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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. (1 Chron.4:10)
The word of God is a life giving force, your exploits in life is attached to the word that is stored in your heart which then affect your thought pattern. Man becomes what he thinks.
Jabez was constantly thinking of blessings, enlargement, protection, safety and it was reflected in the prayer he rendered to God and God granted him his request according to the desire of his heart.
To break forth in life, you must first and foremost have the fear of God in you. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Phi.2:11-12). Secondly, you must have a very strong decision that is backed up by the word of God. If you want to remain a child forever then situations will toss you to any direction.
The word of God contains divine counsel that comes with supernatural strategy, each time the wonderful counselor counsel you, you become a wonder.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isa. 9:6)
When the wonderful counselor comes, he gives instructions that will set up your mockers, like He did at the wedding in Canaan when the wine got finished.
Blessings, enlargement and protection are your portion right now because the wonderful counselor has given a push of breakthrough that will lead to your breaking forth and no power shall reduce you anymore.
MEDITATION:
I receive divine insight and the grace to break forth on every side.
PRAYER:
1. Holy Spirit empower me with spiritual energy that I may finish the Christian race in Jesus name.
2. Every red sea on my way to fulfill destiny dry up in the mighty name of Jesus.
SATURDAY 10TH OCT. 2020
DEALING WITH BLOOD COVENANT 2
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. (Lev.17:11)
It is important for us to understand that the life of everything is in the blood. Life is in the blood, when a man is killed, what is important is not the flesh but the blood.
For instant there are some sickness and disease that some parent’s went through in their generation and before you know it that same sickness and disease comes back to attack one of the children in the children’s own generation.
This happens because such a disease or sickness runs in the blood line of that family.
Sometimes medical doctors, during medical cross examination, will always ask question to know if what his or her patient is passing through is hereditary or not, so as to know the kind of treatment to offer. You will discover that some traits of this sickness and disease are just like the parent’s characteristics.
You may be gifted and talented to be an international or world-class star, well to do, by destiny a wealthy person, but because it is in the bloodline of your family that nobody should do anything that will attract international recognition; you see yourself walking in circle and become a local champion.
Jesus Christ who shed His blood at Calvary is bringing deliverance to every established demonic rule and you shall escape in Jesus name.
MEDITATION:
I receive divine strength into my spiritual bones via the blood of Jesus.
PRAYER:
1. I come against every spiritual contamination in my bloodline in the mighty name of Jesus.
2. I come against every activities of darkness that wants to cripple my destiny in the mighty name of Jesus.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hosea 4:1-2)
Your unbelief concerning a particular thing doesn’t stop that thing from existing but all we seek is to know the truth by the spirit of grace to take us to a level of direct revelation.
Until you deal with your foundation you can’t shine. The word of God contains the spirit of revelation. Receive strength to battle false foundation.
There are some families, written in their files that nobody should travel outside the country, and when someone from such a family is planning of travelling abroad, it triggers the alarm of the family altar, indicating that someone has broken the family rules of internationality that says “thou shall not travel outside this country”. The familiar spirit of the altar then introduces sickness to him or her, that will make all the funds meant for that travel to be wasted on drugs and hospital bills.
When this happens, a highflyer by destiny becomes useless, deteriorates, selling everything without knowing because blood is speaking. By the mercy of God may such altars be silent forever by the blood of Jesus.
The blood of men and women who were killed speaks against the family members of those who committed the act of murder. Blood forms the basis of every covenant, be it godly or satanic.
Under the godly covenant, the blood of Jesus is the seal, and under the satanic covenant, human or animal blood could be the seal.
MEDITATION:
The blood of Jesus has delivered me from every ancestral blood covenant through faith.
PRAYER:
1. I decree deliverance to every area of my life that was invaded by ancestral blood covenant in the mighty name of Jesus.
2. By the authority of God, I flush out every contamination from my bloodline that wants to hinder my destiny in Jesus name.
DAILY DEVOTIONAL (Wonderworld Capsules)
THURSDAY 8TH OCT. 2020
THE SIXTH SEAL AND SIXTH ANGEL 3
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. (Rev.9:13-15)
When the four angels were released, there was an earthquake. The earthquake talks about confusion and destruction and disorderliness of the labours of men.
