THE HEARING EAR AND THE SEEING EYE

 

“The hearing ear and the seeing eye,

The Lord has made them both” – Prov 20: 12

“The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God has opened my ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.” – Isa 50: 4-5

In the Old Testament, the hearing ear and the seeing eye are the primary equipment of the office of a prophet. Prophets were the spiritual guides to the nation of Israel. They were the eyes to the nation and the ears to the nation; what they see and hear from Jehovah God, they declared to the nation. God often raised prophets in the time of moral and spiritual declension to awaken the conscience of the nation and turn them back to God. They seemed to have the monopoly of spiritual faculties which were apparently missing in the lives of the rest of the people. They were the major medium of direction, warning, instruction, and communication from God to the people.

“the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.” – Deut 29: 3-4

 

REASON FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION IN THE WILDERNESS

As we see in this passage, Moses alone had the monopoly of these spiritual faculties; this qualified him to lead the nation. Heart to perceive, eyes to see, and ears to hear were lacking in the people he was leading; Moses said it was the Lord who didn’t give it to them. God actually gave them but they rejected it; they begged God not to speak directly to them anymore but to speak through Moses. This fundamental spiritual deficiency summarizes the reason the majority that left Egypt were destroyed in the wilderness.

In the New Testament, these fundamental requirements of the office of a prophet have not changed, except that they are no longer the exclusive equipment of the prophets. Heart to perceive, eyes to see, and ears to hear are now the spiritual faculties and privileges that all of God’s children share with the prophets and apostles; except that prophets and apostles may have them in higher proportion than the rest of the body because of their leadership role.

 

THE CARING AND THE TALKING FATHER

To avoid verbosity in this article, Old Testament and New Testament shall henceforth be referred to by their acronyms OT and NT respectively. The office of a prophet in the OT is not the same in the NT. In the OT, prophets were the major guide to God’s people; but in the NT, Holy Spirit is the Guide of the church.

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,” - Romans 8: 14-16.

God doesn’t want to guide his people primarily by the prophets anymore; he wants to guide them primarily by the Holy Spirit. This doesn’t mean that God cannot use prophets to confirm what He has spoken to you that you doubted or probably didn’t recognize it was God. Therefore, one of the major assignments of the NT prophets is to teach and train the church to hear the voice of God and not to become another mediator between God and man.

God is a Father who is caring, He loves to talk to his children; and he does not need an intermediary or an interpreter to talk to his children. By this I am not ruling out the need to train God’s children who are still babes to hear the Father’s voice. The Lord didn’t continue to speak to Samuel until he recognized who was talking to him. It was Eli who trained him to recognize God’s voice. I believe the NT prophets should provide a conducive atmosphere for the development and activation of the spiritual faculties of God’s people.

“Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation. And it came to pass at that time, while Eli was lying down in his place, and when his eyes had begun to grow so dim that he could not see, ³ and before the lamp of God went out in the tabernacle of the Lord where the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down, that the Lord called Samuel. And he answered, “Here I am!” So he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” And he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” And he went and lay down. Then the Lord called yet again, “Samuel!” So Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” He answered, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”  (Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.)  And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. So he arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you did call me.” Then Eli perceived that the Lord had called the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’ ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place. Now the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” Then the Lord said to Samuel:…” – 1 Sam 3: 1-11

 

THE BLESSING OF THE NT CHURCH

In the OT, God didn’t give them heart to perceive, eyes to see, and ears to hear, which eventually spelled their doom. In the NT, God has given us eyes that see and ears that hear; this is one of the blessings of the NT church. When we were born again, we were born with those spiritual faculties. We only need to develop our spirit man and activate our spiritual faculties.

“He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.”  

“But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” – Matt: 13: 11, 16-17

 

THE TRAGEDY OF A DISTRACTED CHURCH

“For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

While slumbering on their beds, Then He opens the ears of men,

And seals their instruction.” – Job 33: 14-16

 

It is clear from this passage that God delights in speaking to his children but his children have hearing problem. God speaks again and again, but his children are too distracted or busy to hear. It is like calling a telephone line that is busy; if you call it a hundred times, it will keep giving you the busy or engaged tone. No matter how urgent and important what you want to pass across, you won't get through, because the line is busy. It is the same with this busy generation. God loves to talk to us, but we are too preoccupied; a number of things have crowded out God’s voice. As a result, the only option God is left with is the channel of dream or vision. God waits till the night time when deep sleep falls upon men. Then he opens the ears of men to hear.

