Have you ever thought about how big God will be? You can think about it now. If you do, then you will discover that God is so big. Yeah, your Jehovah is so mighty. He’s so strong and so great as well. And there’s nothing He cannot do for you. There’s even a song about that too: “You are big, big, big…” Do you know that song?
It’s no lie about the how big God is. Take a look at the whole earth, the one that this our great Elohim created. There is no other earth anywhere! So look at the whole earth. Check out the different animals with their various looks, sounds, and attributes. Check out the plants and trees all around us also. That should show you that God is so big.
How about the water bodies? Look into the water bodies and examine all the living creatures in them. You will be marvelled at what you will find. When you are through with that, then face the sky and count the stars, feel the sun on your face and the glow of the moon on the ground. These will prove to you, beyond every reasonable doubt that God is so big.
That’s how a big God does. And He does big things for us – for you and for me. And there’s nothing He cannot do or be for you and for me. That is comforting to know, right? Let that be your confidence as you go through life.
May God continue to be big in your life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Prayer:
God, please come be big and bigger in my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Action point:
How bigger do you think Jehovah can be? How big can He be in your life?
We servea God whom we call the God of possibilities. He is a God that delights in doing things we term impossible.
What is that impossible situation in your family? What could be that issue that seems to have defied all solutions? Joblessness? Barrenness? Wayward children? Bills to pay? Debts?
This morning, the God of possibilities is coming through for you. Can I get a loud Amen?
‘For with God nothing shall be impossible’ Lk 1:37
This has nothing to do with the government or with a rich uncle somewhere. It has everything to do with God. Do you have this God in your life? Then be rest assured.
Lk 18:27 “And he said, the things which are impossible with men are possible with God”.
All that is required of you is to believe. Believe that your impossible situations are becoming possible.
Jh 6: 28-29 Just believe in the one He has sent. Believe in Jesus. Believe what He says he can do.
Maybe your marriage is not what you dreamt it would be like. Maybe it is not going as planned. In this month of May, God is changing that narrative.
You will experience a turnaround for the better in the name of Jesus.
May your marriage be what God intended it to be.
God bless your marriage.
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY God has a purpose for my life. I will cooperate with that purpose
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Lord, show me what I need to know right now in my life
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. (Proverbs 3:5 Message)
ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY Read Papa Kenneth Hagin’s book on “Following God’s plan for your life”
Have you ever thought about what you want to become in life? Have you ever wondered how adults become the professionals they are today? How did your mom and dad become what they are today?
Well, it’s all about deciding what they wanted to do at a very early age, much like you are right now. So you should start thinking in this direction, if you have not yet started.
What do you want to become? An astronaut, software designer, boat builder, race car driver or a writer? It is all about what you like to do. What do you like to do? Starting early to decide what you would like to become in future is important. This is because when you discover it, then you start to learn how to become it and then go through every process involved.
That’s how you can become what you want to become in life. The process will involve training, class lessons, exams and tests. You learn and then get tested before being certified as a professional.
Discover what you love to do and take all the necessary education you need about it. That’s how mommy and daddy did it.
Be like Samuel in the bible who learned under the prophet Eli. Under the prophet’s supervision, Samuel grew into a great prophet that God used to speak to kings in Israel.
May God show you what your passion is in Jesus name. May you come to know what you want to become in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Prayer: Lord, help me to discover what I like to do and become in future in Jesus’ name. Amen
Action plan: Start to note what you like doing. From there, you can discover your talents, then what you want to become in life.
Declaration: I will help my parents and grandparents
We took a break from our series on ministering to your husband.
We are back now.
In the past write-ups, I have written about making sure your husband is well fed. As simple as it seems, some homes have been ruined by it. I wrote about keeping your husband’s company, that is being a partner with him in all that he does. I have also written about ‘serving’ the anointing he carries as the head.
