THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

This material aims to educate you on the operation of God’s presence helping you differentiate it from the rewards of His presence.

The rewards of His presence:
These are bye-products of His presence that we most times call results in our physical realm.
We most times describe them as spiritual but in their selves they aren’t.
They are the things we can relate with in our realms here(the physical realm) – healing; miracles of all kinds that can be seen, felt, smelt and touched!

Psalm 97:5 – The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth (NKJV)

The mountains here represent all forms of challenge and what so ever you might love to affix. The scripture informs us they melt as a bye-product of the operation of His presence. This operation is the Mystery behind His presence. The melting is a reward!

....,at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth
What does this mean?
There is a dimension of the presence of the Lord of the whole earth you must catch as an individual and funnily, the proportion you catch determines the dimension you operate. I mean the rewards of His presence you get. 

Daniel 1:32b: ....they that know their God: they shall be strong and do exploits.

This is really knowing God – His presence has to be known and not felt. The rewards of His presence  is what we feel, see and hear – the mountains that melt which we can feel but we have to first come to know!                     
The result of His presence  is a resultant effect of the God you have known.
- we have been trained and fashioned according to our realms even in the body of Christ. We always cannot relate with what we cannot perceive(by our physical sense) yet we claim we are spiritual.
So, even the spiritual ones among us do not know the presence of the Lord till they feel sensations like goose bumps and claim that was His presence – No! 

The presence of the Lord has to be known(personally and in person). It is when this is known that you can be strong(because you are not doing feelings but you know. You gain strength on the ground of convictions) and then you do exploits!
- There is a revelation here I want you to catch. The rewards of His presence is still tied to us.

That the mountains did melt like wax at the presence of the Lord...  Doesn’t make it automatic!
Jesus Christ revealed: if only you will speak to the mountain (Matthew 11:23. 17:20) NOT because you felt a goose bump but because it’s now personal. You have met with Him many times in the secret place: You have spoken to him many times and He responded, why not a mountain?

You have come to know Him – like Adam knew his wife(Genesis 4:1). Though the knowing here contextually was a sexual intercourse, you have come to have an intercourse too.

Can you now see why most times the ones who do the exploits are Men of God.                          
They understand the operations, you only see the rewards of his presence. You see the miracles!

I call you up higher today.
The presence of the Lord truly is a mystery but it can be explained and lived.
Do not live in ignorance or deception.
There is a way men meet God – I show this to you in the next post.  Till then, begin to dig your wells.
Cry out to Him,  He awaits you!

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THE MYSTERY OF HIS PRESENCE

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THE MYSTERY OF HIS PRESENCE

Have you ever wondered why God will not honour the words of certain men and honour that of another?
Have you ever thought about something  like this or experienced this:
The Bible says .....You shall lay your hands upon the sick and they will recover (Mark 16:18b). You laid your hands and instead of a recovery, you found a discovery – that the man is not healed and the sickness/disease has back-fired. This can be painful......  until a young man comes and at the sound of his voice, the infirmity flees.
Has this ever bothered you?
Or that a man speaks into existence instantly what you have been begging God for with fasting and prayers.

I bring you a mystery today!

In the last post, I indicated how men of God have been worshiped due to a mystery in their hands.  This mystery is what I am unveiling today – The Mystery of His presence.

When a man has this mystery in his hands, it makes it look before many people that he is lifting himself above the congregation of the Lord who are holy too as Korah, Datan and Abiram reports against Moses and Aaron in Numbers 11:1-4.

You need to press a little to study this passage to discover in verses 19-22 that: The glory and brilliance of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.
- Take note again that this is not the presence of the Lord. I mean this is not the operation(mystery) behind the presence of the Lord. It is the reward of His presence. The glory and brilliance is a bye-product and it appeared to the whole congregation (as the Lord of the whole earth: nothing personal).
The mystery is in verse 20: an instruction came that will produce another effect(bye-product) for the congregation to see shortly. ...... Separate yourself from among this congregation, so that I may consume them immediately.
Of a truth when this was done, the ground swallowed up Korah,  Datan and Abiram!
- They all saw it, but that wasn’t the operation! There was a mystery behind this.

What then is the Mystery?
Number 17:1-8

Here lies the mystery:
In verse 7: And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.
- There was a laying before the Lord that I have defined as: STAYING!
The mystery of His presence is a derivative of staying.

