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Mark 1:16-20, 10:28-31

So many want to be near Jesus but they do not want to stand for Him. So many want to see Him but they do not want to seek Him. Also, so many want to come to Him but they do not want to take what He offers. Numerous times, multitudes followed with Him but none ended following through with Him. Despite all, He remains faithful. What a good God we serve! The Lord is the God that is consistent despite our inconsistency. God that remains faithful despite our failure. He alone is the merciful God and never runs out of mercy. He alone is the mighty God and He never runs out of might or power. The way for the journey of life is to follow Him. It is very crucial to follow Him because no one knows the way except the ones that follow Jesus. Our final destination is to get to our Father who art in heaven. Jesus Himself emphasized in John14: 6, ÒI am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.Ó Absolutely no one gets to the Father except through Him, the Son, plain and simple. No one has been identified to follow Him or follows Him at loss. When all ways are blocked; when all ways disable; there is a way to follow if you will. Isaiah 43:16 recorded that; Ò He made a way through the sea and a path through the mighty waters.Ó  When you follow He that makes a way through the sea, you can be rest assured that your case is settled. When He called His disciples, He called them to follow. He knew what He would do. He did not at anywhere or anytime called any to serve without following Him. Has He called you to follow? It is wonderful to serve God but not enough without following Him. Are you following Him wherever He goes or are you following Him wherever you want or choose? He is calling you today to re-identify how you have been following Him. Let the dead bury dead; you are a child of the living God. Follow Him! When He called Peter to follow it was after He had directed him to launch into the deep. Peter launched into the deep and caught beyond what he could handle, yet it was not enough to keep Peter from following Jesus. Just as you are thinking that you have enough not to follow Him, it is obvious that now is the time you give up that interest of yours and follow Him.

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Exodus 2:23-25, 3

Some things have to die for another thing to have life. Some things have to die for you, before your cry becomes a provoking cry. The children of Israel were in bondage of over four hundred years and they did not know there was a need for them to cry out and groan for their breakthrough out of bondage. The Bible recorded, ÒNow it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.Ó The death of the King of Egypt was the transformer for the children of Israel. When the King of Egypt died, the children of Israel began to render a provoking and attention-gaining cry to heaven. Before the death of the King of Egypt, they must have been comfortable and in a land that was not promised to them. With the children of Israel, the promise of getting to the Promised Land was at sleep for over four hundred years. The death of the King of Egypt was the triggering agent for the revival, for the need to be out of bondage of over four hundred years. The death of the king of Egypt caused the groaning of the children of Israel that set them in motion to where God wanted for them to be. Evidently, when they called by groaning and crying, God heard and He remembered His covenant. God did not just hear the groaning and crying of the children of Israel but He looked upon them and He acknowledged them. Are you in any kind of trapped situation where stagnation has taken the place of motion? Have you been crying by rendering a silent or open cry unto Him? Do you desire for God to look upon you for your breakthrough? When He looks upon you will you look up to Him? When He looks upon you, transformation is certain. Psalm 34:5, ÒThey looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not the ashamed.Ó God by His hand brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred years. If you are looking for a closed situation, the children of Israel were a typical example to learn from. There case of over four hundred years could no longer stand when the King of Egypt died and God heard their cry and groaning. The children of Israel entered into a deliverance journey. God will hear your crying and groaning in Jesus name.

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Genesis 11 1–9

ÒUnless the LORD builds a house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.Ó (Psalm 127:1) In every building that is outside of God, there is definitely going to be every form of confusion that is enough to scatter the building. Why should a man consciously decide in his heart to construct a building without having God as the Builder? Every attempt to get a building started outside of God is a demonstration of a rebellious spirit it is an attempt to take away the glory that belongs unto God. Once in the Old Testament, people gathered, ÒAnd they said, ÒCome, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, less we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.Ó (Genesis 11:4) At every time self comes into the picture attempt to rival with God will take over. The people wanted to build for themselves and building for yourself is a declaration of getting to the top in the heavens, without the help of God or involving God. Building for ÒselfÓ did not settle well before God because it is a rebellious demonstration, and a rebellious demonstration is an invitation for self-destruction. God does not overlook sin, but He will overtake sinners for correction and for judgment. God is slow to anger and He is longsuffering. He allowed them to build but the building could not stand. Genesis 11:5, ÒBut the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, ÒIndeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do, now nothing that they purpose to do will be withheld from them.Ó Have you been building on your own or with your people? You can believe that you are on spot before God and there is no hiding before him. He has not changed from who He was in the time of Old and who He is today. God is the unchanging changer. God came down and delivered judgment unto the rebellious people that were attempting to take away from Him. Genesis 11:8, ÒSo the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.Ó It was an overall disaster for the people. The people that were building outside of Him lost all that they have built, they were scattered and could not come together to continue where they were before getting to commit a rebellious act. There is no excuse before God that delivers from sin and there will be no excuse for getting into building outside of God. Ask God to help you in every area of your conscious or unconscious building outside of God. He is a faithful God and He will help.  