I don’t think this is the best, when my Father will have to wait till I sleep before he can speak for me to hear. God speaks through dreams and visions no doubt, but I believe we need to train our ears to hear God at any time of the day.

 

GOD IS A SPIRIT

We must never forget that God is a Spirit, and it will take a spiritual person to hear God. Carnally minded believers will always struggle to hear God. God speaks to our human spirit, and it is our responsibility to fine tune our spirit to the frequency of the Holy Spirit.

THREE LEVELS OF HEARING PROBLEM

1. Not hearing at all – This is spiritual deafness. This is experienced by people who are not born again; they are spiritually dead, because they have not come to know the Lord. Carnal believers can also suffer hearing loss.
2. Hearing but no understanding – This is experienced by believers who are still carnal, those who are living in spiritual rebellion and disobedience.  “Hearing you will hear and shall not understand” – Matt 13: 14
3. Hearing but no recognition – This is the type of hearing problem that Samuel had before Eli helped him to overcome it. This hearing problem is often associated with spiritual immaturity, a sign of spiritual babyhood. People in this category will greatly benefit from prophetic mentoring and apostolic discipleship.

 

REASONS FOR HEARING PROBLEMS

No truly born again child of God suppose to suffer spiritual deafness, but most spiritual deafness could be traced to the following reasons.

1. Hardness of the heart – “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness” – Heb 3: 7-8. Hardness of the heart simply means rebellion or disobedience to the voice of God you are hearing. No child of God is born again deaf, but deafness sets in when THEY begin to disobey God’s voice because of trials of faith. You are blessed enough to be hearing God’s voice, but if you don’t obey what you are hearing; it is a matter of time; you will soon lose your hearing ability. God stopped talking to king Saul because of disobedience. Saul eventually consulted the witch of En Dor in order to know the mind of God.  (1 Sam 28: 6-7; Eze 33: 30-33).
2. Carnality – To be carnal simply means to listen to the voice of your emotions and reasoning more than you listen to the voice of God. This often leads to spiritual deafness and eventually, spiritual death (Rom 8: 5-8).
3. Crowded heart – If your heart is always crowded with worrisome and anxious thoughts, you won't hear God.
4. Idols in the heart – When your mind is often set on what you want to do, whatever God wants to say doesn’t matter to you anymore. This is the reason many people don’t hear God. This is the problem with the elders of Israel (Eze 14: 1-4)
5. Spiritual laziness – When people are lazy to pray, study the word of God, and engage in spiritually profitable exercises, they soon become dull and unable to hear what God is saying.
6. Grieving the Holy Spirit – God talks to us by His Spirit, but whenever you make the Holy Spirit sad by your behaviors and choices, there is bound to be communication breakdown.
7. Sin – Sin casts a veil upon the heart of man, it blocks the ears of the spirit.
8. Closed heavens – When heavens are open, people hear the voice of God; conversely, when heavens are closed, people don’t hear God (Eze 1: 1-3; Matt 3: 16-17).

 

WAYS OF ACTIVATING YOUR SPIRITUAL FACULTIES

Hearing ear is a function of grace (Acts 22: 12-15). We don’t earn a hearing ear; we simply receive it by grace through faith, it is inherent in the new birth. Hearing God effectively requires that we fully consecrate ourselves to God and learn how to be in the Spirit (Rev 1: 10). To be in the Spirit means to be wholly in union with the Holy Spirit and be fully yielded to him. The terms of our consecration may vary from an individual to an individual; as a result, you must know how God expects you to consecrate yourself to him and abide by it. Your consecration activates and enhances your hearing faculty. We may consecrate ourselves through the following ways or even more:

1. Meditation on the word of God (Josh 1: 8)
2. Dwelling in the word environment – where the word of God is taught, preached, and practiced (Acts 19: 20).
3. Praying in the Holy Spirit – This builds up the spirit man; anything that builds up the spirit man will activate and tune in your spiritual faculties to the frequency of God (1 Cor 14: 2, 4).
4. Train your heart to be quiet
5. Submit under a prophetic or an apostolic ministry – Because of the peculiar spiritual atmosphere that these ministries carry, they make it easy for people to hear God’s voice. Most times, they do this through prophetic activation and apostolic impartation (Isa 30: 20-21).
6. Worship – Atmosphere of worship is the atmosphere of God. When you worship God who is a Spirit, in spirit and truth, it is easy for your spirit to hear from God. Worship tunes a believer’s spirit to the frequency of God (John 4: 24). It takes the presence of God to still a noisy and anxious mind (Psalm 46: 10)
7. Visit unusual places – Jer 18: 1-2. For example, when you visit places like hospital, prison, beach, etc, you will hear God’s voice.

