The Blessing: Fruitfulness, Multiplication And Dominion

Spirit & Life Devotional
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

The Blessing: Fruitfulness, Multiplication And Dominion

"For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you." Deuteronomy 15:6 NKJV

"Bless", "blessed", "blessing" are some of the most used words in the Christian community but a lot of us don't seem to have a revelation of what it really is.

When God blessed Adam, He said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” To be blessed is not just to have some money for feeding, rent and gasoline in your bank accounts; no, to be blessed is to increase in such a way that you begin to dominate your environment. With the blessing comes dominion!

God said to Abraham, "I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies." Genesis 22:17. The blessing causes multiplication, it results in expansion, and you really can't expand if you are not taking over what previously belonged to someone else! The more blessed you are, the more places you occupy!

When you are blessed you have no need to borrow because you have everything in abundance. 2 Corinthians 9:8 says that "God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others." That's the blessing! It makes rich! Be blessed in the name of Jesus!

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Anointing For Global Impact

Spirit & Life Devotional
Monday, 13 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Anointing For Global Impact

"And the report about Him went out into every place in the surrounding region." Luke 4:37 NKJV

Jesus was teaching in Galilee when a demon possessed man began to cry out with a loud voice, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are— the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked the devil in him and set him free, as a result, all the people were amazed and said among themselves, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” And then the Bible says that the report about Him went out into every place in the surrounding region.

The report about Jesus spread as a result of one miracle! Here's what God is about to do: He's about to do something through you that will cause men and nations to marvel! Get ready, you are about to be celebrated and sought after by people who will here about your exploits!

When Solomon gave judgement in the case of two harlots, the Bible says that all Israel heard of the judgment which he rendered; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice. Afterwards, the Bible says that men of all nations, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon!

There's an anointing coming on you today for global impact. Receive it in Jesus name!

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Prayer: Achieving Success

Spirit & Life Devotional
Sunday, 12 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Prayer: Achieving Success

"Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established." Proverbs 16:3 NKJV

"Turn to the Lord for help in everything you do, and you will be successful." That's the Easy to Read Version.

A paramount ruler (a community leader) in Akwa Ibom said to me years ago, "Live a clean life and have something to lean on." I don't know what he leaned on, but that was a great advice and I'll never forget his words. If there's something achievers know, it's that they need some form of supernatural support in order to achieve their goals. That's why some of them are into occultic activities. But we are children of the Most High; the Most Powerful One; what a great privilege we have!

The reason that a lot of us don't succeed is because we don't pray well enough. We trust in our experience, in our contacts, in our skills and in our own knowledge to achieve success; no wonder we either do not succeed or we underperform. Proverbs 3:5 says to "Trust the Lord completely, and don’t depend on your own knowledge." We express our trust in Him through prayer. Daniel was a man of prayer; he prayed thrice daily, and he kept on rising until he became the second in command. Be like Daniel: Pray!

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Satan Is Very Wicked

Spirit & Life Devotional
Saturday, 11 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Satan Is Very Wicked

"Then one of the crowd answered and said, 'Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.” Mark 9:17‭-‬18 NKJV

A lot of people, including Christians, do not realize how terrible and wicked the devil really is, and that's why we do not take our faith and believing seriously, that's why we do not pray as we should, and that's why some of us live carelessly and are comfortable dining with him!

Listen and listen good; Satan hates you so much! But for God, you would have either been miserable, wretched or probably dead by now; Jesus told Peter that Satan desired to sift him like wheat! Satan's goal is to kill, steal and destroy; he goes about with one sole aim, to devour! The Bible says that we wrestle against spiritual host of wickedness!

Just look at what he did to a little child! Look at what he did to Job too, in just a day! No, I'm not saying all these to make you afraid of the devil, but to let you know that you must be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, and learn to exercise your authority in Christ. Take your faith seriously; give no room to the devil to operate in your life! Live a holy life! Pray always!

Jesus came to destroy and undo all the works of Satan. Right now, I declare you free from every work of the devil in Jesus name! Amen!

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Consider Your Ways

Spirit & Life Devotional
Friday, 10 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Consider Your Ways

"Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Consider your ways!'" Haggai 1:7 NKJV

Haggai said to the people, “Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people say, the time has not come that the Lord’s house should be built.” “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!"

And for neglecting the temple God said to them, “You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages to  put into a bag with holes. Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified. You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?, says the Lord, because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Your response to the things of the kingdom determines God's response to you. Period. Make the things of the kingdom topmost priority and God will make things about you His topmost priority. Give, and keep giving for the work of God. If you've been doing otherwise it's time to consider your ways.

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God Forgives And Forgets

Spirit & Life Devotional
Thursday, 9 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

God Forgives And Forgets

"Then He adds, 'Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.'” Hebrews 10:17 NKJV

Only God knows the number of times people have argued about the possibility of forgetting something wrong that's done; well, when you truly forgive you will never use whatever that person did against him or her in anyway ever again.

You'll agree with me that if God were to judge us everyday, or let whatever we've done in the past determine the level of relationship He will have with us, not many of us will be Christians today. Let's not even begin to talk about the kinds of sins we've committed in the past (and still commit!); but we are still here today, able to lift up holy hands to God and stand in His presence, because He is a merciful God. Hallelujah!

When we confess and repent of our sins, in the mind of God it's as if we never even sinned! Isn't that awesome? Yes, it is! Psalms 103:12 says that "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." Wow! Be free from guilty consciousness in the name of Jesus! I don't need to know what you have done, if God doesn't remember it then I don't care to know either! Begin to walk in freedom and refuse to let Satan intimidate you! If God has justified us, there's absolutely nothing that anyone can do about it! We are free indeed!

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Divine Provisions

Spirit & Life Devotional
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

Divine Provisions

"And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan." Exodus 16:35 NKJV

The children of Israel ate manna for forty years; that's a very long time; a lot of us reading this are not up to forty, so you'll agree with me that forty years is a really long time. God fed the Israelites with bread, directly from the heavens, for forty long years!

What that means is that the Israelites did not work for food for forty years! Think about that; all they had to do was to wake up in the morning, and go out in the evening to gather some manna to eat: that was all they had to do! The same thing happened to Elijah, ravens brought him ready made food. It's obvious that birds don't cook; it was a divine provision!

I'm trying to show you how powerful God is to meet your needs. Listen to me dearly beloved, your needs are nothing compared to His ability! We are talking about a God Who created everything you see by His words; all He had to do was say, "Let there be", and there was! How much did you even say you needed? All the monies in the world belong to God and He can distribute, and redistribute it however He wills! Oh, I wish I could share some testimonies with you! If you believe, you too will see the glory of God! You will surely testify in Jesus name! Amen!

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