WORSHIP-YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER!

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Worship before the throne of God, started before this world was created, and will last forever!

 

There are people in the church today, who do not understand why there is so much singing going on in the church. They do not understand why people have to express such heavy emotions, lifting up their hands, bowing down and sometimes even crying, while in church or during church services. This is the main reason why some people who consider themselves to be matured, shy away from the meetings of certain Pentecostal churches.  There are others who despise worship leaders, and choristers and those who sing a lot. There are still some young people who don’t like their friends that are constantly singing praises instead of trendy secular music by world class secular hippo, pop and rock stars.

Statistics and certain studies have shown that up to 70% of all the things we do in the kingdom of God, involve music or comprise of it. That is a fact, and that is the way God intended for it to be.

YESTERDAY

 It is important to understand that God taught the angels of old, how to celebrate and activate his power and His presence, through worship.

Lucifer, who was chief among God’s archangels, was created specially with tabrets and pipes, and we can see this in Ezekiel chapter 28 and verse 13:

“13 Thou has been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, the gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes were prepared in thee, in the day that thou wast created.”

Therefore Lucifer was created with special instruments of music, within himself, there could have been no other purpose for this, except for worship. Then after his fall and defeat, worship still continued in heaven.

On the day our father God decided to re-create the world, including man, and decided to make man in His own image, the angels were excited. They went hysterical with praise and worship. Their excitement, about the fact that God was now going to extend their realm of service, and make another one like him-knew no bounds. We can see this in Job chapter38 and verses4-7:

“4 Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding.

5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who has stretched the line upon it?

6 Whereupon are the foundations fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof;

7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

The angels as we can see in verse 7 sang for joy on the day the world was created, it has always been part of their ministry.

Again, in the Book of Psalms, the psalmists such as David, and others- a acknowledged this ministry of the angels, which in turn now enhances or amplifies a similar ministry which has been given to man. This ministry has been given to the saints of God in general. We can see this in Psalm 103, verse 20 and 21as follows:

“20 Bless the Lord ye His angels, that excel in strength, that do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word.

21 Bless ye the Lord all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His that do His pleasure”.

King David recognized the beauty of angelic worship, and commands them to do the same as an expression of solidarity, to His other creatures-because of God’s goodness and His greatness.

Also in Psalm 148 and verse 2 again, we read as follows:

“2 Praise ye Him, all His angels: praise ye him, all His hosts,

3 Praise ye Him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light”

These are a few examples from the old dispensation, beginning from before creation of the world, to the time before Christ came.

TODAY

Right from the day Christ was born, we began to see this ministry repeated with joy, because as they sang (the angels), they gave glory to God in the highest, and they declared-shalom or peace unto men. They declared the highest level of total well-being to men of good will, because Jesus Christ our savior had been born. We can see this in the Book of Luke chapter 2, verses 13-14:

“13 And suddenly there was with the angel, a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men”.

 This was just another glimpse into the ministry of the angels in heaven, that as soon as the savior was born in Bethlehem in a manger, an angel appeared to a group of shepherds who were watching over their flocks by night. Immediately after announcing the birth of the savior to them, another group of heavenly hosts, appeared, and worshipped God-celebrating the birth of the savior in their presence.

TOMORROW

The Book of Revelation is heavily packed with what shall come to be in the nearest future. Most of the time, we focus on the coming rapture, the great tribulation, or the judgments of God on the earth or all creation. However, there is so much concerning the worship that already goes on around the throne of God, and will continue to go on and will be amplified in the ages to come. These days, when we worship God, we do not know that the angels are right there with us doing what we are doing, however, and then we shall know. In Revelation chapter 5 and verse 11, we read as follows:

“11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.

12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom and strength, and honour, and glory and blessing”.

This revelation, showed an uncountable number of angels, probably numbering billions, worshipping God, together with the beasts, and the elders.

This great ministry of worship will be one of the key ministries of the angels and the saints, in the ages to come.

Therefore, when we engage in this ministry today, we ought to do it with all our might. The most astonishing thing about the ministry of praise and worship is the release of God’s power that is associated with praise and worship. The release of God’s power has to do with His manifest presence.

