IN 2024, PURSUERS WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PURSUE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
IF THE GOD THAT CAIN OFFENDED WOULD MARK CAIN AGAINST DESTRUCTION, THERE’S NO WITCH OR WIZARD THAT CAN MARK YOU FOR DESTRUCTION!
I ANNOUNCE TODAY, EVERY demonic MARK OF DESTRUCTION LOOKING FOR YOU IS ERASED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS!
ANYONE WHO WANTS YOU DEAD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THEY’LL FIND THEMSELVES IN THE PIT THEY DUG FOR YOU.
DON’T BASE YOUR EXPECTATION ON ANYBODY’S EXPERIENCE, BASE YOUR EXPECTATION ON DIVINE REVELATION.
WHENEVER MEN GATHER TO GANG UP AND CONSPIRE, THERE WILL NOT BE A SCRATCH ON YOUR LIFE.
I DON’T CARE WHAT THE ENEMY MANUFACTURES AND ORCHESTRATES AGAINST YOUR LIFE, IT WON’T WORK.
WHAT HAS FINISHED OTHERS IN YOUR FAMILY CANNOT FINISH YOU.
A BABY BORN WITH CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS, DISTENDED TUMMY, FAULTY KIDNEYS WAS DELIVERED BY THE POWER OF THE BLOOD – THE COMMUNION
THE BLOOD IS OUR STRONGHOLD, WE TURN TO THE BLOOD AND WE ARE DELIVERED FROM DESTRUCTION
WE GOT A HOUSE IN ABUJA IN AN AREA TERRORIZED BY DAILY ROBBERY THAT CEASED TO OCCUR AS WE CAME IN. OUR PRESENCE WAS A TERROR TO THE EVIL
GOD IS NOT JUST A GOD, HE IS A FEAR, A DREAD, A TERROR.
THE WORD SENT INTO YOUR LIFE AT THE PLACE OF PREACHING, LISTENING OR STUDYING CARRIES PRESERVATION POWER
THE VOICE OF GOD IS DESIGNED FOR THE RESCUE OF MAN FROM DANGER.
WHENEVER YOU ARE BLESSED YOU ARE HEDGED. WHEN GOD BLESSES, HE HEDGES THE BLESSING
WHEN YOU WALK WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS GOD AND MAN, YOU POSITION YOURSELF FOR DIVINE PRESERVATION
WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE WORD BY ALLOWING THE WORD OF GOD HAVE A PLACE IN YOUR HEART AND SPIRIT
TO ACTIVATE THE PRESERVATION POWER OF GOD, STUDY THE WORD UNTIL IT CHANGES YOUR MENTALITY AND BEHAVIOUR
– Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche on “PRESERVATION BY GOD” || Midweek Preservation Service|| Glory Dome, Abuja.
I welcome everyone tonight to this first Preservation Service of the year of 2024. This Preservation Service is going to lay the foundation for every other Preservation Service for this year. Church Gist. So, I want you to listen attentively to the intensity of the release that God will be giving to us.
Psalm 91:1-2. The subject is “PRESERVATION BY GOD”. With a 3-fold objective:
1. Understanding preservation by God.
2. Understanding how God preserves.
3. Understanding man’s role in Divine preservation.
It is abundantly clear throughout Scripture that God is a defender, a Protector, a Preserver of the lives and destinies of His people. Church Gist .We even have occasions in Scripture where God protected and defended people that didn’t appear qualified. And we are going to look at about 10 examples in Scripture that showed that He’s a protector, a defender and a preserver of the lives and destinies of His people.
1. The Preservation of Adam and Eve.
God had told them that the moment that disobeyed Him, they were going to die and they disobeyed God. Church Gist. Before they could die whether physically or whatever, God did something in Genesis 3:21. Apart from the physical covering He gave to them, there was a spiritual symbolism of the covering. Leviticus 17:11. When God killed an animal and used the skin of the animal to clothe Adam and Eve in the garden, it was a preservation operation and a defense operation. Church Gist. Whatever consequences that would have been physical were mitigated against for that moment by using the blood of animal to atone for their souls.
