Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 10, 2020.
Rest in My Grace
God establishing people on a next level, the enemy is finding it difficult to catch up with many hearts that are yielding to God. This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for, God is locking old doors behind us and powerfully ushering us into the new!
In an encounter with the Lord; I saw someone with a great zeal to please the LORD, I saw a new task he wanted to embark on to help promote God’s kingdom, it was like an advertisement kind of Job. Then I saw the LORD cautioning him to do all things from a place of resting in him for more efficiency.
I was led by the Spirit to:
Isaiah 30:15,18For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not…And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Then the Lord said; “Rest in my grace for therein lies your power. Return to your sufficiency. Quiet yourself in my love, Be confident in my unfailing love and grace for I desire to be gracious unto you that my greatness may be magnified in your insufficiency. As you wait upon your God, by my mercy, greater blessings, greater achievements come upon”
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 9, 2020.
Your Warfare is Over
Hearts are being energized, God is putting an end to long standing issues. There is a finality to things and opening of new chapters.
There is one thing to be healed, there is another thing to maintain your healing, it is one thing to receive from God, it is another thing to keep what you have received.
The enemy is a thief, destroyer, a killer. But God is the giver of gifts. The giver of abundant life.
John 10:10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
I have heard something that shocked me, I heard from a man of God I respect so much on TV that after the death of Kathryn kuhlman, a great healing minister, a survey was conducted after her death on her healing ministry and it was discovered that 97% of the people who got healed under her ministry got there sicknesses back.
This was very alarming to me and a thing of major concern. People have lost their jobs, lost a lot of things that God has given to them to the enemy because of not knowing how to defend their gifts.
Now let’s see, what the word of God says;
John 3:27 “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.”
The above verse says whatsoever you receive in life must come from God. That means every thing you have in life is a gift from God. You have it by way of reception from heaven, hence it is gift from God.
Whatsoever is good and perfect in your life is a gift from your loving father
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Observe the last part of the verse “neither shadow of turning.” God changes not. Today God gives us all things through Christ. Under the old covenant it was through the law (the man that does these things shall be blessed in them) and since they couldn’t keep the law the gifts were often withdrawn.
Butt today all blessings come to us by the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and nothing else this is why we are told:
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
The spirit of religion has looked for a way to explain this scripture away but it is what it is. The word repentance above means irrevocable. God gives good gifts and never withdraws them.
You can sit and let the enemy take your healing, job, property, etc in the name of religion. Or you can be very aggressive!
when he comes for my children, ministry, health I rise in anger with this knowledge and tell him get off my stuff! I know this is not God, he is not taking my stuff away from me, his gifts are irrevocable. I know who the thief is and for this trouble I demand a seven fold return from you devil!
These things are simple but the most effective if the revelation gets into you. Meditate upon these scriptures and rise up for what is yours.
In and encounter with the LORD, I heard “Your Warfare is Over, This is the Time of My Glory.”
Isaiah 40:1-2 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 8, 2020.
My Spirit Remaineth Among You: Fear Ye Not
There is a weight of the glory of God that is released upon hearts in this season. This glory has built up a resistance against the wiles of the enemy. As we are leaning on the word we are experiencing an energy within which is helping in the fulfillment of his counsel.
There is a misconception that has caused a lot of people to be slack in seeing God use them to bless others either through healing or other ways. This misconception says what you have not worked in you cant make it work in other peoples lives or lets say it this way what you have not experienced you can give to others.
Now this unscriptural idea has made a lot of people to fall back from being a blessing to others thinking, how can I see her healed since I have not being able to experience divine healing myself? How can i make anyone rich since I am not rich myself? This kind of idea promotes selfishness.
Now let me say this to you, you may be fighting series of illnesses and be used by God to see miracles in the same things you are having challenges in.
Now we all are familiar with the story of Abraham and Sarah, we are told before the promise came to pass his body was dead (impotent) and Sarah’s womb was also dead. He was walking around exercising his faith without seeing results.
Romans 4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
Yet this man who had not seen the manifestation of God’s promise upon his life prayed for someone with the same problem and got them healed.
