SERIES: SPIRITUAL WARFARE
AIM: EFFECTIVE AND
VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN LIVING
MESSAGE
TITLE:
ACTUALIZING YOUR DIVINE DESTINY
(IN THE CONTEXT OF A LION)
TEXT: GENESIS
49:8-12.
1.
Running Your Race
The
way for success, significance, achievements or actualization of destiny is
found in one’s resolve to dedicatedly run their own race, and serve their
divine purpose because no institution worthy its salt (heaven included) will
ever reward you for doing what was not your assignment in the first place. What
you do and how you do it counts a lot because it dictates to your destiny.
A lion even in the hostile wild lives on and serves its creational purpose by
pursuing, executing and fulfilling its life’s assignment with a lion attitude and
lion power. In other words a lion plays hard and smart with resolve. It
is the lead creature of the jungle and it knows it very well. Like Christ in
Luke 4:18 receive your vision from God articulate it and set out to effectively
execute and actualize it. Learn the art and practice of early rise, speak to
your day and command your morning (Job 1:5, 38:12). Operate in life with an
over comers demeanor (conduct) even in the face of danger, calamity or
opposition. You are royalty and so ultimately every Satanic opposing should
windup under your feet. Purpose to live and enjoy your life to the full in the now.
Operate in life with the prophetic unction of hind sight, insight and fore
sight while upheld by the pillars of knowledge, wisdom and understanding,
to prepare appropriately for the future. When the scripture states that in all
these things we are more than conquerors (Romans 8:37), do notice that it is a
present tense sentence, which is stating who we are. Which who we are is
critical in the process of fulfilling
one’s purpose “for as stating thinks (in his heart) so he is” (Proverbs
23:7). Come into full terms with the essence, purpose, power and art of
leadership and execute with excellence as God’s lion, by creation,
sanctification, and authorization. You were born a lion you cannot therefore afford
to settle for anything less, you just must be a lion metaphorically.
2.
Operating In Your Prophetic Word
“If you continue in my word (hold on to my
teaching) then you are my disciples
indeed, and you shall know the truth (the reality lying at the basis of an
appearance or the manifested actual, real, or basic quality of a matter) and
the truth shall make you free (John 8:31,32). Christian life in the context of
the above scripture in spite of all severity trials is a joy, and not a heavy
load. No wonder the Lord Jesus Christ said “…my yoke is easy and my burden
is light”, (Matthew 11:30). Christ’s yoke and burden compared to the yoke
of the law, religion and legalism (especially as exercised on the
people by the religions leaders of the day and practiced by the Pharisees) is
easy and light. It is lack of knowledge that makes man kind to run a way from God into satans’ hands instead of
running into God’s open arms of love (Hosea 4:6). It made Judah a man with a
powerful prophetic word over his life flee from the midst of his brothers into the
hands of the Vicious Canaanites who were it not for God would have milked him
dry and eventually destroyed him (Genesis 38). “The thief comes not but to
steal, kill and destroy” (John 10:10a). Because of Judah’s sin with his
daughter in law, the prophetic word over him had to undergo a ten generational
delay before it was fulfilled in King David for, “ no one born of a
forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the
Lord even down to the tenth generation” (Deuteronomy 23:2). Godly knowledge
applied is critical for destine actualization so purpose to pursue it
unrelentingly. Acquire it through appropriate reading materials, media,
institutions, seminars and research. Knowledge will make you a force to recon with
in the society and multiply your audience and hence your influence. We do good
to honour and flow carefully with God’s rhema (word) over us because if the
devil cannot stop you, he will converse around to cause a delay. Never fumble
with a divine opportunity and favour or privilege. Execute in it with wisdom,
discernment, precision and excellence. You are God’s lion and as His legitimate
representation on earth He expects and counts on you to effect His will on the
earth (Genesis 1:26, 27, 28, Psalms 115:16). He is a great God with a colossal
(very great) assignment for you that is why you were born ‘a lion’
and not an antelope, a whole world of a difference. It is therefore imperative
that you know who you are and what you carry for you to
effectively execute your divine mandate. Consider a hypothetical an expectant
mother who has been made fully aware that what she carries in her womb is the
future president say of Kenya or the United States of America. I guess she would
ensure that she gets accommodation close to the best health facility available.
She would also be showing up at that
facility at least once every day for a check up. Why? Because of the value of
what she carries in her womb. All that with standing she will also watch very
carefully what she eats says and where she goes and not to forget
what she does. We Christians too are expectant with the invaluable time
spanning prophetic word of God in us a waiting certain fulfillment (that is, if
we have not executed it already). We must therefore
like the mother above watch what we take in, expose ourselves to, where we reside,
what we say or do just to name a few. The buzz word here would be ‘watch’ (and
shall I add, pray), for appropriate execution of that word. When a ship is
carrying very dangerous cargo (UDC) or precious cargo it always gets
preferential treatment at borders crossing points. In a similar manner too
should we afford ourselves preferential treatment because like in the case
of Judah we carry the destiny of
nations in us. We just must just do a good job of the execution of our divine
assignment and so like David fulfill our divine purpose, for that Prophetic
word in faith, word and deed. Everything about our life effort should flow in the
direction of God’s prophetic word on our lives.
