AFD FEBRUARY 2021 THEME

GREETINGS:

Shalom! Kingdom  and Redemption greetings in the precious and redeeming name of our gracious Saviour, Lord and King, Jesus Christ, Amen. My wife Faith and I would like to welcome you to the dawn of the new month FEBRUARY 2021 in the Year 2021 of the Lord God in Christ Jesus concerning us. We also say welcome to the new and existing recipients of the Achievers’ FAITH Digest, the Monthly TEACHING Newsletter publication of Year 2021.

This special edition of the AFD is the Monthly TEACHING publication for Month FEBRUARY 2021. Month February 2021 in our concept, is the Month that is themed: MONTH OF HOLDING FORTH UNTO FAITH AS – “GOD’S BATTLE AXE & WEAPONS OF WAR”! A Month To  Thrive And Live With Purpose And Fulfilment In God’s Righteousness Thereby Advancing The Kingdom Of our God And Keeping The Enemy And Cohorts At Bay In Christ Jesus Stead”.

I do know that a man’s ignorance is his own mountain and the knowledge of the truth will set him free. Hence I therefore commend you to take time to ponder and meditate on the theme through and through in prayers and where possible accompany with fasting even as the Scripture below do enjoin.

Acts 20:32 “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified”

This is the month the Lord God has MADE, not man nor the evil one and cohorts, therefore, enter in assured with FAITH, HOPE and LOVE in the knowing that you are – “GOD’S BATTLE AXE & WEAPON OF WAR” against the ENEMY and COHORTS of your FAITH in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by the EMPOWERING of the Holy Spirit.

And also, you need to know full well that in this Month FEBRUARY 2021 – onwards and upwards:

* That your earnest desires and yearnings shall not be cut of.

* That the Lord God that has brought you into the month, He’s more than ABLE and ASSURED to accomplish and fulfil all that pertains to you in life and godliness.

* That God is FAITHFUL and His STEADFAST love towards you will NEVER fail.

You need also to know that there is and there are, LIFE CONFLICTS and BATTLES, knowingly or unknowingly. And these Life BATTLES are real to All. But the greatest of ALL life battles, is the BATTLE of your FAITH in Christ. And there’s an ENEMY and CHORTS fighting daily, going to and from, roaring aggressively and looking for any avenue and opportunity to devour you of your FAITH in Christ. You need to know full well that the ENEMY and COHORTS knows that if it can get hold of your FAITH, EVERYTHING about you will be DEVOURED.

Your FAITH in Christ Jesus stead, is the VICTORY and TRIUMPH that overcomes the WORLD’S SYSTEM, which is run and control by the ENEMY and COHORTS against your well being in Christ Jesus. Hence when the ENEMY and COHORTS roar, or makes attacks on you in its acts of operandi, you need to know and understand that its actual PRIMARY aim and objective are not after your MONEY, FAMILY, CAREER, RELATIONSHIP, BUSINESS, MINISTRY and SUCH LIKES. It’s PRIMARY intent is that you GIVE UP and QUIT on your FAITH, for your FAITH is the ONLY divinely instilled DEFAULT and mechanism that OVERCOMES and ENACT your REDEMPTION in humanity, to live and do life in everyway in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead.

Hence, we are enjoined to HOLDING FAITH in order to FIGHT a GOOD FIGHT of FAITH in any life BATTLES. Therefore BUILD UP your most Holy FAITH, as a way of PREPAREDNESS to life daily BATTLE in order to SOAR IN DOMINION in YEAR 2021.

I pray the Lord crown this month FEBRUARY for you with His goodness and abundance, and reward your LABOUR of LOVE, PATIENCE of HOPE and WORK of FAITH as you continue in the YEAR2021 of POSSIBILITIES.

Have a BLESSED and GRACIOUS Month – FEBRUARY – as you REPRESENTS the HEAVENS in and on EARTHLY affairs, as GOD’S BATTLE AXE & WEAPON OF WAR against the onslaughts of the ENEMY & COHORTS of your FAITH in God through our Lord Jesus Christ stead, through the WORD and by the EMPOWERING of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

SELAH-PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“YOU ARE my BATTLE AXE and WEAPONS OF WAR: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers” Jeremiah 51:20-23.

“FIGHT the GOOD FIGHT of the FAITH [in the conflict with evil]; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and [for which] you made the good confession [of faith] in the presence of many witnesses” 1 Timothy 6:12.

“For though we WALK in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] WARFARE according to the flesh and using the weapons of man. 4 The WEAPONS of our WARFARE are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our WEAPONS are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6.

“Now thanks be unto God, which ALWAYS causeth us to TRIUMPH in Christ, and maketh MANIFEST the savour of his knowledge by us in EVERY PLACE” 2 Corinthians 2:14.

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” 1 Corinthians 1:9.

“Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That ENEMY of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour. 9 But resist him, be firm in your faith [against his attack—rooted, established, immovable], knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being experienced by your brothers and sisters throughout the world. [You do not suffer alone.] 10 After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace [who imparts His blessing and favour], who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [making you what you ought to be]” 1 Peter 5:8-10 (Amplified).

“The HORSE is PREPARED for the DAY of BATTLE, But deliverance and victory belong to the Lord” Proverbs 21:31.

“This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest WAR a GOOD WARFARE; 19 HOLDING FAITH, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning FAITH have made shipwreck: 20 of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme” 1 Timothy 1:18-20.

“FIGHT the GOOD FIGHT of FAITH, lay HOLD on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses” 1 Timothy 6:12.

“For everyone born of God is VICTORIOUS and OVERCOMES the world; and this is the VICTORY that has CONQUERED and OVERCOME the world—our [continuing, persistent] FAITH [in Jesus the Son of God]. 5 Who is the one who is VICTORIOUS and OVERCOMES the world? It is the one who believes and recognizes the fact that Jesus is the Son of God” 1 John 5:4-5 (Amplified).

Further Scriptural Reading In Context: Jeremiah 12:5; 1 Timothy 1:18; Isaiah 54:13-17; 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3; Philippians 1:6; Psalms 65:11-13; Jeremiah 12:5;  Romans 8:35-39

However, this February 2021 and Year 2021 theme edition will be expanded in course of the SERVICES & TIMES in all meetings through the year and Month in “Scripture Pasture” Study and “Pastoral Messages & Ministrations”.

I gladly welcome you, your friends and family to be with us in Fellowship and Worship. I promise you that you can never be the same again as you ponder over the truth of these unadulterated, inspiring, revealing and empowering living word of God. I pray that God revitalize and rejuvenates you and all that is about you, so that you may become the very best of which God has created you to be in your daily journey of Destiny Molding, Life Transformation, Dignity Restoration and Kingdom Faith Establishment, Community Social Cohesion and Enrichment and Development, Success Empowerment & Fulfillment, Grace Impartation and more, while awaiting the Lord’s Return.

Until then, have a crown YEAR 2021 – YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES “A YEAR To Thrive And Live With Purpose And Fulfilment In God’s Righteousness in Christ Jesus”.

In His Kingdom Business For His Glory,

Revd Chukie MORSI Snr

AFD FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION

GREETINGS:

Shalom & Kingdom greetings in the precious, majestic, redeeming and emboldening name of our gracious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen! I graciously welcome all new and existing recipients of the Achievers’ FAITH Digest, to the Monthly TEACHING Publication, trusting God that at the receipt of this month edition all things shall be under your feet and within your effortless control. This special edition of the AFD is the Monthly TEACHING publication for Month FEBRUARY 2021 in our concept, is themed: MONTH OF HOLDING FORTH UNTO FAITH AS – “GOD’S BATTLE AXE & WEAPONS OF WAR”! A Month To  Thrive And Live With Purpose And Fulfilment In God’s Righteousness Thereby Advancing The Kingdom Of our God And Keeping The Enemy And Cohorts At Bay In Christ Jesus Stead”. And it’s all – “About Being Prepared as a Readily Combatant and Triumphant Horse for Life Battle”.

Full detail of the printable and download of Month AFD FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION on a PDF File document can be obtained on a click on this link for your exhortation, comfort and edification: https://www.redemptionlifeinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AFD-FEBRUARY-2021-EDITION.pdf

I thank God for the graciousness and gracefulness into the YEAR 2021 themed our YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES, meaning our set time to: “Living the greater, thriving, blossoming, colourful, meaningful and fulfilling life” in Christ Jesus. Signifying also, the timing of the unveiling of God’s plan, purpose and pursuit for us all according to 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 as written “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God”.

I am grateful for the constructive suggestions and other useful contributions that have kept the Kingdom mandate steady, constant and consistent over the years – unadulterated, undiluted, uncompromising and authoritative. Suffice to know that the AFD Monthly TEACHING Publication is always written in a didactic format; with the intent to inspire godly living, stimulate faith and to bring about God’s fullness intent – Plans, Purpose and Pursuits – to fruition and fulfilment; and to readily prepare readers towards the upcoming of our Saviour King and Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

I’m most grateful to God for the Privilege of this publication of the AFD which through abundant grace was given to me as a kingdom mandate and assignment. Much more, for God’s overwhelming, dynamic and charismatic acts of bestowed grace and sustenance; and the great insight and foresight He had made available through the inspiration, revelation and empowerment of the Blessed Holy Spirit which I received over the years and do now enjoy in His grace that has enable me bring about this writ to you again in this Month FEBRUARY 2021.

For those who have sown gracious seeds to advance this ministerial work and to keep the enemy at bay – I would like to say, “Thank You”. I pray that you will know and understand this word of King David in 1 Samuel 30:24 “. . . but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike”.

This generous act of yours means that we share the gracious blessings that accompany this work in the Lord, Amen! I pray that God keep inspiring, revealing and empowering you all, and to quench your thirst and feed your hungry being with His truth and righteousness through this sound and unadulterated ‘AFD Monthly TEACHING Newsletter’ of His grace. By your continuous feedback and testimonies we are inspired to aspire, to fuel and keep the flames of the gracious altar burning, trusting God the more to bring this month edition to you and many others. I want you to know again and again that the Lord cares about you and wants to mature, establish, strengthen and settle you again and again for all your losses. You are here in month FEBRUARY 2021 in spite of all.

SCRIPTURAL READING IN CONTEXT:

Jeremiah 51:21-23 “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers’’

Proverbs 21:31 “The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD’’

2 Samuel 11:1-5 “And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child’’.

Jeremiah 12:5 “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?’’

PROPHETIC DECLARATION: You Are More Than!

Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”.

One great asset in life is to know that God loves you and cares about you no matter the turmoil about you. Knowing that life under the sun is engrossed with battles and various ups and downs as the scripture of Romans 8:35-39 above does indicate. Challenges and life circumstances could come or manifest in different forms. Sometimes its PHYSICAL in terms of man-made and or of natural disasters, such as will cause famine which is hunger resulting – austerity and or distress, persecution, nakedness, peril, war, tribulations, death and many such likes physical ailments; it could also be SPIRITUAL which could be demonic and satanic cohorts activities classified as – principalities, powers and spiritual wickedness operating in spiritual realms and such likes sphere.

May I enjoin you to know that by the Holy write of Ephesians 1:19-23, there’s the exceedingly greatness of our God in Christ Jesus; It also indicates that Christ is the head over all principalities and powers and dominion and more that be, and as such nothing can by any means hurt you if you are of Christ as also written in Luke 10:17-20. Meaning, whatsoever life battle you seems to be dealing with today, your love in Christ is capable of putting all under your feet and control according to the scriptures.

Ephesians 1:19-23 “And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all”.

Luke 10:17-20 “And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven”.

And nothing can by any means rob you of the love you have in Christ Jesus because you are more than a conqueror and God’s battle axe and weapons of war to bring down the forces of evil and wickedness under their feet. While battle means to contend against in war or as if in a war, a battle axe is an ancient military weapon. This weapon is borne on arms as a mark of prowess, indicating a formidable or belligerent. Upon this knowledge and understanding I make this prophetic declaration concerning you:

“As God’s battle axe and weapon of war, you will not be separated from the love of Christ by any known or unknown tribulation, distress, persecution, or famine, nakedness, peril and sword. As a more than conquerors through Christ who loved you, I pray that the Holy Spirit of persuasion will overwhelm you in such a manner that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I declare that you will not fail in grace and life as God’s battle axe and weapons of war in Jesus precious name, Amen!”

AFD FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION

PREAMBLE: There Are Battle’s in Life Under The Sun!

Proverbs 21:31 “The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD’’

Battles speak of a fight, contention, conflict and the struggle that we go through in our lifetime and more. Proverbs 21:31 intimate us of battle in life even as other scriptures of 1 Timothy 1:18 and 1 Timothy 6:12 and 2 Timothy 4:7 also referred to life battles as war, warfare and a fight of ones faith in life. More so, there’s the need to get ready or prepared for life battles as the horse is always made ready before her use for any purpose.

2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith’’ 1 Timothy 1:18 “This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare’’

1 Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses’’.

