Topic: Sanctification

Sanctification is a process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the help of the Holy Spirit. It is the importation of divine grace whereby we possess the nature of God and are made holy to live a pure life. It is the core of Christianity; the master key to fulfillment in life. It is sanctification that enhances beauty, and beauty attracts glorification.

Romans 6:14 (KJV) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Sanctification gives you victory over sin and guarantees answers to prayers; it is the bridge between your prayers and the answers. Saying ‘NO’ to sin is simply a process of grace by which a believer is separated from sin, becomes dedicated to God’s righteousness and is set apart for a sacred purpose. Sanctification strengthens your intimacy with God.

2 Corinthians 6:17 (KJV) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Nothing hinders God’s blessings like sin. It takes sanctification to enjoy beauty and the blessings God has in stock for us. For God to perform wonder, you must sanctify yourself.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Man has a role to play art which involves separating yourself from sin and dedicating it to God. This is very important if you are on God’s own side.

2 Timothy 2:19-21 (KJV) Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Until you purge yourself, you cannot be sanctified. Asking God for blessing when you are not sanctified is like pouring water into a basket. In sanctification, you yield yourself to obey the Lord’s instruction which helps you to live healthier, holier, happier and a productive Christian life.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 (KJV) For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Accepting the responsibility to live a holy life secures your destiny. God’s part is ever ready and settled to help us. God will do His part when you do your part; He will never fail.

God bless you

Also Read: Other Inspiring Messages by Pastor David Ibiyeomie

Flatimes Notice Board: Until you are born again, God ever abiding presence will never be with you. You must be born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:

Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.

MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 20 January 2019 By Dr. D.K Olukoya – Strong Man

TOPIC: Strong Man (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Daily Devotional 20 January 2019)

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 6:9-12

Bible In One Year: Genesis 49-50; Matthew 13:31-58

MEMORY VERSE: “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;” – 1 Peter 2:11

The MESSAGE:

It is a pity that Christians suffer needless pains and undergo ordeals that are not supposed to be their lot. Spiritual laziness is at the root of these unfortunate challenge many Christians face. It is terrible to know what to do but refuse to do it. Some Christians get the prompting of the Holy Spirit to fast in order to terminate the problem in their lives and defeat the strongman assigned against them, but they are too lazy to fast.

Laziness entails lack of will power to do what will give your desired solution (victory, success, progress, blessing, etc.). Many had gone for counselling and the pastor told them, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, to do three days vigil and pray specific prayers that should provoke heaven’s intervention in their affair. Such people did one day and abandoned the exercise. Later, they blamed God and the pastor for their woes. Spiritual laziness is the bane of many Christians. Though God has many wonderful promises for His children, there are parts for His children to play in actualising and appropriating those promises. It is the believer’s responsibility to have and exercise faith in God’s promises. He needs to study his Bible to familiarise himself with those promises, then believe them, confess them and claim them. If he is too lazy to do all these (as many Christians are today), his life will not reflect the glory of God and the abundant life the Lord promised as it ought to.

Beloved, examine yourself today. Are you spiritually lazy? What are the symptoms of spiritual laziness? Let us examine some of them. One of the symptom of spiritual laziness is the neglect of personal devotions and time spent in prayer. Spiritual laziness has set in whenever you begin to skip your Quite Time, either deliberately or due to forgetfulness. Spiritual laziness has crept in when you don’t look forward to that time alone with God any longer and when fasting and prayer have become great burden to you. Do you spend quality time in prayer with God or you just do it hurriedly? Spiritual laziness takes away the power to tarry before the Lord in prayer and intercession from people who are undiscerning. Moses fasted for forty days and forty nights. Jesus did for the same period. They both got awesome rewards: lives and ministries that were phenomenal. Elijah and Daniel too engaged in marathon fast. Their lives and ministries were glorious.

The spiritually lazy believer will ignore opportunities to share the gospel and win souls for Christ. Spiritual laziness will birth powerlessness and spiritual drought. It will also turn many who should be champions on fire for God to preys and casualties in the battlefield of life. Beloved, if we must populate heaven and depopulate hell as well as make the kingdom of the world that of God and His Christ, we must kick spiritual laziness out of our lives.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
IF YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO PLOW, DON’ T EXPECT A HARVEST.

PROPHETIC WORD:
I decree upon your life, that your mouth shall not become your source of ruin.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. I overcome spiritual laziness, in the name of Jesus.
2. I will not be slothful in business. I shall be fervent in spirit, trusting the Lord, in the name of Jesus.
3. I reject spiritual drought and dryness, in the name of Jesus.
   EVENING
4. Powerlessness shall not be my lot, in the name of Jesus.
5. I kick spiritual laziness out of my life, in the name of Jesus.
6. Father, give me an ever-increasing grace and strength to serve You all the days of my life, in the name of Jesus.
7. Holy Spirit, refresh me, recharge me and refill me, in the name of Jesus.

“If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional HERE

MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)

Flatimes Notice Board: Until you are born again, God ever abiding presence will never be with you. You must be born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:

Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.

Open Heaven 20 January 2019 Prayer Points on Today – Men Pleasers

Men Pleasers

1.Thank You, Father, for Your daily guidance and direction, in my life, through Your infallible word. (Click HERE to Read Open heaven 20 January 2019)

2.Father, in anyway I have fallen short of your glory, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus name.

3.Father, arise, and destroy, by the blood of Jesus, every spirit of eye service, hypocrisy, gossip, rebellion, confrontation and headiness, in Your church, in Jesus name.