Genesis 20:17-18 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
A man struggling to have a child, the womb of his wife closed up prayed and got another man healed and opened the wombs of an entire household. Abraham did not say, Lord let me experience this first before I can pray for someone else.
That act of obedience opened up something, remember the Bible was not written with chapters. They have been included by translators to help us identity scriptures. Why have I brought that up? Because we are told in the next chapter
Genesis 21:1-2 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Observe the word “And” at the start of the above verse. It is suggesting a conjuction, that what is to be said is connected to the pretext. What he prayed to happen for others why he was still not in possession of it came immediately upon him after his prayer.
Don’t let the enemy shut you out by any form of disqualification, if you have not seen it happen in your life yet, get in happening in others, its a door way to seeing it happen in your life.
You can be poor but making others rich, your poverty means nothing, you are not the source, God is the source. You are just a Chanel. God can use you to produce billionaires in his kingdom even in your low state.
We are not told in scriptures that the apostles had multitude of horses and Carmel and a great quantity of gold and silver. But we are told:
2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
You are not disqualified, be a blessing and encounter more blessings.
In an encounter with the LORD, I saw Haggai Chapter 2 displayed and these verses were highlighted to me, the LORD is Fulfilling theseverse upon the body of Christ in this season:
Haggai 2:3-9 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
Blessings in Christ, Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua Living Hill Christian Church.
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 7, 2020.
Expect Great Favour
Things are getting more excited in the spirit. It is a season of breakthroughs. In this season many people are going to be shifted to the next level by the favor of God. They will totally leave where they used to be to a different level for the advancement of kingdom of God.
I prophesied on 22 April, 2020 that in the next three months God is exceeding the expectations of many. This is the final month of the three months I prophesied. I heard a similar word even this morning. I don’t know what area you are seeking breakthrough in but watch as God exceeds your expectations this month.
There is something as hope differed which sickens the heart. Many times when God gives us promises we may keep hoping and waiting until if we do not hope the right way, we are in danger of entering into heart problems.
There is a right and a wrong way to hope for things even if God has promised them. What keeps us in bondage are not actually big things most times, small things if we do not learn how to overcome them may be our biggest chains. What I am about to share I have suffered from it too, but I found a way out and now I hope it blesses you.
Now look at this;
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12
No one is above this, if you do not know how to overcome a deferred expectation. Your heart will always fail. When what you desire does not come to pass at the time you desire it, your heart will always fail you, except you understand how to overcome.
Now let me give you an example; when I began praying for the sick, my desire was to see every one healed. So now, at the beginning, I would pray for people without seeing any change some days. I knew I am called into the healing ministry but I was not seeing the desired results in most cases. After praying for people without results I would go home depressed. Then the next time I see results my heart would be awakened.
Then I began to seek for a way to stabilize my feelings whether I see instant healing or not.
The Lord taught me through the story of Abraham. If there ever lived a man who was supposed to be heart sick through hope deferred, I would suggest Abraham. Abraham suffered from hope deferred, never knowing when the promise of a son would come to pass in his life until one day God appeared to him and gave him a final solution. A solution that would keep his heart steady if he sees a son or not;
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Genesis 15:1
The last part says “I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” Now God gave himself to Abraham as his reward. Abraham’s reward was not just a son, but God himself was his reward. Whatsoever Abraham would do his reward or result would be God.
Then God began to teach me, your reward is not a healing, your reward is not fifty people accepting Christ in a service. Whatsoever you do, leave the natural, for I am your reward. If you are satisfied with me as your reward, your heart will never be sick for I change not. Yesterday I am your reward, today I am your reward, tomorrow I am still your reward.
Now, I do not set a target, my target is God. I do his will and expect only him as my reward. So when things don’t go the way we think should go in the natural, I am satisfied with him as my result. But I have found out that, there are more results this way than any other, because God in turn is the manifestation of every thing.
This can be applied to business, to any area of your life. Whatsoever you do, whatsoever is promised to you, whether it comes to pass or not, you can rest in the fact that you already have your reward. Christ our all, Christ our reward.
