GIVE EVERYTHING TO THE WORD (2)

By Joseph Akinola

 

 

Why You Need The Word Of God?

You need the Word of God because the Word of God is God John 1v1. Having God means that one automatically carries the Presence and the Personality of God.

What Happens When You Have The Word Of God In You

When you have the Word of God, you are now in possession of God and God is living right inside you and with you. You then begin to carry the presence of God about and enjoy the following Benefits:

a.    You become Unchallengeable by any circumstances.
b.    You become Immoveable by the wicked force.
c.    Your Thinking Pattern Changes and what comes out of you (the Production Quality of your heart) becomes Outstanding and Excellent. (Bible says, ‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh’).
d.    You create a new world for your world by virtue of what you carry. John 1:3; Hebrews 11:3 (the Word created the world).
e.    You become Clean and Purified John 15:3.
f.    You Words Become An Established And Done Deal John 15:5-7.
g.    You live a Comfortable Live Joshua 1:4a,
h.    You become an Authority Joshua 1:4b
i.    You become Bold and Courageous Joshua 1:5, 6, & 9.
j.    Prosperity Is Sure for you Joshua 1:8
k.    You no longer live nor see things in the Natural again, you begin to operate and dwell in the Supernatural. John 3:5-6.

How To Give Everything To The Word

1.    Accept God as your personal Lord and Saviour: John 3:3. If you cannot give your life to God, then every other thing that belongs to you cannot be given to Him. If you cannot give your life to God, then you will not be able to give Him any other thing such as your time, money/seed, heart, etc. When you give your life to God, you have just succeeded in keeping your life with Him Colossians 3:3. Then you can now say, ‘My life is in Your hand’. Giving your life to Him is likened to opening a New Bank Account and every other thing you will give to Him will be likened to Deposits.



2.    Dedicate the Totality of your life to Him. {Whatever you give in dedication to God, He Insures, Multiplies and returns guaranteed condition back in to you.} Dedication means laying down everything that pertains to you to Him. That is, when you have given Him your life, you don’t need to withdraw it again from Him through unrighteousness, sin or backsliding. Remember, God is a jealous God. Exodus 20:3-5.


3.    Submit totally to His Will and Instructions. His Will is His MIND, His Instruction is His WORDS Jeremiah 29:11.


4.    Meditate daily of the Word of God. Joshua 1:8, Psalm 119:11.



5.    Have a Solid Word-life. Your Word-life determines your Prayer-life. Your Word-life also Controls and Regulates your impact and influence on your world. Your Word-life will Create any kind of world you want for you John 1:3; Hebrews 11:3; John 15:1-15.





6.    Believe: 2nd Chronicles 20:20b. Your believe in anything will determine the kind of world you will be living in James 1:6-8.





7.    Action: James 2:26. Your Faith without the Application of all you have Known and Acquired is of Futile Effort.

Note that the Word of God is a powerful weapon to deal with any situation around you. You can use that same Word to Build, Destroy, Pull Down and Tear Down anything.

THE HOLY SPIRIT Pt. 7

By Joseph Akinola

Sustaining the Holy Spirit/ Spiritual Gifts

The word Sustenance is synonymous to Maintenance. Maintenance is the act of upholding, preservation in order to make something to continue to exist; to make something to continue to exist.

The Cost and Price of maintaining a possession is always far greater than the Cost of Obtaining it. Maintenance is a life-long exercise/activity as long as that thing still exists.

Sustaining the Holy Spirit in your life as a believer is very crucial. Why? Because, when you don’t sustain it with the required ingredients (food), He begins to leave you – you begin to lose Him in your life. There is nothing as miserable as someone who had enjoyed the presence of the Holy Spirit in the past and now living his/her life without the presence of the Holy Spirit. The truth is, life will be unbearable to him/her.

It is very important to know that when you cannot maintain anything you have acquired, you are not really due, ripe and mature for it. Because if you are due for it, you will rise up to the Task and Price associated with it in every way it demands.