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Acts 9:32-43

ÒNow it came to pass, as Peter went through all parts of the country, that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lydda. 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed. 34 And Peter said to him, ÒAeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.Ó Then he arose immediately.Ó (Acts 9:32-34) A certain lame man named Aeneas received a ÒNow miracleÓ when Peter found him. The same God that was, is still the same today and forever. He has given His beloved son power and in His name everything will bow, sickness and disease will not stand. If you will believe that He is still in the business of answering prayer, call on the name of Jesus that answered for Peter and request for your ÒNow miracleÓ. PeterÕs coming to Lydda was not an accident just like you setting eyes on the testimony is not an accident. The man named Aeneas was not just bedridden but he was also paralyzed. So many are paralyzed, but they are thanking God that in their paralyzed situation, they are getting moved from one place to another place. You want to begin to trust God for an all round healing from whatever is representing paralysis in your life; every form of paralysis must give up on you. GodÕs intervention will terminate spiritual, health or financial paralysis (stagnations) in the name of Jesus. It does not matter how long you have been in the state of paralysis that is: where you cannot make a move when you have a need to move but what matters is that the name of Jesus will answer if you will call on His name. Do not stop at praying for only the termination of your stagnation, you should also ask God to take you out of every bedridden situation. It is the name of Jesus that will convert you from a bedridden position unto your breakthrough position. As you call on Him, be specific and direct in your prayer points. The miracle that will cause every man to see that God has changed your story in the name of Jesus will locate you. When AeneasÕ bedridden situation was converted into a breakthrough situation, the whole city of Lydda and Sharon was transformed. ÒSo all who dwelt at Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.Ó (Acts 9:35) The miracle that turned the whole city around was the miracle of ÒnowÓ. Just as Peter spoke to Aeneas, ÒJesus the Christ heals youÓ Go ahead and claim the same healing for you in the name of Jesus. By your confession Jesus the Christ heals you too.

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Acts 9:1-19

Saul (Apostle Paul) was with full permission from the high priest to kill and destroy any of the disciples of the Lord that came his way in Damascus, when he encountered a shinning light from heaven. Acts 9:3, ÒAs he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, ÒSaul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?Ó SaulÕs journey to go and kill and destroy turned out to be the journey to go and start saving and delivering souls to the Lord. In that journey, nothing could stop or redirect Saul from getting to Damascus until he was near Damascus when the light shone on him. God can also be a God of last minute and is a God that is never late. God always has perfect timing. Indirectly or directly, consciously or unconsciously you have been persecuting Jesus. So many times you have received a call, a testimony or witnessing of the need for salvation, but you could not hear just like Saul before the light shone and pointed him out. In order for Saul to hear and accept the calling of the Lord there was a need for him to see the Lord. At every time God is seen with attention from the ones that sees His moves, there is always a call that follows. Saul saw the LordÕs presence first before a call from the Lord followed through. Moses is another example of the ones that saw the Lord first before he received His calling. ÒAnd the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, ÒI will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.Ó(Exodus 3:2-3) Moses saw a burning bush with fire, while Saul saw a light shone from heaven. What have you been seeing? Before the call sounds in your direction you have to see or else the attention to receive His calling will not be there. He must have been showing up in His own way so that you will hear from Him when He calls you. When Moses saw the fire burning, he decided to turn aside, ÒSo when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ÒMoses, Moses!Ó And he said, ÒHere I am,Ó (Exodus 3:4) Has He been showing up to you in order to give you a call like He did unto Saul and Moses? God is still in the business of calling those that will see first. When His calling comes to you He will back you up.