This morning, I will be talking about ‘ fighting his battles for him’. Our role as wives is that of being a helpmeet. To fulfill his God-given assignment he will definitely need prayers amongst other things.
Every wife is called to be her husband’s intercessor. We have been equipped by God to pray for our husband.
The story that comes to mind is the story of when Moses was fighting the Amalekite and he had to lift up his hands. As long as his hands were lifted up, Israel won. But when Moses got weary and his hands went down Israel lost until Hur and Aaron helped to lift up his hands.
The same way we are to lift up his hands as he faces the battle of life in his thoughts, words, and actions. The devil is bombarding us through our senses. Through our eye gate, ear gate, mouth gate, our touch, and taste. The battle is intense and every husband needs someone to give him back up.
It is not a battle to be fought alone. You need the cooperation of your covenant helper.
Woe, to him, that lieth alone. Two are better than one for a have a good reward for their labor. (Eccl. ). It takes two to be warm.
The battles of life are better won as a team. God knew what he was doing by bringing the woman to God. The wive becomes the change agent.
Don’t become embittered with your assignment that you don’t fulfill it.
The devil works overtime to make sure women are busy with irrelevancies busy here and there and leaving their major purpose unattended to.
You are supposed to fight his battles. I don’t mean being a thug by fighting physically for your husband. But it also entails defending him. You cannot be around when people are talking bad about your husband and you are comfortable.
You know some of his friends don’t mean well for him. Fight for him.
But more so, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of stronghold (2 Cor 4:5). You battle in the place of prayers.
You use prayers, fastings, supplications, sacrificial seeds, the blood of Jesus, communion, confessions, the Word. You use every weapon available to combat the devil.
To be an effective intercessor, your vessel (your life) must be kept holy and sanctified before the Lord. You must not be dealing with any hidden sins.
Some wives are still dealing with extramarital affairs, emotional affairs, adultery. You expose your husband to the vicissitudes of life if you are a wife having sexual sin and any other habitual sins.
Constantly repent and ask for forgiveness of sins to be able to stand in your place as intercessor.
May God give us more understanding.
God bless our marriage.
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY I will be the best to my husband
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Lord, help me to submit to my husband
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18 KJV.
We have been examining how much it pays to obey instructions. In this grand finale, God showed His superior power over the rebels. He called on His fellow generals and did a quick meeting where it was decided on how to defeat the builders downstairs on earth.
7. “Come, let us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech,” 8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. 9. Therefore the name of the city was Babel-because there the Lord confused the language of the entire earth, and from that place the Lord scattered and dispersed them over all the surface of the earth.
It pays to obey instructions. The people in this Scripture were definitely not walking in the instructions of God; so God came in all His glory and power and created confusion in their midst, gave them new languages, and scattered them, just as they feared.
He made them understand that He is our Creator and whatever He doesn’t want us to do is for our own good. What if the tower had collapsed while they were building and caused a lot of them to be injured or lose their lives? It sure pays to obey instructions.
The principal called some male teachers and they went to disperse the boys. They also ensured they caught the chief rebel, Daniel, and his small generals. Someone had to be punished.
What if the fence had collapsed and caused some injuries or loss of lives? Who would be blamed? The school of course. It really pays to obey instructions.
May the Lord protect you from all dangers as long as you obey instructions. Amen
Prayer: Lord, make me an obedient child. Help me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Action Plan: Watch your associations. Are they causing you to rebel? Decide to obey instructions today.
The Resurrection and the Blood was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 4th of April 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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When you come in contact with the resurrection power, your life changes for the better.
Those habitual sins and weaknesses begin to fall off.
If you have the life of Christ, you cannot continue in sin.
You can’t enter in the power of God while you ignore the fellowship of his suffering
If you are not determined to know God, you cannot know him, because everything in life naturally pulls you away from God. The culture, media, your job, friends, family, and so on
Make a decision that nothing on earth will take you away from Christ. Regardless of the temptation and the pleasure that comes with it, make up your mind to put your body under.