2. The Preservation of Cain.
This is one of those examples I told you that God had protected people that didn’t look like they were qualified. Cain had killed his brother, Abel and in Genesis, after God had placed certain curses on Cain and He told him, “cursed is he from the earth that opened his mouth to drink his brother’s blood. Church Gist. A fugitive you shall be, a vagabond you shall be”. Then, Cain spoke to God in Genesis 4:13-15. Cain killed his brother, God released some curses but when Cain pleaded for mercy, God placed a mark upon Cain so that Cain should not be killed. What a merciful God. If the God that Cain offended would mark Cain against destruction, there’s no witch or wizard that can mark you for destruction! Church Gist. There’s no father’s house altar that can mark for destruction.
– I announce today, every demonic mark of destruction looking for you is erased by the Blood of Jesus!
We serve a God who protects, preserves and defends.
3. The Preservation of Abraham.
In this case, somebody took Abraham’s wife, Abimelech the King of Gerah, he had not even done anything yet. Genesis 20:3. Church Gist. That is, God was just looking like a mother hen waiting for who would dare his boy, Abraham.
4. The Preservation of Jacob.
In Genesis 31, when Laban was looking for Jacob’s trouble, God appeared to Laban in the dream in Genesis 31:24, “don’t speak bad to him, don’t speak good, just be careful with yourself. If you dare him, I dare you”. Church Gist. That is, God physically arrived and said, “I am God”. How many human beings will survive the visit of God? Jacob and his family and the pursuers could not pursue them.
– I prophesy to somebody here today, the people that normally look for other people, when they think about you, they’ll have heart attack!
– from this moment forward, I decree, pursuers will never be able to pursue you in the name of Jesus!
– in 2024, pursuers will never be able to pursue you and your family in the name of Jesus!
5. The Preservation of the Jews in Persia.
That was in the days of Queen Esther. There was a decree that all the Jews should be killed and then, Esther fasted. Esther 4:16. Church Gist. The outcome of that fast was the preservation of the Jews in Persia. Esther 8:11-13. The Bible said it later that the Jews had power on those who wanted to destroy them. If you look at Esther 9:1-2.
– those who are looking for you, hating you and waiting for your destruction, it shall turn around, it shall turn the other way in the name of Jesus!
– when they want you dead, you will find them dead!
– the pit they dug for you, they’ll be buried in that pit!
– if you believe that, shout the loudest Amen;
God moved into battle so that the predator became the prey. One of the things I like a little, I don’t watch too many things but if I have two minutes to watch anything, it is wildlife. Church Gist. I enjoy seeing the one who wants to humiliate others, humiliated. I watched a clip yesterday where this big tiger rushed at, it was like a mountain goat and what they do is to hold them at the jugular and squeeze their blood supply to the brain and then they fall down. Church Gist. So, he held this mountain goat, the mountain goat struggled and released his horn. The horns were like the pikes of a porcupine, they were sharp like this. Once he got free, he hit the tiger on the tummy twice, the tiger retreated, walk by the side and fell to the floor. Blunt abdominal injury, gone on the spot. Church Gist. The goat looked and then picked race, he passing through the midst of them and went his way.
– That is what you shall do to everyone looking for you this year!
– Anyone who wants you dead, in the name of Jesus, they’ll find themselves in the pit they dug for you.
– Shout the loudest Amen!
That was the defense power, the protective power of God that gave the Jews the power to overpower those who wanted them dead.
6. Preservation of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
We read all of these news, I mean all of these Bible stories from Sunday School. Daniel 3:21-26. See, people who threw them into the fire were burnt so they could not ask anybody to go near to bring them out. ‘Come forth! Just bring yourself out, nobody can come near, walk out by yourself’. Church Gist. That was the fire that can roast person. Daniel 3:27. The fire has no power because fire cannot burn fire. Fire don’t burn fire, lion don’t eat lion. Psalm 104:4. How can somebody be in the midst of fire in the midst of smoke, you couldn’t smell it? That is the defence, the preservation power of God.
-I announce to someone here! I don’t care what the enemy manufactures, orchestrates against your life, against your destiny, it won’t work – In 2024, it won’t work.
