05-27-2020, 09:07 AM
BETTER LIFE MESSAGE
DATE : WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 2020
TOPIC: ADVERSITY FOR ADVANCEMENT
TEXT : Philipians 1:12-14 “But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.”
Salvation is not an escape route to heaven immediately neither is it an end in itself to adversities but it is the foundation for an in-built spiritual shock absorber to withstand the devil in the day of adversity – Proverbs 23:10
Let no one deceive you that as soon as you are born again, there will be no more battle, the truth remains that by accepting Christ, you have become the arc-enemy to satan, hence, he will go full length to wage war against you so as to hinder you from getting to God’s ultimate height for your life and destiny.
The ultimate of God’s agenda for your redemption is to make you a show to the world through the adversity that He allowed into your life which is ordained to turn you into a pathfinder, pacesetter and trailblazer by the reason of the stuff you are made up at redemption – 1Peter 2:9, 1John 4:4
Only ignorant believer run away from battles but the wise understand that challenges of life are the ‘breakfast of the Champions.’
The devil comes in form of adversities to size up your depth of knowledge of who you are and what you are truly made up. If you fear, you will faint, if you faint you will fall and if you fall you will be declared a failure for life.
The best of you only emerges in the season of adversity because the Spirit of God rises to the maximum capacity for your rescue - Judges 14:5-6
“Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.”
Inside of every adversity there is a seed of advancement. Adversity is the miracle seed of advancement in disguise.
Any adversity that comes into our lives is a storm that we can face and overcome with God’s power just like David did against Goliath. In fact, if you allow God, He will use the adversity to launch you into new and unimaginable levels of advancement – 1Samuel 17:32-37, 45-51, 1Peter 4:12-16, 3:14
No one rises to the topmost top from their comfort zone.
However, we must understand this: There are some adversities that we deliberately allowed into our lives through sin, disobedience, offense, unforgiveness, bitterness, anger, wrong utterances, worry which is a product of an affair between doubt and fear.
Sin gives satan the legal right to enter our lives freely. Sin grants access to demons a foothold to oppress and torments. Jesus told the sick man, in John chapter 5, “Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” Meaning that, we can’t be indulging in any of the above and expect Jesus to come to our rescue.
From our scriptural text in Philipians 1:12-14, it is clear that the imprisonments of Apostle Paul brought about the advancement of the gospel even spreading to the palaces where the gospel wouldn’t have been heard for fear. What the devil meant to silence the gospel turned out to be a blessing in disguise. In Acts of the Apostles, we discovered from Chapter 8:1-13 that the persecution of the saints in Jerusalem brought about speedy spread of the gospel as they scatter abroad.
What the devil meant for your downfall is what God will use as raw materials to advance you forward. Adversity is the Relevant force needed to awake the sleeping giant in you. No matter how tough it gets, it can always get better if you are willing to give it all that it requires to succeed.
One of the greatest adversity ever in human history is the scourge of Corona Virus that has humbled the pride of mankind globally but the current global crises is ordained for our rising if we know what to do. This is the time when political, economic and financial power must change hands from the wicked to the righteous. Wealth is already changing hands, the haves in the society are loosing to the have-nots that are positioned by the covenant in heavenly places – Ephesians 2:6, Proverbs 23:4-5, Isaiah 60:1-22
WHAT TO DO TO ADVANCE IN THE MIDST OF ADVERSITY?
I. Quit religion and re-examine yourself if you are still in the faith – 2Cor 13:5
II. Rejoice in the Lord because another opportunity has come to change your levels – 1Peter 4:12-13, James 1:2
III. Run to God for inspiration, insight and wisdom through the Holy Spirit – Job 32:8, Proverbs 4:7, James 1:5, 1Cor 10:13
IV. Go for more knowledge – Psalms 49:12, 20, Hosea 4:6, Isaiah 5:13, Daniel 11:32, Proverbs 24:5, 10
V. Contend with the adversary in battle on the altar of prayer and fasting – 1Peter 5:8-10
VI. Declare what you want to see with your mouth in faith amidst adversities – 1Peter 3:10-13, Hebrews 11:3, Proverbs 18:20-21
If it is too big for your mouth to declare, it will be too big for hand to handle.
A young man once met Kenneth E. Hagin for prayer so that he will never be confronted with challenges again and he responded that, the only prayer that will work for him is to pray for his death because adversity is part of a Christian life.
. — E.W Kenyon said that if you want to succeed at all cost, ‘Make your brain work. It will sweat, but make it work. It will improve. It will develop until you become a wonder to those around you’
ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT, NOBODY EMERGES AS A LIVING WONDER WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE FURNACE OF ADVERSITY, THE CHOICE IS ESSENTIALLY YOURS.
PRAYER POINT: FATHER, IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, ARISE WITH THE GREATNESS OF YOUR POWER AND YOUR OUTSTRETCHED HAND AND OVERTURN EVERY ADVERSITY OF MY LIFE TO TESTIMONY OF BREAKTHROUGH AND ADVANCEMENT AS YOU TURN ME INTO A LIVING WONDER THIS YEAR TO THE WORLD. Psalms 66:3, Ezekiel 21:27, Zechariah 3:8, Genesis 49:20
SEE YOU AT THE TOPMOST TOP.
REMAIN EVER BLESSED.
JESUS IS LORD.
