WORD OF LIFE

WELCOME TO THE MONTH OF DOUBLE GRACE.
A WAY THROUGH YOUR MOUNTAIN Read: Exodus 14:21-28

Memory verse: Isaiah 43:19

Bible in a year: Ezekiel 12-14

Key Point: Ask God to make a way in the wilderness

for you.
Memory Verse

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall

spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will

even make a way in the wilderness, and

rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
Message

Another response to progress challenging mountains is to climb it. This will require a

lot of effort, energy and perseverance. In Numbers 13:30, when the children of Israel

were faced with a mountain on their way to the Promised Land, Caleb told them, Let us

go up at once and possess it. It is good to climb your mountain. In fact, there is a

sweet feeling when you are on top of your mountain. Take for instance when David

stood on top of Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:51, he felt on top of the world. There is a joy

derived from standing on top of your mountain. Yet, tobe able to stand on your

challenges, you must first realise your spiritual position and placement in Christ

and strive to enforce powers vested in you. If you are ignorant of this, standing on

your mountain may be a mirage. In the name of Jesus, from now on, you shall

stand on your mountains. Besides climbing the mountain, you may choose to dig a

tunnel through it. The implication of this is that, even though the mountain is still

physically present, you will be on the other side. This was the experience of the

Israelites when they got to the Red sea while fleeing from Egypt. They could not go

forward, and they could not go backward.  But when Moses raised his hands, God

caused an East wind to blow all night so as to create a way in the Red sea. The sea was

still there but a way was in it (Exodus 14:21-28). To bore a hole through your

mountain, you will definitely require the help of the Holy Spirit. However, you could

also handle a mountain by blasting it out of the way. This involves the use of a dynamite

to tear it down. In Joshua 6:20, when the Israelites faced the wall of Jericho, they

went round it as instructed and shouted, and God sent dynamite from Heaven and it

tore the fortified wall into tiny bits - reducing it to rubbles. To experience this,

you must be prepared to receive instructions from God on how a particular

mountain should be levelled and adhere strictly to it. You must also be prepared to

send your high praises to God so that He can send a dynamite to pull down your

mountain.




SIMPLY GRACE

Read: 1 Corinthians 15:9-10

Memory verse: 2 Corinthians 12:9

Bible in a year: Ezekiel 15-18


Key Point

Father, between what I have and what I need to do Your assignment, let Your grace

cover up the difference.
Memory Verse

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in

weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the

power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 Message After identifying his problem, King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20:4-13 refused to walk by sight but looked up to God in the face of threats. This was exactly what God wanted. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says,  “For we walk by faith, not by sight:”

Those who will be ready for God's use in these end times must be ready to walk by

faith and not by sight. Our sense of sight is so limited. Sight sees and speaks only of

what is available, but if you have to wait until certain resources are available, you

may never achieve what God wants done. For instance, when God sent Elijah to the

widow at Zarephath in 1 Kings 17:8-16, if she was to wait until she had enough

before accepting to take in the man of God, she would never have obeyed God's Word,

and would most probably have died during the famine. Many times, if we were to go by

our physical weaknesses, we would never have been used by God to do the impossible. The difference between what we have and what we need for the assignment is His grace. When

God is sending you on an assignment, He knows your limitations before asking you to

go. If He cannot make up the shortfall, He would not have sent you. How is it ever

possible for one to chase a thousand and two to chase ten thousands if the sense of

sight is applied? It is only grace! How can God pick up a notorious robber, clean him

up and ask him to go and start preaching to people including those he once robbed?

Sight will say: Never; but thank God for grace. How can God give that assignment

to you, in spite of your low educational qualifications, whereas, by all reasonable standards, it is meant for professors? It could only have been possible by His grace. So trust His grace. His grace can fix the difference. Accept that task the Lord is giving to you because He

had already prepared to cover up the difference. His grace will be sufficient for you.






NOT RESTING TIME

Read: 1 Kings 13:1-10

Memory verse: 1 Corinthians 15:58

Bible in a year: Ezekiel 19-21
Key Point

If you refuse to sleep spiritually, the forces  of darkness will find it an uphill task

catching up with you.
Memory Verse

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in

the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know  that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Message

God has a plan for each of His own. Unfortunately, many children of God are

mortgaging their destinies today. As promising as some may be in their walk

with God, they may carry some spiritual contraband with them, such as idolisation

of blessings or believe that they are okay as they are. Nothing grieves God's heart as

much as seeing the children He loves fall short of His plan and provision for them. In

John 10:10, He expressly declared His purpose of coming – to give you not just

life but life in abundance. He wants you to succeed. He wants you to reach the top

and become the best. He detests you stopping before reaching the top.

Anything that holds you down from reaching the top is obviously one of Satan's

bondages. Afraid that you might get to the top, Satan will do everything possible to

stop you – by making you to rest when you have not reached your goal. In 1 Kings 13:1-32, God sent a young prophet on a mission. He was asked to go and deliver a prophecy to a

particular town. To show the gravity of the offence of that town, he was instructed not

to eat, drink or take any honorarium from there. He was told to return home by

another route on delivery of the message. If he had followed that instruction strictly,

he would not have failed. But after delivering the message backed up by the

miraculous, he took a different way home and decided to rest on the way and the

devil caught up with him. One of our greatest problems today is spiritual slumber. We believe we have already arrived and as a result shut the gate of progress against ourselves. God wants you to be an eagle but you are already celebrating as an eaglet. Your destiny is not

where you are presently, so you cannot afford to rest. When you rest prematurely

you will surely get into trouble. While David rested in the palace at the time of war, he

fell into a pit of sin. Are you resting after a major breakthrough? Stop! Arise and get on

your beat. Be watchful!



 


EVIDENCES OF BROKENNESS

Read: Colossians 3:1-4

Memory verse: Colossians 3:1

Bible in a year: 1 Chronicles 1-3
Key Point

Examine yourself and list the tangible evidence of brokenness in your life.
Memory Verse

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth

on the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1
Message

God created us to have and to exercise a free will. Consequently, we are capable of

making choices and we are also responsible for the repercussion of those choices. It is

possible to be partially or completely broken as a Christian. Being broken can

affect very crucial aspect of the Christian life – your will, desires, tongue, focus and

even your body. The reason many wives struggle with God's command to submit to

their husbands is because they have not been broken. To be broken, you may have

to give up your will for God's greater will. When Jesus yielded to God's will to go to

the Cross, it was a mark of being broken (Luke 22:39-44). If you always want to have

things your way, you are not broken. But when you get to a point where you are

ready to insist on His will in all situations and subjugate yours, then you are broken.

Unbrokenness has robbed many believers of God's best gifts. Many sisters have rejected God's will in marriage and ran with theirs. This will surely lead them into troubled waters. Are you ready to submit to His will in your job, marriage, career, ministry, etc?

How about your desires which are closely linked with your will? Colossians 3:1-4 says

the desires of a broken fellow, are heavenly. If you assess your personal

prayer requests, what percentage is on worldly things and what percentage is on heavenly things? A broken fellow is Heaven-focused. He is out to please the Father and

not himself. There is nothing he cannot part with for the Kingdom of God. A broken

fellow has completely surrendered his  whole body to the Lord (Romans 12:1). He

loves God so much that He cannot sin against God with his body. He is so much

in love with God that he is ready to give his life for the sake of the Gospel – and joyfully

so. Are you broken? Have you yielded your all on the altar of sacrifice? Have you

subordinated your will to His?