-There will be no smell of their agenda on your life, there shall be no smell of it on your life.
-For somebody here this year, God shall use you to persecute the devil and his agents.
So you go throughout Scripture, you see the preservation and the defence power of God. Church Gist. That was Shadrach Meshach and Abednego.
7. The preservation of Daniel.
Daniel 6:18-23. You saw how Daniel was thrown in the Lion’s den.
-Today, I decree whenever men gather to gang up and conspire, there will not be a scratch on your life. Church Gist. There will not be a scratch on your body, there will not be a scratch on your destiny. You believe that say a loud Amen.
But the next day, those who accused Daniel were brought into the Lion’s den. The Bible said the Lion overpowered them before they reached the bottom of the Pit, it tore them to pieces from the air. Because they had been hungry since yesterday, they brought them food that they could not eat. Lion had been fasting, their eyes were red. ‘This is Daniel, it is not food, it’s another lion’. So they were waiting, but it’s possible that Daniel must have prophesied to fellow lions. “Brethren, just relax. Church Gist. When I’m out of here, the next thing you will see is food”. Food arrived. Daniel 6:24. Beware who your father is, beware who your father is! Because his iniquity may affect your life, beware who your husband is, beware who you submit your head and submit your life to. That happened to Achan! Achan, his wife, his children; all stoned to death. That happened to Gehazi: ‘Leprosy of Naaman follows you and your lineage’. Somebody say a loud Amen. All of them were taken and the lion overpowered them.
-You will not die another person’s death!!! If you are saying Amen, say a louder Amen.
Lift your hands and say: Father! Oh God of preservation, I apply today for your preservation power on my life in 2024.
-It is released in the name of Jesus.
8. The preservation of Baby Jesus.
As a baby, Almighty God organized a preservation of His only begotten Son. Matthew 2:13-14. That was a preservation: ‘Move now’. There are people who don’t understand the difference between faith and foolishness. Church Gist. That was not a time to exercise faith, that was a time to receive direction to move. There are those who will say: ‘I will wait, Herod can do nothing’. God is telling you: ‘Herod wants to destroy the Boy’. Matthew 2:19-20. This is the basis of that Message I preached, titled: ‘They are dead’.
-Everyone looking for you, I stand here to announce, they are dead!
-In the year 2024, this shall be the verdict: If you’ve not done them anything and they are looking for your life; they sense that you have a big destiny, they sense that you have a purpose to fulfill and they are looking for your life by all means. Church Gist. I stand here to announce, in a short while from today, the verdict shall be: ‘They are dead’!! The news shall be they are dead! Somebody say a loud Amen.
Look at your neighbour and say: Everyone looking for you, wanting to destroy your life and destiny in a short while, you will hear the verdict and it is: ‘They are dead’!
And that verdict has produced many results in the lives of many people! They are dead! The preservation of Baby Jesus.
9. The rescue and preservation of Peter.
After Herod had killed James, beheaded him, they went for Peter. But in Acts 12:5, that was a man that was about to be beheaded, that was rescued and kept alive. Listen to this: Don’t base your expectation on anybody’s experience, base your expectation on divine revelation. Don’t let the basis of your expectation be the experience of somebody. Let the basis of your expectation be the Word of Scripture. Church Gist. Why do I say so? It was easy for Peter to resign himself to faith that since James was killed by the same Herod, this is the same Herod that will also… that says he will kill him. The last time he said he will kill person, he kill person. ‘No!! I don’t know the circumstances of James’ death but I refuse to die like James. Only God knows why James died, only God knows why He allowed James to die. Only God knows! When we go to Heaven at the Last Assembly, we will understand the story by and by. But for now, I’m standing on the Word, I’m not standing on the experience of James’.
-That’s why you can’t die like your brother died. You can’t die like your sister died. You can’t die like your father died. Church Gist. What has finished others in your family cannot finish you. What has killed a friend you know cannot kill you. You cannot go just like that!
Somebody shout the loudest Amen!