The content of the sixth seal;
The sun become black and that talks about darkness, when its dark people don’t go far, people sit one place because of lack of clarity on their path like the plague in Egypt . But your contact with the fountain exempts you to fulfill the purpose of God.
It talks about the moon becoming as blood. It talks about the evaporation of the blood of men slain to high heavens, to cause the moon to start fighting against humanity. The blood of men slain causes the moon to release lunatic aggressiveness upon men and especially those who worship the moon, as a mark of their religion, to start fighting against humanity.
When the blood of men slain evaporates to high heavens and the moon swallows it and releases same upon these sons of perdition / sons of the bond woman, they are drunk with the rain of blood and they start killing humans without mercy.
That’s why terrorism is rampant today, but because of the fountain of escape it doesn’t matter how people are drunken with human blood, their sword and weapons of destruction shall not locate you.
The moon becoming like blood means the release of blood-hunting agent.
The star falling from heaven unto the earth. This speaks of a shaking bringing about massive untimely death on earth but the mark of the blood of Jesus is release upon you and your household.
Every untimely death of your finance, marriage, academic, business and career is cancelled by the blood of the Jesus, that speaks better manifestation than the blood of vengeance.
The mark that will separate you and your household has been released upon you, Rev 6:15 talks about the fulfillment of Ezekiel 21:27 “I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it to him” .
Something that belongs to you that was seated upon by men and women who thought that they are stronger and faster than you shall be handed over to you. They are dethroned by thunder. There are some people occupying some offices that are not theirs, but from today, they shall be no more and you will be ushered into your rightful office and position.
Your destiny is handed over to you right now in the name of Jesus. It stands.
MEDITATION:
The word of God has delivered me from the spirit of destruction, confusion and disorderliness.
PRAYER:
I shall no more loose, winning is my portion always in Jesus name.
I decree that my destiny is handed over to me in the mighty name of Jesus
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. (Rev.9:13-15)
The very first water God release to the earth was split into four, River Euphrates was what makes the garden what it was, but when man fall, the river flow becoming an ordinary water without divine deposit it.
The four angels are coming with the mind to retaliate, angels was planted by God on the river to ensure that what heaven carries is release on earth to make Eden heaven and earth.
The word is the rivers of living water that, the very fountain of life that carries the life of God redeeming man to the original reason why God created them.
As you encounter the fountain, who ever that is using you to shine and has reduce you to grassroots, today power shall change hand.
By the operation of the sixth angel you shall be free. Just like the four angels which were bound were release, so shall the cause your finances, marriage and academic that was bound is release in JESUS .
The word of God came to make your destiny remain intact. Hold on to God, don’t eat what your spirit says you shouldn’t eat just to please somebody.
MEDITATION:
The fountain of life has brought life into my weakness.
PRAYER:
1. Any politician using my destiny to win election be expose in JESUS name.
2. I refuse to be manipulated to fight against my destiny in Jesus name.
Relevance means a degree to which something is related or useful to what is happening or being talked about.
Relevance talks about the importance of usefulness or something/somebody.
It is how appropriate something is, to what is being discussed or done at a given time.
THE RELEVANCE FACTORS
KNOWLEDGE: knowledge is power. It induces strength; it facilitates the realization of destiny fulfillment. It is a powerful force on the earth that can either make you or mar you.
It makes you relevance.
N/B It is the wise that seeks for knowledge. (Prov. 24: 5).
The knowledge of things you know can turn you into a radical actor.
Knowledge brings the real you into action (Prov. 20: 15).
Knowledge makes you forceful and aggressive.
Knowledge about the word of God makes you strong. (Dan. 11: 32).
N/B Exploits are mind-blowing feats of faith.
Impossibilities cheaply turning into possibilities.
Those who don’t know God are exploited by the devil.
Knowledge delivers (Proverb 11: 9).
Knowledge generates inner might.
The absence of knowledge, keeps you as a weakling.
Knowledge of God guarantees grace (2pt. 1: 2)(Hosea 5: 6)
N/B without knowledge, disgrace is guaranteed.
SKILL: Your skill makes you relevance at all times. (Prov. 22: 29)
To be skillful means to show expertise.
It shows competence in an occupation, craft or art.
