ARE YOU CERTIFICATED OR EDUCATED?

Certificate is limited but education is unlimited. Certificate brings an end to a schedule (syllabus) of studies but real education careless for certificate. Do not seek to be certificated but to be educated. You may be certificated and be outdated. Certificate is the evidence of going through school but result is the proof that school went through you. You go through school to get certificated but school goes through you to get educated. Never be content to get certificated rather contest to get educated. But dedication is principal requirement for real education. By dedication, you are sold out to continuous learning by paying the ever demanding price for knowledge acquisition. Break the limits off your life. Move from being certificated to continuous education.

SENSITIVITY TO TIMING

The Bible makes us understand that there are seasons and timing for everything under the sun, may you not miss your season! I perceive very strongly in my heart that we are in a season. We have to be sensitive that we don’t miss out. John 5: 2, Now there is at Jerusalem by the market a …waiting for the moving of the water.” Many have waited but when their time came they didn’t know. In spiritual adventure, a major requirement is sensitivity. Many keep waiting and what they are waiting for has passed but they didn’t know, ‘waiting for the moving of the water.’ Your spiritual development has no measure, no value, if you are not sensitive. Spiritually speaking, I believe Christian maturity is a measure of spiritual sensitivity to the happenings of his time and to the events of his days. Sensitivity, ‘waiting for the moving of the water, for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool.’ At a certain season! I believe there is a season in which we are. The Spirit of grace is lingering around us. ‘An angel went at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water and whosoever first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatever disease he had.’ Scriptures are very true; it says “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He’s near.’ (Is. 55:6). There’s a time He is near! I like you to be sure you are not an onlooker to the happening of the hour. You must be sensitive; you must be in the spirit! You don’t sit down when you see your colleagues running otherwise you will regret tomorrow. All who mocked Elisha while he was in pursuit of his next phase of life, bent down before him at his return! They were mocking him; they didn’t know that God was making him. By the time he returned, their language changed, they all bowed to him, they were calling him lord. Seek the Lord while he may be found! When you see people praying in this season, please pray because suddenly the power of the Lord will come down and the demarcation will become clear. Do you know that it is not all you started with that are still around? Do you know you can only have schoolmate you can’t have classmate? This is because classes change from time to time. There are people you have left behind, there are people who have left you behind but may you not be left behind again! Classes change, everybody is striving, everybody is moving. You are either moving or you are pushed out of the line. You are either moving or will be overtaken! Be sensitive, but not only sensitive, also responsive! If you know the season, then respond. This man at the pool of Bethesda where we read, he could tell all the stories. He’s been there for 38 years. He told the story of how everybody that met him there got into the pool. There are people who tell stories, history of revival but they never partook of any. There are many biographers who don’t have biographies of their own. There are many story tellers but there are very few history makers. History makers are those who are both sensitive and responsive. They are sensitive to their timing and responsive to their opportunities. May you not be a story teller! Seek Him while He may be found call upon Him while He is near. Get into the study of the Word! Get into your prayer! Get into deep meditation, catch the things that are in the atmosphere for you and make the most of the opportunity that is before you. Sitting with the Word, meditation deeply in the Word and moving forward by the power of the Holy Spirit. I am sounding an alarm that there is a spirit of grace lingering around waiting for who will catch the signal. May you not miss out! Others are moving, please move, stop standing, stop watching, stop explaining like the man at the pool of Bethesda. Stop telling stories of what’s happening to others, be concerned about what should happen to you and good things shall happen to you. You shall encounter glory! Those who look at God will look like God. They can’t see God and still see evil. If you see evil, it’s an indication that you are not looking at God. Those who look at men will look like men. Fellowshipping with God makes you become Godly and fellowshipping with men makes you behave like men. Fellowship with sinners makes you live in sin. Fellowship with God makes you look like God.