 

GATEWAY TO ALL SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL BLESSINGS

Hearing ear is the gateway to all spiritual and material blessings; therefore develop your ears to hear what the Spirit of God is saying. In addition, train your ears to filter out what the devil is saying or else you will lose. Blessings are transported into our lives through the media of hearing and seeing. What you hear is what you become and what you see is what you possess.

“and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)” – 1 Pet 2: 7-8

Lot was completely messed up by what he saw and heard for a long time; therefore be careful what you give your ears to hear. Jesus gave the disciples this very important warning:

“Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.” – Luke 8: 18

Great lesson we can receive from this warning is the correlation between what we are hearing and our portion in life. What you are hearing is directly proportionate to what will be given to you or what will be taken from you. What you are hearing will either take from you or add to you. What you are hearing will either build you up or tear you down. What you are hearing will either cleanse you or pollute you (John 15:3). What you are hearing will either bless you or curse you. What you are hearing will either give you life or give you death. What you are hearing will either encourage you or demoralize you.

THE SOURCE OF TRUE BLESSING

“And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” – Luke 11: 27-28; Deut 28: 1; John 10: 

MAN ON THREE LEVELS OF EXISTENTENCE

 OVERCOMING CARNALITY

To be carnal simply means to think, speak, behave, and live in ways contrary to the Word of God. It means to live by natural senses in the place of the Word of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual babes are not free from carnality

All the men upon the earth fall under 3 categories; namely,

1. Natural man

2. Carnal man

3. Spiritual man

A NATURAL MAN is dead in sins and trespasses, he/she is not born again. He/she is completely dead in relation to God. 

A CARNAL MAN is born again but still thinks, behaves, and lives much like an unbeliever. He/she lives a self-centered life instead of Christ-centered life. He/she complains and murmur when tried and tested. He yields to temptation easily. In fact, the works of the flesh manifest more in his/her life more than the fruit of the spirit. He is rising and falling in his walk with God. He is hot today and cold tomorrow.

Carnality in believers is not what you can get rid of overnight or in your own efforts. It can only be achieved through cooperation with the Holy Spirit as you daily feed on God's word. Carnality is never to be rationalized or justified, however, God is not angry that spiritual infants behave as spiritual infants. But God gets displeased when the supposed spiritual adults behave like infants--indulging in the flesh!

No reasonable parent gets mad at a baby when he/she is just being babyish. It doesn't matter what an infant does, you don't punish a baby for being babyish. However, you don't expect your teenager to wee wee or poo poo in his/her underpants. When a baby does it, it is not a concern, but when a teenager does it, it is a big and embarrassing concern. 

It is the same in spiritual matters. God is not shocked or angry when spiritual babes are carnal. However, it is a different scenario when those who have been born again for decades are still carnal, carnality in those who ought to have attained certain degree of maturity will definitely attract punishment. What overthrew the Israelites in the wilderness were not giants, it was carnal mind that made God to be displeased with them. Because those who are ruled by their carnal mind cannot please God.

1 Corinthians 10:5
Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

A SPIRITUAL MAN is born again and had moved past the indulgences of the flesh. He recognizes his struggle in the flesh, and daily strive for perfection through the help of the Holy Spirit by daily renewing his mind in the word of God. He is being progressively sanctified and bearing the fruit of the spirit. A spiritual person is not perfect but he is daily pressing to know Christ. A spiritual person is not just living in the Spirit but he daily walks in the Spirit. He lives by the judgement of God's word and to him, God's word is the rule of his life and his final authority.

Romans 8:12-14
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

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THE AMAZING PRAYER LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST

THE AMAZING PRAYER LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST:
Template For Building An Effective Prayer Life

The Book that is written to equip you and show you how to become God's powerhouse to liberate your generation.

 “There must be something Jesus knew about prayer that we are yet to discover. His prayer checks/cheques never bounced! Demons couldn't stand His prayer life, sicknesses and diseases took to their heels at the prayers of the Son of God. Demons were reduced to beggars at His presence. Jesus came and opened a new prayer channel for the triumphant Church to follow.” 

It is time we learned at the Master's feet and master the art and act of prayer as He did in the days of His flesh.

