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2Kings 4:8-37

ÒNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.Ó (Hebrew 11:1-2) Do not consider this for a later adoption to your pending situation or pressing need. Now and not later, go ahead and apply faith knowing that God is still in the business of honoring His Word. Faith is heart-activated and mouth-operated. Faith is a God pleaser and it will provoke God to move on your behalf. Faith will move the hand of God if indeed it is activated and operated the way it should be. God cannot be deceived when you fail to activate and operate faith; failure will activate and operate itself whether you like it or not. God knows our heart and knows when faith is activated more than we know it and that is why Hannah said in her prophetic prayer in 1 Samuel 2:3, ÒÉFor the LORD is the God of Knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.Ó What is your action concerning you pending situation? How are you going to activate what will bring you out of your dilemma? The only and better choice is to lay it on God and watch while you wait to see how God will move in on your behalf. From this moment on, begin to confess positivity to your situation. Begin to see victory in the place of defeat; begin to see breakthrough in the face of hindrances and also begin to see life in the place of death. Let your faith announce your wellness and not the surrounding situations. The Shunammite woman had no son and her husband was old. This testifies to the fact that there could be no way for her to have a child except if a miracle took place. When Elisha came into the Shunammite woman, he activated the faith from his heart by operating with his mouth when he spoke to her, ÒThen he said, ÔAbout this time next year you shall embrace a son.Õ And she said, ÔNo, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maidservant!ÕÓ (2 kings 4:16) The Shunammite woman had a child just as Elisha spoke it. The child grew and one day he was sick and he died; he was not just sleeping. As a result, the Shunammite woman went and looked for Elisha with heart-activated faith for Elisha tol pray the child back to life. All through her trip to Elisha she activated faith in her heart and operated faith with her mouth by confessing that all was well with her even in the midst of her going through and having lost her only child to death. Elisha responded to the Shunammite woman as she approached Elisha by sending his servant, ÒPlease run now to meet her, and say to her, ÔIs it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?Õ And she answered, ÔIt is well.ÕÓ (1 kings 4:26) The Shunammite woman maintained her heartÕs activated faith and repeatedly operated faith by her mouth throughout her ordeal. Elisha went with her and the dead child was brought to life. The same miracles are everywhere today where faith is having its reign because of GodÕs rule and reign over all His creation. Ask God for the Spirit of faith to have its reign in your life and for His Name to be glorified.

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1 Samuel 1

In every sickness, there is a different prescription of medication by the doctor. Also, the degree of pain will call for different prescription of painkillers. A patient that is experiencing pain in his leg will not receive the same prescription of painkiller like the one who comes out of surgery. This is to say every situation of hindrance demands a different approach of gaining a breakthrough. When you have received a command with a key in your hand to insert, turn and push a door and all you could do is insert and not turn nor push, you are bound to waste away and destiny could be altered. Hannah was loved by her husband ÒÉalthough the LORD had closed her womb.Ó (1 Samuel 1:6). Without any distraction, she was able to ask, seek and knock to have her door opened by GodÕs mercy. Hannah had all the comfort from her husband Elkanah that could have kept her silent from seeking God to open the closed door, but she refused to waste away because she needed to possess her possession in the Lord. Think of this for a moment, the same God that closed HannahÕs door is the same God that commanded in Luke 11:9, ÒSo I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.Ó God meant all of what He said and the ones He is still saying for those that will take to working and walking in His word. God wants His word to be received and to be operated for an effective and infallible result that cannot be denied. When God said ask and it shall be given, He knew exactly that there is provision for the need but asking is what will bring forth the provision. He also said seek because He enjoys being sought for in times of desperation and that is why He alone is God. In your seeking Him, He will not hide from you if you seek Him diligently. He asked us to knock when there is a need for us to gain entrance or receiving a breakthrough in every area of closed door. Many times we have limited ourselves by asking only and not seeking or seeking and not knocking when our situation actually demands asking, seeking and knocking. Hannah had been going to Shiloh every year with a pressing need, but her situation changed when, ÒÉher rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.Ó (1 Samuel 1:6-7) Hannah stepped up in her seeking solution to the closed door when she became miserable due to the unchanging situation after years of asking. It is time that you stop begging. He commanded us to ask but not beg for what He has already given to us.  Begin to get violent in your asking, seeking and knocking. He will not fail in His Word.

