Why Do I need to Hear God Speak Today (Part 2)

God is three in one, and as we grow in our Christian race, we believers will be able to differentiate who amongst the trinity is actually speaking to us, yes, just as you can differentiate the voice of your earthly father from that of your mother even without seeing their faces. Be that as it may, what is important is that God speaks, whether it is the father that speaks, the Lord Jesus, or the Holy Spirit.

By the way, this message is meant for born-gain Christians! Why? While it is evident that everyone can hear God, not everyone can know the secrets of God, and you know what? Secrets… which come in the form of instructions from God are vital to success! If the poorest man on earth has access to the kind of secrets that Bill Gates has, he is most likely not going to remain poor.

Last Sunday, I did not eat my first meal of the day until around 4pm, because I decided not to eat until I returned from church.  Church service ended around 1pm, but my family and I went to a few other places, and finally arrived home at about 3.45pm. It was time for me to choose what to eat from what is available in our house. Suddenly, I remembered that there was a small portion of pounded yam wrapped in a transparent zipper bag placed in the fridge. Pronto, I decided to eat this with a mixture of Fluted pumpkin and spinach leaves soup. In the process of warming the food, I saw something like a vision (in a brief flash) showing me that the pounded yam was divided into two.  In my heart I said, ‘’what??? This food is just enough amount of food that my 10-year old daughter will eat.  God, are you saying I am not permitted to finish this food?’’  As I was making up my mind to eat the whole portion, not being really sure if God was talking to me, the Holy Ghost said to me… ‘be not disobedient to the heavenly vision’. I had to divide the pounded yam into two, eat a portion and my wife also opted to eat the other half, and returned the rice she had earlier thought of eating.

An incident happened not long ago in the sub-division where I live. A Christian woman was about setting out on a trip to somewhere known to her. The Holy Spirit whispered to her not to go to where she meant to go. She ignored the voice that spoke to her and set on her journey. Along the way on her way driving, when she finally decided to obey the Lord and make a turn at a junction to return home, it was too late!  She crashed into another car while making the turn. She had collided with the car driven by another Christian sister that lives in her suburb. As soon as she got out of her vehicle, she started to confess her regrets…’how I wish I obeyed the Lord, the Holy Spirit told me not to set on this journey’.  

There are people who set on journeys that are not meant for them, and they end up dying the death they are not meant to die. Look around you and you will find so many examples of these.  Perhaps it’s because of the favor/contract that that minister awarded to you that informed your decision to travel to his party at all cost despite being warned of God not to go. The dog that refuses to hear the whistle of the hunter will certainly get lost. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul (Proverbs 15:32).  

If reaching heaven is your goal, I think your ability to hear when God speaks to you is directly proportional to whether or not you will make heaven. Heresy????

Mathew 19:16-22 tells the story of a young rich man who was bold enough to declare that he keeps all the commandments of God. Who would have thought that this brother has made an idol of his riches despite being a keeper of God's laws? Thank God he asked in verse 20 'what lack I yet?'...and he was informed.

What is the next area of your life you need to deal with? Excuse me sir, I don't know!

Only your maker knows your weak points! You need to revert to him so he can show you what areas you still need to work on so you can be perfect and ready to enter heaven.

I tell you brethren, if you would be perfect, God must be able to interrupt you. He must be able to change your decision about the clothes you wear, about the job you do`, and about the places you go to; the Lord must be able to put a comma and a full stop to the events that you have determined to execute.

Why Do I Need to Hear God Speak (part 1)?

I write unto you not to brag about how often I hear God, but to be able to help you and I grow in our understanding of how we can better hear the Lord, so that we will be better Christians. Men don’t desire what they don’t value. I want to first whet your appetite by making you to see a few reasons why you need to hear God speak.

To succeed in spiritual warfare, you certainly need to be able to hear God speak. There is a warfare going on concerning your life, and you need to know this! The King James Bible in 1Peter 2:11 admonishes us to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. Friends, there is a war against your soul… and there is no discharge in that war…until Jesus comes. Who are the people that have power to fight and succeed in this war? They are the people who have genuinely given their lives to Jesus Christ (those folks you call the Born-again Christians). Why is this so? No man goes to warfare at his own charges (1Corinthians 9:7). Just like in the physical, no man can go on his own to fight a war for his country of origin. No matter how intelligent, and capable you are, you can’t wake up one day and decide to go to the war that your country is presently fighting in, you must be commissioned by the authorities in your country to fight in the war. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, everyday is fully loaded with evil, and it will take supernatural guidance to escape all the evil of a single day. Know of a surety that you are fighting against the devil that has probably prevailed against our fore-fathers, and he can postulate what your next move is likely going to be. Therefore you need God’s help to overpower this enemy of your soul (Deuteronomy 33:27).

To go to war, the one that is sending you there must equip you to fight, and after he has done that, you as a soldier must be wise enough to pick the right ammunition to fight in the warfare. Only a foolish soldier will go to war with an F-2000 Assault Rifle when his opponent is using a nuclear weapon! The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds says the Bible in 2 Corinthians 10:4. So, God has given you weapons, but how do you know the one to use each time? You need to hear from your master! People who have been in deliverance ministry will tell you how important it is for them to hear the Holy Spirit whisper to them what they need to do to get the desired result. You also need the same, at least to succeed in the deadly warfare against your soul!

Give us examples Bro. Yinka. Please turn with me if you will, to read Luke chapter 13, verses 1 to 5. You will discover that Pilate mingled the blood of some Galileans with sacrifices and that the tower in Siloam fell and killed 18 people. Tell me, if those Galileans knew of Pilate’s plot to kill them, will they stay around? If those 18 people killed by the tower knew that the tower will fall, will they still stay under it? No, they won’t! Friends, you have long enough dwelt in the region of allowing time and chances to dictate what happens to you… move on with the Lord.

The Yoruba’s have an adage that says ‘A kii duro si inu ile eni, ki a f’orun ro’ (literarily meaning that you can’t be in your house and be in danger; but am sure you know that this concept is not true. Haven’t you heard of an airplane crashing into people’s house while they are in it? Haven’t you heard of someone being swallowed up alive by his house caving into mother earth?  You don’t have to be a genius to escape the evil of every passing day, all you have to be is a person that hears God.

A woman of God once shared how God delivered her from being burnt alive in her own house while sleeping, because the Lord who knew the house was going to get burnt while she would be sleeping forewarned her not to go into the house to sleep. I have earlier shared this particular link.

I am serious about this issue, friends you need to hear from God! You need to know what exactly God wants you to do now, and then do just that. Blessings.

How to Develop Your spirit

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How to Develop Your spirit

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Is it possible for a Christian to stop sinning completely?

My answer is yes, emphatically!

What is sin?  The answer encompasses and goes beyond what is written in the bible; simply put, sin is any disobedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit. You and I know what things are written in the Bible and categorized as sin, but beyond that, the Holy Spirit is the person that can define sin for each individual, as what is a sin to you may not be sin to me. What do you mean Bro. Yinka? If the Holy Spirit has told you not to play football again, it will not be sin to other people who make their living playing football. But, to you it will be a sin to continue playing football.

He who will be totally free from sin on a daily basis is a person who will always obey the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows what lies ahead of you, and if you are going to get into a difficult situation that will make you to commit sin, he will forewarn you, It will now be left to you to obey him or not. Who is a prudent man?  A prudent man is a man who listens to the Holy Spirit and obeys him. Oh, a prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences (proverbs 22:3, & Proverbs 27:12, NLT). That scripture was twice repeated verbatim in the Bible for emphasis on your need to key in to the Holy Spirit.

My people says in Yoruba language, ‘ma koja mi Olugbala, kii se orin adubule ko’, literally meaning that you have to play your own part if you don’t want the Lord to pass you by.  So, what are the things you and I have to do to live sinless daily?

 

Reckon that you are dead to sin. Jesus healed a man that was born blind, the Jews and the Pharisees confronted the man who had been blind and told him "Give glory to God by telling the truth," … "We know this man is a sinner (John 9:24, NIV)." They called my Lord a sinner.  The world and the devil will call you a sinner. It is God’s duty to tell you if you are a sinner or not.  Who will accuse God's elect? It is God who justifies! Who is the one to condemn? It is the Messiah Jesus… (Romans 8:34, ISV version). Why am I saying this? Don’t allow the devil to harass you.

If you are walking on the road and you happen to see a completely naked woman, and you didn’t have a second look at her because you don’t want to commit sin, the devil may still accuse you that you have committed sin by looking at that naked woman. You are the one who will have to take your stand against his insinuations!  How? It is by reckoning and telling him to his face that you are not a sinner and that you are indeed dead unto sin. If you don’t know this, you are likely going to be asking God to forgive you the sin you never committed, and you keep going in circles. In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus (Romans 6:11, ISV).