The Author, Oluwasina E. Oluwaleke

 

Jesus said in Luke 6: 40,  "A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.".

As disciples of Christ,  we are to be perfectly trained to be like our Teacher/Master. If we are to pray effectively as He did in the days of His flesh, then we must be perfectly trained in His prayer life and pattern.

This is what this book is all about--learning the prayer life of Jesus Christ.



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BOOK DESCRIPTION

“There must be something Jesus knew about prayer that we are yet to discover. His prayer checks/cheques never bounced! Demons couldn't stand His prayer life, sicknesses and diseases took to their heels at the prayers of the Son of God. Demons were reduced to beggars at His presence. Jesus came and opened a new prayer channel for the triumphant Church to follow.”

Prophetically speaking, the Church is in a very critical midnight hour of critical needs. The hour calls for an effective prayer pattern that works and a faithful devotion of God's people to pray fervently to God without giving up, until the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as waters cover the sea.

A painstaking study of Church's history will quickly reveal the truth that great moves of God are usually heralded by the outpouring of the spirit of prayer. Through this book, it is my prayer that God will open our eyes to the needs and the realities of the time in which we are living, and stir up in us again the spirit of prayer. The Church presently is living and ministering in a very dangerous time. So much ground has been lost to the devil due to the complacent and compromising lifestyles of the Church. Through this book, it is my fervent desire and prayer that God will once again pour upon us the spirit of grace and supplication to cry and weep to our God for the recovery of lost vital grounds of truths and also, that of the Church.

In the AMAZING PRAYER LIFE OF JESUS, I have highlighted and explained prophetically, the pattern and the practices of Jesus' prayer in the days of His flesh. This book is therefore my gleanings from the prayer life of Jesus and the secrets of its effectiveness.

I have written this book with the Church of Jesus Christ in mind—to awaken her out of spiritual slumber, that She may come into alignment with the true prayer life of Jesus. Revival is needful for today's Church, but this third Day Church needs much more than revival to function and truly represent Christ. This third Day Church must breakthrough to the resurrection Life of Christ! And unless the Church goes back to the prayer life and pattern of the Son of God, the much needed breakthrough will elude her. It is therefore my prayer that God will move the Church past the erratic seasons of revival to a permanent season of resurrection Life. Amen!

In addition, if you have struggled and failed at developing and sustaining an effective prayer life; this book is a devotional manual—if read and practiced, it will move your prayer life from the doldrums to a new realm of effectiveness and efficacy, where revival is all-time high and resurrection Life is ever flowing!


PRAYER WORKS!

Prayer works! If prayer doesn’t work, Jesus would not have given the larger part of His life upon the earth to it. If prayer doesn’t work, Jesus would not have prayed first about everything before He did them. If prayer doesn’t work, Jesus would not have taught, commanded, called, invited, and encouraged us to pray. If anybody believed in the efficacy of prayer, if anybody ever prayed—it was Jesus! To Jesus, prayer was not just what He said or did; prayer was the life He lived and shared with the Father. To Him, prayer was a means of sharing the life of God upon the earth. The prayer life He bequeathed to His disciples is the one that prays always without losing heart until the result of prayer is seen.

RECOGNIZING DESTINY-HELPING RELATIONSHIPS

NOBLE TRAITS OF A TRUE FRIEND

The Author, Oluwasina E. Oluwaleke

The Book that shows you how to recognize and nurture destiny-helping relationships. In this Book, you will learn how to unlock the hidden potentials in relationships for the fulfillment of destiny.

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The friendship of Jonathan and David is a rare model to come by in today's world. And we all need such covenant and faithful friends as Jonathan and David to fulfill destiny. Though this friendship model is rare, yet it exists; only that you need to be trained to recognize it. Providence has arranged such friendships for a man or a woman of destiny with a divine purpose. NOBLE TRAITS OF A TRUE FRIEND is a masterpiece on interpersonal skills required in making and keeping true friends. 

This book has been written to train your eyes to recognize true friends. Friendships are not crises-free; therefore, the Author has also elucidated on how to resolve crises and reconcile differences in friendships.  

In making friends, bear in mind that you may not always get the kinds of friends you desire, you will eventually attract who you are. In my counseling times with people, I have seen and heard people cry and blurt out, “Why am I always attracting wrong friends”. And my response has always been this, “You will keep attracting who you are. If you don’t like who you are attracting, then change who you are—repackage yourself from inside-out”. 