STEPPING INTO MY HIGH PLACES

Habakkuk 3:17-19, “Although the fig tree shall not blossom… he will make me to walk upon mine high places.” Your place in life is high; your place in life is not low. “...Upon my high places”. That convinces me that I have a high place; I am not designed for a low place. “...My high place.” There is a high place for you, please change your mentality. Your true measure in life is not now; your true measure in life is in your future. Your life is future measured not now determined. Verse 17, shows us the now, while verse 19 shows us the future. Verse 17 says the fig tree is not blossoming, ‘what am I bothering myself for?’ No meat, no flock; ‘nothing is working.’ God says take your eyes away from verse 17 look at verse 19. There is a high place for you. Verse 18 is the link between 17 and 19 not just verse by verse arrangement but graphically and revelationary. Verse 18 is the revelation that links 17 to 19, ‘…Yet I will rejoice in the Lord...’ I know something exists around me now, some circumstances that I don’t like but I will use verse 18 to link me to my next phase of life, riding upon my high places. Talking about Jesus in Hebrews 12: 2, “... who for the joy that was set before Him...” I will rejoice in the Lord, not in things. You must define where your joy is. If your joy is linked to things, you will never have it but if your joy is linked to God you outlive things, you outlive circumstances. That is why those who are happy because of money soon lose their happiness when the money is no more there. Those who are happy because of car will soon lose their happiness when the car engine knocks; he loses his joy too. Those who are happy because of position soon become sorrowful when their position is taken from them. There are people whose countenances drop when they hear that they are posted or when they hear that there’s a little change in their assignment, why? He’s linked to things; he is tied to things instead of being linked with God. There is a high place waiting for you, you will get there! “...Yet I will rejoice in the God of my salvation... Joy is not automatic. Joy is borne when revelation is caught. Joy is borne when you are conceived with revelation. It is the pregnancy of the Word that burst forth in joy. There is a high place waiting for you, you can’t jump there. That’s why it says “I will walk...” It’s a conscious thing; you walk into your high places. And what gets you there is joy and joy is not automatic, it’s borne. And how is it borne? Revelation! Thy Word have I found and when I ate it, it became joy and rejoicing of my soul ... (Jeremiah 15:16). That enables me to see beyond my circumstance. When you see the Word you become free from sorrow. Contact with the Word is detachment from sorrow. You naturally detach from sorrow when you contact the Word. If I see you living in sorrow it’s only because you have not caught a Word because the Word shows you your future and when you see your future you have joy. When you have joy sorrow won’t hold you down again. I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. (Psalm 119:162). I rejoice at your Word as he that has found a great spoil. People don’t know what I have found; they wonder why I am smiling. Finding the Word is finding life. Finding the Word is finding your future. What you find is what stimulates your joy. Remember joy becomes natural when you conceive the Word. For a man of revelation, joy is natural. A man of revelation does not need an appeal to be happy. If you want a man to live in permanent joy show him the Word, show him the way to the Word. I rejoice at your Word as he that has found a great spoil. Your high place begins at the deep places of the Word. Depth begets height. Root begets fruit. Foundation begets skyscrapers. My walk in the high places begins with my walk in the Word of God. I cannot go higher in life than my depth in the Word. The journey upward begins downward. Thou shall take root downward and bear fruit upward. The journey upward begins downward. Downward! If what you are looking for is not flamboyancy, not deception, if what you are looking for is not temporal; please take your time and go deep. No devil can push you anyhow when you are deep in the Word. So the Word will bring you joy and joy will give you strength (Nehemiah 8:10) and strength will make you walk. The joy of the Lord which I have discovered will give me strength and when you become strong what happens? Walk! It takes strength to walk upon high places. Many people have dreams for high places but don’t have strength for it. You need strength, that’s why it says, ‘the Lord shall be my strength that will make me walk upon my high places.’ You need strength to climb up, inner strength. He keeps on wishing and tends to analysis everything before making his decisions. And you know it is analysis that leads to paralyses. You know what makes me move the way I move? Revelation, that provokes joy. Go for it and very soon your world will come after you as you begin to walk in your high places. I see you walking in your high places before the close of this month in Jesus name. Shalom!

THE MYSTERY OF FELLOWSHIP!