How passionate are you about the things of God?
How we know you love Jesus is not by what you say, but by what you do.
By your actions, we know what/who you are passionate about, not just by words, because words are deceptive.
My goal is to continually be like God, think like him, talk like him and do what he does.
The fact that you can do a lot of things does not mean you should do everything.
It is important that we do not run another man’s race.
Knowing fully well that life on earth is nothing compared to eternity; if you are wise you will stay with God.
Some of your gifts or talents are to help your purpose. Find your purpose
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Loyalty was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 21st of March 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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In His teaching, Rev Dunamis made mention of the following important points about loyalty. As believers we must be loyal in the following areas
1. Vision of the House
Anything that is two-headed is a monster.
You can’t bring your own vision into the house.
Interpret the vision of the house on a personal level.
2. Principles of the House
You don’t break your principles because of sentiments or emotions.
As ladies, you show your loyalty when you don’t dress to seduce or distract people.
Don’t do your own things, follow the principle of the house.
3. Philosophy of the House
In Shouts of Grace Center, we don’t go from house to house eating.
It is a philosophy we have imbibed, from the head and it flows down. so also other areas.
4. Standards of the House
In Shouts of Grace Center, we don’t come late to church, especially as leaders.
As a leader, you are on the spot light and so people are watching you closely.
We don’t cohabit and we don’t sleep around in SGC.
Cooperate with the standard and the anointing of the church and experience 100% blessings.
5. Doctrines of the House
The beliefs and trends based on the teachings in the bible are doctrines.
We believe in salvation, Holy Ghost Baptism, Good marriage, godly relationships, the death and resurrection of Jesus e.t.c.
6. Procedures of the House
Involve the leadership of the church in every of your endeavors especially your relationship.
There is no need to hide your feelings, let the pastors know.
We don’t eat our tithe in SGC. The tithe is the first 10% of your income
7. Emphasis of the House
Sexual sanctity is the emphasis of Shouts of Grace Center.
Raising Generations of men and women who are sexually sanctified
8. Anointing of the House
There is an anointing tied to SGC that we must connect into.
An anointing for God’s mercy and help.
Whatever you receive passionately and what you receive casually comes casually.
In shouts of Grace Center, our Amen is very loud.
When you are a part of a family, you stand for that family, you fight for the family, you are loyal to the leadership and the church itself.
I am dedicated. I am passionate about my church. I am loyal to my pastor, my church, and my leaders. I attract loyal people. I am loyal to my spiritual father/mother. I am loyal to my parents.
How To Ask and Receive was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 28th of March 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:`1-6, KJV
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:15, KJV
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19, KJV
From his teaching he made the following vital points
If God makes a promise and it doesn’t come to pass, it is not God, but man because God is not a man that He should lie nor the son of man that He should repent. He says a thing and it comes to pass. Even if it takes a while it will surely manifest.
Asking requires humility
Nothing comes to you unless God approves. Everything that will be given to you should come from above. That’s where you seal the deal.
People who know how to access power from God will go ahead in life.
When you pass the test, you’ll access your promised land. God takes you through the process to check your heart. He doesn’t want you to serve because of what you can get from Him but because you love Him.
The reason you don’t have is because you don’t ask. ASK! JUST ASK!
Nobody gets married without asking.
Ask based on need, Ask with wisdom and understanding. Don’t ask amiss.
Need means a necessity. If you have a necessity in your life now, you have a right to ask.
Everything and anything and beyond that you can ask for in domiciled in God’s riches in glory by Christ Jesus
Of what benefit is what I’m asking not just to me, but for/to others? Ask yourself this question before you ask for anything or make a request. Check your motives for asking.
If you are asking with a vow in mind, redeem your vow when your request is granted.
When you learn not to consume wealth upon your lusts, you are not asking amiss.