The rod stayed not Moses, so we know where to expect effects from.  The rod just like any other rod must have dried up(Relate this with the rods of men that flock sheep’s or herd cows). But the staying did something not just to a lifeless rod but a dried rod.
The rod stayed and in the morrow – behold, the rod was:
• Sprouted
• Brought forth buds
• Bloomed blossoms
• Yielded Almonds

A lot of us only visit the secret place on the testimony of the Men of God we listen to.  E.g. I wake up in the midnight for six hours in the secret place, I speak in tongues ten hours daily,  I fast twenty-one days a month etc. All these are great other than most times it is a personal experience of the Man of God.
- It is the knowing we discussed in the first part of this article. The rod of Aaron budded as that wasn’t the first time the rod was exposed to such realms of glory.
Yes....  I said the rod,  because the rod was symbolic of Aaron himself!
Thus, Consistency is the Key and Staying is the protocol. And this is the Mystery!

Back to what I started with:

........You shall lay hands on the sick and they will recover .
When you have stayed and the reading of that scripture has become a leading!
- When you have stayed and the gift of the Holy-spirit(which is personal to some extent)  buds to produce ministry gifts (the gifts of healing).

Then like our men of God: you can be strong and do exploits because you have stayed and known(intercourse) and He is now ‘your God’ NOT our God. And the congregation of men will marvel at your results – the rewards of His presence.
Dear reader,  I challenge you today to go back to the secret place on His terms and not your own terms nor based on the conditions you have heard. 

Be sure you are sent, before you go ye into the world. Be sure you have budded ministry gifts before you attempt to minister. The mystery of His presence!

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THE SECRET PLACE

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THE SECRET PLACE

In the Old Testament,  the Secret place” comes from the Hebrew root word “Cether”, which means to hide/be concealed.
And really, no matter is hidden or concealed in a place or thing if it wasn’t the fragment of their make up.

What then is the secret place?
Psalm 139:15(NIV) – my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

      The Secret place is the state and precise location where men are made.
- to be concealed means to prevent from being seen or discovered
- to be hidden means to hold back to keep from being perceived by others.

As much as these meanings look like a defense: it's much more a process than a battle or war terminology. Let’s avoid some war or enmity ideology here. The Secret place is where men are made. 

You make yourself available, and you are made usable!

 

It will be erroneous to make the secret place and it’s experiences look like it cannot be explained.
-the fact that anything is spiritual doesn’t mean it cannot be explained.
Thus, the Secret place is:
1. A state of a soul in its relationship with God
2. A physical location.

1. THE LOCATION DIMENSION:
Psalm 27:5(NAS) – For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His [a]tabernacle;
In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;

The first dimension of the secret place as a physical location we will discuss later on.  For now I share with you the second dimension of the secret place as a state.
The Psalmist  referred to the secret place and he was not referring to an actual tabernacle or tent in which he will hide him from physical enemies.
He is speaking of the state of peace God gives in the midst of trials and attacks. He said God conceals me in His tabernacle; and the psalmist further exposed this tabernacle as the secret place of God's tent. There is a state of relationship with God that can be felt only in this state and it is directly linked to the secret place of His tent(Abode).

2. THE SECRET PLACE AS A LOCATION: Psalm 91:1 – He that dwelleeth in the secret place of the most high......
This describes the secret place as a physical location. And as much as we are interested in knowing more about this location we must discover there are open truths we have refused to see.

A. He that dwelleth (dwells):

To dwell means to live, inhabit: spend most of one’s life in. Accepting there is a physical location dimension to the secret place, we also need to accept there is a prerequisite to the secret place – dwelling not visiting.
   A lot of young Christians in this dispensation are aware of the secret place, but I am sure a lot of them do not know the protocol to the secret place . A lot of young Christians visit the secret place!
How do I know?
- They mostly go there to blast in Capital letter tongues(as fondly called); they go there to just talk at him – a visit!
- They have affixed a time and time frame for their supposedly called secret place. In the midnight for at least three hours.
You see that?
These activities in themselves are not wrong only that it is now your secret place because you define the terms and conditions.
The scripture made us understand it’s a dwelling place – where we spend most of our life.
The Secret place is a place of secretive affairs between two people. IT IS A ROMANTIC AFFAIR. It’s a marriage and we are the bride. If this is true; then we will need to Submit - to dwell!
B. The Secret place of the most high:
Then this means there can be a secret place of some other persons/spirits other than God! Even cult groups meet in ‘a’ secret place. This is another error committed randomly. Most times, what this age calls the secret place is truly the secret place but of themselves and not of the most high.