In an encounter with the LORD this morning I heard“expect great favour for the advancement of my kingdom ”
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come. Psalm 102 :13
And again;
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. Psalm 35:27
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 6, 2020
You Have Escaped the Corruption in the World.
There is a review, revisiting, a lot of things are being reviewed. Past hurts are being reviewed to check out our response. God is solidifying our hearts for the great breakthrough upon us this month.
There is something about the peace of God. If we understand the peace of God we will always be led by God and rest will be our result. Most at times we may make a lot of decisions in life to which if not led by God, we may live to regret them a life time. This is why understanding how to be led by the peace of God is indispensable.
Now a lot of Christians struggle with this thing about being led by God in making certain decisions. It could be buying a house, finding a mate, choosing a job or career, and just little decisions that will help keep us out of disaster.
First, we must understand who the peace of God is:
Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Observe the fist sentence, “For he is our peace” Christ is our peace. Even though peace carries feelings, it goes beyond feelings. It is God. But how does this profit me in decision making?
Hear what Colossians says: Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
It says let peace RULE. We have be called to enjoy this peace. When you are between two decisions, you must go the way of peace no matter how beautiful it looks on the outside. The word used above for rule is from the Greek word brabeuō which means to arbitrate that is (generally) to govern (figuratively prevail).
This is how you are led, you let the peace of God umpire,govern, prevail over the opposite options. Where you feel the most peace, Go With That for God is peace. Peace is the way of God, lack of peace is the way of disaster.
No matter how ugly it looks on the outside, let the peace of God arbitrate your decisions For Peace is God and God never fails. There is a statement that “not all that glitters is gold” yeah sometimes I see a lot of situations around me that you cannot find fault with by mere observation, but when I do not feel peace about it, I will not be led to that direction for God is not with me on that. I have let human perception buy my decision.
Joy awaits you as you follow God’s peace. Look at what we are told happens to us when we follow God’s peace:
Isaiah 55:12-13 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
In a vision; I saw a house with a christian within and I saw this house surrounded by armed men. I saw people escaping and I saw this Christian also run out and escaped. Then I saw that those that escaped were looking for those they were in the house together whether they had all escaped. Finally they shoutd the name of this believer and I heard him repond say, I have also escaped.
I have been seeing this kind of visions for sometime now and I believe God is protecting and setting a lot of his people free from different things at this hour.
Coming out, I was led by the Spirit to;
Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Then the Lord said; “By my power and grace you are set free. Though your adversary sets a thousand snares for you, through the life of the Son you have escaped the corruption in the world.
You have broken through. Rise up in faith for I have set you free from every pestilential distemper.
You are delivered from all plagues in the world, even the plague of sin and condemnation.
Receive this, for this is a surety from your father.”
Blessings in Christ, Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua Living Hill Christian Church.
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 5, 2020
Your Obscurity is Broken There is a surge of Joy and peace coming out from the manifestation of the life of Christ in many hearts that are seeing and laying hold of the life of Jesus as their own. This is a moment of manifestation.
There is something about being born again that produces a rest unmatched. This is why in most nations people agree to be Christian’s but reject the doctrine of being born again.
Oh if they knew the riches untold that lie in the revelation of knowing that you are born again when you believe in and accept Jesus as your Lord and saviour.
Today the devil regrets having killed Jesus. Principalities and powers are angry for letting Jesus die because in the death of Jesus, there is a resurrection of the believer that has overcome the world.
Look how the enemy is regretting, the mystery of the death was hidden from the enemy:
1 Corinthians 2:7-8 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
They did not know that in the crucifixion of Jesus a victorious life was going to be birthed. They didn’t know that the crucifixion of Jesus was their destruction.
Colossians 2:13-15 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Some of the victories of the the cross are mentioned here. These victories that have brought regret to the kingdom of darkness:
First, why we were dead in sins, Jesus destroyed principalities and powers by nailing our sins, the handwriting of ordinances which is the Law that we couldn’t and cannot keep, hence was against us. He then gave us the irrevocable gift of the forgiveness of sins through his death on the cross.
Secondly, we were not left there, we were quickened, made alive, that is we were resurrected, oh where we were dead in sins we were born again, now born of God.