It is the display of dexterity.
Having acquired a high degree of proficiency not as an amateur.
Your skill in any endeavour makes you preferable to others.
It is a light that makes you shine outstandingly.
Your skill makes you an asset not a liability. (Ex. 31: 6, 35:35 and 35:35).
DECLARATIONS:
May your skill bring you profit-all round.
Relevance becomes your portion.
May you go out and come back with profits.
The anointing of relevance falls upon you in Jesus name Amen.
Peace and grace be multiplied unto you.
Instability and disgrace are subtracted from you Amen.
Introduction:
Your stop over does not mean your bus stop, it does not matter where you stop you only stopped to recuperate and get yourself refreshed to learn more about what you are pursuing. Failure is not and evil, failure is a teacher. Failure is not the end of your life, failure is an experience. (You fail so that you can learn and to start up again intelligently). It is better to do something and fail, than to sit down without doing anything because you are afraid of failure. Failure is a gate way to success.
Psalm 11:3. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do”? Your accomplishment in life is traced to the kind of foundation you have.
LAYERS OF FOUNDATION FOR MANIFESTATION IN DESTINY
4. Character (Godly): Everyone is made up of character, there’s nobody who doesn’t have one character or the other. Some people cannot be loved for a long time because of their character. Some of us might not be allowed access to one’s inner room because of our character. Some of us might be welcomed at the gate because of our character.
Proverbs 23:7 – “For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee” (KJV)
Character is centered in the heart.
(i) Character has to do with Moral qualities, personal traits and habitual conducts.
(ii) Character has to do with a peculiar quality or the sum total of qualities by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others.
(iii) It is also a stamp impress by nature, education or habit.
(iv) It is also that which a person or thing really is, is nature or disposition.
How To Build A Godly Character
Godly character can be acquired in six ways:
1. Inheritance
2. Association
3. Religious Inclination
4. Education
5. Career Ethics Or Professional Ethics
6. Marital Relationship
Character exhibition or the content of the quality or otherwise of your heart can be inherited. Genetic or generic. I.e. it flows in the veins of member of your family. You are just born into it. And most times it affects ones negatively not positively. Character can be inherited.
Note: education cannot deliver one from inherited character traits. Your character cannot be reformed in the library or in the laboratory if it is inherited. The only thing that can break you loose from your cooperation with ungodly character inherited from your family background is the undiluted word of God which you have chosen to accept the way it comes.
2. Good or bad character traits can also be acquired through association, experiences over the years that seem to be your watch word about life. Family background and up bringing, territorial influence.
Note: if you are not directed or controlled or molded by the word of God, before you know it you start acting, behaving, speaking like the people in the environment you find yourself (and you won’t even know that you have started acting like them until somebody tells you, this is not the you I knew).
3. It can also be acquired through religious inclination – religion is a very powerful tool to change or to make or to destroy humanity. Who speaks to your life is very important.
Running away from church because the truth is told does not mean that you will not still meet with destiny.
Note: destiny does not begin and end in church.
4. It can also be acquired through education. It will only take God to change the child in a typical village who attend either primary school there to think like the child who attends standard primary school in the city. Give yourself to the renewal of your mind.
5. It can also be acquired through career ethics or professional ethics.
6. It can also be acquired through marital relationship. It takes one person to come into your life and change you positively, also it takes one person to come into your life and change you from a good person you used to be to something else (just one person). So be careful when you are choosing a life partner. Broken courtship is better than broken marriage – check it very well.
Where does character reside:
Matthew 15:18-20 – “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man” (KJV).
Character is exhibited in three principal ways;
1. The word you speak
2. Your actions
3. Disposition
Your character can give you a corrupt destiny. Corruption and defilement in life and destiny is a product and the content of the heart. A good man is known by his speeches, actions and disposition not just by his word. Likewise a bad person is equally known by his words, actions and disposition.
Counsel for good or bad character traits
Guide your heart.
Proverbs 4:23 – “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life” (KJV).
Break loose consciously from the negative attitude of your family.
Romans 13:12 – “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light” (KJV).
2. Renew your mind with the word of God.
Romans 12:1-2 – “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (KJV).