An average Christian goes to this physical assigned location with an intention in his heart. -to go seek for power, to go get deeper in the weight of His presence etc. 
All these by themselves are good other than at the Secret place of the most High, things must be done at His terms and Conditions.
Another error to look out for is to see the secret place as a location for a particular action.
Truly, at the Secret place we break bread with him(word), we engage him in sincere worship and praise as He responds back,  and Prayers basically.
Still, it is the secret place of the most high.....  Then He will do it his way because our levels of dealings aren’t the same.

C. The Secret Place: where men see Gods glory!
Exodus 33:20 – And he said, Thou canst see my face: for there shall no man see me,  and live.
                   21 – And the Lord said, Behold,  there is a ‘place by me’.....
Take note of God word: a place by me.
Can you remember where we are coming from right?. The Secret place of the most high – His place. And if it is His place, it has to be His way. 
We talked extensively about this in the first part of this series. See it here.
When Moses wanted to see the glory of God, the Lord explained that no man could see God and live (Exodus 33:20).
So God revealed to Moses that there’s a place by him – the place David later described as the secret place of the most high(Psalm 91:1). So God allowed Moses to see His glory only from a secret place.

Young Christian be careful with the motive of visiting the secret place. 

At the Secret place you add God’s glory NOT God!

Be careful of your lusts for encounters!

In Exodus 33:22 God said, “when my glory pass by,  I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by”.
Verse 23 says further: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shall see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
This looks complicated here till the Holy Spirit expressly explained this in the early of the mornings to me too. It took Moses dwelling in the secret place to:
- Be put in a cleft in the rock
- Be covered in His hands
- Wait till He passes by
- Watch Him take away His hand
- And see His back parts!

I know a Christian of this age will say the encounter isn’t solid.
He only saw God’s back!
While some will make sure they do not say I saw God’s back but say; I saw God’s glory!
It takes a genuine heart (a lover) to dwell in the secret place.

What is with His back part?
I think a little of it was revealed to us in Ephesians 6.
The whole armour of God: everything is available to protect the parts of our body save our backs because at the Secret place you should have seen His back parts.  The Secret place!

No one sees his face and live!

But in  Exodus 33:11 – And the Lord spake Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Face-to-face here was used to describe the depth of communication between Moses and God.
 Abraham was God’s friends and in the similitude of His communications with Abraham, He spoke unto Moses.
Moses never saw God!
The Secret place is a place of dealings where we see God’s glory,  not God!

The Secret place is a place of encounters, and an encounter is not equal to a call.

The Secret place is for your personal experiences in Christ. Jesus taught us this. He went to the secret place(Mark 1:35, Luke 4:42a).

The Secret place doesn’t make you into a Man of God,  it makes you a Man in God.

Lastly,  be careful never to neglect your responsibilities or relationship to dwell in the secret place. Even Jesus, after dwelling in the secret place reached out to those she was sent to. (Luke 4:42a)

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ARE THERE TYPES OF FAST?

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ARE THERE TYPES OF FAST?

Fasting is the periodic abstention from food and in some cases even water; usually this is done during the daylight hours and many people fast for religious and health reasons. Fasting is an ancient practice that has assisted in attaining a state of spiritual consciousness that is more highly sensitive and elevated than under normal conditions.

    Many people in the Bible fasted, including Moses, David, and Daniel in the Old Testament and Anna, Paul, and Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Many important figures in Christian history attested to fasting’s value, as do many Christians today.

    The purpose of fasting is not to get God to respond as a genie in a bottle to grant our every wish. Fasting, whether it is regular, partial, absolute, or sexual, is a seeking after God’s heart, all other blessings and benefits being secondary to God Himself. This is what sets apart biblical fasting from other religious and cultural practices around the world.

The Bible describes four major types of fasting:

1.  Regular Fast -Traditionally, the regular fast is done by abstaining from all food, both solid and liquid, except for water. This is the type of fasting Judah’s King Jehoshaphat called for when his country was confronted with invasion (2 Chronicles 20:3). 

