COVENANT PATHWAY TO SUPERNATURAL PROSPERITY

 

In the book of Jeremiah 6: 16 the Holy Spirit admonishes “Thus says the Lord, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good ways, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein”. Because the children of Israel did not walk in the ancient paths, they did not enjoy the rest that God had predestinated for them. For 430 years the children of Israel were in slavery.

You will agree with me that slavery comes with heavy poverty.  That was until God remembered his covenant and visited them. Then the York of poverty was broken and their status was changed overnight from slaves to free millionaires. Psalms 105: 37. It was on the basis of the covenant that they received a transformation. This shows that the children of Israel went into slavery and continued in it because they forsook the covenant of their fathers; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Let’s understand this covenants:

 

THE COVENANT FOUNDATION

 

Friends, as believers God has left for us the promise of blessings and this promise only works on the basis of his covenant. When you walk in the covenant of God, he will confirm his blessings upon your life. This promise of blessedness is not a vague promise but rather it is founded on a solid foundation. The bible says that his works are already complete before the foundation of the word (Hebrew 4:3) therefore, your blessedness in life has already been settled in Christ Jesus. The foundation of your blessedness is the death of Jesus Christ on the cross and his resurrection from the dead. 2 Corinthians 8:9. so the end reults of the grace of our lord Jesus Christ to us as believers is blessedness. And the proof of this blessedness is the abundance of all things. 2 Corinthians 9:8. But you provoke the the blessings into practical manifestation in your life as you walk in the covenant of the Almighty God.

Reference: Pastor Ada Adekunle ( world mission agencies march 2018 )

You Can Be Free From Captivity!

One major benefit of prayer is captivity turning. The righteous is always Satan's target and he has just one objective for doing that; he wants to frustrate the believer and wear him out. He wants him to stop believing God, and to curse God so that he can be drawn out of the safety of divine covering to the open where he will be made an easy prey for satanic forces to deal with. But Psalm 34:19 says, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous but God delivereth him out of them all." Not out of 'some', but out of them all. That means, all afflictions are resistible and destructible. There is an answer to every kind of oppression and a way out of all captivities.

God said in Jeremiah 29:12,14, "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you... and I will turn away your captivity..." God is ever ready to turn away our captivities, but only on one condition - when we call upon Him and pray unto Him.

In Acts chapter 12, we are told that Herod had killed James the brother of John and because there was no reaction from the Church, he proceeded further to take Peter. He put Peter in prison, intending to bring him out to be killed after the Easter celebrations. But the Bible says, "...Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him..."

Peter was in captivity and would have been killed. He was put in prison, bound with two chains, kept between two soldiers and there were keepers outside the prison doors. Maybe you are in a similar situation, it looks as if you have been chained on every side. But we also see in that chapter that as the saints kept praying for Peter, the night before he was to be killed, the following happened: (1) The angel of the Lord came down, (2) a light shined in the prison, (3) the angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up, (4) Peter's chains fell off from his hands (5) the iron gate that led into the city opened to them of it's own accord (Acts 12:4-12).

Until the oppressed prays he cannot be free from oppression. But when you pray God will send His angel for your deliverance, the light of heaven will shatter every darkness around you, your chains will fall off and new doors of opportunity will begin to open to you on their own accord so that you can enjoy total restoration of all that you may have lost. In the model prayer that Jesus taught His disciples, one of the recommended prayer points is, "...Deliver us from evil" (Luke 11:2,4). Prayer is the gateway to freedom from oppressions and turning of captivities. That is biblical prescription. "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray"(James 5:13)

Meditate on these: Psalm 50:15, Psalm 34:17

Work It Out!

Faith is all it takes to become a living proof. But faith does not work without a working hand. Philippians 2:13 says, "Work out your salvation..." God is at work in you, He is carrying out His work in your life. But you have to work out what God is working in you for it to manifest physically. God works within, you work without. God puts in you the potential; you turn it into kinetic force through your motion and action.

