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Deny Distance From Him

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: What is holding you back from coming to Him?

John 4:46-54
 
It is written, “So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.” (John 4:46-47) The certain note-able (noble) man in the city, among his people heard about Jesus and went to Jesus. How often have you heard about Jesus without any response?
Many times you have heard of Him, but you never went to Him. If you will come in contact with the testimony that Jesus is Lord and the word of His mouth is power, breakthrough manifestation shall become your portion. What is holding you back from coming to Him? Is distance a challenge that is denying your coming to Him? Once, while He was passing a certain village ten lepers who stood afar off did not allow distance to deny their breakthrough miracle. The Bible states it that they lifted up their voicesand said, Master, have mercy on us! (Luke 7:12-13) Why are you holding back from coming to Him? The lepers denied distance andreceived their healing breakthrough when the healing word of Jesus sounded in their life direction.The nobleman’s son was dying when he came to Jesus. It is written, “The nobleman said to Him, ‘Sir, come down before my child dies!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way; your son lives.’ So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.(John 4:49-50)” Do you believe in the power of His word? The same power that answered for the nobleman will answer for you this day in Jesus’ name. As the nobleman received direction to go on his way, he believed and went without question, hesitation or doubt. If you will believe and go on your way, the same Word that is still alive today will locate you for breakthrough. The noble man went on his way as directed by Jesus,“And as he was going down, his servants met him and told him saying, ‘Your son lives!’”(John 4:51)If you have believed in His Word you will receive your breakthrough news in Jesus’ name.
 
Prayer for today:Ask that every pronouncement that is negative will become news of a positive nature to the glory of God. It is your day of “good news” as you go about your way in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Wrong Name

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: The woman with the issue of blood acted not by accident, but by act of faith.

Mark 5:25-34
 
Who do people say that you are? Are you being identified by the challenge or issue that has refused to lose its grip upon your life? A woman with the flow of blood for twelve years could no longer be identified by her name but by her confronting challenge. She had a name, but being identified by her problem became her portion. She was not called by her name but by her disease. The woman with the issue of blood needed to come out of mockery into miracle. She had a need to come out of her frustration into celebration. Are you experiencing mockery or frustration for not getting deliverance as desired? Despite her sickness and limitation, she could not be held back from receiving her healing. The woman with the issue of blood acted not by accident, but by act of faith. The woman’s issue of blood for twelve years could not be helped by physicians because it was beyond physicians’ ability. Physicians, rather than help her, put her through suffering, spent all she had, and made her sickness worse. Is your experience like that of the woman with the issue of blood? It is worthy to be rest assured that God is the healing physician and nothing is too difficult for Him. In your helplessness, whatever you are hearing or whatever name people are calling you know it that God is the Unchanging changer and for God it is never too late to beautify you with healing or a new beginning. Whatever man is communicating is not what God is seeing about every man’s confronting issue.
The woman with the issue of blood heard rightly and acted correctly for her healing deliverance to come to manifestation. It is written, “When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.” (Mark 5:27) All she needed was to hear about Jesus. She did not question the power of God, nor did she disregard the appearance of Jesus. She broke through the crowd and touched His garment from behind knowing and claiming, “…If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well. Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.’” (Mark 5:28-29) Today, make the right choice as regard to what you hear or who you listen to. There is hope for you if you will begin to listen to living word of God. Deny crowd of wrong name calling; break through and move in the direction of your healing and deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask for every mockery to be converted in to miracle in Jesus name.

Is He In You?

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: For David to be king his Goliath needed to fall.

1Samuel 17:38-45,
 
Goliath was so confident in Himself when he began to harass the Israelites at the war front stating, “…I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.” (1 Samuel 17:10) It was statement like this that provoked David’s decision to go and face goliath in battle. When David was to go and take on Goliath in battle, “King Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail.  David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” (1 Samuel 17:38-39) David took Saul’s gear off. David could not walk from the weight of the gear and that was enough for David to have been disallowed from going against a giant warrior. However, David went forward in his attempt to silent one that defiled the armies of the living God. Instead of war gear David went and then took up his staff and five smooth stones from the brook along with his slings. When David approached Goliath, Goliath disdained him; for he was only a youth, coming to fight him with sticks. It is written, “So the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” (1Samuel 17:43) David was not afraid and Goliath’s words and his size was not enough to cause doubt in David’s mind about what the Lord would do.
Are you facing a giant challenge in any area of life?
David had a testimony that kept him going forward and not looking backward from the giant task, giant harassment and giant intimidator. This incident took place while David was on his way to where the Lord God was taking him. Is God taking you somewhere? For David to be king his Goliath needed to fall. God has a destination for all of His children just as He did for David. In 1Samuel 17:45, “David responded, You come to me with a sword, with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled.”  David went with a weapon that was greater than the weapons of this world; he went with the Word of God. Is the Word in you? 1John 4:4 says, “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”  Is He in you? If He is, depend on Him and you will surely overcome your Goliath just as David did.
 
Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to have a permanent place inside of you.

His Love Is Banner

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: With the fear of God, one takes a place under a banner that is impenetrable to the wicked.

Psalm 74
 
It is written, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17) Giving is love; love is giving. The love of God is available for all who desire it and accept it. Jesus, the love of God, came unconditionally and makes Himself available without any condition. His statement in John 10:10 buttress the testimony of God, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”…if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” It is not possible for a true acclaimed believer to confess with their mouth and believe in the heart and not be one that conducts themselves according to the Word. However, not behaving what is confessed with the mouth and believed in the heart is the evidence of not being a believer. God gave His love and His love declared Himself. Have you received and believed the Love of God; the gift to have life abundantly? For anyone who receives and believes the Love of God is granted access to living life abundantly. God does not lie and His Word does not return back to Him without fulfilling its purpose. Romans 10:9 identifies what it takes to have the Word of God manifest in the life of an acclaimed receiver of the love of God, “
Truly, believing (behaving) the Word of God is having the fear of God in one’s life. With the fear of God, one takes a place under a banner that is impenetrable to the wicked. The Bible testifies the banner of God, “You have given a banner to those who fear You, that it may be displayed because of the truth.” (Psalm 60:4) Are you one who fears God in your walks of life?
Ones who receive and believe in the living Word of God have allowed Jesus to take a stand as a banner over every affair of their life. Isaiah 11:10 testifies about Jesus, the root of Jesse stating, “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious.” The banner set by God is to protect, heal and deliver us from all of our afflictions.
Are you one who is denying Him from being a covering upon your life? Allow His banner to be your covering and His signs over your life shall be evidence and the adversary shall be denied.
 
Prayer for today: Ask that every banner that is not of God upon your life be terminated.

July 2012 Issue

Monthly Newsletter

 

                                                POUCH OF PRIDE
 
Those that cannot forgive have a pouch inside of them that is full of pride that generates lies, deception, anger, bitterness, and an unforgiving spirit. Anyone who is identified with any of the above does not necessarily carry any visible identification to point them out in their fellowship among believers. Most of the time, they have a vibrant life; they sing like every other believer; they could be very conversant with the word of God. Sometimes they go from fellowship to fellowship, yet nothing is visible enough that identifies them for who they are. People like this can be tagged as unbelieving-believers.
Unbelieving-believers grow just like believers grow. Jesus said in Matthew 13:30, “Let both grow together until the harvest and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, ‘First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’” In deed and in truth, in today’s world, all are actually growing. In some cases, the tares have the tendency to grow and flourish better than the wheat. God is not asleep, neither is He being too busy, but there is time for every situation and all that transpire under heaven. It is written in Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” The Word of God is true and all will come to pass. The Word of God will catch up with every man in every way and every path of life under heaven. Jesus said, “Let them grow together until the harvest time.” He did not ask for their separation at this time, neither has he proposed for them to be stopped from growing. Man can be deceived but God cannot be deceived. Where are you in the hand of God? Is there a pouch of empty pride inside of you?
It is always worthy for a time of self-evaluation that could honestly and sincerely point every man onto genuine repentance. Are you one of the believers that carry a diary of woes? That is, are you one that is having a well-documented list of all those have faulted you, or that are faulting you for the past several years? With a deep and sincere self-evaluation, what kind of diary are you keeping? Your diary could be at the back of your mind or in a written form. There is a genuine excuse for every reason not to forgive and hold onto grudge, bitterness and other forms of evil, but before God, there is no excuse for not forgive others. He sent His most beloved to the cross for every sinner. Peter, quoting from Psalm 34:12-16, stated in 1 Peter 3:10-12, “…He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” Just as humility is good, so pride is evil. What the word is saying here is, refrain and turn from evil by seeking and pursuing peace.
Claiming belief in Jesus is not true in anyone who harbors any form of wickedness like the ones that are mentioned above. 1 John 3:23states, “And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us.” Do you love one another, or do you love one that you choose to love or the one that you have been able to forgive? So many good things are being said about you, but you are holding on to so many things, like anger and bitterness of heart. It is not what people around you are seeing or saying that matters, but it is what God is seeing about you. Carrying a pouch full of empty pride that is generating lies, deception, anger, bitterness and an unforgiving spirit from one fellowship to another is like walking in darkness. It is also a conscious or unconscious lifestyle that claims to have been fellowshipping with God. Such claim is contrary to the way of God and it is not in line with the message of God as emphasized in 1 John 1:5-7, “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” Will you consider a sincere and honest self-evaluation? Come out of self-deception give it all to God and He will bring you out of all that is wicked and evil.
God is waiting for all who are ready to renounce wickedness, confess and repent.
 
Faith capsule:
Just as humility is good, so pride is evil. 
Claiming belief in Jesus is not true in anyone who harbors any form of wickedness.