Below are listed and explained, some of the things you could do / exercises you could engage in order to sustain the Holy Spirit in your life and this would make you to always Keep Fit spiritually.

1. Righteousness: You need to live a holy life; a sinless life, to operate a righteous – bound lifestyle. Bible says in Proverbs 14:34 “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” If you really want to be exalted (dignified, high-ranked) in life as a person, in all you do and you want to keep growing spiritually, the need for righteousness and abstinence from sin is a must. 1st Peter 1:16 says, “Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy”; like begets like. You are a Vessel and the Holy Spirit is the Dweller of the Vessel – He knows the condition of the place to which He can dwell (live in), so He gives you the prescription of how His abode should be. 2 Timothy 2:21 says, “If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.” 

If the Holy Spirit would really dwell inside of you, you need to be holy/clean/spiritually healthy and sanctified – to deliberately set yourself apart for Him (if you are expecting a guest, you prepare your house for his visit, so that he would find your place comfortable in order for him to stay longer). Before you will operate the verse of the Scripture that says, ‘Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world’, you must make yourself Clean and Clear of all filthiness; you must ensure that where the Greater One will dwell is clean and garnished so that when He comes, He will stay permanently and then, would start to reproduce fruits upon fruits in your life because He doesn’t stay where there is filthiness. 

Note that when the temple is not holy, the Holy God will not come and dwell/reside in it. Also note that when you live a righteous life, you automatically make yourself readily accessible to and for the Master’s use and also for His abode and when you become the Master’s abode, you begin to exhibit the acts of the Master and with this, you soon become a master in and to your world both in the natural and supernatural.

Righteousness, as defined by some Bible scholars, is said to be ‘your right standing with God’. Where and how are you standing with God? This is a very critical question no one can answer for you but for yourself. It is important to know that how you stand with God determines how close or far He is / He will be to you and this will literally determine what happens to you and how much of Him you will know, have/possess because when He is with you, He will tell you things, including things to come (John 16:13).


Always note that Who lives with you or Who you live with greatly influences and determine your influence in life both physically and spiritually.

When he lives with you, He will influence your life into full/maximum success.

2. LOVE: 1Corinthians 13. Love is from God. God is love and anyone who will truly love must have God. Anyone who has God must have love and anyone who loves must surely experience God. Love is very vital. Without love, you cannot give and when you give, it must be without any string attached. It is not the person you give that rewards you but God. Love is the greatest of the Law of God 1st Corinthians 13:13. Without love, you cannot really see God. Ephesians 3:17-19.

3. FELLOWSHIP: Hebrews 10:25. Don’t forsake the assembly of God’s brethren. When you embrace fellowship, you will enjoy Synergy. Coming together enables you do things with ease, also, you exert less energy on things you do. Note that no man is an Island. You need others. God never created you to be alone, neither does He created you for yourself. Even God, the Creator of heaven and earth embraces the principle of coming together (Genesis 1:26 {come, let us create……..}). How enormous the result is when people (believers) come together. In Isaiah 1v18, God painted a picture of synergy through coming together both ‘to learn from others’, ‘reason together’ and ‘to do together’.

4. FASTING: Joel 2:12. Fasting breaks/disconnects you from the natural and makes you spirit-man attuned to the frequency where you can hear God audibly and clearer. Mark 9:29; Ist Corinthians 7:5.

5. PRAISE: Psalm 100:4. This is the key / access into the Supernatural. Praise also brings down the presence of Divinity/Holy Spirit. Psalm 34:1. 