Jesus said, "...What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24). If you believe that you have received, then you start working it out. If you believe you will be great, you start working out your greatness now. There is a place for the work of faith. All our covenant fathers were men of faith but they were also workers.

Many people are busy working with their mouths; they are making great confessions, but they are not working with their hands. It takes a working hand to make faith work. In Hebrews 11:32-34 the Bible talks about men of faith like Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthae, David, Samuel, etc, who through faith wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire. But how did they express their faith? What did Barak do for instance? He took his weapons and fought against the Midianites. That was his faith. What did Samson do? He took the jawbone of an ass and killed 1,000 Philistines. David took five stones with a sling in his hand and confronted Goliath.

There is no cheap victory in life, every victory is worked out. If you truly believe, then work it out. Do something! Don't let any day pass by without you recording victory for that day. Determine to be an history maker and not a story teller. Be determined to make a mark! Add something new to your life! Work out your salvation; your dreams, your aspirations and visions. I know you have a vision to be very great but you must work it out.

Please note that I am not asking you to go looking for fame or striving for recognition. Remember, it is not a name that makes a man, it is a man that makes a name. So let the man in you do something that would earn you a place among men of faith. Let your work speak for you.

Faith will always work where there is a working hand. Jesus the greatest man that ever lived, was a worker. He said, "I work and my father worketh hitherto." So, as you get out to your work today, put your mind in it, be innovation and creative.

When you work, everything will work for you.

Meditate on these: John 9:4, 14:11

The Liberation Mandate Validated

The nation of Liberia witnessed a spiritual tornado, as Bishop David Oyedepo, the apostle of faith invaded the city of Monrovia, Liberia from the 20th-22nd, July, 2009, with over 14,000 people giving their lives to Christ in a 2-day outreach and over 31,000 people jammed into a 20,000 capacity stadium. Among others a blind woman regained her sight while the praise and worship was going on. To God be all the glory.

However, the following outstanding testimony was captured in the National Chronicle of Friday July 24, 2009, a national Newspaper in Monrovia, Liberia.

“QUEEN OF SHEBA” FLEES LIBERIA - GOD ONCE MORE TRIUMPHS OVER SATAN The National Chronicle of Friday July 24, 2009 reports of the unceremonious departure of the “Queen of Sheba” from Liberia following the Empowerment Summit and crusade held by a known Nigerian Preacher, President and Founder of Winners’ Chapel International at the ATS and HQ of the church in Liberia.

“Queen of Sheba” is known as the infamous follower of Lucifer and has for the past 46years practiced deep and superior Satanism. The paper reported that the queen has been coroneted with blood on three different occasions in 1995, 2003 and 2007 when she was enthroned as matriarch of the sovereign imperial empress of a special cult called the African Nubian nation.

Her arrival at the invitation of certain groups and traditional leaders in Liberia had raised concern in some Christian quarters but it took the arrival of Bishop David Oyedepo and the thrilling crusade to send the queen of witches hurriedly scuttling out of Liberia. The Queen of Sheba’s visit was planned to last for an extended period of time but her sudden departure has raised eyebrows and left people wondering as to what must have hit her.

The Bishop made a declaration in one of the evening crusade “cast the devil out of Liberia for prosperity”, and the next day the so-called “Queen of Sheba” left the country without the fanfare that attended her arrival. She was lodging in the hotel where the Bishop was lodging in and immediately the Bishop step on the hotel ground, the “Queen of Sheba” immediately packed out of the hotel without the hotel authorities knowing, on her way to the airport.

Most leaders of the Pentecostal Movement in Liberia are full of praises to God for this triumph over Satan. Bishop Dortus Doe of the Deliverance Life Ministry Arena was one of the leaders of the Church in Liberia who could not hide his delight about the news of the departure of this blood-thirsty sorceress.

It is interesting that a late surge of crowd arrived at the ATS on the evening of Wednesday 22nd July 2009 to attend the empowerment summit not knowing that the programme ended Wednesday morning and there was no Evening Session that day. Thank God for victory over Satan once again. To God be all the glory!