Finally is the preservation of Paul the Apostle and those who sailed with him. Paul the Apostle was in the middle of danger on the high Sea. Acts 27:22. I am glad to announce to you that another Paul is preaching to you. That is, Paul, everybody that is inside this boat with you, this journey with you, there shall be no loss. I announce to you today, you are in the journey together – the journey of 2024, we are sailing together – no devil shall cut your life short! Church Gist. No ancestral altar, generational altar, family altar, no witchcraft altar, occultic altar shall cut your life before your time! You shall fulfill your days! Your children shall fulfill their days! Fear not, there shall be no loss!
The next level of our message is: How does God preserve?
1. By the visitation of Himself: God appears to the one looking for you and he tells them, “if you want to die, touch him.” That was what he did to Abimelech in Genesis 20:3; Genesis 31:24; Psalm 91:1-2; Church Gist. Psalm 23:1-4. God protects, defends, preserves by Himself – visiting the people who are looking for you or standing around you by himself to say, if they born you well, come close.
2. By His Word: Psalm 107:20. The Word sent into your life at the place of preaching, listening or studying carries preservation power. Psalm 91:4. Truth is Word – John 17:17. There are revelations you get that shields you. John 1:5. Church Gist. There are revelations of the Word you get that break to pieces the forces of darkness.
– I announce to someone here today, God will visit one agent of the devil on your behalf tonight! The revelation you need to preserve your life is coming your way tonight!
3. By His Voice of direction: when we say His Word we are talking about Scripture and the revelation you get from Scripture. When we say by his voice, we are talking about him speaking to you on steps to take, moves to make, who to avoid, where to avoid. Church Gist. That was the voice that came to Joseph in Matthew 2:13; 19-20. 1 Samuel 23:12-13. The voice of God is designed for the rescue of man from danger.
4. By the Blood of Jesus: Genesis 3:21; Exodus 12:13. Tonight, the blood shall be speaking as we take the Communion and I declare, what is destroying others will not locate you!
We heard a very drastic testimony of a little child that was born with congenital malformations, distended tummy, kidneys were faulty, all manner of terrible things. This grandmother began to give this child communion daily. We saw the picture of that child I think on Sunday. Church Gist. Yesterday Healing and Deliverance Service and how that child is 7 months, they didn’t give that child any number of days to live but he lived by the power of the Blood (delivered by the power of the Blood). Zechariah 9:11-12. The Blood is our stronghold, we turn to the Blood and we are delivered from destruction. Revelation 12:11. We overcome premature death by the blood of the Lamb and by the Word of our testimony.
– I prophesy to you: every death looking for you the blood is against them!
5. By His Angels: Psalm 34:7. The assignment is to camp around us to deliver us. Daniel 6:20-22; Acts 27:22-24; Acts 12:7; Psalm 91:9-12.
6. By His terror: Genesis 35:5. God surrounds your climate with a dread, a terror. Deuteronomy 2:25; Genesis 31:42. So God is not just a God, He is a fear, a dread, a terror. Church Gist. His presence can be feelable where you feel like shaking, His presence also can be feelable where you feel like yoy want to quake.
There was a neighborhood we lived in Abuja here sometime ago, when they were looking for a house for us there, I am talking about 15, 20 years ago thereabout. People packed out of that location for robbery. Almost every night, robbery. They showed us the house, “this house here it was a woman was a well to do or something then she experienced a terrible robbery and she moved out of that neighborhood for good. Church Gist. That same compound was where they found for us. That is, it is twin duplex; this one the person moved out. The people showing you the house are the ones talking o. Road is not tarred – dust road. We moved there – one year no show, two years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years… Somebody said they were robbing here every night before you people came here. What is happening? There was nothing extra done – nothing!
Now, even if you were to guard your own house will you guard everybody’s house in the neighborhood? Nothing extra was done. But I perceived that a terror arrived in that environment – that’s why I’m saying this story. Church Gist. I perceive a terror, a dread just came and occupied the territory so that as they are passing and they are thinking evil, their heart is already beating – “supposing they catch us?”
– I prophesy to you today, that same terror of the Lord is invading your premises and your neighbourhood, invading your life!