This is the peak of the regret of the enemy. That today we are born again. Born of the living God. Why is he regretting?
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Observe the sentence “ye are of God” then it says we have overcome. We are not overcoming but we have already overcome.
Now listen, if we were not born of God we wouldn’t have overcome, but we are already born of God. The enemy came too late, he allowed you to be born again! Now you have already overcome by birth.
If he had known that we will be born of God through the death of Jesus he wouldn’t have worked out his own defeat.
Now greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. The Omnipotent one, the all powerful, all sovereign God lives on our inside.
Rejoice, the enemy missed it, he allowed you to accept the victorious life of Jesus. Now We are born of God and have overcome every principality, power, and very work of darkness.
In an encounter with the Lord, I saw a Christian who has been under some dark times, and I saw the LORD come and declare this over him “I have finally broken the jinx”
The Holy Ghost led me to:
1 John 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
Then the Lord Said, “Your obscurity is broken, Your chains have I destroyed. Your adversary has tried to hold you bound for a long time, but now your light has come. The darkness has passed. My light has dispelled your darkness. From now on – your glory days have begun.”
Blessings in Christ, Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua Living Hill Christian Church.
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Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 4, 2020
Do Not be Weary, for Your Day Comes
There is a going forward happening in a lot of hearts right now. Suggestions are coming from the enemy of why many should turn back but a lot of hearts are pushing forward and encountering the joy in the Holy Ghost.
There is something unique about the guarantee of God’s love demonstrated towards us which is different from the human kind of love.
The God kind of love is called agapao in The Greek. which is the strongest, the unconditional and unfailingly kind of love. There is another called the phileo kind of love which is often demonstrated by humans which speaks of liking someone.
In this life, we face challenges. We are daily dealing with issues but still yet we are told in God’s word that – we are more than conquerors.
A conqueror fights to win a victory, so if we are more than conquerors, that means there must be a different route to victory. This is revealed to us:
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Observe the above verse carefully, it gives us the route to being more than conquerors. It says “through him that loved us”
The love of God for us is our escape route from all the works of the enemy. This love is unconditional, underserved, unmerited, unearned.
This is our way out. This is why we are called more than conquerors because God’s love does not keep a record of wrongs, never changes and never fails, always protecting and supplying the victory in the life of Jesus.
1 Corinthians 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
We will look to God’s Love, and be confident in its nature, for it is unchanging even as He is unchanging. It is shed abroad in our hearts.
Because God loves us and his love never fails, let us see that we are more than conquerors, daily living in the victory of his love.
In an encounter with the LORD, I saw a Christian waiting upon God with a great desire to rise in the things of the Spirit, he was not comfortable at his level, it bordered him. But suddenly I saw another scene where he was flying in a flying boat on the sea at a great speed with excitement.
Coming out The Spirit Led Me to:
Isaiah 40:29-31 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Then The Lord said:“Do not be weary, for your day comes. You are going up by revelation. I have granted strength to you through my Spirit.
You are being energized to see the visions of your God.
You will understand the form of your God and mount up with wings, rising so high as an eagle in the things of the Spirit.
Because you wait upon your God, you will run and not be weary, walk and not faint, for I am renewing your strength.”
Blessings in Christ, Pastor Jahfas Victor Ahua Living Hill Christian Church
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Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 2, 2020.
I Say to You, Nothing Shall By any Means Hurt You
The enemy never relents, he is constantly on the move looking for whom to devour. There is nothing like a peaceful time but there is something as a victory time where even though he is constantly making attempts we are still triumphant by the power of the peace of the king on our inside.
Many hearts are pushing through the darkness and reaping the harvest, doing the needed because we are realizing there is nothing like a perfect time.
There is something about the life of Jesus. There are riches untold found in this divine unification. When we come to Christ we are told in several passages of scripture that we become dead and receive a new life. Here is one of them;
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3
“For ye are dead”
Oh this is one of my greatest scriptures in the entire word of God. For “ye are dead” is a declaration and not a promise. To believe in Christ is to die and be resurrected with him effectually. It is not something we just merely reckon with, but it is effectual. It is a real and tangible experience.