EXAMPLE OF GODLY CHARACTERS FOR MANIFESTATION
1. Honesty: Crookedness in life and destiny will always end in a crooked destiny. Dishonesty will always end one in shame and reproach and create the atmosphere of distrust in the heart of people around you.
2 Corinthians 4:1-2 – “Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God” (KJV).
Note: Dishonesty is hidden in the heart where the ordinary eyes cannot see. God will not borrow a course outline from the devil to teach you on how to succeed as far as success is concerned. Everything you need to be successful is in the word of God. It will take honesty for you to sow honestly. It takes grace to be a son or daughter of consolation in the kingdom of God; you don’t do it by copying because you will fail. Faith operates in line with good conscience.
A conscience is everyone monitor. Thought for you; proofing a point for men to like you where will it lead you to, because the same people who accept you today will be the same people who will reject you tomorrow. So don’t frustrate your relationship with God because you are looking for acceptance.
2 Timothy 2:1-2 – “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also” (KJV).
You become strong in line with the gifts of God as you exercise yourself through the grace God has given to you.
Ephesians 4:22-25 – “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another” (KJV).
2. Faithfulness:
Psalm 12:1 – “Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men” (KJV),
It means trust worthiness, being dependable. It means someone can rely on you for anything.
Point to Note about being Faithfulness:
(i) Faithful people are scarce.
Proverbs 20:6 – Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? (KJV)
(ii) Unfaithfulness breaks confidence.
Proverbs 25:19 –“Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint” (KJV)
(iii) Faithfulness guarantees blessing. Note: anyone you have anything to do with, who is unfaithful will cause delay. Unfaithful people bring delay, anger; they cause you to think otherwise. Unfaithful people are like a broken tooth.
(iv) Faithfulness causes God to entrust heavenly treasures into your trust.
1Timothy 1:12 – And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; (KJV).
The gift of God might be in a man’s life but note it is the Holy Spirit that amplifies the functionality of that gift. God gives us responsibility in his kingdom with the aim that responsibility will make us responsible.
Diligence; Hard work, commitment and seriousness:
Proverbs 4:23“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life” (KJV).
It takes diligence which means concentrated effort to guide, keep and monitor your heart. A careless person cannot guide or keep his heart with all diligence. So it takes hard work which can be seen as concentrated effort and commitment.
Point to Note about Diligence:
(i) Successful leadership at home, work, church is founded on the platform of diligence. Remember in leadership the first person you lead is YOU.
Romans 12:8 – “Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness” (KJV).
(ii) Diligence introduces you to the court and corridors of Kings and delivers you from mediocrity.
Proverbs 22:29 – “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men]” (KJV).
You can’t be diligence in your pursuit if you are not diligence in Kingdom pursuit, because God is a Jealous God.
PRAYERS:
1. Father help me to develop from today a Godly character, Attitude that will help me to flow in the same frequency with the demand of the word of God.
2. Lord help me I’m unfaithful and unreliable, I have disappointed you in different ways, Lord have mercy on me and restore me once again.
3. Oh Lord deliver me from laziness.
DECLARATION:
I declare the mercy and the power of God to touch you, deliver you and set you free from the captivity of hell in Jesus Mighty Name.
Text: Daniel 5:10-15
– Ministering: Apostle Jordan Akada
INTRODUCTION: (the excellent spirit) People are not recommended because they work too hard, or because of their talent, but because of their character. There are some responsibilities that will not be given to some people any where including church because of the kind of character traits the possess. It is good that we know that we are living in the world that is growing (physically, spiritually, and scientifically) and we might call it breakthrough.
We are living in a generation both in church and in the world where the standard will not be reduced in other to keep us. A normal person who has a destiny should endeavor to grow up to the standard, not to look for means and medium to bring the standard to his/her level.
Standard here has to do with character. In a society that has a destiny or future nobody would like to reduce the standard so that you can stay. So we have to grow as Christian to meet up with the standard so that we can live a better life.
GODLY CHARACTER:
Excellence: Excellence has to do with a spirit; it is more of a spiritual virtue than ordinary.