One of my greatest experiences in the world is when I worship God, and He comes down with His power, and the glory of God destroys the yokes of darkness. I experience this every day of my life, and can assure you that there is nothing like it, because the Bible tells us that in His presence is fullness of joy, and at His right hand are pleasures forever more.

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THE POWER AND THE BEAUTY OF A FOCUSED LIFE

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One of the things that I like so much about the Book of Proverbs is the ability of the wisest man who ever lived,(I believe, apart from Christ), to give instructions that can apply to everyone and anyone in spite of their age and time of existence.

In the Book of Proverbs chapter 4 generally and especially verses 20-27, we can read the most profound instructions from a father to his son, on how to have a focused and thereby a successful life.

Paying attention to the word of God

In verse 20-22(AMP) of the Book of Proverbs, we read as follows:

“20 My son attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings.

21 Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart.

22 For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh”.

These three verses of scripture bring out what I will call-the what, where, and the why, of the word of God.

Concerning the what, the wise man by the Holy Spirit tells you and I how precious the most important commodity-ever is. Why do I call it a commodity, because the Bible says-Buy the truth and sell it not!

And so He instructs us to go for the most important thing and pay attention to it and hear it all the time.

Concerning the where of the word of God, He tells us to store it in our hearts or spirits. The human spirit is the Centre of man, and the word of God is the raw material for building up the human spirit. In the Book of Acts, we read, Acts chapter 20 and verse 32:

“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 amongst them who are sanctified”.

So it takes the word stored in your spirit, to build you up, but it also takes the word to renew your mind. The Bible tells us in the Book of Romans chapter 12 and verses 1-2, that if your mind is not renewed, you will not know the different phases or types of the will of God.

Lastly on the instructions concerning the word, let us look at the why of the word of God: verse 22 of the same scriptures tells us that the word of God gives life to those who find it, and is medicine to all their flesh.

What does He mean by the word of God giving life to those who find it? The word of God, is anointed, the word of God carries creative and healing power. If the word of God has the ability to create life, it sure has the ability to sustain life.

The Bible tells us in the Book of John chapter 1 that the word of God was here right from the beginning, and all things were made by him, without him was not anything made that was made.

Jesus went on and said, “The words that I speak to you they are spirit and they are life”!

Therefore, it is easy to see that the word of God is the giver and sustainer of all life!

Guarding your heart or spirit against the interference of negative influences.

Again in the next verse, which is verse 23, we read another very important instruction as follows:

“23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance, and above all that you guard, for out it flow the springs of life”.

This scripture is very important, the heart here refers to your spirit, and your mind is the doorway to your spirit. Therefore whatever goes on in your mind, affects your spirit because it will eventually find its way into that place if care is not taken.

The mind is the battleground; devils are able to insert things into your mind, if you let them. They can suggest for you to go and sleep with someone not your spouse, and if you are not careful, you will stomach it. They can tell you that you will never be healed because God does not love you, and you will believe it. These days, we are told that there are mind reading satellites, and occultism has extended to the mind and is now wreaking havoc in many places.

Occult mind readers are able to search out secrets and can harm you if you not grounded in the word of God, based on the apparently true things that they can fling out from your mind.

Avoiding the evil tongues

As you continue to read, He continues to instruct via the wise man in chapter4 and verse 24:

“24 Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk, put far from you”.

I love the way the King James Version of the Bible wrote this part, it tells you to put away from you, the froward mouth and to stay away from perverse speech.

Now putting the two scriptures together, it means to put away from you, in terms of either you speaking falsely or in a dishonest manner, or you hearing it from somebody else.

It equally means that we should not allow those who speak foul and immoral language or talk to hang around us speaking vile and foul things that will eventually find their way into your heart or mine, and corrupt us or corrupt the anointing inside us.

The necessity: why you ought to be focused, persistent and consistent.

The last three verses from the eight verses of scripture mentioned above, lay emphasis on why you and I should be focused in all that we do, let us look at them (25-27):

“25 Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you.

26 Consider well the path of your feet, and let your ways be established and ordered aright.

27 Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil”.

In life there are many ways that the devil strives to distract us. The enemy comes from or through our friends, as well as through our enemies, to throw things at us. He never gives up on this. If you have never been fought left and right by the wicked, in an effort to push you off from your divine destiny and purpose, you will never know what am talking about.