True friendship requires great commitments to work. If you started by being friendly, then continue by being friendly, lest you become a fiend. Note that letter ‘r’ is the only spelling difference between friend and fiend. That ‘r’ stands for relationship, when it is missing in friendship, friend becomes fiend. 

In this Book, among other things, you will learn: 

• How to recognize true friends 

• How to make true friends 

• How to keep true friends 

• The value of friendship 

• Friendships to avoid 

• Behaviors to avoid in friendship 

• Reconciling differences in friendship

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE!-The Book That Unlocks Your Dream Life

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE! 

"Nobody has ever achieved any worthwhile thing in his or her comfort zone. True and meaningful life of fulfillment and significance happen outside of your comfort zone. Capture, develop, and passionately pursue a clear vision of the life God created you to live. You are an eagle, not a chicken; you are destined to soar as eagles. Learn from the eagles, Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!"  

 

Discover The Realm Of Amazing Possibilities!

The Author, Oluwasina E. Oluwaleke

In this Book are keys that unlock your dream life. You have dwelled long enough in that Comfort Zone, it is time you moved!


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"Nobody has ever achieved any worthwhile thing in his or her comfort zone. True and meaningful life of fulfillment and significance happen outside of your comfort zone. Capture, develop, and passionately pursue a clear vision of the life God created you to live. You are an eagle, not a chicken; you are destined to soar as eagles. Learn from the eagles, Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!"  

Eagles are amazing birds of prey! This is especially true and revealed through a thorough study of eagles in their ecosystem, with a special focus on how they make their eaglets get out of the comfort zone of their nest and train them to fly—so that their great potentials for high altitude flight and precision hunting may be unleashed. Amazingly, God gave eagles this exceptional wisdom. This is exactly how God deals with His children. 

If you are created in the image of God, you have great potential for amazing accomplishments of the plan and purpose of God for your life. However, your potential is very dormant in your comfort zone; it is only activated, developed, and unleashed outside of your comfort zone. 

You won't see the reality of your potential and dream in your comfort zone. Unfortunately, many folks with great potential, great dreams and great destinies have remained glued to their comfort zones because of fear. People often talk of the fear of the unknown, but equally harmful is the fear that arises from the possibility of losing the known. 

True life happens outside of your comfort zone. There is a realm of life awaiting your discovery—the realm that will unveil the redeemed ‘you’—it is the realm of Amazing Possibilities! God is ready to help you discover that realm provided you are ready.  

To a natural man, it is comfortable and safe to remain in the boat. Naturally speaking, man is a matter, he has mass, and he occupies space. In essence, man in his natural environment is subject to the laws of nature; if he dares to walk on water, he should sink. However, there is another ‘you’, the real you waiting to be discovered. The real you is a spirit who have a soul and live in a material human body. This is the ‘you’ that is not subject to the laws of nature—the ‘you’ that can walk on water and not sink—the ‘you’ that can be thrown into the fiery furnace and not be burned.  

In this book, Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone!, the author, Oluwasina Oluwaleke has vividly and convincingly illustrated in practical ways how you can navigate your way out of the false security and frustrations of your comfort zone to the realm of unfettered expression of the redeemed ‘you’. 

In this book, you will see and learn: 

• How comfort zone can cripple destiny and why you shouldn’t stay there any longer. 

• How to develop your faith and walk the supernatural realm with God. 

• How to conquer fear and go for your dream life. 

• How to cooperate with God when He is stirring your nest that you may learn to fly and soar in life as eagles. 

• The power of a legitimate Vision and practical ways of fulfilling it. 

Remember, God’s goal for stirring your nest is to release you into The Realm of Amazing Possibilities, the realm where all things are possible to him or her who believes. This is the realm of God—for with God all things are possible.

GETTING YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE RIGHT

COVENANT SECRETS OF FINANCIAL BLESSING

The Author, Oluwasina E. Oluwaleke

“Your destiny is not just to be blessed; but being blessed, that you may ultimately become a blessing.” 

Are you looking for a helpful book to solve financial problems? Do you want to know God's mind on Financial Stewardship? Then COVENANT SECRETS OF FINANCIAL BLESSING is the book for you.

 
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“Your destiny is not just to be blessed; but being blessed, that you may ultimately become a blessing.” 
 
In Covenant Secrets of Financial Blessing, the author, Oluwasina Emmanuel Oluwaleke unveils the covenant secrets to access the wealth and riches God has provided for the fulfillment of your life's purpose and destiny. They are called covenant secrets because they work based on your covenant relationship with the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. The wealthy people have secrets that are only known to them. But thanks to God who has seen your struggles in this area; the secrets of prosperity are laid bare throughout the pages of this book. 
 
