-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘GOD WILL ENCOURAGE YOU’ (Part 4)
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 time in the presence of the Lord. We are excited and glad that He woke us into a new day, a brand new day; a day to declare His glory, His presence, His power in our lives. A day to receive from His presence; to work in His power.
Heavenly Father, we give glory, praise and honour to Your name. We thank You for the privilege of another day, another time in Your presence. Thank You for waking us up to a brand new day. We are ready Lord to receive all that You have for us today. Our hearts are open, our spirit is open to You alone. Our mouths will be open to give testimonies of what You have done. Take the glory, praise, honour and adoration.
Anyone who feels weak around the altar today Lord, touch them; heal them, deliver them. I rebuke fever, headaches, pains in the body. Church Gist. Anything that will deny Your people from receiving today, we take authority over it, we break its power in the name of Jesus. Peace, peace, peace in the name of Jesus. Thank You Lord, in Jesus name.
Amen.
Praise the Lord. Welcome! Trusting the Lord that you will be blessed this morning and the name of the Lord will be glorified in your life. God will touch you, God will minister to you, the power of God will reach you where you are in Jesus name.
As we speak the Word of God, I trust the Lord that wherever you are, you will be renewed, you will be refreshed, the power of God will touch you. This morning, we will continue our speaking the Word of God and prophesying into the lives of the people of God; prophesying victory but particularly prophesying divine encouragement, speaking the Word of encouragement. Scriptures on encouragement is what the Lord is giving us since last week and we’ve been on it this week, who knows, it might flow into next week. Who doesn’t need to be encouraged in a season like this? There is too much around us, happenings all over the world that show us that the world is under a stress, under pressure. However, for those who know the Lord, God knows how to minister to them, give them peace that passes understanding, bless them, bring them out of trouble, out of challenges, out of battles.
Today, the Word of the Lord which I want to first encourage you with before we begin to prophesy, we want to encourage people this morning to encourage others. It is great to receive encouragement from the Lord. But God wants you to learn to not just be a container but a conduit. A conduit takes flow through a conduit, so you receive, you pass to others. But a container just receives and keeps it until you come to pressurise it to take it out of it. So God wants you to be a conduit of encouragement, so you become a blessing to other people who need to be encouraged.
The act of inspiring others with a renewed courage, spirit or hope; that is what encouraging others means. So, let us see the importance to Christians to be encouraged. For example, many of the people you know since Churches began to open up and they have not been in Church, they need to be encouraged in the Word. You need to call somebody after today, maybe list all your friends you haven’t seen, list all the people you haven’t seen or list all the people you know they are only just staying, saying, ‘I am still online, I still love the Lord’. Thank God for scripture that says, not to forsake the gathering of the brethren as the manner of some people is.
Romans 14:19 shows us the importance to Christians. It says, “Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another”. In other word, encourage people, follow peace with them and find a way to edify other people. Church Gist. Edify means to build up, to build others with encouragement and you know, there are people who felt sick but because someone called them, they began to feel healing and health.
The Bible says that Jacob was on death’s bed and he had already said bye-bye when suddenly they told him that his son, Joseph was at the door and the Bible says, and strength came into the man who was about to die and he sat up again and at that point, Joseph brought his two sons and life came into Jacob and he began to pronounce blessings on these boys, that is the power of encouragement.
There’s somebody who need you to lift them up and make them know that they are somebody, they are people of worth. Praise God.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Comfort other people, edify them, don’t judge them. In other word, you heard somebody having coronavirus, don’t say; oh, wow. It must be because they didn’t have enough faith. Those are just total nothing. Coronavirus is something which just by the mistake of been somewhere, you could have contacted it. Church Gist. Encourage one another, encourage people, lift them up, speak into their lives, bless them.
Hebrews 3:12-13
So the Bible teaches us to exhort one another daily while it is call today so that nobody will be caught in the trap of unbelieve and sin. So that no one will be wasted away by the enemy. Satan loves people to not be able to stay connected. We need to help people, to keep their fire burning. Keep their spirit alive, keep their love alive, keep their commitment alive.