The message how your words affect your life was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 24th of March 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
James 3:1-12, KJV
He started the message by saying that a good leader will not manipulate his followers. We are not perfect as humans because our words are not perfect, because our mouths and the words we speak gives direction to our lives. He said “Wherever your mouth goes is where your life goes”
Wherever your mouth goes is where your life goes
He also mentioned in his teaching that the quality of the life we live cannot go beyond the quality of our thoughts. Our words carry power, so it’s of utmost importance that we stop joking carelessly and stop talking anyhow. He said “You must watch your words and be careful with your words and thoughts”
You must watch your words and be careful with your words and thoughts
In his teaching he said it was very important we watch the words we say, he said “nothing dies, until you say it with your mouth. Taming the tongue can only be by the help of the Holy Spirit. He emphasized that carefulness cannot tame the tongue, positive confessions also cannot tame the tongue.
The church is not for perfect people, it is for growth so people don’t continue in sin. The church is a place for correction.
Paying the Price was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 21st of March 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Isaiah 55:1-3, KJV
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12:10, KJV
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30, KJV
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 9:27, KJV
“I have made a covenant (agreement) with my eyes; How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?
Job 31:1, AMP
He made the following pertinent points:
There is a place in God where nations will run to you.
In the character of God is consistency – God cannot lie, He cannot fail, He cannot change.
For everything, for greatness in life, there is a price to pay.
Practice is a price for winning
Time is the price for knowing God – Do you know God?
Prayer is the price for anointing.
Communication is the price for a good marriage
Fidelity is the price for the maximum blessing of marriage. It is important to be faithful to your spouse.
Righteous living is the price for exaltation
Honor is the price for access.
Discipline is the price for a life of no regret.
Seed is the price for harvest.
Your soul does not change, but it is constantly renewed. The price you have to pay is to contend with your body and mind.
A quickie is the longest you will ever face in your life, sex is not just for fun, this is because you are not just sleeping with the body, but with the spirit.
Delaying gratification is the price you will have to pay for fulfilling your glorious destiny. There are people that you will sleep with and will never be able to let go of because it is intercourse – interfering with every part of your body.
Sex is not bad but should be done within the confines of marriage. Why not wait?
What price are you ready to pay?
Will you wait? Pay the Price!
There is something you are here to solve, but will you be patient enough to follow through in disicpline?
The yoke of Jesus is the yoke of discipline. It’s not just giving your life to Jesus, there is a price to be paid – working out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Grace can lead you to hell if misappropriated. This is where grace can be dangerous. Grace is not a free will to sin, but to deliver us from sin.
The Pathway to Rest was taught by Pastor Ogbonnaya Akpoke on the 21st of Febraury 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 6:16, KJV
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:10, KJV
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Isaiah 30:15, KJV
8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. 10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him. 11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; 12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering. 13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
1 Samuel 13:8-13, KJV
20 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.
Proverbs 4:20-23, KJV
If you desire results there is a path you must walk-in.
HOW TO GET RESULTS
STAND: don’t be hasty in going in any direction.
Be still! you are not meant to take rash decisions when we are faced with many options; we are to remain still until comes to pass in our lives.
We must learn to stand still and hear.
The voice of God brings confidence manifestation..
SEE AND ASK: If we don’t see and hear we will have died.
We must pay attention. It takes deliberateness to hear and to see.
It’s only when you see that you’ll know where to go if not we will make a mistake
WALK THEREIN: If you are not careful to walk therein you won’t get results. it is not your duty that you are blessed.
What are you doing with want you’ve heard and seen?
The blessedness is not in the hearing and seeing, but in his doing
If you’ve been waiting and God hasn’t said anything, it means its not yet time
God’s rest is in stillness/quietness get anything in life if your soul is too busy and not at rest.
The Exhortation on the Heart was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 17th of February 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
1 Samuel 16:7, KJV
33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
1 Chronicles 12:33 KJV
What you are becoming hinges on the heart.