John 16:33 “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world’’

I remember a prayer scenario in which a young man came to meet his Pastor for prayers in order to get rid of any problems then and in future. The Pastor with all sincerity asked him to kneel, laid his hand on him and prayed this prayer – “Lord, since this young man cannot take any more problems, kill him and take him home early” – hearing this, the young man stopped the Pastor. He learnt from here, that under the sun, battles, conflicts, struggles, challenges and fights – are real to life either directly or indirectly, but with God’s grace you can do life in the midst of a problem filled life or world. Reason being that we are more than conquerors through Christ that loves us and we are God’s battle-axe and weapons of war as the scriptures of Romans 8:37 and Jeremiah 51:21-23 do indicates.

When I consider closely all the various battles in course of life, that I have fought and still fighting to keep my faith in Christ afloat; and others that has come and happened to families whom I have had the privilege of hearing their cries and pains; you will know also that there are life battles, and they are real indeed. More also, when you listen to the different news still going on in the media and through the various formats of the internet day by day you can also concur to the realities of life battles people are undergoing at various phases. However, when you do see and hear some believers act and speak as a people without hope and God in this world you are bound to wonder what has become an issue today. I am bound to trust God that this AFD FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION will bring about an awakening and leverage to each one of us life battles into a place of triumph and desired dreams and fulfilment.

As we’ve known already that battles speak of a fight, contention, conflict and the struggle that we go through in our lifetime and more as Jesus would sum it up in John 16:33 that there are and would be problems in the world challenging our faith, but we should be of good cheer because through Him we are overcomers. Hence for our alertness and awareness the Scripture of 1 Timothy 6:12 enjoins us to fight the good fight or battle of life as it can affect our faith walk with God. 1 Timothy 1:18 charge us about waring a good warfare, which indicates there’s a bad fight or warfare there also in cause of life. Apostle Paul does understand this life battles very well, hence in 2 Timothy 4:7, he said he has fought a good fight of his faith. Meaning, battles come to challenge our faith in Christ and our preparedness to fight and triumph makes us God’s battles axe. All the enemies’ intent daily is to rob us of our steadfastness in faith, so that he can get holds of every other thing about us in life and godliness.

As an achiever in Christ Jesus and more importantly as God’s battle axe and weapon of war, you need not take things for granted as some may. A lot of Christians jump into the life endeavours with great excitements, but unarmed and unprepared, thereby end up being casualties of any problems that come their way instead of being victors as the scripture enjoins in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 declares that for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh, simply because the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, that is, man-made, but are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought and vain imaginations to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when our obedience is fulfilled. Also the scripture of Ephesians 6:11-12 requires us to put on the whole armour of God, that we may be able to stand and withstand against the wiles, that is the strategies, mode of operando and the technics of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, meaning human flesh, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. In order to be readily armed and not being taken unaware, 1 Peter 5:8-9 alerts us to be sober and be vigilant, because our adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: whom we have to resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in our brethren that are in the world.

We are constantly engaged in life battles – they are real, be it natural, spiritual or man-made. We need to realise and acknowledge these realities. Some of the battles can have a very severe and strong emotional, physiological effect in one’s life resulting a moral breakdown and permanent delusion. Some people as a result have taken their own life equally when they couldn’t manage or deal with the issues about them. Herein are some of the factors that we can attribute to life battles or contentions affecting people inwardly or outwardly:

  • Bereavement
  • Mental & psychological battles
  • Emotional problems
  • Spiritual battles
  • Financial battles
  • Health problems
  • Social problems
  • Peer pressure
  • Marital/Relationship strife or breakdowns
  • Business/Entrepreneur/Career instability
  • Wars (Family, Community, Nations)
  • Insecurity/Terrorism
  • Natural disasters
  • . . . And many others.

Some of these battles come with no warning whatsoever and are in various sizes and phases.

GOD’S BATTLE AXE: That’s What You Are!

Jeremiah 51:21-23 ‘’Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers’’

Proverbs 21:31 “The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD’’

Psalm 18:38-40 “I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me’’.

Just as the horse was the vehicle in use for battle as Proverbs 21:31 enjoins us – in the same manner we are God’s vehicle to accomplish His plans, purposes and pursuits on earth. The Psalmist, King David knew it well when he made this declaration of triumph in battle in Psalms 18:38- 40, that by His God, he has wounded his enemy and circumstances that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under his feet. For God hast girded him with strength unto the battle: God has subdued under his foot those that rose up against him. The Lord God has also given him the necks of mine enemies; that he might destroy them that hate him.

Also, God was very emphatic while speaking to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 51:21-23, that he is His battle axe and weapon of war to bring forth the change that his people needs. The reason been that the Lord God had made it very clear in the Holy writ that the heaven’s is the Lord’s, but the earth has He given to the children of men to determine and oversee the affairs as in the Holy writs of Psalms 115:16 and Isaiah 45:11-13 and Psalms 8:4-8. So, Jeremiah as spiritual leader with responsibility under God on earth same are we to take charge and control; and to determine the path of our destiny rather than waiting for events of life to dictate who we are and will be on earth in God. Knowing full well that the earth is the Lord’s, the fulness thereof, the world and all they that dwell in it as Psalms 24:1 does enjoin. Hallelujah. Amen.

We serve a royal God and one of the great roles for kings is to ensure safety, security and prosperity for their subjects. We are a royal priesthood – 1 Peter 2:5, 9 – therefore we have a responsibility to keep our place in God safe from the enemy and cohorts intrusion.

Jeremiah 12:5 “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?’’

We are God’s battle axe and weapons of war to bring about the change and difference not only in our personal lives, but in the life’s of our community, our worlds and all those that we care about, as we serves as God’s ambassador and embassy on earth. Jeremiah 12:5 suffice to say that if one do run with men on foot, and they do wearied you, then how then can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, wherein you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling or storm rise of river Jordan? Meaning, if we cannot battle the ant around us how can we battle for others within our reach. I pray that you will be inspired to take the bull by the horns and not to expire as one without hope and aspiration from God. It is the knowing and understanding by the inspiration and revelation insight and foresight as God’s battle axe, that will cause you to aspire to greater heights and fight through to achieve that which you desire in life. The battle axe and weapons of war position is not just a place for defensive battle only, but also an offensive battle position of fortitudes. For In LIFE, you can only POSSESS what you are WILLING and DETERMINE to PURSUE; Life can only offer you the fulness of what you deserves, by the DEMANDS you place on it. That is the fact and truth of life!

Psalms 18:37 “I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed”

When people come across trials and life battles – the tendency is to give up, quit, back off and go weary and stay lukewarm when it matters most – but the scripture of Luke 18:1 discourages any to be in such stalemate state. God did not find it pleasing with the children of Ephraim who gave up, stayed stalemate and turned back, refused to shoot a single of their armed bow on the day of battle and their brothers were killed and massacred for their negligence. Many are hoping on you indeed. Don’t give up, quit, or back off when there’s hope and assurance ahead if you could patiently endure to the end.

Psalms 78:9 “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle”.

Meaning if you get weary on a foot battle, how will you contend with ‘horses’ in some pursuits of business, career, marital, family and other personal life affairs? Achievers as God’s battle axe and weapons of war do not give in until victory comes and battle is won. You are an achiever – do not give in or give up or quit; surely, God that sets you up to be His battle axe and weapon of war is determine to bring to fruition everything He has spoken concerning you, only don’t fail Him as admonished by these Scriptures Philippians 1:6 and 2 Corinthians 2:9-10.

GOD’S BATTLE AXE: The Battle Is the Lord’s!

Psalms 24:8 “Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle’’.

Psalms 20:6-8 “Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright’’.

I heard a story many years ago about a younger boy who was being bullied almost daily at school by a bigger boy. The bigger boy called him names and beat him up and threatened him to the point that the boy lives in fear, low self-esteem and was troubled. Also he couldn’t tell his parents and family because he had been warned if he dare do that of the repercussions and consequences.

One day this younger boy told his father what’s going on after a long persuasion. The father was very upset that he took it upon himself the responsibility of picking him up after school every day. It came to pass that on one particular day as the younger boy saw his father approaching to pick him up, he took a new courage and with fearless synergy to be the one who launch on the bigger student. Indeed, he brought the bigger student down to the amusement of all and the shame of the bigger boy.

That singular act of believe that no matter what happens my dad is here to back me up, became the end of any form of bullying, fear and self-worth low esteem that had plague the young star for that period. The father never got involved, but just the sight of his father alter his believe and that made the difference. The WORD of God is the person of Christ, only by beholding it and acting on accordingly can one make all the difference as admonished by James 1:22-25 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed”. So therefore, THINK!

One basic thing that should always be in the depth of our human spirit and that is; to know that no amount of self-made strength can get us truly out of these battles of life completely no matter how much we try. This is what the Lord was instructing Zerubbabel to know in Zechariah 4:6. He said to Zerubbabel, that the mountains, valleys, crooked road and rough places before him are not resolved just by human power, might and wisdom but by the creative act of the creative Holy Spirit living in us to make it possible as its written “Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts”.

In same scenario as above, we are also enjoined by 1 Samuel 2:9-10 that none can win or prevail in life by a mere human strength without the very act of God to whom all things submit as written “He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed”.

If we could sort things out without God indefinitely by our human strength, probably the world credit crunch that’s tormenting and hunting nations, businesses, families and individuals today, would have left only a few in the red which is not so. All are looking for a miracle to deliver them because their strength has come to an end; and every day in the news all we see are just guessed work and probabilities with no emphatic resolve or any claiming to know. The good news is that the battle of life is the Lord’s. You need not fight in your own strength – but to hand it all over to God.

This is what David did to triumph over Goliath as the scripture of 1 Samuel 17:47-49 did affirm:

“And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands. AND IT CAME TO PASS, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth’’.

David knew that His God was bigger than his battle – Goliath. And as God’s battle axe and weapon of war, he could size up his situation with the WORD of God and that makes him bigger than his mountain, hence he battled and walks through it heroically. More so, David knew and understood the almightiness and infinitesimal power of God in saving His anointed of which you are one (God’s battle axe and weapon of war), as he portrayed such confidence in Psalms 20:6-8. David dares to make bold this declaration confidently and assuredly because he knows and understand; knows and understand what? That the LORD saves his anointed one; and He will hear him from his Holy Heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. In that some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember, count on, the name of the LORD our God. Even as 1 John 5:14-15 do assures in this scriptural writ:

“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us15 and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him”

More so, and by that name David knows that all battles are brought down and fallen; while we are raised and stand upright at the right hand of the Father God as Ephesians 1:6-8 do exhort in this wise “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them”. The reason for all this victorious acclamation is as being in the Holy writ record that our God is strong and mighty, He’s the LORD mighty in battle as in Psalms 24:8 “Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle”.

Therefore, let’s commit that marital relationship, family relationship, friendship, business, career, and ministry and ministerial, and financial and such like battle to the Lord; He will definitely fix it up for you in His own mechanism which is beyond human comprehension. It doesn’t matter how small or how big it may appear or look and might have taken, the Lord will fix it again and again. He is the uncreated, creator God. That’s the challenge the Lord pose to Joshua, affirming that He the Lord God is the captain of the battle field of His people if Joshua and his army must be able to win, conquer, overtake and possess the land of Jericho. Know full well that just before this time Joshua and his people, the Israelites has lost the battle to a very small country and army called Ai in comparison to the large army of Israelites as recorded in Joshua 7:1-7; until they fought back and won again by their obedience to God’s leading as recorded in Joshua 7:6-8:35.

And in Joshua 5:13-15, we have this holy writ challenged pose to Joshua to awaken, exhort, admonish and synergise him and his people to take on in any battle especially in the battle fall of Jericho, which there undermined to that defeat of the country of Ai, which is:

Joshua 5:13-15 “And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so’’.

You can triumph over that monster of health, finance, business and relationship breakdown. Don’t give up or own up to the enemy, just keep on keeping on until your miracle comes from the Lord. It’s only what the Lord does that last for ever to authenticate His handwork and His glory in His Church on earth – that includes you.

GODS’S BATTLE AXEThe Horse – It’s Prepared for Battle!

Proverbs 21:31 “The horse is PREPARE against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD”

Job 39:19 “Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou CLOTHED his neck with thunder?”

1 Corinthians 14:8 “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall PREPARE himself to the battle?”

In scripture the horse is used as a symbol of fleshly strength and might in war or and battle field. The horse is a solid-hoofed domesticated mammal used for pulling carts for war and for pleasure riding and racing. The horse has to be prepared against the day of battle, challenge and or for whatever purpose it may be for. In racing the horse is prepared through intense training – months before the race. Job 39:19-25 indicates that since the horse is given for strength, there is the need to prepare it, especially the neck, for what it takes to accomplish that purpose as Proverbs 21:31 cautiously enjoined. We do know that the horse is limited in human accomplishment as Psalms 20:7-8 and Psalms 33:16-17 and Psalms 147:10-11 may likely suggest; however, for the horse to be of any usefulness, it has to be made ready – PREPARED. I mean made really ready, otherwise such challenge in use will falter and be disastrous at the end.

Psalms 20:7-8 “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright”.

Psalms 33:16-17 “There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength”.

Psalms 147:10-11 “He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy”.