If you have not yet encountered people whom what they have can never be enough for them, what things they have achieved in their lives are never enough for them, and the devil tells them that unless they take away the one God gave you, they are nothing. These are people some of who are in our churches, but they cannot recognize the voice of the devil, neither can they discern that they are deceived and going to hell because of their folly, are those you and I need to be very careful with.

You and I need to be careful how we let the devil talk to us or to our destiny through them, because it matters who you listen to and respond to.

In another important scripture, the wise man says to us: When sinners entice you, consent thou not, that is in Proverbs chapter 1 and verse 10:

“1 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not”KJV.

CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

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WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!

Over two thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah) was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.

The prophets of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as follows:

22-For Moses truly said unto the fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you”.

God had earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the earth shall be blessed through his own seed.

Adam disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire universe.

Satan failed in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven, whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.

Then that pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the devil’s deceit

or his antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:

23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

24-I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the hills moved lightly.

25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled

26-I   beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.

God decided to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam, “Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship, kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.  Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

Satan who came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.

Adam’s mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness, slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.

God was disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.

One day He saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he obeyed.

This simple act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was on His  way to restoring man’s lost glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of glory.

Then one day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die on the cross to take up to sins of the world.

God therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later gave him one.

Again this Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before could do this.

God then preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.

And in the book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,

16-“Now to Abram and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”

This anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing, as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:

22- And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:

This Jesus, our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to him, “though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.

Spiritual death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.

We also are now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for all that you have done for us.  Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers, the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus and what he has come and already done!

We shall not cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.

 

 

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William Blake - Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve - WGA02226 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!

Over two thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah) was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.

The prophets of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as follows:

22-For Moses truly said unto the fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you”.

God had earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the earth shall be blessed through his own seed.

Adam disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire universe.

Satan failed in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven, whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.

Then that pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the devil’s deceit

or his antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:

23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

24-I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the hills moved lightly.

25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled

26-I   beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.

God decided to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam, “Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship, kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.  Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

Satan who came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.

Adam’s mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness, slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.

God was disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.

One day He saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he obeyed.

This simple act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was on His  way to restoring man’s lost glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of glory.

Then one day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die on the cross to take up to sins of the world.

God therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later gave him one.

Again this Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before could do this.

God then preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.

And in the book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,

16-“Now to Abram and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”

This anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing, as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:

22- And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:

This Jesus, our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to him, “though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.

Spiritual death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.

We also are now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for all that you have done for us.  Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers, the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus and what he has come and already done!

We shall not cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.

 

 

Related articles

• The Blessing of Abraham. Advent 2 Midweek.

CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

English: Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar, as in Numbers 27:12, by James Tissot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

William Blake - Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve - WGA02226 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WHY WE NEEDED THIS DELIVERER!

Over two thousand years ago in the little town of Bethlehem Judah, Christ (the messiah) was born as a baby in a manger. He was conceived through the word of an angel-Gabriel that stands in the presence of God. This child who was born to a virgin –Mary, was destined to change the course of humanity forever.

The prophets of God right from one of Israel’s greatest prophets and deliverer of old by the name of Moses, had prophesied about the coming of this blessed child. In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15, re-iterated by Peter in Acts chapter 3 and verse 22, Moses prophesied about the coming of this savior as follows:

22-For Moses truly said unto the fathers, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you”.

God had earlier spoken to Abraham the father of faith, concerning the curse that was upon all mankind because of sin, that this curse will be reversed, and the earth shall be blessed through his own seed.

Adam disobeyed God in the garden when he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and submitted his will to Satan. Thus sin or disobedience crept into the earth especially upon mankind of whom Adam was the first and the father. As a matter of fact the devil had earlier inherited sin and the curse that follows it by disobeying God and trying to take over authority from Him. He was ruling the pre-Adamite world and traded with the kings of the nations that were before Adam. He had fooled a third of the angels in heaven that he would completely defeat God and His loyalists and take over the ruler ship of the entire universe.