Your heart must be right with God and with man(pastor).
All the God-head is about his alignment loyalty-God the father, God the Son, and God the holy spirit knitted in unity.
The moon doesn’t shine on this own all its need to do is to position it’s self, align with the son.
Finding and Keeping The Love Of Your Life was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 14th ofFebruary 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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A person who doesn’t know God cannot celebrate love.
Sometimes on arriving at God’s plan for your life, you will often face rejection.
The devil studies you and packages attack that suit your weaknesses. Some rejections are redirection. Not every rejection is negative.
1.THE PRINCIPLE OF TIMING.(Eccl 3:1)
There is a time to get into a relationship and there is a time to refrain from relationships.
If you miss God’s timing, the opportunity will be lost.
Don’t look at fellow human beings and conclude their future because of what you see.
Place a demand on what you want from God by setting goals and making plans.
2) THE PRINCIPLE OF DEATH:Gen 2:21, pslm 46;10.
Nobody gets a good marriage by being alive, you have to die. If you are not ready to die, don’t go into a relationship.
Nobody can outsmart God. There is a stillness that God requires from us so that he can do what only him can do in our life. John 12:24
We must submit ourselves totally to God.
That how we die to self.
There is a revelation of times and season and until rely on the Holy Spirit we won’t be fulfilled.
There is an anointing called ON-TIME. Find out your own timetable in God and stay there.
When God tells you something it’s a message of preparation, not performance. It’s not in your place to help God fulfill prophesies, dreams, or visions.
Allow God time prevail. Cooperate with God’s will for your life.
You don’t get a spouse by sampling, you get a spouse by the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
Marriage requires time. It’s a selfless life; it’s a sacrifice on both ends.
In stillness you find direction.
3) THE PRINCIPLE OF ATTRACTION:Gen 2:23
The person you want to marry must be attracted to you and you must be attracted as well.There must be ATTRACTION on both ends.
There is physical attraction and there’s inner attraction.
Love the person behind the figures and all.
Marriage is a place of focus.
God is not an author of confusion; He won’t give you someone you not attracted to. Trust His perfect best.
This message on firstfruits was taught on the 7th of February 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 8:16-22, KJV
9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Proverbs 3:9, KJV
30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
Ezekiel 44:30, KJV
Things that have to do with money are spiritual. Money is spiritual. Every man whether African, Asian, European, etc is spiritual… They obey something.
Altars are places where the realm of the spirit has control over the physical
Altars are places where of spiritual authorization.
THE BLESSINGS THAT COMES WITH SACRIFICE OF FIRSTFRUITS
1. The blessing of exemption.
You are set apart from every other person; the things that affect them, problems, crisis etc. when you give firstfruits
It enlists the involvement of God.
You need the involvement of God in every sphere of your life.
No one can predict the next change in the economy, environment and all – When God is involved, He makes His power available to you. When God’s power I released you will make profits, you will make heavenly decisions.
2. The blessing of honour. Num 27:20,1Sam2:30
Honour is supernatural recognition it makes a man noticeable. Honour is appreciation and celebration. Honour creates a supernatural influence around the person. When God honour you, kings will bow to you.
Firstfruits cause the blessing rests upon your house
My own will come to me. My blessings cannot hang. Amos 9:13
The things of the spirit is not creative but obedience…
Exhortation on the Heart was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 7th of February 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
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4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:4-6, KJV
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:5-8, KJV
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Amos 3:3, KJV
9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
1 Chronicles 28:9, KJV
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jeremiah 7:23, KJV
Once the devil wants to destroy people’s lives he scatters the unity-the devil fights the church, organization, families, relationships because of the language of unity.
Between the pastor and the pastored, there must be a meeting (Agreement) in the heart.
The heart is the basis for unity; if the heart is right, actions are right, but if the heart is in a bad state the actions will show it.
People can be having sex, but not be one at heart that is why some married couples live together but are far apart in their hearts.