The Lord defeated their enemies, and the men of Judah blessed the Lord (2 Chronicles 20:24–27). After the Babylonian Captivity, the people returning to Jerusalem prayed and fasted, asking God for His protection on their journey (Ezra 8:21). 

The Lord Jesus fasted during His forty days in the wilderness being tempted by Satan (Luke 4:2). When Jesus was hungry, Satan tempted Him to turn the stones into bread, to which Jesus replied, “Man shall not live by bread alone” (Luke 4:4).

2.  Partial Fast -This type of fast generally refers to omitting a specific meal from your diet or refraining from certain types of foods. Daniel 10:2-3 says, "At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over."

     In Daniel 1:12, they restricted their diet to vegetables and water: "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink." Note that Daniel’s fast to express his grief on this occasion only omitted “choice” food, and it also involved relinquishing the use of oils and “lotions” for refreshment. Today, many Christians follow this example and abstain from certain foods or activities for a short time, looking to the Lord for their comfort and strength.

3.  Absolute Fast - This fast is complete; no food and no drink. Acts 9:9 describes when Paul went on a full fast for three days following his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus: "For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything." Esther also called for this type of fast in Esther 4:15-16: "

   Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 'Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. 

    I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.'" However, Moses and Elijah took part in miraculous, forty-day absolute fasts. 

   When Moses met God on the mountaintop to receive the tablets of stone, he ate no bread and drank no water (Deuteronomy 9:9). And, after Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel, infuriating Queen Jezebel, Elijah fled for his life and spent forty days of fasting in the wilderness (1 Kings 19).

4.   Sexual Fast - 1 Corinthians 7:3-6 says, "The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.

  Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." The Bible also mentions a sexual fast, although not by that name. In Exodus 19:15, the people of Israel were to prepare for their encounter with the Lord at Mt. Sinai, and part of their preparation was to abstain from sexual relations for three days.

Lastly, although not mentioned in the Bible, Christians today commit to fasting from other activities as well. Some give up entertainment such as TV or movies to concentrate on prayer. Others fast from sleep or another activity for a specified period of time.

THE 21ST CENTURY MIRACLE

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THE 21ST CENTURY MIRACLE

Isaiah 8:17-18

[17]And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
[18]Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.


God hides himself from a generation that they may seek Him. And only those that seek Him in a generation finds Him. These ones become Signs(Systems of Reference) and do Wonders!
It is only those that know(have found) their God that are: Strong(a sign) and do Exploits(Wonders)!

Sign is an object pointing to something else;
While a Wonder is what causes people to marvel itself!

Thus, you are the miracle your Generation needs!

You are a sign for signs; you're supernatural.
You are a sign for wonders; you're a miracle.
You are for signs and wonders.
But do you know the miracle this century needs?

As a miracle for you to happen, you have to understand the difference between signs, wonders and miracles. The illustration attached above explains this.

Having seen thus;
1. Do not confuse the signs for all believers as miracles anymore.
Mark 16:17-18
[17]And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
[18]They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Speaking WITH Tongues
Casting out devils
Healing the Sick are not the miracle of a generation.

2. Know the difference between a miracle to an Individual and the miracle to a Generation.

If you study through the Bible, you will understand that difference between the two and if you trace the bible down from Generation - Revelations; you will realize that most of the awesome acts was an answer to a generation!

In a generation that has grown below Naturalism and grown beyond the supernatural and the realm of reality cannot be deciphered anymore, how do you manifest?

In a generation that measures on Technology, where intelligence is now Artificial and Machine, you'll have to know the 21st century miracle to be a blessing.

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KEEP THE LAW TODAY?

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When “the law” is mentioned in the Bible, it harks  back to the days of the Old Testament where hundreds of commands were given to the Israelites, but the phrase “the law” refers specifically to the compilation of decrees found in the first five books of the Bible.T

  This whole body of law was given the name Torah. Obedience to this law was the awesome obligation of God’s people as they attempted to merit His favor and blessing.

Israel was God's special people, and they were bound together in a solemn covenant with Him. So the laws are not just some rules laid down by the tribal chief, but they were the laws of the covenant community. When the law was transgressed, the covenant was broken, and so was the relationship with God! That’s why the law occupied such a huge place in the life of Israel.

