jesus.
I lay before you life and death, blessing and cursing, choose life.
Deuteronomy 39:19
It is a matter of choice. This is blessing, this is cursing, make your choice. This is life, this is death, make your choice.
It is very interesting to note that every every evil act begins with an evil thought, not with the devil and if you don’t stop that thought you cannot stop the act.
Mark 7:21-23
A change must begin from where the evil began. As a man thinks in his heart so is he. Now watch you will see the power of what I’m talking about. There was a young man called the prodigal son, he took off on a journey that must have been a product of his thoughts. ‘The way I’m looking at this man my father, he may not die on time so what will this inheritance be to me if I’m already old? ‘Sir give me my own inheritance, I don’t want you to die, I need this inheritance’, So he grabbed them and took off, wasted his life on riotous living, stripped naked and began to eat with pigs.
He was at the very end of his life. Then he came to himself. At this time satan was the legal ruler of the world. The man was having his way anytime he wanted. This man never prayed, he came to himself, renewed his mind and said ‘If I don’t know where I’m going I should know where I’m coming from’.
‘How many hired servants does my father have, must I die here and nobody will know where my grave is?
He arose, he gave action to his thoughts.
Many will enjoy the kiss of the Father this week.
The barrier between you and your God will be broken down by simply renewing your mind in line with the word.
Transformation begins from the renewal of thoughts. I went to the midst of smokers in one of our outreaches, they were smelling all over and I asked a simple question. ‘Would you want your children to be like this? First one said no sir, second one said never. I said so why are you doing it?
There are many ex vibrant smokers that are part of this church today. There are many ex prisoners that that are soul winners in this Church today.
Somebody’s story is changing.
James 1:13-15
The ultimate of the enemy is to destroy. It goes through a process, there’s a conception and then the manifestation and then destruction. If you don’t terminate the circle you get terminated at the end. Every evil act is stoppable. Every unwanted habit is stoppable. All we need is to rethink.
Every evil habit is stoppable. Most of the challenges we have need spiritual diagnosis. Why are these things happening to me? Examine yourself. You know what is in you.
I said to our team today, I said according to
Jeremiah 17:10
What He finds in your heart is what we find in your life. Let’s come true to ourselves and think through to the point of change. Every deadly habit is stoppable.
The things we find in our lives are obtained in our hearts.
We keep our hearts in the Word of God.
Psalms 119:9-11
It is not by struggling but by engaging. We must continue to engage the sanctifying power of the Word to live a godly life.
Ephesians 5:26
We must therefore continue to watch and pray not to fall into temptation.
Matthew 26:41
Jesus was teaching on prayers, He said ‘lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil’ and every item on that Jesus’ prayer is ordained for daily engagement. Give us this day our daily bread.
We must be free from all appearances of evil if you want to live a godly life. These are covenant keys that guarantees godly living. You desire it then you start in engaging those keys and then you find your life taking on afresh and new meaning.
Proverbs 9:12
There is no man who goes to the prison with his son. No, he will just say goodbye. Only you will bear it. Goodbye but I’m traveling tomorrow to Port Harcourt, I’m leaving Port Harcourt to go to the UK and I’ll be back next month. I’ll try to see you when I come back’. Only you will bear it. Nobody goes to the grave with his beloveth daughter. ‘I’m the only one she has’, who chose to join street girls and performing all manner of evil, ‘that’s the only daughter I have, you must bury me with her’. They will carry you to the psychiatric home because your case has gone beyond normal. You scorn, only you will bear it.
Therefore you must awake out of our sleep. The night is far spent, the master is very close by. It is time to make your choice, to live a life that pleases God.
You can ask Joseph how profitable godliness is and he will tell you, I suffered for it for 17 years but I enjoyed the fruit of it for 80 years. He became king in Egypt at 30. He departed at 110, he became a slave at 17, a prisoner maybe at 21, came out of the place to reign for 80 years.
Obedience may be costly but the end result is priceless. The good news here today is this, there is no closed case with God. Anybody can make a turn at any point. There is no closed case with God. The thief on the right side of the cross made it at his dying moment. Anyone can make it if he or she chooses to. Godliness is not an old fashioned revelation, it will remain current until we are raptured to Heaven. No unholy person will be rapturable so make your choice. If you scorn only you will bear it.
Somebody’s story has changed.
Romans 11:23
U turn is allowed at any stage of ones life.
Somebody must turn tonight.
Go for godliness as the new lifestyle.
Ask God for grace to engage with the covenant of godliness towards making the most of your life.
Ask God for grace to live a godly life and make the most of our adventure on earth in the precious name of Jesus we have prayed.
The Bible is not a religious book, it is not a mystical book to be conjured, it is a practical book to be applied. It is not chanting the Book of Psalms, it is doing what the Word of God says to do.
The Bible is the Creator’s manual for profitable living.
You will never record loses anymore in your life as you follow the dictates of Scriptures.
Engaging with the truth of Scriptures makes wise and the wise shall inherit glory.
You will never see shame anymore in your life in Jesus name.
Give no place the devil. He can’t force his way into your life. The Almighty Himself cannot force Himself into your life so how can the devil do that? Ungodliness can be subdued simply by your concentrated thought for a change then backed up with prayers in the Spirit.
Give God thanks for the positive changes coming after. Give Him thanks for a new way of living.
When you park your car and live it unused, it gathers dust like a magnet, Engage with your heart and you won’t need to struggle anymore. Serving God preserves from the siege of ungodliness. Get committed, get connected.
You are going to see wonders this year.
It is a new day for you.
Next Sunday is our encounter with destiny service.
In the name of Jesus a new chapter will be opened to everyone’s destiny this coming Sunday.
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