6. PRAYER: 1Timothy 2:1; Acts 10:4

7. BOLDNESS: Proverbs 28:1. A righteous man is as bold as a lion. Acts 4:13; Acts 4:31; Ephesians 3:12.

8. SANCTIFICATION: 1Thessalonians 4:3-4. The world of spirits can never be comfortable to those who plunge themselves in the filth of the flesh; nor will the righteous and holy God ever admit such into his favour and presence, unless they be first washed and sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God, 1st Corinthians 6:11. 2nd Thessalonians 2:13; 1st Peter 1:2

9. THE WORD OF GOD: Acts 6:7. The Word of God Increases your Capacity Physically and Spiritually. Your spiritual health is geared / powered by the Word of God. The Word feeds your spirit-man, feeds your soul and also boosts your faith causes you to walk and live in the Spirit always.

Food For Thought

"Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh."

THE HOLY SPIRIT

By Joseph Akinola

THE HOLY SPIRIT {An Overview}

ACTS 1:8

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

The Holy Spirit is the third Person in the Trinity.

He is the Personality behind every Exploits and Manifestations in the Pentecostal movement today Romans 1:20.


This is an Inexhaustible Jesus promised you and I when He was ascending into heaven Acts 1:4 & 8.

The Holy Spirit is a Person. He is a personality in the order of the Godhead.

He is in charge of the affairs of the Kingdom of God on earth today.

He Empowers people/believers/saints for Supernatural feats.

The Holy Spirit is the most Valuable asset to Christian living.

He is the Central Figure in any breakthrough in life

He is the ever-abiding Power of God available to saints today John 16:13.

He is the spirit of Truth John 16:13

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

He is the Personality that Guide, Directs, Shows, Leads, Conducts, Points, Manages, and Pilots you into all the ‘Truth’ about your life.

The Future (God’s Plan and Purpose for you) is the ‘Truth’; Everything that Makes Up the journey to your destiny is the ‘Truth’ from God, all that You Must and Should Do in order to enter it are all ‘Truth’ by God, which you cannot Access without Possessing / Having Him (Holy Spirit) in you (your life). I mean the Truth from God (what God had written concerning your life and destiny) cannot be In View, Known, Realized/Achieved and Fulfilled without His Leadings, Instructions/Companionship.

You cannot NAVIGATE through the sea of life without the Help/Assistance and the Presence of the Holy Spirit in your life.

What You Should Know About The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit, (at reception-when you received Him) is like a seed, which Grows and Brings Forth Fruits of POWER, Acts 1:8. This power enables you to do all that you need to do (Philippians 4:13). The Power you receive will make you become an Evidence of the Word of God you utter in your mouth and the Word you live by to your world.

Prosperity @ a Glance (Pt2)

by Joseph AKINOLA

THE WORD OF GOD - Joshua 1:8

Prosperity is the will of God for believers but it has its price. It is the will of God for you as a believer to prosper but taking considerations the will of the believer himself, it is not his will but his wish. Will goes with discipline, diligence and dedication, while wish deals with aspiration without any commitment. Anybody can aspire and desire but to really achieve the aspired and desired, there is need to be goal oriented and commitment-bound.

To prosper means to be successful in all spheres (ramifications) of life. It means to flourish and thrive in anything one does. The same is what God wants for you and I as a believer.

Among the keys the opens/unlocks the door of Prosperity is the Word of God. The Word of God is powerful that it can produce for you anything you can ever desire in the Kingdom provided you are ready to pay its price.

Joshua 1:8 instructs that, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night…”

The instruction, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth” literally means that the book of the law (your own Bible) must be your Daily Reading. Reading it daily makes it unfolds itself to you and also makes you enjoy all the benefits attached such as:

Daily Divine Health
Daily Business Ideas
Daily Marriage Instructions/Tonics
Daily Divine Wealth Creation Ideas
Daily Divine Financial Tips, Name it.

All the benefits you get comes as a result of how often you operate/open/access the Book.

The Word of God is meant to PROSPER you.

The Word of God is the voice of God. God’s Word is the first level of hearing His voice. If you can hear Him through His written voice, you will soon graduate into hearing His audible voice. If you cannot hear His voice in His Word, you can’t hear His voice in your ears and in your heart, thus, you will continually lack directions.