PST ISRAEL AKINSANYA
pstisraelmeg@gmail.com
DATE : WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 2020
TOPIC: ADVERSITY FOR ADVANCEMENT
TEXT : Philipians 1:12-14 “But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.”
Salvation is not an escape route to heaven immediately neither is it an end in itself to adversities but it is the foundation for an in-built spiritual shock absorber to withstand the devil in the day of adversity – Proverbs 23:10
Let no one deceive you that as soon as you are born again, there will be no more battle, the truth remains that by accepting Christ, you have become the arc-enemy to satan, hence, he will go full length to wage war against you so as to hinder you from getting to God’s ultimate height for your life and destiny.
The ultimate of God’s agenda for your redemption is to make you a show to the world through the adversity that He allowed into your life which is ordained to turn you into a pathfinder, pacesetter and trailblazer by the reason of the stuff you are made up at redemption – 1Peter 2:9, 1John 4:4
Only ignorant believer run away from battles but the wise understand that challenges of life are the ‘breakfast of the Champions.’
The devil comes in form of adversities to size up your depth of knowledge of who you are and what you are truly made up. If you fear, you will faint, if you faint you will fall and if you fall you will be declared a failure for life.
The best of you only emerges in the season of adversity because the Spirit of God rises to the maximum capacity for your rescue - Judges 14:5-6
“Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.”
Inside of every adversity there is a seed of advancement. Adversity is the miracle seed of advancement in disguise.
Any adversity that comes into our lives is a storm that we can face and overcome with God’s power just like David did against Goliath. In fact, if you allow God, He will use the adversity to launch you into new and unimaginable levels of advancement – 1Samuel 17:32-37, 45-51, 1Peter 4:12-16, 3:14
No one rises to the topmost top from their comfort zone.
However, we must understand this: There are some adversities that we deliberately allowed into our lives through sin, disobedience, offense, unforgiveness, bitterness, anger, wrong utterances, worry which is a product of an affair between doubt and fear.
Sin gives satan the legal right to enter our lives freely. Sin grants access to demons a foothold to oppress and torments. Jesus told the sick man, in John chapter 5, “Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” Meaning that, we can’t be indulging in any of the above and expect Jesus to come to our rescue.
From our scriptural text in Philipians 1:12-14, it is clear that the imprisonments of Apostle Paul brought about the advancement of the gospel even spreading to the palaces where the gospel wouldn’t have been heard for fear. What the devil meant to silence the gospel turned out to be a blessing in disguise. In Acts of the Apostles, we discovered from Chapter 8:1-13 that the persecution of the saints in Jerusalem brought about speedy spread of the gospel as they scatter abroad.
What the devil meant for your downfall is what God will use as raw materials to advance you forward. Adversity is the Relevant force needed to awake the sleeping giant in you. No matter how tough it gets, it can always get better if you are willing to give it all that it requires to succeed.
One of the greatest adversity ever in human history is the scourge of Corona Virus that has humbled the pride of mankind globally but the current global crises is ordained for our rising if we know what to do. This is the time when political, economic and financial power must change hands from the wicked to the righteous. Wealth is already changing hands, the haves in the society are loosing to the have-nots that are positioned by the covenant in heavenly places – Ephesians 2:6, Proverbs 23:4-5, Isaiah 60:1-22
WHAT TO DO TO ADVANCE IN THE MIDST OF ADVERSITY?
I. Quit religion and re-examine yourself if you are still in the faith – 2Cor 13:5
II. Rejoice in the Lord because another opportunity has come to change your levels – 1Peter 4:12-13, James 1:2
III. Run to God for inspiration, insight and wisdom through the Holy Spirit – Job 32:8, Proverbs 4:7, James 1:5, 1Cor 10:13
IV. Go for more knowledge – Psalms 49:12, 20, Hosea 4:6, Isaiah 5:13, Daniel 11:32, Proverbs 24:5, 10
V. Contend with the adversary in battle on the altar of prayer and fasting – 1Peter 5:8-10
VI. Declare what you want to see with your mouth in faith amidst adversities – 1Peter 3:10-13, Hebrews 11:3, Proverbs 18:20-21
If it is too big for your mouth to declare, it will be too big for hand to handle.
A young man once met Kenneth E. Hagin for prayer so that he will never be confronted with challenges again and he responded that, the only prayer that will work for him is to pray for his death because adversity is part of a Christian life.
. — E.W Kenyon said that if you want to succeed at all cost, ‘Make your brain work. It will sweat, but make it work. It will improve. It will develop until you become a wonder to those around you’
ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT, NOBODY EMERGES AS A LIVING WONDER WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE FURNACE OF ADVERSITY, THE CHOICE IS ESSENTIALLY YOURS.
PRAYER POINT: FATHER, IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, ARISE WITH THE GREATNESS OF YOUR POWER AND YOUR OUTSTRETCHED HAND AND OVERTURN EVERY ADVERSITY OF MY LIFE TO TESTIMONY OF BREAKTHROUGH AND ADVANCEMENT AS YOU TURN ME INTO A LIVING WONDER THIS YEAR TO THE WORLD. Psalms 66:3, Ezekiel 21:27, Zechariah 3:8, Genesis 49:20
SEE YOU AT THE TOPMOST TOP.
REMAIN EVER BLESSED.
JESUS IS LORD.
PST ISRAEL AKINSANYA
pstisraelmeg@gmail.com