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Firstly,
you’d start having silly thoughts like, “I haven’t had my bath
yet”, “how many of my friends’ phone numbers can I get off my
head?” “Where, just where did that stupid dog go to now?” “What,
you mean today?” Friend,
I have a word from God specifically for you: Your Future Is Nearer
Than You Think. The Spirit of the Lord is pressing upon me that many
have loosened their grip on the rope of faith. They have come full
circle from receiving the promise with joy and spiritual ecstasy, then
through dry periods of non-events, then back to implicit doubt. Friend,
God’s word to you may have come in the form of a dream, an idea, a
vision, or a glimpse through the scriptures of what a fulfilled life
should be. I know this because that’s why you’re connected to this
ministry, because it pulls the faith strings in you; you’re excited
every time you visit this site because it reminds you that the best is
yet to come, that where you are now is just the minimum of God’s plan
for you. But the excitement seems to have gone now – not because
everything around you is failing but because things just stay the same.
I’ll like to tell you this, “Before every storm is a calm”
This
was not my prepared message, but God just laid the burden on me to say
these words to you. He said, “Go
tell (them) to get ready for my coming; to go gather vessels, not a few;
to prepare their chariots lest the rain comes and overtakes them.” Friend, my worry is not whether that (God-given) desire in your heart will come to pass, it surely will. Because the word of the Lord “shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11); but my concern is that the word will meet you unprepared. More
Than A Dreamer
A Breakthrough That Meets You Unprepared Will Not Last Because
Joseph was prepared when his dream came to pass, he reigned in Egypt for
eighty years – a full sixty-six years longer than his dream
interpretation made room for. Canaan was said to be a land "Flowing
with milk and honey" but the Israelites it took it to be some
wonderful, feel-good, pie-in-the-sky fantasy. Being unprepared for the
real, physical Canaan land, they were soon overthrown by oppressors in
their own inheritance. Have you been easing up on that God-given dream already? Be
watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, (Rev 3:2); as sure
as surety itself, God’s word will come to pass in your life;
the least you can do is let it meet you prepared. 3
Letters, One Word A-cquaint
(Accustom) yourself with vision. It may be necessary to write down what
God has promised you. Fine-tune it; I don’t believe you should still
be saying things like, “I shall prosper” everyday without getting to
know what diving prosperity means. C-onfess
the word. I cannot overemphasise the necessity to daily confess God’s
promise. Gloria Copeland says, “The two important elements of faith
are God’s word and your word.” Death and life are in the power of
the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Pr
18:21). T-ake
practical steps. Stop being a starry-eyed dreamer, start doing things
that pertain to the dream to show God that you take Him seriously. Many
people are like Gideon – staying in the house and laying out fleece
tests for God; but God’s looking for Jonathans who will test
God’s will by single-handedly confronting an army (1 Sam 14), and
Esthers who would say, “If I die, I die”, (Esther 4:16). Like John Connor, (the hero in the ‘Terminator 3’ movie), the event for which you were born, may just be under 3 hours away – at exactly 6:18 pm.
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