Why do I say it is real and tangible?
I have heard this statement “Man is spirit, has a soul and lives in a body.”
Yes, it is true. The moment the spirit leaves the body life is gone because the real man is the spirit; the only thing living in the body is the spirit. Everything receives life from the spirit.
“For as the body without the spirit is dead”James 2:26
So when we come to Jesus there is a spiritual circumcision.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
We loose the old spirit and we receive the new man, the spirit of Christ. Here we receive a new life;
am crucified with Christ: neverthless 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.Galatians 2:20
Observe the statement “yet not I”we become dead effectually and Christ now lives in us. But what does it actually mean to be dead? We are told;
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
A dead man has no part in whatsoever is done upon the earth. He has left the physical, his reality is all spiritual. He has left natural affections.
This is what has been explained to us in the first verses of the third chapter of the book of Colossians as we saw above.
“And your life is hid with Christ in God.”
Outside of Christ I don’t have a life. I have no part in anything done on the earth. If I must find my life, if must see my life, then I must go to Christ, for he is my life.
Notice it does not say my spirit is hidden in Christ but my entire existence is hidden in Christ. If I must live I must look for my life in Christ. I am left with no choice but to accept the life of Jesus as my own. This is why I can’t leave without continuously feeding upon the word.
This is why I must meditate on heavenly things for my life is far beyond the natural. My heart must be set on him above, for I do not have a life outside of him.
This is why sickness can’t scare me, death cannot scare me. If I was living, I would be scared. If it was my life, I would be scared, but now it is the life of God. I have died in Christ and now I die no more. He lives and his life is my life. All of Christ is mine. When he appears, I appear in glory.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:4
In an encounter with the LORD, I saw the enemy trying to deceive a Christian into using a charm for protection. But I saw the power of God rise up on the inside of this Christian and I heard him say to the enemy “this will not harm me but it will rather be destroyed if I touch it.”
The Holy Ghost led me to;
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19
Then the LORD said; “You have my nature on your inside, you have the raising from the dead power of your God. This power is without intermission, it is eternal.
Nothing can come between the operation of my power in your life. As long as I AM in you, I AM your Glory.
I say to you, nothing shall by any means hurt you, rise in glory and tread over all the power of the enemy.”
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy July 1, 2020.
I Have Uniquely Anointed You
Each day comes with its own troubles but many are beginning to see the door of escape opened before us. Many hearts are walking through this door even though things look tough on the outside, and they are experiencing some comfort coming from the very heart of God.
There is something good and very vital about looking unto God which produces results in the midst of adversity. It is the key to experiencing the salvation we have received in Christ Jesus.
Looking unto God is different from looking at God. You can look at something but there may never be a connection, but when you look unto someone you are expecting either a blessing or something to be bestowed upon you. This is why looking unto God is same as believing in God. It is the demonstration of our faith in him.
The LORD explains to us the way to experiencing salvation is through looking unto him;
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must The Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:14-15
Here Jesus says the lifting up of the serpent in the wilderness was a demonstration of salvation that men may believe and experience eternal life. So let us go back to see how they believed?
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Numbers 21:9
When they were bitten by a serpent all they needed to do was to behold! Beholding is the exercise of faith. They looked to the serpent on the tree and they were healed.
Jesus became our serpent on the tree. He became sin, He took on the works of the serpent upon himself that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
The word translated above for beheld is the Hebrew word nabat which means to scan, to look intently, to regard with favor or care (Strong’s Concordance H5027).
The word that got my attention from the definition is the word scan. In the natural a scan is done in the medical filed when we cannot look at something with our physical eyes properly. The scan when done, goes deeper and reviews the hidden image which we accept as the real condition of the thing we have not seen with just the eyes.
We leave what we see and know and we accept the one the machine has revealed to us as the reality. Has the serpent bitten you? What is the bite? It could be sin, maybe sickness, maybe the bondage of the law, maybe condemnation.