3.
Deliverance and applying one self to the
prophetic word.
The day you declared yourself a believer in Christ, that
same day you declared war against the Kingdom of darkness and so did that
Kingdom also (declare war) against you. You must now fight in the name of the
Lord to enforce your declaration. You must not keep quiet now. Make
declaration, decree, without ceasing for “…life and death are in the power
of the tongue…” (Proverbs 18:21).
In your new
important position as a soldier in the Lord’s army you should never forget that
a soldier only has a job either because there is the possibility of danger or
because their exists a war situation or a declaration of war, both of which are
the true state of Hairs especially in the Spiritual realm. A warrior or a
soldier also lives on the spoils of war. In other words in
the life of a professional soldier if there is no war nor a possibility of one,
there would be no job and consequently or worse still no spoils to live by. This would ultimately culminate into a
situation of no inheritance. “They didn’t
go with us (to war) so they can’t have any of the plunder (Spoil) we recovered…
but David said,” No my brothers! Don’t be selfish with what the Lord has given
us! We share and share a like – those who go to battle and those who
guard the equipment” (Isaiah 30:22, 23). The birth point or where the
rubber hits the tarmac in Spiritual Warfare is when we receive the rhema
uttered, or spoken word, or the fresh divine revelation in the Kairos, (defining
or critical opportune right moment, time or season) and proceed on to
authontatively) declare, decree or pray down within that divinely allocated
time slot or season the revealed word. Simply put we must always be rightly
positioned to receive God’s fresh word for the specific time or
season we are in, speak it forth by faith and then follow it up with the
appropriate prophetic actions. This is the essence
of Spiritual warfare. It is a God authored and God executed procedure (how be
it through man), executed in God’s time and
for God’s glory, for “The Lord (Jehovah) is a man of war; The Lord (Jehovah)
is His name, (Exodus 15:3). In other words as seasoned Spiritual Warriors we
ought to be like the children (tribe) of Issacher…men who understood (the
signs of) the times and knew the best course or) what Israel ought to do (or the right
course to take) – I Chronicles12:32. We do this by keeping a breast with
the affairs of heaven or by constantly or perpetually living in His
presence. A thorough and consistent
word study, meditation on God’s
word, praying in the spirit, availing your self to hear God speak to you
through other God ordained ministers, media, channels included are not only powerful but also
necessary avenues for the fresh word of God. Remember lions eat fresh. A lion
in the wild roars to asset its authority and keep any emerging threat to its
authority under check of subjection by raining terror on them. This if does on
a continues basis to keep or hold animals subdued under it’s authority
always. Rebeka’s family understood this principle well, that is why at the
point of releasing her for marriage to Isaac, “they blessed Rebekah and said
to her, “you are our sister (a connection point and legitimate
therefore receiver of these words of blessing), be the mother of thousands
of millions others and let your seed posses the gate of those who hate them”
(Genesis 24:60). These words spoken over Rebekah were in effect a roar against
every opposition or enemy Rebekah and her seed effectively therefore bring the
perpetual dimensions of safety and prosperity to the camp of Rebekah and her
offspring . Take this early opportunity
to also do a warfare roar over yourself and your posterity. Declare thus; I
BRING REPENTANCE PRAYER OVER ME, MY OFFSPRING, CITY, COMMUNITY, AND HENCE FOTH NATION
AND RECEIVE FORGIVENESS AND CLEANSING THROUGH THE POWER OF THE BLOOD OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST BY FAITH. SATAN HAS NO PART OR CLAIM IN ME I DENOUNCE AND
REJECT HIM AND HIS KINGDOM IN CHRIST’S NAME. I CONDEMN EVERY NEGATIVE WORD
SPOKEN OVER ME TO IMMEDIATE DEATH. IT SHALL NOT GERMINATE. I DECREE
BLESSINGS AND PROSPERITY OVER ME, MY SPOUSE,
CHILDREN, FAMILY, BUSINESS, CITY, COMMUNITY, NATION AND THE WORK OF MY HANDS. I
DECREE DIVERSE AND MULTIPLE PROMOTION, FAVOUR, PROVISION, SOUND RELATIONSHIPS,
KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING. I TAKE OVER FULL POSSESSION OF EVERY ONE
OF OUR ENEMIES GATES I SHALL INCREASE IN THE LAND BY MILLIONS AND
MILLIONS. MY CHILDREN ARE EXECUTING IN
THEIR EXAMS AND ATTENDING THE BEST SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE LAND. THEY
ULTIMATELY GROW UP INTO GOD FEARING, INFLUENTIAL AND POWERFUL MIGHTY RULERS IN
THE LAND IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AMEN! (DANIEL 9:2-19,
2CHRONICLES 7:14, JEREMIAH 29:8, ISAIAH 54:2, DEUTERONOMY 14:29; 28:12,
EPHESIANS 1:17, GENESIS 24:60, ISAIAH 54:17).
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