7. By His wall of fire: Zechariah 2:5; Joel 2:3.
8. By His blessing: the blessing of the Lord carries the defence of the Lord. Whenever God blesses a person… in Job 1:10, satan the devil the number one attacker was the one giving testimony. What will you do when satan appears in Church and says, I have a testimony? He was testifying to God concerning Job’s life. This is what we call the blessing hedge. Church Gist. Whenever you are blessed you are hedged. When God blesses he hedges the blessing. His provision comes with his protection. Isaiah 65:8. Wherever you find the blessing destruction is not permitted. So when I say, you are blessed, it’s another way of saying you’re protected, preserved.
I am taking this time because this is the foundation laying preservation Service for the Year of 2024. Preservation for January and preservation for the Year.
How do you activate the preservation power of God? What is the role of man in walking in preservation?
1. Walk in the fear of God: Proverbs 19:23; Isaiah 33:15-16. Walk with a conscience that is void of offence towards God and man. Church Gist. Don’t hurt God, don’t hurt man. You position yourself for divine preservation. Proverbs 28:1
2. Walk in the light of the Word: Let the Word of God have a place in your heart, in your spirit. John 1:5; Psalm 91:4; Psalm 107:20. No devil can kill me before my time. What is your revelation? Church Gist. Just give me one Scripture that is the basis why you talk like that. Don’t just talk boldly without spiritual force from inside. When you’re talking, let faith back the talk; let there be a force from inside.
I know that I’m a standing corn of wheat, I can’t be harvested until it is time. I know that Jesus tasted death – Hebrews 2:9, He died young so I am not cut short before my time. You must be able to have at the back of your mind, in your spirit, a deep seated revelation. You have seen it in the Word, you believe it and you’re walking in the ruggedity of it and you know light is reflective. Church Gist. When the devil sees you coming with light, he sees it. The Word of God is light. Witches and wizards when they see you they see the strength of light you’re walking with. Even if you didn’t say anything they can see through your spirit. Then they know those who are boasting just with mouth, talking because others are talking.
“Paul I know, Jesus I know, who are you Sons of Sceva? Give account of yourself!” They couldn’t give the account of themselves. They couldn’t say, “I’m a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, I am seated in Heavenly places far above principalities and powers. Then the devil says, “what am I seeing? Antelope came to hand over itself to lion?” The way to do it is to pick messages such as this, pick messages of fulfilling your days, heritage of health and then as you listen to them, light and light will just charge up your spirit. Church Gist. All of a sudden, when you stand up, you will behave like a drunkard who does not need to count the number of cups he drank. All that he knows is that the alcohol has entered his body and has changed his behaviour. Just study the Word until it changes your behaviour. Listen to the message until it changes your mentality. Until your behaviour is adjusted, your walking step is strengthened, solidified.
One day, we were walking at the airport, my daughter Deborah began to take snapshots of me and video recording from the back. I said: ‘What is this’? She said: ‘I don’t understand your walking, the walking step is somehow. How did you learn how to walk’? I said: ‘E dey body’. There is something that you know on the inside that solidifies your steps and concretizes your moves – You are just moving with certain knowing. Church Gist. Even if you saw the President of the World coming on the other side; it doesn’t change your move. One man met me, he said he’s an ambassador from so and so country. ‘Please you’re the ambassador of which country Please’. In Heathrow Airport! Because the way he saw me walking, it was so diplomatic. It doesn’t… I don’t know what he saw. Say a louder Amen.
Lift up your right hand and say: Father! From this moment, I shall walk in light. Church Gist. I shall walk with light. Shout the loudest Amen.
The kind of light I’m talking about is where if you are confronted, you don’t think of which Scripture to quote. Church Gist. It just comes as a reaction on the spot. Walk in the light.
3. Walk in faith.
Habakkuk 2:4. Ephesians 6:16. Walk in faith means walk devoid of doubt. Walk in faith means deny unbelief any place. Church Gist. Walk in faith means take actions that correspond with your belief. Walk in faith.