Come let us look to Jesus. Let us by-pass what our natural eyes can see and wear on us a new reality which is the unseen reality in Christ. On that tree our sicknesses, all our sorrows he bore and today he is made our salvation. We look beyond and accept that his person is our salvation. We are unified with him and as he is so are we in this world.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.1 John 4:17
What is judging you today? What is speaking against you? Look beyond and see that as he is so are we in this world. What you feel is not your reality; Jesus is not sick, depressed, poor, addicted, feeling rejected and condemned today. He is at the right hand of God where honour, glory, blessing, and power have being given to him.
Just like the scan. Accept this reality as your own and see the manifestation. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. This is how true faith works.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2Corinthians 5: 6-8
The word for in the above sentence “For we walk by faith, not by sight” suggests an inference or conclusion drawn from the previous verse. So to understand how to practically walk by faith and not by sight we must look at the sixth verse carefully which says; “whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.”
What does it mean to be at home in the body? It is to agree with the natural, to deny that you are not as he is because of your natural circumstances.
But when we are willing to walk by faith and not by sight we become “willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
I don’t care what is going wrong around me. I take my mind off that and I fix my gaze on Christ my salvation. I picture his body as my body. I imagine the fire and power of his incorruptible body as my own.
I understand that nothing can separate me from the love and life of God, He is my health, He is my provision. He is my life and salvation. I will look beyond for yonder lies my true condition.
No matter the pain, no matter the challenges, I will close my eyes and keep envisioning him as MY BEING.
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:22
In an encounter with The LORD; I saw the LORD standing beside a box full of expensive clothes, he removed a red suit jacket and stretched forward to give to a Christian who was just waiting upon the LORD.
Then I saw another person who was standing by rushed and collected this red suit jacket from the LORD but when he tried to wear it on him, it didn’t fit on him, it was not his size and I saw him return the suit jacket to the Christian standing by.
I saw him put on this suit jacket which was very fitting on him and off he went with excitement and was ministering in a church.
The Holy Spirit led me to:
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1Corinthian 2:9-10
Then The Lord spoke and said; “There is place of kingdom manifestation I have prepared for you. Do not be afraid, I have uniquely anointed you for the place I have reserved for you.
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, it has not even entered the heart of man the treasures I have prepared for you.
As you wait, understand that I AM the LORD working on behalf of those who wait for me.
My Spirit is active on your behalf, searching and from the deep things of God you will be overwhelmed with my glory.”
Royal Life Daily Devotional & Prophecy June 30, 2020.
My Victory is Your Reality
As many as are rising in this period, the darkness is making way. The heaviness is giving way as many are pressing in. There is a pressing in daily, where the Joy and strength needed to fulfill each day is rising above the misinterpretations of the enemy.
Yes, there is something great about God’s will. Every creature at present is serving God’s will. The statement I just made is heavy if you would look at it deeply. The entire creation right now is serving God’s will according to this scripture:
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11
Observe the statement they are. They were created for his will and for his will they are presently. I have checked this statement up in the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible and the Septuagint but I have found out that it is rightly rendered even as it appears in the original. Most new versions of the Bible shy away from this verse giving it new meanings but God is truly sovereign.
But let’s stay with our subject of discussion. So generally every creature is serving God’s will either by way of permission or in the glorious will called the good, the acceptable and the perfect will of God. It could be permissible but not good and acceptable and perfect.
“that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Roman 12:2
This is the place of victory, the place of the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. This is the life of an overcoming Christian. Why do I say that it is the life of the Christian that has overcome?
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1John 5:4
Notice it does not say whosoever is born of God overcomes the world but whatsoever is born of God. Anything at all that originates from the nature of God overcomes the world. It could be a business, parenting, Marriage, Christian Ministry, governance, whatsoever. If God is the one that has given the vision, the idea has overcome the world. Nothing can stop it, nothing can change it, and it is omnipotent.
Why do I sound so certain? Look at what the word says;
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:10-11
Observe the highlighted statement in the above verses of comparison. It says the water comes down from heaven and makes the earth to bring forth, even so is the word spoken by God, It does not return to God vain but it makes you or the thing spoken about to accomplish what the word has been proclaimed. The word swallows you when spoken upon you and carries you to the predetermined goal.