This is a practical handbook that shows you how to access the vast riches of Christ, which was placed within your reach through His finished work on the Cross—in order for you to live the life that God has called you to live upon the earth without compromise. The author's intention is to show us how to be financially blessed, without compromising our integrity, despite the vicissitudes that characterize the economy of our nation and the world at large. God wants you to stand out, not just spiritually but financially too. Like Isaac in the land of the Philistines, God wants you to become a voice and a witness in a hostile and volatile economic environment. This book presents you with God's blueprint for your prosperity in such an environment.  
 
“God is raising Isaac-like sons in this prophetic hour; sons whose financial empowerment would not be tied to the economic policies, measures, and potentials of any nation. Their lives shall be independent of the vicissitudes that mark the economy of the nations. However, their financial strength and base shall be in their understanding and faithful walking in the covenant. 
 
To this Isaac generation, the covenant would become to them a position of strength to fight the economic adversity of their nations. Furthermore, it would offer them spiritual leverage to stand out economically in the midst of the prevailing economic disaster. The divine purpose for the rise of this Isaac generation is that they might become powerful witnesses to the Lord in the nations as Isaac was among the Philistines.”  
 
“God has abundance of good works He is doing upon the earth today and He does them through His children. But how can His children do these good works if they lack financial blessing on their lives? Therefore it is God’s design and intention for His children to have financial abundance so they can give cheerfully and generously to every good work, for God loves a cheerful giver! Abundance is for good works, not personal consumption.” 
 
“In order to reap bountifully, you must learn the habit of sowing bountifully. Generosity begets prosperity, meanness begets poverty. Faith to receive is in the faith to give. Faith to take is embedded in the faith to lay down.”

THE YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE

VERDICT 2015: THE YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE

I see God releasing amazing grace this year; however, it is not for everybody, it is for the humble. I am not talking about grace that you are so familiar with--this grace is so new where your experience and walk with God is concerned. As this revelation of God's intents is so thrilling and exciting, at the same time it requires something so costly from us--and that is death to self (actually that is what humility means). This grace will enable you to be what God wants you to be, it will enable you to be your best for God, it will take over from you and you will forget the failures, disappointments, frustrations, and the struggles of the past arising from fleshly limitations. Please hear what the Holy Spirit is saying and how He wants us to walk with Him in 2015. It is a year to walk humbly with God and attract an awesome grace!

 "He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?" - Micah 6: 8

As a child of God, if you are proud, then you must get ready for a difficult and hard life of wars and battles with God Almighty! Pride and proud people have no place in God just as Satan has no place in God. Pride is what puts you in the same class as the devil. Pride is what makes God to put you at a very good distance from His grace and mercy and blessing. Pride is what makes God to resist you in life.

No matter how intelligent you are, beautiful you are, well placed you are, rich you are, academically qualified you are, gifted you are; unless you will learn what it means to be humble, you may live a miserable life of difficulty and hardship. All these endowments that ought to give you leverage in life will amount to nothing because of your pride that makes you to be bloated and fills you with an over inflated sense of self-importance.

For you to make most of life as a child of God, your life requires grace; and grace comes from the God of all grace through humility. For God resists the proud but He gives grace to the humble.

"Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" - 1 Peter 5: 5-6

Here are few signs of pride:
1. Rebellious attitude to God and His word. Do you always have a better idea than what the word of God says? If yes, you are proud and get ready for God's disfavor.

2. Does your intelligence, or any other thing you have more than others make you to look down on them and talk to them anyhow? If yes, you are proud; and unless you repent you will lose grace and fall. Pride goes before a fall.

3. Do you have a rebellious attitude to authority God set over your life (parental, civil, and spiritual)

4. Do you hate correction and rebuke? If yes, you are proud.

5. Prayerlessness is one grave sign of pride. Proud people don't pray to God; they will rather lean on their own understanding. When you bow your heart and your knees to God as a sign of total dependence and reliance on God, it is a sign of humility--demonstrating your utter helplessness if God doesn't come through for you. 

"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." - 2 Chro. 7:14

There are many more signs of pride, but I trust the Holy Spirit the Teacher to open your eyes to them all and give you the enablement to repent and adjust where necessary. O the beauty of a life ornamented and decorated by God's grace!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS