^{Sometime you don’t have to keep silent. Your silence might be an}

^{attitude of fear.}

<sup>let us look at the book of Acts.16.

Acts.16:22-28 22</sup> The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. ²³ After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. ²⁴ When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

²⁵ About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶ Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose. ²⁷ The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸ But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”

At midnight denotes a helpless situation, tremor, fear…………, but we saw Paul and Silas in this situation where the prison bars became an obstruction in their life.

A prison is a place where one obey s the law that is being given and part of it all is noise, but as for Both (Paul & Silas), they refuse the bars in putting a stop unto service of their God.

Verse 25 says “and at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns”

Hmmmm, can you see that, can, you sing when things are not comfortable with you?

What Paul and Silas saw was “BOF” (BASED ON FAITH) THAT TEIR God will surely set them free.

Do you believe in that God whom all known as the CREATOR of heavens and the earth?

Do you trust Him that that that same God can save and deliver you?

1.Thess.5:16-18 ¹⁶ Rejoice evermore. ¹⁷ Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸ In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Brethren, it’s time to make a joyful noise unto our God who is able to do all things

 

 

 

 ACTING IGNORANTLY

John.5:2-9

² Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
³ In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
⁴ For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
⁵ And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
⁶ When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
⁷ The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
⁸ Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
⁹ And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

ANALYSIS OF THE STORY:-
-Jerusalem is a place of peace but there are multitudes who are not peaceful!
-Jerusalem is a place of blessing but there are people who are not blessed;
-Jerusalem is a place of healing and deliverance but there people lying around in bondage
- The name of the pool ‘Bethesda’ translates to ‘House of Mercy’ yet people are there who have not received mercy but rather are sick, blind, and lame.
This is the situation of many of us who have proclaimed our belief in Jesus:
- We have been called to be kings but we insist on sitting by our inheritance and starve to death without making any move to possess our possession.
- We are in the place of mercy and deliverance but we still feel bound by our circumstances and environment.
- Though the bible assured us that those who have been set free by Jesus are free indeed, many of us are still living blind, lame and paralyzed lives- We have been lame in terms of being stuck in one place for a long time and paralyzed from doing anything about our pitiful condition.

Story above is all about a man that was lame and had been in the same condition for over  38yrs, waiting for the moving of the water by the Angel of the Lord.......what have you been waiting upon the lord for?

Jesus christ was born some years after this man's infirmity started, because we were made to know that Christ only used 33yrs on the face of the earth, meaning that before the coming of christ, the said man was waiting for the manifestation of Christ the Messiah. (Isaiah.40:31 "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.")

Mant times, we keep waiting for things that we could have taken just like that.........just like the man by the said pool of bethseda........he was waiting for the stirring of the pool........(Isaiah.60:1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.")

Are you waiting for the stirring? Note that when Christ healed the said man, He did not use the water movement............  (Isaiah.55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.)

Let me talk a little bit about stirring. Whenever stirring occurs, their must have been a sort of ENERGY that must have caused such stirring to occur. That energy is an external force and it's something that you and I cannot see with ordinary naked eye (Just like you seeing The Holy Spirit, but you can feel the effect).
Whenever the stirring occur, people jumps in and such, causes healing, but as for the case of this man, he could not get any one that will carry him inside the water(Is this applicable to you in the sense that you cannot see an helper that will assist you?).

I need to tell you that as long as the sirring occur, the power to make is made available unto you, but many atimes, we do not realize that the stirring had occured and we keep waiting for the stirring....Hmmmmmmm (Do you know if what you are waiting for had already been made available unto you?) Sometimes, all that we need is just to take posession and nothing more. Why do people have to suffer for long when God whom is called God of Mercy is right beside them?

Let us look at the book of Exodus.14:15  ^"And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward;  but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

Some people, like Moses, see a need...and it’s important that we can see the needs around us. Often do we carry around a burden for a certain situation, problem. Many have, for years, carried around a burden for someone’s salvation...or for a healing...or maybe a deliverance of a habit or lifestyle,and God hears those prayers and cries for help. But when God chooses us to be the instrument for deliverance...we’re so quick to say, "Hey, not me what could I possibly do?" Call the pastor...or call the elders, but God said to Moses: "Look at what you have in your hand right now. You can take what you have and use it to meet the need - if you let Me help you." The key to the miraculous is first of all seeing the need - but then letting God use what is in your hand."

Assuming moses had decided not to stretch the Rod, Pharaho's army would have killed them. Are you stretching or still asking questions about what you see when God is saying MOVE my Child?

Isaiah.60:1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."

Ephesians.5:14 "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

Ephesians.5:17 "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is."


Stop acting Ignorantly and discover the purpose of God for your life. THEN TAKE CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hosea.4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

 

STOP FIGURING IT OUT THE WAY YOU THINK

 

When you argue against REALITY (God's Word), you are definately walking your way unto the path of total destruction (meaning, you will loose out, suffer, death, poverty, shame)

 

Jesus went through pain, while fulfilling his purpose because we were his passion.

 Have you gotten God's purpose for your life?....... be rest assured that with this purpose, pain might come along with it.....Remember Joseph in the bible.........he went through pain/suffering before the dream for is life came into actualization..... just put your focus unto God and you will see the goodness that lies right in the so called pain that flows along with the purpose.
 

You have never been created to be a misfit....the devil is a liar and you don't have to claim that mess or let someone hang that tag on you.
Get yourself together mount up wings like an eagle and begin to fly. Thev sky is meant for you to fly and not walking on the ground, stop mourning over all your wasted years and get on the path that your creator had set for you. Stop hanging on your downfall... 'cause your downfall might be a stepping stone unto your own greatness.
Remember Joseph's story, from God's Vision, he got himself into slavery, then into being an houseboy, then into Firstclass prisoner. Its was from prison that God's vision was made manifest upon his life. Stop thinking that its over...... Its not yet because God says its not yet over yet.

 

All that is needed by you is to delight yourself in the way that God had planned for you as person. It might seems as if its not a good way, but listen it is the rigth way. though it seems rough, just go through 'cause He (God) didn't say that the road will be smooth, all He wanted is for you to obey and not complain. His plan differs from all of your stuff that you're thinking off, keep moving 'cause that so called... road might not look good in your sight, but to Him that sent you, Its the right and the good way. The so called misfit is path of His own methodology that will get you into the right Place. There is always a place mapped out and their is always a path in which you need to pass through.

 Road unto the place where Joseph need to become the Prime minister is all through The HOLE, SELLING into SLAVERY, Becoming an HOUSEBOY, then into the PRISON before the PALACE. 

 You don't dictate the way that you need to tread upon, but God does that. All that you need is being OBEDIENT unto Him. He knows all is best for you. Stop complaning and keep FOCUS. (Looking unto Jesus whom is the author and the finisher of your faith). Your DESTINY IS IN THE FIRE. If you run away from that "FIRE", then you are RUNNING away from your DESTINY...........

 Note that every stage of your life (As long as you are Obedient unto Him), God is their by your side.

 STOP COMPLANING, JUST BE OBEDIENT.

Hope its you that I'm talking to?........................."naomi speaks"

 

Stop listening to a bunch of boring people (Idol worshipers) talking about boring “gods stuff’’ (heresy), “gods” that has no mouth nor ear, “gods” that cannot assist themselves not to talk about others.

What I do is to shut them up and tell them all about the REAL GOD whom is known as the Almighty One, King of kings and Lord of lords, the only wise one that knows the beginning and the ending.

All that you and I need is to stop them from all of their boring meetings through our voice being made known throughout the entire world. What I meant by this is to take our position and get them all out of business.

 

JESUS IS LORD...............

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAKE NO MISTAKE……......…………,

 

No one decides what God does or doesn’t do, or where God goes or doesn’t go. Therefore no one can exclude God’s judgment. Make no mistake God said that judgment will fall on those who persist in sin – whether it be Gentile or Jew.

Whosoever Continues to justify sin will meet God’s Judgment.

Amos.1:1-15 MSG Amos 1:1-15 (MSG) 1 The Message of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa, that he received on behalf of Israel. It came to him in visions during the time that Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II son of Joash was king of Israel, two years before the big earthquake.

Swallowing the Same Old Lies

² The Message:

God roars from Zion, shouts from Jerusalem!
The thunderclap voice withers the pastures tended by shepherds,
shrivels Mount Carmel’s proud peak.

^3-5 God’s Message:

“Because of the three great sins of Damascus
—make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer.
She pounded Gilead to a pulp, pounded her senseless with iron hammers and mauls.
For that, I’m setting the palace of Hazael on fire.
I’m torching Ben-hadad’s forts.
I’m going to smash the Damascus gates and banish the crime king who lives in Sin Valley, the vice boss who gives orders from Paradise Palace.
The people of the land will be sent back to where they came from—to Kir.” God’s Decree.

^6-8 God’s Message:

“Because of the three great sins of Gaza—make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer.
She deported whole towns and then sold the people to Edom.
For that, I’m burning down the walls of Gaza, burning up all her forts.
I’ll banish the crime king from Ashdod, the vice boss from Ashkelon.
I’ll raise my fist against Ekron, and what’s left of the Philistines will die.” God’s Decree.