When the Book is closed, destiny is closed. Open the Book and you open up your destiny into the Supernatural realm where you become a producer of proofs to the Natural world/realm.

Every bit of the Word of God you consume/feed on trains you, builds both your immune and mental system, nourishes your spirit-man, soul and brain (in thinking – creativity wise), your heart (in meditation) and your body (health wise).

The quality of the Word of God you carry or possess (in your possession) determines how much you can possess (achieve/acquire) in life as a believer.

It is through the Word everything you are and that you see around came into being and how much you want to prosper both financially, materially, mentally, martially, professionally, career-wise, etc will be traceable to and achieved by how much of the Word you open yourself up to and make yourself available to. In this part of the world, we do claim that there isn’t time for studying the Word, but we give time to/for our hobby, business, games and exercises in order to be healthy meanwhile, sound and lasting health abounds in the word Proverbs 4:20-22.

What To Do With The Word Of God

1. Labor in the Word 1Timothy 5:17
Laboring in the Word has do with ‘working hard’, ‘putting all your effort’, ‘keeping at it’ – the word of God – making sure that every part of it is Learnt, Practiced and Taught to others.

How To Labor In The Word 2Timothy 2:15

The Word of God you never labor in can never produce anything for you.

• By Studying The Word -> Studying the word of God gives you deep insight into the deep things which God has in stock for you. It deepens your root in the knowledge of the Word of God and this causes you to be certified /approved against shame, mediocrity and all manner of unpalatable circumstances.

• By Meditating On The Word -> Meditating on the Word of God gives you a firm hold/grip on what it says and the power in the portion you meditate on carries. 2 Tim. 2:15 says, “A workman that needeth not to be ashamed” – Meditation makes to stand out of your peers & colleagues. It gives you a class of your own, this is the key that makes you not to be ashamed and displaced during the trials of life. A man that will never be ashamed is a man, who meditates always, because Meditators are winners, they are creative beings. They tap into the Supernatural realm for resources to fix the Natural.

• By Rightly Dividing The Word Of God -> Rightly dividing the word means teaching the depth of truth you have learnt to other believers and being a witness to your world (Matt. 28:19, Matt. 6:33).

Because the Bible says in Proverbs 14:23, “In all labour there is profit…”, each time you labour in the Word of God, you get for yourself a reward for it. Among the things/benefits you get is life and profit in all areas of your life (Prov.13:11; John 6:27; Prov. 14:23).

What The Word Does

1. It Prospers, provided you obey/follow the rules – Joshua 1:8

2. Gives Life – Proverbs 4:20-21

3. It gives Health to both your body, finance, marriage, family, career, name it – Proverbs 4:22

4. It Heals you – In which area/aspect of your life do you need healing; harkening unto the Word of God heals you of all infirmities. The reason why you still fall sick is because you’ve not been saturated enough with the word of God.

5. It Delivers and Liberates from all oppressions of the Devil/wicked – Psalm 107:20

6. It Quickens you/your spirit-man – Hebrews 4:12

7. It is Powerful - Hebrews 4:12. The Word of God has power and can make you to be full of power both spiritually and naturally.

8. It is Sharp – Hebrews 4:12. It can access any part of the earth and the supernatural and also gives you access to anywhere.

9. It Destroys - Hebrews 4:12. It can destroy your enemy and also destroy germs (evil army/material) in your body.

10. It Discerns - Hebrews 4:12. It gives/bestows on you the ability to discern the state of things/situations around you.

11. It Illuminates – Psalm 119:105. It gives light to every dark areas of your life and also gives you Direction.

12. It Protects – Proverbs 30:5. The Word of God shields whoever believes in it.

13. It Blesses – Luke 11:8; Psalm 119:11. When you keep the Word in your heart, it blesses your lifestyle and immune your system against sin.