 

Stop claiming your right! Are you listening? Any Christian that is not prepared to lose his rights on certain issues of life cannot stop sinning.  Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God's grace (Romans 6:14, NLT). What saith the scripture? ‘All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any (1 Corinthians 10:29, & 1 Corinthians 6:12, KJV).’ There is a power behind everything that people do on earth.  The powers that be are seeking to control us as they make subtle suggestions to us to do certain things in a particular way. Jesus having fasted for 40 days and 40 nights had all the rights in this world to eat some food. He was in the wilderness where I think that he couldn’t get bread to buy, but he himself had the power to turn stone into bread, and I guess he would have done so,  seeing he was hungry  if not that the suggestion to do it came from the devil (Luke 4:1-4). My friend, what are you doing with the devil’s suggestions? What power motivated you to do the things you did today, God or Satan? You are the judge!

Deal with your own lust. Take practical steps to ‘deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler (proverbs 6:5, KJV).’ Every man has a lust, identify and deal with your own. After I have given my life to Christ and baptized with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, one of my old lusts caught up with me, I discover that it was easy for me to masturbate.  On Tuesday, May 26, 1992 about 11pm after having masturbated in my room while alone, I found myself asking ‘Is this the way I will continue living as a Christian? Is it not possible to stop sinning completely? The Holy Spirit replied me and said ‘’you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin (Hebrews 6:4, KJV)’’.  That was the beginning of my breaking away from the sinful habit. In the early nineties, a sister close to my heart was working with an establishment where she received a salary of about a thousand Naira monthly as a cashier, yet daily she receives at least a million naira as a mixture of raw cash and bank draft which she takes to the bank to save for her establishment on a daily basis.  This process continued for one year before she started getting tempted to steal from the money she makes for her employer.  According to her, she used to steal from people and her parent as an unbeliever, but she stopped stealing after being born-again. The urge to steal came back forcefully while she was working in that establishment, after six years of her being a born-again Christian.  How did she escape the temptation? She confided in her pastor, telling him about her past history of stealing and about the present temptation to steal.  She can decide not to tell anybody because she wouldn’t want anybody to see her as someone who is likely to steal any moment, but because she wanted to hold firmly to her salvation with fear and trembling, she confided in someone who could be a watch on her prayerfully and physically. This helped her seriously!!! The thought of stealing went away after she told her pastor. Listen to me; the more you keep your lapses to yourself, the easier it is for you to continue in it.  I pray the Lord direct you to tell someone your secret sin or temptation as the case may be, so you can receive all the help God has to offer and be completely delivered, in Jesus Name. The truth of the matter is that once you have victory over that particular sin that is common to you, it will be easy to deal with every other temptation that the devil throws at you.

 

In America or Europe, when you want to apply for a job, your employer demands that you bring a certificate of good report (called ‘Background check’ in USA, called ‘attest van goed gedrag en zeden’ in Belgium). What you will discover is that the report is only valid from the previous years that you have lived in that country until that particular day. Why? No one can vouch for your tomorrow that you will not go against their law, thus nobody want to give you a post-dated certificate of good behavior. If you say you have no sin, you can talk of now, I mean right now!!!! But, what happens after now? You may or may not give in to temptation to sin.

My KJV Bible says in first John chapter 1 verse 7 that the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. The blood of Jesus cleanseth (present continuous tense) …as you and I walk in the light (which light? The light of the revelation the Holy Spirit gives you at that moment); the blood of Jesus purifies us from all sins (1 John 1:9).

 

When you over speed while driving your car in Europe and the speed camera catches you, you know there is no way you will escape paying the government’s fine, you are therefore cautious to obey the law of safe driving even when no policeman is there to watch you. But, because God does not give you a knock on the head each time you commit a sin, you are tempted to do it again. When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong (Ecclesiastes 8:11). You become weaker each time you commit sin, and vice-versa becomes stronger each time you overcome.

 

In your country today, there are people who do not commit sin. If you are sinning, that is your own cup of tea, but I counsel you to seek for help that you may be delivered.

Please permit me to stop here for now.

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How to hear the Holy Spirit

I am a born-again Christian, how do I know when the Holy Spirit is speaking to me? While we are still waiting for the main teaching on this topic of hearing the Holy Spirit, please permit me to share this bit. One of the basic things a believer has to do to hear or recognize when the Holy Spirit is speaking is to be diligent in the study of the word. I mean personal Bible study. Why??? …the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you ( John 14:26). Please tell me, can you buy a new laptop from the electronic store, open it, connect it to a printer and expect to print out your picture from the new laptop without downloading it from your email client or from a flash drive? No way!!! The computer manufacturer does not have your picture already installed on the computer. You have to first put it in there!!! Are you listening? Your heart is like a computer. It is the word you put in your heart that the Holy Spirit will bring to your remembrance.