(Daniel 5:10-15) – “[Now] the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: [and] the queen spake and said, O king, live forever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him;
whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, [I say], thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers; Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Then was Daniel brought in before the king. [And] the king spake and said unto Daniel, [Art] thou that Daniel, which [art] of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. And now the wise [men], the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:” (KJV)
There are levels of wisdom (excellent wisdom). The function of the spirit of excellence is Character or virtue. I pray that by the end of this teaching the spirit of excellence shall be imparted to someone’s life in the name of Jesus. There’s something that distinguishes you from other people, makes you unique in your pursuit, in your lifestyle, in your association with people and that is the spirit of excellence.
5 Importance of Godly Character
Godly Character
1. It enhances restoration and establishment in life and pursuits
(Daniel 4:36) – “At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me” (KJV)
2. It enhances knowledge and understanding.
(Daniel 5:12) – “Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation” (KJV)
3. An excellent spirit enhances interpretation and definition of complicated issues, offers solutions to mysterious problems and answers to uncommon questions.
(Daniel 5:12) – “Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation” (KJV)
4. An excellent spirit produces insight, intelligent and outstanding wisdom. If there’s anything you should cry for not just has a child of God is that God should give you sound insight, intelligent and outstanding wisdom not just common wisdom. So there’s an added advantage to you since you are a child of God that you carry all this attributes of God. The classical nature of operations in every field of life in today’s world does not call for mediocrity.
(Daniel 5:14) – “I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee” (KJV), (Proverbs 17:27) – “He that hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit” (KJV)
He that had knowledge spareth is words. Stop wasting your words. Hear this child of God, most of the time we shout deliverance, deliverance, the truth is that nothing might be really wrong with our spirit but a lot of things are wrong with our mentality.
So it does not matter of how many times you talk to a person with a wrong mentality you are wasting your time. For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. The devil will fight you best on what you believe but he will not conquer. You can defeat yourself in any situation because of how you think.
Prayer: Oh Lord change our mentality before they mess us up and turn us to animals. This word of God is life; it gives you righteous boldness if you believe in it. When you have an excellent spirit you will dwell among the living. There are many people whom are alive but they dwell among the death.
(Proverbs 21:16) – “The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead” (KJV).
5. An excellent spirit attracts preferential treatment.
(Daniel 6:3) – “Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit [was] in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm” (KJV)
I pray that from today where ever you find yourself, you shall be preferred above others. Preferential treatment is a function of the kind of spirit that is operational in you, that character traits which is called the character of excellence (he/she knows what to do and he want to do it at his best, to the best of his ability, to the best of his/her wisdom and understanding).
Note this Child of God: what you cannot handle when you are alone, you won’t be able to do it better when someone is there to supervise you. Supervision creates the sense of uncertainty in you, weather you will make a mistake or not, but if you can handle things excellently when there’s nobody to supervise or monitor you, you shall be preferred among others.
Being excellent means to be of a great virtue or worth, eminent, it distinguishes you for what is admirable, valued and adorable.
DISCRETION:
Discretion- Ability To Determine
Discretion is the ability to know the best course of action for achieving your goals. It is knowledge and understanding with purpose.
Note: There are people who claim to be knowledgeably, claim to have understanding but there are purposeless in life and having all this does not take them to anywhere.
So knowledge and understanding in life become useful because you have a purpose in life and you understand that purpose. Knowledge is to be acquired and applied, understanding is to be acquired and applied in the purpose which God created you for.
This kind of knowledge enables you to make the right choices that will protect you from blonder and their consequences. Most of the things we call mistakes are not really mistakes, rather there are acts of ignorance.
Genesis 41:32 – “And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it is] because the thing [is] established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass” (KJV)
I pray for you that after today’s meeting something shall drop in your spirit and it is called the virtue of discretion and the way you will start doing things people shall begin to say this man/woman has changed, he/she is no more the person we use to know, the way he does things is quite different from the way we use to know him, in the name of Jesus.
6 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCRETION:
Discretion sets you above your equals even in a strange land.
2. Discretion gives your word power and authority keeping you in control of everything.
(Genesis 41:40) – “Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou” (KJV).
It is not enough to speak in tongues, thank you for the Bible but let this Bible plant in us discretion in the Name of Jesus. Note this: there’s no wrong mathematical formula like a woman to marry a man who is not discrete.
3. Absence of discretion makes a beautiful woman tasteless (no moral sensibility) our beauty will be put to wrong use if there’s no discretion.
