Praise the Lord!
Welcome to morning glow and welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. Welcome to a brand-new day. Wherever you are and you have joined us from, I am so confident that you will be blessed of the Lord and your life will never remain the same in Jesus name. Again, we are still in the euphoria of celebrating what God has done this one whole year.
23rd of March, 2020 we began to have a time in the presence of the Lord in praying and in fasting and God made us to see the end of coronavirus. To God be all the glory, honour, praise and adoration. I trust the Lord that today as you join us again, you’re going to be blessed of the Lord.
Amen!
We’ve got to learn the power of listening to God. Progress in life is very congruent upon obedient to God because sometimes the way may look nice to you but it is not right. The Bible says that there is a way that seems good unto man but the way thereof is destruction. However, when we are in God we can make progress.
A life without progress is burdensome but when you live in progress, your life becomes tremendous and exciting. Progress is really you enjoying your life as a believer, you living in Christ and you moving from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18). So, God wants us to go from one degree of glory to another degree of glory.
The instinct to succeed and not fail was put in you by God. He wants you to make progress and wax great and your pressing in to progress is determined by what information is available to you. For example, you have to know your enemies, the enemies of your progress. The first enemy of your progress is past achievement, some of these things we’ve shared in the previous days, on Monday and Tuesday but we are sharing it today Wednesday because I needed you to keep hearing it in your spirit that the enemy of your progress is your past achievement.
In talking to Joshua and the whole of the children of Israel, God said Moses my servant is dead. As great as he was, as awesome as he was and even though he was mourned for thirty days, Moses my servant is dead, yesterday is dead. So, glorying in the past is Satan’s subtle chain to hold you in the past. The past was great but that was then, this is now and tomorrow is greater that yesterday.
You’ve got to learn to not settle for; this is good enough, yesterday was good enough. You need to realize in Philippians 3:13-14, the apostle Paul said that “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” So, Paul refused to see where he was at the end of his journey and he was said to focus on the future of his journey. So, do not believe that you are at your peak. Some times we see great wonders, we think what wonders can exceed this until God comes and exceed it. Keep striving to get there. Do not allow the present breakthrough to hold you from tomorrow’s testimony.
The glory of your present is only an introduction to your awesome future. God’s agenda is to lift you above all nations so don’t rest at the present bus stop. You are not at all at your destination as yet. A greater future awaits you. Listen, progress is retarded by any attitudes that said hey, I am already there. You’ve got to learn to press to take what God has for you.
Reject every reverse gear that the enemy what to put to you. Do you know that aero planes have no reverse gear? They have a reverse thrust but not a reverse gear for going back, all the gears of a plane are for going forward. Keep your eyes on your target.
The second enemy of your progress is past mistakes and mess-ups. The Bible says in the book of Isaiah 43:18-19, remember ye not the former no more, neither consider the things of old. The mistakes you’ve made, the failures, the sins you’ve committed, the challenges you faced tends to come in your face and tell you; you have no future. But the devil is a liar. Your future is greater than the mistakes of your past and until you put your past behind, it is difficult to make progress.
No one with their eyes on the rear-view mirror makes progress. Do not let the enemy ride you into guilt, so focus on the future. I love the Scripture we shared yesterday in Isaiah 9:10, it so resonated like I have never heard it before. The bricks are fallen down, we will build with hewn stones, the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. It’s so ministered to me that when it seems as if the bricks of your life are falling apart, God is about to replace your fallen bricks with stones that were cut out.
When it seems as if your sycamore tree has already been cut down by life, God said He is about to replace it with beautiful cedars of Lebanon. Progress is inevitable in your life but you have to pick the broken bricks, put them aside because better things are about to replace them. Convert every stone throw at you into a stepping stone.
The third enemy of your progress is the present challenges you are facing. Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged, take it to the Lord in prayer. So, Isaiah 42:2-3 says when you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walked through the fire you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon you for I am your God, the only One of Israel, your Saviour. I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Sheba for you. Hallelujah! So sometimes we face challenges that are tauting and they try to becloud us and look as if we will not overcome.
Present challenges are meant to be tomorrow’s testimony. You see if you don’t face anything today, what will you testify about tomorrow? Whatever you are facing now, guess what? God cannot lie. He said you have the capacity to overcome it and that’s why he allowed it. Yes! So the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” Hallelujah!