4.Father, please, give me the grace, never to please, men at the expense of my loyalty to You, in Jesus name.

5.Father, as Your servant, let me never lower Your standard, in order to please men, in Jesus name.

6.Father, as Your minister, empower me to take instructions directly from You and from constituted authority, and not from men, who have formed themselves into a caucus, to impose their Will upon Your church, in Jesus name.

7.Father, empower me to fear You alone, who can kill both soul and body in hell, and not man, who can only kill the body, in Jesus name.

8.Father, give me the grace to stand by You, never to deny or turn my back on You, come what may, in Jesus name.

9.Father, please, help me to live through today, without committing a single sin, in Jesus name.

10.Father, make Your son, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, wiser than all his enemies; and give him more grace and patience, to administer the flocks You have committed, into his hands, in Jesus name.

11.Father, bless Your son, that You have been using to prepare these prayer points, beyond measures; help him to overcome every challenge of getting these prayer points across to Your children timely, on daily basis, in Jesus name.

12.Your Personal petitions. (Philippians 4:6)

13.In Jesus name I pray. (John 14:13-14; 15:16)

14.Thank you Father for answered prayers. (1 Thessalonians 5:18).

These prayers have no expiry date! Please, pray them, irrespective of the time they get to you. Remain blessed, in Jesus name.

Kindly, purchase your own hard copy or online version of the Open Heavens devotional & buy for your friends too, as a potent evangelism tool. God bless you, as you sow, into Pastor E.A. Adeboye’s book Ministry, in Jesus name.

Open Heaven 20 January 2019 Prayer Points on Today – Men Pleasers

Topic: Our Hope Is In God [TREM Devotional 20 January 2019]

“I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”Psalm 16:8 KJV

Today, everywhere you turn, nothing gives hope at all. The newspaper doesn’t give hope. The television and the billboards don’t give hope either. But as children of God, our hope is in the Lord. That is why we can never be moved. Somebody said: “I don’t know why the devil is after me.” The promises of God that you have is the reason the devil is trying to stop you. If he doesn’t see anything good in you, would he want to stop you? No, he wouldn’t. But he cannot succeed because God is at your right hand. No matter the contradiction or the giants before you, put your hope in God.

The twelve spies that went to spy the Promised Land saw giants. But they first saw grapes. And they began to wonder: “Why are giants there?” The giants were there for the big grapes too! What they were looking for is what the giants were also looking for. They saw how good the land was and the big grapes and decided to settle there. But the good news is that before God sent you to get the grapes; He had already equipped you to get there. So, you don’t have to be overwhelmed by the giants. Stop looking at the giants, you are a grape eater. Get them out of the way because you have authority over them.

Whatever is a deficit in your life, from this moment forward, let it come to an end in the name of Jesus. I release abundance into your life. I release surplus into your life. I declare by the authority and mandate from heaven that your star will shine. The days of waiting on other peoples’ testimony are over. I declare that no matter what the devil thinks he has done, it is your turn to testify. The delay and postponement that have been packaged for you are over.

Further Reading: Numbers 13:23-33; Psalm 31:24; 43:3-5

Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Genesis 49-50/ Evening- Matthew 13:31-58

“If you missed yesterday devotional click HERE to read TREM Daily Devotional by Dr. Mike Okonkwo’’

Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.

Topic: His Sacred Book [DCLM Daily Manna 20 January 2019 Daily Devotional by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi]

Text: Isaiah 34:11-17 (KJV)

Key Verse: “Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them” (Isaiah 34:16).

MESSAGE:

Talks about God’s judgment are all too familiar, yet very few people take this seriously to heart. The vast majority hold a very wrong perception of God as One who is permissive and kind, who will wink at sin and soft glove unrighteousness. This view is wrong because the God who shows mercy and kindness is also the same who is unflagging in the administration of judgment against the wicked.

The certainty of judgment as a result of disobedience to God’s word is clearly revealed in the Scriptures. Today’s text describes the judgments which are the just punishment God would inflict upon the land because of their many sins. God, in His infinite love, always sends warning before pouring His wrath upon rebellious people.

The Bible, also referred to as “the book of the LORD” is God’s revelation to man. The picture of life-past, present and future is revealed in the Scriptures. Book written by men project the thoughts of man’s finite mind but the Bible has the solution to all problems. Sir Waiter Scott once said: ‘Happy is he to whom God has given grace to read to fear and to obey its content. And better had they never been born who read to doubt or read to scorn.’ No man’s education is complete if he does not know the Bible. No believer can live the Christian life to the full without an adequate grasp of the Bible.

The Bible, being the inspired word of God, has divine authority that is both final and timeless. It is the final authority and the last court of appeal in all matters pertaining to the Christian. Read it every day, meditate on its precepts, desire it more than your necessary food, love it more than gold, keep it continually and obey it explicitly.

Thought For The Day: A life without the Bible is like a stream without water.

Bible Reading In One Year: Exodus 12-16

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read “Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM Daily Manna HERE

DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.

Flatimes’ Notice Board: Until you are born again, God ever abiding presence will never be with you. You must be born again to enjoy continuous victory. Please say the displayed prayer below in faith:

Lord Jesus, come into my life. I accept You as my Lord and Personal Saviour. I believe in my heart You died and rose from the dead to save me. Thank You Lord for saving me, in Jesus name Amen.

If you just prayed the prayer of salvation online please send your testimonies and prayer request to [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.