Satan failed in his mission, Michael God’s Army General in command of the loyal forces of heaven, whipped the devil and a third of the angels and cast them out of heaven, and they landed here on earth total stripped of all glory and lost their bodies in the process, but retained a little of their spiritual power, especially those of coercion and deceit. That was their first defeat which took place in heaven.

Then that pre-Adamite man who was not made in God’s image might have fallen into the devil’s deceit

or his antics, and out of His fierce anger, the Lord destroyed the whole earth. That was the first destruction before the re-creation, and Noah’s flood. In Jeremiah chapter 4 and verses 23-26 we read:

23-“I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

24-I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the hills moved lightly.

25-I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled

26-I   beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger”.

God decided to make man in His image-that was this Adam. He breathed into Adam the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul. He then anointed this Adam, He said to Adam, “Be fruitful and subdue the earth”, thus and anointing for dominion, ruler ship, kingship and multiplication came upon Adam.  Adam who was made in the image of God lost that authority to dominate the earth when he obeyed Satan through the weakness of his wife-Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

Satan who came to the earth defeated and shamed, now received a new authority-he was now going to rule over the earth, because Adam gave it all to him. He then took of the fallen soldiers that came down with him, and placed the former generals among them over the atmosphere, in the second heaven in various cities and nations as principalities, to enforce the curse upon the nations.

Adam’s mistake in submitting to the devil brought upon mankind the curse of sin which include-sickness, poverty, failure, shame, reproaches, defeat, unfruitfulness, slavery, losses, untimely death and so on and so forth.

God was disappointed and displeased because he loved man whom he had made so much and did not like man’s new predicament. He had to work a way out fast to enable Him redeem man. He sought for a man amongst men.

One day He saw a man named Abram who lived with his parents in the Ur of the Chaldeans in the region of Mesopotamia. He called Abram who had no child and bore the name of exalted father. He said to Abram, “Get thee out of thy own country, and from amongst your own kindred to a new place that I will show you” , and he obeyed.

This simple act of obedience by this man-Abram was all that God needed to know that He was on His  way to restoring man’s lost glory, because through Adam we learn-That all have sinned and fallen short of glory.

Then one day, God decided to see from His friend Abram, if he will show Him something about what He plans to do in future concerning this redemption, which will be to have a son, and offer him as a sacrifice to take upon himself the sin of mankind. This is because of the scriptural principle which says, “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin”. Therefore the only way God was going to meet the demands of justice would be by having his sinless son die on the cross to take up to sins of the world.

God therefore decided to test Abraham. He asked Abraham to go to one of the mountains of Moriah to offer up his only son-Isaac as sacrifice to God-remember that this Abraham had no child, but God visited him and promised him and later gave him one.

Again this Abram, now Abraham because God has changed his name-obeyed God and accepted to offer his only son as a sacrifice. God was satisfied that a man who had no previous example of this sought of obedience to a God he had not seen before could do this.

God then preached the good news-gospel to Abraham saying, “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou has obeyed my voice”.

And in the book of Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 16 we read,

16-“Now to Abram and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”

This anointed one, together with his anointing, has brought to mankind-The blessing, as God had promised. Healing is now the bread of the children, through his poverty, we are now rich, and we are no longer in shame or defeat because he has given us back the glory-in John 17 and verse 22 we read as follows:

22- And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one:

This Jesus, our savior, is also now the second Adam. Whereas the first Adam who was also a son of God, was made living soul, this second Adam has been made-a life giving spirit, and he says, “I have come that they (you), might have life, and have it more abundantly”, because if any man shall come to him, “though he were dead, yet shall he live again”.

Spiritual death, has been defeated, and even the physical death has no more power-because Jesus defeated it and rose up from the grave, and said, “and these signs shall follow them that believe… heal the sick, cleanse the leapers, raise the dead”.

We also are now more than conquerors through Christ-hallelujah, thank you Lord Jesus for all that you have done for us.  Therefore, as we now wrestle with the devil, principalities and powers, the rulers of darkness of this world, the spiritual wickednesses in high places, and the demons, we already know who the victors are because of Jesus and what he has come and already done!

We shall not cease to celebrate this salvation that you have brought-by the anointing.

 

 

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