5 RESPONSIBILITIES BEFORE AND DURING THE STORM.

Taking a cue from the eagle: 1. An Eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks. As a child of God and a Christian, some things are not expected to catch you unawares. If you are very sensitive in the spirit, you get spiritual signals of what is impending. Sometimes you might not get the definite thing but you always smell a rat and thereby, prepare for it! Proverbs 22:3… “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished” 2. The Eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. The time of rest is not actually the time to take the back sit and sleep! Rather, it is the time to take our spiritual lives and internal capacity to a higher level so as to have the required strength needed to withstand any challenge when it arrives and come out victorious without it swallowing you. That high spot is the place of preparation in prayer, fasting and acquisition of knowledge and revelational insights. Revelations 12: 13-14… “And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent” You need spiritual nourishment! 3. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. Setting its wings suggests that you begin to employ or put to use, the things you have learnt overtime. Most times when we have the opportunity of hearing some deep insights, we feel so thrilled and it seems like, if the devil showed up that time, we were going to swallow him up! However, when the reality of the challenge hits us, we tend to fret and withdraw. Anytime we do this, we are covering our wings instead of SETTING IT! Setting it will involve putting on your whole armour of war as highlighted in Ephesians 6: 13-17. The wing that picks the eagle up and lifts it up above the storm is your God that will lift you up above your storms! All you need to do is to SET YOUR WINGS! Psalm 91:4… “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust; his truth shall be thy shield and buckler”. 4. While the storm rages below, the Eagle is soaring above it. You are not meant to be in the storm. You’re meant to soar above it! The only thing that can make you practically soar above it is for you to be aware of your position spiritually and physically. Spiritually, the bible says in Ephesians 2:6... ‘And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” If we indeed understand the revelation of being seated with Christ in heavenly places, then we should know that no evil can overcome you there. Physically, we need to be correctly positioned before the storm. Most times, evil get to prevail over some people because they are not at the right place. However, if you are where God has rightly directed you to go to, no matter the raging storm there, you’d always overcome. Isaiah 30:12… “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left”. This means that there is a particular way for us to walk in and God himself knows where the way is. We must be wise enough to seek direction from Him. 5. The Eagle does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. He rises on the winds that bring the storm. Get it straight once and for all… EVERY STORM that knocks on our door has the capacity to either MAKE US or BREAK US. You decide! You decide either to bow down, throw in the towel and allow the storm to sink you or you begin to see every storm as an opportunity to lift you higher, thereby taking you from where you used to be, to where you ought to be. Imagine a man who has been managing a one bedroom apartment and suddenly given a quit notice by His landlord? If he came to church to share it as a testimony, I’m sure some folks might consider Him foolish. Little did he know that the storm was a set up for his elevation because few months down the line, he was walking into his own home of a three bedroom flat! If he wasn’t evicted, he might not have been elevated. Please note that this story is not a fiction! It’s as real as you, reading this. So many instances abound. The point? Every storm is a testimony turned inside out. Always see the soaring and not the overwhelming! Always remember that it’s not the burdens of life that weigh us down but HOW WE PREPARE and HOW WE HANDLE THEM. May God strengthen you now and always. Peace.

WOW!!! HE’S BEEN BLESSING ME AND I NEVER KNEW!

WOW!!! HE’S BEEN BLESSING ME AND I NEVER KNEW!

So many times, we have often asked God for some things and we thought he never gave it to us, whereas he did!

How can you explain asking God for 10,000 to enable you feed for the month yet he did not but guess what? He ensured that you ate throughout the month!

How can you explain asking God to give you money to buy some specific things but he didn’t. Rather, he gave you the things through people?

So many instances abound where and when we have asked God for specific things but since we did not receive it the way we had thought, we had completely forgotten that he has given it to us.

Bottom line… He might not give you the cash, but he ensures that you don’t lack any good thing.

I perceive in my spirit that for some people, God does not have any problem crediting your account with some cool cash, but he wants to preserve your heart and soul from finding assurance and solace in the fatness of your bank account.

Remember the parable of the rich fool in the book of Luke Chapter 12 and from verse 16 to 21(try studying it again if you’ve done so before) who looked into his storehouse and when he saw the fatness of it, he found assurance in it and told his soul to sit back and enjoy for the rest of his life!

That brings to my mind the greed exhibited by our leaders and by some people who trust in their riches. They have so much in their accounts that could last them for a life time and even generations unborn from their lineage…. That is why you find some rich people not believing in, or regarding God. They trust in their riches and in the fatness of their bank account!

The rich fool ended up dying before his time!

So also, God does not want you destroyed before your time. However, I’m too sure that when he sees that your level of maturity in Him has moved to a higher level and dimension whereby he trusts your heart position and frame, he can then fill your storehouse i.e your bank account without having “the fear” that your heart will be stayed on it.

Got it?

So, RELAX and enjoy his provisions in the way he chooses to bring them to you while you grow in the knowledge of HIM.

Think deep and see how God has and is still providing for you and be filled with a grateful heart which you must extend by letting Him know that you are grateful in your thoughts, actions and disposition.

WOW!!! HE’S BEEN BLESSING YOU!

PRAY!

Prayer is so powerful that is why the devil:
..tries to make us loose confidence in it
...doubt if is answered
...Makes us think there's an hidden sin hindering us
and a whole lot of clauses.
In the bible looking at Acts chapter 12 and verses 1-6,
James was killed. Peter was also billed to be killed but
prayer saved him!
There are so many ugly things that have happened in
our lives which should not have happened if we had
prayed.
So also, there are some things we are uncomfortable
with now that can be dealt with if we pray.
So also there are future evil occurrences the devil has
planned for us that can be averted if we pray!
Oh... How the devil keeps us lazy when it comes to
prayer yet we can gist with friends for as much as five
hours without even knowing.
How sweet gisting could be.
But how come we refuse to deal with the very issues
of our lives that so much matter?
The same issues we will go back to meet when we are
through with gisting?
The devil sells us a lie that mere thinking of prayer
reminds us of boredom yet the psalmist says he is
glad when it comes to going to the house of the Lord.
Friends, its time to take our lives in our hands!
ITS TIME TO PRAY!
Seek out scriptures in the bible and begin to make
war with them.
Some years ago, the Holy Spirit said audibly in my
ears..
"The opposite of EVERY problem is prayer"
I don't know how you will choose to interprete it but I
take it raw as it is.
What is that problem you're faced with now???
PRAY about it.
Once or twice you may ask?
Pray till you have a release in your spirit after which
you begin to thank and praise God for it.
In few hours, ild share with you on the power of
praise from my archives of personal testimonies.
PRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!