Every thing needed to accomplish what is spoken is in the word. Every provision is in the word, all you need to accomplish the vision lands upon you when the word is spoken over you. It takes over you, and makes you fulfill what it has been spoken concerning you.
Basically no one does God’s will. God declares his will but doesn’t stop there. He goes on to do all what he has proclaimed.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isaiah 46:10
Yes, this is why I say you are safe when you have found God’s will. It becomes God at work in you accomplishing his purpose. Nothing fails, only lessons learnt when God is at work.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: Hebrews 6:17
When God reveals his will, his vision for you, whether in marriage, ministry, business, academics, etcetera. It becomes unchangeable and unstoppable because the word spoken is not just a mere word but the word is Christ. God speaks Christ as his vision in your marriage, business, ministry etc. and He is omnipotent, the LORD of all things.
This is why I know a lot of things in my life that can never fail, God’s ministry upon my life for instance will never fail, it will never die, but it will grow and grow and fill the earth with God’s fruits despite the Challenges.
Why do I say this? Because it was never my idea, I used to be a secular musician, very popular in my state and across the country. I never imagined in my life for once I would one day be a pastor. But God saved me from drug addiction and a lot of bondages and set me up into his kingdom. Yet I still had my plans, now I wanted to run and hide on the sea as a Naval Staff and I had made up my mind to pursue it, but the visions of God started appearing to me, laid hold on me and now I am just seeing him fulfill his desire through me.
Oh whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world. I wish I can press this even more. Even the kingdom of darkness knows this more than some of us. Look at this statement;
And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Acts 5:38-39
This statement was made by unbelievers. Creation knows what it means for men to be under God’s counsel. Come against a godly vision whether marriage, business, ministry, whatsoever and you are fighting a battle you can’t win.
Why not receive this will of God and off goes the panic. Sometimes a lot of people are already in it but they see challenges and since they have not fully learned how to discern God’s voice they live in it with fear and anxiety. But if you have not found the will of God for your life or if you are unsure, there is a beginning process.
The Apostle Paul gives us the blue print;
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. Romans 12:1-2
It begins by total submission. You fall before the throne of God and genuinely, from your heart, you are ready to go anywhere he wants you to go, do anything he wants you do and be anything he wants you to be. This is the life of glory. You become a living sacrifice and not a dead one. You are ready to respond to whatsoever the Lord tells you to do. Here God transforms you, renews your mind and puts in new desires. These desires are his purposes for your life.
Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalm 37:4
Yes, when we are wholly committed to God he transforms us. Our desires are changed and his desires become our desires. These godly desires we follow which are at all times in line with God’s word. Sometimes we start by having visions when we are wholly submitted Him but most times it is just godly desires.
We just desire godly things, we desire to please God with our gifts and talents and we so much love and enjoy doing them
All of a sudden you feel like preaching the gospel so much that you can’t help it.
All of a sudden you desire to give more time to your children and bring them up the godly way.
All of a sudden that business idea just falls into your mind and you can’t help it. You desire to change lives with it.
All of a sudden you begin to hate injustice so much you desire to be leader so can you can help put a lot of things right.
All of a sudden you can’t help it seeing someone sick, it really borders your heart. All these godly desires God puts into you which are born from above and can never be overthrown by any power on earth.
I know this is not often an Hallelujah kind of word but it is one of the greatest things to happen to us in salvation.
May the Lord his help us to delight ourselves in Him more so we can receive heavenly visions that will change lives and conquer the world.
In an encounter with the LORD, I saw a Christian who was passing through some trials watching a football match that was already played, I saw someone dribble so well who was on the team he was supporting and I saw him score a wonderful goal. Then I saw the LORD come and spoke to this Christian saying “that victory is your reality”
Coming out the Spirit led me to;
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
Then the LORD said; “It is established, your victory was established before the troubles. Yes, I know and I feel what surrounds you but I say receive my peace that passes understanding.
We cannot be separated, your sorrows are mine and my victory is yours. Look to me for My victory is your reality.
In the midst of it all, be of good cheer, praise and glorify your God, you are coming out victorious for I have already overcome.”