God called what you call uncommon a common problem. Have you met people before and they said; ha, pastor you don’t know, this problem is a special problem. There is no special problem. If you call it special you are the one specializing it. The Bible says it is common to man no matter what it is. Even when they said it is a dread disease, someone somewhere have had it before that’s why the doctor gives it its name: Hodgkin diseases, Parkinson diseases, these are the doctors who studied it and specialize in it. They were not the first to face it, Hodgkin, Parkinson disease.
Nothing you face is greater than your faith. David graduated from lion to beer to Goliath so by the time the javelin of Saul was flying and armies of Philistine were rising, he already had enough stripes. He had enough wounds to show for the battles of life. David faced a lion before he faced a beer then he faced Goliath then he took a pack of armies, a whole nation of the Philistines. David had a mentality of an overcomer (1 Samuel 17:37), he had a track record and you know this God we serve, there is a song that says He has a track record of keeping His word, when He has said, he will do it.
God may not come at the time you desire but He will not fail to come. Glory to God! So reject a loser’s mentality. What the challenge needs is you to confront it and not be afraid. You may say Pastor Matthew, these are the enemies of my progress what should I do? Make progress, know who you are in God. David spoke under the old covenant with this audacity of faith; the God whom I served. He said, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that defies the army of the Lord? He said to Goliath that you come to me with sword and shield, I come to you in the name of the Lord of host. David knew who he was.
In the battles of life, in the challenges of life, in the troubles you face, in the vicissitudes you meet, never forget that progress is only made when you know who you are and who you are is based on God’s thought about you. You must know who you are. Then not only should you know who you are, you must know who do you belong to. The Bible says for you are dead and your life is hidden in Christ in God, so our life is inside God. Paul said in Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Once you know who you are and who you belong to, it is very difficult for the enemy to get at you and then progress becomes easy, progress becomes a blessing, progress becomes possible, progress becomes a possibility and this morning I am believing God for you that in every area of your life, you are going to make progress. Particularly this year 2021, you are going to make progress in every area of your life. People who knew you before will say truly you have moved on. You have moved on into greatness, you have moved on into specific dimension like they have never seen before. I am agreeing with you today that you are going to make progress in the areas you’ve never seen in the mighty name of Jesus.
PRAYER BULLETS:
- Father we thank you this morning, we give you praise. As we come before you today, we declare and decree that everyone on this platform will truly make progress, supernatural, unusual progress. In every area of your people’s life, they are going to make progress, they are going to break new grounds in 2021 in Jesus name.
- (Acts 1:8) I speak into your life today, you are going to make progress in power in the name of Jesus.
- (Galatians 5:16, 18, 24) Today I speak into your life; progress in the area of your relationship with the Holy Spirit, clarity of His voice, clarity of His leading in the name of Jesus.
- I pray for you, may the power of the Spirit rest upon your life. May you be led by the Holy Ghost. May you be full of His presence and of His spirit in the name of Jesus. In every step of your life may you be full of His spirit in the name of Jesus.
- (John 16:13) I pray for you and for myself in this season, the Lord will help us to make progress in power. Lord we also pray this morning that we will make progress in breakthrough. In every area of our lives there will be progress. God will cause streams to break out in your desert places, breakthrough in this season of your life in Jesus name
- (Isaiah 43:18-19) I send you out today Wednesday, today this month of March, today this year of 2021, into a season of breakthrough. This year you will make progress. You will breakthrough financially, you will breakthrough emotionally, you will breakthrough spiritually, you will breakthrough in all areas of your journey and all areas of your Christian life. Breakthrough in your finances, breakthrough in your relationships in the name of Jesus.
- In the places where you have had hindrance, where you have had pressures, where you have had battles, I speak a turnaround in the name of Jesus.
- Everyone held in yesterday, I declare and decree, you are making progress from this moment, you are moving forward from this moment, you are going forward from this day, you are no longer held back. Hell must let you go in the name of Jesus.
- (John 5:8) Lord, I cry to you this morning on behalf of that man, that woman who feels if there is God then let something happen. I’ve stayed here too long. I’ve cried enough for the enemy. Lord let there be a shift in the name of Jesus. From this morning let there be a shift!
- Every satanic barrier, demonic barriers, statements people have made to hold you down, actions people have carried to hold you down, opinions people hold that is holding you down, I remove it out of your journey. I break the barriers. I declare this morning the barriers are broken in the name of Jesus.
- (Job 22:28) From today I speak into your life, I declare and decree your family progress, your own health, job progression, family progression, business progression, every area of your life there will be progress in Jesus name.
- (Psalm 89:22) Every arrow that has come against your progress fails for your sake. The enemy will not get the better of you in the name of Jesus.
Amen!
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