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MARRIAGE

Genesis 2:18-25

God in His goodness and mercy brought forth creation with a good thought. In all of His thoughts, there was no room for evil when He brought forth all of His creation. He confirmed His thoughts when He said in Jeremiah 29:11, ÒFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.Ó Do you remember that after each and every of GodÕs creation, God always take time to look at it and declared it good? Genesis 1:10, ÒAnd God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.Ó All of GodÕs creations are good and nothing is evil. He is a good God. He created man and woman for the good purpose of working together by establishing an institution of leaving and joining and He stated in Genesis 2:24, ÒTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.Ó The institution of leaving and joining is what is now called marriage. It was a command from God and not a suggestion when He said man shall leave and join. Everything that God created was good and He must have seen it to be good when He gave His command of leaving and joining. Have you left to join or you are in the process of joining? If you have left and joined or expecting to be joined, always remember that it is of God to leave and join. The condition to have a leave and join institution work effectively is to be living in His command without any violation. Do you desire a blossom and blessed leave and join institution? He commanded, ÒÉthey shall be one fleshÓ. If you can become one flesh in the institution of leave and join, you are set for great exploit beyond your imagination on this earth. Likewise, if you have entered the institution and have not become one flesh as He commanded, you are set for all kinds of trouble. If you are sincerely joined, you will be naked to each other and shame will not have its way. To be naked is to be transparent; that is to have nothing be kept secret between each other. Where there is transparency, there will be transformation and transformation is what makes the institution get better from moment to moment. Genesis 2:25, ÒAnd they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.Ó Marriage is the institution of leaving and joining. To have a good marriage is to live in every one of His commands for marriage. This entails leaving and joining indeed and in truth, being naked (transparent) and allowing transformation to terminate shame. God is good so ask Him for the grace to enable you in your leave and join institution.

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Judges 16

The secret of strength is a secret to be kept by constantly dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God. God gave Samson an uncommon strength that no man could violate if he had not violated himself. Samson could not remain in keeping the secret of his strength and as a result, he became a victim of himself. SamsonÕs secret was the Word of God that was delivered to his parent before he was born. An angel of the Lord visited SamsonÕs parent and gave instructions in Judges 13:14, ÒShe may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded her let her observe.Ó All the time that Samson was walking in the commandment of God that was given before his birth, he was untouchable and undefeatable. As Samson continued to dwell in the secret of the Lord for his strength, the presence of God was constantly present in each and every one of his moves. The Word of God is the secret of those who dwell in Him.  The Word of God is secret to those that have no time to seek Him in His Word. However, to those that seek Him, it is no longer a secret but a dwelling place. Samson needed to be constantly walking in the secret to avoid being swept down by the wicked ones. When Sampson decided to dwell outside of the Word of God, the secret of his strength, then the presence of God departed him. Judges 16:4-5, ÒAfterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, ÔEntice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.ÕÓ Sampson fell for enticement. Delilah was the agent of the wicked one that caused Samson to lose the presence of the Lord. Is there anything that is causing enticement to derail you in your calling? Enticement will lead to pestering; pestering will develop to being pressed in every side to the point of giving in to the wicked oneÕs agenda. Sampson allowed enticement to have its way and he could no longer avoid being pestered and pressed to the point of revealing the secret of his strength. Judges 16:16, ÒAnd it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death.Ó Have you given yourself to any form of enticement? If you are ready to continue in His divine schedule for your life, do not allow any kind of enticement to come into your life or else God will come out of your life. To be out of His secret is to have fallen asleep. Also, to operate outside of His command is sleepwalking and being physically awake is not an indication of being spiritually awake. Keep His command, walk and dwell in your secret of strength and you will not be vulnerable to any grave of enticement.

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KISS OR CLING

Ruth 1, 2

Boaz was a relative of NaomiÕs husband (Naomi was the mother in-law of Ruth). He was described as a man of great wealth; not just ordinary wealth. The day that Boaz set eyes on Ruth, her story was wrapped with favor of God for good. Boaz put in place an uncommon protection and provision for Ruth. As a result of his favoring Ruth, she responded to the favor, ÒSo she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, ÕWhy have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?ÕÓ (Ruth 2:10) At any time that we undertake a noticeable action that glorifies God, Heaven will react on our behalf. In this life, there is no good work that will go unnoticeable before God. Ruth was consciously being sincere when she refused not to turn her back and go away from Naomi. Ruth genuinely and sincerely stood with her in her time of loneliness; at the time of her going back to her family after the death of her two sons. By RuthÕs act of sincerity, she positioned herself to encounter favor. When Ruth questioned such favor, she received an answer back from Boaz for the reason of her being favored. ÒRuth 2:11-12, ÒAnd Boaz answered and said to her, ÔIt has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before. 12 The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.ÕÓ In this world, there is nothing that goes unnoticed before God. If you have made the choice to be disrespectful or uncaring for your in-laws or elder, you will reap the fruit of someone that fails in obeying GodÕs commandment. What kinds of seeds have been sowing on your God given ground? Whatever you sow is what you will reap. It is impossible to sow oranges and reap apples. The two daughter in-laws of Naomi had decided to move with her back to her country after the death of her two sons which were their husbands. At first, both refused to yield to NaomiÕs offer for them to back. Eventually, Orpah accepted going back, but Ruth refused based on the reason of compassion. RuthÕs genuine heart and sincerity made her to cling onto Naomi while Orpah returned back just with a kiss. RuthÕs decision was rewarded when she met the great wealthy man, Boaz. Whatever you consider good, cling to it with sincerity and with a genuine heart and you will not end up empty. Sincerity is not stupidity; it is a special grace that will get you to where God wants you to be. RuthÕs sincerity took her to her promised land. Do not kiss your favor good bye, but rather cling to it.