Sorry we have been off site for some days, it was due to technical breakdown. We are fully back now and so enjoy the teaching for the week; THE MYSTERY OF FELLOWSHIP! There is an appointed place where ‘destinies’ happens at a natural frequency. Matthew 18: 20 says, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them...” For the Lord has chosen Zion and appointed it for his habitation (Psalms 132: 13-16). Zion, the Church is God’s habitation. It is a place of fellowship where God commands His blessing (Psalms 133: 1-3). Unusual things happen when we come together in God’s presence because of the corporate nature of our faith and the unity of the spirit. The word of God makes us understand that because the Apostles were in fellowship many signs and wonders were performed by them (Acts 5; 2, 4: 33). Not being in fellowship therefore means removing yourself from the magnetic field or the pool of miracles. No matter how anointed your house is, it can not be a substitute for the house of God. Don’t toy with fellowshipping with the brethren in the house of God; make it a necessity as long as you live! Zion, the dwelling place of the Almighty God, is where giants are raised according to Psalms 87. Every revolution you ever heard of in the world today sprang up from the Church, especially industrial revolution. So when you come to Church, you are not just fulfilling a religious obligation, you are being built up to occupy your place in destiny. When you are fed with the word of God in Church, you go out into the world with the mind set of Christ, manifesting the word and excelling on every side. Let me say here that, being in Church is a matter of decision, those who come do so because they have decided to be there and those who don’t come often have many excuses because they have also decided not to be there. Give no room to excuses in your life. Any job that will not allow you to see God, close it and look for God! Any job or responsibility that wants to make you forget God is dangerous to your destiny! Never play with the “God Factor” in your life! Don’t forget God in your search for money or things because none of those things can give you satisfaction, only God can! Make up your mind to always be in the house of God where giants are raised, inspiration is delivered, wisdom is released for the quickening of your mental faculty and destinies are designed. Be like David of old, who said he was glad when he was invited to go into the house of God (Psalms 122: 1) Studying David very well, I discovered that one of the secrets of his successful life was the fact that he was always in the house of God. Even though he was the king of the whole nation, he still created time to be in the house of the Lord, he could have easily make excuses due to his position, but he knew better. The best place to be at the hour of service is God’s house. No matter how well decorated your house is, God’s house is better! When we come together in Church, we form a ‘bunch’ which creates more effect than an individual. I know God is every where, but He is much more in His house, since the house belongs to Him! I know he hears everywhere, but He hears better in His house, be wise and you will end as a winner both on earth and in heaven. (Hebrews 10: 24-25) Friends, being a Christian and absenting yourself from Church is comparable to the following miseries: A farmer that does not go to farm, a student that does not go to school, a writer that has no pen, a drummer that has no drum, a sailor without a ship and a child without a family! Wake up and take up your responsibility as a true Christian. Shalom!

PUT A SMILE ON THE FACE OF SOMEBODY!

Life is naturally full of all manner of ups and downs, and as result, many are down-cast, defeated and disfigured in their appearance. But as a covenant child of God, you have the responsibility to put a smile on the face of the people you meet on your way! Jesus said we are the salt and the light of the world, that means you and I have a role to play in the lives of the people God brings across our ways in life! To ‘salten’ up their lives and ‘lighten’ up their lives. (Matthew 5: 13-14) Joseph was a perfect example, he was thrown into prison for an offense he never committed yet he maintained his usefulness. When two (2) servants to the king were thrown into the same prison, one morning he came to check on them as usual and when he saw how sad they looked, he knew he had an assignment to carry out. Instantly, he went into action and eventually he put a smile back on the face of the butler. Little did he know that, that seed of a smile planted in the life of the butler will yield a harvest of a throne for him. (Genesis 40 & 41) Friends, it is the people you help that links you up to the God that you need His help! Help someone today, put a smile on the face of someone today and see God put a lasting smile on your face too. Plant a smile at least on the face of every one you meet this week and see yourself reaping the harvest of smiles all through this week! You will smile; the Lord will make you to smile! Shalom!

YOU NEED A HEART!

In Psalm 78: 9, the Bible talks of a tribe in Israel called Ephraim. It says, “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.” They had arms but yet they turned and fled before their enemies. So the reason you are failing is not because of unavailability of weapon or instruments of power, it is because you have failed in your heart. Victory on earth begins with victory in the heart. Until you become victorious in your heart you remain a loser on the earth. In Ephesians 6: 10-20, Apostle Paul admonished Christians to put on the whole Armour of God in order to be able to withstand the devil. But before he began talking about the Armour, in verse 10 he said, “...Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might...” So, you are the number one instrument of power. It is what happens in your inner man that determines your outward result. A weak heart is one of the greatest avenues of power leakage. It takes confidence to be a conqueror because nothing disqualifies you in battle like intimidation. That is why Paul prayed in Ephesians 3: 16 that we may be “strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.” That is what happens in the military setting. After soldiers have been armed and put in their various battalions, ready for the battle field, the commander stands to charge them with encouraging words. They become so charged that they feel like seeing the enemy and shooting right away. No gun is as strong as a man’s heart. Many businesses are crumbling not because of economic pressure or hard competition but because of weak hearts. You must first be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might and after that you put on the whole Armour of God before you can win. Armoury minus inner strength is a weight. The reason many pray without answer is because they lack confidence. Galatians 5: 1 says, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free...” Your enemy is not as powerful as you think; you are the one not standing as fast as you should. You must condition your heart for power because in Deuteronomy 20: 1 God’s word says, “When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies...” Note that God did not say “If thou goest out for battle...” but “when”. So fighting in life is not optional. Even if you don’t want to fight, there is a devil that wants to fight you and if you refuse to fight it makes it easier for him to rub your nose on the ground. There is nothing like safe ground in life, every ground is battle ground. You go from one trail to the other and in the midst of battle you don’t ask, ‘Why are they shooting me?’ You shoot back! God knows you will face oppositions, that was why He said, “Resist the devil...” You can’t expect to triumph when you detest trials. The reason God gives us power is because we need to subdue the enemy under our feet. If there were no enemies to subdue, there would not be need for power. Beginning from today, I see you subduing every force of darkness against your destiny in Jesus Name. Shalom!