^9-10 God’s Message:

“Because of the three great sins of Tyre—make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer.
She deported whole towns to Edom, breaking the treaty she had with her kin.
For that, I’m burning down the walls of Tyre, burning up all her forts.”

^11-12 God’s Message:

“Because of the three great sins of Edom—make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer.
She hunts down her brother to murder him.
She has no pity, she has no heart.
Her anger rampages day and night.
Her meanness never takes a timeout.
For that, I’m burning down her capital, Teman, burning up the forts of Bozrah.”

^13-15 God’s Message:

“Because of the three great sins of Ammon—make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer.
She ripped open pregnant women in Gilead to get more land for herself.
For that, I’m burning down the walls of her capital, Rabbah, burning up her forts.
Battle shouts! War whoops! with a tornado to finish things off!
The king has been carted off to exile, the king and his princes with him.” God’s Decree.

 

WHY JUSTIFYING YOUR SIN?

 

Why do we always justify our sins after we found out that we have goofed?

This is a question that I wish to ask everyone……..Right from Genesis, our fore fathers have been found out to have committed same offence like we I this generation. Why the spirit of lie?

Genesis.3:12 KJV “And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”

Why would Adam have gotten to an extent of shifting blame on Eve? Was he not the one that God told not to eat such?, or should I say, “was he forced or what could have made him to eat out of the fruit if not that he himself really wanted to eat the said fruit”.

John 8:44 (KJV) ^“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Are you a liar or just find yourself telling “small lies”?

Either small or big, lie is still lie and you need to desist from such today because tomorrow might be a bit late.

Maintain the Truth and you will see that the same Truth will make a way for you. Do not try to cover up in any for, just say it the way that it is

Servant of God, be all warned. You cannot help God because He himself can do it all without you. Allow God to do it in His own way and not for you cutting corners. Remember Uzzah in 1 Chronicles 13:9-12 (KJV)

⁹ And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.

¹⁰ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.

¹¹ And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.

¹² And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

Allow God to do all things in His own way and that is when He (God) can take all the glory unto himself

(Isaiah 42:8 (KJV) ⁸ I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.)

 

Just STOP THE JUSTIFICATION and REPENT of all of your SINS and be CONVERTED.

 

God Bless You.

 

WHAT DO YOU PURSUE, OR

WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING AFTER?

 

John.1:35-39 NLT

35 “The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.
36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?" They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"
39 "Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour.

Jesus asked, what do you want? He knew they wanted something because they were following, pursuing him.

Let me quickly tell you a story: - There once was a man who had money, was young and full of energy and time. He was free to pursue because there was nothing or no one who could restrain what he wanted to do. He left a record of this for us to read. It is Ecclesiastes and his name was Solomon of whom the Lord gave wisdom such as no other man has had. He starts by telling what his life has brought.

Ecclesiates.1:2 (KJV) “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity”.

 

Ecclesiastes 2:20-21 (KJV)

²⁰ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

²¹ For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

 

Ecclesiastes 5:13-20

The Message (MSG)

^13-17 Here’s a piece of bad luck I’ve seen happen:
A man hoards far more wealth than is good for him
And then loses it all in a bad business deal.
He fathered a child but hasn’t a cent left to give him.
He arrived naked from the womb of his mother;
He’ll leave in the same condition—with nothing.
This is bad luck, for sure—naked he came, naked he went.
So what was the point of working for a salary of smoke?
All for a miserable life spent in the dark?

 

When we look at the above, we can found two sets of case that dealt with pursuit. In the book of John, those that were recorded in that scripture were pursuing Jesus whom is the only source of life.

John 14:6 (KJV)

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

We can only get access unto God through Him (JESUS)

John 1:1-5 (KJV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Now let us look at the second case study in Ecclesiastes, he was busy pursuing wealth and later found out that all were VANITY.

I need to ask you this question once again, WHAT DO YOU PURSUE?

Do you want real satisfaction in life? This will only come as you have an up-to-date relationship with God. Look at what Solomon now finally arrived at in the last statement that he made all of his writing;

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

King James Version (KJV)

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Note that Elisha sought for double portion of anointing in Elijah’s life, this can be seen in:-

2 Kings 2:9 (KJV)

⁹ And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

 

 While Gehazi pursued Elisha’s wealth.

2 Kings 5:20-27 (KJV)

²⁰ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

²² And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

²³ And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

²⁴ And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

²⁶ And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

I need to leave you with this taught: -

Mark 8:36 (KJV)

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?