Christ Diplomat (Exhortations)

TEXT: Zech. 4:6 ...Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. MESSAGE It's a new year and a new season. This year is going to see a manifestation of the spirit and the power of God. Great territories lie ahead of us to be taken; great heights are to be scaled; great tasks to be accomplished and great records to break. Did you record breakthroughs last year, you haven't seen anything yet, more are on the way. Did you live below your expectations last year? Cheer up you have a brand new opportunity of exceeding your expectations. The new year presents a new horizon: in your job, ministry, family, career, etc. Thus says the "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." God has pledged His Spirit--the one by whom He gets things done. He will accomplish great things for you and through you You may feel that what you need is money or some other resources. You see, that thought in fact is the deceitfulness of riches...

TEXT Judges 6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? MESSAGE When God says "GO", He has completed the job. he has performed the miracle. He only wants you to experience it. It is in your trusting and obeying the instruction that you experience the miracle already wroth. In Luke 17, when some Leprouse men prayed to Jesus for their healing, verse 14 records that " he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed." Steping out on the Word of God, doesn't make God to perform the required miracle, (He has already done it) rather it makes you to experience the miracle already performed. When God says 'GO', it doesnt matter how unqualified you are, His bidding is His enabling. All you need to do is to trust and obey Him and the glory of the Lord will be seen in your life. Take God at H...

TEXT: Judges 6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? MESSAGE: What the Lord is saying today is that you should let the might that God has made available to you propel you to recover your inheritance. Let the consciousness of the presence of God put springs in your steps. Let it put faith in your heart and courage in your soul. Say to yourself, "The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me" (Psa 118:6). Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10). Engage your adversary with the power God made available to you. What ever task is before you now, engage the might of God and you will come with excellence. Paul says, "... I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me." (Col 1:29) Quit resting on your oars. If Gideon had sat down at home, no matter th...

TEXT: Judges 6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? MESSAGE: While Gideon was still sckeptic of ever being able to engage his oposition in battle God gave him the battle instruction. God already told him that His presence with Gideon will ensure his easy victory. But he added one very key instruction that ties up everything together. He said GO IN THIS THY MIGHT What might was the Lord talking about? This might God says is the presence of the Lord by which he will defeat the enemy as though they were just one man (Judges 6:16). The Lord was saying that he should advance against his opposition being strong in the Lord. We shall explore this phrase in a couple of days, but one thing that we must get today is that we must go in the strength of God alone. There is always a tendency to engage your challenges with other forms of strength. It is wrong to engage your challenge...

TEXT: Judges 6:12-13 12  And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13  And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. MESSAGE : The Israelites were under oppression at the hand of the Midianites. One unique thing about these oppressors was that they had no problem with the Israelites toiling to make ends meet. But once it was time for them to reap the fruit of their labour, these Midianites came and disposessed them of their harvest. They came in such number and force that the Israelites had to vacate their own land and go to hide in caves. You may be experiencing the same challenge. You might have had so much experience in failure at the edge of success...

TEXT: Hos 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you MESSAGE : Many people complain that they do not get result. They seem to be enstranged from the mercies of God. When you tell them God is a merciful God, deep down in their hearts, they do not agree with you because they have not exprienced God's mercy. All they know of God is judgement. They do their best at things and not get result. They pay tithe and things seem to get tighter. They give offering and they keep suffering. They sow and don't reap. Is there a way out?  Well there is. The reason why you are workin like an elephant and eatin like an ant is becuase you are not reaping in mercy. It is the mercy of God that makes us have a bountiful harvest (Rom 9:16). When you reap in mercy, the little you put your hand will yeield aboundantly. How can you ensure that you reap in mercy? God says to sow in...

TEXT : Deuteronomy. 8:18 But remember the LORD your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today MESSAGE Its a very difficult and frustrating exercise trying to make wealth by yourself. Thus the scripture says, ''It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he can provide for those whom he loves even when they sleep'' (Psalms 127:2 NET) The Lord, by His voice of prosperity can prosper you beyond imagination because of His covenant with Abraham whose heir you are. He can accomplish this in two ways, firstly by giving you power to make wealth. He does this by declaring blessings on you. He utters His voice to bless you. The scriptures says " The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." (Prov.10:22). Once this blessing is on you, it has a causative effect of...

TEXT: Matt11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. Doing exploits is a product of God's wisdom. It is part of our DNA (Divine Nature Attributes). We simply radiates wisdom as a matter of course. God's wisdom is our heritage and when we engage it, exploits is the natural corollary. This wisdom is, ''... not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought '' (2Cor 2:6). They don't understand it. It stands us out of the crowd and does not conform to the pattern of this world hence it is strange to them. The system of this world  which is ruled by the devil is never happy with a person that is operating the Divine wisdom because he is not fluid as it would have loved him to be.  When the world expects you to to earn respect by being pompous, you progress in humility and get to the top. They...

TEXT:2Cor 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Yesterday, we saw that the secret of doing exploits is in knowing the LORD. Someone may ask, How do I get to know God? You can know God by knowing Jesus. John 1:18 says " No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." This is because ... [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God...(Col 1:15) and " in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." (Col 2:9). Thus if you want to know God, the only way is to to know Jesus. He encourages us to learn of Him. But the question now turns on how do we know Jesus. Now hear what He says " Search the scriptures...they are they which testify of me" The scriptures testify of Jesus. Now that is the first step to knowing Jesus--searching the scriptures. But yo...

Good morning beloved, may I share with you, our text in church yesterday? It may be good for your meditation Luke 5:1-7 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And the...