An example of this historical fact of the Battle-Horse made ready or prepared, is in the case of American Indians going to war – the soldier would knot up the horse’s tail to prevent the enemy from taking hold of it and using it to take him down. He would plait the mane to prevent his bow and arrow getting entangled during combat. For war, horses were prepared both for emergency and planned wars. Vet checks, appropriate food for strength, and all necessary training and exercise regimes were carried out. So not only was the horse prepared in order to have speed and strength for the battle but preventative measures were put in place to ensure that the enemy could not pick on its weak areas. The American Indians would also decorate the horse in order to identify with their own and these decorations would usually tell a story about who the Indian and his horse were and were capable of.

In the same scenario we are enjoined in 1 Peter 5:8-11 of the need to be prepared for our battles.

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen”.

Battles are real in life. I’ve mentioned earlier it could be man-made, spiritual and or natural causes. In any case we should be awake and alert as God’s battle axe and weapon of war if we must be able to keep the enemy and the battle at bay and advance the kingdom of God’s plans, purposes and pursuits about our life. The scripture of first Peter chapter 5 above also indicates in verse 9, that this life battles are not particular or peculiar to just you only, but other brethren in faith as you, are taking hold of theirs throughout the world by their steadfast faith in the WORD. Therefore, there’s the need to live prepared and ready because victory, stability maturity, strength and more are available at the end of the tunnel when we keep to faith. Be readily PREPARED!

GODS’S BATTLE AXE : Dare Plan – Be Prepare for Life Battle!

Proverbs 16:1, 3, 7, 9 “The preparations of the heart belong to man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD . . . Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established . . . When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. A man’s heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps’’

Mark 1:35 ”And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he (Jesus) went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed’’.

Joshua 1:8 “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest OBSERVE to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success’’.

I’ve called back again and again what you very well know, that is, that conflicts are real, battles are real regardless of what people think or the angle from which you are looking. The book of Jeremiah 12:5 challenges us in this form: “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?”. We are to endeavour not to grow weary when life’s battles come for if we faint for men on foot how then can we compete with big time challenges in our society; especially the battles that affects us all in various phases, sizes and dimensions: family, business, career, relationship, economy, governance and more. The Bible says that if we faint to the opposition against our being able to ensure our faith and to be able to establish in grace in all we do, our faith and strength is then small and weak. That’s what Proverbs 24:10 also affirms “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small”. In other words, winning life battles is not for fainting hearts and weary or burnt out hearts, which Luke 18:1-8 earnestly discourages the believers in Christ to become. But we are earnestly asked to contend in every battle and win as the widow in context did which is explicitly written:

“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”

Life battles come to us in various forms, times and seasons, we must be alert or else we will be caught in the net as the holy writ of Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 do exhort – “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them”. Our archenemy who is the architect of our battles goes to and fro seeking for whom he may devour and disrupt their God given dreams. While the battles belong to the Lord, you have also the responsible of planning and preparing ahead of all battles of life. This is by taking every advantage that time and opportunities in Christ prepares you to plan with, in purpose and pursuit of it. Failing to Plan and prepare, is otherwise the act of planning and preparing to fail in life. And I say to you – GOD FORBIDS!

This act of preparation is the wisdom instruction which Proverbs 16 has conveyed in verses one, three, seven and nine for our perusal. It thus indicates that the preparations of the heart to win, conquer, overcome, triumph and have victory firstly belong to man, and the answer of the tongue to that battle, is determine from the LORD. And when a man’s ways please the Lord, there’s a certain that heavens will answer one speedily. For when a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. And what pleases God is our Faith in diligent walk of steadfastness in any life battle as Hebrews 11:6 exhorts: “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”. Hence there’s the need to commit the matter to the LORD, and our thoughts of direction to win and triumph shall be established. A man’s heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps to victory.

Learning the principles of life from our lord Jesus Christ who won all His life battles in His earthly life and ministry could be a solid foundation and prerequisite from distractions for us to win our own life battles as the scripture of Hebrews 12:1-2 enjoins us to do as its written: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God”. I will give you just two principles – not limited however – that will enable you to crush your enemy, more or else in any battle and to achieve your desired goals for life as you plan and prepare with God.

  • Principle of Prayer, Fellowship and worship: Mark 1:35 and Luke 18:1 and Jude 20 and Ephesians 6:18 and Acts 6:4 and Psalms 16:11 and Psalms 5:1-3. There’s the need to be alert in the spirit of prayers with God the Father. The act of Fellowship and worship with the Holy Spirit, the chief executive of God’s plans, purpose and pursuits concerning all the happenings about us and in the WORLD today; He will lead you through in all life battles with victory and triumph graciously. You can’t afford to do life battles without the Holy Spirit in Prayers as an achiever in Christ Jesus our Lord if you wants to succeed and be fulfilled in it and in the unveiling of God’s eternal plan purpose and pursuit for your life as inscribed in 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 and Romans 8:29-30 and Ephesians 1:3-15.
  • Principle of studying the Word and doing the Word of God: Joshua 1:8 and Acts 6:4 and Psalm 1:1-3 and 2 Timothy 2:15 and 2 Timothy 3:14-17 and James 1:22-25 and Luke 4:1-13. In order to receive revelation, inspiration and empowering to deal with the affairs of life at any level, there’s the need to be a student of the Word. God only respond to His WORD and nothing else. Faith is only as operative as to the WORD being believed and acted upon. Meaning where there’s no act of faith winning life battles with God are an illusion and delusion indeed. – Matthew 22:29; Psalms 103:20; Mark 16:17-20; Romans 14:23; Hebrews 11:1-3, 6; Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 10:17; James 1:22-25. There’s the need all the time to answer battle quest to your life by the word of faith which you believe in. This is the victory that overcomes the world and its systems – ways of living and doing life. 1 John 5:3-5. It thus means – No WORD means No FAITH, which means No VICTORY!

When you know the mind of God, which is in – The WORD – and you saturate it with God’s grace in prayers, you will ever win life battles no matter what it takes and how long it takes. The scripture says that the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him – But we have the mind of Christ, therefore we CAN WIN any day, anywhere and anytime no matter how long it takes – Amen! – 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 and Philippians 4:13.

GODS’S BATTLE AXE : The Consequences of – Being At Ease & Unprepared!

2 Samuel 11:1-5 “And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child”

Psalms 78:9-11 “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; And forgot his works and his wonders that he had showed them”

Under the sun, the Battles of life most times comes our way with the intent to stop us from achieving God’s purposes in our life as we take our stand in Christ. Idleness and standstill position is one cunning and crafty way it comes and it does not only destroy an individual, it makes those around you suffer the same defeat when you yield to it – as failing in life battles always demands that.

The Church of Christ today of which you are one when you get born again in Christ Jesus was the shadowed Zion or Mounts Zion in Old Testament. The Church is defined as an individual, local and universal Body of Born Again Believers in Christ Jesus under a Shepherd. Mount Zion is the city of the living God, the living Churches of Christ on earth, a city of salvation and deliverance, living with God’s nature which is Holiness; and with the mandate of possessing of possession – an inheritance – in life and godliness in Christ Jesus as typified by Obadiah 1:7 in this wise: “But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions”. More so, in the New Testament, Hebrews 12:22-24 gives the perfect description of what the Church, called mount Zion or Sion truly constitutes when born of God, which is; “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel”.

Now as a Church, which is Zion, we are expected not to be at ease or ill prepared if we must take on our enemy and cohorts in any of our life battles. Reason simply because there’s a curse on all that are at ease and lukewarm in Zion, the Church which is the body of Christ indeed. Amos 6:1 helps to indicate how much it is abhors in Zion, to be at ease and lukewarm: “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came”.

The book of Revelation 5:9-10 and Revelation 1:5-6 and 1 Peter 2:5, 9 classified all who are redeemed of Christ by His precious blood as kings and priest unto God in His kingdom plans, purposes and pursuits. As royal priesthood of God, we are a chosen generation, more so, a special breed of God. Kings are there to rule and reign in grace, and to exercise power and authority in order to authenticate the vest position of trust and grace bestowed to them. There are there to fight, protect and defend their subjects from injustice and evil that prevails around their domain. A position of higher responsibility and accountability and gracious expectation from the subject; to which much is given, much is also expected and required. However, it was a different scenario for King David.

The Scripture says it was the time when kings go to battle, but David decides not to go to war. He’s the King, supposedly to be the leading example for the subjects, but he chose to be at ease in Zion. As a result of that idleness, being at ease and lukewarm – the devil workshop they say for an idle mind – he fell into adultery that caused him distraction, confusion and family decadence for the rest of his family life. It was just a day off when he should be a day of alertness and being at the battle field as 2 Samuel 1:1-5 summed up: “And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child”That singular day and act caused David his throne and his life. Just a moment of gratification on a day of battle through idleness or nonchalant attitude or complacence, can ruin everything one had labour to achieve or become in the kingdom. Hence the scriptures did say that he that thinks he stands should take heeds less he falls as enjoined in 1 Corinthians 10:12. For Davidby that single act began to make so many wrong judgements afterwards and his children went in the same lineage after him. That is the greatest strategy of life. To create a problem which posterity can’t fathom, but suffer same due to the error of another. It was a disruption indeed for the king, his family and his subjects.

Another living example is the Ephraim tribe family. Ephraim is one of the children of Joseph who was blessed by the patriarch Jacob, the Israel of God, while has parting on his work on earth as recorded in the holy writ Scripture of Genesis 48. The children of Ephraim, who are meant to fight in the battle for God’s people, return without a shot from the battle field on the day of battle. What a great disappointment that an army that was fully armed and equipped returns without a shot in the midst of war. Israel was defeated that day, lives were destroyed. That is the kind of pain and disappointment that you get when those much trusted disappoint. It does not only affect them but everyone who ought to share in their grace by divine ordination. Others have to suffer as a result of their misjudgement and being ill-prepared to deal with battles about them. Psalms 78:9-11 indicates it in this form: “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had showed them’’.

And you see it in all areas of life – Marriage, business, career, parenthood, education, name it etc. When people are self-centred, they will never do anything for you on the day of your battle – these are vision and mission killers, they destroy faithful trust and the confidence of others for their selfish reasons. They will put up an excuse, unease, lukewarm, and idleness spirit and more, just to frustrate others efforts, forgetting that all will share in the victory, triumph and breakthroughs when they succeed in grace as David will say in 1 Samuel 30:14-15 in this wise: “. . . but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike . . .”.

This is why you should prepare, live ready and lean on God mostly; and not the kind of men with Ephraim’s and David’s spirit and attitude, especially – on the day of battle.

GOD’S BATTLE AXE: Dealing With The Battle Of The Mind!

Ephesians 4:23 “And be RENEWED in the spirit of your MIND”.

Knowingly or unknowingly, there’s a battle and warfare that is ongoing in our minds and in thoughts twenty-four-seven. Unfortunately, the Church has sat so much on SPIRITUAL WARFARE for so long that we have lost a major BATTLE which I called – MENTAL WARFARE – The battle of the mind.

For it’s ones PICTURE that determines ones FUTURE. It is what you picture in the spirit of your MIND that determines and defines what awaits you in the future. And the vitality for SOUND MIND can NEVER be over-emphasised at all phases of doing life and living godly in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead.

Proverbs 23:7 “For as he THINKS in his heart, so is he [in BEHAVIOR—one who manipulates]. He says to you, “Eat and drink,” Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost]” Amplified.

And there are reasons for the mind battle field when you look at the Scriptural context in Mark 5:1-20. This is simply for these reasons though not limited:

* Your mind is certainly a gateway to your life, for every event of your life is determined and defined in the mind.

* Every captive is first arrested in the mind. And your Liberty (freedom) is established or lost in the MIND.

* Your mind is the controller of your destiny. Until you are able to keep your mind under control , your life is out of control.

* As terrible as sin is, Jesus established that sin begins with a seed of thought (Matthew 5:27-30). All the devil does is to sell the thought. When you buy the thought, you become a victim of the act.

* Nobody succeeds by chance; success begins with a thought. Nobody prospers just by effort. Every act of prosperity, advancement in life has its source in the hearted-mind.

* Until you begin to think differently things will not be different. Every GRACIOUS imagination establishes you, but every human philosophy that one falls for makes a captive of you. YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR THOUGHT LIFE. For as you THINKS, so you BECOME.

* Every EVIL that comes upon Job begins with his imagination of it – Job 3:25. Every EVIL IMAGINATION is an express ACCESS for EVIL.

* Right living begins with right thinking. Great living begins with great thinking and great success begins with great success thought. Hence you don’t reply THOUGHTS with THOUGHTS but with WORDS.FINALLY – Foreknowing the above and such like, one can say that – until your sense of reasoning and mentality is corrected, your destiny is not secured. For Satan has no access to your spirit, knowing it is in relationship and fellowship with the Father God; but he has access to your mind. It is the gateway to your life. Therefore give no place to the devil or else he will give you a direction.

You are GOD’S BATTLE AXE AND WEAPON OF WAR, do something by RENEWING the spirit of your mind by the WORD to remain SOUND-MINDED. That is the HOW to BATTLE in your MIND.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

Romans 12:2 “And be not CONFORMED to this world: but be ye TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your MIND, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God“.

2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of FEAR; but of power, and of love, and of a SOUND MIND“.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we WALK in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the WEAPONS of man. 4 The WEAPONS of our WARFARE are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our WEAPONS are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking EVERY THOUGHT and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete” (Amplified).

Mark 5:1-20 “And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, and cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. 10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. 14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. 16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. 17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. 18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel”.

GOD’S BATTLE AXEThe Winning Spirit!

Isaiah 28:5-6 “In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate”.

2 Corinthian 2:14 “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place”.

1 Corinthian 14:8 “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”.

I dare to announce to you that the trumpet is sounded and the battle stage of life is set before you already; and the prepared horse has a winning spirit. Will you dare to be God’s battle axe and weapon of war indeed? When the trumpet is sounded for battle, all that the prepared horse has in mind is to win every battle no matter what it takes, how long it takes and where it’s done and by whom it is done. Know for certain that as it’s in the scriptures, that you are God’s battle axe and weapon of war to create and give hope and leverage to this generation and a legacy as a mark of history for posterity to look up to and depend upon our manifestations as challenged in Romans 8:19 and Jeremiah 51:20-24.

Romans 8:19 “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God”.

Jeremiah 51:20-24 “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord”.

For me as an achiever of God with a desired mandate, my prayer for you and all involved with my commission through this publication is to see each one triumph in this God intended mission to raise an amazing and majestic generation full of vigour and grace with a daring spirit to win in life. God is raising a selfless generation of hope, passionate with love, driven by faith in all life battles and with a mind set to be victorious and triumphant in life. A daring winning spirit is all it takes to get there; that is, to keep the enemy in battle with, at bay and to advance the kingdom of God by the triumph and testimonies of legacy that Jesus has done in us, for us, with us and upon us, in REDEMPTION.

I challenge you in this AFD FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION to take on another step of gracious faith again towards that business, career, marriage, parenthood, relationship, ministerial call, education and more; especially that project you know full well that when it’s done that you and destiny of others will depend on it, for which, right now it appears seemingly an impossible project and task to be accomplished. I want you to know that it’s possible again when you step up that strong I want and need it desire, and then pursue it with a winning spirit as David will do in 1 Samuel 30:1-31. Even so were you born of God to win, triumph and be victorious and a more than conquerors and overcomer in life in Christ Jesus, any day, anytime and anyhow and anywhere as the scriptures admonishes and exhorts us in 2 Corinthians 2:14 and 1 Corinthians 15:57 and Romans 8:37 and 1 John 5:4-5.

Therefore, go forth in this month and through grace that week by week and day by day you are winning the battle of life. I perceive in my spirit that this month that there is a reality of life for you to be a true, complete and total STRANGER to defeat, failure and such likes. This prophecy is imminent to you right now and very possible indeed. Believe it, say it and live for the greatest in you – for GREATER Spirit of God is in you, by Christ Jesus, Amen. Be awake, alert and ready before the day battle begins. So, I pray by the grace of God that you will see your Dawn DAY even before it’s a Dawn Day, as the path of the righteous achievers in Christ shines brighter and brighter until the dawn of a new day – Proverbs 4:18; for so is the achiever mind set to life, even as our Lord Jesus Christ show forth in Mark 1:35 for our example, Amen.


GOD’S BATTLE AXE – FINALLY: Don’t Justify Ignorance – Dare To Be God’s Battle Axe & Weapon of War!

A man’s ignorance is his own mountain and the knowledge and understanding of the truth will set him free. Ignorance destroys and keeps people in bondage and robs them of God’s best, simply for not taking their place of grace and the position wherein Christ has set them free. Hence I am leaving you with this AFD FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION – Monthly TEACHING Publication, for your perusal and as a guide of grace to give you food for thought indicating how the theme EDITION of the month will be approached. I therefore commend you to take time to ponder and meditate on them in prayer as the scriptures of Acts 20:32 enjoin us:

“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified”.

I trust God that through this AFD FEBRTUARY 2021 EDITION you will lay hold of your rights and privileges in possessing your promised blessings in REDEMPTION. To this end you will bring all things under your feet and control in enjoying and becoming what you are born of God to be in Christ Jesus.

However, this month’s theme will be expanded in due course of the SERVICES & TIMES in all meetings through the Month/year in REDEMPTION LIFE CHURCHES “Scripture Pasture School” Study and “Pastoral Messages & Ministrations”.

I gladly welcome you, your friends and family to be with us in Fellowship and Worship. I promise you that you can never be the same again as you ponder over the truth of the undiluted and unadulterated and the inspiring, revealing and empowering LIVING WORD of God. I pray that God revitalises and rejuvenates you and all that is about you, so that you may become the very best of which God has created you to be in your daily journey of Destiny Moulding, Life Transformation, Dignity Restoration and Kingdom Faith Establishment, Community Social Enrichment and Development and Readily Prepared, Awaiting The Lord’s Return.

Have an amazing, majestic and awesome month designed for you in FEBRUARY 2021, which is entitled as the month of HOLDING FORTH UNTO FAITH as – “GOD’S BATTLE AXE & WEAPONS OF WAR”! A Month To  Thrive And Live With Purpose And Fulfilment In God’s Righteousness Thereby Advancing The Kingdom Of our God And Keeping The Enemy And Cohorts At Bay In Christ Jesus Stead”. It’s all “About Being Prepared as a Readily Combatant and Triumphant Horse for Life Battle”

DARE TO BE PREPARED . . . DARE TO BE GOD’S BATTLE AXE & WEAPON OF WAR . . . DETERMINE TO WIN IN LIFE TRIUMPHANTLY.

In His Kingdom Business For His Glory

Revd Chukie MORSI Snr

Publishing The WORD . . . REDEEMING The WHOLE-MAN, From The Chains and Effects of SIN: POVERTY, SICKNESS & SPIRITUAL DEATH

Note: All scriptures are in King James Version except otherwise indicated.

PREPAREDNESS: DECADE2020S & YEAR2021

PREPAREDNESS – the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or take action Plan, Purpose and Pursuit – in respect of Decade 2020S and Year 2021.

DECADE 2020S is our Decade of SIGNIFICANCE! –“Being Significant By The Living WORD”

YEAR 2021 is our Year of POSSIBILITIES! “A Year Of Thriving & Living – Meaningfully, Colourfully, Purposefully and Fulfilling – In God’s Righteousness In Christ Jesus Stead”

DECADE 2020’S VISION CONCEPT:

DECADE OF SIGNIFICANCE – “Being Significant By The Living WORD”

SEARCH-STUDY-MEDITATE

The full detailed study for PREPAREDNESS on DECADE 2020S and YEAR 2021 is by following the link below of a PDF Study outline which can be printed in a booklet form (but it’s not for sale however): https://www.redemptionlifeinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/PREPAREDNESS-PPP-SET-GOAL-YEAR2021.pdf

AFD JANUARY 2021 THEMED EDITION

GREETINGS:

Shalom! Kingdom  & Redemption greetings in the precious and redeeming name of our gracious Saviour, Lord and King, Jesus Christ, Amen. My wife Faith and I would like to welcome you to the dawn of the new month January 2021 and the Year 2021. We also say welcome to the new and existing recipients of the Achievers’ FAITH Digest, the Monthly TEACHING Newsletter publication, of Year 2021.

This special edition of the AFD is the annual publication for YEAR 2021. Year 2021 is our year that is themed: YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES! “A YEAR To  Thrive And Live With Purpose And Fulfilment In God’s Righteousness in Christ Jesus”.

I do know that a man’s ignorance is his own mountain and the knowledge of the truth will set him free. Hence I therefore commend you to take time to ponder and meditate on the theme through and through in prayers and where possible accompany with fasting even as the Scripture below do enjoin.

Acts 20:32 “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified”

YEAR 2021: It’s Now EARTHLY Official And HEAVENLY Approved!

“I will give you the keys (authority) of the kingdom of HEAVEN; and whatever you BIND [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on EARTH will have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you LOOSE [permit, declare lawful] on EARTH will have [already] been loosed in HEAVEN” Matthew 16:19 (Amplified).

I SAY WELCOME TO A HAPPY and BLESSED DAWN YEAR 2021 that the Lord God had MADE and CROWN for our good and well-being as it’s written:

“This is the DAY (YEAR2021) which the LORD hath MADE; WE will REJOICE and be GLAD in IT” Psalms 118:24 (Emphasis Mine).

“Thou CROWNEST THE YEAR with thy GOODNESS; and thy PATHS DROP FATNESS (ABUNDANCE). 12 They drop upon the PASTURES of the WILDERNESS: and the little HILLS rejoice on every side. 13 The PASTURES are clothed with FLOCKS; the VALLEYS also are COVERED over with CORN; they SHOUT for JOY, they also SING” Psalms 65:11-13.

A YEAR OF LIVING THE POSSIBILITIES LIFE – that is – Living The Greater, Thriving & Colourful, Purposeful and Fulfilling life In The Consciousness Of God’s Righteousness In Christ Jesus Stead.

May God give you GRACE, WISDOM and SPEED for YEAR2021 RACE, and upgrade you from THANKSGIVING to THANKS-LIVING on each passing moment of the GEORGIAN CALENDAR count of 12Months, 52Weeks, 365Days, 87600Hours, 525600Minutes, 37536000Seconds. AMEN. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27.

GOD HAS MADE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIMELESS TIMELINE FOR OUR TIMED TIMELINE – LET US TAKE ADVANTAGE AS HIS CHILDREN TO MAKE DO WITH IT NOW – NOT TOMORROW, BUT RIGHT NOW, START LIVING ON HIS BEAUTIFUL INTENT.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“He has MADE EVERYTHING (YEAR2021) beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted ETERNITY [a sense of DIVINE PURPOSE] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (Amplified) (Emphasis Mine).

“Know ye not that they which RUN IN A RACE run all, but one receiveth the prize? So RUN, that ye may OBTAIN. 25 And every man that STRIVETH FOR THE MASTERY IS TEMPERATE in all things. Now they do it to OBTAIN a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so RUN, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” 1 Corinthians 9:24-27.

“ARISE, SHINE; FOR THY LIGHT IS COME, and the GLORY of the Lord is RISEN upon thee. 2 For, behold, the DARKNESS shall cover the earth, and GROSS DARKNESS the people: but the Lord shall ARISE upon thee, and his GLORY shall be SEEN upon thee. 3 And the GENTILES shall come to thy light, and KINGS to the BRIGHTNESS of thy RISING” Isaiah 60:1-3.

THE DAWN OF POSSIBILITIES – YEAR 2021: The Start Up Of JANUARY 2021!

“For with thee is the FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: in thy LIGHT shall we see LIGHT” Psalms 36:9.

May the LIGHT of God in Christ Jesus illuminates you in this Year 2021, that He becomes your FOUNTAIN OF LIFE. Therefore, in this Year 2021, I declare and decree that it shall be your YEAR OF ALL POSSIBILITIES; that the MOUNTAINS becomes a PLAIN, VALLEYS be FILLED and EXALTED, the CROOKED PATH and ROADS of life limitations becomes STRAIGHT and the Rough PLACES becomes SMOOTH, simply because you are a carrier of God’s POSSIBILITIES DNA. For every places the sole of your feet shall tread upon, shall be yours for the taken, and everything your hands shall touch shall be crown with God’s goodness, grace, wisdom, blessing and speed, in Jesus precious name, Amen!

May the grace of Numbers 6:24-26, be with you accordingly as it’s written:

“The Lord BLESS thee, and KEEP thee: 25 the Lord MAKE his face SHINE upon thee, and be GRACIOUS unto thee: 26 the Lord LIFT UP his COUNTENANCE upon thee, and GIVE thee peace”

I COMMEND you to God and His WORD and the POWER of His grace, that by the effectual Holy Spirit enabling, that as you GO FORTH in this MIGHT of POSSIBILITIES today, it shall be to you an onwards and upwards trend of altitude; that you may BECOME what you BELIEVE of God, in and for YEAR 2021 in Jesus precious name. Amen.

BE HAPPY. BE BLESSED. YEAR 2021 IS YOURS FOR THE TAKEN.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“We have also A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a LIGHT that SHINETH IN A DARK PLACE, until the DAY DAWN, and the DAY STAR ARISE in your hearts: 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” 2 Peter 1:19-21.

Luke 1:37“For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her . . . 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord“

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is IMPOSSIBLE; but with God all things are POSSIBLE” Matthew 19:26.”Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are POSSIBLE to him that believeth” Mark 9:23.”And when Jesus departed thence, TWO BLIND MEN followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have MERCY on us. 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus SAITH unto them, BELIEVE YE THAT I AM ABLE TO DO THIS? They said unto him, YEA, Lord. 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU (BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE). 30 And their EYES WERE OPENED; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it” Matthew 9:27-30 (Emphasis Mine).

“Thou CROWNEST the YEAR with thy GOODNESS; and thy PATHS DROP FATNESS. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the WILDERNESS: and the little Hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the VALLEYS also are covered over with corn; they SHOUT for joy, they also sing” Psalms 65:11-13.

“The VOICE of him that crieth in the WILDERNESS, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the DESERT a HIGHWAY for our God. 4 Every VALLEY shall be EXALTED, and every MOUNTAIN and hill shall be made LOW: and the CROOKED shall be made STRAIGHT, and the ROUGH PLACES PLAIN: 5 and the GLORY of the Lord shall be REVEALED, and all FLESH shall see it together: for the MOUTH of the Lord hath spoken it” Isaiah 40:3-5.

“EVERY PLACE that the SOLE OF YOUR FOOT SHALL TREAD UPON, that have I GIVEN unto you, as I said unto Moses. 4 From the WILDERNESS and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the LAND of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. 5 There shall not any man be able to STAND before thee all the days of thy life: as I was WITH Moses, so I will be WITH thee: I will not FAIL thee, nor forsake thee. 6 Be STRONG and of a GOOD COURAGE: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. 7 Only be thou STRONG and very COURAGEOUS, that thou mayest OBSERVE to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest PROSPER whithersoever thou goest. 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest OBSERVE to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way PROSPEROUS, and then thou shalt have GOOD SUCCESS. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good COURAGE; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is WITH THEE WHITHERSOEVER thou goest” Joshua 1:3-9.

ANNOUNCING YEAR 2021: YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES – COINED YOP2021!

YEAR 2021, I perceive is a YEAR OF POSSIBILITIESA year to possibly THRIVE & LIVE in Christ Jesus stead, the GREATER, COLOURFUL, MEANINGFUL, PURPOSEFUL and FULFILLING Life in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS. For the Year2021 VISION pursuit, I am so excited of what God’s intent are, as I endeavour to finish STRONGLY with YEAR2020 to enhance me taking on the gracious and graceful YEAR2021 STRONGER. It’s of this act of finishing strongly and starting stronger that makes my heart to be inditing of good things, rejuvenating with the fullness of inspiration, revelation and empowerment being made available by the Holy Spirit.

HEREIN ARE SOME FEW HIGHLIGHTS OF YOP2021 FOR YOUR PERUSAL:

** YOP2021 is a YEAR wherein ALL things are POSSIBLE with God and with them that BELIEVE to see God’s POSSIBILITIES in and through them in Christ Jesus stead. Luke 1:37; Matthew 19:26; Mark 9:23.

** YOP2021 will be a YEAR to stimulate faith, inspire godly living; it thus mean it’s a year wherein we are going to be inspired to aspire in God’s image, so that we don’t expire or be burnt out – Romans 6:14/Genesis 1:26-30/Job 17:9/Psalms 84:7.

** YOP2021 will be a YEAR crown with God’s goodness and abundance as we BELIEVE, BELONG and BECOME by the Word and prayer in the fullness of the Holy Spirit; a year of thriving with colourful living. As such, you don’t need to fake it to become; it’s just to stay firmly on the Word, in prayers and in the Spirit leadership to every aspects of doing life; then you BECOME whom and what you BELIEVE as Isaac BECAME in Bible days – Psalms 65:11/Psalms 92:11-15/Genesis 26:1-6, 12-14.

** YOP2021 is a YEAR of living the greater life because greater is He that’s in you than the he and cohorts that’s in the World – 1 John 4:4/John 14:15-27, 26.

** YOP2021 is a YEAR of living for a cause, that is, a purposeful life and not a wishy-washy, aimless and clueless and causeless life style – 1 John 3:8/John 18:37.

** YOP2021 is a YEAR of living for fulfilment and not an unending goals of achieving results without satisfaction and fulfilment – Colossians 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:6-8; 1 Timothy 6:12.

**YOP2021 is a YEAR to maximise every opportunities within the God’s given time in order to earn fulfilling result. That includes understanding the time frame of grace and the wisdom to do life accordingly. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12/1 Chronicles 12:32/Ecclesiastes 8:5/Psalms 90:12.

** YOP2021 is a YEAR to maximise diligently and in prudence with gracious attitude for altitude, your God’s given resources: TIME, EFFORT (STRENGHT/TALENT) & FINANCE. Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11; Haggai 2:8; Genesis 8:22; Mark 12:30.

BE BLESSED AS ALWAYS, PRAYING FOR YOU.SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

Luke 1:37“For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her . . . 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord“

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE” Matthew 19:26.

“Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE to him that believeth” Mark 9:23.

“And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. 30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. 31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country” Matthew 9:27-31.

“THOU CROWNEST THE YEAR WITH THY GOODNESS; AND THY PATHS DROP FATNESS. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing” Psalms 65:11-23.

YEAR2021 FURTHER HIGHLIGHTS

** Ending YEAR2020 And Starting YEAR2021 of DECADE2020S: MAXIMISING The God’s Given RESOURCES For Life – TIME (24Hrs/Day), FINANCE (Cash/Kind) And EFFORT (Physical/Mental Exertion)!

It is time to MAXIMISING your God’s given RESOURCES to Do Life and Live Godly, to count and account for your good. These are the resources of life – TIME (24Hrs/Day), FINANCE (Cash/Kind) And EFFORT (Physical/Mental Exertion). The hallmark of utilising these resources is to make YEAR2020 ending STRONGLY STRONG and to make YEAR2021 of DECADE2020S start up STRONGLY STRONGER.

To live the amiable life of the greater, thriving and colourful, successful and fulfilling, triumphant and achievable heights, is not for COWARDS and the SLUGGARDS. It is for those who are earnestly eager to take and MAXIMISE their God given CHANCE of OPPORTUNITY and TIME in doing life even in the midst of the challenging and difficulty in our changing times.

What you DO with your 24hrs a day will affect what you BECOME by the end of the day. What you do and how you deal with the OPPORTUNITY of the given RESOURCES that comes to your life NOW and AGAIN, will define how you END your day to day life and how you start a new day either as a mere DREAMER or an ACHIEVER.

You got three of the major God given RESOURCES for all mankind to make you create, initiate, explore and innovate into the atmosphere you long and desire to see and enjoy in your life PLANS, PURPOSES and PURSUITS. There RESOURCES are these:

* TIME (24hrs/day)

* FINANCE (cash/kind)

* EFFORT (Physical/Mental Exertion).

How you do life with these three RESOURCES in every given opportunity will make or unmake you. You need to be diligent to evaluate these resources and draw your conclusions now for your today and tomorrow.

Therefore START TODAY to strengthen yourself to end Year2020 STRONGLY STRONG And to start YEAR2021 of DECADE2020S STRONGLY STRONGER as it’s written of you in the Holy Writ. Don’t PROCRASTINATE by thinking of using ONLY a one day CROSS-OVER and or BREAKTHROUGH and or BREAKINGFORTH NIGHT as it may be CALLED, to be the means to define your today and tomorrow. FAITH is NOW. LIFE is NOW. You need to ensure the act of PREPAREDNESS – to PLAN with PURPOSE, to enable give you the needed focus to PURSUIT alright in LIFE and GODLY LIVING. You are the architect of your HAPPINESS, don’t play SLOTHFUL and SLUGGARD with it.

Plan NOW for your TODAY and TOMORROW, on the how to MAXIMISE your God given TIME, FINANCE and EFFORT now.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“WHATSOEVER thy HAND FINDETH to do, DO IT with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but TIME and CHANCE (OPPORTUNITY) happeneth to them all. 12 For man also KNOWETH not his TIME: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men SNARED in an evil TIME, when it falleth suddenly upon them” Ecclesiastes 9:10-12 (Emphasis Mine).

“Seest thou a man DILIGENT in his BUSINESS? he shall STAND before KINGS; he shall not STAND before MEAN men” Proverbs 22:29.”The HORSE is PREPARED against the DAY of BATTLE: but SAFETY is of the Lord” Proverbs 21:31.

“The PREPARATIONS of the HEART in man, and the ANSWER of the tongue, is from the Lord. 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. 3 COMMIT thy WORKS unto the Lord, and thy THOUGHTS SHALL BE ESTABLISHED. . 9 A man’s HEART deviseth his way: but the Lord DIRECTEH his steps” Proverbs 16:1-9.

“The PLANS and REFLECTIONS of the heart BELONG to man, But the [Wise] ANSWER of the tongue is from the Lord. 2 All the WAYS of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions], But the Lord WEIGHS and EXAMINES the MOTIVES and INTENTS [of the heart and knows the truth]. 3 COMMIT your WORKS to the Lord [submit and trust them to Him], And your PLANS will SUCCEED [if you respond to His will and guidance] . . .7 When a man’s ways PLEASE the Lord, He MAKES even his ENEMIES to be at PEACE with him . . . 9 A man’s mind PLANS his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord DIRECTS his steps and ESTABLISHES them” Proverbs 16:1-9 (Amplified).

** My Heart Is INDITING Graciously And Gracefully On YEAR 2021 of This DECADE 2020S: A “YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES” & A DECADE OF “BEING SIGNIFICANT” IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD!

My heart is inditing a THRIVING and GREENER YEAR 2021 in the face and state of absolute chaos, nothingness, voidance and nightmares that have befallen many lives on a constant and daily basis; and by the Spirit of the GREATER and HIGHER life in God in Christ Jesus, I am so ASSURED of God in HIS GRACE, that LIGHT will BEAM again as it was in God at Genesis in the beginning of time – Genesis 1:1-3; 2 Corinthians 4:6.

The present challenges in time can only get better over time; and it’s already evolving a new DAWN of creativity, innovation, exploring and initiatives that will take care of the New DAWN. It’s about living in the consciousness of God’s righteousness in Christ Jesus towards all things that pertains to doing LIFE and LIVING GODLY, in order to take advantage STAND in the NEW BECOMING.

My Heart Is Inditing graciously and gracefully of this DECADE wherein we are and the start up and upcoming YEAR 2021. As a DECADE OF BEING SIGNIFICANT and with all the the current YEAR 2020 have offered and shown us in every phase of doing life; an ASSURED in the light of God’s WORD, that YEAR 2021 will be the “YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES”; and being a TWENTY-TWENTY-ONE, wherein one means FIRST, signifying a NEW DAWN, a NEW BEGINING, to override all WALLS of 2020 defilement.

In summary YEAR 2021 is possibility year of LIVING and THRIVING for the GREATER, COLOURFUL, PURPOSEFUL AND FULFILLING life in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in Christ Jesus stead. A time of BLOSSOMING in the consciousness of God’s RIGHTEOUSNESS – in doing LIFE and living GODLY in our WORLDS of activities.

Therefore come along with me to the place called BETHEL (Genesis 35) for an encounter by the WORD and PRAYER in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. It’s Seven Days of BETHEL Encounter which starts Sunday 3, January 2021 till Sunday January 10, 2021. Come to BETHEL with me for three reasons though not limited:

** For the Horse is PREPARED against the Day of BATTLE and SAFETY is of the Lord – Proverbs 21:31/Proverbs 16:1-9.

** And a person of PURPOSEFUL DILIGENCE will be rewarded to stand in the place of honour and dignity – Proverbs 22:28-29/Hebrews 11:6.

** A person of KNOWLEDGE will be strong and STRONGER than the person waiting for a mere man-made Prophecy that are unscriptural but to the satisfaction of the belly to advert the hearers. Proverbs 24:5; Acts 20:32; Hebrews 6:10-12; Jeremiah 3:15; Psalms 84:7; Philippians 4:13.

Come, lets make BETHEL encounter and experience happen for our good in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“My HEART is INDITING a GOOD MATTER: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: GRACE is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness ABOVE thy fellows” Psalms 45:1-7.

“And God said unto Jacob, ARISE, GO UP TO BETH-EL, AND DWELL THERE: AND MAKE THERE AN ALTAR UNTO GOD, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 AND LET US ARISE, AND GO UP TO BETH-EL; AND I WILL MAKE THERE AN ALTAR UNTO GOD, WHO ANSWERED ME IN THE DAY OF MY DISTRESS, AND WAS WITH ME IN THE WAY WHICH I WENT. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob . . . 9 AND GOD APPEARED UNTO JACOB AGAIN, when he came out of Padan-aram, AND BLESSED HIM. 10 AND GOD SAID UNTO HIM, THY NAME IS JACOB: THY NAME SHALL NOT BE CALLED ANY MORE JACOB, BUT ISRAEL SHALL BE THY NAME: AND HE CALLED HIS NAME ISRAEL. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 and the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 15 And JACOB CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE WHERE GOD SPAKE WITH HIM, BETH-EL . . .” Genesis 35:1-29.

** SETTING YEAR2021 READILY READY: There’s The NEED To PRAY!

PRAYER is – Engaging the HEAVENLY permission into your EARTHLY affairs; so it is in getting readily ready to take on and take charge of YEAR2021. Year2021 DEMANDS such enabling of the heavenly TIMELESS timeline into our earthly TIMED timeline. DON’T YOU THINK SO? and If Yes – then give it a GO today – meaning you can start now. Start letting the heavenly into your set out PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT that will count and account for your good in YEAR2021.

PRAYER is the PATH to have your thoughts and plan ESTABLISHED readily in the spiritual – heavenly – realm, prior to authenticate and enact tangibly; just as a horse is made readily ready for the battle and challenging times ahead. It is the spiritual realm that gives the physical synergy of life – do yourself a favour – PRAY, so that you FAINT not and live a WORRY free life.

There’s the NEED to HEAR God for yourself on that your intended PLANS, PURPOSE and PURSUIT; rather than waiting for one prophecy of someone to define you on MATTERS that they can’t carry through life or YEAR2021 on your behalf. God hears and PRAYERS. Talk with Him yourself.

GIVE GOD A CALL TODAY – HE WILL ANSWER WHEN IT RINGS ON HIS THRONE – Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4.

Be Blessed In Your Earthly Cause To doing LIFE And living GODLY in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“The horse is PREPARED against the DAY OF BATTLE: but safety is of the Lord” Proverbs 21:31.

“The PLANS and REFLECTIONS (PREPARATION) of the heart BELONG to man, But the [wise] answer of the tongue is from the Lord . . . 3 COMMIT YOUR WORKS to the Lord [submit and trust them to Him], AND YOUR PLANS WILL SUCCEED [if you respond to His will and guidance] . . . 9 A MAN’S MIND PLANS his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord DIRECTS HIS STEPS and ESTABLISHES them” Proverbs 16:1, 3, 9 (Amplified).

“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, and not to FAINT (GIVE UP, GO WEARY, LOOSE HEART)” Luke 18:1 (Emphasis Mine).

“Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The HEARTFELT AND PERSISTENT PRAYER of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power]” James 5:16 (Amplified).

“PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” Ephesians 6:18.

“O You who HEAR prayer, To You all mankind comes” Psalms 65:2 (Amplified).

“CALL to Me and I will ANSWER you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish” Jeremiah 33:3 (Amplified).

“And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a MOUNTAIN TO PRAY. 29 And AS HE PRAYED, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering” Luke 9:28-29.

“Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left [the house], and went out to a secluded place, and was PRAYING there” Mark 1:35 (Amplified).

“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints Revelation 5:8.

“And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand” Revelation 8:3-4.

** PREPAREDNESS – YEAR 2021: NO ROOM FOR PROCRASTINATION – If You Must LIVE & GLIDE In The GREATER LIFE POSSIBILITIES!

DON’T TAKE THE ACT OF DOING LIFE FOR GRANTED, NO MATTER YOUR CAREER OR DOINGS IN LIFE – BE PREPARED IF YOU MUST SUCCEED WITH GOD.PROCRASTINATION is not just only a THIEF of ones precious TIME, but a lazy PERSON’S act of APOLOGY or EXCUSES. And that’s the HOW you want DO LIFE and LIVE GODLY in YEAR 2021. To LIVE and GLIDE IN THE GREATER LIFE POSSIBILITIES in YEAR 2021, there’s the NEED for PREPAREDNESS, that is, being prepared with a set out PLAN and PURPOSE in BLACK & WHITE with a PURSUIT mandate OUTLINED. You can’t suddenly wake up into a new DAWN year, wanting to live on a mere made PROPHECY as many have done and remain same because they assume things without a set PLAN to become in Christ Jesus.

You need NOT live or do life again by PROCRASTINATION. There’s the need to be ‘PREPARED READILY AS THE HORSE’ before you take on, take over and turn into YEAR2021. You don’t need to wait for CHANCE to BECOME in God and to make Success, Prosperity and FULFILMENT in life ready for you.

There’s an INDICATOR or DEFAULT in life, which is – when you don’t PLAN to succeed in life, you are equally PLANNING to fail in life at the same time. A no planning is a planning too. Hence there’s this great need to make PLAN with intended PURPOSE to give the needed act of PURSUIT, in order to thrive, succeed, triumph and become with God through His Word, Prayer and Holy Spirit leadership.

The act PREPAREDNESS – PLAN, PURPOSE & PURSUITS – is more than just making a NEW YEAR RESOLUTION. It’s a STRATEGIC RESOLVED and not a WISHY-WASHY intent that disappears after few days, weeks or months and on some baseless Prophecies that keeps many in a SLOTHFUL and SLUGGARD position for a magical miracle. You need to NOTE THIS –

“The outward manifestation of grace is the resolved of your secret dealings with the LORD GOD as His ambassador in Christ Jesus stead” Chukie Morsi Snr

No man goes to a STRONG man’s house UNPREPARED if you intend to POSSESS or DISPOSSESS him and his cohorts. Meaning, YEAR 2021 is at the cutting-edge in this anchor-leg generation of ADVANCING the kingdom of God and to KEEP the enemy and cohorts at bay; and as such, there’s the need to PREPARE yourself with the tools to ensure your goals, just as the HORSE is usually been PREPARED before the DAY of the BATTLE or RACE.

PREPARING as the HORSE means DILIGENTLY setting out PLAN with PURPOSE and the act of PURSUIT by the WORD and PRAYER in the graciousness and gracefulness of the Holy Spirit on God’s enabling grace and BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Wisdom will demand you understand your TIME and OPPORTUNITY in order to take on your life endeavours for YEAR2021, otherwise you may be cut up suddenly with life challenges UNPREPARED and you know the end game for unpreparedness is simply – FAILURE of not to have PREPARED.

DON’T TAKE THE ACT OF DOING LIFE FOR GRANTED, NO MATTER YOUR CAREER OR DOINGS IN LIFE – BE PREPARED IF YOU MUST SUCCEED WITH GOD.

EVERY GRACE AND BLESSING.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“The horse is PREPARED against the day of battle: but SAFETY (triumph, victory, deliverance, success) is of the Lord” Proverbs 21:31 (Emphasis Mine).

“The PLANS of the mind and ORDERLY thinking BELONG to man, but from the Lord comes the [wise] ANSWER of the tongue. 2 All the WAYS of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord WEIGHS the spirits (the thoughts and intents of the heart). 3 ROLL your WORKS upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will CAUSE your THOUGHTS to BECOME agreeable to His will, and] so shall your PLANS be ESTABLISHED and SUCCEED . . . 7 When a man’s ways PLEASE the Lord, He MAKES even his enemies to be at peace with him . . . 9 A man’s mind PLANS his way, but the Lord directs his STEPS and makes them SURE” Proverbs 16:1-3, 7, 9 (Amplified).

“Seest thou a man DILIGENT in his BUSINESS? he shall STAND before kings (HONOUR, DIGNITY); he shall not stand before MEAN (OBSCURE, UNPRODUCTIVE) men” Proverbs 22:29.

“Who is as the WISE man? and who KNOWETH the interpretation of a thing? a man’s WISDOM maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed . . . 5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart DISCERNETH both TIME and JUDGMENT” Ecclesiastes 8:1, 5.

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the RACE is not to the SWIFT, nor the BATTLE to the STRONG, neither yet BREAD to the WISE, nor yet RICHES to men of UNDERSTANDING, nor yet FAVOUR to men of SKILL; but TIME and CHANCE happeneth to them all. 12 For man also KNOWETH not his TIME: as the FISHES that are TAKEN in an EVIL net, and as the BIRDS that are CAUGHT in the SNARE; so are the SONS of men SNARED in an EVIL TIME, when it FALLETH SUDDENLY upon them” Ecclesiastes 9:11-12.

** TURNING INTO A NEW DAWN – YEAR2021: DILIGENCE WILL ALWAYS PAY GOOD DIVIDEND!


GRACIOUS and GRACEFUL living is about working SMARTLY in FAITH and not about working HARD in FATE. And it’s not for the fear phobia’s, timid, fainter’s and cowards that easily give up, loose hearts and wave the white flags by any means but it’s for the emboldened in the FAITH that no matter what may, God is FAITHFUL and will REWARD DILIGENCE. For EFFECTUAL dividend comes through the Faith COMMUNICATION of the acknowledgement of the glorious goodness and gracious greatness in you by Christ Jesus as in the Holy Writ of Philemon 1:4-6.

Every DILIGENT beginning will surely increase GRACIOUSLY, GRACEFULLY and GLORIOUSLY. God had CALLED and BLESSED you, having FOREKNOWN you, PREDESTINATED you, FORGIVEN you, JUSTIFIED you and GLORIFIED you, so that ALL things being done by you through DILIGENCE might work together for your GOODNESS and ABUNDANCE and BLESSEDNESS in everyway in Christ Jesus stead. That’s God’s SET position for you in His PURPOSEFUL Sanctuary from the beginning. So get SET for the dawn coming YEAR2021. For there’s NO ROOM FOR THE SLUGGARD AND SLOTHFUL, because your FUTURE greatness is UNDENIABLE and IRREVOCABLE while you are on DILIGENT walk with the Lord. AMEN.

JUST KNOW THAT IN TURNING INTO A NEW DAWN – YEAR2021, THAT DILIGENCE WILL ALWAYS PAY GOOD DIVIDEND.BLESSED REGARDS AS YOU GET SET THROUGH DILIGENCE IN HOURS TO COME INTO YEAR2021.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE from the BEGINNING is the PLACE of our SANCTUARY” Jeremiah 17:12.

“Seest thou a man DILIGENT in his business? he shall STAND before KINGS (Honour, Dignity); he shall not STAND before MEAN (Sluggard, Obscured) men” Proverbs 22:29 (Emphasis Mine).

“But without FAITH it is impossible to PLEASE him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a REWARDER of them that DILIGENTLY seek him” Hebrews 11:6.

“Though thy BEGINNING was SMALL, yet thy LATTER end should GREATLY INCREASE” Job 8:7.

“I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 5 hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; 6 that the COMMUNICATION of thy FAITH may become EFFECTUAL by the ACKNOWLEDGING of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus” Philemon 1:4-6.

“And we know that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD to them that LOVE God, to them who are THE CALLED according to HIS PURPOSE. 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDESTINATE to be CONFORMED to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did PREDESTINATE, them he also CALLED: and whom he CALLED, them he also JUSTIFIED: and whom he JUSTIFIED, them he also GLORIFIED” Romans 8:28-30.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED US with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ . . . 5 having PREDESTINATED us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will . . . 11 in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being PREDESTINATED according to the PURPOSE of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will” Ephesians 1:3, 5, 11.

** CONNECT AND SYNCHRONISE INTO YEAR2021 BY FAITH NOT BY FATE: ENTERING A TIMED YEAR WITH A TIMELESS GOD ON A TIMELESS WORD!

FAITH is Now – The Realm of the TIMELESS. And God lives by His TIMELESS WORD in a TIMELESS sphere and realm – called ETERNITY – IMMORTALITY. Humanity lives in a TIMED YEARLY count of a TIMED world – called MORTALITY. Hence we can say YEAR 2020 is ENDING and we are about STARTING another year but which may not be of the same outlook but is TIMED the same and it’s called YEAR 2021. And it is God who LIVES and REIGN in the TIMELESS realm of ETERNITY by His WORD, that DEFINES the humanity in the TIMED YEARLY count of the TIMED world; This is ONLY because DAY and NIGHT, YEARS, MONTHS, WEEKS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES and SECONDS are same before God, while in humanity we do COUNT differently and are limited as a result.

The ONLY factor of connection and synchronising between the TIMED world of humanity and TIMELESS world of God is FAITH. FAITH is TIMELESS, it’s of the WORD of God and it is in the NOW and of ETERNITY, which operates through the indwelling human spirit in mankind, that enables one to live above the limitations of the TIMED world by the help of the TIMELESS WORD of TIMELESS timeline realm of God. FAITH is the only DE FACTO given to men to ENSURE and ASSURE, to AUTHENTICATE and ENACT, the difference so desired in order to be a MORE THAN CONQUERORS, to OVERCOME, to ACHIEVE, to THRIVE, to WIN, to SUCCEED and to TRIUMPH over all of the circumstances and limitations before humanity in mortality statuesque.

YEAR2020 ending and YEAR2021 starting are only in MEASURE by man, but not with God. Hence CONNECT and SYNCHRONISE by FAITH today and you will enjoy the FULLNESS of God with a set PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUITS, rather than the making of those year to year UNACHIEVABLE and UNNECESSARY new year resolution with a BASELESS foundation that disappears or forgotten in few weeks or months time as it’s often done by many. TIMELESS FAITH is only operative by the TIMELESS WORD. You can ONLY PLEASE God by FAITH. Pleasing God brings about DILIGENCE that rewards and helps to keep the ENEMY and COHORTS at bay. CONNECT AND SYNCHRONISE INTO YEAR2021 BY FAITH NOT BY FATE BY THE ENTERING THE TIMED YEAR WITH A TIMELESS GOD ON A TIMELESS WORD.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“To EVERYTHING there is a SEASON, A TIME for every PURPOSE under heaven . . . 11 He has MADE everything BEAUTIFUL in its time. Also He has put ETERNITY in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end” Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11 (Amplified).

“For whatever is born of God OVERCOMES the WORLD. And this is the victory that has OVERCOMES the WORLD—our FAITH. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:4-5.

“So then FAITH cometh by HEARING, and HEARING by THE WORD of God” Romans 10:17.