 Many times when the Holy Spirit speaks to his children, and they choose rather to go their own way, and they eventually see the results of their foolishness, they yell and say… ‘’Something told me that I should have gone the other way’’. Stop this attitude of calling the Holy Spirit ‘’something’’. Wake up from your slumber!!!! Haven’t you read in your bible that the thoughts of the righteous are right (Proverbs 12:5)? It is not something that told you and you are not the one thinking it… it is the Holy Spirit speaking to you.

 The Holy Spirit does not shout. He speaks gently, affirmatively, and in a non-persuasive tone. Just like a soft whisper, so your heart has to be quiet to hear him.

 I was eating my one of my favorite meals sometimes ago, and it was a serve-yourself thing; after having served a portion I felt was moderate for me, I began to eat. Not long after I had eaten about half of that portion, a scripture flashed across my heart saying… ‘’a little that a righteous man hath is better…’’. That was the Holy Spirit speaking, and asking me to stop eating that food. It was not me thinking. My friend, when a scripture comes out of the blues against what you are doing in such manners, it is not you thinking it. Obey the Holy Spirit and ‘’don't be like some senseless horse or mule, whose movement must be controlled with a bit and a bridle (Psalm 32:9, Common English Bible)’’.

Gone are the days when you would have to take your computers with you when travelling… now, with cloud storage and the advancement in technology, you can travel the world almost without nothing than your passport, your credit card, and your password to access the Internet which provides the connection between your computer and the database even when you are thousands of miles away from your actual computer…

Jesus told his disciples… ‘’Take nothing for the journey--no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt (Luke 9:3 N.I.V).’’ Why????

… Because when they need money, he would show them where to get it just like he told Peter to get money from the mouth of the fish to pay the county’s tax (Mathew 17:27); Oh yes, when you need food on the way, he could direct you to where to find it just like he directed Elijah to where he found sustenance… 1 kings 17:3-4, 9. My friend, stop travelling the way of life heavily loaded with the cares and weights of this world, all you need is the Holy Spirit, learn to listen to him, and obey his voice.

 

Monday, April 6, 1992 at about 7am in room 354 (H5) Awo Annex, during the extra year of my 5-year undergraduate course in the University, I woke up to find out that I was oppressed by the devil; there were many of us living in that room, and not all were born-again Christians, so I determined that I was going to go towards the University’s commercial farm through the end of Mozambique Hall to go cast out the devil from me. As I was about going out of my room, the Holy Ghost said to me… ‘’If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place;’’ on hearing that, I paused a while… joined the debating society in my heart questioning why God will disallow me from going to pray a deliverance prayer for myself. I disobeyed God and went on my way towards the commercial farm. As I went, I saw naked ladies (I mean beautiful students) having their bath in the open end of Mozambique hall. God bless the University, because they provided good bathrooms for those ladies within the confines of their hall of residence, the university also made sure that the bathrooms are regularly maintained, but for obvious demonic reasons, the ladies chose to have their bath in the open. I don’t know how you would have behaved at this point, but when I got to that point … I forgot that I was going to pray… and I began to watch free show. What stunned me was that, the ladies knew that they were being watched not only by me, but by many guys who had hidden themselves in strategic places around that end, and instead of them  to run for cover, they continued taking their bath there yelling at the guys and saying ‘’Asewo (Prostitutes)’’. Unfortunately, I saw Christians among the nude ladies…

That incidence was a great blow to me, needless to say I paid for my disobedience … ‘For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation (Hebrews 2:2-3 NET Bible (©2006))?’

In Acts 21: 11, we read that prophet Agabus came all the way from Judea to deliver the message of the Holy Ghost to Paul, also in the book of Acts 13:2…’As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.’’ How think ye??? The Holy Ghost is still speaking today… ‘’ As the Holy Spirit says, "If you hear God speak today, don't be stubborn (Hebrews 3:7, GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995).’’

 

 

 

 

Developing Your Praying Life

Now thus saith the Holy Ghost: ‘he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.’

From time to time you see men praying here and there, but sad to say, many of these prayers never reaches the ceiling not to talk of ascending to God. Why? Because of the state of heart of those praying! Go through the scriptures and you will discover that God heareth not sinners. My friend, how can you live the way you like and expect God to hear/honour your prayers?
Prayer is one of the greatest, most satisfying adventures of the Christian faith. The more you pray, the more you know how to pray and the more you will like to pray.
To enter into a praying life, you must have a distinct place to pray in. Learn to depart into a solitary place to pray. Jesus Christ our Lord laid the foundation upon which every Christian must build on, he ‘‘departed into a solitary place’’ to pray (Mark 1.35). Your own solitary place should be a place where you know that you won’t be disturbed while praying.

Daniel’s solitary place was a Chamber in his house (Dan. 6:10). Isaac’s solitary was the field (Gen. 24:63). Cornelius’ solitary place was his house (Acts 10:30). Peter’s solitary place was the housetop (Acts 10:9). God visited Jacob while he prayed alone (Gen. 32:22-24). Jesus never joked with being alone with God, he prayed alone on the mountain (Matt. 14:23).
There are benefits in being alone with God.
1. When you pray alone, you are not disturbed;
2. Your praying can’t be limited;
3. You can take any posture;
4. It gives you freedom to plan your prayer anyhow anyway;
5. There is freedom of conduct; and
6. It gives you freedom of expression.
This reminds me of a past incidence in a Church I attended in Lagos, Nigeria. When it came to prayer time, the man next to me felt burdened to pray, but he wanted to tell God certain things that he didn’t want me to hear. So he used his native language (which he knew I didn’t understand) to pray, and afterwards changed to English.
My friend, there are certain times that you want to tell God WORDS you don’t want other ears to hear. Praying alone gives you freedom of expression. If prayer is so important to your Christian Life then you must learn to pray at a time when you will be most effective. The time of prayer is important. And I tell you, the best hours of the day are the morning hours.
No wonder David said he ‘‘will awake early’’ (Psalms 57:8). God said they that seek Him early shall find Him (Prov. 8:17). God’s manna can be gotten only in the morning hours (Ex. 16:21). The Psalmist said ‘‘my voice shall thou hear in the morning… in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee (God)’’ (Ps. 5:1-3). God appoints to meet his servants in the Bible always early in the morning.
One of the things that determines whether you love God or not is the choice you make between your bed and seeking God.
Abraham had a custom of getting up early (Gen. 19:27). Prayer is a sacrifice (Ps. 141:2; Pro. 15:8) which Abraham did early in the morning (Gen. 28:18). Moses rose up early morning too (Ex. 9:13). The Bible says, ‘‘the upright shall have dominion over (their enemies) in the morning’’ (Psalm 49:14b). Early morning is a time to drive the Hagar in your life away (Gen. 21:14). Early morning is a time to command your Pharaoh out (Ex. 8:20) Let your fountain be blessed (Pro. 5:18). Let the beginning of your day be full of the riches of communing with God.
Inability to wake up early in the morning and commune with God is symptomatic and points to the fact that you have a sick spiritual life.
Most Ministers of God I know were early risers. John Nelson wakes up by 4.00 a.m. to pray William Bramwell wakes up by 5.00 a.m. to pray and prays at intervals between day time and 10 – 11 p.m. Hudson Taylor of the ‘‘China Interior Mission’’ was an early riser too. Bishop Arch Bury wakes up by 4.00 a.m. to pray. Bishop Kent wakes up by 3.00 a.m. John Wesley said ‘‘I count it to be indiscipline if I can’t wake up by 4.00 a.m. and spend 2 hours in prayers to God.’’ Martin Luther spent 3 hours of the early morning hours to pray to God. Dr. Judson said ‘‘Let the breaking of the dawn find you on your knees.’’ Jesus will never preach without having prayed, so he woke up early (John 8:1-3; Luke 21:38).

My friend, don’t let anything choke your prayer life. The morning watch is a legacy of Christians of old. In the early morning hours:
1. Your mind is fresh and there is no noise.
2. You have the benefit of breathing morning breeze that has not been contaminated (except for highly industrialized places where production continues through the early hours).

Sleep early if you have to wake up early. For example if you know that you have to leave your house for work by 6.00 am, then go to bed early enough so you can have time to pray before you go out. Sleep in a monster which every Christian has to fight. Do not love sleep (Pro. 20:13). David said I will not give sleep to mine eyes… until I find out a place for God (Ps. 132: 4-5) Learn to control your sleeping habits. The more hours you sleep the more hours you spend unconscious. Cultivate the habit of standing on your feet as soon as you wake up.

I recommend kneeling down in prayer to God in your closet. This is humbling, but rewarding Daniel did it (Daniel 6:10) Paul and the disciples adopted kneeling down in prayer to God (Acts 20:36; 21:5). Peter knelt to pray too (Acts 9:40). Jesus, our perfect example knelt down to pray too (Luke 22:41). So why don’t you?
Pray revival down in the nation you are. The devil trembles as soon as you get on your knees… to pray. Why not pray now?
May the good LORD strengthen our prayer life in Jesus name. Amen.

All scriptures are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Bro. Adeyinka Adeyemo

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50 Things the Holy Spirit Does

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