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Weekly Messages: Becoming A True Soldier 9

Weekly Messages: Becoming A True Soldier 9

2 Timothy 2:4

No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. NKJV

 

In the above scripture, we can find a warning against entanglement as a true soldier. For the scripture to warn us against entanglement, it simply means that there is a tendency for entanglement. The truth is that entanglement does not only refer to negative habits but also positive activities. If you are not careful as a true soldier, even the simple good things you do in your service to God could become an entanglement. When an activity in church or your regular business comes in between your spiritual worship to God, it is an entanglement and you must fight against it.

 

Everybody you see in the street is possessed by one spirit or the other and the lesser spirits are always subdued by the higher spirits hence you must always build up your spirit to remain victorious. Also bear in mind that there is the glory of the world that corrupts which the church can only overcome in the place of power. This power is received by sanctification and investment in the secret place.

Learn how to fight with your hands and your legs. You don’t submit to the challenges you meet along your path because the Spirit of God in you is far stronger than anything in the world (1 John 4:4 MSG) and that is why you must not leave your house carelessly but you must prepare yourself in the spirit realm against any odds on the way. The easiest way to win a fight is to be on the offensive side and you don’t sharpen your sword in the battle front. Always be prepared!

How to be free from entanglement (John 17:15)

  1. The place of sanctification
  2. Always visit the secret place

 

Prayer Line: Father, today I sanctify myself by the blood and I receive grace to always dwell in the secret place in Jesus name. Amen!

Weekly Messages: Becoming A True Soldier Part 8

Weekly Messages: Becoming A True Soldier Part 8

There is a passion that must engulf every true soldier and that passion must be to fulfill the commandments of the master. It was this passion present in Apostle Paul that made him make some dangerous statements he made as we see in his letters. The easiest way to know what a man is passionate about is from his statements.

You must be passionate about your faith before you can stir up others to believe it and you must be a true soldier before you can be passionate. The commandments of the master is to ‘win souls and to raise for him disciples’, this is the passion of a true soldier.

What will take many Christians to hell is disobedience to God’s will and God’s will is simply: winning souls and raising disciples.

Look at this scripture:

Matthew 7:25

And do you know what I’m going to say?  You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don’t impress me one bit. You’re out of here. (MSG)

For further study read: Matthew 7: 24-29

Prayer line: father, I receive fresh passion to win souls and raise disciples in the name of Jesus. Amen!

Weekly Messages: Covenant Power of Prosperity

Weekly Messages: Covenant Power of Prosperity

God is a God of covenant. For every promise He makes, He must surely fulfil. God wants to make you a living proof. It is your heritage to prosper. You don’t need to carry money around, what you need is to operate by the covenant of prosperity. A covenant is an agreement between two parties where both parties agree to meet certain ends of the agreement (Genesis 17:4-7, Galatians 3:13-14).

The covenant of prosperity will only work for you if you obey God correctly. Obeying God correctly is a call to service. Serving God is not just coming to church but also sacrificing your time, money and energy to advance God’s work. You are not blessed until you are connected to the covenant (Exodus 23:25-26).

Covenant Strategies

  1. Obedience to God’s word
  2. Kingdom addiction
  3. Lifestyle of prayer

Obedience to God includes obedience in paying your tithe, giving your offering and sowing of seed. You don’t enjoy supplies until you obey the principle of supplies which is the principle of giving and giving to the right person. When you give to a righteous fellow, you reap the fruit of righteousness. When you sow to a prophet, you reap the reward of a prophet which may only last for a time (Mathew 10:41). When you sow to your father, you reap your father’s inheritance which is for a lifetime (Genesis 27:1-4, 49:1-4).

When you give excuses to give to God, He will in turn give you excuses when you ask Him for blessings. Understand that seed sowing can avert death, sickness and accident for you and your family. Don’t even try to divide your tithe and pay some. It is wrong. When you fail to pay your tithe, devourer will eat your finances. When you fail to support God’s work with your substance, you will make financial losses (Haggai 1:1-9, Malachi 3:10). Until you think of what to dangerously give to God as a seed, God will never think of what to give you (Proverbs 11:34)

Six major covenants of Faithhouse (Psalms 89:34)

  1. Covenant of on-time supply
  2. Covenant of ‘we don’t take no for an answer’
  3. Covenant of life and peace
  4. Covenant of angelic and divine direction
  5. Covenant of fertility, reproduction and fruitfulness
  6. Covenant of seeing ahead (vision, divine secrets and speed)

Prayer line: O Lord give me the grace to give continually to support your work so that i will not lose my blessings in Jesus name. Amen!

Weekly Messages: Becoming A True Soldier 7

Weekly Messages: Becoming A True Soldier 7

Study Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:4

A True Soldier Does Not Entangle Himself

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

 

Many Soldiers (Christians) have allowed themselves to be soiled with sin, bribery, immorality etc. All these vices are entanglements which ought not to be found around true soldiers of Christ. Anytime we are entangled with distractions, we displease God. Salvation is not a call for enjoyment but a call for recruitment into the army of Christ. Being a soldier entails putting on the whole armour of God (righteousness, prayer and more) at every [point in time after all no military man goes around without his uniform. Once you get entangled, you end up in a horrible state (2 Peter 2:20). It doesn’t mean you should give up when you make mistake and get entangled with the flesh, sin etc. But you should ask God for forgiveness. Asking God for mercy means confessing your sins in plain language not speaking in tongues to cover up (Proverbs 28:13).

Prerequisite for freedom from entanglement

  1. He is free from the entanglement of human occupation
  2. He devotes his energy to fight earthly distractions
  3. His thought pattern is focused on the Master (the commander) and His heavenly assignment (the commandment)
  4. The soldier of Christ is in perpetual warfare or perpetual preparation for warfare (1 Timothy 1:18). Everybody will definitely meet this war against entanglement at some point or somewhere. It could be at your workplace or at school or even pleasure from family to leave the faith or wherever. When that illegal bag of money is brought before you, will you sell out? (Romans 8:38-39)

A true soldier is a weapon carrier. We are positioned at different places but we must all have the consciousness that we are soldiers. You don’t play with a military man when it comes to his I.D. or his gun. The military lost their reverence when they began associating with civilians. Similarly, the Christians lost it when they began mingling with sinners. These past years, Christianity has been in the defensive side; it’s time to go on the offensive side.

A Muslim goes into a system with the mindset to influence it for Islam; on the contrary, a Christian enters with the mindset for personal gain. It’s time to adjust. Marriage act, Islamic Studies, Islamic loan are all evidence of Muslims being sold-out to Islam and this is because they understand the message of Islam. Christians on the other hand have failed to understand what God has instructed us to do which is to dominate and promote God’s kingdom everywhere we find ourselves. This is the reason for which most Christians are messing up in leadership positions.

Looking at Hezekiah in the bible, he cried out for mercy when God told Him he was to die and God heard His cry and added 15 more years to his life. In the process, Hezekiah sinned against God, God told him that as a result his next generation will suffer for it. Instead of Hezekiah to ask God for mercy again he relaxed and did nothing about it, he concluded all was well so long as the calamity does not come during his time and he will enjoy peace till he dies (Isaiah 39:8-9). This is the attitude of most Christians today. They feel that they have escaped the calamity of Islam forgetting that their children will meet it if they do nothing about it. You might be thinking you are already old and hence have escaped the calamities of the church which are present now and which are yet to come, how about your children? It’s time to stand for what you believe in!

Prayer line: Lord, deliver me from every form of entanglement in the name of Jesus. Amen!