In order to restore the broken relationship, sacrifices were required and penalties were prescribed. Yet all these sacrifices were really inadequate. They tried to lay the culprit’s guilt on a sheep or goat which was then killed – as though that scapegoat could really take away the guilt. True, God prescribed all this, but could such pitiful attempts at making amends ever really be adequate? In the Bible God is portrayed as so holy and just, that sin cannot be brushed aside. Actually the Bible presents sin as so horrendous that it merits death. This is the basic human predicament.

That is why the Old Testament looks forward!Isaiah 53 is among the literary treasures of humanity, and its message of the suffering servant of God is incredibly touching.

In the Servant’s suffering and death, Almighty God will at last find His sacrifice to be full, complete, and totally sufficient. On His back will be laid the sin and guilt of the transgressors and He will pour out His life in the one and only sacrifice that finally finishes it all. At last the penalty of “the law” is paid. That Suffering Servant of Isaiah is the Messiah, Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

   In the New Testament, “the law ” refers back to that old situation when people looked at obedience to the commandments as the way of acceptance with God. The apostle Paul often contrasts this with the forgiven state believers now enjoy because of God’s grace. Paul loves to make that contrast between the impossible situation of trying to merit forgiveness, and the new situation of forgiveness by sheer mercy because of Christ’s sacrifice.

It might seem that the apostle Paul is disparaging the law when he contrasts it with the good news of the Gospel. But he is quick to deny this!

  We would not even know the difference between good and evil, he says, without the law telling us what to do and what not to do. But above all, Paul wants to make clear the God’s love fulfills the law. The law tells us the kind of life that our love for God and our neighbor would require. So there’s no way we should want to continue to sin and flaunt the law, just so we can be the recipients of more grace! 

So are we still supposed to keep “the law” today? 

 Obviously all those laws about sacrifices are finished in the one and complete sacrifice of Christ. All the dozens of laws about the land, foods, and rituals of Israel don’t pertain to us either nor can the keeping of any set of laws give us eternal life. But we don’t just toss out God’s commands and become a lawless gang. In fact, we have a great motive for obedience to God. That motive stems from the fact that every believer is a new person in Christ.

Therefore he or she loves God and his/her neighbor!

The timeless law of God is written in our hearts now and obedience is our joyful adventure. Disobedience to God is our rotten failure. This style of conduct, this law of our new life, we still find in the pages of the Bible.

The New Testament book of Hebrews is a gold mine of comparison of the old life under “the law” and the new life we live by God’s forgiving grace. Here are some verses from just one chapter (10: 11-12, 16-18): Under the old covenant, the priest stands before the altar day after day, offering sacrifices that can never take away sins. But our High Priest offered himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time.

This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts so they will understand them, and I will write them on their minds so they will obey them.’ Then he adds, ‘ I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.'” (New Living Translation)

I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR HEART...

Whose Heart?
The New Creation!
The New Testament Believer.

As God’s new creation we actually want to obey His law – not because it gets us anything, but because of our love for Him. We still say with the Psalmist in his ageless words, “I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” (Psalm 40:8)

SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE 1

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 SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE 1

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who do the commandments that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

Any man that keeps the commandments of God opens himself up to the right to the tree of life that he may find himself eating of that tree.

There is a force of creation, and one of the factors that you must get correctly is COMMANDMENTS.

Commandments are God’s word to a man. They are the very element used by God to make covenants with men. It is the first dimension in the ordinance cycle.

What then is ordinance?
Ordinance is simply the embodiment of the codes of creation. It is ordinance that makes LAWS.

There are two dimensions of laws.
1. Spiritual laws and
2. Natural laws
These two dimensions merge into what is called PRINCIPLES.

Principles are bodies of laws (spiritual and natural laws) with God's integrity on them.
Everything is built by laws; governed by principles and activated by the KEYS of the kingdom.

Keys open the earth realm for realities of ordinances, thus, There is a key to each dimension of life and until the keys opens the earth realm, there is no participation in the spirit realm. It takes a key to unlock laws, but you need STRATEGIES to manifest it.


THE GRAPH OF LIFE

In following or pursuing God, the first entity we meet is God. Roots are taken downward and fruits are bore upward in the realm of the spirit. So, in life, we grow horizontally and in God, we grow vertically.

God doesn’t break processes!
Thus, there is a pathway in God and understanding these five dimensions of intelligence leads to balance.

Your spiritual intelligence defines your specialty.

 Do you understand the intelligence of spirituality?

Do you know that your life can be plotted?
Are you living the God-life?
Do you understand the ordinance cycle?