4. Walk free of fear.
Job said the things I feared came on me. Fear invites disaster. Job 3:24-25. Walk free of fear. 1 John 4:18. There are many things you hear: ‘Oh, kidnap here! This there; that there’ and if you are not careful, your mind just gets overwhelmed with fear. And listen! If the only news you hear is the news in the World, in the air, you will never be a man of faith. Quote me any day! Faith cometh by hearing and hearing. Those who are connected to permanent negative news: ‘The village, somebody is on there, some people were travelling… this and that and those who are…’ Church Gist. One day, they sent me a video of somebody, some people were crying, they are beheading somebody. They said: ‘Send me’. I said: ‘I’m not watching’. What do I watch it to do? Number one, my heart is too tender to watch such a thing. I’ve seen a couple of such before in time past and I knew its effect on me. But sir, there are some: ‘Let me see’. (Illustrating). ‘Chai! Jesus’! And you are still watching? If they send another one he will still see it. There are people who listen to negative stories and they are interested in hearing details.
When people come to my office at times, they want to tell thirty minute, forty-five minutes story: ‘That wizard! Ah! Pastor you need to know the wickedness of this wizard, let me give you details’. I will say: ‘Please, I don’t have the time. Okay! Summary, what do you want God to do for you? Is that not where we’re going to end’? – The end of the whole thing! Is that not what you want God to do for you? Say it now! Do you understand what I am saying? Faith cometh by hearing. What you hear determines your faith or your fear, they feed your faith or feed your fear. You see? So, Just make up your mind that you will hear more of the Word of God than the news of the World. Church Gist. You will hear more from the Bible. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I want to hear is the news from the Bible. That’s the first thing that I want to enter my ears. Some people the first thing they want to check is their phone. First text message: Chai! Somebody was killed on the road to your village. Second, text message: Ah! That your close friend in the office encountered kidnappers. Third text message: Please, join me in prayers because the doctor gave me a bad… These are the first things that encountered your day and you’re wondering why you don’t have faith! And you’re wondering why you are always afraid.
-Today! I decree, that hell is over forever.
5. Speak correctly.
Psalms 91:2. Speak accurately. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. You cannot talk death and have life. You can’t talk defeat and have victory, you can’t talk failure and have success. ‘Eh, let’s be real; the country is bad, yes’. But the Bible says when men are cast down, you shall say there’s a lifting up. ‘Let’s be real, nothing is working’, is that what you want? Somebody say a loud Amen. Talk audaciously! ‘I can’t die before my time! Nobody can have his own oxygen in his nose and take my own, kill yourself first!!! You call yourself a witch and your expertise is to cut people short, not me! Cut yourself short’! Church Gist. You need such ruggedness and you need to talk it. 2 Corinthians 4:13. Anything you believe is useless until it can be declared. Are you hearing what I’m saying here today? This is part of: ‘I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge’. ‘You say I’m your refuge? Here am I. I am your refuge, I am your fortress, I am your God. You trust Me, I will prove it’. Psalms 91:2. We have talked like that, at times people thought we were foolish. We have talked like that since. Talk like that in preservation areas, talk like that in financial area, talk like that in health areas and it is showing on every side.
Lift up your voice and say one thing that you think is correct, say: In the name of Jesus, I shall fulfill my days. I cannot be cut short before my time. Church Gist. No wicked witch or wizard can take my life from me. I shall live!
If there is no occasion to talk it; when you stand in front of your mirror and you adjust your dress: ‘This young man is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. I was not created for an experimentation of witchcraft. No witch can experiment with my life, no wicked man will practice wickedness using my life’. Talk to yourself, hear it and then walk out with boldness and audacity and confront the day squarely. Church Gist.That until you fulfill your days, no devil is permitted to have one second. That is, if you’re to die when you’re age 80, 80 years or age 90 or 95 years, two days, five hours, 30 minutes, 2 seconds. That is when you were meant to go and then the devil says: Can I have the two seconds on top? You say: ‘Bastard devil, go to hell’! Hallelujah! Somebody say a loud Amen. Speak correctly! Correctly! Speak accurately!
6. Walk in Spiritual Sensitivity.
Let God talk to you. If you can’t hear, at least, you should be able to dream. Job 33:14-18. Church Gist. Sensitivity averts calamity, direction prevents destruction.