DIVINE SUPPLY!

What is Divine Supply? Divine Supply simply means Heaven’s Timely Provision that defiles human reasoning. God’s timely provision that human being can not comprehended. When you are about to say, “God, it is over” and you hear a knock on your door, “God asked me to bring this cheque to you”. That shall be your next testimony. Divine Supply; that which the brain of no man can comprehend, that is the level God wants to take you to this year. Until you believe in the reality of divine supply you can never partake in it, “Stop asking how can this be?” Just believe in order to partake. I believe in the Lord and in His word, whatever God says he will do for me I believe it. Philippians 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches…” God says, “I will supply according to my riches”, so how rich is God? The answer is above comprehension. The source of your supply cannot be comprehended. (1King 17:9-16). Because the woman believed, her cruse of oil never ceased as the Bible records it that all through the time of famine this woman had enough for herself, for her son and for Elijah. What is the secret? Divine supply. Heaven’s supply was flowing into her life, (2King 4:1-7). By this time tomorrow somebody’s testimony will be established forever. Somebody is here today as a beggar, by this time tomorrow you will become a dealer. By this time tomorrow according to God’s word, your destiny must have changed. What do you say about forty years in the wilderness? They were neither working nor cooking, yet never lacked any thing. If God could feed them for forty years, he can also feed you for forty years. This is the way I reason with God. For the next forty years of your life, you shall not borrow, neither beg nor lack in Jesus name. He fed them under the old covenant for forty years, under this new covenant; he will feed you for the next forty years of your life. That is Divine supply. There is a certain agent that God uses when it comes to divine supply. God’s Prophets are the agent. Every time the supply of heaven is set for an individual, God sends a prophet his way. A prophet is one that speaks forth the word of God. When it was the widow woman in 1 Kings 17, a prophet was sent, when it was the widow in 2 Kings 4, a prophet was sent, when it was Samaria, a prophet was sent, in the wilderness, there was a ‘Moses’. Every time God wants to supply for his people supernaturally, he sends them a prophet. It is our duty to believe in such prophets, because, until we believe in them we can never partake of the grace they carry. There are two main places where Jesus was acclaimed by people as a prophet. When he woke up the dead child of that woman in Luke 7:16 “A great prophet has risen among us” The second place was when he fed the multitude in John 6:14 they said, “This is of a truth that prophet…” When it comes to the issue of divine supply, God sends prophets to his people. God has sent me to you that you will never lack again in Jesus name. If God uses the prophets that much, how then do I relate with God’s prophet? If God uses the prophet as agent for my supply, how should I relate to the prophet? 1. Believe in the prophet: The prophet you don’t believe in, you can never partake of the grace of God he carries. 2 Chronicles 20:20. 2. Uphold the prophet in prayer: Many of us only receive from the prophet, you don’t sow back into their lives, seeds of prayers, Apostle Paul said “Pray for us”(1Thess.5: 25). Because until the prophets are refreshed you can never get fresh blessing every time you come around. 3. Bless them: The prophet you don’t bless materially, you can never receive blessing from spiritually. This is a spiritual law. (Gal.6: 6) it is not what you give the man that matter most, but your obedience to God. In Philippians 4:15-19, the Philippians had blessed Paul materially, that was why he prophesied that his God shall supply all their needs. Believe in them, pray for them, and bless them. Henceforth, you shall never lack in Jesus name. (Amen)