Hebrews 10:24-25
This is one of my favourite scripture for a season like this. You need to assemble with other believers. It is great to be alone and be receiving the Word and prayer from the screen in your house, but the Scripture says here that, you need that connection. You know, when I was young, we cook with firewood and when you use firewood, the wood has to be pushed in for the fire to stay on. If you are not there to make sure the wood is pushed in for the fire to stay on, the wood begins to pull apart and once they pull apart, the fire on this wood dies out. The fire on the other wood dies out too and it’s gone.
So when we stay together, we ignite the fire, we increase the fire, we multiply the fire. But when the wood burns apart, the fire goes down, the fire is reduced.
2 Timothy 4:2
Reproof people, rebuke people, exhort with all long-suffering, in other word, even the encouragement you give may include you reproofing me or rebuking me in love or exhorting me in love with long-suffering and doctrine. Praise God.
So the Scriptures teach us to encourage one another and there are many ways we can do this, encouraging people is so major. Encourage them in love, encourage them with the Word, encourage them with a text you send to them, encourage them with a call. I am sure today, there all kinds of good emojis you can use with scripture and send them and say; we didn’t see you in Church, don’t let coronavirus keep you. Join us to be together again.
It is very major to encourage believers. The second thing is to encourage one another daily, that’s what the Scripture teaches us. In Hebrews 3:12-13, which we read earlier, the encouragement should not just be something you just do and you say, I don’t want to be in the head, I don’t want to offend them. No, sometimes encouraging people is not all by speaking words that are harsh but just lifting their spirits. Learning the need to recognise people’s challenge or when they go through health issues; the persons who call, the persons who stood by us will never forget.
We need to encourage others on a regular basis. You should take advantage of every opportunity because the need is great. You generally don’t have to go far into the day to find someone who needs the word of encouragement. There are people surrounding you, we need to look for opportunities to encourage people, to lift their spirits, to build them up, to make them feel that, wow! Someone really gave me wings to fly today, someone lifted my spirit. There is someone you know; a woman who just lost her husband, call and encourage, don’t be judgemental. Children who lost a parent, show that you care, reach out to them and minister to them with the love of God.
- I pray for you today that the Word of courage will come into you and you will truly be encouraged yourself as you encourage other people and you will be a blessing in the name of Jesus. That truly out of your mouth, will go to other people a word of care, a word of love, a word of lifting, a word of healing in the name of Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:9-11
Jesus we bless You this morning, we thank You for the work of salvation. Thank You for saving us from the power of sin. Church Gist. Thank You for washing us with the washing of redemption, Your blood washed us, Your blood saved us, Your blood delivered us, Your blood broke the power of satan in our lives. Thank You for writing our names in the book of life. Thank You for making us children of Heaven, we bless Your name, we give You glory, we bless You, we thank You for all that You have done for us. Today Lord, we stand before You and we comfort one another with the truth that we are Yours. We are Your children, we are Your sons and daughters, blood washed, blood cleansed, blood sanctified. Glory to Your name. We praise You Lord Jesus. Thank You for giving us the opportunity to see another day and to see another season and to see another opportunity to worship, to praise and to also ask You for the things we desire. Take the glory this morning in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 46:1
- We thank You because You are our very present help. You’ve been there for us when no one stood by us, You stood with us. You’ve been there for us when there are battles. Thank you Jesus, in Jesus’name
1 Peter 5:7
- Lord we bless Your name for being the one who cares for us. We are encouraged because we serve a living God, we do not serve a dead God, we serve a living God. The God who carries our cares on His shoulder. We thank You because You have the whole world in Your hand. You care for us. We cast all our burdens on You and You took it. The ones we didn’t even cast, You took it Yourself. Thank You for dieing for us, thank You for paying the price; sickness is no longer ours, diseases, issues of life, battles of life are no longer ours. We give Praise to You name this morning and cast all the burdens of life upon You. Take praise, glory, honour in Jesus name.