(Proverbs 11:22) – “[As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion” (KJV),
So discretion as a woman gives you taste that makes your husband to enjoy you.
4. Discretion makes you to be sort for.
(Genesis 41:31) – “And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it [shall be] very grievous” (KJV)
5. Discretion is a supernatural tool for kingdom services and successful home management.
(Titus 2:5) – “[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (KJV).
6. Discretion helps you to conduct yourself wisely so that the gospel is not discredited.
(Titus 2:5) – “[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (KJV).
PRAYERS:
1. Father in the name of Jesus I receive an excellent spirit into my soul, into my spirit, into my body.
2. Father in the name of Jesus I receive the spirit of discretion into my soul, into my spirit, into my body.
3. From today they shall be an outstanding change in the way I think, the way I reason, the way I work, the way I talk, the way I act and in everything I do. Let excellence be made manifest, let discretion be seen practically in the name of Jesus that the gospel might not be blasphemed because of me.
4. Set me up on high above my equal with an excellent spirit, let those who have rejected me begin to look for me because there’s a manifestation of excellence and discretion in my life Amen.
5. The excellent spirit shall locate me in Jesus name Amen.
(The church) If Isaiah 58 must be profitable to us then we have to observe and following:
Servanthood: Servanthood in this context talks about someone who’s out to serve the master at all cost.
Servanthood is all about serving in God’s kingdom. It is the ladder to attain height in the kingdom of God. Now note, no servanthood no service. Good and proper management has to do with service. And if you don’t serve today you cannot manage well tomorrow.
Signs of servanthood:
Humility:
[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. (Philippians 2:3 KJV)
Number one sign to know that someone is a servant indeed is humility. Absence of humility always brings problem in any gathering. It takes humility for you to keep yourself low and see another person’s work as something. Absence of humility makes you to think whatever anybody does in the church is nonsense.
Every servant carries the spirit of preparedness:
A servant is always prepared for the next command come rain or sun, He/she is always prepared for the next instruction and commands.
(1Tim. 4:7-8, 2Tim. 3:17)
Always ready to serve where needed:
A servant must be ready to serve where needed and not where he/she is not needed.
For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you]. ( 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 KJV)
He/she serves God directly not by proxy, not by delegating or representation.
(1Chonicle 28:1-21)
Living by Example:
(Titus 2:3-5, Prov. 31:30).
You preach a quick and fast message with your lifestyle to people. Your lifestyle is expected to affect your neighbours in Church positively.
It is expected of you as an old person to welcome newcomers, teach and show them good example. But it’s quite unfortunate that now adays, new converts are the ones teaching older people in some churches, this is so shameful.
Women are good observers both in our families and in the house of God, our work places and even in occasions. Encourage and exhort one another in sincerity.
N/B: Wisdom is the product of fearing the Lord.
Be always available and be willing to be used by God:
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:38 KJV)
There’s difference between obedience and being willing. Your obedience must be backed up with willingness. Willing obedience guarantees harvest of the good of the land (Isaiah 1: 19).
Be dedicated to service. (Luke 2:36-37)
Guide others to become Effective. Acts 18:24
Work in Love and obedience to God.
Tell others what Jesus has done for you. (John 4:39)
N/B: It is not a bad thing to encourage someone in church with what Jesus has done for you.
Be a liberal and a generous giver.
She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. (Proverbs 31:20 KJV)
The poor here talks about someone who is in need, someone who needs what you have more than you do, in so doing that’s makes you liberal and generous. Don’t think of lowering the standard you came to meet, instead look for ways to improve the standard. Don’t make your recipients your slave, because in this life things change.
The person you think you are giving help today, by tomorrow may become your giver. The person you are looking at, like a poor collector; can, may and will become a rich giver tomorrow. Don’t look down on any man. You are not God; God is still the lifter of men. The church you are despising today will not remain despised forever.
Jesus is the builder of His church. He shed His blood for His Church. The prosperity of the Church is His delight.
He will build His Church spiritually, physically, materially, numerically and otherwise.
PRAYERS:
I receive grace to serve in God’s kingdom.
Oh Lord baptizes me with spirit of wisdom for service Amen.
I receive profits in my service in the kingdom Amen.