14. It gives you Victory – Acts 19:20. Nurture the Word of God and it will Grow and Prevail over every unpalatable circumstances in your life.

15. It builds you up against any attack of the enemy & also gives you all the inheritance you deserve as a Believer. Acts 20:32.

16. You become Faith-Filled through the Word of God. Romans 10:17.

17. It becomes your Helmet for Protection and your Sword both for fighting and defense. Ephesians 6:17.

18. It Sanctifies you – Acts 20:32. The Word of God sets you apart and makes you holy and fit for the Master’s use.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

• Until you live by every Word of God both the former and the latter, you can never be satisfied.
• The Word of God cannot bless or heal you and deliver you from all your destructions by your ignorance until you have harkened / listened to it and obeyed it carefully and fearfully to the latter.
• The Word of God can combat every mountain of ignorance over your life when you give attention to it – Proverbs 4:20

UNENDING SUCCESS REDEFINED (Part 7)

By Joseph Akinola
                                                                         HELP YOURSELF

Anchor Scripture: Jeremiah 6:16

“…And Walk Therein…”

In the quest to achieving success, the ‘Helping Yourself’ phase is very critical before you get your desired result.

Until you resolve within yourself to help yourself, you will never be able to harvest the goodies God had made ready for you. Because God will not do for you what you can do for yourself.

James 1:23-27.
"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.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

                                   How To Help Yourself
Be the Doer of what you have Learnt – James 1:23 .
See the Word of God as your Daily Mirror to put yourself on Check – James 1:23b.
Prayerfully fight against NEGLIGENCE – James 1:24.
Live the Word (live your life based on what the Bible teaches) – James 1:25.
Watch what you SAY – (too much and negative words destroy), or else you might not get your desired results – James1:26.
Righteousness: This gives you a Right Stand with God – James 1:27a.
Help Others – James 1:27b.

Note that each time you help other people, you are not helping them in the real sense, you are helping yourself and the generations to come after you.

                                                             Tip
If you want to lead people; raise people, when they are raised, they will need a guide and this is when your leading will be needed.

UNENDING SUCCESS REDEFINED 6

THE GOOD WAY

Anchor Scripture: Jeremiah 6:16, Proverbs 14:12, Proverbs 16:25, Joshua1:8



Success in life has different meaning to different folks / individuals. There are the right success and the wrong success; the good and the bad, the positive success/achievement and the negative.

To succeed in life, there are ways/routes and things one needs to search out, discover, embrace, follow and engage.



The good ways are the lessons from both your success/life journey and other people.

What you learn from Lessons are, ‘how it worked’, ‘what worked’ and ‘what could be done – Creativity’.

What you learn from experiences are, ‘how not to do a thing’ and ‘how it went/worked’.



Lessons cannot be acquired without research. Lessons can never be obtained without submission – to learn. Lessons cannot be acquired without Conscious and Thorough study both in the Word of God, study in the field of your expertise and study about the dynamics of what / which project you want to execute Joshua 1:8.



In order to acquire lessons, there must be a Disciplined Meditation both on the Word of God and about the project you’re working on.



Thoughts On This Formula

• When you meditate, what you meditate over enlarges and becomes broaden to you. When you meditate, what you meditate on gets engraved on the tablet of your heart acting as an instruction/guide, causing you to remain focus, bold and clear about your vision/project.

• Meditation gives birth to Medications. Meditation provokes Results. Regular Meditation causes you to be Creative and Innovative in whatever you do.

•  Each time you Meditate, you birth the Solution to the problem/challenges at hand/at sight/view.

 Action Line

• Have a Lesson Book; where you write your lesson about life, both your personal lessons and the ones from people around.
• Meditate regularly both on the Word of God and about your business/vision/project/proposals.
• Get to work immediately you get a medication (the ‘how to do it’) before you engage on the ‘Analysis that Leads to the Paralysis’ of the vision/projects.