Topic: The Key to Possessing Your Promised Land [Wednesday November 22, 2017]

Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you. — Zechariah 9:12

God wants to lead you into your promised land…after all, you have been recreated in Christ, born anew, that you might live the good life that He prearranged for you. But to follow God into that life, He will have to prepare you first, and that means some things will need to change.

Now, don’t be afraid of the word change; it just means that you stop doing some things you’ve been doing and start doing some things you haven’t been doing. For example, stop thinking negative thoughts and start thinking positively…stop settling in your comfort zone and step out of the boat…stop procrastinating and start taking the opportunities that arise.

It’s not enough to just read about and talk about the Promised Land. Decide that you are going to possess your promised land. God is good; He will lead you there. Just be willing to follow and accept the positive changes that God wants to bring to your life as He prepares you to be a blessing to others.

Prayer Starter: Holy Spirit, show me the changes I need to make in order to possess my promised land. Thank You for preparing me to be a blessing to others and fulfill the destiny You have for me.

From Joyce Meyer’s Ministries

Topic — John Adams: I Am Not A ‘Spare Tyre’ [Wednesday, November 22, 2017]

Basic Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

In the constitution of most countries, the position of the vice president or the deputy governor of a State, is like that of a spare tyre in a vehicle. The function of a spare tyre is to allow the journey to continue when the tyre burst. However, the extra tyre becomes useless if the tyre does not busrt throughout its many years of usage. This seems to erroneously imply that vice president or deputy governor have no constitutional roles, except what the president or governor assigns to them. They are therefore like handbags, figureheads and glorified errand boys sentenced to agonizing years of permanent redundancy.

A very prominent victim of this painful example was the deputy (vice) president of the USA in 1789, Mr. John Adams. No responsibility was assigned to him throughout his two year tenure as VP. He later became president after George Washington! Aren’t you glad that in our constitution (the Word of God), no believer is redundant and every child of God is very crucial and important to God’s end time move on planet earth? 1 Cor. 12:18 screams aloud: “God set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased Him.” Vs 22 in the Amplified Bible is wonderful: “There is (absolute) necessity for the parts of the body that are considered the more weak.”

What a joy! Let your local church feel your greater impact from this week because you are very important in God’s agenda. In your neighborhood, you are important! Never feel inferior! You are a joint heirs of God’s riches. Don’t insult God by feeling ashamed of yourself! You have value! Be proud of yourself in God! Be bold! You are not a spare tyre in that church, marriage, office or community. Increase your value! Become all you have the possibility of becoming. Maximize your potentials. Stretch yourself to the limit. This generation is waiting for your manifestation! Peace!

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Prayer Points: Take Song 1: The old rugged cross…….

1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led.

2. Begin to thank God for making you so important.

3. AS 2017 ENDS, tell God that you will never insult Him by feeling ashamed or inferior. I shall not COMPARE MYSELF To OTHERS!

4. There is no “spare tyre” in the Body of Christ, Lord, use me to depopulate hell this month ( pray it very well).

5. Lord, make me a worthy vessel of honor to my generation (Pray it very well). Pray about today seriously and shout 21 Halleluyahs of victory and promotion!

By Bishop (Dr) Chris E. Kwakpovwe (Cek)
Publisher/Writer Of ODM And

Rev (Mrs) Flora E. Kwakpovwe (Fek)
Co-Publisher/Writer Of ODM.

Topic: Don’t Abort Your Miracle — Wednesday November 22, 2017.

“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV)

Even though your victory as a child of God is already assured, do you know that you can abort your miracle through negative confession? Often times we give in to pressure and exchange the symptom for the real thing. Yes, you have prayed and God has assured you of your healing, but the symptom is still there. Understand that the devil actually intensifies the symptom to make you confess negative and of course whatever you confess you receive. So when he backs you to the wall and applies pressure, rather than confess negative, choose to praise the Lord. No wonder God commands us to give thanks in all things. You may not know how, you may not know when, but be rest assured that He will do it.

Rather than say the wrong thing, search the scriptures for a word that promises you what you are asking God for. Meditate on the word and begin to thank Him for the manifestation. Thank Him for what He has done even though you have not seen anything yet. Keep confessing what you expect, and pretty soon what you confess will line up with what your expectations and you will take delivery of your miracle. Confessing what you want to see simply means you are assured in your heart that your expectations shall not be cut short. When you agree with what God has said about you, you are simply demonstrating your faith. You are set to take delivery of all that God has packaged for you. Mary said in Luke 1:38 (KJV), ‘’…be it unto me according to your word…’’ In other words, she put the responsibility of seeing the prophecy come to pass squarely on God.

In addition, don’t join the company of those who just say the wrong things out of frustration. When people around you are complaining about the economy, choose rather to say that your economy is at its best. Remember that when men shall say there is a casting down, you shall say there is a lifting up. Today, as you begin to confess your expectation, I declare that you will not be denied.

Further Reading: Proverbs 18:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22

Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Ezekiel 18-19; Evening- James 4

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.