“NOW FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED for, the EVIDENCE of things not SEEN. 2 For by IT the elders OBTAINED a good testimony. 3 By FAITH we UNDERSTAND that the WORLDS were FRAMED by the WORD of God, so that the things which are SEEN were not MADE of things which are VISIBLE . . . 6 But WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM: for he that COMETH to God must BELIEVE that he is, and that he is a REWARDER of them that DILIGENTLY seek him” Hebrews 11:1-3, 6.”When a man’s ways PLEASE the Lord, he MAKETH even his ENEMIES to be at PEACE with him” Proverbs 16:7.

** ENABLING THE GRACE FOR YEAR2021: It’s In Your PRIMARY And PURPOSEFUL Call!

The enabling GRACE for you to do life and live godly in YEAR2021, is in your PRIMARY and PURPOSEFUL call in life. That is to be WITH the LORD, wherein you will be EMPOWERED in Him in order to ACHIEVE, SUCCEED and be FULFILLED with His GRACE, MERCY, LOVE, PEACE, WISDOM And SPEED.

Beloved friend, you don’t need to be in a rush to enter Year2021 and start marking unfounded New Year RESOLUTIONS and PRONOUNCEMENTS that you can’t even keep beyond few days or weeks or months afterwards.

Herein are some matters to consider carefully to curb these unnecessary artificial display that makes no impart and impact to your well-being in Christ Jesus stead.

FIRSTLY, It’s a high time you need to take STOCK and INVENTORY of your life in YEAR2020 that’s about ending, before taking on YEAR2020. This you do in these wise as an example:

** All those your SELF-WILLED power of rushing hours into your day before its dawn, has it made any difference in you without stress instead of God’s promised rest?** Those your lengthy days of UNENDING FASTING to prove HOW SPIRITUAL YOU ARE, has it made any remarkable difference in you? Or was it a statuesque to keep, though its a hunger strike and pride in disguise, but you just called it FASTING to make it seem spiritual?

** Have you not wonder that God wants you to THRIVE, BLOSSOM and be COLOURFUL? And not to SURVIVE or be a SURVIVAL? And to live in LEISURE and PLEASURE, and not in PRESSURE or STRESS? And noting especially all the HARDWORK instead of SMARTWORK you claimed to put in each day to make life WORTH LIVING?SECONDLY, this is my take on you because I can’t help not seeing you THRIVE, BLOSSOM and be COLOURFUL in God’s enabling grace and BLESSEDNESS; instead of seeing you a SURVIVE or be a SURVIVAL as some have acclaimed to be their terms of living; also, my knowing full well that from your first primary call to SALVATION in Christ Jesus, you can be EMPOWERED to succeed and triumph, especially as such a time as this with YEAR2020 closing down and YEAR2021 starting up.

It’s your TIME To Be With The LORD to receive what it TAKES to make LIFE WORTH LIVING instead of DOING Nothing and just watching the day or YEAR2020 go bye into YEAR 2021 new start.

All I am saying is that it’s a good time NOT to start asking or making demands, but to just be with Father God in the name of Jesus – by ONLY and SOLELY MINISTERING to Him and Enjoying His presence. It is in this act THEN He can EMPOWER you and SEND you FORTH into YEAR2021 with His GRACE, MERCY, LOVE, PEACE, WISDOM and SPEED in His BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus. This will enable you to DO all your LIFE and GRACE endeavours and bidding without fail, stress and sweat.

I wants to promise you, you’ll live in REST and LEISURE, that is – stress free, sweat free, pressure and worry free, as you are SENT from God’s PRESENCE than when you are a mere WISHY-WASHY GOER on self designed and proclaim ambitions outside God in His Christ Jesus. You need to DERIVE strenght from the Lord and in the power of His might to make life a LIVING WORTH.I sincerely beg you of the need to learn and apply this SCRIPTURAL PRINCIPLE to all you do in life:

You are saved and called PRIMARILY and PURPOSEFULLY to be with Father God in Christ Jesus; it’s therein He EMPOWERS you to SUCCEED and be FULFILLED in life. This is what and how Jesus Christ did life in grace with Father God in humanity and has left us as example for us to learn of Him towards the Father God. Amen.

IN SUMMARY:

** We are SAVED and CALLED – To Be With Him!

** We are then EMPOWERED – To Thrive, Succeed and be Fulfilled by God’s Speed.

** We are then ENDOWED with Grace, Wisdom And Speed – to makes all the DIFFERENCE with God.

** We have the RESULTANT effects with Rest, Leisure And Pleasure in Christ Jesus – just as we are PROMISED and not Stress, worry (anxiety), Pressure in walking in our own efforts.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“Therefore being JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have ACCESS BY FAITH into THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:1-2.

“And he goeth up into a mountain, and CALLETH unto him WHOM he WOULD: and they came unto him. 14 And he ORDAINED twelve, THAT THEY SHOULD BE WITH HIM, and that he might SEND them forth to preach, 15 and to have POWER to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils” Mark 3:13-15.

“Thou wilt shew me the PATH of LIFE: in thy PRESENCE is fulness of joy; at thy RIGHT HAND there are pleasures for evermore” Psalms 16:11.

“And in the morning, RISING UP a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a SOLITARY PLACE, and there PRAYED” Mark 1:35.

“There remaineth therefore a REST to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief” Hebrews 4:9-11.

“. . . 11 for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the REST wherewith ye may cause the WEARY TO REST; and this is the REFRESHING: yet they would not hear . . .” Isaiah 28:9-13.

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the CALLED according to HIS PURPOSE. 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDESTINATE to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did PREDESTINATE, them he also CALLED: and whom he called, them he also JUSTIFIED: and whom he justified, them he also GLORIFIED” Romans 8:28-30.”God is FAITHFUL, by whom ye were CALLED unto the FELLOWSHIP of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord” 1 Corinthians 1:9.

** BUILD YOU LIFE & FAITH ON THE SURE WORD OF GOD: NOT ON MAN-MADE MAKE-UP BELIEVES & MERE PROPHECIES!

YEAR 2020 should be a LESSON for any wise person as I have always said overtime why you must BUILD LIFE and FAITH on THE WORD of God if you must ACHIEVE and SUCCEED with God. Otherwise, mere mortal men, in the name of God and not assuredly moved by the Holy Spirit, will make a caricature of you through your ignorance and vulnerability, to offer you vision and prophecies that are enticing to your sentimental desires. Open your eyes to search the Scriptures for your own good and favour as the Bereän Christian of Acts 17:10-13.

The Pandemic have proven while a mere one night crossover message and prophecies and NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is not what makes you BECOME in God, but it’s your DILIGENCE work of FAITH by God’s grace on the set PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT that gives you the enabling into the fulness of God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Proverbs 22:29; Hebrews 11:6; Proverbs 16:1-3, 7-9. Let the DEFINITION of you LIFE and FAITH in God, be by the WORD in the FACE of Christ Jesus, on that PREPARED – PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT – you’ve set forth for YEAR2021.

Know for SURE and CERTAINTY, that the NEW CREATION, which you are in Christ Jesus, have A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY in the light of the SCRIPTURES by the reason of our REDEMPTION in Christ Jesus. Therefore, do life and live godly, in the FACE of what Christ Jesus HAS DONE, HE’S DOING and will do in and through you by the Holy Spirit within you by God’s WORD, to make you BECOME what THE WORD said you ARE in Him and will be BY Him and THROUGH Him. This will save you from the falsehoods and errors around that have befallen many today.

If there be a PROPHECY or PROPHESYINGS, despised not at first but EXAMINE it by the SURE WORD OF PROPHECY if it be of God. Genuine PROPHECY or PROPHESYINGS is to bring about COMFORTS, EXHORTATION AND EDIFICATION; and not fear, intimidation, cursing, threatening and such like or the demands for tokens in cash or kind to make it come to pass. God is not the AUTHOR OF CONFUSION and He does not CONFUSED His children.

I admonish you to SEEK after God today into the YEAR2021, through His WORD and not through men or man-made make believe, that will keep you in BONDAGE and under or towards them and not after or toward Christ Jesus. For you BECOME what and whom you BELIEVE. You are a product of your essence of BELIEVE. Today I charge you to BELIEVE God and His WORD in Christ Jesus stead, so that you can BECOME in Him whatsoever you want to be of Him.

You have a SURE WORD of PROPHECY which is the Holy Writs, that is speaking FORTH of what you ARE and you’ve BECOME in Christ Jesus. For the spirit of genuine PROPHECY is the TESTIMONY (TESTIFYING) of Jesus Christ; meaning it will draw and pull you towards God in Christ Jesus and not toward men. And it does not lead any to further BONDAGE or SLAVERY as to men or satan or self. The SURE WORD of PROPHECY which is of God in Christ Jesus, is not BURDENSOME, IRKSOME, TASKMASTER and GRIEVOUS; but it liberates at no cost or charge, and is solely and only, being fulfilled in Christ Jesus as done for us in REDEMPTION; and it’s not on men’s DEMANDS for tokens in cash and or kind, to make it come to pass. As you get set TODAY to TURN INSIDE OUT YEAR 2021 into reality, take a STAND by the WORD through FAITH in God’s GRACE in Christ Jesus; and not a mere WISHY-WASHY NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS and man-made PROPHECIES to make you momentarily joyous and afterwards lost in disbelieve what you’ve become outside God by the evaporation of what wasn’t God’s SURE WORD OF PROPHECY that you ignorantly bank upon.

As we are set to turn into our TIMED TIMELINE YEAR2021, I wish you God’s BEST in His grace and BLESSEDNESS as you RESOLVE to make God’s WORD your SURE WORD OF PROPHECY to help you EXAMINE every other Prophecies and SAYINGS if they be of God, so that you can slide effortlessly, graciously and gracefully into and through YEAR2021 without hitches and regrets. That’s how you walk in the LIGHT and not in darkness in YEAR2021.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“We have also A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY; whereunto ye do well that ye TAKE HEED, as unto A LIGHT THAT SHINETH IN A DARK PLACE, until the DAY DAWN, and the DAY STAR ARISE IN YOUR HEARTS: 20 knowing this first, that NO PROPHECY of the scripture is of any PRIVATE interpretation. 21 For the PROPHECY came not in old time BY THE WILL OF MAN: but holy men of God SPAKE as they were MOVED by the Holy Ghost” 2 Peter 1:19-21.

“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the TESTIMONY OF JESUS: worship God: FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY” Revelation 19:10.

“And they OVERCAME him by THE BLOOD of the Lamb, and by THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY; and they LOVED not their lives unto the death” Revelation 12:11.

“To the LAW and to the TESTIMONY: if they SPEAK not ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them” Isaiah 8:20.

“And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper2 Chronicles 20:20.

“For God, who COMMANDED THE LIGHT TO SHINE OUT OF DARKNESS, hath SHINED in our hearts, to give the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of God in the FACE of Jesus Christ” 2 Corinthians 4:6.

“And now, brethren, I COMMEND you to God, and to THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, which is able to BUILD you up, and to GIVE you an INHERITANCE among all them which are SANCTIFIED” Acts 20:32.”For this is the LOVE of God, that we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: and his COMMANDMENTS are not GRIEVOUS (BURDENSOME, IRKSOME, TASKMASTER)”1 John 5:3 (Emphasis Mine).

“Therefore being JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 by whom also we have ACCESS BY FAITH into THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:1-2.”QUENCH not the Spirit. 20 DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS. 21 PROVE all things; HOLD FAST that which is good” 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21.

“But he that PROPHESIETH SPEAKETH unto men to EDIFICATION, and EXHORTATION, and COMFORT . . . 29 Let the PROPHETS speak two or three, AND LET THE OTHER JUDGE (EXAMINE). 30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. 31 For ye may all PROPHESY one by one, that all may learn, and all may be COMFORTED. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are SUBJECT to the prophets. 33 For God is not the AUTHOR OF CONFUSION, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints . . .39 Wherefore, brethren, COVET TO PROPHESY, and forbid not to speak with tongues. 40 Let all things be done DECENTLY and in ORDER” 1 Corinthians 14:3, 29-33, 39-40 (Emphasis Mine).

YEAR 2021 Scriptural Reading Of The Theme:

Psalms 65:11-13 “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing“.

Luke 1:37“For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her . . . 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord“

Matthew 19:26 “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible“.

Mark 9:23 “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth“.

John 1:12-14 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth”.

Matthew 9:27-31 “And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. 30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. 31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country”.

1 John 5:3-5 “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”.

Philemon 4-6 “I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus“.

1 John 3:8 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.“

John 18:37 “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice“.

Colossians 4:17 “And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it“.

Philippians 1:21 “For to me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying—well, that’s better yet!” (Living Bible).

2 Peter 1:19-21 “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost“

Proverbs 4:18 “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day

However, this Year 2021 and January 2021 theme will be expanded in course of the SERVICES & TIMES in all meetings through the year and Month in “Scripture Pasture” Study and “Pastoral Messages & Ministrations”.