Psalm 73:26
- Lord, when our strength failed, when we had no strength, You became our strength and power. You kept us through dark valleys of life. In the land of the living, we have no one but You. You’ve been our encouragement, our strength, our joy. Father we bless You.
Psalm 126:5
- We come before You today Thursday and we declare and decree that this day is going to be a day of favour, a day of testimony. We shall reap with joy, testimony, glory in the name of Jesus.
We declare and decree this morning, we are bringing in the sheaves; the healing, breakthrough, testimony. We reap in joy. We sow the seed of expectations in the area of our need and we declare this morning that there shall be a harvest of joy.
Psalm 54:1
- We lay hands of faith on somebody who is going through some dark valleys today, that You the Lord will save them and deliver them and pull them out of the valley of the shadows of death.
Psalm 9:9
- Anyone who is under any kind of oppression, I break the power of that oppression today
Psalm 71:16
- Go into this week in the strength of the Lord. Go into today in the strength of the Lord. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His mighty. The Lord our God will strengthen your hand, He will lift your spirit and give you victory. Go today in strength, go today in glory, go today in power, in testimony, go today and be above, not under. The Lord our God will strengthen you and give you reasons to praise His name. Victory follows you in the name of Jesus.
Proverbs 3:3-6
- This day I pray for you the divine enablement to show mercy, to encourage someone will come upon your life, will come upon your spirit. The capacity to do it will become your portion. The grace to touch lives, to reach out to people, to wipe tears, to make somebody laugh will become your portion. God will enable you, God will grace your life, God will favour you, bless you beyond measure in Jesus name.
- I pray for somebody at this altar, some of you; you’ve sown seeds, you’ve touched lives, you’ve ministered to people, you’ve given seeds, you’ve packaged prophet’s offerings and you have not seen results, may you find favour, may favour find you. May you connect with the favour of the Lord. May favour open doors for you. Before you knock, let the doors be opened. As you go into the rest of today and the rest of this month, the gates of favour will open for you on their own accord.
- I declare this morning that the Lord will cause favour to go ahead of you, you will find favour in the sight of God and man.
…and understanding, you soul shall find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. In other words, in the season of your encouragement, people will just understand you, they will understand what you are going through and they will touch you, they will minister to you, they bless you, they will help you, they will not judge you, they will be there for you. God will raise help for you. - Father today, help us to completely trust in you. Not to follow our way but Your way. May Your counsel be our counsel, may Your direction be our direction. May Your word be our word. May your leading be our leading, may Your eyes be our eyes, may Your mouth be our mouth oh Lord. Help us to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, the steps to be taken, the directions to go. We open ourselves to the Holy Spirit today. We open ourselves to the Spirit of counsel today. May you lead us in Jesus name.
This day we pray for clear direction and divine leading in Jesus’ name. Thank You Jesus.
Psalm 112:7
- I pray for you today, every evil tiding intended to tear you apart, make you fall apart, we cancel it effects with the blood of Jesus. What the doctors said shall not pull you down.
1 Chronicles 22:13
- We release you into today; may you be strong. May you be courageous. What will make you dread and fear, we break its power in the name of Jesus. We release you into today, you will not be dismayed and confused. We rebuke confusion of mind. I lay hands on you, I pray clarity of mind, clarity in your spirit, clear direction, peace and from this day go forth and prosper. Be blessed, be lifted, be above only, not under at all. I speak into your life again, be strong today. Be courageous today. You shall not dread anything in the name of Jesus. Confusion of mind is not your portion, you shall not be dismayed rather, you shall prosper. As you walk in the Lord and enjoy the Word of God, you shall prosper. This is your portion, this is your blessing. Be strong, be courageous, dread not, don’t be afraid, don’t be dismayed, no confusion, clarity of mind shall be your portion today. Go from victory to victory, go from testimony to testimony.
I pour oil upon you today, I just felt a sudden release and relieve for someone. I see suddenly, the burden lifted and the joy came, I can see you in my spirit, just suddenly as we come to the end, the burden lifted and the joy was released. To God be the glory.
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