One day, a man came, they had had a very terrible accident. People died, I heard the story and I was grieved in my heart. “Lord, what has happened?” I can’t forget what I heard. He said, “that was a journey that was not meant to be made”. Church Gist. Person died, man’s hand broken, all manner of disaster. I said to the man, “it is well. But, while I was praying and wondering what it is, this was what I heard from God; He said, ‘that was a journey that was not meant to be made”. He said, “it is true Sir. Everything was against the journey. I literally struggled to go”. Church Gist. I think one of the people in the trip said, “please, we have to make this journey”.
– A journey you must not make, may you never make it!
– A friend you should not have, may you never have such a friend!
– A neighbourhood which you must not live, may you never live in such a neighbourhood.
– May God help you never to meet the person you must not know.
– There are people you must not meet, may you never meet them.
– May no devil ever stop you from meeting the people you must meet.
How many of you, in your journey of life, there are people you met on your way that you wish you never knew them. Plenty.
– may you never meet people you must never meet.
That is why sensitivity is important. “Lord, is this journey alright? Should I go? Am I okay for their business? Are you in it?” Walk in spiritual sensitivity and spiritual sensitivity happens at the frequency of prayer and fasting and waiting on the Lord generally. Church Gist. The summary of that one is be prayerful, watch and pray. Just be watchful and be prayerful. Habakkuk 2:4.
7. Walk in Kingdom Service.
Make yourself an asset of the Kingdom so that no devil can waste you easily. Exodus 23:25-26. “If you serve me, I will not allow them to waste you or kill you before your time”. That is what God is saying. Church Gist. Daniel 6:20. That is, your service is meant to deliver you. There’s deliverance and preservation in service. Don’t just sit in Church. Serve with your time, life, gift and your resources.
8. Walk in giving and sacrifice.
Sacrifice speaks, giving speaks in times of trouble. Psalm 20:1-3. Psalm 50:14-15. Not everybody calls in trouble and God quickly hears. Church Gist. Let me show somebody who was calling God in trouble and what he was doing. 1 Samuel 7:9-11. He (Samuel) was offering and somebody came to fight him and God said, “really? You’re gone”.
In conclusion, many years ago, I went to Makurdi in Benue State, preached a message on adversity-dissolving sacrifice. This message was preached before this Church started. “Adversity-dissolving sacrifice” and I took from the King of Moab who sacrificed his son and then indignation was upon Israel. Church Gist. I said adversity can be dissolved by sacrifice. People gave, a woman brought material, cloth, wrapper that her husband gave her money to buy. Husband is an unbeliever, doesn’t believe in God and Church. Thinks that Church is fraud and nobody should go to Church and so on. This woman gave her wrapper. Does God tie wrapper? For your information, most times, material offering is a burden for any meaningful centre. Hell broke loose when the woman went home, “you useless woman, giving all your things to Church. Money I gave you to buy cloth, go and return that cloth”. Church Gist. That was all. In the midst of that, the man was driving on River Benue bridge, vehicle had accident, somersaulted up and down. In the middle of that somersault, the man heard God’s voice clearly, He said, “you would have died today if not for your wife’s sacrifice”. Unbeliever who doesn’t believe in God or nothing. Church Gist. When an unbeliever says, “God talked to me”, believe him.
– Stand up on your feet with a shout of praise!
Your sacrifice can speak for your life and for your defense when nothing else can. The Centurion in Luke 7, his own sacrifice, he built a Church and his servant was sick ready to die, according to Scripture. “Jesus, can you come and pray for him?” “I am a bit busy”. Church Gist. But the Elders of the Jews came and say, “Oga Sir, this is not just anyhow person oh. He loveth our nation and only him built Church”. Jesus said, “what? Only him? Okay, let’s go”. And on His way coming, the man said, “you don’t even need to bother coming, speak a word only and my servant shall be healed for I am a man under authority”. Church Gist. Jesus said, “upon on top of building Church, you still have this kind of faith? Your servant is healed!” What was the key? “He loveth our nation, he built us a Synagogue”.
All those 8 points mentioned, employ them this year. Don’t be laid back in sacrifice and giving, don’t be laid back. Church Gist. You don’t know what altar is being erected for your preservation in times of disaster.
– It’s a new day!
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