23/01/2023
Msg. Luke 11:20-26. Be Tankfull of God 2 by Percy
[Prayer ministration]
Sun 22 Jan 2023
Opening Worship song:
Choir: Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, your name be praised
Percy: Emmanuel, let's praise, thank and worship the LORD. He is: 1. Emmanuel, God that is {presently, not was past} with us, Jehovah, "God that is with thee". Before now, He had been El or God for the fathers, for Abraham, for Isaac, for Jacob. For Moses, He said, He is "God that is with thee" or JOd hEH VAh Heh, shortened as JEHOVAH. Also, for Isaiah.
Worship Him because He is not only with us, He is 2. the Spirit that is able to be in us, to displace contrary spirits messing up the lives of men. Worship Him, He is God that lives literally in men.
You see, God's plan is not only to be for us, to be with us and to be in us but 3. to be full in us and be through us. His plan is not only that we have Him inside of us but that we be filled or full of Him to the point that He operates through us, {as man Jesus was filled with the fullness of God}. Infact, we can all come unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, Eph 4:13, practically growing up into Him {by speaking, or lending your mouth to the Holy Spirit to speak through}, Eph 4:15. Hear Paul praying for the Ephesians in Eph 3:14-19: That he would grant you, to be strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man, v16; to be indwelt by Christ by faith, to be rooted and grounded in love, v17; to comprehend what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height {of God}, v18; And to know the love of Christ, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God, v19!
Worship Him, He wants to be full in you.
Our problem is many of us are still heir - children. That is why we are tossed up and down by wiles of devils. We must not mind being crucified. Crucification is by thorns, nails and harsh passage, not by palatable situations. Paul's "crucify" in Gal 2:20 refers to the "thorn" he was being subjected to in 2 Cor 12:7 in which he, like our lord under thorning crown and piercing nails, must remain inhabited by the LORD. The heir child, one not matured or grown spiritually and therefore suffering through life, is not different from a servant, Gal 4:1-2. He can’t live the life of an heir because he sees himself as a flesh / natural man and is yet to learn and put to practise God’s language to speak. He is still speaking the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, instead of that which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual unlike 1 Corinthians 2:13, and thus, cannot let God in him be full and operate through him.
Song:
Every knee must bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the LORD. Halleluyah, Jesus is the LORD x2 Jesus Christ is the LORD
We want to pray now but learn this Word Perspective first:
God is the Spirit that is able to be in us, displacing contrary spirits messing up our lives
Brethren, the World you and I are living in is a Space of spirits traversing and looking for men to claim as their house of flesh, Luke 11:20-26; Matthew 12:28-30, 43-45 KJV. It is a spiritual World. From the time that Adam and Eve fell, eating a fruit which content is super knowledge (god or darkness - I call it witchcraft) and death or eternal separation from God, the good Spirit, contrary spirits have been indwelling men. Every son and daughter of men born into this World thus became inhabited by evil spirits and are their houses thereby requiring God himself to come down to begin to enter in to chase out these spirits from them to free them. Brethren, if Christ has not yet entered into you, you are still a captive of spirits. Every man needs to check himself or herself to find out who is actually occupying him or her, whether it is God or devils. Brethren, check yourself: who is in me? Too many of us are playing Church. We know it is not the Spirit of God that is in us yet we join them to say we are Christians, we are believers! James says even the devil believes and trembles! Jesus says, by their fruit, ye shall know them, Matt 7:16,20. What is happening in the World today clearly proves that many are not Christians. Many are wolves in sheep's clothing though inside the Church; too many weeds posing as wheats; too many thorns masquerading as grapes; and too many thistles as figs. They are all around stylishly corrupting and making the few born of God's still child heirs to break His Word, Luke 16:8; 9:24; 10:3; Matt 7:15-16; 10:16. We must first purge ourselves of darkness and be born of God and begin a life of God in which ultimately God will opersye through us.
Prayers
1 Thank Jesus Christ for the Kingdom of God that is now in the midst of men. God is: 1 for you, 2 with you, 3 in you, 4 through you. Appreciate Him.
2 Thank Jesus Christ for being there to save men from devils, unclean spirits and strongmen
3 Thank Him for all it took Him to perform this feat: song: Lord, I lift your name on high, Lord, I love to sing your praises, I'm so glad you reign in my life, I'm so glad you came to save me: You came from heaven to earth to show the way, from the Earth to the Cross my debt you paid, from the Cross to the Grave, from the Grave to the heaven, Lord I lift your name on high
4 Say, LORD, I cry to thee afresh, come into my life and deliver me from strangers in me.
5 The mad man of Gergesia ran to meet Jesus. Say, Jesus, I bring myself to you, I look unto thee like that Gardarene, like Priest Nicodemus, please, save and deliver me from the devil.
6 Say, Father, I am here, even if I have not come for you, please, come for me. It was Jesus that went to the woman by the well of Jacob, it was he that passed by blind bartheneus. It was he that went to Saul of Tarsus, etc. Father, pls come for me right now.
7 Father, please, enter Nigeria afresh and rid us of devils for they and their beasts are on rampage in Nigeria more than before.
8 Idols are actually devils, 1Cor 10:20, inhabiting graven images such as wood, iron, cloths, etc while still possessing the bodies of their victims and their lands, rivers and air, killing, stealing and destroying. Say, Father, wherever devils are hiding around me to steal, kill and destruy, locate now and destruy.
Like Paul in Ephesus, Acts 19:19,23-41, Pray same for Nigeria. Say, Father, destroy all the shrines, trees, forests, rivers, lands, air, wooden images ) structures , cloths, rings, curious Arts and Acts, etc harbouring devils or strongmen tormenting this nation
9 God the owner of all men is losing both the ones being killed avd those killing them who are in turn killed by the devils. Say, Father, chase out those unclean spirits or strong men from our people and our lands, water and air, to end their siege and destruction. Help your missionaries, especially those in the North. Help us here too to evangelise men. Empower us to work with you: put in us your own mind, mouth and might in our bodies.
10 Brethren, too many people are made to leave this Earth by these havocs without making it to Heaven. Anyone whose time is made to expire and who leaves without having been saved from death's death has perished, Luke 13:1-9; John 11:1-45. It is not just today that houses have been falling on men or that men's blood are being sacrificed to devils, or that sicknesses have been killing people, What is more important is who such fate meets inside of you, spirit of God or unclean spirits, and whether sleep or death's death. Jesus says they that suffer such fate losing the Earth and losing Heaven are no worse sinners but those who merely misused their opportunity of time unlike dead Lazarus. Say, Father, hellp me to let your Spirit remain in me at all times ie all day and every day, so that if and when I leave or am made to leave, I will be with you like Paul, Phil 1:20-24.
Conclusion
Let's begin to bring our prayers to a close. As you have prayed God, so will He do for you and cause you to grow up to Him and operate through you, amen