I gladly welcome you, your friends and family to be with us in Fellowship and Worship. I promise you that you can never be the same again as you ponder over the truth of these unadulterated, inspiring, revealing and empowering living word of God. I pray that God revitalize and rejuvenates you and all that is about you, so that you may become the very best of which God has created you to be in your daily journey of Destiny Molding, Life Transformation, Dignity Restoration and Kingdom Faith Establishment, Community Social Cohesion and Enrichment and Development, Success Empowerment & Fulfillment, Grace Impartation and more, while awaiting the Lord’s Return.

Until then, have a crown YEAR 2021 – YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES “A YEAR To Thrive And Live With Purpose And Fulfilment In God’s Righteousness in Christ Jesus”.

In His Kingdom Business For His Glory,

Revd Chukie MORSI Snr

AFD YEAR 2021 – DECADE 2020S THEMED EDITION

GREETINGS

Shalom and Kingdom greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. My wife Faith and I would like to welcome you to the new dawn of YEAR 2021 – YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES! – Living The POSSIBILITY Life In Christ Jesus Stead – “The Year Of Thriving and Living In The Consciousness of God’s Righteousness In Christ Jesus For – Possible, The Greater, Colourful, Purposeful, Meaningful and Fulfilling Life in Christ Jesus Stead”; and also to DECADE2020S – THE DECADE OF SIGNIFICANCE! “The Decade Of Being Significant By The Living WORD”. We also say welcome to new and existing recipients of our monthly Teaching newsletter, the Achievers’ FAITH Digest. I thank God for the year2020 that has gone by; and by God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS we are entering into the 16th year of the AFD Monthly TEACHING publication.

And this kingdom business has been made all possible by the abundant supply of God’s enabling grace that was bestowed and given to me to carry on in this kingdom mandate and assignment. I am grateful for the constructive suggestions and other useful contributions that have kept the Kingdom mandate steady, constant and consistent over the years. I’m most grateful to God for His bestowed grace and sustenance; and the great insight and foresight that He made available through the inspiration, revelation and empowerment of the blessed Holy Spirit which I have received over the years.

For those who have sown seeds into this ministerial work – I would like to say, “Thank You”. I pray that you will know and understand this word of King David as in: 1 Samuel 30:24 “. . . but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike”. Your generosity means that we are able to share the blessings that accompany this work. I pray that God keep inspiring, revealing and empowering you all, and to quench your thirst and feed your hungry being with His truth and righteousness through this sound, undiluted, and unadulterated ‘AFD Monthly TEACHING Publication.

I would also like you to know, that by your continuous feedback and testimonies we are inspired to aspire, to fuel and keep the flames of the altar burning, while trusting God to bring the vision for the New Year and for January through this edition to you. The Lord cares about you and wants to mature, establish, strengthen and settle you for all your losses. You are here, right now in the year 2021 in spite of all the challenging and difficulties time of YEAR 2020.

1 Peter 5:7-11 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devilas a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a -while, make you perfect, 3 stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”

Finally, my heart is inditing a greener YEAR2021 in this DECADE 2020S with the spirit of Living the Greater Life of POSSIBILITIES. Through this theme and edition, come with me to Bethel for an encounter by THE WORD & PRAYER in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. It’s a time to seek the Lord, wait on Him until we hear of and from Him and take on the year with a stronger spirit as we read in the Psalms:

Psalms 45:1-7 “My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows”.

Job 17:9 ”The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger”.

I am excited about God’s intentions as we finish the year stronger which is rejuvenating my heart with inspiration, revelation and empowerment which is being made available by the Holy Spirit into a stronger 2021 in this Decade 2020s as it has been themed respectively. And they shall be coined respectively as in this: YEAR 2021 – YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES – About LIVING THE POSSIBLE GREATER LIFE (YOP2021) and DECADE 2020S – DECADE OF SIGNIFICANCE – About LIVING THE SIGNIFICANT LIFE (DOS2020S).

A YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES (YOP2021) AND DECADE OF SIGNIFICANCE (DOS2020S)

The life of POSSIBILITIES and SIGNIFICANCE is about LIVING and THRIVING in DOMINION and EXALTATION. It is made possible through THRIVING in the consciousness of God’s righteousness in Christ Jesus. And the following is an insight and foresight highlight to these realm:

** YOP2021/DOS2020S will be a great year and decade to stimulate faith, inspire godly living. It means that we are inspired to aspire in God’s image and will not expire or be burnt out – (Romans 6:14/Genesis 1:26-30).

** YOP2021/DOS2020S  will be a year and decade crowned with God’s goodness and abundance as we believe, belong and become by the Word and prayer in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. It’s our year of thriving with colourful living. You don’t need to fake till you become, just by being a doer of the Word, in prayer and in being led by the Spirit in every aspects of doing life, you become whom and what you believe – Psalms 65:1113/Psalms 92:11-15/Genesis 26:1-6, 12-14.

** YOP2021/DOS2020S  is a year and decade of living the greater life because greater is He that’s in you than the he that’s in the World – 1 John 4:4/John 14:15-17, 26.

** YOP2021/DOS2020S  is a year and decade of living for a cause, that is, a purposeful life and not a wishy-washy, aimless and clueless and causeless life style – 1 John 3:8/John 18:37.

** YOP2021/DOS2020S  is a year and decade of living for fulfilment and not an unending goals of achieving results without satisfaction and fulfilment – Colossians 4:17.

** YOP2021/DOS2020S  is a year and decade to maximise every opportunity within the God given time in order to earn fulfilling results. That includes understanding the time frame of grace and the wisdom to do life accordingly. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12/1 Chronicles 12:32/ Ecclesiastes 8:5/Psalms 90:12.

** YOP2021/DOS2020S  is a year and decade to maximise our God given resources which are – Time, Effort (Strength/Talent) And Finance (Monetary – cash/kind) – with possible attitudes for our altitude and aptitude – Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11; Haggai 2:8; Mark 12:30; Genesis 8:22; Proverbs 24:10.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION:

There are and will be the PHILOSOPHICAL opinions on economy, politics, climatic conditions and various or diverse predictions that are plastered all over the internet, TV channels and radio stations about the YEAR 2021 and DECADE2020S. Some of the analyses are negative and or almost true in facts, while some with both negative and positive connotations, inconclusive or undecided conclusions and an undefined sense of understanding on what the future holds. Hence many may be making contingency plans to handle the unprecedented matters that may arise in course of the YEAR2021 and DECADE2020S as a response to their strategic mode of operandi in governance.

At this time of the year, different people choose different mediums to influence their decisions and resolutions for the coming year. Be it governments, spiritual leaders, family members and such likes. In all these, what it important to me for the believers is that the Scriptures encourage us as God’s people to attend to God’s word and to incline our ears to His sayings, because they are life and health, that is medicine – to our destiny, sustenance and ways of doing life as written in the scriptures of:

Proverbs 4:20-22; 5 “My son, attend to my wordsincline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyeskeep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health (medicine) to all their flesh” (Emphasis mine).

Beloved, it’s time to hear for yourself, that is, – attend, keep and incline – your ear to the Word of the Lord. There may be ‘facts’ to prove how our circumstances will turn out in YEAR2021 and DECADE2020S, but the good Lord wants you to ARISE and SHINE with the spirit of LIVING THE EXALTED LIFE in the midst of the darkness that has befallen the world. The following scripture is God’s indicator of the light, to give you the leverage to live the greater, thriving, colourful, purposeful and fulfilling life in
YOP2021/DOS2020S.

Isaiah 60:1-3 “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising”.

Psalm 36:9 “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light”

Proverbs 4:18 “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day”

Isaiah 60:19-20 “The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended”

2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the DAY STAR arise in your hearts”.

For each day in the new year the Lord has intended for you to arise, shine, celebrate and be glad in it according to Proverbs 4:18; Isaiah 60:19-20; 2 Peter 1:19. So, enter the new year with gladness no matter how dark it may seem; or how much the enemy of our faith wants to remind you of the years past; simply because this is your YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES (YOP2021) and DECADE OF SIGNIFICANCE (DOS2020S) in Christ Jesus stead. As the word of the Lord came to me saying in this wise statement:

“Say to my people, as they incline their ears to hear my sayings and attend to my Words, I will guide and guard them to their promised blessing through and through; and as by the Spirit of promise, so shall my people be led to their place of salvation, deliverance, favour and peace through the Word and prayer over poverty, sickness and spiritual death; such that they can live the greater, thriving, colourful, purposeful and fulfilling life. I have brought my people to the place of POSSIBILITIES AND SIGNIFICANCE as they are called by my name and I am in their midst standing in righteousness. Let them know that as every star above in the sky shines, so shall every one of my people shine in the midst of the confusion in this world. Foreknowing that the light is superior to darkness, so shall they reign and rule, LIVING THE POSSIBILITIES AND SIGNIFICANCE LIFE. Then my people can live the greater, thriving, colourful, purposeful and fulfilling life in my sovereignty and in the midst of darkness; for the daystar is come to dwell in our hearts and to cause us to shine and glory in all that pertains to doing life and godliness. Therefore, let my people ARISE, SHINE and walk in the path of the daystar who is the sure Word and through prayers and the leading of the Holy Spirit, to lighten them up as a star and reign and rule, LIVING THE POSSIBILITIES AND SIGNIFICANCE LIFE. For I the Lord am the fountain of life and in my light you will find life and the true light that will guide you to your destiny and places of rest”

Beloved, your response by the word of faith to the negatives and facts you see and hear determines how much of God’s word you will walk in; and how the Lord can crown YEAR2021 and DECADE2020S for you as you LIVE the POSSIBILITIES and SIGNIFICANCE life as set for your goodness and abundance; and as you serve Him in spirit and in truth through His leading. Triumph, dominion and victory are available to you as you incline your ear to the saying of the Lord for YEAR2 2021 and DECADE 2020S.

This is the year of LIVING THE EXALTED LIFE, a year to live the greater, thriving, colourful, purposeful, meaningful and fulfilling life with amazing opportunities, possibilities and surprises as an achiever, while serving the Lord and enjoying His goodness and abundance – “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing” Psalms 65:11-13.

FURTHER SCRIPTURAL READING IN CONTEXT FOR YOUR PERUSAL ON POSSIBILITIES:

Psalms 65:11-13 “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing“. Psalms 92:10 “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil”.

Luke 1:37“For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her . . . 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord“

Matthew 19:26 “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible

Mark 9:23 “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people”.

Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”.

Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Romans 14:17 “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost”

Psalms 18:28-30 “For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. 29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him”.

2 Samuel 22:29-31 “For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. 30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him”

1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”.

Philippians 1:21 “For to me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying—well, that’s better yet!” (Living Bible).

2 Peter 1:19-21 “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost

Revelation 19:10“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”.

Revelation 12:11“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by THE WORD of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death”

Isaiah 8:20“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to THIS WORD, it is because there is no light in them”.

FURTHER SCRIPTURAL READING IN CONTEXT FOR YOUR PERUSAL ON SIGNIFICANCE:

Exodus 4:17  And thou shalt take this rod in thine handwherewith thou shalt do signs”.

Isaiah 11:1-3 “And there shall come fortha rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins”.

Matthew 1:1-16 “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; and Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; and Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; and Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; and Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; and Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; and Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; and Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; 10 and Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; 11 and Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: 12 and after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; 13 and Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; 14 and Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; 15 and Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; 16and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations”.

Mark 16:16-20 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 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. 19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming THE WORD with signs following. Amen.

John 1:1-5, 12-14 “In the beginning was THE WORD, and THE WORD was with God, and THE WORD was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And THE WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth”.

1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, THE WORD, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one”

Psalms 103:20 “Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of HIS WORD”.

Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by THE WORD of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death”.

Isaiah 8:20 “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to THIS WORD, it is because there is no light in them“.

Revelation 19:10“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”.

Proverbs 4:20-23 “My son, attend to MY WORDS; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life“.

However, this Year2021 and January2021 and Decade 2020S theme will be expanded in course of the SERVICES & TIMES in all meetings through the year and Month in “Scripture Pasture” Study and “Pastoral Messages & Ministrations”.

I gladly welcome you, your friends and family to be with us in Fellowship and Worship. I promise you that you can never be the same again as you ponder over the truth of these unadulterated, inspiring, revealing and empowering living word of God. I pray that God revitalize and rejuvenates you and all that is about you, so that you may become the very best of which God has created you to be in your daily journey of Destiny Molding, Life Transformation, Dignity Restoration and Kingdom Faith Establishment, Community Social Cohesion and Enrichment and Development, Success Empowerment & Fulfillment, Grace Impartation and more, while awaiting the Lord’s Return.

Until then, have a crown YEAR 2021 – YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES! That is, LIVING THE POSSIBLE LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS STEAD – “The Year Of Thriving and Living In The Consciousness of God’s Righteousness In Christ Jesus For – Possible, The Greater, Colourful, Purposeful, Meaningful and Fulfilling Life in Christ Jesus Stead” and –DECADE2020S – THE DECADE OF SIGNIFICANCE “The Decade Of Being Significant By The Living WORD”.

In Advancing His Kingdom Business For His Glory & Keeping The Enemy And Cohorts At Bay.

Blessed Regards,

Revd Chukie MORSI Snr